GOTM118 - Final Spoiler

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GOTM 118 Final Spoiler - Rpme, Game Submitted

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I'll be out of town for a couple of days, so I'm posting the final spoiler as well. There was more land in this map than normal ... and more civs; any problem bringing this game to a successful conclusion or did the AI pose a challenge?

 

[Megalou]

Predator/SS Effort,
I was in the Middle Ages in 825 BC and the scientific civs had gotten Monotheism and Feudalism. I was unable to trade them right away so started on Engineering. Unable to establish a trade network with the others for a long time, I relied on happiness wars. I had 3-4 happiness wars going on at the same time during most of the MA, starting with Arabia, Mongols and Babylon by 550 BC. Soon after that Greece joined the club.

In 490 BC Veii completed the Forbidden Palace. In 450 BC I declared on the Celts and started my golden age. In 310 Rome got a university. I had a grand total of 11 legionaries when Entremont was taken in 270 BC. The new palace was hurried immediately with my first leader. In 190 BC The Celts were gone.

Only in 110 BC did I trade Feudalism. With legionaries, who needs it?

I proceeded to reduce Greece to two towns before the next era switch (400 AD,) securing incense and spices and making wines available for trade. The Greeks were dangerously small, and soon at war with Babylon, the AI big boy. I was a bit concerned that Greece would be eliminated before they had given me all their free techs: For a long time, the Greeks had a settler reeling around in my part of the world, but eventually they seemed to lose it because of insufficient upkeep. I had, however, given them a northern island town which it would take ages for the Babs to reach, and in the Industrial Age I blocked it from invasion by means of ROP and troops.

I carved on eastwards, leaving Korea alive but eventually eliminating all civs except the scientific ones, using a small number of cavalries with a very low death toll.

A depressing moment was when a barb galley prevented me from learning Atomic Theory in 4 turns. I should have known since it was hanging around Rome which had all the science wonders plus Colossus.

Free techs in the IA were Medicine and Nationalism, in the Modern ages all the first layer techs plus Miniaturization (using ToE of course).

My result was SS victory in 1300 AD, just shy of 9000 jason points. Very mediocre. I thought I'd get more points but I guess I reached the domination limit too late, waiting for The Intenet to put me close to the limit.

I thought a scientific Rome (mind-boggling, really) would work with 4 scientific AIs but I realized that the commercial trait is pathetic in science games: Say for example that you have 10 actual cities or metropoles (size 7 or bigger.) The center tiles then yield 10 extra coins total. This is not much at all because by the time you have that many cities it is likely that you are already powerful enough for 4 turn research even if you are not commericial. And in the important Ancient Age you hardly have any cities at all in a normal game. The shield rebate for harbours (why not for markets, one wonders) is also insignificant.

 

[donsig]

I had hopes of turning in a winning effort this time. By 1830 AD I had over 70k culture and generated about 700 per turn. Ended up at war with the world which didn't bother me since I held all the land west of the narrows (where Korea once lived in my game). It should have bothered me because China built the UN and all the AI voted for Mao.

 

[tR1cKy]

775 bc - 420 ad

The Aztecs have Monarchy (an important bargaining tool), but the price they ask is simply too much for now. Next turn, the Celts are in MA as well and barb uprisings begin. I send a squad of 5 legionaries northward, to sit and defend on the mountains until the horseman wave is over, and they end up all in elite status.

Meanwhile, the invasion of Greece goes on. Delphi does not fit with the future RCP5 around Sparta, so i raze it and build in its place the port city of Jerusalem, which becomes the far end of the first of the many galley chains i've used through the game.

In 710 bc i sign a phony peace with Greece in return for a city. I need them at peace for their scientific free pick. Next turn, with research zeroed so far, i'm finally able to buy Monarchy without forking out too much gpt. Then i proceed immediately to sell/gift the scientific AS into middle ages:

- Babylon is already in the MA with Feudalism.
- the Ottomans draw Feudalism too
- Korea draws Monotheism
- Greece draws Engineering

The important part here is that both Babylon and Korea are still in despotism! Babylon could have traded Feudalism for Republic but didn't, probably because i sold it earlier to the Ottomans, making it too discounted to be exchanged with a monopoly MA tech. The greedy attitude of the AS on techs this time backfires:

- Babylon gives Feudalism for Republic + Monarchy
- Korea gives Monotheism for Feudalism + Republic + Monarchy
- Greece gives Engineering for Monotheism + Feudalism + Monarchy
- finally, the Aztecs are sold Monotheism and the big lump sum paid for Monarchy comes back home

With this trade, the quest for techs is basically settled for the time being. I start on Chivalry at very low rate, because knights aren't really necessary right now. Moreover, i choose not to upgrade existing legionaries, a large part of them is in elite status and the remaining veterans are still useful to deter skirmishers.

