Game: Civ5 GOTM 29
Date submitted: 2012-02-08
Reference number: 25664
Your name: Thresian
Game status: Science Victory
Game date: 1903AD
Turns played: 323
Base score: 952
Final score: 1487
Time played: 10:41:00
Submitted save: Darius I_0323 AD-1903.Civ5Save
Renamed file: Thresian_C502901.Civ5Save
Not a good time, but I was pleased to win at all. I lost my capital early on to a combined warrior rush by Askia and Washington, and was expecting to be posting a loss on turn 55 or so, but the assault on Pasargadae petered out. I teched IW, built swords and recaptured Persepolis. I missed PT. Liz declared while I was taking out Washington, and besieged Persepolis with about 8 longbows and a couple trebs. She did have a couple of pikes too, but I picked them off, and the longbows sat around pointlessly bombarding Persepolis until I could deal with them. Meanwhile, Washington counter-attacked at Pasargadae and New York. f he'd focused on just one city, he could have taken it. Pasargadae came close to falling again, and I was grateful for a second time for having (a) built it on a hill and (b) rush-bought walls. I teched steel and physics, broke the second seige of Persepolis, then turned round to finally deal with Washington. I left him one city of course, to avoid the diplomatic penalty.
I founded a couple more cities, bringing my total to nine, and settled down to farm GSs, while chaining RAs with everyone (except Washington). It seemed that the delay would be getting to scientific revolution, so I tried to buy up a cultural city state, as well as a couple of maritimes for extra growth. Unfortunately, this was like pouring gold down a hole, and I only succeeded in pissing Alex off. He declared on me, and of course I lost all my CS influence. A large number of mech inf appeared from the northern CS (I forget which it was) and took over Boston, which was no great loss. I built some bombers and built/upgraded some mech inf and a couple of tanks, and fought off Alex with little difficulty. Meanwhile I built spaceship factories in 5 cities and launched Apollo. Spaceship was 12 turns later.