Recent content by Jester Fool

It will be interesting to see how teams (that go for Oracle) deal with not even coming close to securing it. Fail gold in this situation (since teams already start with free gold) won't, imo, make up for the lost hammers that could have been better spent on expansion. Should be a neat twist of...

Oh yeah! The heroes are back in action. Epic thread. Coincidentally, the first time I ever won domination where I only had three cities (really only the capitol was any good), I played China and Cho-Ko-Nu rushed. Pretty fun unit. The thing I've found that really makes a game turn out special...

@ MarigoldRan : Yeah, I think a worker steal would have helped greatly. Interesting that I followed your strategy for the most part. I went Math->Monarchy (really need HR to counter whip anger). I had units camped on the copper and a few woodsman 2 vultures to camp forests to funnel the barbs...

LOL! 630 BC and only have 3 cities. Could only build one additional worker (too busy building units). 55 barb units killed so far :eek: (and I did have spawn busters at first before being forced to pull back). Looks like an AI will settle up on me so probably won't get a fourth city (worth...

Any idea why there is so much disparity between the dates? More city capture gold? Or is marathon more suited to getting a huge number of cities early?

Is that faster or slower than marathon..or about the same?

@ Wastin : what is your target date for Sushi? I assume you'll Lib Medicine right?

@ GKey : I must have got real lucky...2280 BC first settler (T43) then 1960 BC (T51) settler for the horse. West witch had GWall so had to get some archers out and teched AH to get the east cow site set up for early production help.

Care to elaborate? What order did you settle? I had no problem getting the horse spot (iirc I settled that third). :confused: Agree on RNG being a big factor.

I liked the pictures, appreciate the effort you took to upload them. If you want less than 7777 views, you really need to make the thread less interesting. :mischief: Look forward to the next space race. :goodjob: Maybe you should try someone like Sitting Bull?

:goodjob: My first Deity win was dom but then again I tend to be a warmonger when I play. :lol: Might give this a try going culture too..looks like the perfect map for it.

Deity to 1 AD :I really only have 5 cities but needed the other two for border purposes, to help work cottages. Looks like I'll be the second to CS (although I've gotten CS ~175 BC before so the date is really only so-so)... Probably try cuir break-out and plan on heading to Nationalism (for...

@ Tachy : np. You're right..very STRONG practical uses. Ah, more AI exploits to abuse. :lol:

Both the archer in the city (expected) and the archer just outside the city had city defense AI script.

Wrong save (you already had captured Novo). Upload T71 autosave (or T70 if you have autosave at end of turn). I am curious as well so don't mind checking for you. :)