GOTM103 - Final Spoiler

[civ_steve]

GOTM 103 Final Spoiler - Game Submitted

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If you haven't told us about your game, or you're Lanzelot, here is your chance!

 

[Cyc]

This is the first time I've actully submitted a GOTM. I'll probably get a really low score, but that's ok. Lanzelot brought me back to this page when he told me this GOTM more resembled my playing preferences, as opposed to a lot of other contests on Civfanatics. So I thought I'd come give it try.

Started the game like any other, quickly setting up a core, concentrating on expansion and resources. I approached the game with a mindset that I didn't really want a kill, kill, kill scenario. My cities naturally flowed West, where I discovered Iron and the Aztecs. Having found the horses almost immediately, I felt pretty secure. I kept forgetting the game was on Regent.

The Aztecs, normally a feared tribe for me, rolled over and asked me to pet their belly before I killed them. Expanding while conquering the Aztecs was like moving a warm knife through butter, so I decided to save them for later and see what these yellow borders held. Unlike the Aztecs, these Egyptians didn't keep their cities at size 1 :yawn: Much more interesting. So I bee-lined for their Capital and took them out, leaving them one city by France. Then I went back and finished the Aztecs slowly, working on building my population. Again, I kept forgetting the game was PTW and on Regent.

With the Northern half of the continent mine, I was ready to take on the Cultural French. Luckily they crossed my borders and declared war, saving me the effort. BTW, I really enjoyed the Religious trait of 1 turn Revolts also. The Americans signed up with the French against me, so I took Washington for its Wonders. They soon agreed with a peace treaty. Once France was evicted from the continent, I started a war with the Americans and after taking their last city, won by Domination. Only made the circus bell to Hiawatha the Wise.

 

[Racinante]

Entry class: Open
Game status: Conquest Victory for Iroquois
Game date: 90 BC
Firaxis score: 6777
Jason score: 11524

Mounted Warriors for my first BC win!!! I could have made this my first AA win, but I didn't bother to turn off research. Finished Feudalism, Engineering, and was working on Monotheism. Greece was the only real hurdle with their UU.

4 hrs 13 minutes, fun fun fun.

 

[PaperBeetle]

Started with the 4-turn settler pump, using RCP4 and RCP6. Only interesting hut pops were Literature (but of course I didn't have any library prebuilds ready for it) and a worker. Entered the medieval some time after QSCbc, and once I had a small stock of braves ready, went to war with America, using the GA to help get over the early medieval research slump. The braves weren't performing at their best, but still there's not much a regent AI can do to stop a human, so America were gone soon enough. A leader appeared at the end of the war and had to wait around for some centuries until I was ready with more braves to attack France; the palace was soon jumped to Orleans, which had good prospects for RCP5 and RCP7, leaving the hand-built FP back in the old core.

Three AI left; Egypt, Greece and Aztec. I needed to keep two alive for voting, and Egypt was sitting on the outstanding luxury, dyes. So as soon as the braves were healed up, they headed into the Egyptian jungles. Not much resistance obviously, and I gave most of the towns to the Aztecs to make sure they stayed larger than the Greeks. I was counting on Alex's vote against Monty, as his mood would be lightened by my gifting him up through the eras for his free techs.

Alex did manage to draw Steam, but I didn't bother gambling on his saving me 4 or 5 turns by hitting Fission; I used Darwin to do Radio and Fission. I also fumbled UN by a turn, due to bad micro in my Ironworks town. The vote went through, 2-1 in my favour as expected, in 840ad. Just over 11k Jasons.

 

[donsig]

This is the first time I've actully submitted a GOTM.

Nice to see you here old friend! I hope you stay around.

Not a usual game for me. I built mounted warriors and attacked and attacked. Got the victory in 510 AD. Must have been a domination win since the Greeks still had a city. That's really a fast finish for me. Could have been faster but I wasn't sure the MWs could beat hoplites so I researched chivalry. Ended up not using knights anyway though.

 

[Cyc]

Hey donsig. Good to hear from you, too.

I tried a test game with the parameters of the next (COTM73) and didn't care for it. I'm not sure I'll submit on this one.

Good luck to you, though.

 

[Lanzelot]

If you haven't told us about your game, or you're Lanzelot, here is your chance!

This week must be my lucky streak: first I get quoted by SirPleb in the GOTM100 Final Results thread, and now I get mentioned by civ_steve!

But you see: I'm not the only one who needs a final spoiler this game: PaperBeetle also made it into the modern age! Yeah, give the poor AI a break once in a while...

BTW 840AD is an impressive date! I would have reached Fission in 890AD, if I had used Darwin the same way as you. I guess my problem was the late FP, which I hand-build in the second ring after not getting any leader early on (and in fact during the entire game). I did not want to jump the Palace, as I had built Copernicus in Salamanca in 30BC.

So after entering the GA at the beginning of the middle age, I kept up 4-turn resarch almost throughout the entire game, except for 1-2 techs in each age, which needed 5 turns. I was not able to build the necessary infrastructure fast enough in order to adjust to the higher tech prices. So I had 1-2 techs at the end of the MiA, after the GA ended, 1-2 techs at the beginning of the IA and two techs in the early MoA, which all required 5 turns. I used Darwin for Computers and Miniaturization and made the bad mistake to not time my prebuilds for Internet and SETI correctly. (Simply forgot about them. I guess getting Darwin right to coincide with the completion of Radio was all I could handle...) This cost me two turns at the end.

However, the prebuilds for the spaceship parts were well timed, and I launched just in time for a 1295AD SS victory.

And hey, I submitted one week before the deadline!!

 

[Cyc]

I was Modern Era also, Lanzelot. In fact, I built the Cure for Cancer and I think I snuck the Longevity Wonder in also. Maybe all of the MAs...

 

[Lanzelot]

I was Modern Era also, Lanzelot. In fact, I built the Cure for Cancer and I think I snuck the Longevity Wonder in also. Maybe all of the MAs...

Good job!
Ah, these two wonders are really fun. And they could be so powerful. Unfortunately they come so late in the game, that they hardly make any difference: by then the game is already won or lost and getting one of these wonders won't change that. But it's a nice "icing on the cake"

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the game! If you don't like COTM73 (Deity, ), then perhaps GOTM104 is better suited? Should be a Monarch game this time, so not an easy pushover like this one here, but still ok...

 

[Cyc]

In my games - Monarch, Huge Pangaea, 60% Water, 8 Civs - I always try to buid the CfC. I like to get as many of my cities as possible up around the 30 Pop level. So it's needed. With the massive wars that are (usually) going on, that wonder is a needed priority.

I look forward to the GOTM104.

 

[CKS]

Open, 20 K in 1760

I thought I might try 100K here, since the settings were so bad for it that I'd be relatively assured of being the only one trying it, but better sense prevailed. In the end, I would never have had time to finish a 100K game. I had to automate workers for the last 50 turn just to finish as it was.

I decided that I'd try to stay at war a lot, so as to get some leaders. It sort of worked. I got two - one for an army for the heroic epic reasonably early and one for Newton's University. When I got close to domination, I quit fighting until the very end, when Greece abused their RoP to raze my undefended Great Wall city. Even then, I didn't do much; I allied the French and let them kill each other's stray units while I waited out the last 10 turns.

My Jason score was over 7000, possibly my highest ever. I expect to stay comfortably in the bottom half of the field and likely collect another low score shield.