Next goals are: obtain the Great Lighthouse, secure the whole of Greece/Babylon, build the RCP around Sparta and move the capital once the FP in Veii is built and the new core is sufficiently developed. Two leaders are necessary: one for the Lighthouse and one for the capital jump. A third one to build Sun Tzu would be highly useful: with free barracks on the whole world it will be possible to heal and rush units even in distant lands. With so many elite units and so many battles to fight, there's a very high chance to succeed.

War with Greece is resumed. Meanwhile i open a 2nd front with the Celts: except for the area around Entremont their land is in a sorry state, and i need it settled and roaded to launch from there the future invasions oversea.

670 bc: war vs. Greece
630 bc: war vs. Celts
550 bc: 1st leader comes. Greece is eliminated. Forbidden Palace is completed in Veii.
530 bc: rushed Great Lighthouse in Jerusalem. Safe routes across the ocean become available.

Next target is obviously Babylon. Almost all the elite units are on the Babylonian front, yet the second leader comes from a victory in the Celtic campaign. A few espionage missions are performed: lots of AS are on Sun Tzu, with Babylon in clear lead with about 2/3 of it completed. Rushing Sun Tzu now should cause Babylon to cascade to Pyramids... which is exactly what happens. A few turns later, the city of Babylon is captured and Rome enjoys both free barracks and free granaries everywhere

450 bc: war with Babylon
350 bc: Sun Tzu rushed in Athens
330 bc: Babylon completes Pyramids
270 bc: captured Babylon

During the Babylonian campaign i stop training maces and begin with horsemen. At first, horse units are sent abroad, to be used as station troops in the conquered lands, allowing the whole bulk of legions/mi to be sent in combat. One of those horses gains elite status by killing off an enemy warrior and is promoted to battlefront duties. Ironically, it's that very lone elite horse, and not one of the many legionaries, to provide the 3rd leader in one of the last battles against Babylon. Since it's too early to jump the capital, the leader is parked in Sparta, even if it means wasting the remaining elite victories. Better safe than sorry.

At the same time, more horsemen are being amassed in the western coast, where a galley buildup also is in place. The plan is to upgrade the horsemen later and send them across the ocean to dispose of China.

190 bc: Chivalry is researched, some 1600 golds are spent into a mass-upgrade of horsemen.
170 bc: Babylon is gone
150 bc: China asks for Chivalry and declares upon refusal.
_90 bc: The Celts are destroyed, after having survived as OCC for a while.

Still in 90 bc war with the Aztecs begin. Galleys are used to transport slow units to the northern coast while knights make their way in the southern coast, mainly free of jungles. The Aztecs cities fall one after another.

50 bc: a fleet of galleys loaded with knights sets the sails for China. Capital jump to Sparta, income rises substantially.
30 bc: captured Tenochtitlan, which sports the Oracle
10 bc: troops unloaded outside the coastal city of Shangai, invasion of China has begun
50 ad: the Aztecs are destroyed

Gone the Aztecs, it's time for Korea. They have suffered greatly from barb uprisings and their land is for the most part undeveloped. Once again, galleys prove useful to move quickly legionaries and maces. Knights are being amassed on the SE tip of the former Aztec land, where, with the help of another galley buildup, they will be transported later by sea to strike at the hearth of the Ottoman empire.

During the Chinese campaign, another leader is generated. A phony peace is signed, in return for Invention, and Leonardo's is rushed in Beijing. The chinese landmass is fairly well roaded, it has horses but no iron, therefore, until a harbor is built, it is possible to produce horsemen there for another later mass-upgrade. A fifth leader comes from the Korean campaign, and an army is formed and used in combat.

