Game: Civ5 GOTM 71
Date submitted: 2013-10-18 21:52:14
Reference number: 29901
Your name: dthompson32
Game status: Diplomacy Victory
Game date: 1896AD
Turns played: 319
Base score: 1068
Final score: 1695
Time played: 8:11:00
I was feeling a little disappointed, but I'm seeing most others finished in the 300s too, so far, so maybe not that bad.
- How many City States did you acquire with Venice's ability and did you take any cities through combat or peace deals?
I took all the cities on my island, then went with a peaceful game the rest of the way. I used MoV for two CS (Antwerp and Zurich) and took Zulu out of the game before he could get out of his first city.
- How did you use religion or spying to your advantage?
Spying was not very important, and might have hurt me by keeping other civs too far behind me in tech. Religion was important, I took faith bonus for wonders since I knew I would be building a lot of them. I relied on a lot of faith production for 3 GSes. Tithe was also important in the early game for a large cash boost. God of the Sea was critical.
- How did diplomacy go with your neighbors?
Not as well as I would have liked. I could only get DOF with 3 civs, no one else would sign one with me. I ended up with huge piles of cash, and couldn't sign RAs with more than 3 civs. As it turns out a sub 300 win would have been pretty easy with more RAs.
- How did the difficulty level affect your game decisions?
I knew I could get the GL and other key wonders, so I built them, instead of buildings.
- Did the the patch change how you play a diplomacy game or change how you treated the AI?
Yes, even having all of the CSes allied and Globalization, I still had only just enough delegates to win. Forcing through world religion or world ideology is pretty important now.
I didn't get to Printing Press soon enough, I think. I also didn't produce enough GSes, I probably should have push through Science Funding. In the end though the biggest problem was I set up to maximize RAs, but only could get 3 civs to trade with. Cash production was insane though. I bought half of my buildings, used cash for all the CSes and still finished with 17,000 gold.
I'm also not sure if I should have taken more CSes with MoVs. I didn't use 3 of them, because I thought 4 cities was enough. But I was only maxing out science at around 575, so that might have slowed things down.
In the end, I missed getting into the Information Era before the vote by 2 turns. Ended up costing me 15 turns (I think).
Details:
0 - Moved warrior to north hill and saw all the sea resources, settling to NW
1 - Found Venice, start Pottery and Scout
6 - Start Monument (planning to take Liberty)
10 - Met Zulus (really? Do I need to plan an early war to take them out?)
11 - start Writing
12 - Sailing from ruin, start Granary
15 - War so I can get past Zulu
16 - Open Liberty
21 - Start Shrine
24 - Republic
25 - Start Archery
27 - Start GL
31 - Start Calendar
35 - Stole worker from Zulu
39 - Collective Rule (and MoV), sending it to Antwerp
41 - Pantheon, took God of the Sea, starting Optics
43 - Took Zulu settler, waiting to annex Antwerp until they develop the gems since I don't have mining yet
48 - Finished GL, starting some workboats before NC
52 - Optics, starting Mining
53 - Start NC
55 - Annex Antwerp, start Masonry
58 - Zulu are surrounded, they can't get any Settlers out
59 - Annex Zurich
60 - Start Animal Husbandry
62 - Start Drama and Poetry, Citizenship
69 - NC done, building workboats
71 - Ulundi taken (thank you Zurich archers) and Zulu is eliminated, I can breathe easier
73 - Start Theology
76 - Start Lighthouse, buy a Trireme, stopped Theology research, forgot I need Colossus, beeline to Iron working
82 - Start a Cargoship
85 - Open Patronage, switch to Colossus, back to Theology research
86 - Faith ruin
91 - Theology done, beeline Education
93 - Starting Hagia Sophia
99 - Found Cult of Bacon (Tithe and Swords to Plowshares)
107 - HS finishes, enhance religion with Divine Inspiration (I plan to have lots of Wonders) and Itinerant Preachers, Consulates, restart Cargoship
110 - start Workboat
112 - Start Borobudur
125 - Borobudor completes, starting University, Education done, beeline Printing Press
130 - Representation
131 - Start Oxford
139 - Oxford done, take Chivalry for free, start Colosseum
140 - RA with Theodora
143 - Colosseum done, starting workboat
145 - Start National Epic
152 - Building a bunch of cargoships
153 - Liberty finishes, take GS to bulb Printing Press
159 - Start Market
161 - Finish Printing Press, but can't find 2 CSes, going to delay the finish, Beeline Astronomy
162 - Hey, World Congress started, guess I did that right
163 - Start LTOP
166 - RA with Portugal
171 - Open Rationalism
172 - Astronomy complete, beeline Scientific Theory
176 - RA with Theodora
183 - LOTP finished, took GS and planting it, build harbor then add 4 cargoships to queue
184 - Golden Age
185 - RA with Morocco
187 - Secularism
197 - New RA with Maria, start Sistine Chapel
198 - Switch to Writer's Guild, need some culture
201 - Start PT
207 - RA with Theodora
210 - Start Navigation to get seaports
211 - Great Writer, used for culture boost
212 - Cultural Revolution, buy Public School
216 - Beeline to Plastics
217 - RA with Morocco
219 - PT done, back to Sistine Chapel
220 - Humanism
222 - Missed SC, should have worked on it instead of PT maybe, building a Seaport, then Cargoboats
230 - 12 cargo ships, starting East India Company
231 - RA with Maria, Free Thought, saving Great Writer for ideology
233 - Start Workshop
234 - Buy Bank
235 - Start Ironworks
238 - RA with Theodora
239 - Start Grand Temple
241 - Philanthropy
242 - Start Taj
243 - Missed Taj, start culture buildings
244 - Buy Factory
245 - Take Order to get the Factory science bonus, Hero of the People and Skyscrappers, Start Hermitage
246 - Worker's Facilities
247 - All CSes are allied now (359 gpt comes in handy)
248 - RA with Morocco, Start Eiffel Tower
255 - Scholasticism
258 - Eiffel Tower finishes, start World's Fair, use Great Writer for culture, buy Stock Exchange
261 - Cultural Diplomacy
262 - RA with Maria
264 - Plastics done (had to use a GS), turning up science (534 spt)
269 - RA with Theodora, trying to get into Atomic era and hope others keep up, going to Info era will be tough
274 - Won World's Fair, finish Patronage with free SP, GA starts, start going through 6 GSes, get into Atomic Era, and up to Electronics, start Circus Maximus, buy Museum, Hospital, Medical lab, and Broadcast Tower
294 - Got to Information era, but missed the vote by 2 turns, have to wait 23 turns for the vote
318 - Diplo win