That Scott Dude
Chieftain
This should be an entertaining read. This is my ENTIRE game, so don't read ahead if you aren't that far along yet.
GOTM 141
4000 BC - Persepolis founded. Not crazy about the starting location but unwilling to waste time looking for a better spot. Using the fishies. Building a warrior. Pursuing Alphabet in a run for Monarchy.
3800 - Switched to the buffalo for more resource shields.
3700 - Pursuing Ceremonial Burial. Warrior built, building Settler. Began exploring with Warrior.
3600 - Switched back to fishies.
3300 - Opened a goodie hut and found a friendly Chariot. Good timing: Persepolis just grew to 2.
3250 - Since no advances leading to Monarchy are available, pursuing Map Making, to help me get out of this jungle-filled hell-hole. Who made this dang map??
3200 - Switched from working the grassland (shield) square to the buffalo. So I've got the starting square, the fishies, and the buffalo.
3000 - Discovered an advanced tribe (Pasargadae). Sweet! Can't tell you where since I still can't find a way to display the coordinates. Building settler.
2750 - Saw a purple warrior dude approaching Pasargadae so I quickly switched to Warrior, wasting 2 shields. Also, Persepolis built a settler, resulting in a loss of the Chariot that it could no longer support when the population fell to 1. Oops!
2700 - Fortified my first warrior, built back in 3700, to protect Persepolis, since that purple dude is moving toward it now. Looks like I switched production in Pasargade for nothing, since he is bypassing that city.
2650 - Built a road on the Grassland (shield) square next to Persepolis.
2550 - The purple dude turned out to be a Mongol Emissary. He was quite cordial. Exchanged knowledge and got Ceremonial Burial and Masonry. Since Monarchy is still off the table, decided to pursue Bronze Working so I can go for trade.
2350 - Had to switch workers off the Peat bog onto a water square, to slow production of my settler in Pasargadae. I was in danger of disbanding the city.
1950 - Pursuing Monarchy (Finally!). Put a road and irrigation on the buffalo square in Persepolis.
1850 - Pasargadae built a settler. Whew! That was close. Population fell to 1 and there is NO food in the box. Pasargadae is now producing a trireme.
1700 - Founded Susa. Producing warrior.
1600 - Persepolis made a settler. (He's naughty. He's a naughty little settler.) I don't like how this game is going at all.
1550 - Egyptian civilization destroyed by the Greeks. Great. Now there won't be any Pharoahs.
1500 - Barbarians parked a trireme next to Pasargadae. I switched production to Phalanx, wasting one shield. Ugh. Founded Arbela in a forest square on the far west end of this little continent and started building Warrior there.
1450 - The barbarian trireme spat out a barbarian archer 2 sqaures from Pasargadae, so I disbanded the warrior in that city and bought another Phalanx (spending 41 gold). Next turn, I'll have 2 Phalanxes, ready to face the big, bad, barbie.
1400 - Gaaa! The barbarian Archer is headed for Persepolis! (What the hell? Is Pasargadae invisible?) Switched production in Persepolis from settler to Phalanx and spent 8 gold to rush it. I'm down to 32 gold.
1350 - This barbarian archer is nuts. Now he's headed back the other way, toward Pasargadae.
1300 - Oh lord. Now he's headed for Susa. I only have a warrior there. Switched production from settler to warrior. Enough gold to rush the extra warrior but not enough for a phalanx.
1200 - Archer attacked Susa. One warrior defeated him. Whew.
1100 - Yay! I have monarchy! I love the king! I love ME!
900 - Finally have a trireme. I'm going places, now baby!
850 - 100,000 citizens.
800 - I see a Greek horseman on the shore of the land to the north. Rotten Greeks.
550 - Pursuing Trade. Have explored with 3 triremes and landed a settler on one of the islands to the northwest.
425 - Founded Antioch.
400 - Founded Tarsus.
325 - Pursuing Writing.
225 - 200,000 citizens. Pursuing Trade.
