GoR: A Thanksgiving Challenge

[VoiceOfUnreason]

Great priests of Ra

Ramses of Egypt
Donut Map (Ocean center)
Huts / Events Disabled
Normal speed
Monarch difficulty

Scoring : One point for each Great Prophet settled in Thebes by 1700 AD (Turn 250).

Ruling #1: settled prophets only, the various free priest specialists (Temple of Artemis, Mercantilism) do NOT count toward your total.


The Save

 

[troytheface]

i was thinking sitting bull and revenge or america and holocaust raze

however, in lieu of such, thanks for the post.

 

[Ambro]

Hmm, interesting. Start position could mean a few different styles of play. Might give this a try if I can find time this weekend, got to try and get back up on the Shaka cookbook game first though.

Are huts, events and other stuff on?
Has the map been altered?

 

[VoiceOfUnreason]

Are huts, events and other stuff on?

Disabled.

Has the map been altered?

No

 

[d72]

Nice, donut is one of the many maps i have yet to try.

Will the priest from temple of artemis count to the total?

Spoilerish but not so terribly 1520bc or so I got my first so yeah beat me.

edit: Even more so 625bc another i think and said wonder chopped so 3? but

this may bite me in the as* as defenses are quite low

 

[vanatteveldt]

ToA is a normal priest, not a settled great prophet

obviously, ToA-priest-gpp-induced-prophets count...

 

[d72]

Yeah ofcourse but that nice priestspawningguy is clearly among his brothers

even giving them a soon neighbour, so that is why i ask since the maker may

see things different but alas i do not think so but for clarification purposes lets wait.

 

[VoiceOfUnreason]

ToA is a normal priest, not a settled great prophet

Applause for the correct answer.

 

[v8_mark]

7 as of 1020AD.

 

[d72]

Applause for the correct answer.

Damn. Well that put me at 375bc. Lit in so expect a increase.

Edit : Wow im in the bc's no ad here for a while.
Edit2: 3 in and no lit woders since i forgot about 200bc.
Edit3: Lit wonder in and a fourth 120adish dunno this will be a hard one. Nope still 3
edit4: Getting tedious this 4th spawn 375ad during gold age.

 

[dualmaster]

Score = 13

Spoiler :

Weird way to play, avoided a lot of good wonders and didn't care about "winning" the game.

Beelined religious techs and built all prophet producing wonders except one. Went for Philo early to run Pacifism. Heck I even researched Divine Right and built the Spiral Minaret. Added NE to capital and then ran priests - popped 1 GA from NE, but otherwise all GP. Avoided building many wonders in other cities to prevent accidentally popping a non-prophet. I did use the marble to grab Parthenon in another city though.

Ended up with Sal to the west, Roosevelt to the north, and all of us in the same religion. Traded a lot of techs with them, joined in wars, voted for Sal in diplo, etc to keep them both at Friendly. There were even AP votes to dogpile someone, then shortly later they would vote to get me out of the war.

Fun variant

In retrospect I probably should have grabbed the 'mids in a second city so I could run Rep. This would have helped me get to some key techs like Philo earlier.

 

[d72]

ad 275 dow by X heh aposto stuff he sent a menacing stack of a sword and a warrior. Bloody if i get my chariots there in time.

edit: By ad 580 i got another thats 5 so im in the race.

 

[lymond]

I had 11 settled priests, but probably would have had more but for some reason religions did not spread to me. Also, I messed up and didn't run Pacifism as soon as I could have. I build all Great Prophet producing wonders in Thebes.

 

[v8_mark]

14 (just!)

Spoiler :

Only got 1 out of my last four great people as prophets (all at 75% or so), so would have been higher but for that. On the other hand, the luck probably evened out over the course of the game.

Keys to my game:

I Oracled Monarchy very early, which made it easier for me to run prophets under HR.

I REXed a bit early on to make sure I had a lot of room - ended up with 8 cities. When Sal declared I toyed with the idea of wiping him out, but decided I couldn't really be bothered. It wouldn't have helped me much anyway.

Having two GP cities - Thebes contributed the vast, vast majority of the GPs, with the NE and all the wonders, but Memphis chipped in occasionally, which always helps a little.

Starving my GP farm on the last turn (as you can see!) to give me my final prophet and edge out dualmaster. Every citizen was a specialist

Fun challenge, thanks VoU

 

[v8_mark]

...and my save:

 

[Nares]

@v8

You know that golden ages increase GPP production, right? Maybe the two GAs and one of the two GSs you settled could have been used for that instead. It just might have allowed you to push one more GP.

 

[v8_mark]

Yeah, I did - I already used one GA for a GA, and I had one from the TM as well. Possibly could have used another two for another one. It's a shame, because I had the opportunity to build the MoM, and decided not to...probably should have done.

 

[I-imp]

I ended up with 12 by turn 250. Also moved my cap 1 W, 2 S. Snagged pretty much every prophet wonder in cap and a good portion of the cultural ones too. Shoulda got MoM though, that would have been nice. Now on my way to a cultural victory within 100 turns. (I got 4 religions)

It certainly was fun to be able to do an Oracle slingshot to CoL, picking up Conf. Then went Philo and got Tao. I never built the shrines though. Grabbed Sistine and then went merc+SoL and ran specs. In the end, I had 5 widely spread religions and Christianity in a city I flipped from the north.

Edit: Interestingly, the only game I ever played where I intentionally built the Chicken Pizza. Also, on Monarch, the priest economy works EXTREMELY well when you settle the priests in one city. In the end game, this allowed me to run 100% culture with pacifism on and lots of units.

Edit 2: Well, not 100% for the last few turns. I was running a deficit, but had enough gold saved up for the end game.

 

[Kadazzle]

Seems simple - Caste, Rep and Philo + Farms and Priest Specialists. Lots of temples, too! I'll try this out tomorrow.

 

[vicawoo]

In theory, you should go temple of artemis, parthenon, angkor wat, don't know about great library, and hope you get lucky.