*SPOILER* Gotm15 Early - 10AD+Full Continent

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Hmm, the two lakes east of the starting position are salt.

Alright, I'll kick off the spoiler thread with a goody hut discussion!

As an expansionist civ on a huge continent, how well did your scouts serve you?

I continued my streak of not getting any settlers, but I did get some nice techs.

25 gold
Ceremonial Burial
Masonry
Map
The Wheel
Horseback Riding

By 2000 B.C. I was already committed to a space race victory. I'll post my middle age and golden age dates later.

I got about 4 techs from the huts, 50 gold total and no settlers! Would have been helpful to get a settler because China started really well and pumped out lots of quick settlers.

Easter Egg-When you right click plains it says Steppes and in parentheses plains.

I was also surprised by the lakes/seas. I thought that only if sea tiles exist the lake would be salty.

Being expansionist i built 2 additional scouts and went exploring everywhere. Based on the QSC results in the Aztec GTOM 13 I decided on a ICS with early warmongering. But I ended declaring war much later than i have planned as i had a huge terrain to plant cities in.

Goody hut results: Warrior, 25g, Warrior, Maps, Alphabet, Horseback Riding (this i didn't want).

I turned Moscow into a settler factory and the initial build order was 2 scouts, worker (someone praised the effects of the early second worker: they were right IMO), granary, 13 settlers to 1000BC.

I turned research 100% towards the Wheel as i didn't see Japan on the map. I was the first to discover it and i got to tech parity. From that point i was never behind in tech. I also researched Mystcism and Polytheism.

I had a turning point in 1600 BC when i got Horseback riding from a good hut while i was building chariots in all cities. That made me build another ring of cities and changed from a horseman rush to a swordsmen rush.

What did you think about the massive amount of forests? I have never seen something like that. Is it the hand of cracker? Also plains are called steppes. Of course i almost fell of the chair when i built the first custom named town. On the same topic i think that the multitude of seas is fantastic, and i even built a galley. Have you noticed thay you could link the two lakes in the right with the ocean with carefully planned cities. I did only later but it would have been fun.

Dave can you please share early strategies for a SS victory? I cannot imagine how where you committed to SS in 2000BC.

I guess I'll just post my writeup for QSC15 here. It's a quite a bit too long to post, so I'll just attach the text file. I've made it well into the AD's, but the log only goes up to 1000BC.

Wow, this map feels more like a large map instead of a standard map.

I had 17 cities and 12 workers by 1000 BC. At 10 A.D. I had 45 cities. I also had 30 horsemen, some of which could have been settlers/cities, and I had 47 workers. Germany is wiped out and I captured the Pyramids from them. Got 1 leader (forbidden palace in Berlin). I'm now mounting my horsemen near China's border.

No settlers from huts. Got ceremonial burial, mysticism and writing, maps and gold. Built 3 extra scouts. Beat the AI to polytheism and monarchy just using 10% science. I'm working on getting Sun Tzu's and will be getting chivalry soon.

I'm not doing as well as I wish I had done. Probably won't get an early victory award. Micromanaging is screwing me up trying not to waste food, and I had 1 turn of disorder in the capital, early in the game.

I could have done with wiping Germany out early, at the start they were the runts of the continent, I think it was the mass of forest between me and them that put me off making an assault, even when they had declared war on me I just ignored them letting my defenders soak up their pathetic attack.

But by 10 AD it was me and Germany who were clearly going to split the continent between us with Egypt and China too weak to stand a chance.

Luckily for me Germany seemed to be going around burning the West coast Egyptian cities leaving me to move in a stream of settlers to fill the place. All I needed at this point was a great leader to build the forbidden palace and I'll have whole new mass of productive cities.

