Scientific victory rush. Tradition Liberty mix into freedom commerce.
Part 1 "Foundations" Up to T55
I settle on desert hill next to mountain: closer salt, mountain and water. Perfect. Warrior reveals more salts and grabs a culture ruin.
Early plan
BO will be: Scout Monument Scout Worker Archer(rush) Granary archer Shrine Settler x2 archer
Techs: Pottery Archery(raging barbs) Mining AH Calendar Writing Masonry Philosophy
Traditon opener, Liberty opener, Republic, Collective rule
Got Mining in a ruin.
I'm able to steal 2 workers:
Raging barbs made it tricky to bring them back home:
Part 2 "Consolidating the start and building NC"
Now that we have our 4 core cities, it's time to make sure all will have a library when Philosophy is researched. Meanwhile I build the pyramids to make for the current lack of worker (only 3 for 4 cities).
Zulus hate me, will probably kill them quick.
Legalism LandedElites Monarchy Aristocracy
Not having much to do in Lodz I give a try for Temple of Artemis (15 turns) and none of my known neighbours is building it. After NC (T81) I give a try for HG since again none of my neighbours is doing it. HG is finished T90 and ToAT92
Found a late 60 faith ruin ! I found a religion T80, Harun has already taken Pagodas so I go for the good old Swords.
I distract Shaka a little, just in case. A bit weary to fight him since he has Impi. Still, I'll reinforce (walls in most exposed city, construction, a couple more units). He isn't sending any units toward darius sadly so I bribe him to Dow buenos aires and I'll exploit stupid AI until he makes peace.
I get enhancement T108 with education. I also open Commerce.
Part 3 "Getting into Renaissance"
After Education we go for Astronomy (meeting other civs and Observatories) and keep the Oracle for then (if lucky, but so far not a lot of wonders are getting built).
Since I see an opportunity to wipe Shaka force (and prevent him to add another city) I DoW him. I lose a warrior, a CB and my scouts (forgot about them) during the war. I'll wait for XB to kill him completely.
We reach Astronomy T121 and enter Renaissance. Allowing us to pick Rationalism, the Oracle is finished the next turn (T122) allowing us to get secularism and pump out 245bpt !. This really seems like the AI don't build wonders in this game. We upgrade our Trireme and reach for the next continent.
We also enhance T122. Sadly we get most of our cities converted to Islam. As we hit Machinery I upgrade to XB and go for Zulu.
Part4 Through Renaissance
War with Zulu is slowly coming to a conclusion. Meanwhile I wonder whore my way up to the top, I get Colossus, Hagia Sophia, Machu Pichu Notre Dame
We reach Scientific Theory at turn 154, we have a lot of gold so I rush 2 schools. We take Ulundi T155 and settle for peace (with gold from Shaka).
We also get Free Thought and Sovereignty
Part5 Ideology
I want to see how well my freedom strategy does. We build Oxford for Radio and start to make everything in place to get huge GPT. I get a late Pisa (had a bit forgotten).
Turn 167 I DoW Persia and Persepolis fall T170. We finish the Taj T171, Big Ben T174.
30citizens at T174 quite impressive.
Final sprint:
Now all that is left is getting Labs and making a ton of gold.
Global theater is built T185. Labs are built in every city T189. Both Ulundi and Persepolis are catching up.
1411 science per turn at T202.
This is not Korea but it's still quite high especially as Freedom. Time to bulb (T203). We reach satellites to begin on both Appolo and Hubble. Appolo finishes T216 so we can begin to buy parts. Buy 2GS with faith and finish both Hubble and Porcelain.
At T219 World fair is finished and we can finish Liberty for a GS. We finish the tree T221 so we buy last part and finish at T222.