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Settled on the Oranges Turn 2, first met Valletta in a Faith-fueled game, triple continent settle to get enough era score for a certain Golden Classical. Develop, build, expand, finally Mali picked a fight for my Defensive Tactics Inspiration, everything coming up roses. Then I miss my...

Are we trying to work up a 4XGate? Yeesh. Humankind, out of the gate, is probably better than Civ6 was on release. Tough to remember back that many patches ago. MANY patches. So very many. I enjoy them both. They scratch different gaming itches. It will be difficult for me to match my 5...

Eyswein, you are pretty darn good at Civ VI and the skills do translate, especially if you are Scout-skilled and practiced at pillaging (or Ransacking in HK.) I'm not even finishing most HK games because I've already dominated my neighbors well before the Medieval; I've got to ramp up the...

Aww, c'mon, Civ Gods. I already had to cross the Desert Wastes to find fertile lands but then you send storms to plague me? Sigh. Took out my Horses, my Jade and 2 population. Took Oasis Hammers for my Pantheon to make some unsettleable dirt settleable. The straggler up by Samarkand was a...

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I have to be Gorgo-careful, because Anansi boosts don't seem to roll over at all now. I could have sworn they used to.

Canada is almost as generous when buying your Diplo Favor as Sweden is. And those Dramatic Ages cards are crazy powerful, especially when you can double up Wildcards come Monarchy. Nice work, ATEX. I do love a good Goddess of the Hunt start.

Is there video of someone doing the pillage trick for an extended stretch? Personally I would rather subject myself to sequential colonoscopies than that sort of tedium, but if that's the type of nonsense I'm competing against in HoF I can call it a day and go start prepping for Humankind.

I've eliminated some terrible City-States from potential spawn but this was super lucky. I was asking Mali to donate 2 Commercial Hubs and Markets when a volcanic eruption shredded my army, so I'm waiting for my temper and the landscape to cool before I return to this one.

Looks promising. I'll probably botch it. Yeah, triple first meet.

Shuffle with Babylon is a gamble. Sometimes you're 3 Civics to Political Philosophy, sometimes 11! Sometimes you tech Rocketry before Flight, sometimes you can't find it on the tree after 120 Turns. And sometimes Offworld Mission shows up early. Digging Robert Goddard out of the mix is...

Shuffle is kind of broken with Hammurabi because you don't have to backfill Techs and Civics. I won a game without teching Masonry the other day, the same game I teched Satellites before Rocketry. With Ham you aren't so much teching as Eurekaing your way through the tree. And sometimes you...

Huh. THAT'S different. NO, now this is interesting. Sadly, The Twins can't capture a Free City Hercules.

Nice! Matthias is a steamroller. I don't even bother with games that aren't sub-180. I suppose I could move the 200-ish Secret Societies game I did for inclusion, but that was 15 patches ago. I have the worst luck with Hermetic Order but maybe I should revisit them.

Huh. Fair or no?