Recent content by QuizMan

Really? Why? Those stones were transported over long distances.

Game: Civ5 GOTM 102 Your name: quizman Game status: Domination Victory Game date: 900AD Turns played: 155 Base score: 686 Final score: 2212 A simple enough game if not the quickest. Compass was going to be needed so I went straight to writing for the GL/NC combo and then the techs needed...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 98 Date submitted: 2014-11-28 13:33:09 Reference number: 31977 Your name: Quizman Game status: Culture Victory Game date: 1620AD Turns played: 234 Base score: 1025 Final score: 2228 Time played: 4:01:00 A most enjoyable game. Cultural win with Byzantium is...

Cultural victory with Theo is definitely one of my favourites. But I have never played it on large islands so I shall heed the advice and have a practice. It's usually fast expansion, left side liberty and a charge through piety for sacred sites. How that is affected by island land mass size...

Great starting position. I wonder if honor is the way to go on continents, maybe mixing it with Liberty. I don't like the idea of tradition especially after the last patch.

Game: Civ5 GOTM 96 Date submitted: 2014-10-30 18:47:43 Reference number: 31854 Your name: quizman Game status: Science Victory Game date: 1947AD Turns played: 367 Base score: 1225 Final score: 1678 I am going to call this game "The Mighty Trireme", subtitled "Stupid AI". I...

Having had a trial run a couple of days ago, I was too slow with OCC until NC so will go for 4-city trad start, probably settling in place. Raging barbs are good at this level for early culture and promotions plus CS quests. No ruins is probably good too as it obviates the randomness. (I take...

T118 and I am still in the game, which is surprising in itself at deity for someone that rarely succeeds beyond king. Poland is dead and, with machinery complete, I have just taken Berlin. I am trying to decide how many more German cities to take before peace. Rome has fallen, to Attila I think...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 94 Date submitted: 2014-09-29 14:38:30 Reference number: 31745 Your name: Quizman Game status: Time Victory Game date: 1400AD Turns played: 200 Base score: 945 Final score: 945 Time played: 2:20:00 A particularly unremarkable game. I could not believe how...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 91 Your name: Quizman Game status: Diplomacy Victory Game date: 1880AD Turns played: 311 Base score: 2626 Final score: 4235 Time played: 9:43:00 As expected, what started well finished with success by slowly. Following on from my opening actions post, I took out Haile by...

Currently at T95. This is the victory type about which I know least and at a level one above my safety zone so it could get interesting (aka slow). A good start, I think. Settled 2 tiles south with 2nd city NE of KS Mines and 3rd city blocking off the north on the truffles. My 4th planned for...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 90 Your name: Quizman Game status: Culture Victory Game date: 1830AD Turns played: 285 Base score: 1235 Final score: 2166 My first submission in a while. Things started off OK and I got SS at about T114. I started knocking out settlers soon after, but hit...

Your name: quizman Game status: Diplomacy Victory Game date: 1904AD Turns played: 325 Base score: 972 Final score: 1518 Time played: 5:47:00 Interesting map. I wondered why I could not find a few city states. It took my land units ages to scour the high seas for the other...

I am happy with that. It was all fairly predictable stuff at Prince level. I enjoyed the map, but it took far too long to navigate around it. I should have opened exploration much earlier so my two groups of Galleas's and triremes seemed to be zig-zagging all over the place. Maybe if I had found...

. Thanks, a most useful comparison. I instinctively usually go for the extra hammer(s) in the early stages. Getting a couple of early scouts out there invariably pays dividends.