COTM 155 Babylon AAR
First off I’d like to thank Piu Freddo for making this game and map. It was interesting and even exciting. It has been my most enjoyable Civ game to date. There were interesting wrinkles and added excitement, so thank you!
4,000 B.C. > I settled in place. Raging Barbs and 11 tribes spell trouble for me. I build warrior and road the tobacco.
3800 B.C.> I consider changing my warrior build to bowman, but commit to the warrior. Just as he appears so does a barbarian. The first correct decision has been made. I will make many errors, but at least I am not pillaged in antiquity.
2470 B.C.> I have researched alphabet and traded extensively so I am up to speed scientifically. Unfortunately I forgot about the
Code of Hammurabi government until now. I’ve had alphabet, but now I change out of depotism.
2150 B.C.
> Hammurabi’s Stele completed. Very cool graphic! It looks more like the Stele than the internet for sure. I don’t know if this made the difference, but barbarians were very mild this game and never a problem.
590 B.C.> Egypt has crossed the ocean. I make an embassy in their capital and see the continent is easily accessible by a NW route. I send a galley there and make first contact with all the other civs. This is an advantage over my continental neighbors.
550 B.C.> Cleopatra lands a settler on my continent. I can’t abide this so I declare and take two slaves. Sadly they are slaughtered by barbarian immediately. The war ends with no further bloodshed eventually.
390 B.C.
> Republic of Babylon.
10 B.C.> Fiscal mismanagement. The Guards of the Seven Tablets are disbanded. I never found out if they had any special powers, but they did kill a few barbs.
70 A.D.> Carthage declares. They trip me into a golden age and destroy one of my precious core cities. I settle for peace fairly quickly and actually come out well with tech trades in the process.
400-500 A.D.> A good era for me. In two turns I get
Knights Templar, Leonardo’s Workshop, and Copernicus’ Observatory. I was thinking I would get a cultural victory, but CivAssist II predicted that for 1963 and that is too late, so I change to a general strategy.
990 A.D.> Steam power and rails start getting layed. Babylon builds the Iron Works! Thanks again Piu. I barely lose out by one or two turns on
Newton’s University and
Magellan; with a little more careful management I probably would have gotten them.
1060 A.D.> I declare on Byzantium and take Constantinople and the
Collosus. I share continental dominance with Greece, but we never go to war.
1270 A.D.> I get ToE and then right away Electronics and Replaceable Parts. I had prebuilt the palace so I build the
Hoover Dam with no lag and I see that my earlier expansion has given me rubber. I upgrade all my troops to infantry because my coffers are full. Now I dominate.
1365-1425 A.D.> Oil. I know will need it but where will it be? Perhaps on the marshy island that no one has settled? Piu Freddo is crafty... I send workers and a settler there on a hunch and I’m right. It is eventually shown to have oil. I build a town on the oil but then Carthage declares. They raze the city on oil, but fortunately they could not take the town and did not have a settler. They capture Istanbul but I push back and regain what they took and take Carthage and the
Great Library. We reach peace, but a lot of blood was spilled. (I never got a military leader the whole game.)
1640 A.D.> I have eight luxuries and my people are happy. Egypt is building the UN so I trade them three techs for Fission, change Babylon production to the
United Nations, and build this wonder the next turn. I will not get a culture win, I could get a space win, but I will go for a diplomatic victory. I find the space race tedious.
1695 A.D.> Diplomatic victory on the second vote! The game didn’t save so I had to redo it and couldn’t reproduce the magic. On Round #2 I need to play out further, eliminated Carthage, and upgraded my infantry to Mechanized Infantry. I was bulletproof, and got the diplomatic victory in 1750 A.D. on the redo.
So thanks again Piu and I expect to see from the others how a cultural victory should be done.