Buzzdowan's LP Series - Byzantium - "Harder Siamese Twins" (Gods&Kings)

you had taken liberty and the faith-on-deserts pantheon and rexed to 4-5 cities early while keeping a more modest military and delaying iron working until after writing at least. That pantheon would have gotten a leg up on religion much, much faster.

I was thinking the same thing as Seek. You have a lot of land with no pressure from expanding AI's, since both Monty and Kammy are staying small/tall, so Liberty seems like it would have been a good choice. You have maybe 3 or 4 more decent city sites remaining to fill up that space, along with your current 6(?) cities. With the right beliefs and all of those cities applying religious pressure you could really get your religion expanding quickly. And you would be raking in the cash with tithe. You would just need to keep a growth check on some of those cities during the early expansion, considering all of the wheat and food tiles.

To me Byzantium seems like a natural for Liberty since many of the religious beliefs are geared toward expansion. But I'm sure Tradition will also work out fine. They are both solid trees now.

Vikings Deliberate game.

This game will be played on Sven's large Europe map, on level 6. I have tweaked the map for a rebalance of strategic resources and turn times.

470 turns play as Danes. The game starts in ancient times and ends in the Medieval Era. 4000 BC- 1110 AD.

1. If Copenhagen is lost the game is over.

2. Norway must be settled.

3. The British Isles must be conquered.

4. Sigurd's Crusade

A. You must conquer a coastal city in Anatolia, the Middle East, or Egypt. If there is no coastal city the closest inland city must be captured. The city cannot be an adjacent city to Jerusalem, it has to be at least two cities away.

B. From the captured coastal city all cities must be taken which leads to any city, within a one city radius of Jerusalem. That city must be captured first, before pushing on to the next adjacent city, and so on.

C. All cities closest to Jerusalem, which are adjacent, one city away, must be captured. As long as those cities are within twelve tiles. Anything beyond that they can be ignored.

D. Jersusalem must be captured last to win the game.

5. Religion- The final rule is that the Danes do not try to found their own religion. If they do the game is over.

A. They can take on a pantheon, but should limit their amount of faith, so as to fail in gaining their own religion.

B. First and foremost the Danes should only try to take on whatever religion Rome has adopted, if it is other than Christianity, so be it.

C. A longboat should be dispatched at the earliest convenience, to ascertain the religion Rome is following.

D. Any other religion should be stamped out in any Danish city that is not adopted by Rome.

E. You will not lose the game for cities having another religion, but inquisitors should be purchased, whenever possible, with faith, to try to stamp out whatever religion is not adopted by Rome.

F. When Rome's adopted religion finds its way into any Danish city should be spread with missionaries. (I am guessing a civ without religion cannot get great prophets. Although, I am not sure.)

G. Missionaries cannot be built until Rome's adopted religion has spread to any Danish city.