_90 ad: war with Korea
130 ad: peace with China for Invention
150 ad: Leo's rushed in Beijing
210 ad: last Chinese city falls but there are at least 2 wandering settlers on the Arabian/Ottoman area.
230 ad: Korea is gone

It's now time to take on Mongolia. Forces from both former Korea and China are used, and the Mongol forces are simply overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Another leader comes and is used for the Heroic Epic. Karakorum, sporting the Great Library, is owned and we get knowledge of Theology from it.

250 ad: war vs. Mongolia
260 ad: rushed Heroic Epic
290 ad: owned Karakorum, Great Library

Another leader is used to rush Sistine Chapel. More free culture for us. While we're still fighting the Mongols, the buildup of galleys on the SE tip of Azteca is complete and we send another naval expedition to strike the Ottomans directly at their core:

300 ad: learned Theology, rushed Sistine, war with Ottomans
310 ad: failed attack at Sogut!
320 ad: captured Sogut, sporting the Hanging gardens
330 ad: Mongolia is destroyed. Arabia demands Theology and declares upon refusal.

While the battle goes on, one last naval invasion is under preparation to get rid of Arabia, but this time i've made the mistake of keeping the galley chain to China alive for too long. Therefore, i found myself with excess troops in the Mongol/Chinese area (some of which didn't have time to reach Arabia), a little short of knights in the SW tip of former Celtica and with the galley fleet late to reposition itself. This strategic error probably costed me 3-4 turns.

340 ad: captured Najran (Great Wall) and Mecca.
350 ad: owned the new Chinese OCC, but they're still alive! -.-
380 ad: finally, the chinese boat settler is intercepted and sunk, China is destroyed
400 ad: last Ottoman city falls, but they have a boat settler too!
410 ad: Ottoman boat settler sunk, last Arabian city falls, Ottomans and Arabia destroyed
420 ad: conquest

The end result is a conquest in 420 ad, with a Firaxis score of 8493 and a Jason score of 11170.

The notable aspect of this scenario has been the great strategic value of a good navy combined with the benefits of the Great Lighthouse, in spite of being a pangea map. Galleys were paramount from the very beginning, being the only praticable way to reach Greece/Babylon in a reasonable time. Moreover, without naval invasions it would have been impossible to take over China, Ottomans and Arabia so quickly, and none of those routes would have been safe without the help of the Great Lighthouse.

Here's the tech log of the middle ages:

_710bc: Monarchy (Aztecs), Feudalism (Babylon), Monotheism (Korea), Engineering (Greece);
_190bc: Chivalry (research);
_130ad: Invention (extorted, China)
_300ad: Theology (Great Library)

and the kill log:

_550bc: Greece
_170bc: Babylon
__90bc: Celts
__50ad: Aztecs
_230ad: Korea
_330ad: Mongols
_380ad: China
_410ad: Ottomans
_410ad: Arabia

 

[Raliuven]

I had a hard time with this one. Winning the game was no problem. The AI were pushovers. I went for a spaceship launch and it felt like the game was dragging. I thought I traded pretty good but I completely messed up placing my palace and FP. It was a disaster.

Launch in 1355AD. Firaxis: 5317, Jason: 8298.

I had hoped with 4 scientific civs that I would be able to capture at least the 1st teir techs from every age, but that bombed. I managed to leverage republic against Korea in the Middle Ages to gain feud & engineering. Babs don't pick up mono until 170BC.

Get to the IA in 460AD but 1 draws nationalism and 3 draw medicine. I research steam and every other IA tech and because of my poor palace/FP placement I can't do better than a 5t research for most of the IA.

Get to the MA in 1160 AD and the AI draws rocketry & computers. That's nice because I want computers so that ToE can grab mini & nukes and put me on a 4t research track. This works out but I research the remaining MA techs myself, even Ecology because the AI is busy researching Free Artistry.

Some wars in the MA make a mess of things but nothing huge.

