[BTS] Deity Gandhi unrestricted

[Snowbird]

So for some time I wanted to see how bad Deity it would be if I never built any libraries. I mean not paying 90 hammers for that building is almost free settler...

Setting are fractal, no huts/events, unrestricted Gandhi of Celts. Taking philosophical leader is probably like using cheat mode, but I haven't played Civ4 seriously in quite a while.

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So I played to t36 and most likely outcome seems that I will be eaten by barbarians. Sigh...

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p.s. all AI seems to be in south, west is wild barb lands...

 

[Qactus]

Hmm, maybe get Masonry directly after BW and chop the Great Wall? Would solve barb issues and infiltrating/tech stealing might be a good way to progress techwise within the limitations of your no-libraries approach.

 

[Snowbird]

Cute idea, but probably too late for that. Techwise I was thinking more simplistic --- build some cottages, tech CoL, proceed bulbing as usual. Well, maybe use GArtist for Philo bulb if there are enough trading partners around (Aesthetics, drama and obv Music must be teched for that).

 

[Snowbird]

Guess warrior defenses does not always hold out... I managed survive the barbs from the west, got barabarian city in there (good spawnbust), but solitary archer from north... Sigh, could have whipped extra warrior I guess.

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[pi-r8]

It's amazing how deadly those barb archers are, especially on deity and semi-isolated. I'll bet they've captured more player cities than any other single unit type.