[BTS] BOTM 167 Final Spoiler

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BOTM 167 - Brennus .. Final Spoiler

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[nocho]

I won by culture latish, though I guess no tech trading and not overly wonderful land for cottaging made everything significantly slower than usual.

After 1AD I proceeded to build an elepult army that dispatched with Hammurabi. His capital Babylon was used as a legendary city as it had by far the most food on the continent and thus was converted to GP farm. It was also the home of judaism. Before seriously making work of culture I also had founded confu, tao and christianity and so had 4 religions to work with. In a later stage also added islam, so each LC in the end had 5 religious +50% buildings. Libbed nationalism for Hermitage and Taj, then went banking for mercantilism and then finally crawled to optics to meet the other continent. They weren't as backwards as I had expected, but far away from being a thread. Happily turtled on for a win in 1804AD.

 

[MarleysGh0st]

I converted to Judaism, becoming friendly with Hammy, as we divided our continent. I built the Colossus while bee-lining for optics. My caravels met Genghis and Gilgamesh, who were friendly with each other, after having divided Egypt between them before I ever made contact. Having circumnavigated, my caravels came home, while I avoided Astronomy as long as I could, to keep the bonus from the Colossus going.

I built up my science and technology, but I ultimately decided that Hammy would be my rival for any peaceful victory, while launching a long-distance invasion from only my half of my continent seemed unwise. So...Hammy had to go. I declared war (very late for a Civ game) in 1765 and eliminated the Babylonian Empire in 1858.

I began building up an invasion fleet. Genghis had switched religions, so he wasn't on such good terms with Gilgamesh any more. When I noticed he was at WHEOORN, I assumed he'd be attacking his neighbor and I could come to Sumeria's "rescue". So it was quite a surprise when Genghis declared war on me in 1880, launching a surprise amphibious assault against the city where my own army and fleet were massing. Unfortunately for him, a fleet of caravels and galleons couldn't bombard, his inferior land units died on the beaches, and his fleet never sailed home again.

But wait! That invasion turned out to be a feint, as I noticed an even larger fleet was heading toward my southern coast! I rushed units to reinforce my cities on that coast, as my frigates (and soon, destroyers) picked off the many caravels guarding his galleons. His fleet pushed further and further along my southern coast as it was relentlessly chased and whittled down, with his survivors finally landing on a patch of tundra in 1898 and being wiped out there.

My own invasion force landed in 1903 and I eliminated Genghis by 1934. War with Gilgamesh immediately followed, and I crossed the Domination victory threshold in 1944. A long and slow game that will surely end up in the middle of the rankings (as usual). Not being able to vassalize one's enemies certain does drag things out.

 

[krikav]

I wandered way south with my settler, and finally settled 1N of the wheat.
Played like obsolete and built basically every single wonder in the game, settled all great people.

Someone killed the Egyptians before I met them.

Killed hammurabis longbows with tanks in the 1800s.
After that, I first shipped over the tanks to the other continent and smashed all cities.
Continued to build intercontinental missiles and nuked that continent for the rest of the game while pushing for a time victory.

 

[notorious_banjo]

I did not win, although it was my plan! Killed the Babylonians early which left me with a lot of territory. Focused on science and expansion. Once I saw Genghis on the second continent I figured it must be a blood bath over there, and decided not to invade the other continent and just focus on a science victory.

To my surprise, Gilgamesh wins a diplo vote in 1868.

Thanks for the game!

 

[Noble Zarkon]

Settled 2SW, built the Great Wall (just in time - turn or two later and I was in trouble!!), Stonehenge and the Pyramids.

Stuck to a tight pattern of just 3 cities, once I had bulbed Christianity I thought I had everything I needed but soon realised I needed Optics for caravels. Hammy founded Hinduism and spread it to each of my cities, sharing faith and his favourite civic of Bureaucracy together with some gifted resources made him Friendly with me. Sent Caravels with christian missionaries out and found Sumeria and Mongolia, the Egyptians were long dead, after a few failed spreads to Genghis finally got one to take.

I had spread Christianity to a few big Babylonian cities as well, whilst still running Hinduism for the diplo bonus, so won the Religious Leader vote at the first opportunity with Hammy voting for me and the others abstaining.

Religious Victory in 1812.

Thanks for the game!