Full Log:

Spoiler :

4000 BC - No reason to move, found in place. Move worker to cow first. Start warrior for scouting. Start Writing at max.
3950 BC – Irrigate first.
3750 BC – Warrior #1 builds. Send him south. Worker Roads.
3600 BC – Road done, worker to BG to road first.
3550 BC – Warrior #2. Fort in city to keep lux down and science up. Start Warrior. Spot first GH.
3500 BC – Borders expand, MM back to fish to keep income high.
3450 BC – GH1 gives me a map.
3400 BC – Road done, start mine.
3350 BC – Warrior #3 builds, start settler. Warrior #3 goes west to explore, the north.
3300 BC – First Barb appears.
3250 BC – lose Warrior #3 to barb. Grr. Also lose Warrior #1. Stop worker actions and retreat. Swap Rome to a warrior. Lux to 10%.
3200 BC – Barb retreats. New Warrior produced. Start Warrior. Worker Roads.
3100 BC – Finally kill the barb. That really hurt.
3050 BC – Warrior, start settler. Worker irrigates. Warrior forts. Lux back to 0%.
3000 BC – Spot GH2.
2950 BC – lux back to 10%.
2900 BC – GH2 – map.
2850 BC – Worker to Plains to Irrigate.
2750 BC – Settler #1, start warrior. Lux to 0%.
2710 BC – Lux to 10%.
2670 BC – Rome: warrior=>settler. City #2 by cow & silk. Warrior #2 destroys first barb camp for a much needed 25gp.
2630 BC – Put in some new steps at the cave.
2590 BC – Learn writing, go for phil. Warrior #2 destroys 2nd barb camp on mountain chain. I’ve seen this trick before.
2550 BC – Warrior #2 finally dies to barbs. Grr.
2510 BC – Lux to 10%. Worker to BG to the SWx2 to link cities.
2470 BC – Worker starts to road. Veil: Warrior>Worker
2430 BC – Rome: Settler=>Warrior. Lux back to 0%. I see green borders to my Southwest.
2310 BC – Rome: Warrior=>Settler. Veil: Worker=>Warrior. Meet the celts. They know the Greek. I’m up Alpha but he won’t trade for knowledge of the Greek. Trade the Celts Alpha for Pottery & 5gp. Pick up contact with the Greek, CB & 8gp for Writing. Writing gets me contact with the Babs & 5gp from the Greek. The Babs are backwards and they’ll give me BW & 3gp for alpha. Writing gets me Myst from the Babs. I give the Celts Myst for Masonry & 3gp. The Celts do not know the Babs and I leave it that way for now.
Lose another warrior to these stupid barbs.
2230 BC – Found 3rd city on FP to make RCP5 with my intended FP site.
2190 BC – Send a 2nd warrior to Veil to fight off barbs though lux up to 10%. Phil still in 3t.
2150 BC – Finally some good news vs the barbs. Kill a barb threatening my worker.
2110 BC – Start a granary in Veil – it will be my SF. Greece has the wheel, the Babs have lit?
2070 BC – Babs get contact with the celts & phil for Lit. Start a library in Rome. Start CoL at max. Greece receives Phil & Lit for TW & 9gp.
2030 BC – The Celts have IW – give them Phil, Lit & TW & 6gp for IW.
1950 BC – Put down city #4.
1575 BC – Start SF in Veil, Granary built with a full food bin. Also, Library builds in Rome.
1550 BC – Add a building over the cave. Go for Republic at max.
1500 BC – Connect Silks.
1450 BC – Give Bab IW for 55gp.
1375 BC – City #5
1325 BC – City #6. Everyone has MM. Give the Celts CoL for MM, TM & 34gp. I see that they are using RCP5 which should work good for a second core. Greece gets CoL for WM & 14gp. Babs get nothing as the Greek map includes the Babs.
1175 BC – City #7; Babs known the Aztecs
1150 BC – First galley is out.
1100 BC – Galley wins against 3 barb galleys and goes elite.
1050 BC – Contacted by Korea – They offer HBR for Poly & 6gp. Nope – how about contact with the Ottomans & 20gp? Deal. Ottomans will give contact with the Mongols, 3gp & TM for phil. Lit gets me Contact with the Arabs & Chinese & 12gp from the Aztecs. Pick up HBR from China for phil. Everyone knows everyone now. Arbas are down CoL.

1000 BC – QSC – 9 cities, 22 citizens, contact with all, no embassies, 1 library, 1 barracks, 1 granary. 1 settler, 9 workers, 8 warriors, 2 archers, 1 galley. Missing Construction, Math, Currency, Poly. 1 turn from republic.

