COTM 27 - Final Spoiler

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COTM 27 - Final Spoiler

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[IronJeff]

I just submitted a retired incomplete game:
Entry class: Open
Game status: Incomplete Retired
Game date: 530 AD
Firaxis score: 817
Jason score: 377
Time played: 12:24:54

I was doing ok playing tech catchup and keeping everyone warring, when the evil zulu's decided that they would turn my fake war with them into a real war by allying with germany. Germans broke their ROP with me ( their best freind) and attacked my capital(Jeffsalem). Jeffsalem fell at once ( one sword vs one mideval infantry.) I was about 8 turns from bringing my riders online and had at that point 2 repeat 2 armies waiting to be filled with riders. Of course I had those armies in Jeffsalem for safe keeping. with jeffsalem down germany had my territory cut into 2 halves with the iron on one side and the horses on the other. I suppose I could have survived the war with germany, but I think I'd rather retire and replay this game pretending Im klarius

 

[EsatP]

SR at 1812 with verylow score - only 4266...
Hard first part game and no problem after entering in MA.

 

[DBear]

EARLY ANCIENT ERA:
CITY BUILDS-----------------------------
3950BC: Beijing (settler moved nw)
2850BC: Shanghai
2310BC: Canton
1910BC: Nanking
1575BC: Tsingtao
1400BC: Xinjian
1275BC: Chengdu
1050BC: Hangchow

TECHNOLOGY------------------------------
3950BC: Start with warcode and mason
3200BC: Learn pottery
2150BC: Learn wheel
1675BC: Learn BW
1225BC: Learn IW
1125BC: Learn CB
1050BC: Get mystic for peace

DIPLOMACY------------------------------
2950BC: Germans
2070BC: Romans
1250BC--1050BC: Declare war on Germany, Rome is already at war with them.

WONDERS--------------------------------
2030BC: Vikings build Colossus
1175BC: Romans build Pyramids, Vikings build Oracle
1150BC: Germans build Mausoleum
1050BC: Aztecs build Artemis

QSC STATS------------------------------
Score: 321 Firaxis, 2192 QSC.
Land: 8 towns, 99 squares.
Population: 13 happy, 1 content, 1 sad.
Production: 70 food, 81 shields, 16 gold.
Diplomacy: 2 contacts.
Buildings: 4 rax, 3 grain.
Units: 2 settlers, 6 workers, 2 warriors, 13 archers.
Experience: 3 regs, 11 vets, 1 leet.
Tech: BW, IW, mason, pot, wheel, warcode, CB, mystic.



LATE ANCIENT ERA:
CITY BUILDS-----------------------------
975BC: Tientsin
900BC: Tatung
850BC: Macao
610BC: Anyang
530BC: Shantung
470BC: Chinan
110BC: Kaifeng
70BC: Ningpo
30AD: Paoting
130: Yangchow
210: Hong Kong, Taipei

TECHNOLOGY------------------------------
~900BC: learn alpha
610BC: learn writing
310BC: learn lit, buy philo from Zulus for cash.
70BC: Learn law
30BC: buy math from Germany for cash+lux
170AD: buy poly from Rome for cash+lux
310: buy construct from Germany for cash+lux
320: learn currency, enter MA.


DIPLOMACY-------------------------------
925BC: Germans open embassy to us
470BC: Zulu
190BC: Mongols and Aztecs
70BC: Zulu destroy the Japanese. Vikings were also in on it.

WONDERS---------------------------------
650BC: Vikings build Lighthouse
630BC: Germans build Zeus
190BC: Germans build Great Wall
130BC: Aztecs build Great Library
Zulu build Gardens
Mongols build Templars
130AD: Mongols build Sun Tzu
260: Tsingtao builds FP



MIDDLE AGES:
CITY BUILDS-----------------------------
360: Shenyang
410: Haikou, Port Arthur
470: Wuhan
730: Soochow
950: Kunming

TECHNOLOGY------------------------------
450: learn republic (revolt, 7 turn anarchy)
560: learn feud
620: learn mono
670: learn chiv
690: buy engineer from Rome for cash+lux
730: learn theo
860: learn music, trade it to Zulus for PP. Buy banking from Aztecs for cash+lux.
890: Buy invention from Rome for cash+lux at discount
1020: Learn econ. Trade to Germany for astro, guns, cash. Trade to Mongols for nav+cash. Trade econ+cash to Zulus for chem. Trade econ+cash to Rome for physics. Trade to Aztecs for spice+cash.
1070: Learn grav
1130: Learn magnets
1170: Learn metal, enter IA.

DIPLOMACY-------------------------------
550: Taipei flips to Rome
570: Port Arthur flips to Germany
960: Open embassy to Rome
1120: Ally with Germany vs. Zulu for cash.

