Cabledawg
King
Because of the numerous amount of spoilers in Sisiutil ALC games, he has given his blessing to a thread purely devoted to his current game and those players that use his beginning save to play it out. Sisiutil will not be peeking at this thread at all. Hopefully you can share your game here. There shouldnt be any need for spoilers in his current ALC game.
Guess Ill start. This was a tough map to play. Monarch on an isolated start. I started with a worker first as it seems like the best strategy to me given the starting techs.
Research was
Mining
BW
Masonry
AH
Fishing.......Fishing was chosen in anticipation of my second city site which would claim the clams, cow and rice directly west of the capitol.
I started in the Great Wall after 2 warriors and another worker. I feverishly chopped it out and completed it in 1780BC and I still only had 1 city....ouch.
Settler will head here first. I didnt need metals right away, I need growth and production. This would do that.
This is the same city in 1178AD and it had built the Collosus.
This was the point where i had just gotten Optics after beelining for it. I had to meet people. But, this is where i found out how far behind i was. This is the tech screen with the only civ I had met...Monty.
Pretty Bad. I didnt have hardly any cottages. My tech rate was awful. I had 6 cities at this point all in decent locations. BTW, I stayed behind most of the game. I did beeline a few techs to try and trade, but most of the time, the AI beat me to it.
Between giving in to allmost every demand ther AI made, never converting to any religion, and signing defensive pacts with 2 powerhouses...Cyrus and Cathy, I never fought anyone. I had 1 phony war with frederick pre-Astronomy, but that was it.
Once I settled my island, cottaged it up, and made sure i had a steady stream of Great People. I started catching up. It wasnt until I beelined for the Internet and built it in my Ironworks that i caught up.
After that, it was a matter of destroying all the cottages in favor of watermills, farms, and workshops. I launched in 1899. Heres a few pics of some cities the turn before launch.
Capitol
Ironworks
My 11 cities
Final score was 16191...Augustus Caesar
Guess Ill start. This was a tough map to play. Monarch on an isolated start. I started with a worker first as it seems like the best strategy to me given the starting techs.
Research was
Mining
BW
Masonry
AH
Fishing.......Fishing was chosen in anticipation of my second city site which would claim the clams, cow and rice directly west of the capitol.
I started in the Great Wall after 2 warriors and another worker. I feverishly chopped it out and completed it in 1780BC and I still only had 1 city....ouch.
Settler will head here first. I didnt need metals right away, I need growth and production. This would do that.
This is the same city in 1178AD and it had built the Collosus.
This was the point where i had just gotten Optics after beelining for it. I had to meet people. But, this is where i found out how far behind i was. This is the tech screen with the only civ I had met...Monty.
Pretty Bad. I didnt have hardly any cottages. My tech rate was awful. I had 6 cities at this point all in decent locations. BTW, I stayed behind most of the game. I did beeline a few techs to try and trade, but most of the time, the AI beat me to it.
Between giving in to allmost every demand ther AI made, never converting to any religion, and signing defensive pacts with 2 powerhouses...Cyrus and Cathy, I never fought anyone. I had 1 phony war with frederick pre-Astronomy, but that was it.
Once I settled my island, cottaged it up, and made sure i had a steady stream of Great People. I started catching up. It wasnt until I beelined for the Internet and built it in my Ironworks that i caught up.
After that, it was a matter of destroying all the cottages in favor of watermills, farms, and workshops. I launched in 1899. Heres a few pics of some cities the turn before launch.
Capitol
Ironworks
My 11 cities
Final score was 16191...Augustus Caesar