Emperor Challenge 9 - Portugal

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Its a continents map. I cant take a screen shot. Trust me its good. Perhaps someone else can post a shot of the opening?

The challenge is science victory and as many achievements as you can get. Good luck!
 

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Got the screenshot. Looks like a pretty nice start; think I want to move onto the hill, maybe go for Goddess of Festivals depending on the surrounding area.
 

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Played to turn 155 so far.

Spoiler :
JESUS CHRIST ON A STICK THAT IS A LOT OF WINE. Goddess of Festivals was absolutely the right pick; I'm churning out some very nice faith and culture right now. After seeing all the wine available I went Liberty just to make sure I gobbled up all the territory. Shockingly enough, no one on my continent went for a religion; the only one to even make a pantheon was Dido, and that was after a religion had already been enhanced and she only got through because there weren't five pantheons yet.

For my religious beliefs I got Goddess of Festivals, Tithe, Monasteries, Asceticism, and Religious Texts. I'm hoping the all the culture I'm getting from my wine will help me push through Piety, which I took as my second tree, fast enough to get Jesuit Education. I'm just about to get to Navigation so crossing my fingers hoping that there aren't any super-pious AI's on the other continent to ruin that plan. If so I'll probably just take To The Glory of God; maybe use it to pop an Engineer on the CN Tower and get the Radio Free Europe achievement, heheh. Still not sure what victory condition I want yet, all of them seem viable right now. I'll have to see what's going on with the other AI's before I pick.

Here's a screenshot of the Portuguese empire as it stands now:
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I won a diplomatic victory on turn 314. I didn't see the science victory challenge until I came here to post this. This map really had a lot of wine.
Spoiler :

I started out by settling on the desert hill and getting the Goddess of Festivals pantheon. I built three settlers when my capital was at five population. In the classical and medieval eras I had happiness problems, but I solved them during the renaissance era. I got the first religion because of all of my wine. My religion was Goddess of Festivals, Tithe, Monasteries, Asceticism, and Itinerant Preachers. I was able to get Petra, which was useful even though it only affected three tiles because I got an extra trade route. Korea was killed by Carthage, but Rome got one of their cities. I casually teched on and earned a lot of gold until Carthage attacked, but they couldn't take my city because of their technologically inferior army. I was able to got my religion as world religion, but it took two tries. By the end of the game my religion was the largest in the world with 20 cities. The second time I bought votes from Poland and America. The ai seemed to be doing poorly this game.





Arachnofiend said:
Played to turn 155 so far.

Spoiler :
JESUS CHRIST ON A STICK THAT IS A LOT OF WINE. Goddess of Festivals was absolutely the right pick; I'm churning out some very nice faith and culture right now. After seeing all the wine available I went Liberty just to make sure I gobbled up all the territory. Shockingly enough, no one on my continent went for a religion; the only one to even make a pantheon was Dido, and that was after a religion had already been enhanced and she only got through because there weren't five pantheons yet.

For my religious beliefs I got Goddess of Festivals, Tithe, Monasteries, Asceticism, and Religious Texts. I'm hoping the all the culture I'm getting from my wine will help me push through Piety, which I took as my second tree, fast enough to get Jesuit Education. I'm just about to get to Navigation so crossing my fingers hoping that there aren't any super-pious AI's on the other continent to ruin that plan. If so I'll probably just take To The Glory of God; maybe use it to pop an Engineer on the CN Tower and get the Radio Free Europe achievement, heheh. Still not sure what victory condition I want yet, all of them seem viable right now. I'll have to see what's going on with the other AI's before I pick.

Here's a screenshot of the Portuguese empire as it stands now:
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It's interesting to see how we placed our cities in such different locations. I placed a city on the coast near the natural wonder for an extra sea trade route, and also because the city north of it was farther west than yours, so it could work all of the nearby tiles northeast of the natural wonder. I also didn't think of placing a fifth city; I just made enough cities to grab all of the wine, which was four and worked out perfectly because I went tradition. In my game Dido founded a religion, but it was very late, after turn 150.
 
I had just three cities. Later on when I had battleships I sent a force to Africa. Shaka had taken over the whole place. To keep it interesting I brought Poland and America back from the dead. Honestly, I expected more of a fight out of Shaka, but he didn't have the mass I thought he would.

Rome had Korea down to one city so I gifted some rocket artillery and an odd unit or two. Then ingrate Korea denounced me the next turn LOL!

I didn't know you could get gold from the UU, if I did I would have spammed more. I sold my exotic cargoes to Boston.

Greed is Good (already had it but what the heck)
In Hoc Signa Vinces
One Small Step
What's yours in Mine
Herculean Effort
 
Well i tend to play this but i have nearly all the new achievements already, so there is no challenge :D
 
Playing this at the moment. I have a comfortable lead in science, I think I'm almost an era ahead of the next civ.. But still, it's already turn 312 and I haven't even built the bomb yet.

In my game Shaka didn't manage to kill off Washington, though he did feed Cashmir to the fishes. I have been paying Shaka off since I met him and he really loves me! Just now I gave him a measly sum of 200 to send him off against Washington. I think he'll be my attack dog from now on.

I took 3 cities from Korea when ideologies kicked in the first time, left him with one. He still got eliminated though, very recently by Washington. That's kinda what triggered me to send the Zulu at him.

Hoping that this will be my first BNW science victory ever, unless I stumble over something unexpected :)

[EDIT:]
Right, won this a while ago but only now got round to uploading the pic :)

Spoiler :
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It took a while, but I'm very pleased as it's my first science victory ever. Zulus ended up mauling Washington pretty badly, the other continent is pretty much all colored in white now. Always a good thing to have Shaka settle on the other side of the world ^^
 
Cant load the save :( I seem to miss a DLC "Uppgrade Data 1". I have Most DLC I think, Maybe I left out a map DLC or two but I should have the rest.
 
