6otM189 AAR

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Welcome to the 6otM189 After Actions Report (AAR) thread.

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In this thread you can post the results of your game. Please state your victory/loss turn/date (preferably in the post title) and describe your path to glory in this post! Please attach your victory save to your post. Players are encouraged to provide feedback on the game. Please use spoiler tags for any surprise details you'd like kept hidden. Thank you.


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Some questions to consider answering.
- 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?
- Where did you settle your capital and first few cities?
- 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?
- 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?
 
turn 268.

I bet everything on the special ability to have culture and science for cities above 10.

few cities alliance with all the cities was possible with the right policies gave me further knowledge and culture

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T208 SV 1755 Score

Used ability to get early pantheon (Religious Settlements) and then used internal trade and projects to get first two cites quickly to 10 pop. Then mass settled on all coasts to get good food and trade routes from harbors. Used internal trade to capital with Magnus on the +20% food promotion to grow all. Focused on city state quests to control as many and leveraged Kilwa to boost empire. Setlled continent to the West for resources and wonderful Petra city where Nazca lines buffed the many hill tiles - settled fairly late but was most productive city very quickly. Used religion to get more science from pop and converted nearby CS and Vietnam. Spent extra time simming instead of campus projects so was a bit slower but very fun - getting in what I can before Civ7 takes my attention.

Thanks for all the games here - they give me a goal to keep playing over time between other games.

Spoiler Petra City at end :
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SV T237

I settled 1W of start.

Religion was Reeds and Marshes, Feed the World, Stupas and CCD.

I decided to play tall and spaced cities out more than usual.
I missed Apadana, and my second golden age, and just simmed to a space win. There was never any push back from the AI, but also they were no help.
I built more wonders than any other game I've played.

Things I could have done better.
Played wider - I wish I had left my first two cities at 6 hex spacing and the others at 4.
Prioritise Apadana. Getting Suze of all the blue and orange CS quicker would have been massive
Build a coastal town early
Taken out Brussels and expanded west
Built more culture to get through the civics tree quicker - particularly feudalism, and the changes of government.
Built more builders (always)
Should have built an encampment in the space race city (Beijing).
Should have spread my religion to get value from CCD
I couldn't get Ruhr Valley in the Capital. Just poor urban planning.

I'm pretty sure my build order was wrong too. I'm too impatient. Feed the world was really powerful and I think I should have gone HS, Campus, CH or IZ third everywhere

Lots to work on. Reached 500 hours of playing time during this game. Seems like a lot.
I can see the gap to the better players, and I'm really enjoying this experience. Thanks to @Eyswein.

Look at all those unimproved tiles. :cringe:

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Scientific Victory on turn 301

Oh, well, that could have been much faster.
I thought it was a good idea to get culture for each 4 pop for my religion.
That really helped that I reached future tech around the same time as future civic...
I should have focused a bit more on science.
And especially should have focused more on Great scientists, I didn't get enough of them...

I played peacefully, only by the end I took 3 free city states that Gandhi lost before.

At least, my tech lead was never in much doubt ;-)
and being suzerain of so many city states was also nice (maybe I should have went for more wonders, including Apadana, I guess...)

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