200 - Founded Gordium on the far west end of that big continent to the north, that the rotten Greeks are on, with two whale squares. I took a warrior with me, and will make a phalanx. I fear the Greeks.
125 - Pursuing Literacy.
25 - Had to delay building settlers in Tarsus or it was going to disband the city. Oops!
1 AD -- 7 cities, 210,000 citizens, Monarchy, 142 Gold. Net income: 9. Discoveries: Every 9 turns. Mongols are Hostile. Not where I wanted to be at 1 AD. Hating this map. The whole thing is a jungle-filled, mountainous hell-hole.
60 - 300,000 citizens. Pursuing Philosophy. I can never resist the temptation to try to get Philosophy first.
180 - Founded Sidon.
200 - Founded Bactra.
240 - Founded Tyre.
260 - Saved game. Forgot to at 1 AD. Barbarian Archer attacked Susa. Susa held.
300 - 400,000 citizens.
320 - Built the Pyramids!
400 - Looks like the Spanish picked up where the Egyptians left off.
420 - Mongols just attacked Bactra. I only had a phalanx in it and now they're dead.
440 - Mongols took Bactra. Population fell to 1. Oh, they are sooooo going to pay... Switching all caravan production to elephants.
560 - Mongols ended war and signed peace treaty. Wait til they see what I have planned for them!
580 - Founded Sardis.
660 - Attacked Bactra, which only had Pop. 1, destroying it. Greek warrior landed near Arbela. Signed a peace treaty with the rotten Greeks and they had no interest in trading science. I must be ahead of them.
720 - Greeks have begun building Copernicus' Observatory. I now realize they are ahead -- way ahead.
920 - Discovered Invention. Will start building Leonardo's Workship as soon as I finish the Great Wall. Started pursuing Mathematics.
1000 AD - 10 cities, 1,450,000 citizens. Signed peace treaty with Mongols. Built Great Wall.
1480 - Built Leonardo's Workshop.
1560 - Pursuing Economics.
1630 - Spanish destroyed by the Mongols.
1650 - Built Adam Smith's.
1720 - Founded Samaria.
1750 - Discovered Democracy, pursuing Seafaring.
1752 - Incited revolt in Alleppo, which is one square away from where Bactra was. Massing Crusaders for a major assault on the Mongols.
1756 - Aztecs destroyed by Barbarians. I think that's the last time Yellow will spawn.
1764 - Built Statue of Liberty.
1778 - Gave up trying to take the Mongol city Kashgar. My crusaders attack is too lame to get through the city wall. Assault strategy is a failure.
1800 - Switched to Democracy. Adjusted taxes/science/Luxuries to 10/80/10. I have a net income of 14 and discoveries every 5 turns.
1812 - Established Greek embassy. I see they have 19 cities to my 11. Not good.
1814 - Discovered Metallurgy, so no more Great Wall. Good thing I built walls in key cities. Pursuing Conscription.
1828 - Discovered Tactics, pursuing Amphibious Warfare. Switched to fundamentalism. Will use a Diplomatic strategy.
1840 - Incited revolt in Kashgar.
1856 - Incited revolt in Tabriz.
1865 - Incited revolt in Bokhara. Captured Magellan's Expedition.
1866 - Incited revolt in Cordoba.
1870 - Attacked and captured Karakorum and the Lighthouse.
1871 - Incited revolt in Samarakand. Captured Sun Tzu's War Acadamy.
1872 - Incited revolt in Nishapur.
1876 - Incited revolt in Seville (Used to be Spanish but that civilization is gone. It's Mongolian).
1878 - Greeks declare war.
1880 - Incited revolt in Omuz (Mongolian).
1883 - Attacked and captured Rhodes.
1884 - Incited revolt in Madrid (Mongolian). 10,000,000 citizens.
1886 - Greeks incite revolt in Samaria. Rotten Greek bastards.
1887 - Incited revolt in Valencia (Mongol).
1889 - Attacked and captured Thessalonica. Captured Shakespeare's Theater. Incited revolt in Samaria. Got it back. 11,000,000 citizens.