975 BC – Republic. Draw 3 turn anarchy. Not bad.
900 BC – Republic. Math is known and I can clean house with Republic. I’ll get construction first, almost assured unless a GH, which should let me grab poly. I’ll probably have to research currency. I decide to make the deal and that will put the AI into anarchy for a while, except the religious guys. That should up the gpt deals.
The Babs are the rich civ at the moment. Give them Republic for Math, 141gp & WM. Even at max construction is 8t. Grr. Give Celts Republic for WM & 48gp. Give it to Greece for WM & 24gp. Ottomans receive Math for WM & 33gp. Aztecs get Math for MW & 31gp.
710 BC – Poly is known. Give Celts Construction for Poly, WM, 23gp. Ottomans receive Construction for WM & 29gp. Mongols receive Poly for WM, 39gp. Currency due in 6t @ 90%.
610 BC – I get currency and I’m in the new age. Korea is down Currency, Construction and Republic and that is my way in. I gift everyone up – two draw Feud, two draw engineering. Interesting. I give Korea republic & 70gp for Feud. The Ottomans get Feud & 120gp for Engineering. I go back to Korea and give them Engineering for my70gp & WM. I then head for Invention at max run, due in 12t @ 90%, -36gpt. Give China math for 25gp & WM.
590 BC – Give Arabia poly for WM & slave.
570 BC – Celts receive Currency for WM, 13gp & slave. Lose 33gp to barb raiding.
530 BC – Watch as barbs sack a Celtic city and it absorbs a stack of barb horses. Very nice.
510 BC – I decide to give up my WM to generate some gp to continue research. Ottomans give 23gp, Korea gives WM & 21gp, Babs give WM & 16gp, Celts WM & 4gp, Greece WM &3gp, Korea WM & 3gp.
490 BC – Celts build the GLB so I give them Feud for WM & 4gp. Babs get my WM for 2gp. Aztecs get Currency for 25gp & WM. I see my WM around to everyone else for some change gp. That gives me enough to research for another 6t.
470 BC – Arabia receives Construction & Currency for 2 slaves & 1gp.
350 BC – Sell my WM for change. China receives currency for WM & slave.
430 BC – Aztecs get feud for WM & 25gp.
370 BC – Learn Invention. I need 240gp to learn gunpowder. I’ve got 27gp. I should be able to drop my lux rate to 10% next turn with Ivory connected. FP builds in 12t, give or take and library builds coming in 3-8 turns. I decide to trade off Invention to maintain research. Ottomans get it for Monarchy, WM & 42gp. Greece gets it for WM, 6gp & slave. Mongols get Feud for WM & 40gp. Celts get Invention for WM & 6gp since they’ll get it with the GLB next turn anyway.
350 BC – Aztecs get Engineering for WM & 25gp.
270 BC – Aztecs get Monarchy for WM & slave. DOW on the Celts.
250 BC – attack on Mohacs – 5/5 Legion vs 3/3 warrior – flawless win, capture city & 1 slave. Enter GA. Battle for Verulamium – 4/4 legion vs 3/3 spear – lose, -1hp.
IBT – Mongols demand Monarchy. Hahaha. No way. Mongols declare and give the gift of war happiness.
230 BC – FP builds at Pompeii. If I get a GL I can jump my palace to the celtic core.
210 BC – pick up gunpowder the same turn that Monotheism is available. Give gunpowder to Greece for Mono, WM & 48gp. Set for theo due in 5t @ -7gpt.
190 BC – Move my stack next to Entremont.
170 BC – Battle for Entremont – 5/5 legion vs 3/3 spear – win, -2hp, GL! Perfect. 4/4 Legion vs 3/3 spear – win, capture Entremont & GLB. Start Palace and rush with GL1. Give Babylon Mono for WM & 46gp.
110 BC – Learn Theo. Education in 5t @ -20gpt. Start prebuild for Cops.
90 BC – Arabia receives monarchy for WM, 7gp & slave.
70 BC – 2nd Battle for Verulamium – 4/4 MDI vs 3/3 spear – flawless win. 4/4 Legion vs 3/3 spear – win, -2hp, capture city.
