So, I just finished my game with the Celts.
Settings : Large - Standard Speed - Communitas - Emperor Difficulty - InfoAddict, No tech brokering, Research Agreements, Transparent Diplomacy, Random Personalities, Events, Unique City-States and World Congress Reformation
The Celts began their history with lands rich in hills, mountains and amber. Or ambeer, as the celts say. A wonderful precious stone which is the main component of the Guiness, as everyone knows. The sheeps discovered afterwards permitted to our glorious pictish warriors to have warm and handsome kilts to survive to the cold climate of the tundra and chase the thirsty barbarians which attempted to steal our mead. We lived in communion with the hills, the mountains and the Guiness of course, a peaceful way of life was our Tradition.
To avoid any territorial disputes with our neighbours : Persia and Brazil, west and south respectively, we settled only 3 more cities : Dublin to the south, protected by a river and mountain, Cardiff to the west, on hilly lands surrounded by mountains, and another to the north, with so much ambeer that the habitants forgot the name of the city. Arabia and China shared the far east of the continent, and far to the south we found Polynesia and Netherlands.
We peacefully grew, creating Great Works and building Wonders. The Hanging BeerGardens, Mausoleum of Patrickarnassus (which gave the name to the We love Patrick's Day, where people drink, make babies more often, and surprisingly, work more), The O'Hagia Sophia. We also found the Druidism thanks to the Great Prophet Panoramix.
Our peaceful way of life led us to follow the path of Artistry at the beggining of the middle age. We were happy, cultured, but most of all, jealoused by our neighbours. Arabia, Brazil and Persia teamed up and attacked us. Fortunately, our friend China attacked Brazil and Arabia, and we never saw their troops. But Persia sent his pikemen and knights to Cardiff to face our... pictish warriors. Damn. And we seriously lacked of money to buy them some better weapons. We quickly gave crossbows to anyone could handle them and conscripted men to ride sheeps! Or horses? We never had been at war before, all was new for us. Fortunately, Cardiff had a strong defensive position and Persia never brang cannons. We pushed them back. Arabia finally launched an attack on our shores, but we repeled them as well. We finally signed a white peace with everyone and a defensive pact with Brazil and China. To middle age to industrial era, we built Uffizi and Globe Theater, discovered the people of the other continent : Shongai, Germany and France, and built a military to face the numerous wars we've been through because of our defensive pacts : Arabia vs China and us, Netherlands and his vassal Polynesia vs Brazil and us. Persia stayed quiet and explored the world, settling new cities and disputing city states alliance with China, Shongai and Germany. A long debate occured about the annexation of Kiev, a neighbouring city-state, ally of Arabia which just declared war to the China/Celt alliance for the last hundred years. Finally, we managed to obtain a sphere of influence over Kiev thanks to China. We missed the Louvre, and none of the strategic ressources which could have give us the possibility to develop were present inside our borders. No coal, and later, no aluminium, no oil, no uranium.
Our strong culture made us the first civilization to pick Rationalism and permitted us to take the lead in science. We also took the path of Freedom first, and built Empire Stout Building, the Statue of Libeerty and Cristo Redentor. We made declaration of friendship with Polynesia, Netherlands, Arabia, China, Brazil and Germany, and built hotels to welcome the ten of thousands of tourists coming from all around the world. Arabian, Chinese, Brazilian, Polynesian, Dutch, German, French, Shongai... all, except Persian. Our mistake was to not pay attention to Persia and his 30 cities, the strong culture of his people and the visceral hate they had toward us. And the wars began, destroying all our advertising trucks touring Persian cities. China and Shongai, which adopted Autocracy, joined in, and our outdated army faced bombers and riflemen. After years of conflict, China and Shonghai gave up, but Persia not. They signed peace, we sent merchants, musicians, strip-teasers, free Guiness, Jehovah's Witnesses... But they kept declaring war when the truce ended. They eventually nuked Dublin, killing two bands of our most famous musicians which were ready to tour their lands : Flogging Molly and Dropkick Morphy's. Persian were now leading in science, and even if we managed to keep Dublin and end the war, Darius the Sober, cruel emperor of Persia, led the World Congress and had started the Apollo Project. No more musicians came, and even with the invention of Internet and the great forum CeltFanatics, all the persian people embarked in a spaceship and left us for the stars...
And actually, being influent over everyone else, that means that Celts are victorious! Yay!
Miscellaneous :
Druidism = pantheon that gives culture, food and science on border growth (I've been stupid to take it, I didn't rush Angkor Wat, and by industrial, only one city continued to expand...), Apolostic Tradition, Mastery, Mandirs, Pacifism and the reformation which gives tourism from faith building and hotels. I don't know if I should have taken something else like FTGOG.
They were no other religious civs, so founding was easy, even with 4 cities. I don't know how to think about Celt's UA. The unique Pantheon are cool, but what remains look like Spain, but weaker.
