BOTM 92 Final Spoiler -Game over or abandoned

[kcd_swede]

BOTM 92: Wang Kon "Outsourced" - Final Spoiler

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So how did your game after 1AD go? Tell everyone about your amazing victory (or your embarrassing defeat)!




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[nocho]

Continuing from the first spoiler, I decided to move the capital to North Korea, the aptly named Pyongyang on the northern coast with double cow, corn and the floodplains. Looked like a better bureau capital than Seoul. In the early ADs caught up on tech with the AIs and quickly took over. Oxford was done in 720AD, libbed biology in 1050 AD. Was still considering space here, but opted finally for the more aggressive route of world domination/conquest. That same year 1050 I was ready to start the assimilation project of the Indians. After them in rapid succession followed the Aztecs, the Portuguese, the Mayans, the Native Americans and finally the Egyptians. Only bothered with the mainland, so vassaled them all. Everybody obeyed the Great Leader of indeed communist Korea by 1430 AD, for a conquest win with 321197 points.

 

[pandamancer]

Yeah, nothing much to say here except suffered really bad RNG results. The first super medic was killed at 90ish win odds. The 2nd newly promoted GG unit was killed in his first battle . A level 5 unit was killed at 95% win odds

Wait a second, I thought the goal here is to have the earliest win date?? Crap, I won a religious victory instead of conquest I hate it when all the hard work just poofs into a abysmal score. I WANT TO PLAY THIS AGAIN!!!

My apologies for my ignorance. This is my first gotm

 

[Minou]

Fairly peaceful Space Victory in 177AD. Early in the game conquered most of India (Fast Workers are a lot easier to run down than Holkans). Near the end of that war Shaka attacked my buddy Peter, so I conquered all his southwestern cities. I rarely end up with useful Vassals, but this game HC peace-vassaled to me (right after I stole a tech too) and contributed 4 or 5 techs that I directed him to handle, which sped things up a bit.

Midway through the game I was backstabbed by my longtime friend Peter, who marched a bunch of outdated units over to get mowed down by Rifles. This was a good excuse to conquer all the mainland Mayan cities, after which I was done with warring. I contemplated conquering some AI islands for more metal/fish, but they traded all the strategic resources for things like oil and coal so there was no need to bother.

Does anyone know how the game decides which Great People to use to start a Golden Age? When I just select one and click the Golden Age option, the computer chooses which others to burn (not sure how it decides). So, at some point when I had 5 assorted GP, I tried group-selecting the 2 GP I wanted to use for a Golden Age to circumvent this. This backfired on me because the computer triggered two Golden Ages, burning all five of my GP! This ultimately resulted in me being unable to generate the last Great Spy I needed in time for the final Golden Age. It was the only unpleasant note in an otherwise enjoyable game - any tips on better control of Golden Ages would be appreciated!

 

[pandamancer]

Put all the great people in a single tile. Make a group and then trigger golden age, problem solved

 

[nocho]

As far as I know, the game selects the great people that are closest to the first one. If it has multiple great people to choose from, like in your case with 5 on the same tile, the choice looks random to me. Group selecting definitely is NOT the way to do it, as you noted. With that you give the same order to both GPs which is to look for suitable other GPs to launch 2 golden ages... Also if you only had had 3 or 4 great people in total, you would have fired 1 GA but not necessarily at all with the 2 you selected. I usually move the GPs I want to use (and only those) on a tile outside the city where you typically hide them and then launch. That way you assure only the proximity rule applies. It's terrible to burn a carefully bred Sushi GM or Mining GE this way!

 

[pandamancer]

What i meant was to put all the great people "you want to trigger" on a single tile. Brainfart sorry

 

[enKage]

I was too lazy to play a long game, so headed religious from the very start - we have marble+stone, yes xD?

Stone powered Stonehenge + marbled Oracle gave great prophet to bulb theo. I oracled MC for forge to run engineer. 2nd great person - GE to rush AP (if I failed to get GE on 40%, I had forests prechopped. Because I got GE, at least had some missionaires earlier)

Because I neglected commerce, I couldnt bulb theo as early as it would be possible (lack of Medi and Mono), so I am not sure if I get quickest religious.

I won on 1st vote 75AD.

Neglected points too (4 cities only) as I just want win finally quickest medal

 

[Kennigit]

Conquered india easily but then sucked and tried to conquer other people, was long and drawn out and eventually just retired with kind of failing economy after struggling with being at war with 2-3 AI's

also somewhat sucked in RNG odds as I attacked the capital of whoever was directly left of us; could have conquered that and made peace but my stack didn't quite have enough oomph. A more patient Kennigit could have recovered with that.

 

[MrGrandiose]

Failed miserably... tried to cut the continent in two by pushing South to grab the holy city and that got me a few Ai on my case. Very bad diplo on my part.