1891 - Incited revolt in Halicarnassus. I now have every technology the Greeks have.
1895 - Captured Mycenae and Newton's College. Down to 288 gold.
1897 Incited revolt in Miletos (Greek).
1900 Incited revolt in Kabul (Mongolian). Im not sure but I think there is only one Mongol city left. I'm at 13,520,000 citizens. 30 cities. At war with Mongols and Greeks. War will end when they are all dead.
1902 Captured Marathon (Greek).
1903 Greeks capture Samaria. What is it about Samaria???
1905 Incited revolt in Ephesos and captured Marco Polos Embassy. Incited revolt in Basra (Mongol). Destroyed Mongol civilization.
1906 Incited revolt in Samaria. Got it back AGAIN. Sheesh.
1908 15,000,000 citizens.
1909 Founded Hamadan on a foresty island southeast of the original starting location.
1910 Incited revolt in Knossos, capturing King Richards Crusade and the Eiffel Tower. Captured Pharsalos.
1914 Attacked Artemesium, Pop. 1, destroying it. Acquired Railroad, the only tech there was to acquire.
1916 Incited revolt in Eretria.
1919 Incited revolt in Herakleia. Captured Delphi.
1923 - Incited revolt in Thermopylae. Captured Collosus, Copernicus' Observatory, and J.S. Bach's Cathedral.
1924 - Incited revolt in Pergamon.
1925 - Incited revolt in Sparta.
1926 - Incited revolt in Argos and destroyed production of Women's Suffrage. Not that it matters at this point. Incited revolt in Corinth.
1929 - Athens captured. Greeks destroyed. Game saved. 45 cities and 21,440,000 citizens.
Final score: 944. Civilization Rating: 94%. All hail Xerxes the Fair. Looking back, I can see that if I had expanded south and conquered the Mongols early, I could have tangled with the Greeks sooner as well and I probably would have ended the game sooner. Meh. I suppose I did show a little improvement over the last game, since I finished sooner at a harder level. Looking forward to next month!
GOTM 141
4000 BC - Persepolis founded. Not crazy about the starting location but unwilling to waste time looking for a better spot. Using the fishies. Building a warrior. Pursuing Alphabet in a run for Monarchy.
3800 - Switched to the buffalo for more resource shields.
3700 - Pursuing Ceremonial Burial. Warrior built, building Settler. Began exploring with Warrior.
3600 - Switched back to fishies.
3300 - Opened a goodie hut and found a friendly Chariot. Good timing: Persepolis just grew to 2.
3250 - Since no advances leading to Monarchy are available, pursuing Map Making, to help me get out of this jungle-filled hell-hole. Who made this dang map??
3200 - Switched from working the grassland (shield) square to the buffalo. So I've got the starting square, the fishies, and the buffalo.
3000 - Discovered an advanced tribe (Pasargadae). Sweet! Can't tell you where since I still can't find a way to display the coordinates. Building settler.
2750 - Saw a purple warrior dude approaching Pasargadae so I quickly switched to Warrior, wasting 2 shields. Also, Persepolis built a settler, resulting in a loss of the Chariot that it could no longer support when the population fell to 1. Oops!
2700 - Fortified my first warrior, built back in 3700, to protect Persepolis, since that purple dude is moving toward it now. Looks like I switched production in Pasargade for nothing, since he is bypassing that city.
2650 - Built a road on the Grassland (shield) square next to Persepolis.
2550 - The purple dude turned out to be a Mongol Emissary. He was quite cordial. Exchanged knowledge and got Ceremonial Burial and Masonry. Since Monarchy is still off the table, decided to pursue Bronze Working so I can go for trade.
2350 - Had to switch workers off the Peat bog onto a water square, to slow production of my settler in Pasargadae. I was in danger of disbanding the city.
1950 - Pursuing Monarchy (Finally!). Put a road and irrigation on the buffalo square in Persepolis.
