6otM131 AAR

[Eyswein]

Welcome to the 6otM131 After Actions Report thread. In this thread you can post the results of your game. Please state victory date and score (preferably in the post title), as recorded in the Hall of Fame, and the most important: your path to glory!

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- What was your plan for achieving the VC? What are the major steps you planned to take? What events, if any, changed the plan in execution and to what new plan? Any interesting decision points?
- How did the leader bonus and civ unique ability impact your plan/play, if at all?
- How many cities did you settle and/or capture? Where did you settle your first few cities?
- What did you prioritize for technology/civics?
- What were key production/purchase focuses? Military units / Civilian units / Districts & city development / Wonders / Civ Unique Unit & Infrastructure? Most critical or interesting?
- Pantheon chosen and why? Religious beliefs chosen, and why?
- What governments did you select? What key policy cards did you use? Why?
- Which Governors were most important; when and why?
- Was diplomacy/trading useful? How? Relations with other civs?
- Were City-States helpful? Any competition with other civs for key city states?
- When did you have Dark/Golden ages?
- How did the game modes affect or impact your play?
- How were the Barbarians?
- Any surprises/frustration/elations you ran into, how did you deal with it?
- Did you enjoy your game?

Please use spoiler tags for any surprise details you'd like kept hidden. Thanks.

 

[Planktonic]

CV, turn 237/238

Game went pretty smoothly despite several mis-steps. After discovering Caguana I thought it might be good to go for a "science-based" CV based on rushing to flight c Bateys, seaside resorts etc. Then when I saw there were a *lot* of cultural city states I changed directions completely and started building theater squares, figuring I would make use of the massive boost to culture that would be available. I did think about a reliquaries-based game but remembered reading somewhere from Dan Quayle that on a water map it takes forever to suicide your apostles, leaving you not much time to accumulate tourism before the Deity AIs get Enlightenment. But it did seem that the AIs fare poorer on a water map than on a land map. I dunno but it felt like they were sluggish the whole game; I was able to catch up to (many of) them in score by the end of the Medieval despite a very slow start (only had 5 cities at turn 100). Of course, the legendary start, the revealed natural wonder, and the isolated start position with no other civs on the continent took a lot of the "Deity" feeling/threat out from the get-go.

- What was your plan for achieving the VC? What are the major steps you planned to take? What events, if any, changed the plan in execution and to what new plan? Any interesting decision points?
As above. Defaulted to a Great Works strategy, then added a few seaside resorts, national parks and especially ski resorts. Built more Wonders than in any other Deity game that I can recall- the AIs were really pretty slow in this regard and many, many Wonders remained unbuilt at the end.

- How did the leader bonus and civ unique ability impact your plan/play, if at all?
Spain on a water map is obviously pretty powerful; trade routes were very productive as were the missions.

- How many cities did you settle and/or capture? Where did you settle your first few cities?
Originally settled 5-6 core cities on the main continent, then maybe another 4-5 scattered around other continents later in the game, mostly from stolen settlers. I did spend a lot of the game at war- I decided to try to truncate other civs and prevent cultural runaways but leave them with enough cities so they wouldn't succumb to loyalty pressure. In the end I took cities from Cree, Arabia, Indonesia, England, and France; did not bother to take anything from Portugal as I was able to buy his Great Works and he stayed with low culture throughout. My big mistake was not slicing into Sweden sooner- in the beginning Eleanor, Gitarja and Saladin were the cultural leaders, and Sweden was lagging. So I took pains to give them all a haircut but left Sweden alone. I finally bit the bullet and had to attack Kristina at the end as she kept increasing her domestic tourists. I should have done it earlier and might have saved 10 - 15 turns.

- What did you prioritize for technology/civics?
Astrology, then sailing, then headed for Cartography.

- What were key production/purchase focuses? Military units / Civilian units / Districts & city development / Wonders / Civ Unique Unit & Infrastructure? Most critical or interesting?
Tried to get as many high adjacency holy sites as I could; managed to build three critical early Wonders with the help of Imhotep, who I faith-purchased completely: Mausoleum (first), then Oracle, then Mahabodhi Temple.

- Pantheon chosen and why? Religious beliefs chosen, and why?
Earth Goddess- this was a major boost to faith throughout the game. For a religion I went with Work Ethic/Crusade, then Tithe and Gurdwara.

- What governments did you select? What key policy cards did you use? Why?
Oligarchy, then Monarchy, then Theocracy. Managed to make it to a Tier 4 government but never switched out of Theocracy, as I wanted the faith discount for getting Rock Bands, military units, and Great Persons and couldn't be sure if I would get Monarchy legacy or Theocracy legacy.

- Which Governors were most important; when and why?
Pingala, then Victor.

