6otm206 AAR (After Actions Report)

[Thorak]

Welcome to the 6otM205 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.

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.

Some questions to consider answering.
- How do you feel about starting in a later era than normal?
- How do you feel about using a map that resembles the geography of the real world and it's starting location (true earth starting location in this case)?

 

[lakeiron]

T344 Domination Victory

I like later era starts every now and then so I enjoyed it quite a lot. I rarely use true location maps. My strategy was to build up the economy by spamming Harbors and Commercial Hubs, then turn to Campuses.
I wanted to keep up as much as I could from the beginning with the AI, of course the Great Barrier Reef super Campus was great help. I went with the Ancestral Hall settler spamming in the Capital, and sent some semi-early settlers to India and the Americas, both connected some great resources.
Beelined to Advanced Flight for Bombers, until then I was peaceful. Then I went for Korea, Russia, the Zulus, Egypt and the Germans in this order. Then I did a Capital pinch around the same time for Canada and Brazil. I got those Capitals within 1-2 turns in the end.

Enjoyable game, which was a bit different - refreshingly. Thanks!

 

[Jovan Kukic]

Turn 345(1924.) domination victory, score 1859. I settled Australia and south Asia. When I realized that Amazon rainforest is extremely productive due to earlier forest fires, I founded some cities there before Brazil. Then I attacked Brazil, to take their cities with best terrain. I easily conquered AI capitals and many other cities. Only Zulu managed to destroy or badly damage some of my artillery, so their capital fell two turns later than Egyptian.

 

[GaidinX]

Turn 416 Domination Victory (1766 score) - I was an idiot and stayed on Australia and simmed away. Explored whole world but AI had more space and their lead didn't shrink. Finally remembered it was domination and went launched a conventional bomber and cavalry push through Cleo and Peter while pillaging my way back to parity with the AI. I had Venetian Arsenal and placed nuclear subs near the remaining 5 capitals with support units that could actually take the cities. I mistakenly clicked an accept friend request and had to waster 25 turns until I could pull the trigger - Pumped out lots of nukes and one thermo that was needed for Korea as she had multiple GDRs protecting her cap. Took 2 turns due to distance on Canada's capital but managed to win with lots of satisfying giant explosions. Has been a while since I've been able to use nukes so it was fun for a change. Pedro launched Exo a few turns before my finish and Korea had Exo on the pad. Thanks AI for letting me be very sloppy and still pull out a victory!

 

[Yunak]

Turn 328 but it should not count. I am not so proficient in the game so I have to admit I was cheating. When making strategic mistake I used saved games. I know it is against rules but it allows me to learn more. I still see many thing I could done better, definitely I can finish around 320. I liked this scenario very much, maybe I use some of the saves again. My strategy based on bombers + military Engineers building remote airports.

Edit: I did re-run of late stage and I finished at 319 with score 1719.

 

[leif erikson]

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