Augustus "Claus" Immortal Cookbook

[drlake]

To turn 109 (150BC):

I didn't notice until I set up my reminder that Dhoom only played 69 turns, so I stopped 1 turn short as well.

Spoiler :

I spent this turn set recovering from expansion, building wonders and infrastructure, and getting set up for a war of expansion.

The good:
Finished TGW, TGL, and the Oracle (got MC - I tried for CS but couldn't get it to work, so went back and just accepted MC).
Used MC as a starting point to gain some techs:

Spoiler :

Most of my cities have Libraries and Barracks, and are producing Praets. I'm maybe 3-4 turns away from readiness to go after Pacal, first stop, Mutal.
Pacal is at war with Charlie and his vassals, Saladin and Izzy.
Pacal lacks vassalage, so doesn't have LBs and can't capitulate to Charlie without it (right?)

The bad:
Charlie is a monster, with Izzy and Saladin both choosing to become his vassals.
I'm behind on techs.
I didn't realize so many wonders were in progress in Cumae, and didn't think of working more on them for fail gold. I decided not to go for the mids in this game.

Here are the screenies of the situation:

Spoiler :

 

[FlyingSwan]

I followed Drlakes lead and also played to 109View attachment Augustus Claus ICB BC-0150.CivBeyondSwordSave

Spoiler :

went a bit wonder crazy and settled another city(copper city south of Rome-when it wins the culture war with the barbs it should make a good production city),it did feel as though i was running about like a headless chicken a bit-IMM is not in my comfort zone.

Anyhow GW built,finished the oracle for MC and traded for ALPHA,built more librarys the Pyramids(switched to Rep and orgreligion),built TGL and teched AESTH and built Parthenon,now 1 turn from LIT.Built academy with GS in Rome.

I didnt prioritize military too much as it seems Pacal is fairly backward atm so a war within the next 40 turns when forges and barracks had been built in most citys seemed a better idea.

The diplo situation seems ok,isabella has vassaled to charlie(both buddist)pacal,zara and saladin are hindu.I havnt taken a religion yet(burgerkings gone bonkers so buddist most likley!)so to avoid any conflict before Praets and cats are ready.

On my save Dhoomstrikers plans are still on the screen as Ive no idea how to take them off(or put them on for that matter)

 

[drlake]

@FlyingSwan

Alt-S is the command for putting a memo ("sign") on a tile. Left click to leave a message, or right click to remove an existing one.

 

[Gumbolt]

Sorry got distracted with SGOTM. No idea where all my time goes these days.

 

[Ambro]

Returned to the game after a long break. I'm pretty rusty but thought I'd give the old cookbook a try so here is my submission.

Spoiler :

Didn't bother with the wonders, instead I used our industrial trait and resources to accrue failure gold. Barbarians set up a couple of decent city sites which I stole. Pacal and Ghandi have been at war for the whole round which was quite nice as it's slowed them both down. Should probably grab construction after calendar and then make war on pacal, he's going to get construction relatively soon but he has a small army and he will probably be slow to build the catapults (not to mention rubbish at using them). Charlamagne has set up right in our face and there is pretty much nothing we can do about his current tech lead (for the moment). Lib is possible but I think it might be worth skipping so that we can land grab. There is a Great "Profit" hanging around for when we conquer the Hindu holy city.

Whoops, realised I haven't changed the name of the save file. Sorry if that causes any problems.

 

[cripp7]

Can I jump in on this? I missed 1st round being sick.

 

[kossin]

Sure. Anyone can join whenever.

 

[cripp7]

Turn 109

Spoiler :

Went on a wonderwhore, got Mids, Oracle & 2 turns from GL in the capital

Spoiler Capital" :

Got TGL in Antium

Spoiler Antium" :

Traded Aesthetics for iron and set the cities for *Preats w/barracks

Spoiler techs :