Recent content by Hardcorey

So far, so good, I think. I've focused on grabbing up as much land as early as possible and building a strong foundation. - Where did you settle your city? In place. - What did you research and which policies did you choose and why? Took animal husbandry, because there were pastures nearby to...

Domination Victory, 1856, Turn 299, Score: 1104 It was messy, but it worked. Basic strategy was to focus on production and science in cities and use civics to focus military. Major Didn't build any culture district, but was able to capture Rome with Chichen Itza and lots of jungle Didn't get...

T192 Religious Victory, Score: 506 I thought I finished pretty quickly, until I came here and saw sub-100's wins! Not sore though, because I was ranked Warren G. And I regulated. I didn't know it was even possible to pump missionaries out fast enough to convert people in less than 100 turns on...

Turn 274 (275 on the "one more turn" save). Score: 509. Culture victory. I found a really early relic in a tribal village, which had an obscene amount of early faith and tourism, so built my entire strategy around that first relic. Here's everything in my strategy that doesn't seem obvious for...

It's worth mentioning in the intro that I found a relic in a tribal village really early on (like turn 15 or something), which offered an obscene amount of faith and tourism for the early game, so pretty much every decision I made from there on out intended to build on that lead. I was really...

Finished on turn 319 with a score of 679. Science victory. Settled 6 cities, captured 5. I really tried to work with the rainforest and boosted their effectiveness by: Getting the pantheon that boosts holy site adjacency bonuses next to rainforests Building a holy site early on right in the...

I decided I'd try to embrace the rainforest. Become one with it, you know? Here are the highlights: 1st City: I moved my first city just 1 tile south, so I could save the spot next to mountains for my districts. Religion: Grabbed the pantheon that gives faith adjacency bonus for rainforest...