BOTM 288: Asoka, Emperor - First Spoiler - 1AD

[MarleysGh0st]

BOTM 288: Asoka, Emperor - First Spoiler - 1AD




Use this thread to tell us what happened in your game, up to 1AD.

Have you met all of the AI yet? Has one of them taken a considerable lead? Or have your actions changed that "fated" outcome?

Reading Requirements
If you are participating in BOTM 288, then you MUST NOT read this thread unless EITHER

• You have reached at least 1 AD in your game, OR
• You have submitted your entry

Posting Restrictions

• Do not disclose ANY events or information gained post 1 AD.
• Do not reveal your final result if that happened after 1 AD.
• Do not discuss the location of resources that may not show up before 1 AD (Iron is OK, coal and oil are not)
• Do not post any savegame file from the game. Discussions and screenshots are fine but not actual games

 

[Conquistador 63]

Nice and peaceful game for the Indians so far. We considered attacking Cyrus before he hooked up his metals, but ultimately decided against it. I suppose some other players will have chosen this path.

We met only 5 of the 6 AI. But interestingly enough, none of them has taken a significant lead, 8 is the most cities a couple AIs have. Of course Ramesses did his usual thing and stockpiled wonders (we grabbed SH and Qin built GLH). But Gilgamesh has just declared war on the Egyptians, so it should slow Ramesses a little bit.

We settled on the PH 1E and were happy with that choice. With coast to the N and W, barbs did not cause us much trouble. We were able to expand to 13 cities (took 3 cities from barbarians), and have 51 pop at 1AD.

Tech is up to Currency, CoL, Calendar, Construction, HBR and Monarchy, and we are 5 turns away from CS. Cyrus has been trading us ivory, a decision he will possibly regret in the near future.

 

[LowtherCastle]

I’m loving these fast workers, one of the most fun units in CIV.

My game is similar to C63’s with two differences. I used warriors to spawnbust the east, north and west and as a consequence, no barb cities popped up. So I have 8 cities and 52 pops.

Also instead of the CoL-CS line I teched Aesth-Lit because I wanted the Glib scientists for bulbing Astro to meet the final AI (GLib = 100 BC). Food is so scarce it’s not easy to run scientists.

But getting CS sooner is also helpful for spamming farms and irrigating the agri resources. Trade-offs.

Like C63 I missed the window to deprive Cyrus of metal. Stupidly in my case because I had a chance to grab that iron tile to the south, along with the stone. I got worried about my maintenance costs.

The other defect of my spawnbusting, peaceful game was not being able to build HE early on. Bad planning with early Lit. Alas. That first GG is so cheap. Plus this game required lots of workers and I hand to hand build them. Sigh.

As for wonders, Rameses already has six! Including pipping me on the Oracle by one turn. I got 100g instead of MC. Very annoying.

The tech leaders are Rameses and Hannibal. Rameses has spammed 9 cities, Hannibal oddly only has 3.

Gil hates Rameses but hasn’t DoWed. Gil is Hindi, everyone else is Jewish with Rameses proselytizing like a maniac. No AP yet but Rameses has Theology so it’s only a matter of time.

Overall, fun game! Thx again, MG.