Garvarg
Playing with fire
We could each individually load our game into the Jason calcutator and post our scores. It can currently be done for the last COTM and GOTM.
[C3C] COTM172 Sumeria Demigod
- Thread starter Più Freddo
- Start date
Più Freddo
From space, earth is blue
This is really turning into the Club of Old Men of the Stone Age... But it is perhaps the only way left to us for saving this competition.
LaSalle
Chieftain
My results for this game:
Domination Victory, 1360 AD, Firaxis score 7408
Domination Victory, 1360 AD, Firaxis score 7408
This was my first GOTM attempt and I had the best score with one of the early tries when the Elam were going after the Akkad and Ebla alliance and I was able to largely stay out of that fray while getting the Great Library, lots of enkidu warriors, archers and horses, Leonardo's Workshop and then I was able to overwhelm what was left of them all with cavalry, longbowmen and musketmen. The jungles had largely been cleared for me. Amorite became fascist and powerful. I made it up to 1700 AD, wiped out Amorite's cavalry and longbowmen with tanks and mech infantry after a massive landing on the southeastern shore of the western continent but they were able to keep sending tanks and infantry to whatever city I tried to hold outside the beachhead stronghold city. I had the UN but could never break the tie. Amorite kept having twice the score I did so invading was my only chance to win. It was just too much. 1700 AD, 3125 score for me, 49,000+ culture, and 6335 score for Amorite, 99,000+ for culture. I tried replaying and the Elam or Akkad were just too strong. It was a learning experience, I hadn't played in the modern era much and still learning about optimizing trade benefits. I found it was inevitable that the Amorite would become powerful so try to prop up the others on the continent if I can.
Più Freddo
From space, earth is blue
Please respect the rule of no reloading. For the competition, only one initial non-reloaded game counts.
templar_x
usually walks his talks
I did not finish this one, not even closely so, but still want to share where I got...
Early considerations and moves:
Quick fire on a spreadsheet shows that a granary in exactly 10 turns, before the growth to 3, is possible. I go for that without any further calculations.
Research on Alpha
Early builds:
Granary (3550), 2t worker, enkidu, enkidu, settler (3100)
Goody huts give:
Worker
Log:
Start enkidu starts north, finds huts and 1 lux but not much more for a while
3400 meet Ebla. Their warrior opens a hut, the resulting barbs nearly kill my scout
3050 checking before i move my 1st settler… there are barbs already
2950 found 96
2850 meet Elam
2800 4turner operational (1st course just the settler, from 2nd course on: combo factory)
2710 Alpha in, Writing next
Incense to the north
2590 found 14
Find silks to the SE
IBT disease in Ur
2510 meet Akkad. I´m still the only one with Writing
2470 a new enkidu blockst he chokepoint
2430 IBT i see that Akkad now has Alpha
First barb horse appears
2350 now Alpha nets me only WC
IBT 2nd gran finishes
2150 found 2333, culture opening the hut gives a worker
2070 IBT first promotion on defense, see first barb galley
1990 build first curragh
Writing in, CoL next
IBT Ebla makes a demand and declares. Decision to decline was easy… i just borrowed 14g for 1gpt from them.
1950 found 11111, culture opening gives another worker
1870 connect 2nd lux
1830 found 8777, culture hut opening gets me CB
Get a free embassy from Akkad, thank you!
1790 at least in this turn Writing is already known to Akkad, hm
1750 i am leading in most stats
1700 found 89999, mainly to open that hut before the capital´s culture does so… gives… 3 barbs . It seems i forgot that the culture must stem directly from the town to be founded.
First suicide curragh starts off the east coast… lost right away
1675 first offensive win against barbs with first archer
1625 oh no, stupid me provoked an attack from Akkad, and now I have a despotic GA… ;(
IBT also, now Elam makes demands and provides WH
1575 found 44777
1550 Philo in, and IBT i see, it was early enough for the full sling!
Trade everything but Republic
Revolt for 5 turns of anarchy
1425 Republic
1125 and that was it with my ill-planned GA
only can guess whether I will get Curr this IBT, but I am crossing fingers… and yes, the tech is there!
