Group C Game 1 - 1AD
2 months fly by so fast. I wasn't even that involved in the
recent SGOTM but that did take precedence whenever I did have time for civ4. This being said, I have some time today so I will go through part of the game in order to cover more ground later... writing these reports is relatively fast once the screenshots are selected. Enough talk, let's resume where
we left off the AIs at turn 50 (click in case you need a refresher, I certainly did!).
On to the game!
Peter's start just got better once the late Oracle (it was late... post-2000 BC is quite late on Deity) netted him Metal Casting.
Montezuma would get lucky (discussable I guess) and nab this barb city with a wandering Archer.
What's wrong with this picture? At least, in the hands of a human this would never happen...
By turn 70, I'm happy to see that Peter's start has its own difficulties. Namely, he's having difficulty expanding; 6 cities doesn't cut it on low sea level. Given the strength of his start, it's only fair that some downside came with it...
If you looked carefully at the previous screenshot, 2 AIs have started plotting.
War eventually came... Praets! Prats! Prts!
In answer to this, the DoWer, Montezuma, invaded Rome:
Fast forward 10 turns...
Peter is making progress but this is still bad for him.
Gilgamesh enters in a proxy war with the French... very small stacks and disorganized from both sides. At least the GLH will help Gilgamesh's 5 coastal cities.
We hadn't revisited the Aztec-Roman war for some turns... Montezuma is actually making ground: (are you surprised?)
Different priorities perhaps may explain why.
Or maybe Monty just didn't send enough units to hold the city as it was later recaptured by an Archer... The faceoff between the 2 SoDs takes a long time, those are nice stacks.
Eventually the romans prevail and acquire a 12
th city. 12 vs. 7, that could later pose problematic for the aggressor.
And this brings us to 1AD, for a quick view of the various AIs.
Gilgamesh - the war with De Gaulle isn't doing ANYTHING. The incompetence level is enormous from both sides!
Julius Caesar - I guess you can see where this is slowly going... Julius is a bit backwards in research but that is slowly being fixed with a huge empire. The units going into Aztec land should be dead meat considering Monty is running around with XBows.
Suryavarman II - a quiet round from everyone's favourite Alien. A rare smart(? or just plain lucky really) move in combining TGL and NE in the capital. With 10 cities and no wars so far, Sury may prove a good challenge for Peter down the line. Nice rivers going around for good tile improvements.
Peter - unofficially the tech leader, shared surprisingly with Montezuma of all people. Peter's tech power is very good, yielding 121 bpt at only 50% slider!
De Gaulle - as bad as Gilgamesh's start to the war was, De Gaulle didn't do anything good to capitalize on it. There's even a GREAT barb city [gold, pigs, flood plains] which he could easily capture but since the AI prefers to suicide troops on heavily fortified locations... it survives.
Montezuma - great economy! Great techs! Actually making an Academy that makes sense! Attacking Julius Caesar ?????????????????
Wang Kon - opportunistic: grabbed a city from Gilgamesh when he wasn't looking. Perhaps the next set will see Wang Kon making some more progress? OTOH, terrible terrible development of his land with so much jungle still lying around.
Various Demographics
An overview of the land grab from everyone.
Wars have begun, but not in the directions expected so far. There's no threat of runaways at the moment but that may well change in the next set.