GOTM 88 First Spoiler

[DynamicSpirit]

GOTM 88 First Spoiler - 1AD

Tell us how your game went up to 1AD

Reading Requirements

Stop! If you are participating in GOTM 88, then you MUST NOT read this thread unless EITHER

• You have reached at least 1AD in your game, OR
• You have submitted your entry, OR
• You have abandoned your game and will not submit.

Posting Restrictions
Please do not discuss anything that happened after 1AD.
Please do not discuss modern era resource locations (Copper and Iron are OK).
Please do not divulge your final result if that happened after 1AD.
Do not post any savegame file from the game. Discussions and screenshots are fine but not actual games.

 

[MarleysGh0st]

I settled 2NW of the starting position. New York went W of the copper, in 1400 BC. By 1 AD, I've completed the GLH, but I only have four cities, none of them off the island. I'm trying to make the most of my commercial advantage, because I'm way behind in production.

 

[Manco Capac]

Played a little on this one. I settled in a way to grab fish and both gold tiles. I beelined Alpha while exploring with a WB for mass filler tech trading. Then I went oracling Construction and made an agression on Vicky.

GLH mine, Oracle and Colossus.

 

[Jastrow]

I have no idea how I am going to go forward from here...

At 1AD, I am 5 turns from Edu, and have currency, philosphy, and the usual other precursors (but no asthetics). I also have some 800gc in the bank. I have Oracle an GLH, but no other wonders. Research is moving along very well, but production is lacking massively behind. I have 6 cities on the island, but only 3 of these will even have libraries at the time Education comes in :-(

Problem is I am not sure how to continue:

-Space? Not enough production on the island, so I want to fight off?
-Diplo? Right now, I dont see a big enough voting block of support (my best friends are pretty low on the scoreboard)
-Conquest/Dom? Not my style, and the production is lacking...

I will have to ponder this for a while...

 

[PattonTwo]

This has been fun so far and while I'm happy with how I'm doing at the moment I have a strong sense the game will eventually be lost.

At 1 AD I have 6 cities (26 total population), 5 on the island and I managed to get 1 on the mainland to the NW placed 1 tile SE of the marble. Unfortunately the french culture owns the marble at the moment, maybe I should have placed the city right on top of it?

I've been trying to get to the Great Library but I'm 40 turns away and doubt I'll make it there. I'm 100 turns from education (close to finishing Theology). I've managed to stay close in the tech race through a few timely trades but I feel like I'm slipping behind in tech and I'm dead last in the score rankings.

 

[neilmeister]

First real, non-test Vanilla game in a while.
Settled to get 2 seafood & 2 gold, but wow the unhealthiness of this spot sucks!.

7 cities, 2 on the mainland to the north to get marble, mainly for HE but I will probably try pick up NE/GLib combo as I am a bit greedy. Second mainland city is in a sucky spot but it was the only visible land left.

Oracled CS and picked up GLH, currently building Colossus and teching Machinery. Once that is done, I think I will only want Engineering before I use Elephants, Cats & Maces to conquer the world. I think the whip is going to be well used.

 

[Manco Capac]

Targetting dom Neil.