Darkness
Shadow creature
So I decided to try monarch level this time around (sorry Moonsinger, but chieftain seems a little crowded right now 
) and after rejecting roughly 100 maps I came up with a nice one. I am playing as the Americans, again 
.
As usual, it's a huge pangaea, warm, wet 5 billion years, sedentary barbs and 8 AI's. So I checked mapstat and my domination limit is 3747. Pretty good, but not as huge as the ones superslug and Moonsinger have for their chieftain games.
My start was in the south west corner of the world, and it is all grassland and some plains and it had a river and some wheat in it, so I decided to look around a bit. I sent my worker NW, to work the wheat tile, which left east open for exploration, so the scout went 2 tiles east, uncovering my first GH. And I liked what I saw. Therefor I settled Washington at the start position and went on a 40-turn research gambit for CB (I checked the space race and there are quite a few religious AI's in this game, 3 IIRC, so I figured I'd be able to buy/trade it fast and move on to the next tech, as well as blocking the monarchy path, so increasing my chances for republic pre-requisites from GH's). There are a LOT of bonus tiles near my start, so I think I can get at least 2 settler factories up and running.
The intraturn passed without incident and so I proceeded to pop my first GH.
AND I GOT A SETTLER!!!!! IN 3950 BC!!!!!!
I haven't played this game very far yet, only to 3000 BC. I've got 4 scouts (for now) running around and I appear to be on a quite big peninsula, with a huge load of jungle to the north, behind which some AI's better be hidden "cause I haven't met any yet.
Both Washington and New York are building granaries right now, to set up settler factories (Washington's nearly finished), so my expansion will start soon.
I don't know how fast this game will go, 'cause RL is pretty busy for me right now, but I'll try to keep you (those that are interested anyway ) posted....
) and after rejecting roughly 100 maps I came up with a nice one. I am playing as the Americans, again . As usual, it's a huge pangaea, warm, wet 5 billion years, sedentary barbs and 8 AI's. So I checked mapstat and my domination limit is 3747. Pretty good, but not as huge as the ones superslug and Moonsinger have for their chieftain games.
My start was in the south west corner of the world, and it is all grassland and some plains and it had a river and some wheat in it, so I decided to look around a bit. I sent my worker NW, to work the wheat tile, which left east open for exploration, so the scout went 2 tiles east, uncovering my first GH. And I liked what I saw. Therefor I settled Washington at the start position and went on a 40-turn research gambit for CB (I checked the space race and there are quite a few religious AI's in this game, 3 IIRC, so I figured I'd be able to buy/trade it fast and move on to the next tech, as well as blocking the monarchy path, so increasing my chances for republic pre-requisites from GH's). There are a LOT of bonus tiles near my start, so I think I can get at least 2 settler factories up and running.
The intraturn passed without incident and so I proceeded to pop my first GH.
AND I GOT A SETTLER!!!!! IN 3950 BC!!!!!!
I haven't played this game very far yet, only to 3000 BC. I've got 4 scouts (for now) running around and I appear to be on a quite big peninsula, with a huge load of jungle to the north, behind which some AI's better be hidden "cause I haven't met any yet.
Both Washington and New York are building granaries right now, to set up settler factories (Washington's nearly finished), so my expansion will start soon.
I don't know how fast this game will go, 'cause RL is pretty busy for me right now, but I'll try to keep you (those that are interested anyway
) posted....
Good luck Darkness! It rarely get any better than this.