1850 - Pasargadae built a settler. Whew! That was close. Population fell to 1 and there is NO food in the box. Pasargadae is now producing a trireme.
1700 - Founded Susa. Producing warrior.
1600 - Persepolis made a settler. (He's naughty. He's a naughty little settler.) I don't like how this game is going at all.
1550 - Egyptian civilization destroyed by the Greeks. Great. Now there won't be any Pharoahs.
1500 - Barbarians parked a trireme next to Pasargadae. I switched production to Phalanx, wasting one shield. Ugh. Founded Arbela in a forest square on the far west end of this little continent and started building Warrior there.
1450 - The barbarian trireme spat out a barbarian archer 2 sqaures from Pasargadae, so I disbanded the warrior in that city and bought another Phalanx (spending 41 gold). Next turn, I'll have 2 Phalanxes, ready to face the big, bad, barbie.
1400 - Gaaa! The barbarian Archer is headed for Persepolis! (What the hell? Is Pasargadae invisible?) Switched production in Persepolis from settler to Phalanx and spent 8 gold to rush it. I'm down to 32 gold.
1350 - This barbarian archer is nuts. Now he's headed back the other way, toward Pasargadae.
1300 - Oh lord. Now he's headed for Susa. I only have a warrior there. Switched production from settler to warrior. Enough gold to rush the extra warrior but not enough for a phalanx.
1200 - Archer attacked Susa. One warrior defeated him. Whew.
1100 - Yay! I have monarchy! I love the king! I love ME!
900 - Finally have a trireme. I'm going places, now baby!
850 - 100,000 citizens.
800 - I see a Greek horseman on the shore of the land to the north. Rotten Greeks.
550 - Pursuing Trade. Have explored with 3 triremes and landed a settler on one of the islands to the northwest.
425 - Founded Antioch.
400 - Founded Tarsus.
325 - Pursuing Writing.
225 - 200,000 citizens. Pursuing Trade.
200 - Founded Gordium on the far west end of that big continent to the north, that the rotten Greeks are on, with two whale squares. I took a warrior with me, and will make a phalanx. I fear the Greeks.
125 - Pursuing Literacy.
25 - Had to delay building settlers in Tarsus or it was going to disband the city. Oops!
1 AD -- 7 cities, 210,000 citizens, Monarchy, 142 Gold. Net income: 9. Discoveries: Every 9 turns. Mongols are Hostile. Not where I wanted to be at 1 AD. Hating this map. The whole thing is a jungle-filled, mountainous hell-hole.
60 - 300,000 citizens. Pursuing Philosophy. I can never resist the temptation to try to get Philosophy first.
180 - Founded Sidon.
200 - Founded Bactra.
240 - Founded Tyre.
260 - Saved game. Forgot to at 1 AD. Barbarian Archer attacked Susa. Susa held.
300 - 400,000 citizens.
320 - Built the Pyramids!
400 - Looks like the Spanish picked up where the Egyptians left off.
420 - Mongols just attacked Bactra. I only had a phalanx in it and now they're dead.
440 - Mongols took Bactra. Population fell to 1. Oh, they are sooooo going to pay... Switching all caravan production to elephants.
560 - Mongols ended war and signed peace treaty. Wait til they see what I have planned for them!
580 - Founded Sardis.
660 - Attacked Bactra, which only had Pop. 1, destroying it. Greek warrior landed near Arbela. Signed a peace treaty with the rotten Greeks and they had no interest in trading science. I must be ahead of them.
720 - Greeks have begun building Copernicus' Observatory. I now realize they are ahead -- way ahead.
920 - Discovered Invention. Will start building Leonardo's Workship as soon as I finish the Great Wall. Started pursuing Mathematics.
1000 AD - 10 cities, 1,450,000 citizens. Signed peace treaty with Mongols. Built Great Wall.
1480 - Built Leonardo's Workshop.
1560 - Pursuing Economics.
1630 - Spanish destroyed by the Mongols.
1650 - Built Adam Smith's.
1720 - Founded Samaria.
