Well...here it is. Hope it gets someone a medal, cuz it shore ain't no good for nothin' else! Dom V, T-freaking-297.
Autosave 257 is dated 7/13. I had taken 4 capitols at that point, and was about to take the 5th. But I was already thinking "this is way too long", and the terrain toward the last 2 caps was all tough for traveling. So I set it aside, and played a few starts of the G-minor game. I had NO intention of finishing this game. If I had returned to Oda, I totally would have given him a fresh start.
But then I encountered the Run Time Error, which prevented me from loading of
any save file. Finally figured
that out and got it fixed last weekend, but (like I said in the G-minor thread) I wasn't gonna submit a game for either current gauntlet. But
@JoeSham educated me about the number of submissions needed to allow medals, so I decided I would finish this game today, 8 weeks later. I can tell ya - with that kinda gap in one's strategizing, one can sure make some stupid moves! All of a sudden my happy is -15, rebels are popping up, and all my building projects are gonna go
waaaaay past their scheduled completion dates. I was so hated by then I couldn't even get a 3-for-1 lux trade. Scraped up enough gold to get a little influence with a merc city state, sold two cities (that I probably shouldn't have kept anyway) to the weakest civs for, like, 3 and 5 gpt. Within a half-dozen turns I was able to get my happy to single negative digits, but spent most of the last 40 turns fighting on that front as well as the actual warmongering.
But I will tell you what is fun... 5-promotion crossbows. Some of the terrain at the final two capitols was not great for Range, and it took some tinkering to find where a unit had a 3-tile line-of-sight, but once they are in place - they just stand there outta harm's way and double-tap that city to its proverbial knees!
Anyway, it's submitted.
@Denniz, I have all the autosaves, but they've been backed-up, copied, and moved around some. I think it should be a good game, but it won't be a huge surprise if it's not.
While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets. Standard Hall of Fame rules (*) still apply, but any games meeting the settings will be counted towards the Gauntlet.
