First time LP post

[Bobafett0610]

Alright. Not much of a story teller but I'd figure I'd try posting a game. Mostly just the bare basic info with a good amount of screenshots. This thread may take some editing as I'm not used to posting the text with pictures so it may take some fiddling.

Here are the game settings, G&K exp pack for those wondering. Knocked it down about 2 difficulties as I didn't want to embarrass myself if I made a mistake. Notice I added 2 more civs than the usual 8 for the standard map. Also, I disabled time victory as I dislike the game expiring before I get to play around with the end game units.

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Turns out the random civ I got was Arabia. This is good as I never had problems playing them. also got a nice start for desert folklore and a possible Petra.

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After doing the usual researching of pottery first to get a shrine up I notice via exploring with my warrior and scout I built that there was a ton of desert tiles which will be nice if I get the folklore Pantheon.

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In this pic I encountered Askia. Also, north area of my capital seems to be tundra which means i'll expand south first a bit.

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Normally I'd grab liberty policy first considering the area I explored, but I decided to nab the first tradition policy so my culture area would expand rapidly to grab all the desert tiles, especially if I pull of Petra. Also of note, after researching pottery I went for calendar for the incense and mining for the silver.

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Figured with all that desert I'm bound to get some iron, so I decided to build some warriors and take the free worker from the liberty tree instead of building one. I'll use the warriors in the meantime to fortify on the resources to prevent barbs pillaging.

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Here you can see me grabbing the liberty opener.

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Just checking on the pant. someone got to see if it was the folklore I wanted.

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Found Askia's capital.

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After finishing calendar and mining, I queue up the currency tech in hopes to get Petra.

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[Bobafett0610]

Oops, not sure how to get pics bigger, oh well, continuing on...

 

[Bobafett0610]

For the record, double click and the pics get big enough to view them.

Pic 1 - met babs
Pic 2 - met mongols
Pic 3 - checking on another panth.

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Grabbing worker policy

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Meeting denmak and finding babs capital.

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Here Askia's forces were barb camp hunting.

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Continuing building warriors to defend resources against the barbs, and I also get luck and pop the desert folklore panth.

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In the same turn, you can see how much my faith jumped from 1 per turn, to 7 per turn by grabbing desert folklore.

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Found what looks to be denmarks capital.

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[Bobafett0610]

Pointy sticks rating, 6/10 so not bad for early on.

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New era! Have about 4-5 warriors so I built an archer and put it on the silver.

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Going for currency, got a nice chunk of gold from selling various lux resorces.

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Threw 1,000 gold into this city state to act as a slight buffer between me and Askia. Also wanted the culture boost and the pearls from it. Figured I could easily afford it.

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At some point I had grabbed the policy for the +1 production in cities and +5% toward building production, don't remember when though. Grabbing the free settler one now.

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Figured I'd plop it around there.

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Plop!

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Got the first GP, grabbed the thithes for even more cash, and the +1 happy for shrines.

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After spitting out the warriors and archer, I decided to make a gamble on the temple of Artemis wonder as it only cost I think 15-20 turns at the time and I wanted the archer production bonus for the Calvary archers. If I didn't get it, it was no big deal to me as I was doing alright in other fields.

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Bought a worker in 2nd city, also, Askia declared war on my allied city state...

 

[Bobafett0610]

Policy raiting. 6/10 on this as well.



Finished another archer and researching currency, time to go for Petra.



...bastard



Used my 2 archers to take out barb camp.



Someone's capital got taken...



Got a crappy deal with zero horses anywhere in the area. So I figure I'd head for Ironworking as Askia's going to get smacked for declaring war on my allied citystate...soon after I threw in the 1,000gold too.



The turn I popped a 10 turn golden age, I got to pick a policy. I went with this one so I get another 10 turn golden age added on, for a total of 20 turn golden age...that should give me some nice funds. Also I picked it instead of the other as I wanted to make sure I got Petra.



Asked Askia for peace with the citystate, he said no.



Found greece, almost got my 2nd prophet as well.



Punks, they'll pay for that when I have swordsmen/longswordsmen. Planning on also buying catapults and trebs with the gold I'm raking in.

 

[ork75]

Longswords? Catapults? What is this madness?
Just know that, in my experience as Arabia, the solution to most problems is "more Camel Archers".
If you want to take Askia out have a bunch of camel archers and one or two horsemen.

EDIT: just realized you had no horses....

