6otm197 AAR

[Thorak]

Welcome to the 6otM195 After Actions Report (AAR) thread.

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Some questions to consider answering.
- What are your first impressions of online game speed?
- What do you think about allowing all victory conditions?
- What victory condition did you chose and why? Did you have one in mind from the start of the game and did you change it later on?

 

[Thorak]

Turn 108 Culture Victory

Spoiler Victory screenshot :

This is one of the most hillarious games I have finished for a long time. I was going for an early flight with La Venta as my main source of tourism improvement. I was planning on going totally peaceful as there was enough room to expand anyway. A few turns after I finished flight, Japan, which was my ally for 17 more turns at the time, conquered La Venta. Luckily it wasn't razed so I was planning to end the friendship after those 17 turns and liberate La Venta.

So I produced a lot of heavy chariots and timed the rought rider unique unit for a push and started a war with Japan and liberated La Venta. So far so good. But, I have never experienced something called a "Betrayal Emergency" before from the world congress after over 1000 hours in Civ6, this is a new experience. Even my allies, some of which I had a lvl 2 alliance with, turned their back on me and declared war on me. The only civ that didn't declare war on me, which I found even more hillarious, was the Hungary who already denounced me and was my closest neighbour. I think they were afraid of my military though that was quite a bit stronger than everyone else after producing military units in most of my cities for 10 turns and upgrading them.

Anyway, I continued to pillage all of Japans improvements and used the resources to buy Rock bands which gave me the victory.

- What are your first impressions of online game speed?
I like the variation it brings. The decisions have more impact and are tougher to make, the games are quicker and it favours a more city building/peaceful way of playing that I like.

- What do you think about allowing all victory conditions?
I think it brings another dimension of strategical thinking and also a way to adapt if one victory conditions seems lost or another seems quicker after a while.

- What victory condition did you chose and why? Did you have one in mind from the start of the game and did you change it later on?
I was going for Culture victory all the way. I think that's the quickest peaceful victory condition on online speed. Potentially a religious or domination victory might be quicker and I might replay the game to try it out. I did not change it, but I was close when Japan conquered La Venta.