Babylon deity NO IRON

[vanjito]

Darius managed to beat us to Notre Dame. Damn
1308g compensation was ok, but as they say - you cannot buy happiness

Spoiler :

Due to misclick our Canon managed to swim a bit in Rostov sea and was slowly returning to battle.
Other troops were advancing on Pachacuti. For 82g he agreed to declare on Hiawatha. We also sold him Whales and 4gpt for 1170g, denounced (for not taking care of that Barbarian camp that we scouted) and... declared!

We'll take Tiwanaku first, then Cusco. I tried Cusco first but it was too clustered...

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Halfway trough our siege open borders to Isabella ended and...

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... our 4th Rifleman got stuck on the other side of her border. She demanded all our luxuries for OB.
Ah... we had to declare on her again, for one unit to pass...

Amphibious is very nice promotion, cities tend to be on the 'other side of the river' only to often

Spoiler :

Tiwanaku had Pyramids but it will have to burn to make our people happy.
Masochistic nation

Canon got Logistics promotion, Cusco is going down fast!

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X-BowMan got his 12th(!) promotion against... Fortified? An overkill if I ever saw one

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Such a shame for Pachacuti capitol to have no wonders, we'd burn it in place if we could.

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Since the declaration on Russia (turn 380) it took us only 34 turns to capture 3 capitols.
Most of that time we spend on moving units from one city to another.
The divided (now conquered) AI's had very few units.
Why doesn't the AI see that it's not in their interest to declare on others when human is clearly coming for them?

3 down 1 to go.
In fact, 6 down 1 to go

Darius the Wonder builder - here we come!

 

[vanjito]

Last war.

Bribed Darius to fight them all.

Persepolis is in sight!
It has 41 defense, not much more than Hiawatha had in his days... and it was ages ago

Spoiler :

It's better to bribe AI few turns before you declare, so it moves some units away from capitol.

Let's check him out.

Spoiler :

War with everyone else - Check
Denounced everyone - Check
Wonders to capture - Check
Allied with Belgrade - well, that really doesn't matter

Emptied his treasuries and declared. Nifty sum there.

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Some of our wandering workers suffered from hard realities of war. So sad.
Our troops advanced on Persepolis - the last Capitol.

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Due to some sloppy (anxious) orders we even managed to get one Rifleman killed.
He will be remembered!

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Last attack!

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And the victory is ours!
(the underwhelming screen pops up)

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The Demographics.

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All first except happiness. 11 techs over average. A bit too much, we could do with being average tech only focus in military.
It's interesting that some of stats are obvious (tech % = number of techs, Crop = number of food, Manufactured Goods = number of hammer) while others are indeed hard to understand, like GNP or Land or Soldiers...


Let's see the score.

Spoiler :

6885 - Augustus Caesar - really, not bad.
We spent much time in circumventing the Iron, from hindsight - maybe Babylon had just too much tech.

As it were - this is no path to the best score, didn't make it to top 5 by far...
(little bragging here)

Spoiler :

I really don't understand how the score is calculated - I would like to see it in detail, like this;

2000 from population
1800 from wonders
1430 from number of turns
...

From Future Era Khan there, turns are a big deal but I think population is the key (not many wonders built with Future Era start).


****


The preparations for war took a while and we did some early exploits, but when the war machine started rolling it was quick to finish - that's the way of Marathon.

Things I would have done differently;

CS EXP training earlier.
Build Pikeman and Bowman earlier.
Took Medic with every melee unit when offered.
Not promoting Crossbowman to Rifleman - 3 is enough.


I hope this was fun for you as it was to me and that you enjoyed the story!

 

[Civ'ed]

You should have been Hammurabi.

 

[Save_Ferris]

Awesome!

 

[Sparthage]

lurker's comment: Nice win!

Anyone want the rest of the popcorn that I was eating in the Lurkers' Gallery?