OK then I officially call Oyzar the winner
Very well played I particularly liked the not hooking metal early, to get cheap warriors for hapiness!! And of course the cottage everything part!
Peacefull neighbours like me and Levgree helped a lot of course, although I would not have been so peacefull if BBfrancis left me alone!
Well done again, I have to say I enjoyed it, dispite the tech gap and I learned a thing or two...hopefully everyone else has as well!!!
When me and levgre got liberalism(on the same turn) there were 0 other civs who even had burrecracy. In the same vein almost none of you managed to get monarchy early enough to use herditary rule to good effect. QUOTE]
While you and Levgre where teching Paper education, Liberialism, I had condtruction and Feudalism...had it not been for the war with BBfrancis things would not have been easy for you Oyzar....especially since your capital and our border city had 0 production as you cotaged even the hills.
When me and levgre got liberalism(on the same turn) there were 0 other civs who even had burrecracy. In the same vein almost none of you managed to get monarchy early enough to use herditary rule to good effect. QUOTE]
While you and Levgre where teching Paper education, Liberialism, I had condtruction and Feudalism...had it not been for the war with BBfrancis things would not have been easy for you Oyzar....especially since your capital and our border city had 0 production as you cotaged even the hills.
Yes I enjoyed the game too and learn't a lot. Because it was so peaceful it really showed up problems with my strategy.
But I am glad to see mine wasn't the very worst being played
It's a shame the 'final alliance' didn't really get off the ground. But with at least two big players not responding or even playing at that point I think it's best we call it a day.
I didn't like the map at first but it grew on me the more we played. I liked the uncrowded nature although you certainly could fight if you wanted to. I think it would have been better if the 'more lakes' or whatever it is option had been chosen though. And I was disappointed I couldn't build lighthouses on the lakes as I beelined for the Great Lighthouse
That final alliance would have been basically us throwing units into the flames. Oyzar had enough research that he could basically beeline in ample time any military tech that he wanted... mech infantry, nukes, modern tanks, bombers, etc. A ton of tanks could almost without effort obliterate anything the players besides me brought, and Oyzar would still hardly be slowed down by myself, even if I had actually had infantry like I could've if I beelined assembly line.
The clinching factor was the incredible distance between some of us... I suppose I could have researched railroads in about 30 turns and hooked us up...
Perhaps the alliance would have worked about 50 turns ago, and I think we shouldv'e done that (that would have made the game interesting perhaps), but right now it would be an exercise in futility. Once I knew I would no longer be able to carry out a whatsoever successful attack on Oyzar (we both got riflemen, while he had much more commerce and production, and had expanded into lots of the good space near me that I should've taken earlier) that was the turning point where we all would have had to attack him.
care to move this to finished games if it is not going up again?