 

[The Pilgrim]

Longswords? Catapults? What is this madness?

It's vanilla madness.

Moving one tile to get a mountain would make a much better choice. This is a jack pot start if you know how to play it.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Built the Petra. Golden age still has some turns left.



Nabbed temple happyness boost and religion spreads further away boost with 2nd GP that popped. Figure I planned on going piety tree so I wanted to make the shrines and temples more useful. Instead of nabbing pagodas I decided to plant some prophets on some of the desert tiles around the capital, so it would get worked with the Petra boost, not to mention the piety tree finisher boost.



I plopped two more cities up north just so I wouldn't have to worry about barb camps up there, and earlier on I was unsure if Askia was going to attack me next so I didn't want weak cities close to his. In this pic I got IRonworking, thankfully there were some iron patches, only 2 iron each though, but still good enough.



Askia attacked another nearby citystate, the good thing is his behavior will make him disliked by other civs so I won't have to worry about pissing off too many people when I attack him. Also, don't remember if I mentioned it, but babs and Askia went at it very early on in the game for a little bit, no cities traded hands though.



Established embassy with Huns at some point, they're across the water somewhere east. Also, decided since I have a mountain near capital and its doing well from Petra wonder, I'll take a stab at the Pichu wonder. Reason being I'm almost done with liberty tree soon so I can use a GE on it.



Askia built great lighthouse. Good for me as its another wonder to conquor.



Plopped 2 more cities for the iron and natural wonder crater. The one with the natural wonder will be the staging point for troops.



Alex built pyrimads.



Got my inquisitor for capital religious defense, and on the same turn finished guilds, AND got a social policy which will finish liberty tree and give me the GE for the wonder.



Figured I'd build hanging gardens next after the Pichu wonder, If I don't get the hanging gardens then oh well, just figured I'd give it a shot. Getting a lot of money so I don't need to build troops, just by them and upgrade the 2 archers and warriors I have.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Not as many pics in this thread, about to continue playing...

In this pic I took the last liberty policy and got a GE. I also bought the mountain tile near Mecca so I can build Pichu wonder. It will only take Mecca 10 turns to build it but I don't want to risk it so I'll use the GE. Also, I do my standard quicksave before using the GE just incase someone else gets it.



Got it, now onto hanging gardens. If you notice between the two screens. I went from 26 gpt to 37 gpt after Pichu. Also, having workers improve Iron patches.



Selecting hanging gardens in this pic. Also, a few turns back in one of the other pics you'll notice I got 10 unhappyness after founding the two other cities. I fixed it by using the surpluss incense and silver I have from building bazarr in capital to trade for some lux with babs and I think greeks as well. Time to move warriors into position near Askia and upgrade them. Will also wait until I can upgrade archers and will buy some cats. Also, bought the hill near Askia which caused him to complain but I wanted the extra sight.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Met Dido, traded lux for cash.



Babs completed great wall, will hit him once I have artillery.



Askia completed hanging gardens, no biggy, I'll take it from him.



Worlds busiest people



Upgraded warriors to swords, and bought some cats, upgraded archers to composite bowman.



And the first city falls!



I decided to keep it, had sugar and spice and 2 horses.



Showing spice and sugar



Gonna fill in that space with a city.



Now that I have horses. Building chariot archers so I can have them ready to upgrade later.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Take the former citystate, decided to keep it instead of liberate.



Babs wants to cash in on the action and DoW Askia.



Seeing his units move up, I need to take the capital before he picks it off and gets the wonders.



Cranked out a GP, plopped him near mecca.



Building acquaduct for future growth, once happyness is in the positive.



Had to purchase a workboat as Askias tiremes pillaged the pearls.



Queueing up chilvary for the camel archers.



The turn my swordsman was close enough to attack, that is how I found his capital. Lucky me, it was almost completley redlined and Babs would of taken it if I hadn't gotten in there just in time.



Bombed the last sliver of city health with my cat, and popped a general.



Ofcourse decided to keep it.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Wondered how he survived, found out he had a city tucked away.



Sued for peace as I didn't want to bother going after it.



Gonna plop a city there.



Fortifying the troops for defense. Atilla attacked Dido, Alex built masoleum.



Going to explore that top part eventually.



Grabbed the first policy in piety. Time to crank out the shrines and temples.



Going to ally with this CS for two lux resources.



Happyness jumped up to 4 positive after alliance.



Going to put another city on the jungle tile thats highlighted. Didn't show my cursor for some reason...