- Was diplomacy/trading useful? How? Relations with other civs?
Not much diplomacy; ended up at war for most of the game and had several Emergencies, plus some civs did the "never peace" thing even when they had been almost eliminated....

- Were City-States helpful? Any competition with other civs for key city states?
Nan Madol, Antananarivo and Chinguetti were just awesome.

- When did you have Dark/Golden ages?
Normal Classical, then all Golden.

- How were the Barbarians?
Irrelevant.

- Any surprises/frustration/elations you ran into, how did you deal with it?
The late game cultural surge by Sweden was the most annoying thing; had to start attacking them (they had already taken over some of France) to try to curb it.

- Did you enjoy your game?
Yes, definitely, but Spain on this map was just very strong, it didn't really feel like a typical Deity game.

Thanks for the game!

 

[Ceydezed]

CV Turn 218

- What was your plan for achieving the VC? What are the major steps you planned to take? What events, if any, changed the plan in execution and to what new plan? Any interesting decision points?
I didn't really have any plan except than going for a religion and then seeing around to decide what would be the best course of action. Being isolated with 2 cultural city states helped a bit in that i could focus on building my cultural output, but not meeting any AI before having boats obviously was a bit of a setback. When I met people I was having a good base, got Oracle, TS, so I decided to play peacefully with open borders, trade route, etc. I enjoyed it as mostly everything went according to plan.

- How did the leader bonus and civ unique ability impact your plan/play, if at all? The trade route are really good, especially early game. I didn't use missions that much because of the general lack of space, I made maybe one fleet, and I got maybe only one builder from the settling on another continent because the island was only one continent.

- How many cities did you settle and/or capture? Where did you settle your first few cities?
I settled 8 cities, 6 on the main island then one on a small one tile island next to chinguetti and one on chinguetti's island. I didn't capture any.

- What did you prioritize for technology/civics?
Went for astrology, then sailing, and in the end game rushed flight and computers. For civics I obviously went for theater squares, it went quite fast thanks to the culture tiles of Paititi. Then hurried to the civics that would increase my tourism output and my culture % from being suzerain.

- What were key production/purchase focuses? Military units / Civilian units / Districts & city development / Wonders / Civ Unique Unit & Infrastructure? Most critical or interesting?
I got a builder early from a hut, so that was a huge boost. Then with the money of first paititi and then of the trade routes I was able to buy some galleys. WIth a monumentality I purchased a couple of settlers to finalize the empire and many builders. I got Artemis and Oracle early to help the theater square adjacencies, and also rushed Kilwa, which made sense thanks to the huge number of cultural city states.

- Pantheon chosen and why? Religious beliefs chosen, and why?
I went for the plantation pantheon, although I should maybe have gone for the appeal one. For the religious beliefs I picked the one giving production equal to the faith and the one increasing culture based on the number of believers. I thought having more production in this quite secluded space would make the most sense, and I already have a good gold / faith output.

- What governments did you select? What key policy cards did you use? Why?
Classical republic --> Merchant republic --> Democracy --> Digital Democracy. Most of the game i kept the double adjacency for holy sites and theater squares, and in the end game I used all the tourism multipiiers cards.

- Which Governors were most important; when and why?
Pingala for the tourism boost was the most important, and also for the great person points.

- Was diplomacy/trading useful? How? Relations with other civs?
Trade routes were very important, because of tourism and ressources, as well as open borders, so I tried to maintain good relationships with all the AI.

- Were City-States helpful? Any competition with other civs for key city states?
Very helpful. I tried to remain suzerain of as many as possible, and I had to fight for it, so I targetted all great people that would give extra envoys, I used spies to reduce the number of envoys of other civs and I levelled Amani to double my number of envoys (I think it was in Kumasi).

- When did you have Dark/Golden ages?
Normal age to start, then only golden ages until the last one, that was also normal but lasted only a couple of turns.

- How did the game modes affect or impact your play?
There was none I believe?

- How were the Barbarians?
Irrelevant, although they killed one of my galleys at one point.

- Any surprises/frustration/elations you ran into, how did you deal with it?
No, I really enjoyed that I could peacefully build my little empire without having to react to annoying AI. I think the only thing that didnt went as planned was losing the great library a couple of turns before completion.

- Did you enjoy your game?
Yes, It was nice and relaxing.

 

[Monthar]

Culture Victory turn 224, Score 1495

Peaceful game, Built some wonders, founded a religion, spammed Rock Bands.

 

[Chrumo]

CV 171

Spoiler t172 :

Peaceful game, didn't manage to get a religion. Haven't built any other districts than Harbours and Theatre Sqares. I was swimming in gold, the enhanced Spanish trade routes are really something!
Thanks for the game.

 

[isopaha]

CV T239/240. Peaceful game here as well. I agree with @Planktonic that the AI did not perform well in any aspect for some reason. Portugal was the culture leader from AIs. A funny selection of both cultural CS and AIs for this game!