My results from huts til 1000 BC: 1 Settler!! , 2 Warriors, $25, Warrior Code, Horseback Riding (techs I could just as easily have traded for, bleh).
So far I've pretty much left the AI tribes alone, hoping they'll research a few techs for me. In 1000 BC, we are in Anarchy, expecting to become a Republic in 925 BC - not too shabby!
I actually postponed the revolution in order to first complete the Pyramids. Linking up with a third luxury (trade with China) didn't shorten the anarchy period, it remained 4 turns.
Egypyt is really doing well in my game, they pretty much have the entire southern part of the continent for themselves and are rapidly claiming it.

Thanks to a goody hut I had my 2nd city build in 3700 BC already, that was a nice early boost. Thanks to trading I was able to take an early lead in the techrace and managed to keep it for the rest of the game.
I already finished (and won) the game, but won't go into detail to that for now. I attached my QSC timeline that goes up to 1000BC.

From 1000BC till 10AD not much happened.... besides building more cities. Germany and Egypt started a war which would eventually bring doom to the germans. The Chinese were quite annoying with their settlers.... building cities inside "my" territory... Later most of those cities culture flipped to me though and took the remaining Chinese cities by force when they were foolish enough to declare war on me!

-Dimy

Very nice write-up Aeson. I enjoyed the tales of the orangesodians. You also got a lot of early wars. I'm curious to see whether pre1000BC warmongering gives better results than my strategy.

I was expanding peacefully throughout the QSC but from 1000BC to 10BC China got reduced to 1 town in the tundra

A bad point for me, the Pyramids were built by the French, or Babs can't remember but they were on one other continent. It is important that building/conquering the Pyramids gives you a huge bonus for the QSC score.

Edit: Dimy don't tell me that you did not see the other iron that was much closer to your capitol than the southern one.

Edit: Dimy don't tell me that you did not see the other iron that was much closer to your capitol than the southern one.

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Seriously, I hadn't seen that one! Well the southern one depleted in 110BC so it wasn't much use to me.... had to hook up the one at my capital after all ;-). It was still a good move to capture that source though, cuz it prevented the Chinese to build pikeman and swordmen later in the game .

-Dimy

China claimed the southern one in my game.

My empire in 1000 BC:
- 12 towns, 28 citizens, 179 tiles, 4 contacts
- 1 Settler, 13 Workers, 1 Scout, 8 Warriors, 3 Spearmen
- The Pyramids, 1 Temple, 7 Libraries (1 Granary sold)
- all level 1/2 techs plus Philosophy, Code of Laws, Literature, Horseback Riding and The Republic
- 329 gold, 166 food reserve, 154 accumulated shields

Timeline

4000 Moscow, starts on Granary, Worker to cattle, Scout goes west to locate site for next city. With only one other civ knowing Alphabet we go for it, to get at Literature asap
3900 Scout, on mountain, views excellent site with 3 gold tiles. There is also a hut to pop ...
3850 Settler (hut) , Scout proceeds south
3750 St. Petersburg founded at goldrush site
3600 Warrior (hut)
3550 Warrior (St. Petersburg)
3500 Scout makes contact with China, finds landbridge and continues east. Scores: Russia 67, China 48
3450 $25 (hut)
3350 $10 (China) for Bronze Working
3250 Granary (Moscow), Worker (St. Petersburg). Moscow can now produce a Settler and a Warrior every 6 turns
3050 Settler (Moscow)
3000 Warrior (St. Petersburg)
2950 Alphabet, Warrior (Moscow), Masonry (China) for Alphabet
2900 Kiev founded at the north end of the river
2800 Warrior Code (hut)
2750 Settler (Moscow)
2710 Scout makes contact with Zululand
2670 Warrior (Moscow, Kiev)
2630 Spearman (St. Petersburg), Minsk
2550 Scout makes contact with Egypt just south of Zululand. Looks like this is it to the south so the Scout turns NE. Ceremonial Burial + The Wheel + $40 (Egypt) for Alphabet. Scores at this point: Russia 134, China 95, Egypt 93, Zululand 76

