Recent content by thefranklin

No, I was serious. I just read the wikipedia page on it because of your post. It sounded like they had a very specialized labor force.

OK, well I feel dumb. Thanks for the knowledge!

Wow, "economic means of enslavement?" A western trait? Go somewhere where "He who has the gold makes the rules" still exists and let us know the conditions the common poor human lives in. I have no idea what neocolonialism is but drone strikes = barbaric how? When compared to having...

Oh, the pyramids were built by union workers or something? All people are evil. There is no innocent culture in the world.

Cultural victory on turn.... 386 :(. I had SS with cathedrals and mosques, but did everything too slow. I concentrated too much on getting a lot of cities and a lot of religion, but I didn't start the city spamming until I had a good base at T110 or so, so that was too slow. My tech nose...

I tried a few times to get off to a good start. I kept getting bogged down by barbs and was having trouble taking Rome, and probably making a bunch of other mistakes. Then I looked up and it was turn 90'something. On about my third try I was able to get to Rome at a good speed and take it...

The German empire grew stronger at about T131. Guess my 4 comp bows and one pike wasnt enough to deter him. He forward settled me, but I spent too much emphasis on sucking to do about it. I was a few turns from crossbowmen when I got DOW'd. But by then I had 0 comp bows to upgrade. I had...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 111 Date submitted: 2015-06-27 15:22:47 Reference number: 32947 Your name: thefranklin Game status: Science Victory Game date: 1909AD Turns played: 329 Base score: 1114 Final score: 1713 Time played: 4:25:00 Settled on warrior. Initial build...

Hi, thanks for hosting!! It was my first game of Civ V in about a year. The steam sale reminded me that I still needed the Ancient Wonders DLC to participate in these things. In my save list I noticed I had TSG90 ready to go, so it has been that long I have wanted to do one. Here goes a...