Turn 159 Cultural Victory.
Fun game, than Leif!
This was my first try at the Civ6 Cultural Victory. I had a read-through of Victoria's very thorough guide first though (Thanks Victoria!). I'm not sure that I get how everything works yet though.
One time I built a seaside resort and it wasn't showing up as generating tourism on the tourism lens. couldn't figure out why. maybe there is a limit of 8 hexes per city that can generate tourism?
Another thing that I found weird was not being able to move artifacts in the Archeological Museums. I kept getting a message that I wasn't allowed to move items out of an Arch Museum if it wasn't full. but it was full, and I still couldn't move anything out. is this a bug?
Another thing that I found weird was that in the art museums there seemed to be penalties on the second and third pieces of art if they weren't different artists from the first. Only 1 tourism on the second and third pieces added. Is that the way it's supposed to work?
Brief history of my game:
Settled in place. went Scout, Builder, Slingerx4. Barbs were brutal. Saw Sun Tsu was the Great General up for grabs, and I've been a big fan of his book and thought it would be great to have it to go towards the Cultural Victory, so I built Encampment to get him. I don't think I actually retired him to get the book till something like t120+, so I don't think it's worth building the Encampment just to get that book that late in the game. I also built Oracle (done turn 61), not sure that was wise either. probably would be faster without Oracle.
I had a touch of religion. started with the Faith/Gold civic to get the God of the Open Skies pantheon. founded a religion some time after capturing the holy sites from Macedon, China, and Rome.
Didn't build any settlers, just thought I'd take my neighbour's cities instead. Probably one settler would have been good though (instead on Encampment and/or Oracle)
I made a mistake around turn 29 when Trajan offered friendship, and I accepted without thinking about it. About 20 turns later when I was ready to wipe out Rome I realized my mistake. So I headed north instead, taking Alexandra and Pella by t56, wiping out Macedonia. By the end of the game I was thinking that I should have left Macedonia with one city. Is that the usual practice? Dead civs don't generate tourists right? Even idiot civs like Gorgo's Greece will send tourists despite never wanting to make peace.
Next I crippled China, then Rome, then crossed over to the other landmass to cripple Gorgo.
At turn 100 Pericles and I were kinda tied for the Cultural Victory according the ranking screens. Some how he was showing as leading even though I had 21 tourism to his 17, and 60.4 Culture to his 59.8. I guess he must have been leading in Domestic Tourists???
Next I cripple Pericles, then Egypt. I was spamming Pairadezea so that when I hit Flight at t136 my tourism jumped from 148 to 289. also was surprised to see that the Pastures with God of Open Skies pantheon culture buff were also now generating 1 tourism each. really? sheep, cows, and horses bring in the tourists?
Around turn 140 I was trying to figure out if I should also take Gilgamesh's capital or not (to arrest his growth in Domestic Tourists). I wasn't sure how to calculate that exactly, but I figured it wouldn't be much faster than just letting him be and setting up a trade route to him. In the end I think it would have actually have been a turn or two faster to the win if I had taken his capital.
I'm interested to try a Culture game again with another Civ. I have feeling that with Persia it's very different with the Pairadezea.
Thanks again Leif!
