G-Minor CCXVI

[aafritz17]

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.
(*) Please read the >> HOF rules << BEFORE playing!


Settings:

• Expansion: Brave New World
• Victory Condition: Culture (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
• Difficulty: Warlord
• Map Size: Large
• Map Type: Small Continents
• Speed: Quick
• Leader: Austria (Maria Theresa)
• Opponents: Any
• Version: SV8
• Date: 6th to 31st May 2024

The earliest finish date wins, with score as a tiebreaker.

 

[Valasynthia]

I had another try at the piety tourism thingy majiggity, was surprised by how effect it was as I ran out of time to kill the runaway culture civs.

 

[billybgame]

Submitted for 1868 turn 207. Took me a long time to find all the civs on other continents, naturally. So not bad.

 

[aafritz17]

The following are the results of G-Minor CCXVI. The settings are at the bottom of the page:

	Rank Player Date Turn Score [IMG alt="Bronze Medal"]https://hof.civfanatics.net/civ5/images/bronze.png[/IMG] zenmaster 840 AD 102 2603 2 aafritz17 1570 AD 147 1547 3 billybgame 1868 AD 204 2190

Settings:

• Expansion: Brave New World
• Victory Condition: Culture (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
• Difficulty: Warlord
• Map Size: Large
• Map Type: Small Continents
• Speed: Quick
• Leader: Austria (Maria Theresa)
• Opponents: Any
• Version: SV8
• Date: 6th May to 2nd June 2024

The earliest finish date wins, with score as a tiebreaker.

 

[zenmaster]

I had another try at the piety tourism thingy majiggity, was surprised by how effect it was as I ran out of time to kill the runaway culture civs.

Yes, the toughest part of this gauntlet was finding all the AI civs in a reasonable time. Had to send out scouts/horsemen and triremes to far-flung places ASAP.

I think on Quick setting that you cannot depend on taking out "runaway" culture civs. Conquest takes a bit too long on Quick, when your main focuses need to be exploration and faith production, as well. Plus, more often than not, the runaway civs are far away on Smll Continents maps.

On Warlord setting, runaways are usually not that intense, and a good Sacred Sites setup with a caravan/cargo ship to the "runaways" as soon as possible usually can catch it before it is too far ahead.