6otM180 AAR

[Eyswein]

Welcome to the 6otM180 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 map affect your gameplay?
- 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.

If this is a replay, please indicate 'REPLAY' at the top of your post. If you conduct regular restarts, please indicate 'RELOADS' at the top of your post. More posting helps us all get play better as we understand the methods of others, but want to clearly distinguish between a first run through without reloads and other submissions as it is much harder to recover in game from the mistakes we all make.

 

[Merenza]

DV 125

Thanks for the game! Initially thought about setting up a religion but Canada was getting harassed by a barb camp spawning jaguars which made them an easy first target. Canada had forward settled byz making Constantinpole a quick take as well. After knocking those down, used horseman to raid and drive economy while army pushed around the map. Forgot that the Qhapaq Ñan allow you to teleport until near the end of the game, definitely could have shaved some turns there. Had fun with this one!

 

[Jovan Kukic]

Turn 95(525BC) religious victory, score 296. I played peacefully.

 

[ummd]

DV145 FUN!

 

[MickeMisar]

Religious Victory at turn 280. I had converted every civilization except India at turn 175. It took more than 100 turns to get to that final conversion. One reason for this was that every other civilization banded against me because I took a former city state from Basil II and then they wanted to liberate it. That happened around turn 180.

I rushed as much as I could to get first to a religion but Russia beat me to it so I started to convert his cities resulting that he started a war against me.

My focus otherwise was to get as many cities as possible between the mountains in the west and Canada/Byzanthium in the east and then build a Holy Site in each city.

 

[timof]

DV turn 101

Quick and dirty conquest. I settled just two cities, then started spamming warriors and archers which did most of the work.
I pondered for a while how to overcome that mountain barrier in the west until I realized that I had the Qhapaq Nan.
Overall, I met hardly any serious resistance, and somehow even got a great prophet 3 turns before victory (which of
course didn't make a difference at this point).

Short Fun game - thanks!

 

[Melofeign]

DV239

Looks like I took the slow approach to finishing this one compared with the folks before.

- 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?
Was hoping to get a couple of cities started, then develop a strong center before beginning conquest with bombards. That lasted about 5 turns, as I had forgotten about what a Terra map entailed =) New plan was one city, lots of military, and grab my neighbours as quickly as possible. This ended up being very difficult due to culture; I had to double back and grab some cities that had flipped free because I had no loyalty pressure.
- What were your initial 5-10 builds in the capital or other early cities?
- Scout and then slingers since we had good production tiles and Canada and Rome were next door. Went archery fast and leveraged them to secure my area.
- How did the leader bonus and civ unique ability impact your plan/play, if at all?
- Only built one city north of capital before Canada and Rome were gone.? Where did you settle your first few cities? I settled on the wheat, which I didn't like. I put an aqueduct on the start square, because I wanted to max the terrace farms to see how good they'd be. I think I should have gone to the river to get the early housing.
- What were key production/purchase focuses? Map was great, lots of tight spots, and being Inca made it more interesting to figure out. I think it also led me to taking breaks between wars to solidify where I probably didn't need to do that.
- Any surprises/frustration/elations you ran into, how did you deal with it?
- Game was very fun! It has been a while since I've done this, and came over after the main game started doing something similar. Thanks for the effort in putting it together!

 

[Monthar]

Religious Victory Turn 131 Score 444. I had 1 early war with Khmer because they left an unescorted settler right next to my scout, so I just had to take it.

 

[nufro]

T 122 DV

 

[Soger]

Turn 69 Domination victory.
Rushed horses. Used the mountain path to get across the map. Pretty easy. Uploading video now will post link once its done.

 

[Soger]

Turn 69 Domination victory.
Rushed horses. Used the mountain path to get across the map. Pretty easy. Uploading video now will post link once its done.

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