a devilish challenge!

[Sword of Leo]

well, i'm bored so i'm gonna post a challenge. beat the game WITHOUT passing ancient times! can you dominate with spearmen? can you cultivate the world without anything but the beggining wonders? can you reign supreme with cavemen?
this should be interesting, i'll post tonight!




p.s. good luck to all takers!

 

[Sword of Leo]

m'kay, i made it to the end of the ancient times at 430 a.d.,
and i've stopped science entirely. it's been an interesting game,
i found i was on an island with the romans below, the greeks above, and the iroquis to the side. VERY early on i got in a war with rome (3250) and it ended 2 turns later. later on at 1950
i allied with the iroquis (for a steep price) against the romans. one Rome and veii later, there is peace. Rome is still furious, but i don't mind, they're no serious threat, i'm on good terms with hiawatha,(though my foreign adviser keeps reminding me that he's a back stabber, even though he backstabbed on my order )
things are going well even though my bands of elite swordsmen should be challenged by the pikemen everyone's on the verge of discovering, oh well, i should be able to hold out at least until the
industrial ages

 

[Sword of Leo]

i... have been digraced. The year 1294, the enemy, Rome, whom i had previously beaten the crap out of, sent several guys on ponies with pointy iron sticks, they were an invasion of pikemen and knights, my swordsmen never stood a chance
oh, well only 54 lookers to this post at this point after all, not too many people to witness this defeat

 

[Exsanguination]

I DID IT! I DID IT!!!

yea.. just now... and it was f***ing awesome.

Game Parameters:

Difficulty: Regent
World: Pangaea
Ocean: 60%
Size: tiny
Civ: Persians
Opponents: 3 random (ended up as Babs, Egyptians, Indians)

The Win:

Conquest in 430 AD (researching construction - in the ancient times)
Score: 7588 pts (2nd highest for HOF!!!)

Here's the game, for proof:

 

[Kedinik]

...but on a tiny pangea map with 60% land and set to regent, anyone who couldn't achieve a military victory before the end of the ancient times deserves to be shot out into space and left to slowly die.

I know, it is annoying when someone says, "All due respect, but (Insert Insult Here)," but I couldn't leave this issue unaddressed.

 

[Exsanguination]

i know, but i still beat the challenge...

but its the score i like