Deity Pangaea - Outstanding start(w save file)

[Deau]

Hi everyone, I read many deity pangaea rants around the forums. I too am an old school deity player returning well casually but anyway.

I'm one of those crazy people who should go see a psycho according to Light Cleric in a different thread . No matter how much I bash my head over deity pangaea losses, I just keep reseting and try different alternatives.

I tend to be a 4 city approach player but have been trying to look into liberty REX lately to see if it would improve my win rate on some maps.

This is an outstanding map for either tall or wide (which is really rare). Civ played is the Netherlands.

Additional details put into spoiler tag. I believe this map is the best one I got as far as deity-pangaea entry-level goes in the past month.

Spoiler :

Map overview:
V shaped portion of a pangaea. 2 (maybe 3) civs to the E/NE but there is a single tile width land path to carry over creating outstanding natural barriers in the early game.

2 CSs and a single mountain tile, seperated by harsh grounds (jungle/forest/marsh) on W/NW flank. This creates an additionnal great natural defense on the west flank. You are on the south end of the V shape obviously.

Only civ to the north is faaaaaaar and there are 2 CSs blocking and awful settling spots so you can almost fully populate the V if you go with a REX strategy. It is possible/reasonable to hit 10-11 cities without triggering extreme DoWs for expansionist diplo hits.

NE neighbor is Ceasar :s (high risk of runaway)
NW neighbor is Oda

Desert start, with POLDERS! - 2 nearby faith CSs to get desert folklore .

It is possible to get an outstanding load of different luxuries (although you'll eventually wind up with 5-7 silver nodes). Over a 10 city rex, you can get
6 silver
1 gold
1 marble
1 incense
0-1 wine
1 oranges
2 pearls
1 truffles
and CERRO DE POTOSI if you dare settling further outside early before the CS expands there

Settle the hill SW from spawn. If you settle the silver vein, you will probably eventually restart the game because it locks you out of the "last" settling spot which provides 2 pearls and a nice coastal city.

*EDIT* SS provided, turn 105 in a recent rematch

Spoiler :

As for myself, I feel like I poorly played my current game (didn't use my extreme load of gold early enough to keep on rexing fast enough using CSs luxuries). I was hoarding to reduce early DoW likeliness but I will very likely play this one through and replay it a few times.

Good luck to all of the new learners/old returning players and even those that are "fully comfortable" with current deity pangaea but wish to improve on rexing strategies and such!

 

[Woodszilla]

What, no screenshot?

 

[King_Course]

You should play this

 

[Deau]

What, no screenshot?

A turn 0 screen shot would've been very misleading. It does by no mean look like a legendary start for capital. It's just that stars alligned so well for litterally everything else

 

[Crustacian]

Good luck to all of the new learners/old returning players

So, what constitutes "old?"

Players since 1?

Or?

 

[Light Cleric]

I'm one of those crazy people who should go see a psycho according to Light Cleric in a different thread .

That statement was meant to apply to ME more than anyone else

 

[Deau]

So, what constitutes "old?"

Players since 1?

Or?

Naw more refering to people who have either not adapted to GnK or to a game changing patch. I'm of the former case. My first few games with faith and spying felt really awkward.

My only other smooth deity pangaea in the last few weeks(since casual return) was an OCC with pacacuti. It feels like I can never catch up in tech compared to vanilla to the point where I eventually give up around turns 180-200. I might have to lean towards that CB rush

With that said, someone had installed civ1 on our school network and we'd play that in first and second grades of high school during computer classes. Civ2 was already out back then but cheap school hardware couldn't handle it's amazing graphics! lol

That statement was meant to apply to ME more than anyone else

Yeah I know but there are more players with that mindset that one might think.

 

[ense7en]

no screenshot, really?

 

[The Pilgrim]

Yeah I know but there are more players with that mindset that one might think.

Yay, group therapy! May I join?

no screenshot, really?

Too bad. I still keep this thread in mind for when my butt will be handed to me again on less favorable maps.

 

[Deau]

Just replayed one to turn~120 ish ill try to get a SS of some "interesting" point in time and show the REX. I got 9 cities atm and have not yet been at war.

So hopefully for those whiners *cough* you'll get some SSs up in original post edited

 

[Deau]

Quick bump,

I just threw a SS in original post for them whiners! It's not exactly the best SS to show how great the game is, I barely just made it out of the REX at that point but haven't caught up on growth and happiness yet.

On a positive note, I have had all "1st picks" for religion
Desert Folklore
Interfaith Dialogue
Pagodas
Mosques
Holy Order

So I can leverage happiness cap for growth and spamming all those pagodas/mosques will get me back to a solid CPT for rationalism. I am only debating wether it will be worth to spam 30% price reduced missionaries for interfaith dialogue or if it's best to pile up and purchase GS with rationalism later.

 

[Deau]

Turn 293 science victory win...although that was with a 4 city tall strat instead of REX. Every other REX game was looking great around turns 150-175 but the ongoing wars were making turns move too slow for my liking -_-.

I still warmongered a little, mostly by the sea. Stole Rome around turn 230 and sold it for 3k to theodora later to mass fund culture building to shove 8 turns off of my last policy/victory.