GOTM 124 - Final Spoiler (game submitted)

[Deckhand]

GOTM 124- Final Spoiler

So how did your game after 1AD go?

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[MarleysGh0st]

I completed the Colossus in 450 AD. Then, most of the open land being settled, I began my war campaigns. Details will be sparse, as I try to capture widely dispersed cities while keeping my war weariness down.

740 - 940: War against Bismarck, who was already at war with Mao. I captured two cities and made peace.

960 - 1370: War with Victoria ends with the conquest of her territory. Along the way, I'm first to Liberalism (taking Nationalism as my bonus tech) and I complete the Taj Mahal. Mao and Bismarck make peace; the latter has one island city left, which was apparently not worth the trouble for Mao.

1440 -1590: War with Mao. I take his mainland cites, but he still has an island to the northwest.

1615 - 1675: War with Qin Shi Huang ends in his conquest.

1690: War with Louis.

1720: War with Genghis, Bismarck and Mao.

1725: Bismarck is conquered. Ceasefire with Louis.

1750: Mao is conquered.

1765: War with Peter.

1780: War with Louis.

1790: Ceasefire with Genghis.

1795: Louis is conquered. War with Washington.

1802 -1804: War with Genghis ends in his conquest. Peace with Peter.

1806: Domination Victory with a score of 50,932 points.

Despite the reduced participation in vanilla games, I predict this will place me squarely in the middle of the pack, most likely avoiding all medals and awards. As usual.

 

[Deckhand]

Thanks for posting.

Despite the reduced participation in vanilla games, I predict this will place me squarely in the middle of the pack, most likely avoiding all medals and awards. As usual.

Spoiler :

 

[greatbeyond]

I decided to go for a time victory and milking for a high a score as possible after thinking a Domination victory in the 1800s wasn't going to be very impressive.

Unfortunately I triggered the domination limit at 2020ad. I was carefully watching the limit keeping at 57%. I did exceed it during a couple of turns and had to give away a couple of cities to keep under the limit. This led me to assume the Domination calculation was done during the turn. However, the last city I took (to eliminate the Mongols from the main continent) popped it's borders and I either didn't see it or it did it at the beginning of the turn and put me way over.

I was busy converting everything I could to produce food and growing my population, and was working on Future Tech 5 or 6.

Only glitch was when Win 10 froze and wouldn't come back from screen saver. I picked what I thought was the correct manual save, 1680ad +/-, but once opened I knew it wasn't correct and used the last autosave 1850ad +/-.

It seemed to take forever to get things going in this game. I was saving the hut near the starting location to see what kind of a late game tech I could get from it, however, Mao decided to settle a city next to it sometime after 1000ad and the opportunity was lost.

 

[Deckhand]

The most advanced tech you can get from a hut is Astronomy.
There is a list somewhere.

 

[Daijin7]

The Copper-Sugar city was very valuable in the middle game. That one together with the one near the elephants got me the military to conquer Bismarck and Mao. But it needed centuries to get to a decent basic development.
At about 1600 I had captured what was valuable from Mao, Bismarck, Washington and Victoria.
Then got to space which was finished in 1852.

Not too bad a date for myself when considering the terrible start.