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[ssjos]

Hmmz- Am trying atm.

Popping settlers and workers out of huts is kinda gay but I guess you have to. Didnt get any worker this time though but a decent settlement loc at least.

Happiness has not been a problem for me after I got the pyramids completed and furs, gems - but I guess I havent got any real ûber city.

It seems hard to get good cities going.... after u chop the forest your stuck with a few 3-4 bonus resources and rest in tundra :s

 

[billybgame]

Well, we're on our way now. But, being new to BTW, I'm also new to Boreal. I usually only put cottages on flood plains or non-river grasslands, so I need to come up with a new system quick.

One question, though.......I'm being hindered by my religion not spreading. I got the first...Buddhism. I have 5 cities now, and we are well along, and it hasn't spread to one single city. Did this get nerfed in BTW? This seems quite odd. All, but the most recent are connected by culture and/or roads.

Edit: Oops, replace all BTWs with BTS

 

[babaBrian]

Well, I totally botched my first and possibly only attempt at this. My finish date was 1986. My game hasn't been accepted yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if I am dead last at this point.

I played Ramesses since I didn't have him checked off for my QM hunt. My random opponents were Sitting Bull, Bismarck, Napoleon, and Gilgamesh. At the beginning I warred to claim my land and then decided I had enough land and started focusing on tech.

I was far along into my spaceship when all my components started getting clobbered by enemy spies. I had a spy in each city, but it wasn't until I built a security bureau in every city and parked 3-4 spies in each city that the spies were stopped. Very tedious and aggravating. I think next time I'll have to pound everybody into oblivion to keep them from pumping out spies.

I had two coal, two aluminum, and two oil, so it sounded like I had a somewhat rare map, too, from what I gathered from previous posts.

Grrr!!

 

[ssjos]

How many cities do you guys aim for? So far in my first game:


I founded 4, lateron took a AI city(for total of 5)~~around 1000 BC - also bulbed education from oracle here.

now, ~~200 AD I went into same AIs land and finished him for another 3 cities totalling 8 cities for me.

Do I need more?

 

[Andrei_V]

I build like 13-15 cities, all my own. I rush my closest neighbor with 3 Warriors, but the city usually gets razed. I guess I have to check 'no city razing' next time.

 

[Rain]

One question, though.......I'm being hindered by my religion not spreading. I got the first...Buddhism. I have 5 cities now, and we are well along, and it hasn't spread to one single city. Did this get nerfed in BTW? This seems quite odd. All, but the most recent are connected by culture and/or roads.

Edit: Oops, replace all BTWs with BTS

Religions that you found will spread very very slowly unless you have a shrine or build missionaries.

 

[ShannonCT]

I had a 14xx game accepted using Darius and partial cottage spam. I realized that bare tundra can't take any improvement, so cottage spaming is limited to riverside tundra and plains/grass. Other cities have to be for specialists or hammers.

 

[Ronald]

I had a 14xx game accepted using Darius and partial cottage spam.

Wow can't believe that this is possible
After this gauntlet is finished I will have a close look how you did it. Did you submit also some intermediate files? that would be very interesting from a learning perspective.

Congratulations to your game!!

 

[ShannonCT]

Wow can't believe that this is possible
After this gauntlet is finished I will have a close look how you did it. Did you submit also some intermediate files? that would be very interesting from a learning perspective.

Congratulations to your game!!

Yes, I submitted an intermediate file and have a few more saved that I can post later. I'll give you some screenshots from my victory turn now though.

From left to right:

1) My capital and adjacent city, cottaged fully and all grown to towns with help of Emancipation.
2) National Park city captured from Asoka (thanks for leaving all of those forests buddy).
3) Some coastal cities that took good advantage of Colossus.
4) More cottage cities. Non-riverside tundra can't be cottaged
5) A couple later cities - cottages on the right and Ironworks city with lots of mills on the left.

 

[billybgame]

It's hard to believe, being Warlord difficulty, but my game has sort of been a struggle, and I'm not thinking my finish will be much better, if at all, from the 1900's score reported earlier.

