Clashing of Empires - A standard map version of Rhye's Civilization Expanded

[V. Soma]

v4 - Mayan test

BC 470

Zulus settled fast - and began conquest of Ethiopia:

 

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2.

470 AD

In alliance with Carthage, Zulu ended Ethiopia!
(rest of the world is getting settled in a rather customary way)

 

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3.

1440

Rome has colony in South-America!
China explores Australia...

 

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4.

Mongoia is over - the haydays of Scandinavia!

 

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5.

Empires come, empires go...
As the world has joined forces, the Vikings could not hold...
Zulu claim Africa - too bad for Hannibal...

 

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6.

And the final end...
Watch that Japan is also reduced to one city...
(Babylon is also held back somewhat)

 

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The new wonders - Christianity worked very well...
all American and African ones had it!

Por Mongols have no wonder to build...
I now try to help them
with mangudai being FAST (3 moves) and BLITZ...
so Mongols have WONDERful horses...

 

[V. Soma]

I play another test, again with Maya
to see how it turns out second time around...

And then I put up a new v4-test file here!

 

[narmox]

wow emperor games are very different from Monarch! all those conquests by the AI... heh

I dunno if 3 moves will help the mangudai.. Maybe making it slightly cheaper so the AI has more?

 

[V. Soma]

Here is a map from Mayan-test #2, 1440 AD
I am pleased to see how different it is this time:

 

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I am now having a game with the Romans
On demigod level!

And one thing turned out...
I could build Pax Romana only after 5 cities!
As long as I see this a nice feature
(to build it after having a grown empire),
I deny it because of the stupid AI...

I think this 5-city thing was because of the
"lower corruption" item checked for PR
I unchecked this advantage from PR...

The game with Romans is REAL fun,
my barave legions had a fabulous era
with golden age and conquest of
Celtic and Scandinavian cities...
I have taken Grobina in 430!
(enemy horses were tied to defend other horses
from further East

in 450
I am learning Education now...
Papal States will be in 2 turns,
Crusades in 9...

 

[V. Soma]

Hm, I am satisfied with how things develop
with this v4 version,
so here is a new and up to date

CoE v4 for testing!

 

[V. Soma]

reserved for comments, additions to v4-test-2:

- If you wish Newton's University located exclusively on
the British Isles (that is, intended for the Celts),
delete furs in the editor from tile 65,11
(Scandinavia, near iron and wheat)

 

[narmox]

I will test it next week! Any screenshot of that deity roman game?

 

[V. Soma]

It is only demigod, not deity...

Here is a picture of the map I see in 430 AD,
after conquering Scandinavian capital, Grobina:

 

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let me show part of the power graph, also from 430 AD...
It shows how I suffered losses to get this conquest of Scandinavian cities...

Also, we can see strong Celts (darg green) and Carthage (grey, far right)!
They are both neighbours and are potential danger!

 

[narmox]

And they should be a danger.. They were a danger to Rome until they dealt with them, at least partly...

I finished my celts game!!! Score victory in 2050 AD, I managed to overtake everyone in culture and land area. In fact, with 50% population, I was 8% land area (25%) short of a domination victory! I started a bit too late.

Whoever says democratic republic isn't good for conquering though.. pfff! I've been in DR since 1828 or so, and throughout 2 huge wars and this 50 turns conquest I did, my govt didn't topple at all.

I first started with Rome.. then Scand and Mongolia, then down through Ethiopia and Carthage and finally China. The Iroquois, ZUlus and Japanese were starting to be quite a threat, with cruise missiles, MARINES (yes they attacked ireland with marines), and modern armor!

With a bit more time to build culture improvements and conquer some Zulu cities, I probably would've easily reached 33% of the land area.. Still, it was a very nice challenge!

Culture in Londinium: 9755, Nagasaki: 8333. So I surpassed everyone even in 1-city culture!
Culture overall: 38500, Iroquois: 36637. I was closely following them, being 1000-2000 behind, then overtook them when I built the Internet.

Score: 1170, Iroquois: 978. Only 20 turns ago or so did I get a higher score than the Iroquois. whew!

The Iroquois only had 9% land area and 12% pop.. tsk tsk tsk!

Minimap:

 

[V. Soma]

Dear narmox, how could that be only 8%, your empire at the end???
Wasn't it 18%...?

(maybe the domination condition of 25% land should be lessened to, say, 20%?)

 

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For those, who are playing/testing with

v4-test-2

here is the updated
CivPedia


(for v4-test-2: see #292)

 

[narmox]

Dear narmox, how could that be only 8%, your empire at the end???
Wasn't it 18%...?

(maybe the domination condition of 25% land should be lessened to, say, 20%?)

Maybe my sentence was unclear I was 8% _short_ of domination. So I was at 25% of land area, and the requirement is 33% Which is perfectly fine I think...