2510 Settler (Moscow)
2470 Worker (Kiev)
2430 Worker (Moscow), Warrior (Minsk)
2390 First clash with barbarians: {Warrior}
2350 Incense connected, Warrior (Moscow), Smolensk
2270 Writing discovered, Settler (St. Petersburg), {Warrior}
2230 Worker (Minsk)
2190 Odessa
2150 {Warrior, camp}, Russia 167, Egypt 118, China 107, Zululand 84
2110 {2 Warriors}, Horseback Riding (hut), Germany, Iron Working + $10 (Germany) for Alphabet + Masonry
2070 Spearman (Kiev), {Warrior}, Warrior (hut)
2030 Temple (Moscow), {2 Warriors, 2 camps}
1990 Worker (Moscow)
1950 Worker (Smolensk)
1910 Settler (Moscow), {Warrior}
1870 {Warrior, camp; Warrior}
1830 Spearman (Minsk)
1790 Literature, Worker (Odessa), {Warrior}
1750 Sevastopol, {Horseman, camp}, Russia 203, Egypt 142, Germany 133, China 125, Zululand 105
1725 Library (Moscow, St. Petersburg), {Warrior}
1650 Philosophy, Settler (Kiev), Library (Minsk)
1625 Mysticism + $22 (Egypt) for Horseback Riding
1575 Spearman (Minsk)
1550 Horses connected, Settler (St. Petersburg)
1500 Tblisi, Russia 245, Egypt 168, Germany 154, China 145, Zululand 122

1475 Code of Laws
1450 Sverdlovsk, {Warrior, camp}
1425 Library (Smolensk), {Warrior, camp}, $38 (Egypt) for Writing (less than their treasury, so last chance to get something)
1400 Settler (Minsk)
1350 Library (Odessa)
1325 Library (Kiev, Sevastopol), {Warrior}
1300 {Horseman}
1275 Furs connected, Worker (Minsk), Yakutsk, $29 (Germany) for Writing
1250 Settler (Smolensk), Worker (Tblisi), Russia 297, Egypt 202, Germany 187, China 167, Zululand 144
1225 Worker (Sevastopol)
1200 Worker (Sverdlovsk)
1175 Since a Chinese Archer had almost arrived (blocking all the landbridges wasn't enough, he went around): Mathematics (Egypt) for China + Germany + $5
1150 Settler (Odessa), {Warrior, camp}, Vladivostok, sold Granary (Moscow), barbs kill exploring Warrior: {|Warrior}
1125 Worker (Sevastopol)
1100 Settler (Kiev), Novgorod, delaying the discovery of The Republic so we can finish The Pyramids first
1075 {Warrior, camp}
1050 ** THE PYRAMIDS ** (Moscow), Silks + TM (China) for Horses + Germany
1025 The Republic, Revolution
1000 Russia 361, Egypt 240, Germany 226, China 195, Zululand 165

Nice city names.


Have taken over all my continent and have footholds elsewhere.

In 1000BC I had 19 cities, I was researching Republic, but I already had Monotheism.

I gift lots of things to the AI, like Alphabet, Horseback Riding, Writing, contacts, Mathematics, Iron Working, Philosophy, Literature.... In 1000BC Egypt discover Construction and I gave 4 techs in exchange, entering in the Middle Ages.

It was a pity, I found another continent and contacts in 975BC. It could help a lot in the QSC if I had found it one turn before.

4000 BC: Great starting position!! A river, cattle, game, incense close by. Thank you very much GOTM crew. This is soo much better than last month

1750 BC: I've got 7 cities. Got contact with 4 other civs on this continent. Expect no more. Main goal now is to get to Literature first to build the Great Library.

I'm clearly in the lead:

Russia : 209 pts
Egypt: 142 pts
Germany: 137 pts
Zulu: 105 pts
China: 95 pts

My closest neighbour, China, is suprisingly weak for a builder! I beat him to the iron to the south and will try to build cities in the centre of the continent.


950BC: 12 cities. I managed to occupie the lush, shielded centre of the continent and blocked entries to it for the Chinese and Zulu. I've got all room to expand now. My science is at 10% and I'm building the GL. I'm the only one of the known world to be able to build it... The Germans beat me to the Oracle (big deal...).

