Mon Mauler
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It took many months, but I finally achieved a longtime goal of mine. Here's the situation:
When I got BTS I decided I would try to play one game with each civilization from start to finish, no restarts. Yesterday I finally reached my goal.
I played all of the games on Prince, Fractal, Standard Map Size, Standard Timing, Random Sea Level, Random Climate, 8 Total Civs, Resticted/Random Leaders, all Victories enabled, and no special Options.
In all, I played 34 games and recorded 26 wins for a final tally of 10 Domination Wins, 4 Diplomatic Wins, 8 Space Race Wins, 4 Culture Wins, and 8 Losses. I did not record either a Conquest Victory or a Time Victory.
Here's how it broke down:
Domination Victories:
Domination most suits my playstyle, so it makes sense that I would get more Domination Victories than anything else.
1. Rome - Julius: This was my most complete and earliest victories, as I took an early lead on the power of the Praets and transitioned to Rifles to gain the win in the mid 1600's.
2. Mongolia - Kublai Khan: This was a close second, though, as I used Keshiks to get an early lead and steamrolled everyone with cavalry to wrap it up in the early 1700's.
3. Japan - Tokugawa
4. Persia - Cyrus: In all reality this should've been a Conquest Victory. I ended up vassalizing the final two Civs on the same turn so that the only three remaining Civs other than myself were all my vassals. I don't know why this was recorded as a Domination Victory. I guess I should've vassalized the smaller civ before the larger one on that final turn.
5. Babylon - Hammurabi
6. Aztec - Montezuma
7. France - Napoleon
8. Byzantium - Justinian
9. Portugal - Joao
10. Viking - Ragnar
Diplomatic Victories:
All of these were pseudo domination victories, where I either could've taken a couple extra cities or waited a few extra turns to let my borders expand further. All of these victories were based on military power, not diplomacy. I did not get a Diplomatic Victory through the Apostolic Palace.
1. Holy Rome - Charlemagne
2. Egypt - Hatshepsut
3. Russia - Stalin
4. Inca - Huayana
Space Race Victories:
I try to immerse myself in the game as much as possible, and to that end, I try not to attack friends. Accordingly, some of these probably could've been Domination Victories, as well, but I got stymied close to the Domination limits and decided to rely on my productive power to get the victory. My wins with Boudica, Sitting Bull, and Zara were all like this. For the others I decided fairly early to go for Space.
1. Maya - Pacal
2. Celtia - Boudica
3. Native America - Sitting Bull
4. Khmer - Suryavarman
5. England - Elizabeth
6. Ethiopia - Zara Yaqob
7. Korea - Wang
8. Mali - Mansa Musa
Culture Victories:
I actually didn't really learn how to get a Culture Victory or even try until after I had already played most of the Civs, which explains the low number of Culture wins. Once I figured out how to do it, though, I quickly found Culture Victories to be the fastest games (in time spent) as well as probably the easiest victory to achieve.
1. India - Gandhi: After the Domination Victories with Rome and Mongolia, this was my easiest and earliest victory, as I passed the Culture limits in the late 1700's.
2. Greece - Pericles
3. Netherlands - Willem van Oranje
4. Arabia - Saladin
Losses:
I ended up losing to Culture Victories for most of these.
1. Carthage - Hannibal
2. China - Mao
3. Zululand - Shaka
4. Germany - Frederick
5. American - Roosevelt
6. Ottomans - Mehmed: I was cruising to what would've been my earliest Space Race Victory when the spies of America and Korea struck. I had neglected Espionage and tried to beat them off as best as I could. In the end, I loss the Space Race to Augustus by a single turn.
7. Spain - Isabella: This was my most crushing defeat. I waged wars against Germany and the Celts that did not achieve their objectives. Finally, relegated to 5 cities on a barren peninsula in the late 1500's, I loaded up my military as much as I could, and launched a last ditch effort to defeat the Celts. A couple dozen turns later they took my final city.
8. Sumeria - Gilgamesh: I was totally impotent this entire game.
Now that I have completed my initial goal, I've decided to append it a bit. Now I want to:
1. Play a game with all the remaining Leaders
2. Gain a Conquest Victory
3. Gain a Time Victory
And once I have played with all remaining Leaders:
4. Win with all Civs/Leaders
Sorry for the long post. I'm just really happy that I've finally gotten this done. It took roughly five months of intermittent playing under an altered mental state in the dead of night. I'm by no means a great or even good player, which is why I play on Prince. Still, a winning percentage of 76% ain't too shabby. It's better than I thought I'd do.
Does anyone have any similar goals they have achieved or are working towards?
