#15 spoiler

[Lucky]

Sure they do!

If you get a unit from a hut within a certain distance from one of your cities, that unit will get support from that city!

And concerning the no city phenomenon, the main trick is to pop a few huts (4?) before using your initial settler to build a city. At least 2 horsies/chariots should be found before doing so. This way you will not have to wait several turns before your city build such a unit and you can go exploring.
The initial units are able to pop even more huts, lots of time before the AI goes exploring. And waiting to build your first city also gives you NON units from all huts. When the huts in the immediate area of the first city site are popped, the city can be built.
Thus you can gain a reasonably high amount of NON units to wipe out the AI early, very early!

 

[Darius]

And concerning the no city phenomenon, the main trick is to pop a few huts (4?) before using your initial settler to build a city.

God yes, but I say only one. I pop one or two huts to get one mercenary, and then build a city. From then on I only pop huts which are that "certain distance" from my city; there are plenty of them. That way I have a capital by 3800 B.C. while I'm still getting an exponential amount of NON's. If you wait too long, you'll get behind the scores of those who built cities earlier.

 

[fantasy_sports]

I started out trying to explore and win peacefully, but Germany kept going to war with me and my game ended with a 100 Year's War with Germany, even though I was much weaker, I fought them to a tie.

 

[nol]

Since a high score did not get me very far in the last GOTM I tried a fast conquest .
After i tried a few huts i build my city on the buffelo in the river and used it to build wonders like crazy.
I kep't my (NONE) troops together to maintain a good striking force .
But I did not find the other civ's soon enough, I hope the four Wonders and a finish just in the ad's make a fine score.

 

[Old n Slow]

OK, I started. I'm disappointed in my performance so far -- probably due to mixed strategies. Needles to say I'm also disappointed -- lost two cities to the enemy & lost four cities to Babs!

Having one defender only protects the cities sometimes. Well, it is after 1800 & the cavalry is coming to the rescue:slay:

 

[grigor]

After about a year of lurking I finally finished GOTM 15 in the required time. Finished in 1877 Spaceship. I could have wiped out the Aztecs in 1000AD but I was seduced by the inertia of empire building. Somehow I never got around to building 200 engineers, though...

-grigor

 

[el_kalkylus]

2650 BC is the year to beat...

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by el_kalkylus
2650 BC is the year to beat...

Grrr. I knew this would happen. I finished 2300BC.
Even after replaying I wasn´t faster than that.


But so fast with the first try on an unknown map () is awesome!

 

[GaryNemo]

I finished. Ran growth out to 1848 AD and 87,620,000 people, mainly 43 cities plus a few at the end to use up my 36 Settlers.

I finished at 1848, thinking 1850 would trash my basic score.
Does anyone know?

1844 AD, got Robotics, built King Richard & 8 Freight. 30,60,10%
76,420,000 People, $1041 -323 =814, Sci 361/4, Mfg=481 Sc 1591
36 Aqua, 21 Bank, 27 Sewer, 18 MassTr, 15 Super, 2 Stock Ex, 3 Univ
Note: no Colosseums, no Factories, tho I'd eventually need Solar Plants.

I could have finished at 1550AD with 6,555,000 people, but I went on having fun building everything. I think this game went poorly because I did not build the Hanging Gardens first...

I found some interesting links about the best time to begin a revolution, but there were errors in the details.
www.civfanatics.com/civ2sscsgs.shtml
www.civfanatics.com/civ2scrolls.shtml

My record, marked ? at likely King dates, ! at confirmed dates.
Remember to start the revolution BEFORE the magic date.
1040x 1060x 1080x 1100! 1120 1140 1160 1180?
1200 1220 1240 1260? 1280 1300 1320 1340?
1360 1380 1400 1420? 1440 1460 1480 1500! 20x -1500
1510 1520 1530 1540? 1550 1560 1570 1580?
1590 1600 1610 1620? 1630 1640 1650 1660?
1670 1680 1690 1700? 1710 1720 1730 1740? 10x -1750
1750 1752 1754 1756! 1758 1760 1762 1764?
1766 1768 1770 1772? 1774 1776 1778 1780?
1782 1784 1786 1788? 1790 1792 1794 1796?
1798 1800 1802 1804? 1806 1808 1810 1812?
1814 1816 1818 1820? 1822 1824 1826 1828?
1830 1832 1834 1836? 1838 1840

I have a complete history, which I could post in a few days with a couple pix like I did last month, if people are interested.

 

[donsig]

I conquered another world. A fast finish for me is in mid 19th century AD. I got caught up building cities and wonders.

Ready for another one. Since the Civ # GOTm is diety I should have plenty of time for Civ 2 GOTM.