When I last left off plan was to go to HC's cap raze it and raise Ulindi's ranking.
mission accomplished and
Ulindi goes up a notch.
I then take Tiwanaku mostly cuz it has Versaille which would make taking more cities on that coint less costly.
after that HC still wont cap so I take a cpl more cities to give Tiwanaku breathing room from HC's culture then declare.
Rest of that time is spent mostly teching up to assembly and other techs. I am not sure why but I seem to be teching LOTS faster than the ai's. Thanks to ikandas I am able to run a lil more bpt than usual buit not THAT much I dont think. The AI's just seem to be going slow for some reason now :/.
Anyways while I am teching up I notice Hattie sneaks in and settels RIGHT on
Cuzcos old spot. I am like oh no you didnt just backfill a city on me you lil uh rhymes with witch
So I declare on here. Her culture was really crowding a cpl of HC's old cities anyways.
I take a city from her then the lil twerp who NEVER does good at war takes Twinaku from me :/. Partly my fault I only garrisoed it with two rifles but STILL. But to their credit they dont go down easy. First of all she plays smarts and starts off with like 5 or 6 cats on em. Then Knight after Knight. I dont know how many for sure but they killed enough to get me a GG. But eventually numbers overwhelmed em and poor guys died and Twikanu fell grrr.
But I took another of her cities and then my stack started marching on thebes. I guess he got scared cuz by this point Sargon and Bingo Bongo Bango and Erving just got upgraded to Infantry so she is willing to listen to reason. Not only does she cap but she also gives back Twinkanu
I keep teching. A GE had appeared earlier so after I tech corp I start spaming Mining inc and later I spam Sushi. After awhiule of building up I notice I have RR, Assembly Line, Combustion, Artillery, and flight and NONE of the AI's has rifles yet --I told you they were teching slow :/
Noticing that I start to feel confident that maybe game is in the bag. I have all my rifles upgraded to infantry and made a few more. And I upgraded some frigates and caravels to destroyers. Ihavent upgeaded my cannon yet or my galleons but I figure I have enough to handle HC who still using knights and longbows.
I DoW on HC and his vassal wash again. I take all of HC's cities excpet one that is way out of way stck between hattie and Pac but this time he willing to cap and I let him. His capping lets wash break free and he is rdy to cap then and there so I take it.
Im still like 11-12% short of land area for a dom vic. PLUS there is that lil issue about Ulindi's ranking. It STILL being ranked number 3 by that stupid ranker grrrr.
The ranker says Carthage is number one city in world so I send the boys over to go see what all the fuss is about:
Bingo is NOT impressed he doesnt even bother to wait for the cannon to soften up the defenders he just attacks as soon as cultural defeense is bomabraded down.
After Carthage is taken two things happen first:
This is like second game Hanni caps after I take just one freaking city what gives? I THOUGHT he was supposed to be one of the big bad war mongers? oh wells his land will help toward victory but more impoertantly:
Upon careful reconsideration the rankers decided Carthage wasnt all THAT special so it out of top 5 and Ulindi moves up another notch. It STILL not number one though so:
Bango doesnt seem to think it all that great of a city
ANd frankly neither does Sargon.
After Sargon gets honor of taking out last defender Mutal falls and:
Ya see? those rankers know what they are talking about after all hehe
But not only does taking mutal move up Ulindi it also leads to:
I check victory conditions:
Things look good so I dont bother with anything else just hit shift return and:
yay Shaka wins
Final graphs:
Score:
Hammers:
Power:
Demographics:
By end of game it was a lil onesided. It all adds up to:
My highest score ever
My main empire by end:
The east:
west:
My money city Mecca:
Not making as much gold as it probably should be I really didnt focus much on spamming hiduism like I probably should have but with Ikanda boosting economy and AI's teching so slow it wasnt really necessary.
My hammer city:
It ended up being my wonderwhore city
My cap and science city Ulindi which JUST happens to be number 1 city in word according to most recent rankings
and finally I really cant end this report without one final shot of General Sargon and his boys I couldnt have done it without them
So thats bout it new high score for me but I really couldnt tell you how I did it. I NEVER runaway with tech like that usually. Ikanda DID make economy a lil easier to handle, but still most games even when I am going good if I am running to assembly line it means I miss out on getting sci meth, phys, electricity, communism, etc first. but this time I managed ot get em all first.
When I said I got to flight before AI's got rifles that really not accurate. I got flight before HANNI got rifles, NONE of the other AI's except for Pac even got to gunpowder and they WERE ahead of me early on, beating me to code of laws (which I usually get to first) monotheism, aesthetiecs, lit, optics, all those early techs but for some kind of flukey reason by renaisance they just stopped teching as fast and that let me win game more than anything I did but even if it was a fluke it still was LOTS of fun
Would like to know why Hanni got a psudonnm and why he got a big perfect square island --almost like he was world builded in hehe