DocT3 Best Start Ever! (Emperor)

Looks like excellent progress! Got it.
 
DocT3: 1830AD (pre-turn)
- Game is down to 2 other civs now (Japan and France).
- Japan needs Motor Transport. to get out of IA; France is up Rocketry but down Miniaturization.
- 1612 G, make +3 gpt, Fission in 6.
- Some minor MM actions:
- Hire some CE in Cadez and Entremont to speed up builds (both have surplus food and are stuck at size 12).
- Research slider to 90% for addt’l gpt (still get Fission in 6).

Turn 1 1832AD:
- Worker stuff and few more MM tweaks.
- We will lose gems next turn.

<IBT: Camul. OP -> univ.; Tingis CH -> library; Rusic. OP -> univ.; Cadiz cath -> OP.>

Turn 2 1834:
- zzz
<IBT: Thaenae temple -> CH.>

Turn 3 1836:
- Rush temple in Akshuk for 220G.
<IBT: Entremont OP -> PS (to get to 42 spt); Rusuc. temple -> harbor; Akshak temple -> library.>

Turn 4 1838:
- Our bombers sink a privateer near Oea.
- Japan learns Motor Trans. and enters the Modern Age.
<IBT: France is building United Nations.>

Turn 5 1840:
- What to do about the UN? Somebody suggested ‘Ally the world’ as a possible approach. Both France and Japan would be happy to sign MPP, but they make me nervous (never know when you will be dragged into some silly war).
- Investigate Paris (UN city) for 162G: size 12 (with 9 fpt surplus!) makes 40spt (20 turns to complete UN); defended by 2 mech. inf., 4 inf., 2 cannon, 3 bombers, 1 fighter.
- Utica has 323 shields towards SETI, it would need 13 more turns to complete UN, so I decide to switch it to the UN when learn Fission next turn.
<IBT: France offers to trade Fission for Mini. :rolleyes: (no thanks); Fission -> Sanitation (due in 4 and we can earn some surplus gold); switch Utica to UN; Hippo OP -> univ.; Hadrum fact. -> OP; Saldaz library -> cath.; Tutub temple -> CH.>

Turn 6 1842
- More bombing practice on a stray privateer.
- Rush temple in Nagsu for 208G>
<IBT: Ulsan granary -> duct.; Theveste SE -> Manhattan Project (prebuild); Nagsu temple -> library; more happiness, WW must be wearing off.>

Turn 7 1844
- We have uranium by Carthage and Seoul; Japan has 3 sources, while France has none! :D
<IBT: Oea cath. -> OP; Bayonne temple -> library; Malaca CH -> MP.>

Turn 8 1846
- Plant a spy (safely) in France for 102G; not enough gold to do a safe steal yet.
<IBT: Entremont PS -> SE; Cadiz OP -> PS.>

Turn 9 1848
- zzz
<IBT: Sanitation -> Nuclear Power; Cirta OP -> SE; Rusaddir univ. -> hospital; Sulcis OP -> bank.>

Turn 10 1850
- Safe steal from France, we get Rocketry.
- Bombers take out another privateer.

End of turn recap 1850AD
- Building turns; we learned Fission, Sanitation and Rocketry.
- We have dyes and silks we can trade, but Japan has no gold and I didn’t want to help France by trading them luxes.
- Utica builds UN in 8 turns; Theveste has 95 shields towards Manhattan Project (intended as a pre-build for Wall Street once a couple more SE are completed).
- Personally, I dislike nukes (just diverts resources away from SS builds); France may cascade to Manhattan anyway once they lose the race for UN (which would be idiotic since they are the only civ without uranium).
- Have 113G, make –57 gpt, Nuclear Power in 7.
 
lurker's comment: France needs Uranium to build the Manhattan Project. Unless the Japanese sell them Uranium, they can't cascade.
 
Carthage 1850
About the only thing I’m not too happy about are those 4 Japanese units on our home island (next to that former Sumerian city). Guess I’ll build some more units.

And, I’ll mine the Uranium near Carthage, but will not connect it (so it can neither deplete nor getting demanded).
Since Carthago can not grow anyway, I sell off the Granary.

