Recent content by Lawrence

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...

There's more than plenty of food so missing the fish was not a problem. It definitely delayed GLH, which I built really late, close to AD. But probably not a big deal.

Congratulations everyone! LowtherCastle's 155 hours gold medal is surely a wonder to behold!

I know where it is by the end, but I don't really remember how. I definitely didn't scout for it. Maybe I traded maps with Arges/Brontes after they discovered it -- since in my game they finished Cronos/Atlas in the 1800s. Congrats everyone!

Hey DS, actually some of us won... The GOTM system somehow said we lost to the Ottomans (which is Zeus).. If you go to the replay, you can see Zeus/Poseidon actually won the game.