G-Major 15

[Alan_of_Dale]

Finally finished. 1635 w/ Liz. Map wasnt great, just a gold, fish, clams and cow w/ not much production in the capital. However 3 excellent production sites nearby and ivory allowed for an early start on conquering w/ several 1 turn elephant spots. Cavalry in 800 AD is a little late, but the AI was exceptionally slow and at war with one another. I saw no rifles for the first time playing this gauntlet , the others only made it to Constitution. Screenshots are of before the cavalry storm and the final result.

Its fairly easy to get Mil Tradition via Liberalism around 450 AD, and Gunpowder within 5-6 turns after that. Just keep on the Nationalism path after hitting the CS slingshot/Alphabet and bulb Paper->Education and if you can, Philosophy.

The Inca are usually the AI monster, being the only financial civ around. In this game they had a bad tundra start. In other games they get to Rifles by 1200 AD!

Nice job killercane!

I will try to remember the Military Tradition via Liberalism choice. Reminds me of my use of the Oracle -> Feudalism slingshot in non iron domination game starts. Longbows with cover, plus cats, can be quite nasty against archers. I seem to remember doing a Liberalism -> Gunpowder myself in a non horse resource game.

 

[The-Hawk]

Finally finished. 1635 w/ Liz.

Outstanding, well done.

Looks like you focused more on getting way ahead on tech (hence Liz). I followed my normal dom strategy and went for early military (with Julius). Obviously, your strategy was better, you were more than 15% faster (by number of turns). In hindsight, this makes sense given quick speed.

 

[Jimmy Thunder]

Great job killercane. A successful entry to this gauntlet is pretty impressive.

I had 2 attempts at this gauntlet, both with Augustus.

My first game I botched up my first praetorian push and gave up before AD.

Second game I managed to take two opponents with praets, but am still eclipsed in tech speed. I ran out of time for that one, it is suspended around 1000AD.

If i had another weekend to play I might be able to finish that game through for a victory, but the wars will be tough and have to be fought with masses of lower-tech units (catapult/treb/praetorian spam).

 

[shyuhe]

I too am throwing in the towel. Human WW I was on a good roll until about 1500 or so when I started to play poorly. My computer getting slower was making me frustrated so I've just about given up any further attempts at this gauntlet. IT's not too bad if you get a good start, but I didn't realize that there were lots of colonizable islands until pretty late. If I had realized that earlier, I think I would have had a pretty good finish. I had 5 AI's on my starting continent.

 

[Gosha190]

I see 3 submissions for current major. Congrats to all winners a priori!

 

[bshumbera]

I tried this twice with Rome (vanilla) and quickly fell behind the tech pace. I never got back to this after 4 or 5 attempts at minor 27. Oh well, this could have been fun. Congrats to all the winners and a most deserving mention of killercane's time too.

 

[Dianthus]

This gauntlet is now complete. killercane won with 1635AD. 2nd place was taken by The-Hawk in 1810AD and 3rd by Andrei_V in 1950AD.

2 new Gauntlets have now started, G-Major 16 and BTS-Beta 4.

 

[Jimmy Thunder]

Congrats you guys, not a small feat to finish this gauntlet.

 

[shyuhe]

Congrats to all finishers. Especially killercane with an amazing finish date.