CivSetä demogame on emperor

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And the story goes on!

Last time I was ready go grab Liberalism. I decided to delay it a little bit, as nobody had even education yet. I'll have plenty of time to research Nationalism and therefore take Military Tradition for free. I wish that I can trade for Gunpowder at that point also.

So I am preparing to destroy Russia, which is the most powerful enemy on my continent. After Catherine everything else should be easy. Her power lead is huge, hence I am afraid to attack her without superior troops. Some cavalry should handle whatever she might have. If possible I want to cause one more war between her and Brennus to weaken her.

But first I'll have to recover my economy. As you can see it is not in a good shape, but some courthouses, grocers and markets should do the trick.

Couple of years later I met first guy from another continent, Napoleon. I started to trade with him ASAP, because he is valuable war ally. And if our relations are bad, he does not hesitate to attack me from his far away island even he is not as strong as I am. Most important reason was still new techs I could have. Here's the trade:

And of course, open borders:

I couldn't sell my furs to anyone, because they didn't have the money. Finally Brennus had some extra:

And Napoleon traded me more nice things:

Catherine wanted Education, I said no, of course.

I built Colossus to boost water tiles, it was cheap (<15 turns) to build and results were nice. It spoiled my GP pool, but I don't mind, I already had all great scientists I wanted.

Forbidden Palace was finally completed in Kumbi Saleh. I had problems finishing the last courthouse needed to built it, I had neither production or population in my coastal cities. FP had a positive effect to my economy, the location is not optimal thinking my next war, but will be very nice indeed when I conquer rest of the continent. Catherine has Divine right, in best case she has Versailles waiting for me soon.

Next guy from other continent was Wang Kong. He was already annoyed with me, because I had traded with his worst enemy, Napoleon. I knew there were many wars on the other continent as I saw announcement about great generals born. I wish that Wang Kong will trade with me later, when I choose free religion.

Diplomatic relations in a glance. I think I'm doing well.

I reached Nationalism first and decided to build Taj Mahal in Timbuktu. It has a good production potential, and I think I have plenty of time to build it before others reach needed tech. I'll let city grow one size, until I shut down growth and concentrate on production. I want that wonder appear when I need production and trade during war against Russia.

And next was Liberalism:

And then Military tradition for free:

Here is technological situation. I don't want to start trading those techs away yet, I'll check with short intervals if anyone is reseaching those, and then trade away to everyone at the same turn. Nobody has Gunpowder, so I have to research it by myself.

 

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I had one GS waiting (I was planning to lightbulb chemistry after getting Gunpowder) and another one was born. I decided to use both for Printing Press, it was a good move as my economy strenghtened notably.

I had to gave some furs to Catherine, my forces were not ready yet.

I realized that Napoleon was too close getting Education, I decided to trade it away for the best I could have.

Mansa gave me Guilds, Drama and some badly needed currency:

Brennus gave me engineering and money:

I traded Education just for money to Cathy and Napoleon. Didn't trade it to Wang Kong, because I wanted to keep Napoleon happy.

I still had a strong lead:

I kept on trading, Guilds to Brennus:

Catherine suggested Defensive Pact. Not just what I planned for...

...instead I canceled all deals with her. I was not afraid of war - I had only two turns away from Gunpowder and cavalry.

I got Gunpowder and traded it away to Napoleon for Banking. I plan to switch to Mercantilism soon. I don't mind if he'll trade it to Cathy, Cavalry is not afraid of poor musketmen...

Then I met last guy, Saladin. Surprise, he didn't like me either. Napoleon had made a good job on his continent.

And then Taj Mahal. Nice boost, I needed money to upgrade all of my War Elephants to Cavalry. My preparations were almost ready, on the next post it is a war time!

 

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I made a mistake, I should have not cancel all deals because I was no more able to check her territory. I had no idea how big stack she had, so I had to be sure. Finally I had done all the needed upgrades and I was ready to roll. I had enough catapults to soften city defences in one turn, I didn't want waste any time. I didn't have any extra cats, because cavalry can handle anything she might have.

St. Petersburg was easy.

And Great General was born! I built Military Academy on Sparta.

Brennus was ready to help me. (I couldn't make him declare war before I did, though.)

