6otM 50 AAR - Temujin of Mongolia

[leif erikson]

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- How many cities did you settle or capture?

- What did you prioritize for research and policies?

- Did you instigate any major wars?

- Were City-States helpful?

- How did the new features help you?

- Any surprises you ran into, how did you deal with it?

- Did you enjoy the games?

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[lordofcivs]

DV - Turns 299 1856 AD Score 2019

- How many cities did you settle or capture?
Settled 6 cities and then started war. Captured all cities in the world except 3 of Cree, 4 of Russian and any of the city states. In the meanwhile kept building new cities. In the end I had 52 cities in total.

- What did you prioritize for research and policies?
It was an advanced start so that I needed was already researched. Though my main priority was to keep having enough gold to support my military. As I had only focus on cavalries, had high focus on those researches specifically.

- Did you instigate any major wars?
It was the game of all war. Once a nation was done there was another declarance. Earlier I missed to get benefit of trade route power in wars. Later utilized it to its full extent. Even delayed the win by about 5 turns only to utilize that benefit against Russia.

- Were City-States helpful?
Yes. Too much. Loved that I had Kabul nearby, as my capital was the main military producer anyways.

- How did the new features help you?
Didn't focus on getting God of Harvest, and for that I missed it. Though Magnus was still helpful in chopping settlers and workers to some extent.

- Any surprises you ran into, how did you deal with it?
I never played advance start, so it was a bit messy for me. Learned it too late that due to culture expansion much of the city tiles were automatically given to another nearby city (who could not even use that tile.) It was very disappointing as my cities had not been producing to their capacity as they should.

- Did you enjoy the games?
Mongolia is good to play always. However, advance start was not too much of fun. Early game eras are always very fun, and in this game it was removed. Overall it was an average kind of game.

 

[TomeTraveler]

DV Turn 273 Score 1112

- How many cities did you settle or capture?
Initially settled only the two settlers I started with, the east one in place, the west one going south and settling between the wheat and stone. First city built Encampment, horseman, campus, Ordu, second city started with Encampment, builder, Ordu. I tried something different (for me) and put Pingala in the first city right off the bat to try to gain a tech/culture head start (Magnus went to the second to start some chops). I built one one settler much later to get trade routes with the other continent, and one more a little later just because there was nothing else to do.

- What did you prioritize for research and policies?
Apprenticeship, Stirrups, Cartograph, Military Science, Square Rigging. Feudalism, Mercenaries, Divine Right.

- Did you instigate any major wars?
Naturally! Planned a horseman rush on Poundmaker after taking God of the Forge to help me build an army, then noticed that he had pikemen roaming round so I waited to declare until I'd researched Machinery and upgraded a couple of crossbows as well. Then Scythia and Kongo, eradicated, but I left Poland with three cities because I was eager to get on to the next continent, where the final three fell in short order (declared on the Netherlands on 258, Nubia 263, and Russia 266, finishing Peter off last on 273.

- Were City-States helpful?
Not particularly, as Jadwiga pushed a ton of envoys into Kabul before I even discovered it (7 at the time) and the only other decent one I met early was Muscat (who at least helped me finance my first army).

- How did the new features help you?
Kind of neutrally. Successive golden ages is always nice but pretty easy to achieve in domination.

- Any surprises you ran into, how did you deal with it?
Aside from all my early opponents building pikemen, I was amazed that NOBODY else built campuses. At game end Poland had just built one five turns before, and the Netherlands built one three turns before I captured it.

- Did you enjoy the games?
Oh yes, learning a lot about advanced starts.
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[JoZilla]

DV T211 (can't see my score)

- How many cities did you settle or capture?
Settled only 4. Captured a lot!

- What did you prioritize for research and policies?
- Prioritized just to build horsemen as fast as possible and great general.

- Did you instigate any major wars?
- Was on war pretty much all the time.

- Were City-States helpful?
Kabul is nice for the double XP. I built lots of commercial hubs and muscat gave lots of amenities and gold.

- How did the new features help you?
- I used Magnus to chop horsemen early. I started with Autocracy and had +100% toward ancient walls and +50% towards cavalry, which gave nice overflows to encampment and government district, which were the first districts on the capital.

- Any surprises you ran into, how did you deal with it?
- I was surprised to see 2 civs so close, but it was easy to get them.

- Did you enjoy the games?
- It was maybe too easy, but on the other hand it was a fast game.

 

[Monthar]

Domination Vic Turn 266 Score 1249

I got lucky with a goody hut giving me the eureka for the Keshigs very early. I would have finished a lot sooner, but I didn't have enough navy in the area for the Russian capital. To make matters worse over half of those headed there were blocked by land in the north and had to go around.