10 BC – learn education, start Astro due in 5t @ -23gpt. Battle for Gergovia – 5/5 legion vs 3/3 spear – win, -2hp. 4/4 legion vs 3/3 spear – flawless win, promote elite. Capture city & 1 slave. See a celtic 3/3 MDI. They must have traded for Iron at some point, not that it matters now.
Give Theo to Greece for WM & 66gp.
30 AD – lose a elite legion & vet MDI trying to kill a reg Celtic MDI. Finally a vet legion kills it and promotes elite. Arabia gets engineering for WM, 20gp & slave.
50 AD – 5/5 legion vs 3/3 LB – win, -1hp.
70 AD – Arabia receives Mono for WM, 1gp & Slave.
110 AD – Battle for Lugdunum – 5/5 Legion vs 3/3 pike – lose, -2hp, promote vet. 5/5 legion vs 3/3 spear – lose, -1hp, promote vet. 3/3 MDI vs 2/4 pike – flawless win. 4/4 archer vs 3/4 spear – lose, -1hp. 4/4 archer vs 2/4 spear – win, -3hp. Capture city. My stack is destroyed, however.
130 AD – Babs get Theo for WM & 45gp.
150 AD – Battle for Camulodunum – 4/4 MDI vs 3/3 spear – win, -2hp. 4/4 MDI vs 3/3 spear – win, -1hp, promote elite. Capture city & 1 slave.
Give Korea Gunpowder for WM & 33gp.
210 AD – Battle for Richborough – 3/3 MDI vs 3/3 spear – flawless loss. 4/4 archer vs 4/4 spear – lose, -1hp. 4/4 legion vs 3/3 spear – flawless win.
For the first time a good trade deal is available. Greece will give WM, 16gpt & 41gp for Education. Deal.
250 AD – Babylon demands Educations. Ah, no. They tuck tail and run for cover when I behead their emissary.
270 AD – Learn Chem, start Physic due in 5t. Battle for Richborough – 5/5 MDI vs 4/4 spear – win, -2hp. 5/5* Legionary vs 3/3 spear – win, -3hp. Capture city. Celts are banished to an island.
280 AD – give Greece Banking for WM, 2gpt & 43gp. Arabia receives gunpowder for WM, 29gp & slave.
300 AD – Mongols finally appear with 3 horses. I have no units in place so I make peace with them. Korea gets education for WM, 1gp & slave.
320 AD – Battle for last Celtic City – 5/5 MDI vs 3/3 spear – flawless win. 5/5* legionary vs 3/3 spear – win -1hp. 3/3 warrior remains.
330 AD – Battle for last Celtic City – 5/5 MDI vs 3/3 warrior – win, -2hp. Capture city & 3 slaves. The Celts are dead.
340 AD – Korea gives WM, 40gp & 1gpt for banking. Give Arabia Theo for WM & 58gp.
350 AD – DOW on the Aztecs.
360 AD – Battle for Xochicalco – 5/5 legion vs 3/3 spear – flawless win. 4/4 MDI vs 4/4 spear – flawless win, promote elite. Capture city.
380 AD – Arabia receives Education for WM, 63gp & 5gpt. Give Theo to China for WM & 28gp.
400 AD – Mongols receive Theo for WM & 36gp. Give Ottomans Astro for WM, 66gp & 18gpt.
410 AD – Make peace with the Aztecs for WM & Tlacopan. Wow. I kill 2 spears and take 1 city and monty rolls over. Okay.
420 AD – Cops builds in Rome. Start Newtons. Give Ottomans Physics for WM, 11gpt & 55gp.
430 AD – Give Ottomans Mag for WM, 37gpt & 65gp.
440 AD – Give Greece Mag for WM, 17gp & 6gpt. Give Babs banking for WM & 20gp.
450 AD – Will have Metal next turn and need to gift up Greece,Babs, Otts and Koreans. Give Greece ToG for WM, 3gpt & 12gp. Give education to the Aztecs for 8gp & wm. Give the Ottomans silk for WM & 25gp. Give Korea Physics for WM & 13gp.
460 AD – Industrial Age reached. Gift up Greece,Babs, Otts and Koreans. Greece receives Metal for Music Theory & WM & they get medicine. Give Babs 100gp. Then I give them metal for 100gp & WM. Gift them ToG & Metal. They get Medicine. Give Ottomans Metal for 13gpt & 30gp. Gift them 100gp. Give them ToG for 103gp & WM. They get Nationalism. Gift Korea 100gp. Give them Metal for 105gp & WM. Give them ToG & Mag. They draw Medicine. So that means I still need to research Steam myself. Swap my palace build to Bachs and it is due in 1t exactly! That is just dumb luck!