Krasnoyarsk was not any harder. I met her stack just outside of the city borders, it was easily destroyed. Just some minor casualties.

I decided to keep Vienne and not return it to Brennus.

I kept on rolling. Moscow, then Yaroslav:

Capture of Novgorod. I started to use my maces and axes in easier battles to gain some CR promotions. I want them all to have CRIII promotion before upgrading them to Grenadiers.

After by Golden Age has ended I switched to Free Speech, Mercantilism and Free religion. I made all changes at once when I had needed techs. I wanted to have revolution during the war, because I had a huge War Weariness problem. I decided to split my troops to end war faster, hopefully before anarchy ends.

Lost some cavalries though when attacking last cities in the tundra, had no time to keep catapults with main force. I had to finish war fast, otherwise my economy would crash because of huge happiness problem. I managed to capture rest russian cities during the five turns of anarchy and finally controlled northern and eastern part of the continent.

 

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I don't know much about the world. I have no boats exploring and Napoleon won't trade me his world map.

Diplomatic relations are nice. Napoleon gets friendlier and friendlier, Arabs and Koreans hate me but they can't do much about it. Napoleon keeps them busy regularly, so I don't have to be afraid about them attacking me. Napoleon can surprise me, though.

Nothing to trade.

I got even more great scientists, just in time to lightbulb towards Chemistry. In general I teched also towards Democracy, to new civics and to build SoL. SoL is one of my favourite late game wonders, it helps a lot on large continents.

Mansa and Brennus were fighting again. That's good, they'll weaken themselves and make it easier to me to conquer both.

My main stack was ready to march to Bibcrate.

My southern stack was ready to capture those two annoying cities inside my borders.

Yep, war time:

It was as easy as last time. No words are needed:

This was not nice to notice. I have my hands on are war, and suddenly Napoleon had something in his hands also. Was he coming to me? It would be a typical move to him, a surprise attack when I least expect it. I was quite sure he had worse enemies in his own continent, and we had quite good relations, but it still gave me bad feelings. I hope he'll go for Korea or Arabia.

I was a little bit ahead of him in power, could this mean that he thinks it is time to kill me?

 

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I had to move on and secure continent before Napoleon gets me. It was time to kill Mansa.

Not much resistance. Niani fell, no more Mali.

I founded Mycene just to keep other continent away from here.

And finally the whole continent was mine:

Napoleon had Astronomy so he could reach me and I could not defend myself in the ocean. And of course he won't trade astronomy to me!

Phew! I was save, he declared war to Korea instead.

I had to cancel all deal with Koreans.

Nothing to trade but some gold.

 

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Here are my main cities. I was still teching towards Democracy, and I has Space Victory on my mind. I thought that I had not enough land to domination, how wrong I was. I forgot that captured tiles are not counted instantly, so I was fooled to think that my continent was smaller than it actually was. I should have gone right to the Astronomy instead, it would have been much faster win!

But here are my cities. Athens is nice allrounder, those cottages are not yet fully developed so science is quite low:

Sparta is building some luxury building to stay happy during the war. I'm gonna pump some units soon, though.

Timbuktu has some wonders, some trade and good production potential with those hills.

St. Petersbug has nice cottages. I sottagespammed all former russian land.

Krasnoyarsk has nice cottages, and growth potential also.

So do Moscow:

I traded democracy for replaceable parts. I was a little bit confused, I thought that rifling allow infantry instead of rifleman, so I thought that I needed RP also to upgrade my grenadiers. (I really should concentrate only to a one game at a time, I was playing Gran Turismo 4 B-spec 24H Nurburgring race at the same time, which apparently affected my gameplay negatively...)

Well, after I got both RP I realized my stupidity. I teched Astronomy as fast as I could and went for some easy war. Koreans had a nice island just waiting for conquest, so it was my first target:

It was easy, again.

Napoleon decided to join my war:

 

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Another city in the island was not any harder:

And their capital was easy too. I'm gonna win soon!

Some more cities and here it is:

Final score is 114033:

Well, the game was succesfull. I made some stupid mistakes, but hey, I don't do those mistakes again! It could have been much faster, but I wanted to play safe - could have been embarrassing to lose a public game...

I wish that this game gave some ideas to somebody. Please feel free to comment my gameplay, if you think you would have done something different way.