COTM92 - Final Spoiler

civ_steve · Sep 9, 2012

COTM 92 Final Spoiler; Spain, Game Submitted

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CKS · Sep 12, 2012

I aimed for 20k, and settled down the river on the coast. I made no effort to leave my island chain after noticing that I had iron and horses. I missed a few wonders by a couple of turns early on, but eventually made some progress. We got into the modern age and i started worrying about Babylon launching a spaceship, so I started building one, too. My efforts to plant a spy to watch them build resulted in a war before I got a spy. Because of the war, I abandoned my foothold on the continent. Nobody else ever build a single part, but Babylon got closer and closer to domination, and eventually I decided that it was too much work to prevent it, so I launched in 1866, with 16949 cp and 92 cpt. (If I hadn't tried to stick out the 20k I'd have launched around 50 years earlier.)

decade_player · Sep 15, 2012

Well, I won with a remarkably low score: actually winning was not enough for me to get the highest score!

Based in an island allowed me to focus on techs and be lax on military units which kept the AI bullying me constantly and for many turns at the early game I was at war with all civs but they never visited my shores.

I was the underdog till around Economics is developed when there were a number of wars in the continent. I got a settler in between the space left by shrinking cultural influence zones, then another one to capture an oil resource near Giza and got a couple of extra cities by joining in at a late stage in a war against the Persians which were about to be destroyed.

With the oil I managed to get some tanks and expand at the expense of the Otomans and Arabs in the eastermost part of the continent, which they had captured for me from their previous occupiers. After spontaneous anarchy I was left with no choice but to play under communism and progressed on the Space Ship in the original island while waging war at the continent. When I launched I was in possesion of the east of the continent from Giza or so, with four or five cities from the Ottomans in the West as well.

I became a bit tired and did not try to see what would happen if I left the last item in the SS unbuilt to win by domination or conquest.

This was my first GOTM ever!

greatbeyond · Sep 21, 2012

Maybe I should have stayed on the island....
My goal was Alpha Centauri from the start, 20K looked to be a risky proposition using the capitol and I didn't want to waste buidling a palace in one of my other island cities as none of the other sites were nearly as good.

The first mistake came very early when I believed that because the map was a Pangaea and the terrain certainly didn't look island like, that we were indeed on the main landmass. So of course I researched Warrior Code instead of Writing, Philo, then Map Making. By the time I realized my error the main continent was pretty full.

In the meantime Arabia and Mongols DOWd, I allied with the Ottomans and I took a city from each with Archers I had in place. I couldn't really hold them so I gave them away. I got peace, built up my forces and took 4 of Egypt's cities using Horsemen and MI. After getting Knights I took 2 more, then Cavalry came along and I cleaned them out. I wanted to leave all the other Civs intact for trading partners and to keep any one Civ from becoming too big.

Both Persia and Babylon were 3 or 4 techs ahead and threatening to pull away, so I built my forces and then Persia DOWd me. I took a few of their cites and razed the others. I left just their main core as I wanted a SR win at an early date and extended war was slowing things down. It was not to be..., Babylon sneak attacked me and I plodded through their cities keeping just a couple and razed all the rest as I didn't want any culture flips. I was still in the hunt for a SR when Arabia who was dead last attacked. I killed all their units that came near got peace and 2 cities I could use. Then as I was closing in on the last couple of techs, the Mongols DOW'd. It wasn't much of a contest but still took time and a slowing economy due to unhappiness. I kept 2 of their cites razing all the rest. Trying to keep myself under the Dom limit.

SR win in 1967, I also had 65% of land ~70% of pop and The UN. We entered the modern age very early but from there on it seemed like it took forever to finally launch.

After reading CKS' post I wonder if I could have had a very early SR win without all the fighting. After playing the Iroqouis COTM not long ago and trying for a most excellent SR win, only to find out that the Chinese had the only 3 sources of Uranium on the map, this after I helped make them the biggest AI civ! It was not going to happen again.

supersova_SU · Sep 30, 2012

Domination 980 AD
Firaxis score: 5666
Jason score: 9397

Memento · Sep 30, 2012

What a bad Map again. :rolleyes:

I think this was my last GOTM if nothing changes here.
more and more it looks like "the main thing is that people will be employed long and it falls less on that everything takes longer and longer"

Ontopic with few points:
Rep around 1300bc, Stop research after HR, build Oracle + TGL too trigger GA, captured ToA from ottomans, shortly before Dom Persia declare war and captured 1 town

Lost 1 Army against a Egypt-Monster-Spear.

Dom in 500ad

pol1 · Oct 1, 2012

First game in a while. But I couldn't finish in time - currently in war with most AIs and going for late, late (late) domination.
Late cause of builder approach and waiting indefinitely for sufficient force to attack, when AIs had been weak as usual.
I've got REP slingshot; a foothold near ivory early on (and lost several galleys with horses); dowed several times; but with all resources on the island and smaller one, gradually cleaned the continent from Babs, Egyptians and Persians. Meanwhile taking towns on two other islands.

Still have to finish the game which I found very entertaining (if not well played).

Scratcher · Oct 2, 2012

The MA consisted of units being produced, then shipped, and sent into battle. Wars were constantly fought, sometimes on numerous fronts. The Mongols were removed first, then the Arabs to the west.

by the time gunpowder was researched both the Ottomans and the Persians had access to the resource and my only resource was back on the home island.

Once Mil Trad was completed techs were trade up to navigation to allow knight -> cav upgrades and the wars went much quicker. The Persians had settled on another island as their number of cities did not match the land available to them, time was running out so a mass rush of settlers to gain domination victory.

Dom victory 1170AD

MA Log

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Garvarg · Oct 2, 2012

Game status: Domination Victory for Spain
Game date: 930 AD
Firaxis score: 5861
Jason score: 9570

Researched Pottery then up to Map Making, traded lots, Researched Monarchy and that's all folks. Traded or demanded up to Chivalry and never had a golden age.

Settled in place, second town was on southern end of the island, and was set to build Great Lighthouse as soon as possible.

Otto had built the Temple, so I declared war, paddled around, took it and another city, and begged for peace.

Overall, I disappointed myself. Middle game seemed slow, judging by other dates, it was. I just never liked the conga chain of galleys.

Only had one leader, even though I was almost always at war. Thought about moving the capital, but never had the chance, and there really was no place to go. Maybe if I had taken out the Persians first....

Oh well, that said, whens the next game?
Garvarg

Bowsling · Oct 3, 2012

Didn't make it in time. Too bad. :cringe:

Mongolia declared war on me out of the blue at the turn of the Industrial Age (and killed my only conquistador in the surprise attack), but I beat them down then bribed Egypt and Arabia to fight them, and they ended up destroying them. Went after Persia next with an MPP with Egypt, and totally crushed them. Egypt wound up grabbing a source of rubber, so I had to fight them soon. Unfortunately, I waited too long, so they got a few infantry. I left a former Persian city undefended, so they sent most of their cavalry after it, resulting in me crushing their army. That's where I was when the dealine came around.

Megalou · Oct 8, 2012

Finished after the deadline with domination in 560 AD. I researched to knights. Horseman flooding is just too messy for me. I partly agree with Memento although I would put it much more mildly: Lone starts on non-archipelago maps should appear in every 100th game, if you ask me.

COTM92 - Final Spoiler

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