This one wasn't so bad... I had Zara and Willem on my continent. Oracled Theology and founded Christianity which became the AP religion. Later caught Bhudism and thereby converted to Bhudist making founder Zara Friendly... Willem remained Bhudist but spread the Christian faith to all cities... and later went into favorite civic Free Religion... never got him Friendly and basically needed his votes because he could block victory all by himself.
Ramses got Friendly due to shared war against Toku. I converted Toku by declaring war on him and then offering a new 1-pop christian-infected city as a peace offering. SUCKER!
Gifted a 1-pop iceball city to Willem for +4 fair and forthright, because he had apparently forgotten about earlier gifts and I had no tech to give.
I got a GSpy which I used on Willem to kick him out of Free Religion, just as the AP diplo victory vote came up... and I expected him to be in Bhudism then and vote for me. But he was in Islam (which he founded). Unfortunately, my other spy was not able to change his religion to Bhudism during that turn. But Willem voted for me at Pleased. Totally unexpected. I guess its those hidden modifiers. I suspect the competitive players either know these things or look them up for opponents in their games... but with me, its just luck.
One annoying thing was when I infected a small Bismark city, the first thing he does is break it off as a colony (Victoria)... I then need to re-infect Bismark, and must deal with Vicky who is now a full member having adopted Christianity as her state religion. Her one vote (plus 8 from Bismark) were irrelevant, though. Needed 256 votes of 311 to win, and Willem had 165 votes.
And he voted for me at Pleased.
Zara and Ramses voted for me at Friendly, for a combined total of about 80 votes (plus 70 of my own, I did not convert to Christianinty during the interim because I actually expected to lose this vote and did not want the turns of unfriendly with Zara).
Not spectacular finish date, but I'm just trying to see how many of these challenge games I can even
complete. That's 5 down, 5 to go.
I hope its accepted, and I didn't use a wrong map setting or something. Somehow seems cheating to not have Aggresive AI setting and to be using No Barbs. Random events were on, but the positive impacts were irrelevant... and the negative impact (-1 diplo with Willem) perhaps slowed my finish by a century or two. Oh well. Oh yeah, finish date was 1500AD. I can rarely get a religious victory so late in the game.
While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we are running a series of ten games called the Hall of Fame Challenge Series. Standard Hall of Fame rules (*) still apply, but any games meeting the settings of one of the games will be counted towards the Challenge.