 

[Najanee]

CV 210
Hi! So I managed to win in 210 turns. I was rushing harbors and theater squares mostly. I missed a religion by 1 turn and Machu by 4 turns because of stupid mistake I made (not switching tiles while chopping). I went into 2 golden age monumentalities, so I spammed settlers/ Trade routes are op with this civ, so O had no idea what should I spend money on.

I streamed this game in Polish, so You can come and check out the results

 

[seven21]

Turn 230 score 938 .My first 6otm which went ok but could have expanded quicker having to rely on flipping a couple of cities from Gitara to get up to a large enough empire. Built several wonders most notably Kilwa and suze'd virtually all the cultural cities plus Auckland. Reasonably good outcome from Rock Bands.

 

[Michael Lindskou]

Turn 147 CV

did write up a ful detailed game description 2 weeks ago and i managed to update the browser to loose the entire write up before posting

https://forums.civfanatics.com/media/20220320102219_1.6841/ uploaded my win screen here

cant remeber the game now

 

[kcd_swede]

Culture Victory turn 258, ( 1735AD) score 938

- What was your plan for achieving the VC? What are the major steps you planned to take? What events, if any, changed the plan in execution and to what new plan?

Any interesting decision points? I did not really expect to win the game, so got a slow start especially in expanding off the start continent. I was surprised I was able to build a number of World Wonders, I was able to found a religion (3x tourism on relics), and spammed Theatre squares. Settled 4 or 5 cities to the south and east just for National Parks, several had 2. Then Rock bands and win (went for the appropriate civics in beeline, like Flight, Environmentalism, Computers etc). I stayed in peace the whole game, only got denounced by Cathy (France) near the very end; had 5 alliances from when they came available. Oh yeah... the large number of Cultural CS's made life easier, and I made a lot of Batey's and a few Maoi.

- How did the leader bonus and civ unique ability impact your plan/play, if at all?

I guess the missions were useful to generate a lot of faith (Rock bands, Naturalists mostly). Never built a Conquistador. Did not really notice better off-continent production since I was rather late going off-continent. The Natural Wonder in the start area made for a great religious district, which I only built two of.

- How many cities did you settle and/or capture? Where did you settle your first few cities?
None conquered or captured. 4 on the start continent and maybe 5 later?

- What did you prioritize for technology/civics?
I was so far behind in tech before I got tourism really going, and left the game for a long time figuring a loss was inevitable this being Deity level. Glad I decided to tough it out!


- Were City-States helpful? Any competition with other civs for key city states?
Very much so; Rapa Nui was difficult to keep as a vassal, though. And the restriction on building Maoi next to RF kind of made them less useful compared to Batey's.

- When did you have Dark/Golden ages?
I had a dark age then a heroic age then a golden age to finish. Rest were normal ages, I think.

- How did the game modes affect or impact your play? I didn't notice anything.
- How were the Barbarians? No impact at all, except slowing down my settling off-continent. I had to buy a Man-at-arms once, though, to protect a new city. I think I had that and a single warrior (plus 2 caravels combined to an armada) when the game ended.

- Any surprises/frustration/elations you ran into, how did you deal with it? First 3 Rock Bands quit after one show, but the next four survived to level 4 and did most the work.

- Did you enjoy your game? Very much so.... this was my first Deity CV EVER.

 

[Rutseg]

Cultural Victory, T201, Score 1693, Time 35.5 h

Plan
My intent was to use religion and relics to build up a lot of tourism. Although in the long run relics had great contribution I was very slow to earn my first one (T131) despite my first apostle was at T89. As I saw I was being to slow I started to focus more on Theater Squares, a bit too late, but soon enough to win the game around T200. To ease my win I tried to use Spies to reduce the number of envoys in cultural city-states, but I stopped trying when my first two spies were both killed on their first attempt. What worked a bit better was to conquer some cultural city states other civilizations had much more envoys than me and were on war to me because of their alliances. Also, declared war on Catherine who seemed to be picking up on culture, also took a couple of cities from Gitarja and Kristina each.

The most relevant wonders I did build were: Oracle (for extra great persons, along with Divine Spark pantheon), Mont St. Michel (finally a reliable stream of relics) and Cristo Redentor (for religious tourism coupled with a lot of seaside resorts). I would have liked to build Eiffel Tower, but did not find a good spot for it.

Early stage
On T100 I had 8 cities and had already explored a good chunk of the map, settling colonies in far away continents.


Diplomacy
I was at war with the three civilizations that I did not manage to ally: Kristina, Catherine and Gitarja. An early war against Gitarja served me to get a settler crossing the seas protected by a single unit. Then I made war against Catherine for culture reasons, and had another war with Kristina because she and Catherine declared an emergency war on me.

