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[ParadigmShifter]

Twenty-eight! Wow.

 

[karmina]

I tried to hook up resources to keep the culture slider down.

Interesting, I tried to keep the culture slider up to get a better score. This might have made the difference^^

But there are more differences in our games:
Capital produces 3 or 4 workers first, an initial chop should suffice to get them at a 1/turn rate. Then factory - coal plant - barracks(+maybe stable) - pentagon - tanks. Chop if anything needs more than a single turn. Might require to hire additional engineers for early GE, don't remember exactly as I often played with Gandhi (1740 submission was Asoka though). Tried to synchronize secondary city barracks with Pentagon to get three 9xp tanks asap, but it really never worked...

No settlers; 2nd/3rd city produce 1-2 workers first, holy city 2 missionaries, then exact build order as capital.

I never used US(maybe a mistake) - started with Representation and only once switched civics, the turn the Pentagon was built, to Police State - Vassalage - Enviro - Emancipation - Theocracy.

Considering the length of the game (exactly 14 turns of war and 14(13?) turns before), I didn't care at all about captured cities. The earliest to come out of resistance produced a worker or two, but it really didn't matter.

I might add that the city sites were not exactly optimal in my final entry. Too many Tank/2turns, too few forests around. So a turn less in the beginning might be possible - the 14 turn Blitzkrieg was quite perfect though.

EDIT: The biggest difference of course is that your games take 1 hour, mine take 4-5

EDIT2: I played without barbs to be able to leave cities undefended. (And I don't know nothing about milking, nor about QScore)

 

[bestje]

I played with raging barbs on, I even saw some rifles and burned a few of their cities
@termitnik; about 30
which amazes me, my best time was double that at 78 and that felt crazily fast

 

[RobertTheBruce]

Congratulations to the winners! 1740 is blisteringly fast. I am amazed at the speed of those rushes.

 

[hecubus]

By the way the very best thing about this gauntlet was seeing "Montezuma adopts Pacifism!"