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All right, let's give this a try! Catherine was one of my favorite leaders when I first started, and I still have a soft spot for her!

Cheers for the replies. I could have expanded faster but I chose to kept my upkeep low stayed on 5 cities for quite a while. I should have re-started settling after Currency. Thanks for all the input.

Playing Peter on a map where everyone is quite far from me. It's AD1 and I just bulbed Philosophy. Will get Civil Service within 5 turns. Difficulty is Emperor. I am thinking Space Race victory. I am running a specialist economy (grabbed the Pyramids) as many of my cities have nice food...

Turn 331 / 1911 AD: Cultural Victory Thanks again for creating this map; I enjoyed it. This is also the first game I played fully in a while.

@Fish Man

Thanks for all the advice. On second thought going to beat up someone will likely take forever to prepare for (but that conquer gold though....). Not sure it's what I want to do after reading your posts... Plus my best production cities are my culture cities so I am not building culture if I am...

@AcaMetis

Turn 205/1450 AD

Maps are worth a lot more than AIs can pay for at first so you'll get short-changed if you sell once you've scouted a lot. Start selling as soon as you discover Paper, then sell updated maps every other turn to each AI as you scout with your Workboats and Caravels.

I play on Monarch. You want caravels early to scout, meet the other ais, see where you'll expand next, and get the +1 movement to naval units from circumnavigating the globe first.

Interesting map, and the first time I have played de Gaulle I think. I read part of this thread but in an attempt to avoid spoilers, I am rudely asking a separate question. I *think* I am doing okay (I think I had a good start but started to slow down a bit). Just got Optics and whipped 2...

Cheers for the save. It looks great but did you build farms at all, or did you cottage the flood plains from the get-go? Did you research math before starting to mass chop? You went without Copper and Horses. Did that rush you to get to Iron Working sooner, or did you decide on the stone/copper...

Just so you don't write a pamphlet, I lose the game a few turns after the latest save I uploaded. A few turns after the last save point, Ragnar declares war on me with an elegant concave of troops. Not going to play this until the bitter end.

I'm still reading! Thanks feedback and discussion. So I started over and decided to go for a Horse Archer rush on Montezuma. Here are three saves to show progression. Tech choice as best as I can remember was Agriculture, Bronze Working, Wheel, Pottery, Animal Husbandry, Horseback Riding, and...