When I got BTS I decided I would try to play one game with each civilization from start to finish, no restarts. Yesterday I finally reached my goal.
I played all of the games on Prince, Fractal, Standard Map Size, Standard Timing, Random Sea Level, Random Climate, 8 Total Civs, Resticted/Random Leaders, all Victories enabled, and no special Options.
In all, I played 34 games and recorded 26 wins for a final tally of 10 Domination Wins, 4 Diplomatic Wins, 8 Space Race Wins, 4 Culture Wins, and 8 Losses. I did not record either a Conquest Victory or a Time Victory.
Here's how it broke down:
Domination Victories:
Domination most suits my playstyle, so it makes sense that I would get more Domination Victories than anything else.
1. Rome - Julius: This was my most complete and earliest victories, as I took an early lead on the power of the Praets and transitioned to Rifles to gain the win in the mid 1600's.
2. Mongolia - Kublai Khan: This was a close second, though, as I used Keshiks to get an early lead and steamrolled everyone with cavalry to wrap it up in the early 1700's.
3. Japan - Tokugawa
4. Persia - Cyrus: In all reality this should've been a Conquest Victory. I ended up vassalizing the final two Civs on the same turn so that the only three remaining Civs other than myself were all my vassals. I don't know why this was recorded as a Domination Victory. I guess I should've vassalized the smaller civ before the larger one on that final turn.
5. Babylon - Hammurabi
6. Aztec - Montezuma
7. France - Napoleon
8. Byzantium - Justinian
9. Portugal - Joao
10. Viking - Ragnar
Diplomatic Victories:
All of these were pseudo domination victories, where I either could've taken a couple extra cities or waited a few extra turns to let my borders expand further. All of these victories were based on military power, not diplomacy. I did not get a Diplomatic Victory through the Apostolic Palace.
1. Holy Rome - Charlemagne
2. Egypt - Hatshepsut
3. Russia - Stalin
4. Inca - Huayana
Space Race Victories:
I try to immerse myself in the game as much as possible, and to that end, I try not to attack friends. Accordingly, some of these probably could've been Domination Victories, as well, but I got stymied close to the Domination limits and decided to rely on my productive power to get the victory. My wins with Boudica, Sitting Bull, and Zara were all like this. For the others I decided fairly early to go for Space.
1. Maya - Pacal
2. Celtia - Boudica
3. Native America - Sitting Bull
4. Khmer - Suryavarman
5. England - Elizabeth
6. Ethiopia - Zara Yaqob
7. Korea - Wang
8. Mali - Mansa Musa
Culture Victories:
I actually didn't really learn how to get a Culture Victory or even try until after I had already played most of the Civs, which explains the low number of Culture wins. Once I figured out how to do it, though, I quickly found Culture Victories to be the fastest games (in time spent) as well as probably the easiest victory to achieve.
1. India - Gandhi: After the Domination Victories with Rome and Mongolia, this was my easiest and earliest victory, as I passed the Culture limits in the late 1700's.
2. Greece - Pericles
3. Netherlands - Willem van Oranje
4. Arabia - Saladin
Losses:
I ended up losing to Culture Victories for most of these.
1. Carthage - Hannibal
2. China - Mao
3. Zululand - Shaka
4. Germany - Frederick
5. American - Roosevelt
6. Ottomans - Mehmed: I was cruising to what would've been my earliest Space Race Victory when the spies of America and Korea struck. I had neglected Espionage and tried to beat them off as best as I could. In the end, I loss the Space Race to Augustus by a single turn.
7. Spain - Isabella: This was my most crushing defeat. I waged wars against Germany and the Celts that did not achieve their objectives. Finally, relegated to 5 cities on a barren peninsula in the late 1500's, I loaded up my military as much as I could, and launched a last ditch effort to defeat the Celts. A couple dozen turns later they took my final city.
8. Sumeria - Gilgamesh: I was totally impotent this entire game.
Now that I have completed my initial goal, I've decided to append it a bit. Now I want to:
1. Play a game with all the remaining Leaders
2. Gain a Conquest Victory
3. Gain a Time Victory
And once I have played with all remaining Leaders:
4. Win with all Civs/Leaders
Sorry for the long post. I'm just really happy that I've finally gotten this done. It took roughly five months of intermittent playing under an altered mental state in the dead of night. I'm by no means a great or even good player, which is why I play on Prince. Still, a winning percentage of 76% ain't too shabby. It's better than I thought I'd do.
Does anyone have any similar goals they have achieved or are working towards?
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I was not convinced. But I shall try again. It should be easy enough now.