Before the war I traded a lot of diplomatic favor to Kristine for gold.

Settled near strategic and luxury bonuses to trade for tones of gold with the friendly AIs.

Cities
I settled 22 cities, conquered 8 (2 from city states) and got 1 from loyalty pressure. One of my cities, Bilbao, was razed by Mogadishu when the Emergency War happened (its army was later destroyed in retaliation thanks to my navy), and I gave one city, Oran, to Catherine for her to survive, because she was going to disappear due to Joao conquering Paris and loyalty pressure killing the rest of her.

On my original continent I only settled 2 cities, although I conquered Caguna by T153. The bonuses on other continents were too high to ignore and I focused on that rather than claiming every little spot on the first island.


War
I built a navy early on, using galleys and quadriremes to start the war. They helped me conquer the 6 cities I took from the AI. Interestingly, the two city states I conquered (Caguna and Rapa Nui) were defeated using the musketmen I hired from Chinguetti, along with the help of a Conquistador and a Crossbowman.

Abilities
Planted a considerable amount of missions. They were helpful not only with faith, but used them with the adjacency bonuses for science and loyalty on conquered cities.

From mid-game and going forward, I built a Lighthouse in almost every city, just to exploit the great bonuses from trade routes. Once my trade routes were deployed I had tones of money to buy amphitheaters, museums and archaeologists.

The Conquistador arrived at a good time, a couple of them were helpful along with a levied army.

I think I made no use of the bonus against units of other religions as I only got my religion in more than half of my cities during the late game.

The builder on cities from other continents was very useful as I built my Ancestral Hall a bit late from what I am used to. That extra builder really helps fast development, specially when coupled with the Serfdom policy. I found an interesting exploit were if you have a city you cannot retain due to loyalty pressure, but you can reconquer easily enough, each time you recover the city, it spawns a new builder, which can provide a strong stream of workforce for late game tourism improvements.

Final state

The map gave a slow but secure start, but once the empire was up, Spain bonuses gave a great opportunity for any kind of victory.

Thanks a lot for the game, it was fun to play Spain in a multi-continent Empire colonizing game!

Sad being from Barcelona the city never spawned in my game

Spoiler Full log :