I was feeling exactly the same thing during the game. Celts UB make you think that they have an advantage with culture victory, but Tradition feel so wrong with the Celts. Choosing Authority and play the culture game feel wrong (the benefits of the tradition tree are too strong to ignore), but in the other hands, choosing Tradition and don't use your UU that much because you don't want to overexpand feels wrong too. Maybe, I should just have gone full conquest, and have seen the UB for his culture slot only. I really don't know what to think about them. Anyway, it was a great game and I'm waiting for the next challenge and your stories
Settings : Large - Standard Speed - Communitas - Emperor Difficulty - InfoAddict, No tech brokering, Research Agreements, Transparent Diplomacy, Random Personalities, Events, Unique City-States and World Congress Reformation
The Celts began their history with lands rich in hills, mountains and amber. Or ambeer, as the celts say. A wonderful precious stone which is the main component of the Guiness, as everyone knows. The sheeps discovered afterwards permitted to our glorious pictish warriors to have warm and handsome kilts to survive to the cold climate of the tundra and chase the thirsty barbarians which attempted to steal our mead. We lived in communion with the hills, the mountains and the Guiness of course, a peaceful way of life was our Tradition.
To avoid any territorial disputes with our neighbours : Persia and Brazil, west and south respectively, we settled only 3 more cities : Dublin to the south, protected by a river and mountain, Cardiff to the west, on hilly lands surrounded by mountains, and another to the north, with so much ambeer that the habitants forgot the name of the city. Arabia and China shared the far east of the continent, and far to the south we found Polynesia and Netherlands.
We peacefully grew, creating Great Works and building Wonders. The Hanging BeerGardens, Mausoleum of Patrickarnassus (which gave the name to the We love Patrick's Day, where people drink, make babies more often, and surprisingly, work more), The O'Hagia Sophia. We also found the Druidism thanks to the Great Prophet Panoramix.
Our peaceful way of life led us to follow the path of Artistry at the beggining of the middle age. We were happy, cultured, but most of all, jealoused by our neighbours. Arabia, Brazil and Persia teamed up and attacked us. Fortunately, our friend China attacked Brazil and Arabia, and we never saw their troops. But Persia sent his pikemen and knights to Cardiff to face our... pictish warriors. Damn. And we seriously lacked of money to buy them some better weapons. We quickly gave crossbows to anyone could handle them and conscripted men to ride sheeps! Or horses? We never had been at war before, all was new for us. Fortunately, Cardiff had a strong defensive position and Persia never brang cannons. We pushed them back. Arabia finally launched an attack on our shores, but we repeled them as well. We finally signed a white peace with everyone and a defensive pact with Brazil and China. To middle age to industrial era, we built Uffizi and Globe Theater, discovered the people of the other continent : Shongai, Germany and France, and built a military to face the numerous wars we've been through because of our defensive pacts : Arabia vs China and us, Netherlands and his vassal Polynesia vs Brazil and us. Persia stayed quiet and explored the world, settling new cities and disputing city states alliance with China, Shongai and Germany. A long debate occured about the annexation of Kiev, a neighbouring city-state, ally of Arabia which just declared war to the China/Celt alliance for the last hundred years. Finally, we managed to obtain a sphere of influence over Kiev thanks to China. We missed the Louvre, and none of the strategic ressources which could have give us the possibility to develop were present inside our borders. No coal, and later, no aluminium, no oil, no uranium.
Our strong culture made us the first civilization to pick Rationalism and permitted us to take the lead in science. We also took the path of Freedom first, and built Empire Stout Building, the Statue of Libeerty and Cristo Redentor. We made declaration of friendship with Polynesia, Netherlands, Arabia, China, Brazil and Germany, and built hotels to welcome the ten of thousands of tourists coming from all around the world. Arabian, Chinese, Brazilian, Polynesian, Dutch, German, French, Shongai... all, except Persian. Our mistake was to not pay attention to Persia and his 30 cities, the strong culture of his people and the visceral hate they had toward us. And the wars began, destroying all our advertising trucks touring Persian cities. China and Shongai, which adopted Autocracy, joined in, and our outdated army faced bombers and riflemen. After years of conflict, China and Shonghai gave up, but Persia not. They signed peace, we sent merchants, musicians, strip-teasers, free Guiness, Jehovah's Witnesses... But they kept declaring war when the truce ended. They eventually nuked Dublin, killing two bands of our most famous musicians which were ready to tour their lands : Flogging Molly and Dropkick Morphy's. Persian were now leading in science, and even if we managed to keep Dublin and end the war, Darius the Sober, cruel emperor of Persia, led the World Congress and had started the Apollo Project. No more musicians came, and even with the invention of Internet and the great forum CeltFanatics, all the persian people embarked in a spaceship and left us for the stars...
And actually, being influent over everyone else, that means that Celts are victorious! Yay!
Miscellaneous :
Druidism = pantheon that gives culture, food and science on border growth (I've been stupid to take it, I didn't rush Angkor Wat, and by industrial, only one city continued to expand...), Apolostic Tradition, Mastery, Mandirs, Pacifism and the reformation which gives tourism from faith building and hotels. I don't know if I should have taken something else like FTGOG.
They were no other religious civs, so founding was easy, even with 4 cities. I don't know how to think about Celt's UA. The unique Pantheon are cool, but what remains look like Spain, but weaker.
I was feeling exactly the same thing during the game. Celts UB make you think that they have an advantage with culture victory, but Tradition feel so wrong with the Celts. Choosing Authority and play the culture game feel wrong (the benefits of the tradition tree are too strong to ignore), but in the other hands, choosing Tradition and don't use your UU that much because you don't want to overexpand feels wrong too. Maybe, I should just have gone full conquest, and have seen the UB for his culture slot only. I really don't know what to think about them. Anyway, it was a great game and I'm waiting for the next challenge and your stories
