Recent content by undead

Contender. Lost to space. After the conquest of the starting continent, the remaining opponents where probably too advanced for me to expand further.

Aimed for religious victory. Building wonders seemed easier than in prince level BOTM 198... until Isabella built the AP 3 turns before me! So went for conquest/domination instead. Got a free golden age from a random event: "One of your soldiers has run 26 miles to warn of the enemy invasion."...

Once again I tried a religious victory. I expanded, prepared an attack against Sitting Bull but renounced, focusing on the religious victory. I had to research Divine Right to get my AP religion (the other religions were taken). I could build the AP and spread the religion to all the civs. Then...

Used the ship of the line to explore the map counter-clockwise. The ship was destroyed after meeting Carthage. I didn't explore the starting land fully... Expanded peacefully, preparing keshiks and catapults for the invasion of Persia. Saw a Byzantine stack coming from the W, but it just...

Settled on the corn for a fast expansion. Slow research. Missed religious victory several times. Expanded on the new world. Cultural Victory 1942AD.

The conquest started with praetorians, then catapults (not that many) and a few elephants. The enemy didn't bring catapults for a long time. Later, longbows appeared. Trebuchets joined the conquest which ended suddenly with domination at 1320AD.

The first turns were dangerous, even with the advice to be careful. An English archer was rushing to the capital. My longbow man didn't have a single turn to waste, so I moved him back. Then I lost sight of the archer. I continued sending the longbow man to the capital anyway, and that was...

Settled 1N to cover the worthless spot and benefit from the mountains to do some fog busting. Then explored and had fun. Expanded as quickly as possible. Met Queen No! Didn't attack her just in case she was a nurse. She expanded where I wanted to, but I kept my calm. Met many more neighbors...

Contender save. Eliminated the Canaanites with 2 catapults and several war chariots. It happened a bit late because I didn't realize I could settle near the horse and the rice and the river, and so I settled on the sugar, so it took probably at least 20 turns to increase the borders. On the...

A bit rusty after a month. Not much time and energy left either. And immortal is already out of the comfort zone anyway. A test game showed that the AP was not guaranteed at all. No GLH either. So not much hope. The warrior fog busted from the choke point. Convenient. A barbarian archer from...

Montezuma was peaceful. I bribed him to attack De Gaulle. I attacked Montezuma after a few turns. Everything went well until T192, when Montezuma's knights killed a lot of damaged trebuchets by flanking. Should have stayed in the city a few turns to repair. It was quite a setback. After...

Contender save. T115 1AD 8 cities (one near Montezuma). Met 4 civs. With the GLH, "gold" is OK, I guess, for now. Trying to build a forge and the Colossus (a bit late).

- contender save (Emperor) - built more cities - built the colossus to deal with isolation - first or second in "gold" (demographics screen), but no experience of isolation to guarantee tech lead - discovered marble a bit late (but before astronomy) - settled on the stone very late - never...

- contender save (Emperor) - lucky: received a religion, switched civics to OR - lucky: galley survived a barbarian galley attack, could fully heal, survived another attack - city placement is difficult - not too much trouble with land barbarians (a bear and a warrior) At 200AD (1AD actually...

In this game I have noticed that being discovered by a civ's boat doesn't create "commerce" trade routes for your cities (even though resources can be traded): you need to know a naval route to the other civ!