It's getting better and better:

Russia : 334 pts
Egypt: 233 pts
Germany: 228 pts
Zulu: 167 pts
China: 155 pts

China's still very small and looks to be my first victim. I have to watch out for my neighbour Germany though.

10 AD: With 25 cities, I'm the giant on our continent. Two Chinese towns flipped to my side and more are to come: their culture is very weak. Managed to get the GL and money is flowing in with a lone scientist!! Also managed to get the Hanging Gardens.

Drawback: the Babylonians got the Pyramids first... You can't have them all...

It's time for some action in the comming turns:

- The Chinese are too weak. They must be destroyed. I built a giant army of swordmen and just have to wait 1 turn until the silk deal with the Chinese expires...
- My galley will try to cross the ocean to find new land. Our continent is gigantic, so I wonder how things are going elsewhere with the other 5 civs.
- I'm one step from the middle ages. In this period I will try to get to Milit. Trad. ASAP to get my Cossacks into play.

Being the richest, strongest, biggest and smartest on this continent, thing are looking very very good

Russia : 736 pts
Egypt: 475 pts
Germany: 412 pts
Zulu: 261 pts
China: 235 pts

The continent reminded me a little of the great lakes - it was nice being able to build ships inland and sail them through the connections to the ocean.

Tech results up to 1000 BC:

Goody huts:
Ceremonial Burial
Warrior Code
Mysticism
Horseback Riding

Researched:
Alphabet
Writing
Mathematics
Currency (in process)

Traded for:
Masonry
The Wheel
Iron Working
Polytheism
Map Making

The amount of tech from huts was nice, and most of the civs on the continent loved me for trading with them. I did manage to set up cities, if not yet connecting roads, grabbing me the southern iron source, as well as some spices. I managed to get some libraries shortly thereafter, as getting Literature early allowed me to start a cultural push. More details to come soon- once I turn my post-QSC notes into something coherent, I'll post here on my later turns.

This is what I have so far... not very impressive compared to what some of you have put together, but this start has been my most successful GOTM start so far.

- 4000 BC
What a start! I think the start will be a fine location, but to be safe I'll scout east to the hills and move my worker to the cattle to get things started right.
Heh, well I think I've found the site for city #2 or city #3. I would like my second city to be on the shore, which appears to be to the south, but that hill on the river to the east looks like a fine city location.
Moscow founded 4000 BC
I am going to leave the citizen working the original tile (game) because it provides a nice balance of food and production and also has an inital trade boost without a road. I set production in Moscow to a scout.
I set research to The Wheel with the thought that I'll need mobile offensive units on a large landmass and that horsemen will evenutally upgrade to Cossacks.

- 3900 BC
Our scout finds the sea! I know it's sea because the food is 1 instead of 2.

- 3850 BC
Moscow produces a scout, starts warrior

- 3750 BC
I set science to 80% (The Wheel in 33 turns at 1gpt)

- 3700 BC
My scout pops the hut about 5 tiles S of the starting position. 25gp from the Celt tribe's village.

- 3650 BC
Worker completes mine on cattle, begins road

- 3600 BC
Moscow completes warrior, begins producing settler

- 3550 BC
My scout pops the hut about 10 tiles SW of the starting position. The friendly Bulgars give us maps of their region.
We see a turquoise border to the SW of the Bulgar village. According to the Top 5 Citites this would be Beijing.

- 3500 BC
Moscow grows, borders expand. Citizen set to work the cattle tile.
I change production to scout to avoide wasting additional shields.
Worker begins mine NW of Moscow
My scout pops the hut about 6 tiles NW of the starting position. The Seljuks teach us Ceremonial Burial.
We make contact with the Chinese. Mao is Polite, has 1 silk connected, 10gp, Masonry and Warrior Code. He lacks Bronze Working and Ceremonial Burial.
Mao is willing to trade Masonry for both my techs and he's willing to trade Warrior Code for a tech and some gold. I have a feeling there are more civs around. I'll wait till the prices go down before I start to trade.

