Recent content by Lawrence

Kids want to see a cultural victory. I got a pretty bad 1834AD cultural finish. Saladin settled 2 cities on our island -- one of them is a religion holy city, so undoubtedly I need to conquer them. However, I built too few troops (given that this is a cultural attempt) and underestimated their...

I wanted a GOTM since I finished something big in RL and wanted to relax, but I also don't think I have the time to grind over an immortal war game.. So I went the easy way of trying a diplo victory. Grew to 6 cities only since there is not that much room to expand. Declared on Pacal at 150AD...

Nah, I think none of the newer games offer the same level of sophistication and realism that Civ 4 did :)

Thanks MarleysGh0st! After a long hiatus, I decided to introduce Civ 4 to my kids as a better alternative to middle school humanities lesson. A super rusty game that saw some early successes with a CS slingshot, but later Victoria eliminated my trebs using her catapult stack in the middle ages...

Thanks DS for the results and kcd for the fun map! I wasn't having a lot of time playing Civ now due to RL, but I guess I might be a bit more seasoned after returning to the game from a 12-year hiatus after winning the eptathlete of the vanilla Civ4 in 2008. Immense gratitude for the organizers...

So I attacked really slowly in the end.. Declared war at Zara Yaqob at 520AD. After capturing 2 cities, he capped at 640AD and I accepted because the only city he had was on a hill and with no food resource. I was beelining Astronomy because I thought I would need it to be able to attack people...

The Ramesses one didn't work out for me (blundered too badly in a war) so I switched to this one. Hunting -> AH -> BW start. Built GLH and went for CS slingshot instead of chariot rush. CS slingshot finished at 800BC. Then, the original plan is to go for a HA rush, but tech rate is pretty fast...

Congratulations on all the winners and especially the new eptathletes!

Congratulations to all the winners and especially those who handled the Barbs with style! Thanks kcd for this really fun map.

I did found all the latter religions. Despite losing the gold city early and spending way too long to re-take it, the tech still got way ahead than the buildings. So I got to Democracy and switched to Universal Suffrage. Used a few turns to stockpile gold to hurry quite a few buildings...

I did very badly in this one, but I lasted enough to push the submit button. Going for culture, one would have to realize that the 3 older religions were all in barb land. So I sent an army of Maces and Cats to take them. They took Fool's Gold easily, only to realize it was indeed Fool's Gold...

I also got fooled hard.. I didn't kill the barb galley and then with the first galley 2 longbows descended on my capital which only had a warrior. I rushed an Axe hoping that he would at least fend off 1 of them, then I can rush another one. This worked and the Axe actually defeated both...

Thanks kcd for a fun map! I'm so intrigued by the fact that SE asia could double up as the English channel! Very creative indeed! Feudalism slingshot HA rush rules!

Thanks nocho! I said 250BC is late is in comparison to a "pure" HA rush. Happy to get a kudos from you! I've been trying to learn your game ever since I came back to Civ 4 after a 12-years hiatus.

TL;DR: I did the horse archer one and it worked. Conquest 1180AD Thought about doing the horse archer rush since it's Prince. But with 7 rivals I was afraid that I might go into strike too early and get killed economically. Also, there are possibilities that the latter civs will get to longbows...