 

[Eyswein]

T192, 1310AD, Domination Victory

- Cities & early build order?
136-QARAQORUM (2SW of horse): Heavy Chariots, Gov Plaza w/ Warlord Throne, Comm Hub
138-ERIDU (2N/2NE of capital): Heavy Chariot, Builders (w/ gold), Campus

The movement of my scout and archer didn’t see anything spectacular, so I wanted my capital to have chops – 2SW of horses has 4 chops in 2d circle. Using the settler mode, it didn’t look good to move the other settler E (no good water seen after moving archer NE), but the map showed the river running NE on the left side of the mountain and it appeared there was place I could go along the river next to the mountain and still be able to place a +3 campus in the square 1E/1NE of the horses (though ended up using a different spot for the campus once I could see more). SE of start area also looked like it might be good for a second city, but I really wanted a high bonus campus so wanted to stay near the mountains.

My next 4 settlers focused on: 1 for chopping more military and settlers – this was a captured settler, 2 for harbors (one had some nice science also), and obtaining iron so I could upgrade to knights. Of these 4, I believe it was 2 captured, 2 hard built. Finished with 22 cities.

- What did you prioritize for research, policies, and governance cards?
Research: Stirrups, Cartography, Apprenticeship, Square Rigging, etc.
Civics: Feudalism, Mercenaries, Civil Service, Divine Right, etc.
Governance: started Autocracy w/ Maneuver, Conscription, Urban Planning, Strategos

It looked like all the AI took Classic Republic and Strategos because they all started gaining 2.3 GG points. I rushed my two GGs with faith (one early, one late).

- Districts? Prioritized a couple Campuses, a couple Commerce Districts, and 2 Harbors

- Governors? Started Magnus x2, Liang, Amani; eventually Reyna to contractor to rush an Encampment for two faith land unit purchases in a forward city

- Wonders? None early; eventually got Great Lighthouse
-Ages? Normal as I never left Medieval Era

- Religion? Pantheon: 142 - Goddess of the Harvest; although I did also get faith from a TV, the whole point of taking Autocracy was to try to get the first pantheon; Religion: N/A

- Barbarians? annoying sometime – see Homer Simpson moments

- Military? War/peace?
heavy chariots quick rushed the nearest two AI, then switched to knights/keshig for next two AI, then a caravel started the attack on the 5th AI, but stuck with knights/keshig inland; tended to send overwhelming force vice the more efficient mode of just enough

- Were City-States helpful?
Eh – OK; early Muscat for gold, didn’t get Kabul Suz until the end, so not a factor

- What was your strategy?
Early heavy chariot rush eventually upgrading to knights and adding keshig; get the eureka for the key techs/civics when possible (i.e. didn’t get it for Square Rigging or Divine Right as that would have required a larger slowdown than the eureka); caravels to find the AI not on my continent; complete Grand Master’s Chapel after getting Monarchy to faith buy knights/keshig; finish them (the AI that is); I completed wiped the first 5 AI off the face of the Earth, which is usually not as efficient as taking just the capital, but it was fun

- Homer Simpson moments – Doh!
After wiping out the 2d AI, I decided to let the heavy chariots heal and send ahead my battering ram since I was at peace with everyone else I could see – a barbarian unit thought this expensive toy was fun to destroy.

After getting Stirrups and Divine Rights, I didn’t have 2 iron for knights, so decided to chop some keshig…and tried to do it with Chivalry instead of Feudal contracts…hence a ton of missed 50% production bonuses. After realizing what I did after about 4 chops, switched to heavy chariots and upgraded them to knights, so ended with a good mix anyway.

- Did you enjoy the game?
It was awesome as always. Continued awesome job on GOTM.

 

[kcd_swede]

DV turn 278 score 961

Settled 3 cities that mattered. Probably 3 more later just to block land from others and from barbarians. Took all of the blue cities and made them mine. Keshiks and catapults and a few horsemen did the main job even to the end. The AI on my continent got to keep one or two cities after I take their capitol, and that was to secure their gold-per-turn peace deals which funded the next wars.

One bonehead move... I wasted 1300 gold to levy a city state on the other continent, only to lose suzerain status 3 turns later (and thereby lose the rented units!) That slowed me by at least 15 turns I think. St Petersburg and Amsterdam fell in successive turns for the win. Thank you mapmaker for having all 3 capitols on the other continent so close together!

Focused mainly on building units, hence the low score. The Mongolian combat bonus for having trading posts in the other civ was used, and I think it was useful.

 

[leif erikson]

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