COTM91 - First Spoiler

[civ_steve]

COTM 91 First Spoiler - Scandinavia, the Ancient Age!

Reading Requirements

1. You must be able to research a Middle Age technology.

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A spoiler! (About time) Quick and to the point (since you have probably finished a long time ago.) Did you move or build your capital in place? What was your initial strategy and how did it play out? Any major plans/occurance/events happen that impacted your Ancient Age? And how were you set up as you entered the Middle Ages?

 

[bluebox]

About 6000 years ago, I think I moved 2 tiles W-NW to found the capital. I wanted both fish and a coastal tile.

The target was soon determined to be a diplomatic victory. So I needed to be tech leader and tech broker, dealing techs for luxuries, resources, and occasional gpt deals. Scouting phase quickly revealed we were on an island. A few settlers were built to found 3 more cities. Curraghs were sent out to find trade partners.

Instead of further expansion, the cities were improved and the Collossus was built. At the beginning of the MA, I had 4 cities on the starting island and was #1 in population and income.

 

[silversheep]

Going for 20k
QSC stats: score 3743, 5 towns, 12 pop (6/3/1/1/1). All AA techs except currency, monarchy, construction; all contacts.

4000 palace
1990 temple
1475 colussus
710 oracle
490 library
MA in 390BC (rather late...)

Detailed turn log

Spoiler :

(didn't record all the contact dates)
4000BC Worker S, Settler builds Trondheim, Trondheim work on warrior, 100% towards writing.
3950 Worker M the bg
3800 Worker R
3750 Warrior done & goes exploring island, Trondheim starts curragh
3500 Worker SW
3450 Trondheim finishes curragh, starts another one; worker R.
Curragh goes exploring to the northwest.
3300 Trondheim finishes curragh2, starts settler, worker M (ok, will stop writing worker actions now). Curragh2 goes exploring to the east.
3200 Meet the Zulu
3150 Meet Netherlands
Trade Alphabet for (Netherlands) Pottery + Bronze working
3000 Trondheim finishes settler, works on granary
Meet Inca, trade warrior code for ceremonial burial + 10 gold
Settler S, SW, W
2950 Settler NW
2900 Build Bergen, works on Barracks
2590 Bergen builds Barracks, starts archer.
2470 Trade: CB for The Wheel + 10 gold (Netherlands)
The Wheel for Myst (Inca)
2430 Finish writing, research Map Making
2310 Trondheim finishes granary, works on temple.
Bergen finishes Archer, works on settler
2190 Meet France, trade The Wheel for Masonry+35g
2110 Happy at 10%
1990 Trondheim builds temple, starts The Colussus.
1910 Bergen finishes settler, starts warrior. Settler and archer go N, N, N
1790 Settler b Copenhagen
Copenhagen works on warrior
1725 Meet Aztecs. Bergen finishes warrior (who goes to Trondheim), works on worker
1700 Trondheim: Border expansion
1650 Copenhagen finishes warrior, works on worker.
Meet Mongols, trade Masonry for 1 worker and 70gold
1625 Bergen finishes worker, works on archer.
1525 Copenhagen finishes worker, works on archer.
1450 Get map making, research Code of Laws
Built Colossus
Trondheim works on Galley.
1400 Bergen finishes archer, works on another one. Archer goes to Trondheim
Trondheim finishes galley, starts on Oracle.
1375 Load archer on galley, to go east and deposit at Netherlands
1275 Bergen finishes archer, starts warrior. Copenhagen finishes archer, starts granary
Bergen archer goes to Trondheim.
1250 Archers on galley.
1225 Curragh ambushed by barbies for 1st time. All archers land south of The Hague. War on Netherlands. Archers mass attack. Capture The Hague with no casualties.
1150 finish Code of Laws, go for Philosophy (5t)
1175 Inca demands alphabet. Refuse.
1125 French demand writing. Refuse.
Change Copenhagen production to harbor.
1075 Have 4 archers attack Copenhagen. 3 of them die.
Decide to sue for peace instead. Get Peace for Rotterdam + 150 gold (not bad)
1025 Copenhagen finish harbor, work on settler
1000 Philosophy slingshot. Get The Republic. Revolt! Research construction. Bergen finishes settler, works on harbor. Settler goes to Trondheim.
Trades:
America: Writing for Math+50g
Inca: Math+Writing for Poly, Horse Riding, 140g

 

[Più Freddo]

Predator Domination Challenge

I founded Trondheim in place, worked the Fish and built a couple of
Curraghs. Settling the little island took some time due to the lack of
fresh water.

4000 BC Found Trondheim
2430 BC Found Bergen
1910 BC Found Copenhagen
1300 BC Found Reykjavik
1175 BC Found Oslo​

I then went on to found cities on the surrounding land masses and made
sure to claim a source of Horses, which was connected around the globe
over Coastal waters. There would be some glitches in the early phases
because of being at war with tribes controlling these Coasts.

1025 BC Found Stockholm
1025 BC Found Birka
_825 BC Found Aarhus
_800 BC Connect Horses​

Using several Curraghs, I collected connections, mapped the world and
made plans to overtake it.

3500 BC Meet Zululand
3350 BC Meet Netherlands
3300 BC Meet Inca
3200 BC Meet Maya
3000 BC Meet England
2800 BC Meet France
2430 BC Meet Aztecs
2390 BC Meet Mongols​

Research went straight for The Republic and then towards Invention.
Thanks to good connections, I could trade for much gold and slaves,
just like the real Vikings.

4000 BC Discover Alphabet
3500 BC Learn Warrior Code
3300 BC Learn Pottery
3300 BC Learn Masonry
3300 BC Learn Ceremonial Burial
3000 BC Learn Bronze Working
2670 BC Discover Writing
2430 BC Learn The Wheel
2190 BC Learn Mysticism
1830 BC Discover Code of Laws
1700 BC Learn Iron Working
1700 BC Learn Horseback Riding
1550 BC Discover Philosophy
1550 BC Discover The Republic
1450 BC Learn Mathematics
1250 BC Discover Map Making
1075 BC Learn Polytheism
1000 BC Discover Currency
_775 BC Discover Construction​

After I had discovered The Republic and modernized my Rule, Trondheim
built four-turn Settlers and I continued to expand at the expense of
my neighbours, which some of the more aggressive of them didn't quite
accept. But I had no problems fending them off, as I was building up
for war anyway.

1550 BC Establish Anarchy
1525 BC Establish Republic
1375 BC War Aztecs War Happiness!
1300 BC War Zululand War Happiness!
1075 BC Meet America
_775 BC Enter Middle Ages​