Australia, Empty Australia

I created this thread to ask if someone tried to dominate the whole Australia territory.

I decided to post a silly challenge. Leave your original core and build your cities in Australia, your first cities should be there. And you must master the whole territory of Australia.

I tried this with the Tamils ​​but not have the pictures.

Post pictures.

Once as England I packed up all my settlers into galleys and migrated there from the first turn. It was quite a bit of fun, actually. It wouldn't be possible anymore with the Cape tile.

No pictures, sadly.

I guess you'd need to be a civ that starts with a galley...

Proman said:

I created this thread to ask if someone tried to dominate the whole Australia territory.

I decided to post a silly challenge. Leave your original core and build your cities in Australia, your first cities should be there. And you must master the whole territory of Australia.

I tried this with the Tamils ​​but not have the pictures.

Post pictures.

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I've done that with England on this version (just made the Suez Canal and kept on moving). It's terrible to start with, you fall so far behind.

You can also settle Cape Town and then travel through it.

strijder20 said:

You can also settle Cape Town and then travel through it.

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Oh yeah...

Austrokorea, 1500 AD



I know the Outback isn't in my cultural borders, but I'm not wasting my time building crappy cities there. Also, I can also win my historical victory if I wish, all I need is to sink 19 ships.

Very good, the only bad thing in Australia is the Lack of resources, what makes you stay behind in technology and punctuation.

I liked the position of the cities they cover ver well the resources.

Taejon (the northern most city) actually has culture spilling into New Guinea, grabbing a sugar resource for me.

Proman said:

Very good, the only bad thing in Australia is the Lack of resources, what makes you stay behind in technology and punctuation.

I liked the position of the cities they cover ver well the resources.

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Some of the resources are off too, the gold for example should be a bit further south, where Kalgoorlie is.

Currently playing a game where I moved England's stack via WB to Sydney. Also dropped the Catholic Missionary, and am currently Buddhist. What's great about England is that it's one of the few Civs you can move around and still play UHV with.

I have got to try this as Indonesia...

SheaferDaDawg said:

I have got to try this as Indonesia...

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I did and became the tech leader, should probably set up your capital on the NW iron since you get the production from start and it is relatively central between Australia and Indonesia.

Other than the Capital (mine is on the iron), NE most city (didn't build it) and SW most city (I built 2) mine and his set up is the same

Well, I gave this a try with Phoenicia, worldbuildering the Suez canal in and setting sail for Australia (after renaming my leader and all my units to Bruce), where the Australian empire began. Only to end a few centuries later when the Romans beamed in their legions from across the world, easily wiping out all the Bruces and conquering Sydney and Canberra (I know, Canberra should be called Brisbane, but I didn't have a map handy and just used the first names that came to mind).

Ceterum censeo Sydney delendam esse!

That's hilarious!

Armed with the knowledge of both Roman transporter technology and the Roman pettiness to use it to wipe out Carthage even if it goes to Australia, I tried again, making sure to build a bunch of Catapults once I arrived in Australia to defeat the Roman legions. After that, I didn't have any trouble at all. I actually found myself catching up to the lost time sailing to Australia very quickly and becoming the tech leader by the Renaissance (I should point out I play on Viceroy). It was probably thanks to the Great Lighthouse which I managed to build in Sydney, combined with the ability to completely ignore building military units and going for military techs, and being able to tech trade very freely since I didn't have to worry about anyone using my techs against me.

I found it a surprising amount of fun to just build up Australia in complete peace. I also settled Tasmania and New Zealand, and grabbed Papua New Guinea in a congress, so I actually got the entire continent. The Dutch settled some piece of desert without anything in it (you'd think they'd at least get the piece of desert with Iron and Gold), but I let them be because it's useless land, because they're close allies of me, and because the two Cavalry units they've got defending it could easily obliterate my entire army of Archers. It's currently 1952 and it looks like I might be able to win by Space Race.

On an aside, there really shouldn't be any peaks in central Australia, if any at all.
Make them hills and replace the grassland with plains, and put in a lot more mineral resource.

Australia is a leading producer of minerals for the world:
http://www.ga.gov.au/minerals/basics.html

and

http://www.ga.gov.au/cedda/maps/1085


EDIT: To be precise Australia should have coal.

Pavel Chichikov said:

On an aside, there really shouldn't be any peaks in central Australia, if any at all.
Make them hills and replace the grassland with plains, and put in a lot more mineral resource.

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Anything below 2,500 metres seems too low to qualify as a mountain for game purposes.

The nearly the entire Caucasus or all of Tibet is higher for example.