G-Major 13

[Harbourboy]

Good work, markh. You beat me by 8 years. Now 3 Geezers have submitted. It's a Geezer-a-thon.

 

[Airny]

Congrats Harbourboy. I've failed 8 times and don't think I have the stamina for 20.

Here's try #9's start after a little exploring. Ever wish you founded your city one tile from where you did?

Mh, you have switched to another text style?

If you have so many goldtiles, you should split this to 2-3 cities and plan for every city to have enough foodtiles, else you wouldn't be able to work all those goldtiles.

 

[Padraig]

If you have so many goldtiles, you should split this to 2-3 cities and plan for every city to have enough foodtiles, else you wouldn't be able to work all those goldtiles.

Unfortunately it turned out to be a small continent, 4 AIs, no copper nearby and the closest iron was settled before my settler reached it. I guess it was just a tease.

 

[The-Hawk]

Good work, markh. You beat me by 8 years. Now 3 Geezers have submitted. It's a Geezer-a-thon.

Yep! I agree, great job markh. Guess I'll need to tip back yet another one in honor of a fellow Geezer.

The sacrifices we need to make...

 

[erikthecelt]

Well, I've joined the geezer group, at least as a geezer, not a Geezer.

1685 finish - I had a decent start, had 4 of 6 Ai on my continent and had it to myself before 1000 AD but it wasn't big enough so I had to tech to Astronomy and Chemistry to take a large island away from Bismark. It took six days to play so I think it will be my only submission, gonna go have some fun with space and get in on the other gauntlet.

 

[The-Hawk]

Well, I've joined the geezer group, at least as a geezer, not a Geezer.

Well done! And close enough to a Geezer for me to tilt back yet another!

 

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Moderator Action: The newest versions of the Vanilla and Warlords HOF Mods are not legal for this Gauntlet. We will however move up to them with the next Gauntlets.

 

[erikthecelt]

Well done! And close enough to a Geezer for me to tilt back yet another!

Thanks Hawk, feels like a pretty select group. I hope that's one of the finer brews that you're tipping back

Do you guys mind if I register as a Geezer lurker? That sgotm looks like a lot of fun.

 

[Padraig]

Just submitted a 1703 victory, finally, 10th attempt.

 

[RickWJ66]

I only recently "discovered" the hall of fame gauntlet challenges -- this major has been absolutely insane. I have never won emperor level before. I probably have tried at least 20 different attempts, but keep getting too far behind in techs. Harbourboy and others have inspired me to keep trying. I may finally win my current game.

I picked nine opponents who were not financial (except Mansa), protective, industrious, or started out with mysticism. I also turned off tribal villages, since the AI starts out with free scouts and was beating me to all of them. Finally had some good luck this game. I teched to bronze working, then somehow managed to still found polytheism just after building my second city near some copper, which made that city a religous capital and greatly helped to expand its borders. With the help of some marble, I built oracle to get alphabet, which was very helpful to help keep up with techs early on. I then built a bunch of axemen and went to town, while making a beeline to construction, then COL, then bureacracy. It is now 1316 AD, and I have taken out three civs on my continent, with two remaining (Napoleon and his vassal Peter -- we are about equal power and have tech parity (knights, musketmen, trebs), but he has a bunch of cities on ice and tundra, so I have better production). It looks like my continent should just be big enough for a domination victory.

Now is the time to declare war with Napoleon (which means his vassal as well). Short window of opportunity before he gets chemistry/grenadiers (I am trying to get to Cavs, but tech is going slow). Of course, most of the four civs on the other continent are ahead in tech and have astronomy, so I probably will have to deal with a sneak attack from one of them. It's time for bed, so I will pick this up tomorrow and see if I can finally do this, before the time expires (and, more importantly, BTS comes!).

 

[Miraculix]

My first domination win at Emperor level. Finishesd in 1166 AD, good for 3rd place so far. Must have been very lucky with the map.

 

[Harbourboy]

Good work, Padraig and Miraculix.

Don't give up, RickWJ66!

 

[Padraig]

My time would have been faster, but I didn't eliminate any Civs until 1112 AD. I may have had aggressive Civs turned on, I don't recall, between 300BC and 1000AD I didn't declare a single war myself, my actions were completely dictated by the ai. Then I took control and trampled over them relatively easily.

880BC Declare War on Asoka
595BC Peace with Asoka (heavy losses)
310BC Declare War on Asoka
85BC Isabella declares War on Korea
70BC Peace with Asoka (attention to Isabella)
425AD Gandhi declares War on Korea
440AD Peace with Isabella (attention to Gandhi)
650AD Roosevelt declares War on Korea
655AD Peace with Gandhi (attention on Roosevelt)
950AD Peace with Roosevelt
980AD I win race to Liberalism
1040AD Declare War on Asoka
1112AD Asoka eliminated
1184AD Declare War on Roosevelt
1310AD Roosevelt eliminated
1328AD Declare War on Gandhi
1460AD Gandhi eliminated
1472AD Declare War on Isabella
1496AD Isabella eliminated
1520AD Declare War on Cyrus
1577AD Cyrus eliminated
1616AD Declare War on Washington
1697AD Washington eliminated
1703AD Victory.

I still am on Gandhi's declaration of war on me. The only stack he sent was longbowmen/pikeman (one of each). They ran away after one pillage.

 

[RickWJ66]

Whew! Did it. My first Emperor victory. 1847 date. My continent was big enough, but I had to spend about 30 turns after wiping out my last appointment cranking food production so I could grow my population to sufficient size to trigger. The cities had been kind of small with all of the whipping and civil unrest/war weariness. I went to each city and told it to emphasize food production. I ended up going for biology and then medicine/environmentalism to help. Didn't think I could pull it off . . .

 

[RickWJ66]

I meant "opponent" -- not "appointment" -- too braindead now

 

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I meant "opponent" -- not "appointment" -- too braindead now

Moderator Action: One of the buttons at the bottom right of posts is an edit button. We tend to frown on pointless double-posting here.

 

[The-Hawk]

Do you guys mind if I register as a Geezer lurker? That sgotm looks like a lot of fun.

The team is happy to have you join, assuming you've stayed clear of the other teams' threads up to now . You'll need to go to the SGOTM sign up thread to register your presence.

 

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Moderator Action: I already know the update will be delayed one day. You have 36 hours from this post to finish and submit for this Gauntlet.

 

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Gauntlet concluded. HOF Page Results:
Rank Player Date Score
1 The-Hawk 815 AD 208859
2 Moonsinger 1040 AD 153293
3 Miraculix 1166 AD 184339
4 denze 1559 AD 105629
5 erikthecelt 1685 AD 88662
6 Padraig 1703 AD 80675
7 RickWJ66 1847 AD 52693
8 markh 1909 AD 28196
9 Harbourboy 1917 AD 28569

 

[Jimmy Thunder]

Congratulations to the winners!

I was a little disappointed this Gauntlet since my finish date missed out due to technical difficulties.

But I certainly enjoy the collective competition and the discussions that go on!

Good job