Recent content by Whisker

I'm much inclined to settle PH 2W1S as it retains river access. Here I will probably move settler 1N before moving scout hopefully revealing more than 1 square, possibly affecting which way to send the scout while not affecting settling date if first inclination holds true.

I would probably move scout 1N of settler, to see what we might lose settling the phants. Otherwise settle on ivory seems like the logical move.

I tried going through the religious line, but found it challenging. Getting 2 great prophets out is very hard without aid from early wonders like Stonehenge. I managed to squeeze 2nd prophet out by turn 91, by doing only two cities and delaying the second city until I had 2 religions in capital...

Deity, 1870 AD. I give up. Although being last in tech I still managed to stop one spaceship from reaching Alpha Centauri. Now there is another spaceship about to be launched on the other continent and I simply don't have enough transport capacity or military power to have any hope reaching...

Gave this a try. I just kinda played without any real plan, and fully settled the home continent giving priority to cottages. After math I noticed that pyramids had not yet gone, so i chopped them in capital. Expanded a bit too fast and could have gotten a much better astro date by postponing...

Victory on second try. Long wall of text behind the spoiler. I have attached the BC 75 save when I reached gunpowder, if someone wants to show how to properly leverage the technology advantage.

@jorissimo Diplomacy mostly. The Buddhist block (China, Maya and Inca) were my friends and I was bending backwards to appease Monty. French were of some concern as they were aggressively settling on my face. Like I said my production was bad, but there were hunting and AH resources and lots of...

Wow, I was not aware that gifting units counts towards trade value.

No Oracle. Avoid mining and fishing and go education through religious branch. Another option is to avoid pottery, but then you need multiple strong sources of commerce and preferably also pyramids.

Immortal BC 75. Went for a gimmicky slingshot, double bulbed education on BC 125 and partially bulbed gunpowder this turn. Gunpowder will be ready next turn and I can now start back filling tech. Of course I have gimped myself production wise by playing without BW and slavery this long, but at...

"When Pottery is avoided in favor of Animal Hasbandry as a path to Writing? What about Priesthood path to Writing?" There are some bulb slingshots that can only be done by skipping pottery (=delaying until renaissance) . They are fun when you can pull them off. Most of the time however, you can...

Another first for me, a human player style betrayal by AI.

I like your plan. Move warrior SE to check the coast and settler to PH to see if there's any grain. If there is nothing worthwhile, move back to 1W from starting position on turn 1. As we already have wheel , worker can make route to cows while we wait AH.

Wow, there is a lot to unpack. 1. Don't farm brown tiles. Unless you need them for irrigation chains, but that option only opens at Civil Service. 2. Many of your cities are over their happy cap. It's not even from heavy whipping, you have simply let them grow too big. Get more happy resources...

Got fed up having my butt kicked at deity, so decided to try immortal for a change.