Down to 2 weeks and 2 days now.
Here's a quick update on my game.
2 Billion souls. ^_^
Decided my colonies could receive open borders to help boost how much gold they have for me to steal.
As long as they don't tech Democracy before the game ends, I don't care.
The 3000 I spread around to them before STRIKE started should be enough to pay for all my Sushi spreads, but more money never hurts.
Each Sushi spread costs 57
T415 I missed another Great Merchant chance and got Great Scientist instead.
Still no Cereal Mills.
Ended up bulbing Flight with the Great Scientist.
The border pressure as cities reached 15,000 continued to cause me to give away mega cities.
(Giza popped borders the following turn and retook the Rice and both seafood.)
My Quechuas obsoleted on T418 after teching Rifling
This caused the Quechuas I whipped on T417 to not turn into gold on T418.
That means I whipped Quechuas T408 to T416 to make Sushi during STRIKE, and I'll be relying on a horde of 60ish spies spread over 16 colonies to steal to spread Sushi from T418 to T436.
Any leftover gold gets gifted back to the colonies to keep safe from STRIKE so my Spies can steal it again.
Used my Great Engineer to bulb Industrialism instead of rush the Cristo wonder complete.
Starting to regret it now.
No city has the production to make Cristo Redentor before the game ends, and I could really use flipping my Gilgamesh into Caste right now.
Still, I'll get to Future tech that much faster now after bulbling an expensive tech like Industrialism.
My plan to force Open Borders onto Gilgamesh fizzled once the vote came up and it was a useless election.
Remembered I didn't need Artillery to get to Future Tech which is nice.
My Gilgamesh is too advanced and is teching too fast for me to give Gunpowder + Chemistry + Sci. Method + Biology.
He is making lots of Knights and might tech Rifling.
So I took a -2500 reduction and started production on 80 Tanks and 50 Bombers.
The end of the game war will now be fun!!!
The STRIKE monster finally ate one of the Quechuas sitting in the colonies, easing my concerns.
My army should be safe until T455ish.
Here is the center of the map and my latest progress on T422.
34 Sushi spreads left to go.
I'm currently debating teching Fascism to build Rushmore to combat War Weariness at the end of the game since Gilgamesh will have the Statue of Zeus in one of my gifted mega cities.
Probably won't do it.
Will add in some Gunship builds once I tech Advanced Flight.
**Edit**
Oh ya, merchant specialists are useless during STRIKE.
Best to work Citizens.
Use the left and right -> arrow keys on the keyboard to quickly switch through 100's of cities and fire them all every 10 turns or so.
Here's a quick update on my game.
2 Billion souls. ^_^
Decided my colonies could receive open borders to help boost how much gold they have for me to steal.
As long as they don't tech Democracy before the game ends, I don't care.
The 3000 I spread around to them before STRIKE started should be enough to pay for all my Sushi spreads, but more money never hurts.
Each Sushi spread costs 57
T415 I missed another Great Merchant chance and got Great Scientist instead.
Still no Cereal Mills.
Ended up bulbing Flight with the Great Scientist.
The border pressure as cities reached 15,000 continued to cause me to give away mega cities.
(Giza popped borders the following turn and retook the Rice and both seafood.)
My Quechuas obsoleted on T418 after teching Rifling
This caused the Quechuas I whipped on T417 to not turn into gold on T418.
That means I whipped Quechuas T408 to T416 to make Sushi during STRIKE, and I'll be relying on a horde of 60ish spies spread over 16 colonies to steal to spread Sushi from T418 to T436.
Any leftover gold gets gifted back to the colonies to keep safe from STRIKE so my Spies can steal it again.
Used my Great Engineer to bulb Industrialism instead of rush the Cristo wonder complete.
Starting to regret it now.
No city has the production to make Cristo Redentor before the game ends, and I could really use flipping my Gilgamesh into Caste right now.
Still, I'll get to Future tech that much faster now after bulbling an expensive tech like Industrialism.
My plan to force Open Borders onto Gilgamesh fizzled once the vote came up and it was a useless election.
Remembered I didn't need Artillery to get to Future Tech which is nice.
My Gilgamesh is too advanced and is teching too fast for me to give Gunpowder + Chemistry + Sci. Method + Biology.
He is making lots of Knights and might tech Rifling.
So I took a -2500 reduction and started production on 80 Tanks and 50 Bombers.
The end of the game war will now be fun!!!
The STRIKE monster finally ate one of the Quechuas sitting in the colonies, easing my concerns.
My army should be safe until T455ish.
Here is the center of the map and my latest progress on T422.
34 Sushi spreads left to go.
I'm currently debating teching Fascism to build Rushmore to combat War Weariness at the end of the game since Gilgamesh will have the Statue of Zeus in one of my gifted mega cities.
Probably won't do it.
Will add in some Gunship builds once I tech Advanced Flight.
**Edit**
Oh ya, merchant specialists are useless during STRIKE.
Best to work Citizens.
Use the left and right -> arrow keys on the keyboard to quickly switch through 100's of cities and fire them all every 10 turns or so.