Snowy Kitsune
Chieftain
'Ello;
Admittedly longtime lurker here - been following several of the playthroughs here, and thought I might start my own, both to showcase my particular favourite 'boxed' scenario, and to help with my meager cIV skills. I must be insane or something
At any rate, we're playing the '1000 AD' scenario, taking advantage of (or clawing back from) where the civs were in those days
At any rate, I'm going to be starting off with one of my RL favourite civs:
Note that I am normally a Prince-level player, so this should prove more than enough of a challenge
The Starting situation:
Small, and pretty isolated - not exactly the best start for a warmonger. The island is both a blessing and a curse; we don't have to worry too much about attacks, but we're going to need to do a lot of ferrying troops, at least until we establish a bit of a presence
Our neighbours are Korea, who shares our religion, but is both smaller than us and weaker. They're generally a pushover. And then there's China... On the occassions that I've played the map through, China almost always becomes a superpower. Right at the start they have lots of good land and a decent tech lead on the rest of the world. Somehow, we're going to have to deal with them, and likely from a poorer position...
This only the middle of a... decidedly single-minded tech tree. One the one hand, we have Philosophy, in case we (for whatever reason) want to be pacifists, I guess... On the other hand, we're lacking both Sailing and Alphabet. I'd love to hear Tokugawa explain how he got to the island in the first place with only tiny fishing boats to sail with!
I'm a little behind in techs. Not as badly as some other civs on this map, but with the ten-ton gorilla of China sitting at my doorstep, I'm going to feel it all the worse
Our three cities. I see one good production city, one decent (but not spectacular) science city, and one city I don't know what to do with >.>
So the starting position is certainly not the best - we're going to be the underdogs for much of the early game. There's room to expand north into Hokkaido, but beyond that, it looks like war is the only option to help carve out a decent-sized empire (yes, I much prefer sitting back and building up a peaceful empire - why do you think we're playing a warmonger).
Several of China's coastal cities are quite juicy - but Qin Shi Huang isn't about to roll over and let me take them, and he's certainly got the power to stop me (even with the starting war with Gengis, who usually plays dead pretty quickly), so, sorry Wang Kon, ol' buddy, but you're going to be on the chopping block first >.>
Also probably shoot for an 'early' coastal wonder. Both the Colossus and the Great Lighthouse are available, but we can probably only take one before the AI scoops the other. Still, when running a sea-based economy, either one should help up get up to tech parity a lot
(Hum... need to work on image-posting skills, as well... >.>)
(Certainly feel outclassed posting this, but no real way of finding out whether it's the right thing without trying.)
Admittedly longtime lurker here - been following several of the playthroughs here, and thought I might start my own, both to showcase my particular favourite 'boxed' scenario, and to help with my meager cIV skills. I must be insane or something
At any rate, we're playing the '1000 AD' scenario, taking advantage of (or clawing back from) where the civs were in those days
At any rate, I'm going to be starting off with one of my RL favourite civs:
Note that I am normally a Prince-level player, so this should prove more than enough of a challenge
The Starting situation:
Small, and pretty isolated - not exactly the best start for a warmonger. The island is both a blessing and a curse; we don't have to worry too much about attacks, but we're going to need to do a lot of ferrying troops, at least until we establish a bit of a presence
Our neighbours are Korea, who shares our religion, but is both smaller than us and weaker. They're generally a pushover. And then there's China... On the occassions that I've played the map through, China almost always becomes a superpower. Right at the start they have lots of good land and a decent tech lead on the rest of the world. Somehow, we're going to have to deal with them, and likely from a poorer position...
This only the middle of a... decidedly single-minded tech tree. One the one hand, we have Philosophy, in case we (for whatever reason) want to be pacifists, I guess... On the other hand, we're lacking both Sailing and Alphabet. I'd love to hear Tokugawa explain how he got to the island in the first place with only tiny fishing boats to sail with
!I'm a little behind in techs. Not as badly as some other civs on this map, but with the ten-ton gorilla of China sitting at my doorstep, I'm going to feel it all the worse
Our three cities. I see one good production city, one decent (but not spectacular) science city, and one city I don't know what to do with >.>
So the starting position is certainly not the best - we're going to be the underdogs for much of the early game. There's room to expand north into Hokkaido, but beyond that, it looks like war is the only option to help carve out a decent-sized empire (yes, I much prefer sitting back and building up a peaceful empire - why do you think we're playing a warmonger
).Several of China's coastal cities are quite juicy - but Qin Shi Huang isn't about to roll over and let me take them, and he's certainly got the power to stop me (even with the starting war with Gengis, who usually plays dead pretty quickly), so, sorry Wang Kon, ol' buddy, but you're going to be on the chopping block first >.>
Also probably shoot for an 'early' coastal wonder. Both the Colossus and the Great Lighthouse are available, but we can probably only take one before the AI scoops the other. Still, when running a sea-based economy, either one should help up get up to tech parity a lot
(Hum... need to work on image-posting skills, as well... >.>)
(Certainly feel outclassed posting this, but no real way of finding out whether it's the right thing without trying.)
Seems a little weird to play a civ game like that, but whatever floats your boat is cool I guess.
. I hope I can meet expectations 