1 - Ancient Era; Atlantica
2 - Madrid Païtiti
4 - Village (wheel)
6 - Caguana
10 - Warrior
12 - Code of Laws Congo Craton
13 - Astrology
14 - Mohenjo-Daro
19 - Foreign Trade
20 - Animal Husbandry Holy site
25 - Settler Pantheon (Divine Spark)
26 - Sailing
30 - Galley Seville
32 - Mining
33 - Early Empire Galley Liang
36 - Eleanor
37 - Catherine Trader Mohenjo-Daro♟
39 - Builder
40 - Slinger
46 - Settler
47 - Craftsmanship
48 - Holy site Poundmaker
50 - Chinguetti
51 - Classical Era (Free Inquiry) Shipbuilding Siddhartha Gautama‍ Religion (Reliquaries, Cross-Cultural Dialogue)
52 - State Workforce Pingala Joao
53 - Pottery Euramerica
55 - Writing Córdoba Ayutthaya
57 - Monument
58 - Kumasi Builder
59 - Wheel Political Philosophy Autocracy
60 - Monument Avalonia Saladin
63 - Bronze Working
66 - Military Tradition Water mill
67 - Drama and Poetry Oracle Settler Shrine
68 - Celestial Navigation
69 - Missionary Vilnius
70 - Circumnavigation
71 - Masonry Preslav
72 - Barbarian camp (+30 gold) Antananarivo
73 - Settler
74 - Campus
75 - Currency
76 - Theology Builder Temple Apostle
77 - Settler
78 - Games and Recreation
79 - Gitarja Met all civilizations
80 - Campus
81 - Recorded History Library Zoning commissioner (Liang) Village (+20 faith) Galapagos Islands
82 - Cadiz Monument
83 - Bermuda Triangle
84 - Granary War to Gitarja
85 - Irrigation Library Village (Builder) Settler A Coruña
86 - Shrine
87 - Defensive Tactics Researcher (Pingala)
88 - Archery Government plaza Grants (Pingala)
89 - Mathematics Campus Valladolid Mogadishu Apostle
90 - Horseback Riding Monument
91 - Medieval Era (Golden Age - Monumentality) Engineering Temple Ancient walls Settler
92 - Construction Ancient walls
93 - Iron Working Granary
94 - Hildegard of Bingen‍ Water mill Granary Ancient walls Ancient walls
95 - Granary Granary Aqueduct Bologna
97 - Feudalism Monument Bilbao Spearman Builder
98 - Military Engineering Salamanca Monument Settler
99 - Ancient walls Village (+60 faith)
100 - Apprenticeship Quadrireme Galley Village (military training)
101 - Quadrireme
102 - Galley Settler
103 - Education Military Training Builder Vigo Holy site Granary
104 - Library
105 - Monument War to Catherine
106 - Stirrups Holy site
107 - Civil Service Settler Quadrireme Poundmaker (religious) Saladin (research) Eleanor (military) Joao (economic) Nan Madol Oligarchy
108 - Harbor Monument Village (+40 gold)
109 - Auckland
110 - Village (+70 gold)
111 - Settler
112 - Divine Right Village (+20 favor) Harbor Monarchy Builder Builder Builder Builder Shrine Zaragoza Cartagena Archer
114 - Settler Lighthouse Barbarian camp (+30 gold)
115 - Settler Warrior
116 - Castles Mahabodhi Temple Galileo Galilei‍
117 - Buttress Cartography Harbor
118 - Monument Archer Settler
119 - Monument
120 - Settler
121 - Encampment Barracks Armory Galley Ancestral hall Amani Trader
122 - Gunpowder Lighthouse Monument Builder
123 - Banking Guilds Magnus Trader Trader Valencia Water mill
124 - Man-at-arms Archer Industrial zone Rapanui Builder Builder Builder
125 - Military Tactics Archer Archer Mercenaries University Auckland♟ Caravel Caravel Caravel Village (square rigging)
126 - Square Rigging Pikeman Nanmadol♟ Toledo
127 - Barbarian camp (+30 gold) Frigate Caravel Warrior
129 - Settler Rheims Monument
130 - Mass Production Diplomatic Service Aqueduct Pamplona Frigate Caravel Settler Kristina declares emergency war
131 - Renaissance Era (Golden Age - Monumentality) Machinery Medieval Faires Connoisseur (Pingala) University Chinguetti♟ Rouen Harbor Builder
132 - Builder
133 - Printing Temple Settler Havana Builder Jakarta Trebuchet Trebuchet Archer
134 - Astronomy Harbor Lighthouse Murcia Missionary
135 - Siege Tactics Humanism Workshop Harbor Lighthouse University Conquistador Crossbowman Crossbowman Bilbao
136 - Monument Zheng He‍ Ancient walls Ancient walls Ancient walls Monument Cathedral
137 - Ancient walls Temple Harbor Monument Missionary Shipyard
138 - The Enlightenment Monument Bima Peace with Gitarja Crossbowman
139 - Ancient walls Holy site Missionary Missionary
140 - Ancient walls Ancient walls Commercial hub Harbor Lighthouse Shipyard Mount Roraima Settler
141 - Spy Relic
142 - Trader Theater square Amphitheater Preslav♟ Trader Apostle
143 - Scientific Theory Ancient walls Ancient walls Apostle
144 - Reformed Church Theocracy Chinguetti
145 - Shipyard Market Shrine
146 - Metal Casting Builder Granary Crossbowman Meteor (Knight) Caravel
147 - Trader Theater square Industrial zone Workshop Trader Trader Trader Settler Theater square
148 - Medieval walls Library
149 - Industrialization Nationalism Ayutthaya♟ Curator (Pingala) Monument Jaen Las Palmas Builder
150 - Amphitheater Theater square Apostle Missionary
