Doc Tsiolkovski
Deity
Predator, Barbs fixed
First, let me say I really love this set-up.
But, exactly for that reason, I heavily suffered from one-more-turnosis (not itis, that would indicate an inflammation ), forcing me to play until far to late, and as a result, I played way beyond my standards.
Moved 1S to get the lone Hill in range; this at least meant I didnt face the volcanoes, but combined with the fact I scouted to the NE first, also meant I missed the Flood Plains.
With only one CIv in the game having Alpha as starting tech, researching that one at max was obvious. Could get Masonry from Babs for it later. Learned Writing the very same turns as Hammu .
Contacted Byzantines in 1575BC, and the first Civ from the other landmass in 1550BC. An incredibly tough Curragh managed to defeat countless Barbarians, thus I met the next Civ in 1425BC, another one in 1150, and one more in 975.
1500BC, Byzantines beat me to Philo. Got it 2 turns later, and was still able to get CB/WC/HBR/Myst and Math for it. Full speed on Currency, and this time I was first in 875BC.
However, instead of jumping into MA, I decided to try an extremely risky gambit I planed on using TBP to get a second-tier tech, so I did not trade for Poly (cannot enter TBP when you trade for a Tech). Oh, and the ~450gp I got from the Currency deals were ransacked; nothing I could have done about being pillaged, but the real stupidity was that I forgot to spend the cash for embassies, Thats what you get when you still play at 3.00 am
One real oddity in this game was that no Civ had Republic at that time, and only the last unmet Civ knew Monarchy they completed HG soon after, while everyone I knew was still in Despotism. Since I wanted a tech to trade for the Big Picture trick, I went for Lit next, delaying it for some turns until ToA was completed. Of course, Byz did research it before me. So, Republic next what should I say, everyone knew it some turns before me .
530BC, met the last Civ.
Entered MA as late as 150BC (after revolting to Republic, 7 turns of course); could only buay Mono in the slight hope to get Theology as freebie, but I got Feud; not that bad, Theo was already known anyway.
It deserves to be mentioned that this gambit utterly failed here, but worked great for the MA->IA transition; a bit too risky for a CotM, admittedly.
First, let me say I really love this set-up.
But, exactly for that reason, I heavily suffered from one-more-turnosis (not itis, that would indicate an inflammation ), forcing me to play until far to late, and as a result, I played way beyond my standards.
Moved 1S to get the lone Hill in range; this at least meant I didnt face the volcanoes, but combined with the fact I scouted to the NE first, also meant I missed the Flood Plains.
With only one CIv in the game having Alpha as starting tech, researching that one at max was obvious. Could get Masonry from Babs for it later. Learned Writing the very same turns as Hammu .
Contacted Byzantines in 1575BC, and the first Civ from the other landmass in 1550BC. An incredibly tough Curragh managed to defeat countless Barbarians, thus I met the next Civ in 1425BC, another one in 1150, and one more in 975.
1500BC, Byzantines beat me to Philo. Got it 2 turns later, and was still able to get CB/WC/HBR/Myst and Math for it. Full speed on Currency, and this time I was first in 875BC.
However, instead of jumping into MA, I decided to try an extremely risky gambit I planed on using TBP to get a second-tier tech, so I did not trade for Poly (cannot enter TBP when you trade for a Tech). Oh, and the ~450gp I got from the Currency deals were ransacked; nothing I could have done about being pillaged, but the real stupidity was that I forgot to spend the cash for embassies, Thats what you get when you still play at 3.00 am
One real oddity in this game was that no Civ had Republic at that time, and only the last unmet Civ knew Monarchy they completed HG soon after, while everyone I knew was still in Despotism. Since I wanted a tech to trade for the Big Picture trick, I went for Lit next, delaying it for some turns until ToA was completed. Of course, Byz did research it before me. So, Republic next what should I say, everyone knew it some turns before me .
530BC, met the last Civ.
Entered MA as late as 150BC (after revolting to Republic, 7 turns of course); could only buay Mono in the slight hope to get Theology as freebie, but I got Feud; not that bad, Theo was already known anyway.
It deserves to be mentioned that this gambit utterly failed here, but worked great for the MA->IA transition; a bit too risky for a CotM, admittedly.