CDG 34 – Augustus Caesar
Please see the CDG Series Discussion Thread to express yourself if you have remarks and ideas. Some maps in this series use mods. This map uses the DLC map packs, so you will need “Explorers Map Pack”, “Scrambled Nations”, and “Scrambled Continents”, as well as the earlier (and more common) DLC such as “Wonders of the Ancient World”.
Please be encouraged to share your experience playing this map, but if you post in the first page of this thread, please use the SPOILER tag if you attach a picture, make a comment about your neighbors, nearby natural wonders, locations of ancient ruins, terrain features, luxes, resources, etc.
Before you download and start playing the map, please take a moment to speculate on your initial thoughts and plans for the game. Will you settle in place? Will you try to found a religion? What are your plans for getting the most from the UA and UU? What Victory Condition will you be aiming for?
The suggested VC for this map is Domination.
Achievements — maximum 6 points in each category:
There are two save files attached to this post. For the file with lite in its name, the starting Warrior has been replaced with a Legion (!), you have a Worker on that Wheat tile, and the nearest Natural Wonder has been upgraded from mediocre to great.
Please see the CDG Series Discussion Thread to express yourself if you have remarks and ideas. Some maps in this series use mods. This map uses the DLC map packs, so you will need “Explorers Map Pack”, “Scrambled Nations”, and “Scrambled Continents”, as well as the earlier (and more common) DLC such as “Wonders of the Ancient World”.
Please be encouraged to share your experience playing this map, but if you post in the first page of this thread, please use the SPOILER tag if you attach a picture, make a comment about your neighbors, nearby natural wonders, locations of ancient ruins, terrain features, luxes, resources, etc.
Before you download and start playing the map, please take a moment to speculate on your initial thoughts and plans for the game. Will you settle in place? Will you try to found a religion? What are your plans for getting the most from the UA and UU? What Victory Condition will you be aiming for?
The suggested VC for this map is Domination.
Spoiler for starting screen shot :
Spoiler for UA and UU :
Spoiler for the map type and other settings :
Achievements — maximum 6 points in each category:
- Exploit the UA Early: 1 point for each building type completed in Rome before being started in any expo. To score, the building type must be completed in at least one expo before NC is completed.
- Spam the UU: 1 point for every second Legion or Ballista online at the same time. No partial credit, but mix-and-match as you like.
- Early Mayhem with the UU: 1 point for each city taken with the UU and only the UU. Two points if the city is an AI capital.
- UU Veterans: 1 point for each Legion or Ballista descendant that makes it to Level 6 and that are all alive at the same time. For scoring, the units do not need to survive to the end of the game. Please note that you will need some kind of strategy for tracking these units. They will not have any unique promotions, so there is not anything to distinguish them from melee or siege units that you build later in the game.
- Late Mayhem with the UU: 1 point for each AI capital taken using only descendants of the UU. You may war with other units as you like, but for this achievement, it must be only UU descendants that put hits on the AI cap. As noted above, you will need some kind of strategy for keeping track of the UU descendants.
- Steam Badges, one point for each:
- Zeupiter: Conquer the city with the Statute of Zeus.
- All Roads Lead to Rome: Build a useful road with a Legion.
Spoiler for links to previous threads in CDG series :
There are two save files attached to this post. For the file with lite in its name, the starting Warrior has been replaced with a Legion (!), you have a Worker on that Wheat tile, and the nearest Natural Wonder has been upgraded from mediocre to great.
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Nice xp for my GWBs but nothing much more. This however displeased Theo & Boudicca to DoW me which resulted mostly lost trade routes but very units as the Celts were inland bound and I had been relatively successful keeping The Big Three busy with each other sniping Theo's units with Bombers while she played pingpong with Alex on two coastal cities, good times. Just managed to take Constantinople with half of the WWs by SBs,BSs & XComs and now I'll wait over night whether she'll nuke me or not - I think not but moving planes there is risky business.