151 - Francis Drake‍ Granary Diplomatic quarter Monument
152 - Monument Lighthouse Privateer‍ Vitoria-Gasteiz Intelligence Agency
153 - Steam Power Caguana Jeanne d’Arc‍ Relic‍ Ancient walls Builder Moksha Medieval walls Ironclad Ironclad Ironclad Frigate
154 - Art museum
155 - Opera and Ballet Bombard Crossbowman Builder Temple Campus Archaeological museum Apostle Crossbowman Builder
156 - Scorched Earth Dam Monument Vasteras
157 - Exploration Giovanni di Medici‍ Amphitheater
158 - Mercantilism Uluru Harbor Monument Bank‍
159 - Civil Engineering Victor Aqueduct Lighthouse Settler Village (capitalism)
160 - Shipyard Harbor
161 - Rapa Nui Orebro Military engineer
162 - Urbanization Santa Cruz‍ Miguel de Cervantes‍ Harbor Apostle Amphitheater Peace with Kristina Peace with Catherine Trader
163 - Colonialism Settler Holy site Frigate
164 - Harbor Great Lighthouse Lighthouse Shipyard Conquistador Shipyard Spy Trader Trader
165 - Natural History Military Science Charles Darwin‍ Mogadishu♟ Lighthouse Privateer Santander Barbarian camp (+30 gold) Apostle Factory
166 - Electricity Aqueduct Industrial zone Workshop Apostle
167 - Ballistics Kilwa Kisiwani Amphitheater Shrine Harbor Trader Belief (Mosque, Monastic Isolation) Village (+120 gold) Oran Holy site
168 - Mobilization Reyna Consulate Mosque Apostle
169 - Economics Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Trader Trader Trader Trader Ferdinand Magellan‍ Harbor Lighthouse Coal power plant Lighthouse
170 - Rifling Mont St. Michel Granary Monument Harbor Relic Builder
171 - Industrial Era (Golden Age - Heartbeat of Steam) Cuirassier Line infantry Line infantry Niccolo Machiavelli‍ Theater square Amphitheater Archaeologist Theater square Campus Relic
172 - Military academy Barbarian camp (+80 gold) Builder Apostle Apostle Relic
173 - Refining Mass Media Conservation Garrison commander (Victor) Naturalist Mosque Neighborhood Temple Lighthouse Village (+1 pop, +50 gold) Builder
174 - Forbidden City Theater square Theater square Factory Coal power plant Spy Apostle Missionary
175 - Aqueduct Amphitheater Santander Relic Apostle Antananarivo
176 - Steel Ideology Shrine Lighthouse Line infantry Settler Mosque
177 - Mimar Sinan‍ Water park Art museum Apostle Archaeological museum Lighthouse Theater square Amphitheater Relic
178 - Flight Class Struggle Communism Battleship*** Naturalist
179 - Laskarina Bouboulina‍ Trader Harbor Industrial zone Field cannon Commercial hub Etemenanki
180 - Capitalism Granary Battleship** Battleship Industrial zone Chancery University Commercial hub Naturalist Missionary Trader Jaen
181 - Radio Jane Austen‍ Ferris wheel Meeting house Temple Mosque Water park Water park Archaeological museum Archaeologist Apostle Workshop
182 - Lighthouse Païtiti Theater square Oil power plant Theater square Alicante Granary
183 - Qiu Yang‍ Theater square Trader Workshop
184 - Computers Professional Sports Ruhr Valley Factory Naturalist Amphitheater
185 - Cultural Heritage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‍ Shipyard Jaen Apostle
186 - Amboise Ching Shih‍ Aquarium Coal power plant Archaeologist Missionary Naturalist Art museum
187 - Combustion Amphitheater Theater square Zaragoza
188 - Statue of Liberty Market Ferris wheel Trader Naturalist
189 - Plastics Cold War Library Shipyard Alexander Pushkin‍ Seaport Amphitheater Art museum Monument Water mill Granary Cordoba Rock band
190 - Trader Archeological museum Industrial zone Shipyard Seaport Amphitheater
191 - Cristo Redentor Forestry management (Reyna) National History Museum Shipyard Neighborhood Harbor
192 - Rapid Deployment Ada Lovelace‍ Shipyard Factory Neighborhood Amphitheater Shipyard Art museum Rock band Apostle Naturalist Relic
193 - El Greco‍ Vitoria-Gasteiz Apostle Relic
194 - Synthetic Materials Harbor
195 - Sanitation Environmentalism Potala Palace Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe‍ Theater square Amphitheater Entertainment complex Art museum
196 - Broadcast center Broadcast center Amphitheater University Lighthouse Relic Rock band Apostle Naturalist Builder
197 - Replaceable Parts Napoleon Bonaparte‍ Lighthouse Holy site Broadcast center Encampment Entertainment complex Pamplona
198 - Space Race Joaquim Marques Lisboa‍ Shrine Arena Broadcast center Archaeologist Theater square Art museum Granary Naturalist
199 - Chemistry Yatsuhashi Kengyo‍ Broadcast center Builder Trader Builder Shipyard Water park Santander Rock band Builder Builder Builder
200 - Builder Trader
201 - Social Media Emissary (Amani) Rembrandt van Rijn‍ Temple Holy site Archaeological museum Rock band Water park Rock band Rock band Meteor (Tank)
202 - Neighborhood Arena Theater square Ferris wheel Zoo Relic
203 - Cultural Victory