- 3450 BC
Moscow produces scout, begins settler.

- 3200 BC
Moscow produces settler, begins warrior.
Settler/warrior pair head SE to plains tile on coast for new city.

- 3000 BC
Happiest nations in the world, we're fourth. Rankings go: Abe, Mao, Joan, me, Cleo, Hammy, Shaka, Hi.

- 2950 BC
Moscow produces warrior, begins settler

- 2900 BC
St. Petersburg founded on plains tile SE of starting position. Citizen set to work cattle and production starts on a scout.

- 2850 BC
Scout exploring area NE of start runs across a German archer (3/3). Bismark is annoyed, has 10gp and Warrior Code but lacks Pottery. He'll trade for tech straight up, so I go for that. He goes from annoyed to cautious.

- 2800 BC
I change production from settler to warrior in Moscow to avoid wasted shields. I waste 1 anyway.

- 2750 BC
Moscow produces warrior, begins settler.

- 2670 BC
St. Petersburg produces scout, begins worker.
My scout pops the hut about 11 tiles SE of the start position. The Celt tribe has taught us Mysticism.
I do a quick check and Bis and Mao both have the wheel. I'm one turn away so I don't bother trying to trade for that. Mao won't exchange anything for Masonry.

- 2630 BC
We discover the Wheel and start researching the Alphabet.
We're going to have some horsies nearby, which is good too.

- 2550 BC
My scout pops the hut several tiles N of the German start position. The Angle Tribe has taught us Masonry.
Mao is mad that my scout is in his territory. He goes to cautious. I tell him I'll move.

- 2510 BC
Moscow produces settler, begins spearman
Settler heads to forest tile SSE of the horse tile SW of Moscow.
Worker begins road to incense.
I trade Ceremonial Burial to Mao for 10gp (his entire treasury). He goes back to Polite.

- 2470 BC
St. Petersburg finishes worker, starts granary
Worker begins improving cattle tile SE of St. Petersburg

- 2390 BC
A vandal conscrip kills one of our scouts exploring south of Germany.
Kiev founded on forest tile SSE of the horse tile SW of Moscow. Starts producing a scout.

- 2350 BC
Barbarians destroy road through game tile N of Moscow.

- 2310 BC
Barbarian conscrip warrior (2/2) attacks Moscow. Defending warrior (3/3) wins, losing 1 hp.
Palace expansion.
Moscow completes spearman, starts warrior.

- 2190 BC
Kiev produces scout, starts worker.

- 2150 BC
Moscow produces warrior, starts settler
Warrior heads to new city site on hill tile 4 tiles NE of start position.

- 2070 BC
A Sakae raiding party near Canton ambushes our scout.
Worker begins road on grassland tile W of St. Petersburg

- 1990 BC
Kiev completes worker, begins spearman
Our scout encounters a Zulu archer (4/4) S of St. Petersburg
Shaka is Polite and has 27gp, Alphabet and Iron Working. He won't trade anything for Iron Working and I'm 2 turns away from Alphabet.
We're fifth on the largest nations of the world. The ranking is Hammy, Cleo, Bis, Joan, me, Mao, Abe, Shaka.

- 1950 BC
Road to incense is complete
Worker moves to bonus grassland ESE of Moscow to build road.

- 1910 BC
We discover Alphabet, begin researching writing.
Moscow completes Settler and begins temple.
Settler moves to new city site NE of Moscow.

- 1790 BC
Minsk founded on hill tile NE of Moscow. Starts production on temple.

- 1750 BC
Ignoring all rules of battle I attack a (2/2) barb warrior across a river (weed to the extreme) and lose my warrior.
I trade Mysticism to Mao for Iron Working and 10 gp
I trade 50gp and Masonry to Bis for Horseback Riding
I trade Horseback Riding to Shaka for 25gp.
I trade Horseback Riding to Mao for 40gp.
Isn't that convenient? An iron resource right next to Moscow? I think that my first step will have to be to eliminate Mao and so I think I should focus on acquiring the second iron source south of Kiev.