Upgrade Data 1 is a patch for all versions. Go to Steam and verify your game cache files, and it should download it. (Select CiV, right click Properties, and go from there.)
 
I joined the warmongers club. Played to ~turn 120 so far. Full Liberty->consulates.
Spoiler :
I spotted the natural wonder that does funny things to hills, settled near it and stole the CS worker too. Then I planned a war to take Sejong's capitol and noticed Lake Victoria ~turn 65. Oh my. Dido and Augie want to do the nasty so I settled in between them. :mischief:

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Spoiler :
I got a caravan to the city ASAP and sent it to Rome. Dido and Augie are friendly despite Sejong denouncing me. :crazyeye: ~turn 120 Augie DOWs Sejong! WTH? :lol: Rome has a fair army. <cough>

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Here is my game. I don't know how Emperor games usually go but I'm willing to bet this was a weird one. For one thing, I didn't start my shrine until T40 or so and I still got the first Pantheon. Second, Rome didn't expand and build his second city until around turn 180 or so. Which meant Carthage went on a freaking rampage. Cut through Korea within 10 turns and waged a good 80-90 turn war with me. I had to conquer Seoul and the other Korean city to keep all the pressure off of me. It slowed my science down DRASTICALLY and America was busy on the other continent conquering everyone. He came here and wiped out Rome before winning off of culture I believe.

I attached my save. If anyone can tell me how to improve my setup I'd be glad to :) I uploaded both the save and the replay because I don't know which one is better. Any pointers? :)
 

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@Soultzityr

In general a science victory is one (+) policy tree then rationalism. Plant three scientists and save the rest. Any civ can do a science win in the low to mid 200's on any level. Late 200's means a person can dabble with a couple of more policies and a later Renaissance. Either tradition or liberty will work pretty well.
 
Definitely playing this when I get home. Just the screen shot makes me thnk of some pretty nasty religion openings with the two wine.

That, and I have yet to play Portugal (one of my friends I play weekly MP with is an addict >.<) and look forward to the opportunity. I hear Nao's are a ton of fun.
 
One of the AIs, one I haven't met yet, nabbed Sacred Sites before Turn 50! So much for that plan. Have to settle for just Monasteries/Mosques/Tithe. Red, red wine.

Korea has been my best buddy forever and we just happily trade the tech lead back and forth, basically Wine for a RA. Korea forward settled on Rome with his second city so I am snuggled up right next to his Seoul. Eventually Rome or Carthage will punch him in the head and I'll clean up during a gap between DoFs. I'm heading for the other continent now to Portuguese them, especially whoever has Tourism Cathedrals. All those Altitude Trained Pikemen from Sofia gotta do something.

Definitely not going to be a record setting finish but the win is not in doubt.
 
I got to the point where it was pretty obvious I was going to win by tech at about turn 300 and quit because I was still in the freaking Atomic era and wasn't in the mood to next turn my way that far. Interestingly enough, unlike what seems to have happened with most people here, Korea played a very strong game; they survived the initial onslaught by Carthage and blew Dido up once they got to Turtle Ships. Once we industrialized we both went Freedom and from there we just kept pulling further and further ahead from the rest of the civs with each research agreement.
 
295 A.D. Could've been faster but I was near one last happiness golden age and the CN tower.
Spoiler :
After Rome DOWed Korea, Dido followed suit 10 turns later. I had a trireme ready for Busan and an attitude-trained CB ready just in case. When Busan was down to no health (and no Dido melee around) I sniped it and saddled Dido with Jeonju and the Korean kill. Ended up meeting Shaka after he had wiped out Washington. He claimed he hadn't heard of anyone named Washington. In return, I told him I knew nothing of Sejong. At one point I had DoFs with Dido, Augie, Shaka and Pacal. But Dido backstabbed me with a denouncement. She had no friends so I denounced her and embargoed her in the 2nd world congress. Meanwhile Shaka had designs on that cashmere apparition, Poland I guess. He kept DOWing Poland. My policy was, "I see nothing. I hear nothing. I know nothing." Poland was a peace-mongering threat to the world. I hate peace-mongers. So was Pacal but he had been banished to his own private Idaho. Somewhere late-ish I settled city #8 by Mt. K. I wasn't planning on 8 cities but there was this sign that said, "Put city here." Okay. Fine. I had over 2000 BPT when the ship launched.
 
I made do with four cities until around t250, where I took Sofia to make room for the last artifacts for the "it belongs in a museum" achievements. I generally chose to cheese through most of the game, only fighting twice with Rome who had taken over the rest, and by the time we were finishing up, he had started on Pacal, so it was a pretty small World Congress :)

New achievements:
Losing my Marbles
It belongs in a Museum
What's yours is Mine
Yuri-ka
In Hoc Signa Vinces

I also qualified for the following achievements, that I already had:
Herculean Effort
Legends of the Hidden temple
Lingua Franca
Flip-Flop
Merchant Prince
Built in (almost) a day
Greed is Good
Highway Robbery
 

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I played this as relaxation and wonderspammed a bit.
settled 3 cities, food cargo'd into my capital and roll with it.
Finished Turn 299 SV but could have won 270 Diplo Voting but the challenge said SV :S

Spoiler :
In my game i was friend with everybody , made as much RAs as possible and wonderspammed.
Rome conquered my continent, washington the other one and pacal was so lonely...
As i said diplo vote was available 270 and i had allied all of the CS.
Funny sidenote: when i scouted with my caravel i found like 10 cs which gave me 30g, so nobody scouted em yet :S
Spoiler :
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