[BTS] BOTM 271: Hammurabi, Deity - Final Spoiler - Game Submitted

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BOTM 271: Hammurabi, Deity - Final Spoiler - Game Submitted

Use this thread to tell us what happened in your game, particularly anything after 1AD

Did you win?

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[MirrorGuard]

As my elepult army moved towards Washington, Boudica got busy and soon she sent a small fleet(1 trireme+3 galleys) against me. She launched a surprise amphibious assault and snatched a city which I just took from the US. As her fleet retreated via Washington harbor, my main stack was just in time to capture Washington, sinking all of her ships within. I subdued the Americans and the Celts effortlessly. During this war I met the last AI Maya. He had astronmy before I did. So I waited till I completed astronmy too. I prepared a great merchant to fund the galley upgrade; but this time I made another mistake: when my galley stack ferried the last few units to the US new island, I misclicked and gifted away all of my galleys...I had to build naval transport from scratch when I had already abolished slavery....I began to miss Civ6 where you can pay cash to gain temporary control over your vassal's forces. The rest of the game was simple. Maya capitulated after losing 2 core cities. Then Ottoman and Sumail. This game is fun and relaxing. Thx for the game

 

[Xcalibrator]

This game was not fun and relaxing. As promised in my first spoiler, I did indeed attack Fred right after 1AD but only took one city (or maybe two?) just beyond the chokepoint. As I recall I had too few units to continue, and he probably had a tech advantage on me too. The Ottomans, however, were quite backward, as I discovered once my borders expanded enough to reach them, and I took their northern city. Once again, however, I didn't really have the units to effectively push for more cities so I took him as a vassal. Fred was still rather imposing so I turned to Gilly, who was roughly at tech parity. He had a LOT of units in his city directly west of my domain, and I was very worried that any stack I moved toward it would get torn up before they could lay siege, so I DoW'd him but didn't move in any units, hoping he would impetuously move most of his stack toward ME so I could chew it up with cannon. After about three anxious turns where he did nothing, he finally took the bait. I steadily but slowly captured his cities, advancing by land because his naval forces were far superior to mine (destroyers vs not-destroyers, I think?). After taking all but one of his mainland cities he finally capitulated.

Then it was back to Fred, who had relatively few cities on the mainland. After he cap'd, I kept on toward the Americans, who had meanwhile taken the fairly puny Celts as vassals (and shared all their techs with them). Once I took them under my benevolent wing, I finally achieved tech parity with them by directing all my vassals' research. That left Pacal, though, who still had quite a tech lead on me. The UN had passed a "Can't build nukes" resolution awhile back, but America had (just after I attacked them) nuked..... a barb city. Well, OK then. I didn't know if Pacal had any nukes--an oversight I should have corrected, although I'd still have to attack him. With my now large army I confidently besieged his northermost city and took it the next turn, moving in my 40-something units to heal up before advancing. Then I saw the ICBM land outside the city. "Eh, it's not that bad, I have a superhealer there who can...." and then I saw the second nuke go off. All gone. Ooops. He dropped another nuke on my staging area (captured from the Americans) but fortunately only one.

At this point I was about 1.5% away from the land area requirement for Domination, but no land was available for settling anymore. There was one Mayan city on an island with German and Sumerian cities that I could eventually capture, and a couple barb island cities remarkably still in existence, so I started schlepping units over (by transports and via airport drops) to prepare to capture them, but before I was ready, a UN victory vote came up, which I gladly accepted. That double-tap nuking really knocked the wind out of me, and Pacal was well into his spaceship building by then. I'm pretty sure I could have won it the ol' bare-knuckle fightin' way, but I'm glad I didn't have to. Thanks for the game, DS. I think I'll have to recover for awhile before I start a new one.

 

[kcd_swede]

I actually managed a totally peaceful Culture victory. 1920 or so... only 3 religions, zero world wonders. Only 6 cities, so max 2 cathedrals of each religion. It was the Ottoman's willingness to trade techs that kept me close to tech parity with all, until I could turn up the culture to 100% with Nationalism/Liberalism. Gave in to all demands. Pacal had 2 Legendary cities but far away on the third... and only 1 spaceship component unbuilt when I got the 3rd legendary. My cities went legendary 20 turns apart... so not a textbook win but heck, I do believe this is my first deity level BOTM victory EVER (we are talking decades here ) So thanks DS for making a playable game with nice neighbors.