Hi all,
I've been wanting to post some screens for a while and this seems to be the thread for it, although they are not necessarily funny.
Usually i play on huge maps with 14 civs and it's quite uncommon to be in sight of an AI's starting capital. Here's the exception. I decided to try and capture London directly. Failed in my first attempt, reloaded, stacked up some more quechuas and succeeded. Turned out to be a very interesting game. By delaying my expansion my capital became cut off from the rest of my empire by egyptian land. Some of the quechua veterans exploring after they captured London captured a very nice barbarian city miles and miles away. I lost the space race on three turns to Asoka, because i wasn't able to build the Space Elevator.
Mountain maps. At first i thought they were too unnatural but after playing some all normal maps seem bland. It's wonderful to discover a hidden fertile valley and to use the terrain to your advantage. Starting positions can be very cruel though. Here's an example. These are the ruins of Mecca, which i only found out in the replaymovie after the game (it was captured by the english strangely enough). I actually placed a late game city on it because on the tile to the NE of the deer appeared the only source of Aluminium nearby.
In my current game i had a starting position like that. Found a decent spot in a couple of turns though. I turned up the level to monarch because you definitely have an advantage over the AI on these maps. Here's a surprise i discovered when the borders of Bactrian expanded. I'm very curious what the next expansion will bring, maybe i'll have to prepare for a hostile invasion. Bactrian, by the way, was a barbarian city besieged by Malinese troops when i passed by with an axeman. The malinese were so kind to thin out the defense to a wounded archer.
Thanks for listening
Edit: I'm having a lot of problems with these forums. Keep having to log in and i'm unable to upload properly. Does anyone have an idea what i'm doing wrong?
Edit2: Ok, think i have it sorted out (Panda firewall)