AD 2002 Space Race loss to India.
Went SWW with two Keshiks, found Babylon should have seized it at once (was undefended) but waited because was not sure about auto-raze. Read up on auto-raze and discovered no auto-raze before move 20 (duh) so took Babylon having wasted 4-5 moves. Then expanded peacefully - tried to REX. Lots of overlap with min-distance cities to N and S of Babylon - was correct play. Found first city Moscow 4E of Babylon to catch stone, oasis, FP, cow on hill - great spot - was also my shrine city.
Also got Philosophy/Taoism which was also a shrine city to N near Shaka.
Built St Petersburg on coast to SE on great spot with river, 2 clam and copper - built Colossus, Great Lighthouse here - was third cultural city - I was vaguely toying with cultural win though again in retrospect should not have bothered.
Got Oracle-CoL-Confucianism and spread it to just about everywhere for huge shrine revenue (later Wall Street etc).
Vassalized Japan peacefully, good relations with Persia throughout. Shaka declared and I took 3 cities before Shaka vassalized by India. Then India DOW me - Ashoka lost about 4 really good cities to me - this was 19th/20th century and by far I had the biggest and best army.
Was running espionage economy and using spies to slow Indian spaceship - then realized Greece was 40 moves from cultural win. Had had v good relations pretty much all game.
Invaded Greece with absolutely enormous stack or radar artillery, mech inf, gunships - which was immediately destroyed by tactical nukes :/ I could see Pericles had them however did not think he had any in range. Big mistake. During this was Ashoka launched his space-ship so peaced out with Pericles and played it out.
Game ended where I was about 1000 points ahead and way ahead in production etc. Two shrines gave me huge gpt - also had three corps though had not expanded them much.
Late game would have been different had I managed to build Aluminium Co - I had no Aluminium or Uranium - the latter I had to buy from Persia at 90 gpt! Made a stack of nukes however made no difference since Ashoka launched ...
Maya in far NE never really figured - was vassal to India for much of early game though not during the Russia-India wars. Maya did however beat me to Liberalism by 3 moves - annoying :/
Shaka was down to one city at the end. Babylon and Mongols both died early game save for one scout each on the little islands in SE - killed Mongol scout though never got round to finishing off Babylon.
In retrospect, should have pursued warmongering strat, HA/cuirass/cossack rushed everybody in sight, like Jester who made a quick dom win. In early game I could have taken all the nearest Greek and/or Indian cities to exploit horses and better production.
Lots of good terrain so always had a lot of workers on the go. Founded all but a few cities on rivers and had great production in late game. However missed Four Gorges dam by 3 of 4 turns to Pericles (annoying since would have made a big difference and had spent GE to part-build it - most of my cities were unpowered though got some Hydro plants going late game) - thought I had to win once I built Internet (never lose on Noble if you get Internet, right?). However India was so far ahead in research (not relative to me, but to all the other players) that it was almost useless ...
Cannot really believe I lost a game on Noble - however I have been playing Dune Wars almost exclusively and had forgotten what straight Civ is like
That is my pathetic excuse and I am sticking to it
Anyway, very fun map and it is also fun to play without reloads (which is how I normally play anyway). Thanks to the esteemed map-maker
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