I think I got just about the worst area, of the civs in my game. Now that I've seen all theirs, it sure seems so...just not as much river or plains areas, and they even have some grasslands.

Bigger is, I was in the middle, and I've had two of my neighbors, Catherine and Bressus, declare on me. I've had to teach them lessons, and they've capitulated, but it's been probably 1000-1500 years of war. I'm sure this has slowed my tech pace.

The thing is, this is Warlord diff....I am aghast that I've had 4 Great General Warlords killed!

I should be done soon, now that I got those Celts in a meeker state. That dude has joined my list of disliked civs.

 

[Darvon]

First time playing HOF, got a pretty weak 1834 finish. I read the rules before starting like 3 times and still managed to miss the "Take a save at the start" condition lol, guess I'll go through again for a submissable attempt.

Played India / SE. Didn't realise how ridiculously weak the AI is on this difficulty, will spend alot less time warmongering and gearing up this time through as a result. When my ship launched my only real rival (who controlled ~25% of the map and I hadn't bothered to attack) had just upgraded to knights...

 

[Obormot]

I got a 14xx win as Liz. I used pure specialist economy in the beginning and then switched my best cities to hammer economy mode after getting the industrial techs. Pre-game plan was to cottage my capital for the bureaucracy bonus, but it was very food poor in this game. I warrior-rushed an AI civ in the begining to grab their capital and stole several workers from other civs, also popped a settler from a GH (unfortunately that is required for a good game at warlord level, and if someone spends hours rerolling he can get many more free settlers/workers). After building Oxford went to war with maces and expanded to the dom limit. I was making only 3000 bpt in the end in golden age with all my 20+ cities building wealth or research, actual output was even less as a lot of production went into building spaceship parts. My capital was making ~1000 bpt, the NP city 300 bpt, several other top cities 150-200, but most were very weak because of poor terrain, producing only 100 or even 50 bpt.

 

[Dynamic]

Well, well 14xxAD is very good date and it is in predicted range... Who can break 1400AD?

 

[Obormot]

There is still definitely room for improvement.

 

[Denniz]

First time playing HOF, got a pretty weak 1834 finish. I read the rules before starting like 3 times and still managed to miss the "Take a save at the start" condition lol, guess I'll go through again for a submissable attempt.

There is an option to do that automatically on the HOF3 tab of the game options, if that helps.

 

[ShannonCT]

I got a 14xx win as Liz.

Looks like your xx was lower than my xx.

 

[Ozbenno]

Well had a 1850s game which has put me exactly in the middle spot (9th of 17). Used Sury for no particular reason other than I haven't played him much.

 

[PaulisKhan]

I got a 14xx win as Liz. I used pure specialist economy in the beginning and then switched my best cities to hammer economy mode after getting the industrial techs. Pre-game plan was to cottage my capital for the bureaucracy bonus, but it was very food poor in this game. I warrior-rushed an AI civ in the begining to grab their capital and stole several workers from other civs, also popped a settler from a GH (unfortunately that is required for a good game at warlord level, and if someone spends hours rerolling he can get many more free settlers/workers). After building Oxford went to war with maces and expanded to the dom limit. I was making only 3000 bpt in the end in golden age with all my 20+ cities building wealth or research, actual output was even less as a lot of production went into building spaceship parts. My capital was making ~1000 bpt, the NP city 300 bpt, several other top cities 150-200, but most were very weak because of poor terrain, producing only 100 or even 50 bpt.

Did you settle your GS or bulb them?
1000bpt in capital usually means a few settled GS at least, but how many?

 

[mc-red]

I was set for an early 16+ win but won by dom in the early 1500's.
Does anyone have any tips for managing an emprire on the edge of domination limit.
I was too greedy grabbing a couple of spots to feed my corporations but the third border pop did me in.

I don't want to physically count all the land tiles in my empire and work out how many more are going to get me over. Is there some easy way to make the calculation.

EDIT:
I just saw the answer to my queston on GMAJOR 50.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Gifting cities is all you can do to prevent a dom win normally.