- 1700 BC
Worker begins improving tile two tiles NW of St. Petersburg.
My scout pops the hut west of the Zulus and south of the Chinese. The Phoenicians teach us Mathematics.
No one has anything interesting to trade for it so I hold off on any deals.

- 1675 BC
The Germans are building the Oracle.
St. Petersburg completes granary, begins settler.
Kiev completes spearman, begins settler.
I wake the warrior in Kiev and send him to the grassland tile S of Kiev between the iron, gold and fish tiles.
Spearman fortifies in Kiev.

- 1625 BC
Worker begins road to Minsk on bonus grassland tile SW of Minsk.
I trade Mathematics to Shaka for 90gp.

- 1550 BC
Barb warrior (2/2) attacks Kiev and loses.

- 1525 BC
Barb horseman (2/2) attacks warrior (3/3) outside camp and defeats the warrior.
Barb horseman (2/2) attacks spearman in Kiev (3/3) and loses. The spearman promotes to veteran.
We make contact with and Egyptian warrior in the southwestern corner of our continent.
Cleo is polite, has 43gp and iron but lacks Mathematics. I'm going to let her gain some more cash and then sell the tech to her.
I trade Alphabet to Bis for 55gp, he won't give it to me for more.

- 1500 BC
Moscow completes temple, begins settler.
The Egyptians are building the Pyramids.
Moscow's cultural border expands.

- 1475 BC
Showing my flair for diplomacy I refuse to give Bis Mathmatics when he demands it and consequently he declares war on us.
St. Petersburg produces settler, starts spearman.
I change production in Minsk to spearman, wasting six shields.
I move warrior and settler pair from St. Petersburg to desert tile two tiles SW of fish.

- 1450 BC
Minsk completes spearman, starts barracks.
Barb horseman (2/2) attacks spearman (4/4) in Kiev and loses.

- 1400 BC
Shaka's upset my scout is in his territory. I tell him we'll leave ASAP.
Moscow completes settler, begins spearman.
Kiev completes settler, begins spearman.

- 1375 BC
We complete research of Writing and begin researching Map Making.
We establish embasies in Thebes (58), Zimbabwe (50), and Beijing (28)

- 1350 BC
Smolensk founded near barb camp, starts producing a spearman.
I peddle contact with the Chinese to Egypt for 35gp.

- 1325 BC
The inhabitants of the barb camp (2/2) Warrior and (2/2) Horseman attack the warrior (3/3) in Smolensk and both lose, taking 1hp from the warrior and promoting him to veteran.
St. Petersburg produces spearman, starts settler.
Spearman fortifies in St. Petersburg.

- 1300 BC
Road to horses complete
Odessa founded on grassland riverbed about 4 tiles west of Moscow. Starts producing a spearman.
Spearman fortifies in Odessa.
Worker begins road to iron.

- 1275 BC
Moscow produces spearman, begins producing settler
Spearman fortifies in Moscow

- 1250 bc
Barbs outside Hlobane capture our scout.
Sevastopol founded between fish, gold and iron tile SSW of start position. Production set to temple.
Spearman fortifies in Sevastopol.

- 1225 BC
The Chinese are building the Pyramids.
Micromanage Minsk to work the wheat tile instead of unimproved bonus grassland

- 1175 BC
St. Petersburg produces settler, begins spearman
I establish an embassy in Berlin for 38 gp
I change production in Minsk to settler, resulting in loss of 4 shields.

- 1150 BC
Minsk produces settler, begins temple

- 1125 BC
Moscow produces settler, begins spearman
Kiev produces spearman, begins settler
Settler and spearman from Moscow head toward plains tile at convergence of two rivers 8 tiles SW of start position.

