Well, yet another poor showing by me, compared to T_X !
Result:
Diplo-vic in 1405 AD
Post mortem:
Should have expanded faster and fully colonised my continent earlier, instead of faffing about with Wonder-building (it's so much fun at Regent though!).
Blahblah:
Researched all the way through the Ancient and Mid-Age on my own, at 4-5T per tech and a healthy income for most of both. I'd already built MoM after the Rep-sling, so I beelined -- sort of -- to Econ for Smiths (partly for my GA, partly for the maintenance-free Markets+Harbours). Didn't actually contact the other continent until I had Galleons (lost a few Galleys and Caravels looking for a clear sea-lane, gave up) -- only to find once I got there that I was so far ahead of the 6 remaining AICivs (the Ottomans were already dead), that they had nothing to offer me. I'd forgotten how useless Regent-level AICivs are -- even had to clear some Marsh to build a Harbour-town over there, just to ship my Luxes to them.
(Never managed to get more than 1 Lux back though -- I only ever saw Spices up for sale in CAII, and Henry took his own sweet time putting those on the market. Took a good while -- and a lot of moolah -- to get Iron as well. Maybe I should have fomented more wars to break up the inter-AI trades...).
I went Industrial (got Nationalism as my freebie) at least half an age ahead of everyone else, so didn't really feel like squandering that lead to the SCI-Civs. Smiths completed just after I got Industry, so I used the GA to build Factories (and Wonder prebuilds) in the 1st-ring, Unis in the 2nd, and Libs+Markets in the 3rd. I only went for mandatory techs in the Industrial (managed 5-6T per tech at a little better than break-even, took AtomTheory and Electronics for ToE), because I wanted to build the Spaceship.
Got Fission as my freebie in the Modern Age, then went for Computers -- research had gone up to ~8T per tech even with substantial deficit-spending, and I wanted to bring that back down again (I had prebuilds going for SETI and Internet, but I got no real use from the former, and didn't get as far as Miniaturisation). After getting Rockets I then discovered that as well as all the Iron,
and most of the Luxes,
and all the Rubber,
and all the Uranium, PF had
also put all the Alu on the Other Side
So in order to build my Ship, I would have had to either gift the Incas and/or the Persians -- who were already the most advanced AICivs -- up to the Modern Age so that I could buy the Spaceship StratRes from them, or I would have to start multiple overseas war(s) to steal them -- initially using only Rambos, TOWs and the very few Cavs I'd upgraded. But I was getting close to the submission-deadline, and also a little
with this map/game, so I gave up on Space and defaulted to bribery and corruption. I'd already (pre)built the UN in 1350, partly to do something with the high SPT from my core (with no military action anticipated, I was grabbing Wonders rather than building units), and partly as a fallback option. I could probably have got myself elected then, but that was still before I got Rocketry-and-no-Alu.
Pacha had planted Atico (in a stupid place) on my northern coast before I'd managed to close it off, so I'd already decided that if necessary, he was going to become Public Enemy No. 1. In 1400 I sold Luxes (for a pittance) and gifted techs to almost everyone but Pacha, but that wasn't enough for universal Graciousness. So in 1405, I DoW'd Pacha (breaking a GPT-payment in his favour), made MAs with Toku and the Jerk (Cathy and Henry were too vulnerable to getting overrun, Smoke had just been killed the previous turn), fought a single rSpear to take Atico -- my
only military action of the entire gam, vs. an AICiv! -- and won a near-unanimous election (needless to say, Pacha voted for himself).
And then the game crashed at the victory-screen
(If anyone was wondering) I had to reload the 1405 save several times before I could get to 1410 and make a post-vic savegame...
Più Freddo;14114897 said:
Did anyone notice the shape of the Korean island?
Yes I did, around Turn 35 or 40, and I posted an oblique comment about it in the Pregame-discussion thread...