1100 connect 3rd lux
1000bc stats:
2 cities, 11 towns, 54 pop
3 luxes and horses connected, iron to be connected but of no relevance
1 settler, 13 workers, 1 slave
1 archer, 4 enkidus, 5 horses, 1 galley
Construction + Middle Ages in 3 turns
Leading in all relevant F11 stats
2 gran, 4 rax, 6 lib, 2 market, 0 harbor
FP in 7t
148 gold
3 contacts on own continent, all curraghs sank and don´t yet see borders of other continent; and the next 3 (!) galleys also die to a single barb galley, respectively!
950 Middle Age, here i get a wrong message, as if we had learnt MM from the Ebla… but i know MM for quite a while already!
850 FP finally finished
690 my tenth galley or so finally sees borders of the other continent, needs to survive 1 more turn tough!
_
and that is it. when I saw how much land there was to settle, while I was so far ahead of the AS civs on the continent, I did not feel challenged enough to find the motivation to play it on. while the bad luck with crossing the seas, and real life topics, also played in. as did my not so great GA mistake.
let´s see how things are going to transpire here.
t_x
Early considerations and moves:
Quick fire on a spreadsheet shows that a granary in exactly 10 turns, before the growth to 3, is possible. I go for that without any further calculations.
Research on Alpha
Early builds:
Granary (3550), 2t worker, enkidu, enkidu, settler (3100)
Goody huts give:
Worker
Log:
Start enkidu starts north, finds huts and 1 lux but not much more for a while
3400 meet Ebla. Their warrior opens a hut, the resulting barbs nearly kill my scout
3050 checking before i move my 1st settler… there are barbs already
2950 found 96
2850 meet Elam
2800 4turner operational (1st course just the settler, from 2nd course on: combo factory)
2710 Alpha in, Writing next
Incense to the north
2590 found 14
Find silks to the SE
IBT disease in Ur
2510 meet Akkad. I´m still the only one with Writing
2470 a new enkidu blockst he chokepoint
2430 IBT i see that Akkad now has Alpha
First barb horse appears
2350 now Alpha nets me only WC
IBT 2nd gran finishes
2150 found 2333, culture opening the hut gives a worker
2070 IBT first promotion on defense, see first barb galley
1990 build first curragh
Writing in, CoL next
IBT Ebla makes a demand and declares. Decision to decline was easy… i just borrowed 14g for 1gpt from them.
1950 found 11111, culture opening gives another worker
1870 connect 2nd lux
1830 found 8777, culture hut opening gets me CB
Get a free embassy from Akkad, thank you!
1790 at least in this turn Writing is already known to Akkad, hm
1750 i am leading in most stats
1700 found 89999, mainly to open that hut before the capital´s culture does so… gives… 3 barbs . It seems i forgot that the culture must stem directly from the town to be founded.
First suicide curragh starts off the east coast… lost right away
1675 first offensive win against barbs with first archer
1625 oh no, stupid me provoked an attack from Akkad, and now I have a despotic GA… ;(
IBT also, now Elam makes demands and provides WH
1575 found 44777
1550 Philo in, and IBT i see, it was early enough for the full sling!
Trade everything but Republic
Revolt for 5 turns of anarchy
1425 Republic
1125 and that was it with my ill-planned GA
only can guess whether I will get Curr this IBT, but I am crossing fingers… and yes, the tech is there!1100 connect 3rd lux
1000bc stats:
2 cities, 11 towns, 54 pop
3 luxes and horses connected, iron to be connected but of no relevance
1 settler, 13 workers, 1 slave
1 archer, 4 enkidus, 5 horses, 1 galley
Construction + Middle Ages in 3 turns
Leading in all relevant F11 stats
2 gran, 4 rax, 6 lib, 2 market, 0 harbor
FP in 7t
148 gold
3 contacts on own continent, all curraghs sank and don´t yet see borders of other continent; and the next 3 (!) galleys also die to a single barb galley, respectively!
950 Middle Age, here i get a wrong message, as if we had learnt MM from the Ebla… but i know MM for quite a while already!
850 FP finally finished
690 my tenth galley or so finally sees borders of the other continent, needs to survive 1 more turn tough!
_
and that is it. when I saw how much land there was to settle, while I was so far ahead of the AS civs on the continent, I did not feel challenged enough to find the motivation to play it on. while the bad luck with crossing the seas, and real life topics, also played in. as did my not so great GA mistake.
let´s see how things are going to transpire here.
t_x
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