- 1050 BC
Odessa produces spearman, starts settler
St. Petersburg produces spearman, starts settler.
St. Petersburg spearman moves to protect Moscow.
Iron connected.
Tblisi founded on coastal forest tile about 8 tiles NE of start position. Production set to worker.
I trade Cleo my WM for hers and 39gp.
No one else has Map Making and I'm not going to pay Cleo for it when I'll have it in 7 turns, so I let sleeping dogs lie.
Bis does have Polytheism, which no one else has. That could be interesting to trade for once I get Map Making. He won't part with it now.

- 1025 BC
Spearman fortifies in Moscow.
Babylon completes Oracle.
Zulus are building the Pyramids.

- 1000 BC
I have two settler pairs ready to build cities next turn, but it will be next turn and not this turn, so I leave my game as is for the QSC.

- 975 BC
Cleo is upset that I'm in her territory. I tell her I'm on my way out.
Moscow produces spearman, starts settler.
Sevastopol produces worker, starts temple
The Germans are building the Pyramids.
Sverdlovsk founded on hills about 8 tiles SW of start position. Starts on a worker.

- 950 BC
Yakustuk founded near spices 10 tiles SSE from start. Start producing worker.

- 900 BC
St. Petersburg completes settler, starts spearman.

- 875 BC
Discover Map Making, start on Code of Laws.
Kiev completes settler, starts spearman.
Egyptians are building the Colossus
Our spearman in the NW corner of the continent disperses a barb camp and gains 25gp

- 850 BC
Smolensk completes spearman and starts worker
Palace expansion!

- 825 BC
Moscow completes settler, begins spearman

- 800 BC
Tiblisi completes worker, begins galley

- 775 BC
St. Petersburg completes spearman, begins the Great Lighthouse

- 750 BC
Our spearman in the NW corner of the continent disperses a Hun encampment and gains 25gp.

- 740 BC
Minsk produces Temple, begins worker.
Odessa completes Settler, begins Temple.
Sverdlovsk produces worker, begins temple.

- 720 BC
Yakustuk produces worker, begins temple.

- 700 BC
Minsk produces worker, begins barracks.
Germans are building the Colossus.

- 680 BC
Moscow completes spearman, begins barracks.
Vladivostok is founded about 8 tiles west of start position. Starts producing worker.

- 660 BC
Kiev completes spearman, begins barracks
Novgorod founded on desert tile about 10 tiles SE of start position. Starts producing worker.

- 640 BC
Smolensk completes worker, begins temple

- 610 BC
Krasnoyarsk founded near fur tiles in the NW corner of continent. Starts producing worker.
Riga founded near German settlements on the north coast of continent. Starts producing worker.

- 590 BC
We complete research on Code of Laws, start researching the Republic
I execute a series of deals bringing me about 300gp and putting me at tech parity with the rest of the civs.

Heh, just noticed that the Steppes are plains!

- 330 BC
Rostov founded on north coast

- 50 BC
We get beat to the Great Lighthouse by the Iriquois, so we switch to Colossus.

- 30 BC
Props to Matrix... Matrixovostock founded.

- 10 AD
We emerge from anarchy as a republic after 5 turns of disorder.
We gain tech parity by trading the Republic to the Zulus for Currency, Literature, WM and 2gp.
Pick up Monotheism as our free tech.

Scores at 10AD:
Egypt 472, Russia 433, Germany 412, China 340, Zululand 276

Some screenshots:

THE NORTHWEST


THE NORTHEAST


THE SOUTH


BoB

Edit: added screenshots and scores

Originally posted by DaveMcW
By 2000 B.C. I was already committed to a space race victory. I'll post my middle age and golden age dates later.

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Okay, this is my very first post after lurking in GOTM discussions for over a month. I'll post my timeline (up through 1000BC, when I stopped taking detailed notes) when I've finished going through the existing posts. As a newcomer, however, I'm particularly interested in how people arrive at a final victory strategy. How could you possibly know by 2000BC that you are going for a space race victory?