WONDERS---------------------------------
340: Aztecs build Leonardo
370: Zulus build Sistine
680: Germans build Copernicus
850: Aztecs build Magellan
920: Mongols build Newton
940: Germans build Shakespeare
980: Mongols build Bach



INDUSTRIAL AGE:
CITY BUILDS-----------------------------
1260: Lhasa
1305: Harbin
1340: Lanzhou
1345: Kowloon
1380: Xian
1440: Fushun
1460: Kaohsiung
1485: Kashi
1490: Taichung
1510: Jinan
1520: Changsha

TECHNOLOGY------------------------------
1230: learn steam
1265: learn industry
1295: Learn corp. Trade it+cash to Mongols for meds. Trade Aztecs corp+meds+cash for electric. Trade Zulus med+electric+corp for national+cash. Trade electric to Mongols for spys+cash+lux. Trade electric to Rome for cash.
1340: Learn sci meth, trade it+cash to Rome for replaceables. Trade it+cash to Mongols for refining.
1345: Trade refining to Rome for demo+cash.
1370: Get atomics and electronics from Darwin. Trade atomics to Germany for commie+steel+gold. Trade atomics to Aztecs for free art+cash. Trade steel to Mongols and Rome for cash. This puts us at last in the tech lead!
1395: Trade electronics to Germany for combust+sanitation+cash. Sell combustion to Aztecs for lux+ironclads.
Sell combustion to Vikings for cash. Sell ironclads to Mongols for lux+cash.
1445: learn mass pro
1485: Trade motors to vkings for lux+cash
1520: Learn flight, reach Modern Times. trade flight to Mongols for amphib+cash


DIPLOMACY-------------------------------
1210: A Zulu archer kicks off our GA
1230: Open embassy to Aztecs
1275: Kunming flips.
1290: Alliance w/Germany ends, we make peace w/Zulu, trading industry for MT+monarchy+cash.
1310: Mongols wipe out the Zulu, with
Viking and Aztec assistance.
1330: GA ends.
1465: Open embassies to Vikings, Mongols

WONDERS---------------------------------
1210: Beijing builds Smith's
1285: Vikings build Suffrage
1370: Beijing builds Darwin
1415: Beijing builds Intel
1460: Beijing builds Wall St.
1480: Nanking builds Hoover

MODERN TIMES:
CITY BUILDS-----------------------------
1550: Guiyang
1565: Pisae, Hefei
1580: Hohhot
1585: Capture Caesarea, Hispalis, Taipei
1590: Qiqihar
1600: Capture Antium, create incense colony.
1615: Chunking, La Choy, Kikkoman
1620: Feng Shui
1625: Shou Lung, Xiaolin

DIPLOMACY-------------------------------
1575: Kaohsiung flips
1580: Trade Germany lux+cash for oil, getting their support for UN. Declare war on Rome
1585: Bribe the Vikings to join the war for cash.
1625: Give Qiqihar to Mongols to keep them alive.
1630: Germany wipes out Rome. I win UN vote 3-2, Monty voting for himself; joined by Ragnar. Genghis and Otto join me.

TECHNOLOGY------------------------------
1585: learn Fission
1600: trade fission to Vikings for rockets+cash.
1625: Trade Aztecs fission for cash+lux.

WONDERS---------------------------------
1565: Germans build SETI
1630: Beijing builds UN, Konigsberg builds Manhattan.

SCORE: 4773 Firaxis, 5537 Jason. My first-ever win on demigawd.

In MT, Beijing was producing 100 shields/turn.

 

[Htadus]

Was going for UN victory.
Ended the game incomplete.....just ran out of time.

Immidiately after entering Middle age, things did get crazy. We had just sued for peace. And the barbs were uprising. That allowed germany to secure the last horse resource to the West.

Rome and Germany kept waring and we waited too long to ally with Germany against Rome. But we managed to kill about 20+ roman units after we declared on them....actually they declared on us.

Cont war against Rome which had muscuts until we got one of their iron and the horses. We were lucky with GL's and had several ACav armies in the field. Around mid 300's Germans made peace with Rome and sneake attacked us. After building our first Rider we revolted and became a Monarchy in 470 AD. Same turn we made peace with Rome for Gunpowder and Education, and started our GA. Saw that only Aztecs had Astro. So we traded for gpt+2lux. Then traded around to get chem+Banking. Started on Physics. By the time I retired in 580AD, germany was down to 2 cities. We lost 2 Acav Armies and one Rider Army to culture flips.

Biggest mistakes:

• Waited too long and ended up not getting horses,
• Did not revolt to Feudalism. CA2 indicated it would have been an economical suicide to establish either a republic or a monarchy due to unit support. So we did not revolt. Bad move.
• Not enough culture for diplo game.

Best move:
Building the Statue of Zeus.

 

[azzaman333]

My game was looking like a win, until I noticed that the Aztecs owned all of Japan and Scandinavia, when I had conquered my continent. After the Aztecs conquered both the Zulu and the Mongols, I knew that in the Superpower vs Superpower situation I was in was unwinnable, for 3 reasons. #1 was that the Aztecs had bombers, I had only recently learnt Industrialism. #2 was that the Aztecs had about 70,000 culture, gaining at least 500 per turn and #3 was that I had less than 24 hours to finish my game and submit it.

Well, I had to try, and being Communist and trying to steal techs seemed the best option. Unfortunately, the Aztecs declared twice, and near the end of the 2nd war, I had lost 5 cities from carelessness and had automated all my workers. So I signed peace and gave the Aztecs at least 30 cities, pushing them over the dom limit.

Entry class: Open
Game status: Domination Loss to Aztecs
Game date: 1752 AD
Firaxis score: 4085
Jason score: 1887
Time played: 34:19:34

(although 10 hours of that where from me leaving it overnight)

 

[killercane]

I retired in 670 AD with only a few Zulu and Viking outposts left besides the Romans. I had an hour to finish before the deadline but couldnt get there in time . All the hurrying to finish resulted in some rioting cities...