Recent content by Icarex

I won this on adventurer with at cultural win (see previous post on first page). Knowing the map I went back to try a contender start. This time I did not worry about Alexander at all to start with. I instead aimed for the Civil Service slingshot. With this build plan: warrior, fish boat...

Open borders makes religions spreading more likely.

How is that important to you? anyway it kinda says so in my post! The adventure bonus allowed me an early win over the greek, but at the same time Vicky knew how to take advantage of the situation and settled most of the space west of Athens. And with my poor adventurer skills there was...

I chose a peaceful cultural path to victory. It was both my first win on emperor and my first cultural victory. Had only three small wars, the first assimilating the Greek civilization (1440BC), then much later I followed Vicky into a war against Saladin, Hatty joined to, I only committed a...

As said before I played adventurer class. I could have done without both the extra settler and the worker, but those two archers were priceless:) Only problem with taking on Alex early was that Victoria got lots of room to shake her big behind. I had a small window of opportunity, but I...

I started with the adventure class bonus. The first city was founded on the plains/hill, I then started researching polytheism right away. The second settler moved west, I did not want to settle him to early, knowing that few animals spawns the first turns I took my chances and moved him...

Great! this will be fun! I started playing as Gandhi, but I have not played him on emperor yet. It will be a challenge. No need to move the settler this time. Seems like we start on a peninsula, close to the ice edge.

I have just submitted my first GOTM! Domination victory, 1886 AD, score just above 35000. This was incidentally my first domination victory in any game (I usually find the end-game a tad tedious). Anyway, my start was a bit slow, I lost both Stonehenge and The Oracle. Consequently, getting to...