CaesarKyros
Chieftain
I played a game recently. I played a random civilization, on a random map. This was one of the best games of civ I had ever played.
We start as... Byzantium! "Cool, I like this Civ. This will be fun." I proceeded to look at my starting area, and it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. 4 pearls, dye, 2 wheat, stone, sheep, hill, jungle, river, on the coast, and my city was in such a way placed next to the coast that it would have been impossible to take with ships. I cried a little. I started by quickly getting a shrine because, well, I need it. Imagine my surprise when I settled my second city, and I saw the Ottomans slowly creeping up to my borders, and you can also imagine my surprise when I realized I couldn't found a religion. The Ottomans had conquered India, and It appeared that I was next. I pretty much went along the top of the tech tree, so I had no units to fend off janissaries and sipahis. So, what does an empire who is researching education do when the Ottomans are feeling conquer-ey? You bribe the local empires to go to war in your place. Poland had a sizeable military at that point, so I hired them to fight the Ottomans. The Polish were absolutely DESTROYED. I then hired other players to attack the Ottomans, and eventually the Ottoman s ended up winning a war against 4 players. I was getting scared, so I put a relocated a spy to Istanbul to... steal steel. Don't laugh. I ended up stealing many techs from the Ottomans in a desperate rush to get Infantry. By now I had settled my third city, and It was growing nicely. My culture victory was going well, but was not going to win me the game soon enough. I continued to creep along the top of the tech tree, and I acquired military science only after I realised that I should get artillery after I built The Sydney Opera House. By this point, the Ottomans were no longer top dog, they were replaced with Morocco. Morocco had a poop-ton of troops, and their tourism was almost equal to mine. Naturally, after building up faith for 6000 years, you get a lot of faith. I purchased many a great musician and sent them to the Moroccan cities. This didn't help much. I decided that the best route would be to nuke them into oblivion, but I noticed that the Ottoman tourism was... 630. I guess we should nuke Istanbul instead. I was teching to nukes, but I had no uranium. Poop. I decided to get missile cruisers, for whatever reason. Then... the game ended. The Ottomans won with a science victory.
I played this game last night, so some of the details are fuzzy, most I didn't include, and some are not in chronological order. State of my empire:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198079407930/screenshots/
Ignore the carthage ones.
Sorry if you can't see the images; I don't know how to upload images any other way.
We start as... Byzantium! "Cool, I like this Civ. This will be fun." I proceeded to look at my starting area, and it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. 4 pearls, dye, 2 wheat, stone, sheep, hill, jungle, river, on the coast, and my city was in such a way placed next to the coast that it would have been impossible to take with ships. I cried a little. I started by quickly getting a shrine because, well, I need it. Imagine my surprise when I settled my second city, and I saw the Ottomans slowly creeping up to my borders, and you can also imagine my surprise when I realized I couldn't found a religion. The Ottomans had conquered India, and It appeared that I was next. I pretty much went along the top of the tech tree, so I had no units to fend off janissaries and sipahis. So, what does an empire who is researching education do when the Ottomans are feeling conquer-ey? You bribe the local empires to go to war in your place. Poland had a sizeable military at that point, so I hired them to fight the Ottomans. The Polish were absolutely DESTROYED. I then hired other players to attack the Ottomans, and eventually the Ottoman s ended up winning a war against 4 players. I was getting scared, so I put a relocated a spy to Istanbul to... steal steel. Don't laugh. I ended up stealing many techs from the Ottomans in a desperate rush to get Infantry. By now I had settled my third city, and It was growing nicely. My culture victory was going well, but was not going to win me the game soon enough. I continued to creep along the top of the tech tree, and I acquired military science only after I realised that I should get artillery after I built The Sydney Opera House. By this point, the Ottomans were no longer top dog, they were replaced with Morocco. Morocco had a poop-ton of troops, and their tourism was almost equal to mine. Naturally, after building up faith for 6000 years, you get a lot of faith. I purchased many a great musician and sent them to the Moroccan cities. This didn't help much. I decided that the best route would be to nuke them into oblivion, but I noticed that the Ottoman tourism was... 630. I guess we should nuke Istanbul instead. I was teching to nukes, but I had no uranium. Poop. I decided to get missile cruisers, for whatever reason. Then... the game ended. The Ottomans won with a science victory.
I played this game last night, so some of the details are fuzzy, most I didn't include, and some are not in chronological order. State of my empire:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198079407930/screenshots/
Ignore the carthage ones.
Sorry if you can't see the images; I don't know how to upload images any other way.