1-1852
Zzzz
2-1854
Sell Furs to Japan for a Worker. Sell Miniaturization to France for Gems, 27gpt and 50gp.
3-1856
Ouch. A hefty payment (and Wines) from France ends; don’t want to give them Sanitation, so I have to lower research. Found another useless town on the island near Pyongsong.
4-1858
Zzzz…
5-1860
Zzz
IBT:
Ack, Calaris (our Incense colony) deposes to Japan…about time :rolleye:; I hope we didn’t trade it to France. Couple of WltKDs end.
6-1862
Computers to Japan for Incense; our Rep is clean.
IBT:
France gets Space Flight.
7-1864
Zzzz…
IBT:
We complete the UN, but don’t hold elections. Reload to check, and everyone votes for him/herself :lol:.
8-1866
Zzzz…
IBT:
Nuclear Power-> The Laser
And we can finally build the Wall Street.
9-1868
Sell Nuclear Power to France for Wines, 295gpt and 230gp.
IBT:
Wall Street (wastes about 100sp, but still worth it)
10-1870
Zzz..

NOTES:
*Remember to transfer population points from Seoul, Cadiz and some of the ex-Sumerian cities. Entremont, Rusicade, Pusan, Carthage Novo cannot grow while being productive.
*Entremont and Camuludonum are on prebuilds.
*Didn’t trade for Space Flight so far; we can either steal it later, or trade it for The Laser.
*Don’t give Sanitation to France, they could really grow.
*Btw, we #1 in Land/Pop by a small margin :lol:

The Save
 
Whoops forgot to post the I got it. Replaced by actual log:

Preturn: A few minor tweaks.

Early: I think I will wait for Laser for Space Flight.

Mid: We cannot trade Laser for Space Flight. I will build up some money for a steel.
Will also build more troops. We are weak so they won't hesitate to declare war if we fail.
Refuse UN Elections.

Late:
The steal is a success! We get Space Flight.
France got Laser (and can research faster than us it seems).
France builds some more space parts.

Edit: Notes
We build Apollo next turn.
France has 3 parts and is building 1.
If we continue to steal then war is likely. We want to continue to prepare for that.
 
I might get to it tonight. No Promises though.
 
Got it as we read this.
IHT: Not much to do but press enter.
Turn 1: Build the Apollo Program. Go through and get some parts building. All 4 possbile parts are under construction.
Turn 2: We lost our supply of gems. Start another part prebuild in Cirta.
Turn 3: Not much, upgrade our galleon for the heck of it.
Turn 4: Real builder turns here. Start adding in native workers.
Turn 5: We learn robotics, start on Sats due in 6. Swap a lot of builds to robotics plants. Upgraded our cannon to radar artillary, just becasue I have never seen a radar artillary.
Turn 6: We lost incense, but discovered uranium next to Utica. Hooray or something. French pop out ecology. Get incense, WM and 40 gold from the Japanese for Space flight. We can get ecology and gems for robotics, but I hold off for now.
Turn 7: Pollution is really hitting us.
Turn 8: Cleaning pollution.
Turn 9: We lost a huge gpt payment and wines from the french. I will attempt to renegotiate. We get gems and wines, 40 gpt, 72 gold, WM and ecology for robotics. Best I could get.
Turn 10: Satalites are due in 1. Prebuild in Utica and Cirta, as these are the only 2 cities with robotics plants.
 
*** Got it. ***
 
DocT3 1910AD – Pre-turn

- We get satellites in 1, then we need only 2 more techs to build all SS components.

- Up sanitation on France, up sanitation, nuclear power, and ecology on Japan.

- 1190 gold, -226 gpt; we are weak vs. everybody and they are both furious.

- My guess is France is researching synthetic fibers, so I plan to research superconductor and steal syn. fibers once France gets it. Coordinate prebuilds for the remaining needed SS components:

SS exterior casing - 640 shields
SS storage/supply – 160 shields
SS fuel cells – 160 shields
SS life support – 320 shields
SS thrusters – 320 shields
SS engine – 640 shields (already under construction in Entremont, due in 5).

<IBT: satellites -> superconductor; Githis harbor -> MP.>

Turn 1 1912
- Turn down science to get some gold.

- Sell Japan furs for 3 gpt and 42G (nominal price, but I would like to keep Japan docile.)

<IBT: Seoul bank -> mech. inf.; Lugdun. fact. -> RL; Cheju OP -> bank; Tingis MP -> cath.; Der harbor -> CH.>

Turn 2 1914
- Change Leptis Magna build to SS thrusters (due in 3).