Spoiler Detailed city build order :

Madrid (T2): Warrior > Holy site > Settler > Galley > Galley > Trader € Builder > Slinger > Settler € Water mill > Oracle € Settler > Settler > Campus € Library > Granary > Shrine > Temple > Aqueduct > Monument € Builder > Quadrireme > Quadrireme > Mahabodhi Temple > Encampment € Barracks € Armory F Trader F Trader > Man-at-arms > Archer > University > Harbor > Lighthouse > Ancient walls F Missionary > Spy > Shipyard > Theater square > Amphitheater > Art museum > Military engineer > Privateer F Apostle > Trader > Mosque F Apostle > Military academy F Apostle F Apostle F Apostle F Apostle > Line infantry > Industrial zone > Workshop > Factory > Coal power plant > Potala Palace > Broadcast center € Builder > Neighborhood > Research lab
Seville (T30): Holy site > Monument € Builder > Shrine F Missionary € Builder € Temple F Apostle > Settler > Campus F Apostle > Ancient walls > Granary > Library € Builder > University > Harbor F Missionary F Missionary > Trader > Trader F Apostle > Lighthouse > Shipyard > Theater square € Amphitheater > Mosque > Trader > Trader F Apostle > Trader > Art museum > Bolshoi Theater
Córdoba (T55): Monument > Campus > Library > Ancient walls > Water mill > Galley > Galley > Harbor > Lighthouse > Trader > Archer F Settler > University > Theater square € Amphitheater > Archaeological museum > Shipyard > Aqueduct € Archaeologist > Neighborhood > Water park > Ferris wheel > Aquarium > Trader F Naturalist > Trader > Broadcast center > Builder > Shopping mall
Cadiz (T82): € Monument > Government plaza > Granary > Ancient walls € Builder > Ancestral hall > Harbor € Lighthouse € Shipyard > Intelligence Agency € Frigate > Great Lighthouse > Theater square > Amphitheater > Archaeological museum € Archaeologist > National History Museum > Holy site > Shrine > Temple > Repairs
A Coruña (T85): Granary > Ancient walls > Holy site > Monument F Settler > Shrine € Builder € Archer > Temple F Settler > Forbidden City > Harbor > Lighthouse > Shipyard > Entertainment complex > Arena € Zoo > Campus
Valladolid (T89): Monument > Ancient walls > Granary F Settler F Settler € Builder > Holy site > Harbor € Builder > Lighthouse > Man-at-arms Shrine F Missionary > Temple F Apostle > Theater square > Campus > Aqueduct € Amphitheater > Conquistador F Apostle > Mosque F Missionary > Art museum F Apostle F Missionary > Water park > Shipyard F Apostle F Missionary > Ferris wheel > Library F Apostle > Broadcast center > Builder > University
Bilbao (T96 - T135 Mogadishu): € Spearman > Monument F Settler > Harbor € Trebuchet > Theater square
Salamanca (T98): € Monument € Granary F Settler > Petra Industrial zone > Aqueduct > Workshop > Ancient walls > Commercial hub > Market F Builder F Settler F Trader € Factory > Kilwa Kisiwani € Coal power plant > Ruhr Valley > Theater square > Amphitheater > Art museum > Broadcast center > Trader > Trader > Builder
Vigo (T103): € Quadrireme > Harbor > Monument F Settler > Lighthouse € Shipyard > Ancient walls > Theater square > Amphitheater > Mausoleum at Halicarnassus > Granary > Archaeological museum > Water park € Archaeologist > Seaport > Broadcast center > Ferris wheel
Zaragoza (T112): Monument > Holy site > Shrine F Missionary > Temple F Apostle > Harbor > Lighthouse > Mosque F Naturalist > Shipyard > Builder > Builder
Cartagena (T112): Monument F Settler > Harbor > Ancient walls F Settler > Diplomatic quarter > Lighthouse > Consulate > Chancery > Neighborhood > Holy site F Rock band > Shrine
Valencia (T123): € Water mill € Archer > Monument F Settler > Ancient walls > Harbor > Lighthouse € Shipyard > Holy site > Theater square > Shrine > Etemenanki > Temple > Amphitheater > Archeological museum > Archaeologist > Water park € Ferris wheel > Mosque
Toledo (T126): Monument > Industrial zone € Workshop F Trader F Trader F Trader > Dam F Trader > Mont St. Michel > Theater square € Factory € Coal power plant € Settler > Cristo Redentor > Harbor > Amphitheater > Lighthouse > Archaeological museum > Broadcast center
Rheims (T129): € Monument > Ancient walls > Repairs > Medieval walls > Harbor > Lighthouse > University > Shipyard > Theater square > Entertainment complex
Pamplona (T130): € Trebuchet > Monument € Granary > Ancient walls > Harbor > Lighthouse > Industrial zone € Shipyard € Seaport F Naturalist > Canal
Rouen (T131): Repairs F Cathedral > Ancient walls > Medieval walls € Library F Builder F Builder > Harbor > Lighthouse F Trader F Trader F Trader F Trader > Statue of Liberty > Shipyard F Apostle > University F Rock band F Rock band > Seaport
Havana (T133): Harbor > Lighthouse > Theater square > Amphitheater F Rock band > Shipyard > Art museum
Jakarta (T133): Ancient walls > Monument > Granary > Holy site > Shrine > Temple > Meeting house F Apostle > Hagia Sophia
Murcia (T134): Ancient walls > Monument > Industrial zone € Workshop > Aqueduct > Theater square € Oil power plant > Amphitheater > Art museum € Builder > Broadcast center
Bima (T138): Monument > Harbor > Lighthouse > Theater square € Amphitheater > Trader
Jaen (T149): Monument > Preserve > Harbor > F Naturalist > Grove > St. Basil’s Cathedral
Las Palmas (T149): Monument > Theater square € Amphitheater € Art museum > Harbor > Lighthouse € Builder > Water park > Ferris wheel
Vitoria-Gasteiz (T152): Monument > Theater square > Amphitheater F Naturalist > Harbor
Caguana (T153): Repairs > Campus > Commercial hub F Naturalist > Neighborhood > Entertainment complex > Arena > Market
Vasteras (T156): Repairs
Rapa Nui (T161): Repairs € Amphitheater > Industrial zone > Workshop > Factory € Shipyard > Art museum > Oil power plant
Orebro (T161): € Granary > Monument
Santander (T165): Monument > Commercial hub > Granary > Market € Builder F Naturalist > Theater square > Amphitheater
Oran (T167-T173): Monument
Alicante (T182): € Granary > Monument € Water mill > Holy site
Amboise (T186): Granary F Rock band > Encampment > Theater square

 

[Arenel]

CV turn 284

Late for the submission, but too proud not to post Thanks for the map, I was scared of deity culture with Philip, but decided that in the worst case I can always just conquer, as it's a sea map This was not necessary though

Spoiler :

- What was your plan for achieving the VC? What are the major steps you planned to take? What events, if any, changed the plan in execution and to what new plan? Any interesting decision points?
As this was Philip, my plan was to generate A LOT OF FAITH and beeline for parks and rock bands. I also planned quite some parks in advance and deleted some mines in preparation for Conservation.

- How did the leader bonus and civ unique ability impact your plan/play, if at all?
Didn't use inquisitors and conquistadors, but trade routes and missions are great for faith generation! Basically, in the end I could buy a rock band every 2 turns, and naturalists whenever needed.

- How many cities did you settle and/or capture? Where did you settle your first few cities?
5 cities on home continent, then 2 north, then settled under Chinguetti when Gitarga was already there. She declared a surprise war and destroyed this city. But in the end that continent was mine, with 3 my cities and one captured.

- What did you prioritize for technology/civics?
Tech: pretty much beelined to missions, then to frigates to defend against Gitarja, then to computers.
Civics: religion first, then culture

- What were key production/purchase focuses? Military units / Civilian units / Districts & city development / Wonders / Civ Unique Unit & Infrastructure? Most critical or interesting?
Harbors, theater squares, water parks everywhere. Only had 4 holy sites and a couple of campuses, this was enough. A lot of builders, monumentality golden age helped. Missed Petra and Christo, but in general the competition for wonders was surprisingly tepid. Didn't have place for industry on the home continent, which probably slowed me down

- Pantheon chosen and why? Religious beliefs chosen, and why?
Earth Goddess for even MORE religion, then Divine Inspiration, World Church, Holy Order and Stupas.

- What governments did you select? What key policy cards did you use? Why?
Stayed for a long time in Theology, didn't have any alliances so went communism. I was suzerain of almost all CSs so diplo cards were super useful

- Which Governors were most important; when and why?
Pingala of course, Liang was making rounds and building fisheries everywhere

- Was diplomacy/trading useful? How? Relations with other civs?
Everybody was friendly, with the exception of that surprize war from Gitarja. Traded with everybody obviously, for +75% tourism

- Were City-States helpful? Any competition with other civs for key city states?
I found Auckland a bit late, but as soon as I did, my production improved greatly Mohenjo helped with one waterless city that I squeezed on my continent, and I built some bateys. Bologna bonus is always nice too. Competition felt very un-deity like, no problems at all after Kilwa

- When did you have Dark/Golden ages?
Oh I was so frustrated, I missed golden age a couple of times just by 2 points! But by modernity I was comfortably on a golden age roll

- How were the Barbarians?
Enough for eurecas, not enough to be a bother

- Any surprises/frustration/elations you ran into, how did you deal with it?
The surprise war declaration was quite a shock. I did build walls, but my military was non-existent and my navy was just a couple of galleys against Gitarja's caravels. Luckily, I managed to change my production and research fast enough, so only lost one city, and recaptured the continent pretty fast.

- Did you enjoy your game?
Yes, very much! Except the last ~30 turns, which was the usual cultural victory frustration of watching the number of turns until victory change randomly and re-directing rock bands from closing borders.

 

[leif erikson]

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[leif erikson]

Late for the submission, but too proud not to post

Thank you for the reminder.

 

[EmJayLambert]

I know I'm too late for a submission (CV T258) but wanted to celebrate my incredible Rock Band who racked up 28250 tourism and 2875 album sales (not sure I know the difference between them but still...) - way way more than I've ever seen before.

Was a fun game, thanks.

 

[Michael Lindskou]

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• Michael Lindskou
• Mar 20, 2022

I did fibish this in time but forgot to upload my result lol