GOTM 89 Spoiler

[Magic_gorter]

This month I had not much time. To much to do at work and lot of practising music for a concert.... so I had to change to play an EC game after 1000 BC...

Here is my log. I think it's one of my worst games ever because I could not make up my mind which style I wanted to play.

1 4000 BC Berlin(1)
2 3950 BC >Currency
3 3900 BC
4 3850 BC MONARCHY
5 3800 BC
6 3750 BC
7 3700 BC Currency->Map Making
8 3650 BC
9 3600 BC
10 3550 BC
11 3500 BC
12 3450 BC
13 3400 BC
14 3350 BC first settler->irrigate
15 3300 BC
16 3250 BC
17 3200 BC
18 3150 BC
19 3100 BC
20 3050 BC
21 3000 BC warrior
22 2950 BC
23 2900 BC
24 2850 BC
25 2800 BC
26 2750 BC
27 2700 BC
28 2650 BC
29 2600 BC
30 2550 BC Map Making->Writing
31 2500 BC Leipzig(2)
32 2450 BC
33 2400 BC
34 2350 BC
35 2300 BC Writing->Trade
36 2250 BC
37 2200 BC
38 2150 BC
39 2100 BC
40 2050 BC
41 2000 BC Trade->Literacy
42 1950 BC Hamburg(3)
43 1900 BC
44 1850 BC
45 1800 BC
46 1750 BC
47 1700 BC Literacy->The Republic
48 1650 BC Konigsberg(4)
49 1600 BC
50 1550 BC
51 1500 BC
52 1450 BC
53 1400 BC
54 1350 BC
55 1300 BC hut->nomads
56 1250 BC Frankfurt(5)
57 1200 BC >0,1M
58 1150 BC
59 1100 BC Munich(6)
60 1050 BC Heidelburg(7)
61 1000 BC
62 975 BC The Republic->Construction
63 950 BC
64 925 BC
65 900 BC
66 875 BC
67 850 BC Nuremberg(8)
68 825 BC >0,2M
69 800 BC
70 775 BC Marco Polo build / got Philosophy, Iron W and Pottery
71 750 BC
72 725 BC
73 700 BC
74 675 BC first ship to English
75 650 BC >0,3M
76 625 BC
77 600 BC hut->barbarians
78 575 BC
79 550 BC
80 525 BC
81 500 BC
82 475 BC
83 450 BC >0,4M
84 425 BC
85 400 BC
86 375 BC
87 350 BC
88 325 BC Cologne(9)
89 300 BC Construction->Seafaring
90 275 BC
91 250 BC
92 225 BC
93 200 BC
94 175 BC got Monotheism / capture Zimbabwe (80g) / Hannover(10)
95 150 BC >0,5M / captured Ulundi (59g) / bribed Hlobane (71g) / Bremen(11) / 184g / destroyed London (31g)
96 125 BC >0,6M / destroyed Hastings (36g) / Stuttgart(12)
97 100 BC Seafring->Feudalism / capture Bapedi (110g) / Zulu's destroyed
98 75 BC bribed Nottingham (92g)
99 50 BC >0,7M / Bonn(13)
100 25 BC destroyed York / bribed Canterbury (41g) / destroyed English / conquered the world

I won at least before 1 AD....but to capture the cities was very easy...1 or 2 elephants were enough....
If anyone is interested in more stats (2000 bc, 1000bc I can add them later).

 

[LordValuna]

675 BC first ship to English

Magic did you build lighthouse? I couldnt find a route to England without it.


I finished 100 ad, without much difficulties. I should have built Polo & Lighthouse sooner and I would have finished earliear. Also i got maps for England just as I set sail, and didnt check my intelligence to realise they had built 2 more cities while I was in transit, I could have traded maps and ended sooner as my men were out of position for one of the cities!

 

[Magic_gorter]

No I did not build lighthouse. I went to the west to get t0 them without the lighthouse....Blackclicking was the trick after trading maps with all civs after Marco Polo.

I could finish much earlier if I had made up my mind earlier....but I started early in June till around 1000 bc and had till today no time to play civ....so I had no choice/

 

[LordValuna]

No I did not build lighthouse. I went to the west to get t0 them without the lighthouse....Blackclicking was the trick

Interesting didnt see that. I think though the direct route is faster, just have to build lighthouse earliear. I was thinking of going for a spaceship so was not rushing, but decided to replay gotm 16 instead, so no time

 

[CharlieChuck]

It took me ages to get off the intial island. I went for currency then trade, then realised I was on an island and it took a long time to get map making. I went for conquest as well, but it wasn't quick. I also had to find the english the hard way, eventually went west and got them that way but only after exploring east for quite a while. I tried to build as many wonders as possible to counteract the barbarain penalty, but it took me a long time to find the last english city. I finished 450ad.

 

[LordValuna]

then realised I was on an island

You could have used something called blackclicking to discover you were on an island. In our case we were on continent 11, right click on a known square say a forest square and it says Loc: (77,27) 11
11 being the continent. Now right click on an unkown square and it might say Loc: (80,22) 1
1 being the area# and is thus a sea square, though you may have land with a continent #1
rightclick around the area and quickly discover this is a small island with only 1 more land square

(edit)
Sorry I would have said it was a small island, but with the island almost revealed I thought people would know(/edit)

it took me a long time to find the last english city. I finished 450ad.

You could have made peace/cease fire with the English, give them tech to make them worshipful, then trade maps


Hope this is helpful

 

[CharlieChuck]

You could have used something called blackclicking to discover you were on an island. In our case we were on continent 11, right click on a known square say a forest square and it says Loc: (77,27) 11
11 being the continent. Now right click on an unkown square and it might say Loc: (80,22) 1
1 being the area# and is thus a sea square, though you may have land with a continent #1
rightclick around the area and quickly discover this is a small island with only 1 more land square

(edit)
Sorry I would have said it was a small island, but with the island almost revealed I thought people would know(/edit)

You could have made peace/cease fire with the English, give them tech to make them worshipful, then trade maps


Hope this is helpful

I've never used blackclicking, I've heard about it, but never really done it. I don't tend to analyse much at the start of a game, just get stuck in. That's probably where I go wrong.

I've used the peace/gift/swap/kill tip before, but forgot all about it this time. I didn't have a lot of time this month and so rushed it a bit.