G-Minor 18

[erikthecelt]

I'm at 40% and beating on a couple of civ's. But it's 1600 although I'm going with raging barbs and playing warlords. Should be done before 1800. Not stellar but it seem's reasonable. Built the henge for a GP and the great wall to keep out barbs.

 

[Infantry#14]

in my game, 9 opponents and no barbarian, so far I manage to kill off 3 ai and vassalize ramsees II. Right now it is 980AD and so far I have 24% land, with 3 city in anarchy, possibily 28% once their border extends (stonehenge). However, other rivals are starting to get longbowmen, and I say there is roughly 15-25% of unclaimed land out there. I can only stay in positive gold at 30% science, and I am about #3 on tech. I hve a combination of jaguars and catapults, if to fight againast longbwmem, I may lose a lot units. Hopefully can finish within 1500 AD. (I need 58% land)

 

[WastinTime]

[*] Stonehenge: I was thinking it would allow me to pop my borders quicker, only to finish it just prior to completing CoL. That was a waste of .

Not a waste. I build this and tech to CoL also. A newly planted city (working an artist) would take 25 turns to pop borders twice. It only takes 20 turns with Stonehenge. That's a huge difference when you are talking about a 140 turn game.

...speaking of 140 turns. I tried for this and came up short. At 600 AD I was 2% short on population and 7% short on land. I either built too many Jags, or I stopped warmongering too soon. I had so many unprotected cities when I had the option to start a new war, so I had to stop.

 

[Denniz]

I managed to improve from 1580AD to 1200AD. None of the 3 civs on the bottom of the map had copper. I was able to keep a war going on both fronts with Jags, Cats, and Elephants. My favorite trick is to use worker to build roads to my neighbors early. Later I use them to head off into unclaimed territory to speed settlement.

I didn't think about using artists to speed up border expansion. I always go for Stonehedge, though. (Just don't make the mistake of trading for Calendar.)

I may try again but it was 5-6 games played into the low AD's before I came up with this one.

 

[AAA]

780
Very excited
I have never completed a domination game where you drop 25-30 settlers all in a few turns, I wasn't sure it was going to work. I produced two Great Merchants, and in the end the money saved my butt, because the whole popping the settlers took like 10 turns. I was at about 25% when I started popping, thats all you need. Following WastinTime's adviced I ignored the north and only used axes and Jags. Teched all the way to Music, I don't think it was worth it. Moved my capital as I started to pop, that was worth it (had the palace one turn from finished)
Might be able to do better, but it was a very good start, copper fell in my capital.

 

[AAA]

540AD
Finished on strike
All the battles went my way, took down 5 AIs by 100AD
I won't get any luckier , thats it for me.

Thanks WastinTime for laying out the strategy

 

[WastinTime]

540AD
Finished on strike
All the battles went my way, took down 5 AIs by 100AD
I won't get any luckier , thats it for me.

Thanks WastinTime for laying out the strategy

Sweet result. I always share my strategy/answer questions. I guess that lets me share a little bit in your victory. Now for my questions:

Did you use Warlords and vassals? Did you start in a corner and attack one direction or 2 ways? 540 AD...What is that..turn 137 ?

 

[AAA]

Did you use Warlords and vassals? Did you start in a corner and attack one direction or 2 ways? 540 AD...What is that..turn 137 ?[/QUOTE]

It was vanilla. Vanilla is better for this gauntlet, I think, because the AIs are noticably poorer in military tactics -- they do dumb things . I attacked in two directions and resupplied units by cutting barracks and units out of the last AI knocked off. Even with roads moving units from one side to the other is not practical. I'm not sure what turn it was, I was just very glad that I slipped over 58% as my remaining settlers were about to go--are settlers the first you loose?

None of the AIs in the south got metal long enough to make any axes, that helped.

Trying to keep where 30+ settlers are going, gives one a headache , I don't know how you do it on a larger map.

 

[WastinTime]

Trying to keep where 30+ settlers are going, gives one a headache , I don't know how you do it on a larger map.

I've never done it on a larger scale than this myself.

I use signposts (alt+s) to mark where they're going.

 

[Lexad]

Have no time for the match, but my tapence: I would've built tons of chariots, maybe (maybe!) with woodmenII jaguars to attack along the southern wooded rim.

 

[Harbourboy]

Well, this one is almost over now. There seem to be only 11 submitted games so far, which means I have a great chance of coming in the top 20!

 

[ParadigmShifter]

And unless you have another bash Harbourboy I won't be last! I wonder what the next game will be?

I had 2 tries at Monarch today since I'd never played that level before (looking at this months GMajor). Hmm... I've got some practising to do I think.

 

[Harbourboy]

There can't be much time left for this gauntlet so no time for me to have another bash. You'd have to get up pretty early in the morning to make as big a hash of this gauntlet as I did. I never really recovered from losing my mighty stack of 8 jaguars to 3 archers in my first city attack. I wonder what will be in the next one?

 

[KMadCandy]

I wonder what will be in the next one?

yay! we got Harbourboy addicted to gauntlets . i love reading your posts, since you do things differently even before the game starts. i very much hope you stick around for the next one ... and the next one ... and the next one!

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I'm looking forward to the next one too. Harbourboy's style is the same as mine: Random leaders, barbarians on, don't worry about getting the best time (I know I wouldn't be able to have the dedication to even come close to that), have fun and challenge yourself, in other words.

KMad I hope you stick around too after you become a QM and don't have a lull after completimg that huge achievement, and look for a new non-civ challenge! I suppose BtS will be out by then though. Just don't quit posting after you become a QM and move on to a new challenge like becoming the world's greatest Hello Kitty Best Friends Game player or something!

 

[KMadCandy]

well thank you ParadigmShifter! but as for the timing of me getting QM ... " I suppose BtS will be out by then though." oh ye of little faith! check this weekend, if i counted my empty boxes right. i'm a permanoob, but a major gauntlet was the only big deal; there are cheesy methods for filling all of the other boxes .

but of course i have to stay, i can't get my goal of worst unless people rank better than me! i can't think of any way that i can influence that other than sharing the best advice i can give, in the hopes that their games improve and they get higher scores . and it'd be nice if the tips help in decreasing frustrations, and therefore increases their fun!

i didn't try this gauntlet, it seems like so very much effort! but i'm enjoying reading about how you diehards are approaching it.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I realise you will hit QM this update KMad, I was just saying if you do get into a post-QM lull then BtS will be out soon enough to get you playing Civ again. I think Methos posted somewhere that most new QMs seem to have a cooling off period when they have become a QM, were they don't play civ as much but then they notice their rankings and try and climb up the table, which obviously wont be an issue with yourself . Unless you can persuade them to get your worst 2 games in each box accepted rather than the best 2!

You will never be able to top your QScore of 0.0 though in one of your games if I recall correctly!

 

[Thrallia]

I won't be finishing this minor, unfortunately...I ran out of time and will be out of town for a couple weeks now...so hopefully the next update brings a major, rather than a minor

 

[Methos]

...so hopefully the next update brings a major, rather than a minor

You can always hope for both.

 

[Thrallia]

well, I won't be back in town until after the first update of June, so I won't be able to participate in a minor at all lol