[BTS] G-Major 173 - Aztecs, Warlord, Cultural - Deadline October 27th 2020

[iggymnrr]

1090 AD game accepted. This capitol went gonzo. I had drama early and kept pushing culture up so it could keep growing. And growing. And growing. During golden age it was pushing 1800+ CPT.

 

[iggymnrr]

I do have one more attempt in progress. It should finish sometime on the 27th. CST. Does time zone matter?

 

[iggymnrr]

Submitted a 910 AD game. I only got 1 settler and 2 workers from huts, if I remember right, but I did get agriculture and animal husbandry. My second city was on gold in a 3-gold complex so growth could stall while working the other 2 gold as seen in the screenshot below. 15 cities somewhat leisurely settled and/or conquered. First conquest was ~turn 32 netting both a city and worker with just a 2-warrior rush.

I largely ignored fail gold but I did dabble in a little bit of it. There was plenty of forests for chopping cathedrals so there wasn't a great need to jump through expensive hoops to buy them. From trees to cathedrals in one easy maneuver. Simple. I also didn't try to keep the science slider maxed out but kept a steady pace. And I still got to 15 cities. I even lost a settler during a war. It had been automated to a destination. An enemy warrior ran into it. These things happen.

One strategical element: 3-pop whipping a library into a state monastery so that that could be 1-pop whipped. I tried to do this by 2000 BC. A granary may or may not have been present. (A captured city may have been at pop 5 already.)

All in all a mostly traditional approach. Things can get done faster too. But time has expired.

 

[elitetroops]

Congrats, that's a great date!

I only got 1 settler and 2 workers from huts, if I remember right, but I did get agriculture and animal husbandry.

That's exactly what I got from hut in my game as well. But I wouldn't say "only", I thought it was about the best hut luck I could possibly have. I'd prefer the second worker and AG/AH to more settlers.

 

[Tonny]

Well done @iggymnrr

 

[iggymnrr]

Thanks. Tech path was something like : Oracle->CS then music, drama, theology, paper. Full culture around then and limped into liberalism and economics. I forget when philosophy happened. Golden ages were at Taj and the economics GP. All other GPs except the shrine prophet were artists. So that was only 2 golden ages and the last one still had a couple of turns left.

 

[iggymnrr]

That's exactly what I got from hut in my game as well. But I wouldn't say "only", I thought it was about the best hut luck I could possibly have. I'd prefer the second worker and AG/AH to more settlers.

More settlers can't be settled too early but they can explore and pop more tech. But yeah at least one early worker is needed.

My game was accepted. Some curious things: I went full culture the moment the ToA got built so there was no problem with finance due to fail gold. That was around Paper and ~turn 160. It took 25 turns of passive research to reach Liberalism. I favored going full culture early since finished cathedrals do the same thing as free speech. How does a person want to waste culture? Cathedrals not doing anything? Or delaying free speech?

The 2nd and 3rd legendary cities were twins. Both crossed the finish line together. Both produced the last 2 artists in place. Both needed 6 artists each. Meanwhile the capitol needed 2 artists. This rather suggests where to find improvements.

 

[iggymnrr]

Congratulations elitetroops on winning this with a great finish time. Land tiles indicate you and Pangaea chose the smaller map size ~1325 tiles. I had gone with the larger size ~2100 tiles. It didn't seem to affect finance or conquest times which were ~turns 32/42/52/80/100/120 and full culture at turn 160ish.