AnotherPacifist
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Antaine (of the modmod RFC Celts) in his fanaticism has created the ultimate Irish mod-mod: RFC with Ireland!
I thought it would be fun to win the UHV as quickly as possible. He has chosen Brian Boru as the leader even though Ireland spawns in 660 AD (and Brian Boru flourished at the end of the millenium) and Ireland is already unified when shows up. Our UHV criteria (for now at least) are:
1. Control Britain in 1500 (if you vassalize the English this will count)
2. Build 5 Christian monasteries and 5 libraries by 1500
3. Spread Christianity to 40%
Our UU is the Raparee (pikeman with 100% against gunpowder) and our UB is the Irish pub (which gives 4
and 1 
plus the usual amphitheater perks--a little exaggerated in the claims of booze giving health, no?)
Our UP is the strongest of all: 1 hammer in all sea tiles! I.e. free Moai Statues in all cities without the need for dikes!
So we show up with lots of Celtic cities in the British Isles. (It's interesting that we have almost the same units as the Celts 1400 years ago except with 3 Christian missionaries). Only the ones in Ireland will flip to us, which means that we need to raze the rest to avoid them going to the British. So we load our 2 Gallic warriors to our only galley and send them over to Scotland and Wales. (This is actually a good start since we get a free worker and warrior and the 2 Irish cities are plump)
We switch to HR/V/S/OR. Some of our Christian monks, in their fervor to spread the true faith, are ignoring defense, gambling that the lone warriors in the Irish cities will not attack them.
Science is set at 0 for now so we can accumulate some cash for mercenaries.
We have 16 turns until 820AD when the Brits appear, so until then, nothing but military units.
I thought it would be fun to win the UHV as quickly as possible. He has chosen Brian Boru as the leader even though Ireland spawns in 660 AD (and Brian Boru flourished at the end of the millenium) and Ireland is already unified when shows up. Our UHV criteria (for now at least) are:
1. Control Britain in 1500 (if you vassalize the English this will count)
2. Build 5 Christian monasteries and 5 libraries by 1500
3. Spread Christianity to 40%
Our UU is the Raparee (pikeman with 100% against gunpowder) and our UB is the Irish pub (which gives 4
and 1 plus the usual amphitheater perks--a little exaggerated in the claims of booze giving health, no?)Our UP is the strongest of all: 1 hammer in all sea tiles! I.e. free Moai Statues in all cities without the need for dikes!
So we show up with lots of Celtic cities in the British Isles. (It's interesting that we have almost the same units as the Celts 1400 years ago except with 3 Christian missionaries). Only the ones in Ireland will flip to us, which means that we need to raze the rest to avoid them going to the British. So we load our 2 Gallic warriors to our only galley and send them over to Scotland and Wales. (This is actually a good start since we get a free worker and warrior and the 2 Irish cities are plump)
We switch to HR/V/S/OR. Some of our Christian monks, in their fervor to spread the true faith, are ignoring defense, gambling that the lone warriors in the Irish cities will not attack them.
Science is set at 0 for now so we can accumulate some cash for mercenaries.
We have 16 turns until 820AD when the Brits appear, so until then, nothing but military units.
As for the "booze for health," I was thinking more along the lines of prepared food, but let's not forget that it depends on the *type* of booze, lol:
