6otM165 AAR

[Eyswein]

Welcome to the 6otM165 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!

STOP - Please do not continue reading this thread until you have completed and submitted your game.

Please attach your victory save to your post.

- 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?
- What were your initial 5-10 builds in the capital or other early cities?
- Early order for technology/civics? What did you prioritize for technology/civics?
- 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 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?
- When did you have Dark/Golden ages?
- How did the game modes affect or impact your play?
- 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.

 

[tarafran]

DV157 -thanks for the game
will try to write about my game later

 

[Monthar]

Domination Victory Turn 182 Score 1714

I waited too long before starting the wars and a few of the capitals took a bit to break.

 

[GeoGeo]

Domination, Turn 181

Very interesting layout this game. Appreciated Giant's Causeway for the early culture. Did not appreciate Tamar trying to invade me at the beginning. She apologized with a badly-settled canal city I got to inherit. Tamar being on the other side of the mountains was a pain so I put off conquering her until near the end. Dido barely outlasted her due to having an inland sea capital which the AI thought needed a naval force.

The naval barb clans stayed annoying the whole game, though especially at the beginning. That Giant's Causeway city never got to do much after the early game due to constant harassment. That's what I get for trying to raise barb clans into city-states--not like the map didn't have plenty of city-states to focus on. Not much of a fight over them, so I never lost any levied troops.

Other than that, berserkers did a ton of work (especially since niter didn't pile up very fast), the naval unit policy card did a ton of work, AI didn't invest much in walls, and I managed golden ages in medieval and renaissance. Varangian Harald is always a good time.

 

[GaidinX]

T164 Domination Victory



Took a little longer than necessary due to having to let friendships run out – one of which was an accident (Portugal) – sat around his cap for 15 turns waiting for it to expire. Settled a city on south side of Dido lake and rushed a canal to get some boats in to clear the waters for a quick take of her cap. Used purchased bombers to wipe Georgia’s walls and walk in – kept her till last due to annoying walls and mountains – blocked her behind and ignored her most of the game.



Early game was chop Apadana in cap, then Oracle, and followed by as many wonders as possible to keep the envoys coming – Hattusa was amazing for all the strategics I didn’t have, especially early iron – fought a few times for suz of that one and ended up with fully promoted Amani to seal it. Timed Berserkers with England attack, Dido military alliance and Oligarchy to help – caught her just as she started to accelerate with IZ’s going, luckily no walls in half the cities. Swept over to Indonesia and across to Byzantium – then split armies to Netherlands and Dido/Portugal to hit as timers ran out. Luxuries and pillaging helped fund the advances – got hard to track CS levies, had at least 8-10 going at a time. Cahokia mounds everywhere for the amenities – All Golden Ages – Monumentality all.

Religion was Religious Settlements pantheon – then Culture from buildings, science from followers, and zeal for speedy movement. Fez spawned and I used religious units to convert conquered cities and CS to get extra science.

Special mechanic of levied troops killing units was ok – better early but it did add up.

Thanks for another interesting game that makes me play differently in fun ways.

Spoiler Win :

Spoiler Cap and CS :

 

[Chrumo]

DV 111

Spoiler t111 :

An amazing seed. The map was stretching the player in all directions, highly rewarding having both naval and ground army, money, envoys and scouting. I can see that GaidinX justified getting a wonder-game, which is really cool considering the domination victory!

I managed to get an extremely lucky start: my first village got me a free scout (which I guess wasn't that good on this map, but saved me from wasting production on it in capital), and my second village was a relic. That gave me religious settlements, which in itself probably accelerated my victory by 15 turns or so. Finally some good RNG

When I scouted Georgia and noticed the mountain range, I immedietely strayed away from the initial idea of quickly levying warriors and rushing the nearest neighbour, and instead opted for a lot of scouting, in order to find an easier target. The name of the game was completing as many CS quests as possible, and levying their units.

After finding a bunch of civs and CSs, I set my eyes for Portugal, which was an easy conquest since they built most of their cities by the coast. After that, a miracle happened, and one of the naval-ladies (I am seriously hopeless in distinguishing them) offered me 20 Iron for a bunch of luxuries. Having Iron, I rushed Berserkers, making them my new win condition. The 20 Iron allowed me to get two Berserkers, which stomped Netherlands, where I found more Iron.

Afterwards it was a mattter of coordinating two land armies of Berserkers with Battering Rams, and two naval fleets of Quaderimes and Galleys (ultimately Frigates and Caravels), to capture the remaining capitals. Turns out Berserkers can get insanely strong, they had up to 78 strength when attacking with a GG next to them.

Very fun game! Thanks for the save

 

[Planktonic]

Dom Vic, turn 166.

Feel like I really missed the boat on the last one so was hoping to do better this time.

But wow, Gaidin X's game is completely different (and way more advanced) than mine. I was barely scraping to 100 science, built no Wonders at all, never built a single campus (captured a few), and relied on Grandmaster's Chapel at the end for quickly bringing in strong units. I think I only suzed 4 or 5 city states the entire game.

Started out levying Ayuthayya against Georgia, but she quickly threw up walls. But I was able to pillage a lot and raze one city, which blunted her growth. Then almost took Indonesia with galleys, but she also threw up walls at the last second. Luckily I had captured another city and was able to purchase catapults to finish the job. This was a recurring theme- everyone besides Victoria and Dido had walls so had to first conquer a secondary city, then purchase either battering rams/siege towers or catapults/trebuchets. It was a spread-out, challenging map with a lot of inland capitals and annoying mountain ranges- so a great game!

Thanks for the game!

 

[cas]

T161 on my second go. Started over after I remembered galleys could be purchased from barb clans. Duh.

Just wanted to second Chrumo's praise of the map seed. Emporer dom on a water map is not difficult to win, but this map slowed me down quite a bit.

Thanks for the game - I enjoyed dom VC, which is rare.

cas

 

[BeAttila]

Culture victory, T368, score: 3632

- 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?
Well, there was no master plan, I tried to ensure money and production capacities in all the cities and try to defend against my quite agressive neighbors - Tamar and Gitarja were not kind to me at all, so they had to fall.
- What were your initial 5-10 builds in the capital or other early cities?
I focused on harbors, religion first and production and science in the second half of the game.
- How did the leader bonus and civ unique ability impact your plan/play, if at all?
Well, the ocean tile navigation (first circumnavigation of the Earth in 200 BC) and the healing anywhere helped a lot in the exploration and fighting. I liked it a lot. Many times I had not enough money to levy CS units, but the few times I managed to rely on CS units, it was amazing, how cheap and effective it was. This was my second time leading with HH(v), so I think this leader needs more respect, especially when there are a lot of CS in the area.
- How many cities did you settle and/or capture? Where did you settle your first few cities?
14 cities founded, 32 cities captured (including 5 capitals) before the win. The first few cities were relatively close and after 5 or 6 I started to settle all over the globe, tried to be close to my future enemies.
- Pantheon chosen and why? Religious beliefs chosen, and why?
Pantheon: Religious Settlements (for the free settler, and for the higher expansion rate)
Beliefs: Work Ethic (for production), Tithe (for money) and then Religious Colonization (as I was quite agressive in spreading my faith, so when my enemies settled a new city, it started to send me money), and Gurdwara (for the +2 food and +1 housing)
- What governments did you select? What key policy cards did you use? Why?
Most of the time I was in Theocracy, I like to by cheap with faith, especially after the Grandmaster's Chapel was completed, so I could by land units with faith. The policy cards were for money and production, mostly.
- Which Governors were most important; when and why?
Moksa was my favourite, as I had many religious quarrels, and he also enabled me to by districts with faith. He moved around my cities a lot.
- Was diplomacy/trading useful? How? Relations with other civs?
Relations with others were mostly war - I did not like them and they did not like me either. HOwever converting enemy cities to my faith gave me a lot of era points, especiall after Taj Mahal was completed.
- When did you have Dark/Golden ages?
Classical: Turn 57 (1760 BC) - normal
Medieval: Turn 98 (450 BC) - normal
Renaissance: Turn 138 (540 AD) - golden
Industrial: Turn 180 (1190 AD) - dark
Modern: Turn 240 (1645 AD) - HEROIC
Atomic: Turn 295 (1848 AD) - golden
Information: Turn 335 (1914 AD) - golden
- How did the game modes affect or impact your play?
I love corporations so that was familiar to me and also the popping up of CS is to my taste. Especiall with HH(v) it can be a really great benefit. Sadly I was not prepared well enough (with money) to exploit it fully, maybe next time...
- Any surprises/frustration/elations you ran into, how did you deal with it?
Dido became quite strong with subs, I had to use a few nukes to keep them under control.
- Did you enjoy your game?
Yes, a lot. Thank you for creating it. I might restart, and play again from the beginning.

Being a nuclear superpower, I could've finished the game earlier, with domination, but I like Civ a lot, and it was fun playing with a lot of cities and conquering civilisations.

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The save is the last turn before the culture victory. Be careful with asking for the next turn, it might affect your personal stats!

 

[tarafran]

DV 99 on second run
3 cities (one from Pantheon)
got a relic on turn 16,settled my second city close to Tamar next to the lux
third city next to the wonder up north.
built 4 galleys to go find my first victim(Portugal)
4 more to go around both and down to Indonesia
With no Iron in sight I Suz Hattus that gave me 2 Iron every turn
Suz the Civ north of Portugal and wiped Holland with 5 levied warriors
2 Bersekers and 1Ram(+GG) swam West and got the next 3 Civ
3 berserkers and 1 ram wen for Tamar(+GG)
I built 2 encampment and 1campus all running project in my 3 cities to get GP



I'm attaching the turn 16 save with the relic (the scout can clear the barb camp )if you want to try it

Was a lot of fun
thanks

 

[Airey]

DV 78 on replays with map knowledge
not submitting

【Initial Setup】
buy 1 settler （settled on irrigation lux，improve mine）
build 1 settler
steal 2 settlers from Tamar （using scout、warrior）

【Goals】
1t builder + hire barb galley to explore early
Libraries+GPlaza setup
get Iron（take out Tamar 1st rather than last）
Preserve/Groove + Lv2 Renya combo（SWF before EE）
hire from barb camps near newly captured cities

【Tech Sequence】
Mining、Sailing（1t builder to explore）、Writing、Irrigation、Masonry（take down Tamar）、Shipbuilding（enter deep ocean）、Military Tactics（for UU）

【Multiple Attacking Lines】
Barb camp hires Man-At-Arms：Georgian（t62）
Auckland levy：Portuguese （t60）+ Dutch（t70）
Anshan levy：Phoenician（t76）
CAP galley + barb camp hires：England（t74）
Cardiff levy：Byzantine（t68）+ Indonesia（t78）

 

[Rutseg]

Domination Victory, T130, Score 824, 11 h

Very casual play, I enjoyed myself. It was so easy to leavy city states that it felt cheese, and the extra culture and science helped me escape very soon. Added to clans recruitment of units, with two early horsemen, secured a victory without having to work that hard really.

Second city went to the Giant's Causeway wonder, my early units picked the Spear advancement, and the city boosted Sailing and produced the early galleys. Third city went to control the continent strait so I could easily cross naval units from side to side.

Early game


War order
First army (built and levied units in initial continent): Tamar > Dido > Joao > Victoria
Second army (levied units and numerous galleys): Gitarja > Theodora > Victoria
Third army (levied Mohenjo-Daro + 2 initial galleys): Wilhelmina

The ability to freely embark and disembark offered a lightning city ambush experience. Aside from levying armies, it was the most relevant feature.

Spoiler Highlights by turn :

1 - Ancient Era; Baltica Nidaros
12 - Giant’s Causeway
17 - Horseman
20 - Settler!
21 - Tamar
23 - Oslo
38 - Pantheon (Religious Settlements)
39 - Barracks! Amani Gitarja
43 - Pingala
44 - Galley! Ayutthaya♟ Ayutthaya
47 - Kristiansand
50 - Political Philosophy Oligarchy🏛
51 - Bergen
53 - Surprise war to Tamar Settler
54 - Hattusa♟ Hattusa
57 - Classical Era (Golden Age - Exodus of the Evangelists)
58 - Tromso
66 - Siddhartha
67 - Rustavi Vatican City♟
69 - Theodora
70 - Battering ram
72 - Joao
73 - Trung Trac Wilhelmina
76 - Joint war with Joao against Wilhelmina Dido Tiblisi Defeated Tamar Ha Long Bay
77 - Vatican City Ayutthaya
80 - Researcher (Pingala) War to Gitarja Circumnavigation
83 - Great Reef Barrier Victoria Met all civilizations Joint war with Victoria against Dido
86 - Connoisseur (Pingala)
87 - Ternate
91 - Grants (Pingala)
93 - Sidon
95 - Mohenjo-Daro♟ Mohenjo-daro
99 - Medieval Era (Golden Age - Monumentality)
100 - Boudica Warlord’s Throne! Victor Skedsmo
102 - Majapahit Mogadishu♟ Anshan♟ Anshan
105 - Tyre Hildegard of Bingen
107 - Banjarmasin Colaeus
108 - Peace with Gitarja🕊 War to Theodora Religion (Zen meditation, Religion unity)
109 - Ancyra
111 - Byblos Peace with Dido🕊
112 - Badung Wolin♟
115 - Liang
116 - Constantinople
117 - War against Joao Auckland Wolin
118 - Lisbon
119 - Marco Polo
120 - Viseu Adrianople Peace with Theodora🕊
121 - Garrison commander (Victor) El Cid Vatican City Hattusa Valletta
122 - Terracotta Army
123 - Himerios
124 - La Venta♟ Rapa Nui♟ War to Victoria Utrecht Trebuchet
125 - Mohenjo-Daro
128 - Peace with Joao🕊
129 - Hanging Gardens
130 - Liverpool
130 - Domination Victory

 

[leif erikson]

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