Recent content by mikeocarroll

Game: Civ5 GOTM 77 Date submitted: 2014-01-10 15:06:34 Reference number: 30414 Your name: mikeocarroll Game status: Science Victory Game date: 1941AD Turns played: 361 Base score: 1330 Final score: 1847 Time played: 8:19:00 Submitted save: tsg77.Civ5Save Renamed file...

An interesting game and one where some quick times would be possible I would think, but not by me, I'm making a bit of a mess of it. I settled in place and while I was disappointed to see more sea tiles to the south instead of food resources or grassland, the bananas will keep growth ticking...

Retired in 1862. It was all going well for victory, if slowly, but I had only been taking capitals to speed things up, and leaving other civilizations (notably Germany and Poland) with plenty of other cities. I'd also taken out Assyria and Shoshone when I attacked Brazil, and was then declared...

Turn 100, I've got 3 cities and about to hit the Shoshone, having finally got catapults online. My tech is very slow and I'm only just researching NC now. Bullied a bit of gold from city states early on and have a trade route up and running with Assyut which is quite lucrative. Also have...

Didn't get around to submitting as didn't get as much time as I hoped to finish the game in time, but have finished it now! Science victory 334 turns, unimpresive but was my first game on emperor so not too disappointed.

First Civ V GoTM for me, used to be not too bad at Civ IV but have only played half a dozen or so games of V, all at King level previously. Started scout-scout-pyramid-worker then went for GL. That didn't work out too well as I was baeten by 3 turns (Elizabeth, turn 51). Also one of my scouts...

Retired 1040AD (and forgot to submit - thought I'd do it later and only just remembered, too late!) Wasn't going too well at 1AD and decided to beeline Beserkers/Trebs and attack Togu. Attacked in 1000AD with a stack of 10 Berserkers, 10 Trebs, & a couple of Pikemen and Longbows. My stack was...

Ach... I have a month or so away from Civ and when I come back the BOTM is on deity... not the easiest way to settle back into the swing - good fun though! So I settle down with a beer (never the best idea for deity) and proceed to more or less make a complete hash of things. Settled on the...

Abandoned 900BC :-( 4000BC-2000BC Moved scout SE-S onto the hill. Saw coast to the south and nothing particularly interesting. I don’t usually like to settle on the coast (better to move inland and block off territory), so moved settler NW-NW to have a good look around near the oasis...

Mirror maps, (unsurprisingly) have both sides of the map mirrored in some form. This could be a reflection, inversion or a straight copy. With "wide continents" setting the script places a mini-pangea on each side of the map, so basically there will be two large continents which will resemble...

Diplo Victory 1892AD, 48K score. This was a very interesting game, though one that I found pretty difficult. No hammers + aggressive AIs surrounding us made it harder than most Monarch games IMO. The results that some players manage to achieve are outstanding. I'm reasonably happy with...

I’m glad at least that I’m not the only one struggling. I’ve never used the whip so much, and I had previously thought of myself as whip-happy most of the time. Like others I’ve struggled with expansion, although I’ve managed to get 8 cities by 500AD and I now feel...

Sounds virtually identical to my game, except that I did attack with cannons against rifles, with some tactical success (took a few cities) but nowhere near enough to change the course of the game - so unfortunately I think both our games were lost long before that when the crazy tech club got...

Spaceship Loss 1553 AD (to Ghandi) 1AD-500AD I was pretty optimistic at 1AD spoiler as was close to tech parity and had a good shot at getting to Lib first. However lost to Wang by a couple of turns at 185AD and after that I was never again able to get ahead to trading techs with the main AI...

My first game at deity ever (I think). And I've hardly ever played Warlords. So, ambition: survival. 4000BC-1000BC Settled in place. Initial builds: WB-Worker-Warrior-Settler(whip)-Worker-Warrior Initial Tech: BW-Agr-Wheel-AH-Masonry This was a gamble on BW first hoping to avoid...