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SV 235 Lucky to stumble upon Jerusalem for quick pantheon (free settler). Stole one settler with a scout from Australia earlish as well. Australia rolled over China and pumped 100+ science already by turn ~40ish (if remember correctly) - never seen AI to have this much science this early yet...

T200-202 CV General overview: Plan was to do peaceful CV. Found Relic in the first hut, hence quick Pantheon & extra settler. Met Cyrus & Cleopatra soon enough, and luckily random Cyrus agenda was immediately full-filled, so was able to befriend both at t43. At this point decided not to...

SV t248 Big faith output + Jesuit Education paid for all Science/Culture buildings, plus Navy (~10 Jongs into battleships, some submarines, ironclads). England and Maori were allies throughout the game. Single trade route to Maori capital gave +45 gpt. Pushed Maori capital to 28 population with...

t242 super rare deity domination win Peaceful Ancient+Classical age, with Classical Republic gvmt to earn fast GG (or any person). Failed, as China was pumping large amounts of GG points very early. In Medieval age Georgia DoWed me, so after killing Georgia army while defending, started...

CV t275 Enjoyed the game very much:) Played all the Dido's strengths backwards. Not a single settler embarked. Masterplan was to conquer a civ or two before meeting anyone else, then go peaceful. Initial warrior+archer force lost to barbs. Luckily new wave of swordsmen were enough to take most...

DomV T172 Been a while since last Civ game, and this was my first GatheringStorm game. Good stuff, big thanks for GotMs :) Lessons learned & rough timeline of the game: * for some reason built HolyDistrict (+3 adj bonus) & GovPlaza in capital early. Didn't work out really, wasted hammers. Did...

t154 domination victory - How many cities did you settle, or capture? Settled Ulundi in place, then built 1 settler only (using my standard opening build order Scout->Builder->Settler). Later in the game settled couple more insignificant cities (with HicSuntDracones - starting at 4 pop)...

Science victory t228 Met the horses and the Bruce on t2, so went to research Irrigation asap to sell some Wine to the thirsty Scotts. Expanded to 3 cities (scout->builder->settler, bought 3rd settler for booze money) and rushed for Horsemen. After expansions got some more booze to sell to...

Cultural victory - Turn 202 built some Horsemen to mess with local tourists in other civs and then focused trade and culture. One other Civ was getting large GreatWriter points early on (thought it was Kongo). Managed to get only one classical great writer. From mid game got most of the great...

t237 Science win - How many cities did you settle, or capture? After conquering most of India and Georgia, switched to peaceful mode (at around t130). Just to check how it works out. So ~20 cities in total. - What did you prioritize for research and policies? This time did not push science...

First game in R&F. Good times ! Situation at t100 : India is conquered, Kumasi liberated (no such luck for Kabul). Army is on the Georgia border, and it doesn't look like Georgia will last more than 10 turns (22-25 Georgian city defense doesn't look impressive, after getting over 35-48 defense...

I'm not entirely sure, but I think I've played first 137 turns pre-patch, then it auto-patched, and I successfully loaded and played last 7 turns post-patch.

It took t144 to get carts2space Build order: Cart -> Cart -> Cart -> Encampment x 2 -> more Cart... Capture order: Settler->Rome->Sparta->St.Petersburg (done by ~t75), break, China (~t120-t125) Messed up with capturing Russia, lost few carts to barbs & archers After captured Russia, stopped...

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t140 domination victory - How many cities did you settle, or capture? settled 2, ~24 captured, settled 2 more with captured settlers (~28 cities in the end) - What did you prioritize for research and policies? bronze/iron working -> crossbowmen -> musket -> cossack oligarchy -> monarchy ->...