Recent content by zxcvbob

My map looks a lot like TBV's except I haven't explored as quite much to the north. I *think* I've played the South America map before (as Monty) but not sure. I have certainly not played the southern part of the continent before. I don't usually play Immortal and Deity games, but this start...

I've just started watching a series from about 10 years ago called True Nightmares. A delightful anthology of true (mostly true, anyway) gruesome stories, hosted by Todd Robbins*. The stories are good, the narration is good, but the anachronisms are getting hard to ignore. I guess they didn't...

I don't normally play the Immortal and Deity games, especially domination and large maps, but the start looked so good here I had to try it. (I don't know if I'll finish or not) Turn 102, I have 4 cities connected with roads and I'm building the national college. No real wars yet, just a...

Pink Pistols (.org) is probably doing well lately. Also jpfo.org

SV on turn 314. My goal was to launch before year 1900 which I think is turn 320. I built 2 parts and bought all the rest, but I could have built 2 more while researching everything leading up to Particle Physics and Nanotech and probably taken exactly the same number turns. But I had plenty...

I overshot turn 100 considerably because the game was moving so fast, so I'm posting here instead. I just entered the industrial era. Initial thoughts were where to settle? (coastal, fresh water, or mountain) I moved my warrior to the southeast and the lands looked good there; I decided to...

I overshot turn 100 quite a bit, so I'm going to play on to about turn 200 and put this in the after-actions thread. (nobody has posted there yet so there won't be any spoilers for me)

Interesting first choice: coastal, fresh water, or mountain... I'll probably settle in place but need to think about it a while, or possibly on the marble. Will move my warrior south first to take a peek.

Because I always enter via Scientific Theory unless I have a *lot* of cities and feel lucky about coal, and I wanted to do it a little different. And I wanted to build the Louvre. 😂 It was on the critical path, but I probably should have done Scientific Theory first and got my public schools a...

I tried it again; put my cities in about the same places but settled Kilimanjaro before El Dorado and put it where I could build (buy) an observatory. And my 4th city, close but not too close to Carthage, a little sooner so it could build Petra. I was going to settle one more city to the west...

I had to wait 26 turns after forming the UN for the first world leader vote. I almost finished the whole tech tree in that time. 🙄 I think I ended up with 45 votes of my own and 4 from Russia (out of 40 necessary) Egypt still had one CS ally and I didn't want to spend 1000 gold to take it from...

Turn 357 diplo. Everything seemed so slow compared to the Vienna game; was that one quick pace? I sent my warrior east to take a peek, then settled on the incense and started building a scout. Continued east and found El Dorado! My warrior explored around El Dorado a bit to find a good spot...

I just finished this one. I was playing for a DV and it was doable but I didn't want to spend that much gold when I was just a few turns away from a CV. I started exploring in what was probably the wrong direction, but still found a natural wonder and settled next to it, then found a couple...

I can't figure it out either. I played this again and put all my cities on science-focus, and used all my trade routes to send food between my cities; a cargo ship if possible. (I also had Temple of Artemis and "Feed the World") If my cities didn't have anything better to build, they built...

Once again I'm the slowpoke. SV on turn 285. I've never played this map before, and AFAIK I've only played on Settler once a long time ago to get the achievement. It was more fun than I expected. And I got a free settler from an ancient ruin on turn 1. I played totally peaceful, and I'm...