1750 - Discovered Democracy, pursuing Seafaring.
1752 - Incited revolt in Alleppo, which is one square away from where Bactra was. Massing Crusaders for a major assault on the Mongols.
1756 - Aztecs destroyed by Barbarians. I think that's the last time Yellow will spawn.
1764 - Built Statue of Liberty.
1778 - Gave up trying to take the Mongol city Kashgar. My crusaders attack is too lame to get through the city wall. Assault strategy is a failure.
1800 - Switched to Democracy. Adjusted taxes/science/Luxuries to 10/80/10. I have a net income of 14 and discoveries every 5 turns.
1812 - Established Greek embassy. I see they have 19 cities to my 11. Not good.
1814 - Discovered Metallurgy, so no more Great Wall. Good thing I built walls in key cities. Pursuing Conscription.
1828 - Discovered Tactics, pursuing Amphibious Warfare. Switched to fundamentalism. Will use a Diplomatic strategy.
1840 - Incited revolt in Kashgar.
1856 - Incited revolt in Tabriz.
1865 - Incited revolt in Bokhara. Captured Magellan's Expedition.
1866 - Incited revolt in Cordoba.
1870 - Attacked and captured Karakorum and the Lighthouse.
1871 - Incited revolt in Samarakand. Captured Sun Tzu's War Acadamy.
1872 - Incited revolt in Nishapur.
1876 - Incited revolt in Seville (Used to be Spanish but that civilization is gone. It's Mongolian).
1878 - Greeks declare war.
1880 - Incited revolt in Omuz (Mongolian).
1883 - Attacked and captured Rhodes.
1884 - Incited revolt in Madrid (Mongolian). 10,000,000 citizens.
1886 - Greeks incite revolt in Samaria. Rotten Greek bastards.
1887 - Incited revolt in Valencia (Mongol).
1889 - Attacked and captured Thessalonica. Captured Shakespeare's Theater. Incited revolt in Samaria. Got it back. 11,000,000 citizens.
1891 - Incited revolt in Halicarnassus. I now have every technology the Greeks have.
1895 - Captured Mycenae and Newton's College. Down to 288 gold.
1897 Incited revolt in Miletos (Greek).
1900 Incited revolt in Kabul (Mongolian). Im not sure but I think there is only one Mongol city left. I'm at 13,520,000 citizens. 30 cities. At war with Mongols and Greeks. War will end when they are all dead.
1902 Captured Marathon (Greek).
1903 Greeks capture Samaria. What is it about Samaria???
1905 Incited revolt in Ephesos and captured Marco Polos Embassy. Incited revolt in Basra (Mongol). Destroyed Mongol civilization.
1906 Incited revolt in Samaria. Got it back AGAIN. Sheesh.
1908 15,000,000 citizens.
1909 Founded Hamadan on a foresty island southeast of the original starting location.
1910 Incited revolt in Knossos, capturing King Richards Crusade and the Eiffel Tower. Captured Pharsalos.
1914 Attacked Artemesium, Pop. 1, destroying it. Acquired Railroad, the only tech there was to acquire.
1916 Incited revolt in Eretria.
1919 Incited revolt in Herakleia. Captured Delphi.
1923 - Incited revolt in Thermopylae. Captured Collosus, Copernicus' Observatory, and J.S. Bach's Cathedral.
1924 - Incited revolt in Pergamon.
1925 - Incited revolt in Sparta.
1926 - Incited revolt in Argos and destroyed production of Women's Suffrage. Not that it matters at this point. Incited revolt in Corinth.
1929 - Athens captured. Greeks destroyed. Game saved. 45 cities and 21,440,000 citizens.
Final score: 944. Civilization Rating: 94%. All hail Xerxes the Fair. Looking back, I can see that if I had expanded south and conquered the Mongols early, I could have tangled with the Greeks sooner as well and I probably would have ended the game sooner. Meh. I suppose I did show a little improvement over the last game, since I finished sooner at a harder level. Looking forward to next month!