Cities planted.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Babs gets grumpy about city placement, I tell him not to worry, I'm done planting cities for now.



Going to upgrade these guys to longswordsmen soon.



Plopped another GP.



Built the terracota army in mecca. Also, noticed where the worker is I couldn't squeeze in a city. Miscalculated.



Going to see if I can nab chivalry wonder, I doubt it though considering the turn number.



Going to try orcale down there as well.



Next turn, greeks built it.



Since I finally just got the temple tech. Time to put out some temples as well.



Babs built another wonder, no worries, I'll take it in time.



Got my first spy, put in Mecca.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Worker discovered marble on this little island, will settle that as well.



Atilla grabbed the wonder before me.



Finished steel, time to use that spare cash.



Tada!



Quick peak at demographics, time for crossbowmen upgrades soon.



Sending a spare longswordsman out to smack around that barb camp.



Time for treb research and cat upgrades.



Grabbed organized religion.



Atilla declared war on Dido again, sent a backup swordsman to help take on the camp.



Got physics, time for leaning tower wonder if I can.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Plopping another GP.



Annex Gao, bought courthouse.



Annex Tom..., bought courthouse.



You can see Mecca is a beast.



Found Siam, traded a bunch of spare lux, thank god for bazzars.



Annexxed formor citystate, bought courthouse.



Built city on island with marble, almost at printing press.



Got it.



Also, the turn I discovered printing press, I got a GE in my capital. Using that on the Pisa wonder, and pick another GE from that!



Going to use it on the sistine chapel soon.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Nabbed it.



Ty Siam, will take note.



Sending a troop over there to see whats behind the mountains.



Atilla completed Himinji



Dido lost her capital to someone, probably huns.



Spare spot to tuck in a city.



Ploped another GP, Mecca didn't even bother working it. It was at this time I realized that I could change it from auto GP to simply stockpiling all my faith....Ticked me off but oh well, I can use it for other great people later on once I crack open other policy trees.



Using my GE on the Sistine Chapel, quicksave beforehand ofcourse.



Going to gun for Kremlin next.



Popped the sistine chapel. Of note: over time my massive amount of gpt will dwindle, in part to building workshops, librarys, universities, temples/shrines, and monument/amptheater/operahouse.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Babs doesn't like my massive army on his borders, I bs him for now.



Babs took denmark capital, even more of a reason to smak babs around.



Time for the Grand Temple!



Upgrading longswords to gunpoweredmen.



Greeks bought out my CS ally



Bought it back



Grabbed reformation for the goldenage, and will give a boost to meccas culture.



Going to start placing scouts in each city, eventually planning ahead for going down the right side of honor after piety tree, and also grabbing oligargy.



Gunning for dynamite now.



Anoter GP.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Time to build kremlin.



Babs attacks nearby city state, I don't think he takes it, continuing building scouts.



Alex and greeks have at it



Got chemistry, time to upgrade to cannon.



Siam attacked Babs, Babs and citystate war



Babs snuck a city by Greeks, not wise as they can stomp it to dust



Grabbing theocracy for the slight income boost



And I built Kremelin. Plan to bank off of that by building walls/castles/arsenals when I get the policy in honor that gives +1 happyness for each, also there defense will be increase by the Kremlin. Also, am planning to get the N---- wonder that gives a huge boost to castles.



Got a great merchant from gao, moving him to catkoia



Industrial age! At this point it showed I need to pick another faith purchase. Didn't make sense as I could of just kept going with GP, but it is here where I noticed I could just save it all up.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Place second spy in babs capital to have a peek.



uho can't cross! need astonomy.



So be it.



Babs is plotting against Alex, hopefully a war will be brewing.



Time to buy caravel on westside



same on east side



Now he can move through



And back to dynamite



Almost there, babs is shipping up units which is good for us.



Going to pop trade mission and nab some influence and gold.

 

[Bobafett0610]

Wasn't enough so I had to throw down 1 grand



Also, Babs built Big Ben, more wonders for me.



Built a little city on the ice patch



Got mandate of heaven, so close. Once the peity tree is finished I will have quicker social policies, buffed up shrine and temples both for half cost, and the finisher will make my religious monuments get gold and culture as well, not to mention shorter faith costs on great people. From there, its down to honor tree.



Building Brandenburg gate, also, after dynamite i might wait before attacking (ugrade my cannons ofcourse) but instead go and get rifling as babs has just popped up some riflemen.