6otM191 AAR

[Eyswein]

Welcome to the 6otM191 After Actions Report (AAR) thread.

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

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?

 

[Jovan Kukic]

Turn 181(1200.) culture victory, score 925. I played peacefully. I built Apadana because I expected there will be many city states

 

[Chrumo]

CV 165

Spoiler t166 :

Cool game, despite low difficulty. While the game was not extremely eventful, it was also very relaxing and engaging. A couple points stand out about the map parameters:

-Archipelago is a fantastic choice for Culture victory, because it disincentivizes naval conquests (which are Archiplelago's most notorious weakness).
-Science is still needed for better exploration.
-You need to keep producing some units to defend against naval barbarians - however this can be managed by some strategizing around the Barbarian Clans (in short, keeping the naval ones down and the land ones up).
-Harbors/Holy Sites are still very important, as there is little land to make use of, and you need some form of currency.
-Monopolies and Corporations are turned off, which would otherwise make players go for securing resources instead of even building Culture infrastructure.
-Map-specific parameters (low sea level, new world age) make finding place for Acropoles not frustrating at all.

A masterclass in setting up a game. The more I play GotMs, the more I realise how much thought really goes behind these each month.
Thanks for a great map!

 

[Xtowers]

Turn 258, score 1898. My typical go big, peaceful cultural empire build.

 

[0urBall]

CV turn 285, I don't know how some people can get such fast CV's without Monopolies...

Spoiler Also :

2 Byzantiums?!? that was confusing...

 

[Leonard]

Turn 309. culture victory, score 1686. I played peacefully, unless be declared war by AI for 3 times.
Building as many wonders as possible.
And I am a newbie of Civ6.

 

[socralynnek]

Turn 332, Diplo victory
I played peacefully and no one declared war on me.
It was a tedious game, I thought in the middle of the game that diplo would be better/faster achievable than culture win, but I think I was wrong there...
I focused on culture, got future civic quite a lot of times and in the end also future tech a few times...

Despite doing carbon recapture quite a lot, the rest of the civs was able to subtract two diplo votes once, otherwise it would have been at least 30 turns earlier.
And I thought the votes would be closer together, but well, seems I was wrong there as well...

Thanks for the game and the nice map!

 

[leif erikson]

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