BOTM 34 First Spoiler - 1 AD

[cabert]

I tried "again" with my 12 axes. Instead of hitting her stack I took 3 cities + razed 2 others. A lot better.

 

[WelshGandalf]

I tried again with a later attack, still on London, 10 axes vs 3 archers & a swordsman, I think I only lost 2 or 3. What awful luck I had first time

 

[Deckhand]

My war with Vicky was bloody.
Built 23 axemen, lost 14; killed 19 archers. Razed two cities and finally captured London in 975BC. I almost razed it as it had no buildings and one population, but it has a settled General.

Took on archers outside of the cities to get experience, but lost 99.4 and a 96.7% battles. Decided I couldn't get her last two cities when I lost 4 of 9 axes without significantly damaging the defenders. Stayed at war until I got alphabet in a trade and took a tech for peace.

4 cities; 5,5,5,4 population;
Capital settled 1 W for all the river tiles. Chopped all the forests for axes. City doesn’t seem to grow much while working plains cottages and mines.
Second city was 1S of copper. It has 5 pop.
Fish city isn’t on plains hill but has two fish and the lambs. Currently building Great Library there and planning to put Moai there too.
London has 4 pop many who yearn to join their motherland. I’m chopping all its forests for Parthenon.

Vicky: Hastings (fur corner and capital) and Nottingham (North coast fish) have 5 pop. After peace, she settled another that I assume is 2 N of corn and 2 E of iron. I lost the tile to culture and then saw workers mining it. (later got iron).
Plan is still to build a lot of catapults and finish assimilating the English.

I lost my warrior to barbarians, so although Joao and I are trading partners, I don’t know where he is.
The other continent has all the religions. Vicky, Joao and I don’t know any.

Was the game more difficult than a standard Immortal game? Please say yes, since that was my impression

Argh!
I haven't played Immortal enough to say. I was hoping for something easier than the WOTM (because BtS immortal is supposed to be easier than Warlords) but my start sure has been a lot harder. Plus the AIs have lots of land. So, this one is going to be hard.

Events:
Because they were on, I built up a small gold reserve before teching and delayed adopting slavery.
3000BC England gets Herbalist one
Turn 75 my road was flooded and I chose not to spend the money
London got a Pasture event the turn it came out of revolt.
170BC, Attila the Hun is leading a Barbarian Uprising! (somewhere)

 

[Munro]

Having scaled back pitboss recently I had some time to have a go at this one.

Played peacefully up until 1AD, and things are looking safe.

• Settled on the plains hill after moving the settler there in hopes of finding some seafood.
• That showed me right away the culture bridge to the next continent and I built an early exploring workboat that let me meet all but one of the AI very early.
• Originally thought to Axe-rush Vicky after teching AH > Mining > BW revealed the copper. However, the early exploring workboat meant I was behind the curve, and after Vicky founded Hinduism and spread it to me and Joao, I changed tack.
• I chopped / whipped GLH and Colossus and by 1AD have both Vicky and Joao to friendly and trading techs freely (with careful brokering to get 2 for 1 and stay easily ahead).
• I'm easily ahead in techs and have bribed the other continent into perpetual warring.
• I have four cities (pop 17, 7, 4, 3) - two on each continent - and have teched to CS and Machinery. I'm about to take two more good barb cities with maces, and then settle a 7th city down by the gems choke point.
• My bureaucratic / Colossus / GLH / Academy coastal capital is a monster of course - and on track to pick up GLib, Oxford and NE very soon (with the help of both Stone and Marble by this stage).

Lack of any good production sites so far has been an issue, but I'm just finishing Aesthetics / Literature and on track to get a 10XP / L4 military unit out of my barb city acquisitions. With the help of HE / Moai I should have usable military prouction in time for rifles / cannons. At which point I plan to start really expanding on the other continent.

At this point I have two neighbours at Friendly, and the nearest two on the other side are at war with each other. Overall, a bit of a slow beginning but on track for a safe win.

 

[Deckhand]

^ Good job Munro.
It makes me feel so Lost.

 

[WelshGandalf]

[*]I have four cities (pop 17, 7, 4, 3) - two on each continent - and have teched to CS and Machinery. I'm about to take two more good barb cities with maces, and then settle a 7th city down by the gems choke point.

Your screenshot suggests your capital is 13, not 17
Even 13 seems pretty big, how are you dealing with health/happiness issues there?