<IBT: Zouchis granary -> harbor; Theveste mfg. plant -> palace (SS prebuild); Hadrum. SE -> ICBM.>

Turn 3 1916 zzz

<IBT: zzz>

Turn 4 1918 zzz

<IBT: Japan launches a sneak attack! We lose spices and incense; various attacks on 3 different islands, but everything holds; Japan lands a SOD near Hippo; our army in Akshak is redlined; Entremont SS engine -> mech. inf.; Leptis Magna SS thruster -> mech. inf.; French build SS stasis chamber.>

Turn 5 1920
- I wanted to finish this game nice and peacefully, but Japan has put a monkey wrench into my plans. We are outnumbered by both Japan and France, so I decide to enlist France’s help. Give France dyes for MA vs. Japan. France is still furious and it is not beyond possibility that they could switch sides, so I sign a MPP with France, just in case. Joan is now just annoyed.

- France knows synthetic fibers, but doing a steal now would be unwise (we don’t have enough gold yet for a safe steal anyway). Do a little analysis, we can research superconductor and get all SS components built or prebuilt within 4 turns. Trade France satellites and sanitation for synthetic fibers and 93G.

- Switch Utica to SS exterior casing (due in 4) and Theveste to SS storage/supply (due in 2); prebuilds in Cirta (for SS life support) and Lugdun. (SS fuel cells) will be ready in 4 turns.

- Airlift forces into horse island to deal with Japanese forces there, and switch all non-SS builds to military. We will have several modern armor coming online during the interturn.

- Bombers, atty. and forces on-hand pound SOD by Hippo (several killed, the rest are redlined).

<IBT: Lots of Japanese bombers; Akshak falls to Japan; Carthage tact. nuke -> MA; Wonson MA -> mech. inf.; Camul. MA -> MA; Hyangsan mech. inf. -> jet fighter; Hippo mech. inf. -> jet fighter; Sabrath. MA -> MA; Rusic. MA -> SAM; Oea MA -> SAM; Cadiz MA -> mech. inf.; Rusid. MA -> mech. inf.; Sulcis nuclear sub -> tac. nuke.>

Turn 6 1922
- Clear Japanese forces around our cities on horse island.

- Japan holds onto Zabalam with one determined (redlined) mech. inf.

- Trade France silks for 41gpt; Joan is now polite.

<IBT: More bombing; French rifles and MDIs commit suicide attacking Fukushima; Japan lands tanks and TOW infantry to reinforce horse island; Zama worker -> SAM; Theveste SS storage -> jet fighter; Hadrum. cav. -> SAM; Nora MA -> SAM; France builds SS storage.>

Turn 7 1924
- We capture Zabalam.

- Our bombers are ineffective against mech. inf. on hills and mtns., focus instead on a Japanese naval convoy sinking 2 destroyers and a transport.>

<IBT: Lots of bombing…; Zouchis harbor -> SAM; Entremont MA -> jet fighter; Leptis Minor SS stasis -> jet fighter; France takes a couple of scattered Japanese cities.>

Turn 8 1926
- Our sub finds and sinks a Jap. nuclear sub near Camul. :eek:

- Engage Japanese forces near Fukush.

- Our bombers sink a destroyer and redline another, along with a transport.

- WW setting in; adj. lux. slider to 10% and hire some clowns to prevent rioting (we still get superconductor next turn).

<IBT: More bombing…; learn superconductor, use ‘Big Picture’ to switch prebuild in Lugdun. to SS fuel cell; I hit ‘esc’ key instead of F1 by mistake and cannot yet switch Cirta prebuild to SS life support :rolleyes: .>

Turn 9 1928
- Switch Cirta to SS life support (in 1).

- Turn up our luxuries, just because I can.

<IBT: WLTKD all over the place; we launch our SS & I get to watch a nice video of the blastoff.>

DocT3_SS_win.jpg


WE WIN! [dance] :band: [party]
 
Well done, everyone :thumbsup:

Greebley, what do you mean? This start on a Mountain/Hill/Tundra island would be better than a start on an all-Tundra island? :lol:
I don't think the Map generator gives all-Tundra starts; we did have a few Grassland tiles...and of course, we had one good city spot.
 
I am not sure about conquests. I haven't gotten an all tundra island. On the other hand I haven't been playing huge maps where it is most common.

In the past in PTW, I remember one that had a single grassland tile not next to water. The rest was all tundra and mountains (maybe hills). That one grassland and a few forested deer squares were the only squares with 2 or more food (other than the ocean of course - but thats not until you get a harbor).

That game was a loss for me. It was a while ago though. Might be able to win it now at emporer. Not sure.
 
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