COTM68 - Final Spoiler

[civ_steve]

COTM 68 Final Spoiler; Game Submitted

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If you went for a late game victory/cake walk, here is your chance to tell us about it. And any other game discussions of course. Any game difficulties out there?

 

[Racinante]

I waited for the RoP to end with Persia (while I beat up on the Iroquois). I probably could have fought both and finished faster.

410 AD: Golden Age when Bowman takes Mycenae.
800 AD: Declare on Persia.
820 AD: Eliminate Iroquois (on island)
840 AD: Eliminate Persia
870 AD: Declare on England
910 AD: Eliminate England, declare on America
940 AD: Domination victory

Entry class: Open
Game status: Domination Victory for Babylon
Game date: 940 AD
Firaxis score: 2917
Jason score: 9337

 

[yuris125]

My free tech for entering Middle Ages was Engineering, off the way towards Knights. So decided to build infrastructure in all my cities (temples, libraries, marketplaces, aqueducts where necessary), skip Chivalry and research straight towards Military Tradition. If I can build Sun Tzu on the way, all the better. Also start a minor war as soon as possible and defeat a wandering warrios with my bowman to start GA
70BC - completed Pyramids in Babylon. Decided to build Great Library, maybe it will help me to get the techs I'm skipping
390AD - Great Library completed. It triggers the Golden Age, making that minor war unnecessary
570AD - Military Tradition researched. I still have an ROP with Greece, so let them live for now, and declare on Persia in 600AD. This also helps to get some of my Cavalries behind Greece before breaking the ROP
640AD - Sun Tzu completed
650AD - first GL, first army
680AD - declare on England
740AD - Persia finished, declare on Greece
750AD - declare on Iroquois who have just 2 towns
770AD - Iroquois finished
810AD - all Greek cities captured, they have a settler on boat, so rush a couple of Galleys. However, they land the settler before these Galleys can reach their boat. Greece was finished in 840AD
840AD - declare on Americans
920AD - English are off the pangaea. Was not in the mood to capture the last town on the island, so gave them peace. England is entitled to have its small island, isn't it?
Around the same time, experienced war weariness for the first time, but I already had so many luxuries, I noticed it only because some of the cities stopped celebrating WLTKD
950AD - Americans finished. I have 63% of the land, over 80% of population, so almost at the domination limit. Still, why stop? Declared on Spain and captured 2 of their cities before hitting the limit in 970AD

This was a very interesting setup, I must say. We had such a large territory all to ourselves, and Greece blocking the way to attempt an early conquest. Maybe staying peaceful and going for a spaceship victory was not a bad idea... but I had fun wiping out most of the rivals in just 400 years

 

[silversheep]

Game status: Cultural 20K Victory for Babylon
Game date: 1868 AD
Firaxis score: 1462
Jason score: 4198 (Lowest scoring cultural, maybe?)
Time played: 15:14:22
1050 Colossus
30AD Great Library
300 Statue of Zeus, golden age
670 Sistine Chapel
940 Copernicus Observatory
1260 JS Bach's Cathedral *1300-industrial age
(It was odd getting factories after only 2 medieval wonders.
In my previous 20k game, research wasn't so ahead.
I forgot to save up money to rush factory/ coal plant, so wasted a few turns.)
1370 Shakespeare's Theater
1445 Newton's Observatory
1495 Smith's Trading Company
1555 Universal Suffrage
1605 Theory of Evolution
1690 Hoover Dam
1762 SETI
1790 UN
1816 Internet
1836 Cure for Cancer
1854 Longevity
1868 Apollo Program
All cultural buildings, Wall Street, Heroic Epic, Battlefield Medicine(MGL rush)

I destroyed the Greeks and conquered the left half of the panagea, including part of Persia and a bit of Iroquois.
It was annoying how the AI made alliances and almost everyone declared on me. (I'm not the warmonger type.)

Stuff I need to do better on:
-Get city to full size and the land completely developed quicker.
-Make sure I have money on hand when new buildings are available to rush.
-Get railroads done in 20k city the moment I discover steam power (By that time I had automated all my workers and they were all working on the fringe of my empire...)
-Keep LOTS of workers around for pollution control.
-Getting techs faster, perhaps by more trading.

 

[CKS]

Open, 20K

I entered the industrial age with a lot of middle age wonders still to build:
Sistine Chapel 1240 AD
Bach's Cathedral 1295 AD
Magellan's Voyage 1330 AD
Wall Street 1365 AD
Smith's Trading Company 1415 AD
Universal Suffrage 1480 AD
Theory of Evolution 1530 AD (gave Miniaturization and Genetics)
Heroic Epic 1550 AD
Internet 1615 AD (+research lab)
Military Academy 1650 AD
United Nations 1700 AD
SETI 1750 AD
Cure for Cancer 1770 AD
Longevity 1788 AD

I hit 20K in 1792.
I built the military academy because it let me fit in either a nuclear plant or a manufacturing plant right away. I ended up netting 120 shields, but the middle of the game was pretty tedious with only about 65 shields. At least I was researching a lot farther along, so I had a decent amount of time at 120 shields.

I wiped out the Persians and the Iroquois fairly late in the game, when they dared to attack me, but otherwise I avoided warfare. I got a leader for an army eventually, so I got the Heroic Epic finally.

 

[Megalou]

After my ancient age it was pretty much business as usual. I researched Feudalism and hurried a barracks in a new town in Persian territory. I sent many settlers, knowing that some towns would be razed and some spots even unsettled, and reached domination some time between 4000 BC and 2051 AD.

The game was quite OK. I had hoped for an obstacle that wouldn't involve so much logistics, but I fully sympathize with the GOTM crew's efforts not to make any game so easy that records for fast finishes will be broken undeservedly.

 

[Racinante]

reached domination some time between 4000 BC and 2051 AD.

 

[bluebox]

100k in 1745AD. I think I could have been faster when I would have conquered firstly and build culture secondly. But I could resist rushing a temple in Babylon in 3450BC and go for TOA. I conquered Greece, Persia, Iroquois, and Spain, and started rushing culture at about 50% of world territory. The other civs (except Vikings) were still strong enough to feed gpt into the trade system to help me paying my rushes. I built so many wonders in Babylon, it was almost a mixture of 100k and 20k.

 

[supersova_SU]

Open
Conquest Victory
810 AD
Firaxis 3139
Jason 9717