I went all-out for score from turn 0. Seemed like enough seafood for sushi. However, in the end there wasn't much in the far east. And none out in the ocean after astronomy.
The islands were nicely irrigatable tho. Enough small rivers and lakes.
Weird that I was kinda forced to settle horrible cities the mountains and most of the ice, because....
Julius gave me a rice and I tricked him into giving me all 3 of his 3 fish
, so I didn't want to attack him. (plus his land was all dry)
How'd I get 3 of 3 fish?
Then, just when I was about to take Napolean's land, he peace vassaled to JC
It was 1270AD when I realized (sorta forgot) that I have to win the game too!
So I went after Mehmed just to be able win by domination eventually.
Drafting Oromo's was fun. With 5xp, they could have Drill IV (4-7 first strikes!). I used that and was not impressed. Mostly equal to the Combat promos.
I learned that Elephants are not immune to first strikes
But Horse archers are and sometimes one of those would defend before a 5.0 health longbow against my Drill 4+cover Oromos.
The AP annoyed me again this game. I'm always working my wars around the vote cus defying can be painful. They either vote for peace or vote for my city to be re-assigned
.
I have a new related strategy/trick:
1) before they can vote for peace, cease fire.
2) after they vote to reassign the city, declare war and put units next to the city.
3) when the city is reassigned, your units
will not teleport away since you are at war.
4) capture empty city.
Notes:
I failed to get circumnavigation
I blew it. When I traded Mehmed for his map, I should not have given him mine!!
He didn't have to send out a single exploring boat and he got the bonus.
I was playing for an Astronomy game, but it wasn't needed.
I only finally took it so I could get the Physics GS (4th golden age)
Then go on to genetics (+3 health)
I almost switched to Environmentalism (for +6 health) but it would have cost me 1600+ per turn!
And many of my cities did not need the health. So I came up with a new strategy again:
Now that I have genetics, I don't need to research, so drop Representation for
Univ. Sufferage
Now I can buy a
harbor for about 150 and
grocer : 280
.
Supermarkets same price.
While on the subject, my other civic was Nationhood. Draft a couple rifles, but the best part is +2
from barracks. Upkeep is much lower than Bureau, so Bureau doesn't have any benefit.
In the end, I failed to get a new, all-time high score. I was not expecting to on this map, but I was close.
Thx for the game. It was fun and I'm still learning new techniques after 12+ years.