Steam is due in 7t @ 90%, +44gpt.
Give Mongols Banking & Chem for furs & WM.
Decide to play nice and don’t DOW on Greece. Steam at 100% due in 6t @ +43gpt.
470 AD – Bachs builds. I’ll probably lose Newtons. Oh well.
480 AD – Greece comes up with Chivalry. Really? Arabia has Chivalry as well. Good deal. Give them Metal for Chiv & WM. Give the Ottomans Chiv for 3gpt, 20gp & WM.
520 AD – Learn Steam, start electricity. Give Babs Steam for WM, Medicine, 15gpt, 30gp. Give the Ottomans Medicine for spices, 46gp & WM.
540 AD – Give Arabia Mag for WM & 50gp.
570 AD – Give Korea Steam for Nav, WM & 12gp. Give Nav to the Ottomans for 46gp & WM. Give Arabia ToG for 1gpt, 30gp & WM. Rush some buildings, libraries & universities.
580 AD – Learn Electricity. Start RP due in 5t @ 100% +35gpt. Give Greece Nav for WM, worker & 30gp. Arabia gives WM, 16gp & 5gpt for Nav. Korea receives Electricity for Coal, WM, 15gpt & 25gp. I will have my own coal in 1 turn, but what the heck?
590 AD – Arabia gets Medicine for WM, 10gpt & 25gp.
600 AD – Give Arabia horses for WM, 3gpt & 11gp.
620 AD – Give Babs Electricity for MT, Econ, WM & 44gp.
630 AD – Learn RP, Start SM due in 4t @ 90% +112gpt, Ottomans receive Electricity for 50gpt, 57gp & WM. Give Arabia Steam for MW, 27gpt, 51gp.
DOW on Greece.
640 AD – lose a knight to a MDI. Battle for Mycanae – 5/5 MDI vs 4/4 hoplite – win, -3hp. 5/5 legion vs 3/3 hoplite – flawless win, capture city, 1 slave. Grab 2 other slaves in the field. Kill MDI that killed one of my knights. Rail backbone is forming nicely. Advance cavs into Greece.
Give Arabia Electricity for WM, 17gpt & 30gp.
660 AD – lose a knight to a MDI, knight kills a LB. Give the Mongols Metal & Mag for furs, WM & 5gp.
670 AD – Learn SM, start AT due in 7t @ 100% +56gpt.
Battle for Herakleia – 4/4 Cav vs 3/3 hoplite – lose, -2hp. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 hoplite – flawless win. 4/4 cav vs 1/3 hoplite – flawless win.
710 AD – Mongols demand iron. That’ll be the day. They run with their tails tucked.
Battle for Athens – 4/4 cav vs 3/3 musket – lose, -2hp, promote vet. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 musket – flawless win. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 musket – flawless retreat. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 musket – win, redline. 4/4 knight vs 3/3 hoplite – flawless loss. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 hoplite – win, -2hp, promote elite. 4/4 cav vs 2/4 musket – win, -2hp. Capture city @ 1 slave. Capture Sistines.
720 AD – Battle for Sparta – 4/4 Cav vs 3/3 musket – win, -2hp. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 musket – lose, -1hp, promote vet. 4/4 cav vs 3/4 musket – flawless win. 3/3 MDI left on top.
Give Mongols MT for WM, 9gp & slave. Give Arabia silk for WM & 97gp.
730 AD – 2nd Battle for Sparta – 4/4 cav vs 3/3 MDI – win, -2hp. Capture city.
740 AD – 5/5 knight vs 3/3 MDI – flawless win. Advance on Delphi with cavs. Give Arabia Dyes for WM, 1gpt, 47gp. Give Babs silk for WM, 7gpt & 75gp.
750 AD – Found city on incense. Battle for Delphi- 5/5 cav vs 3/3 musket – win, -3hp. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 musket – flawless win. Capture city & ivory.
Battle for Corinth – 4/4 cav vs 3/3 hoplite – win, -1hp. Capture city & 1 slave & spices. Battle for Thermopylae – 4/4 cav vs 3/3 musket – retreat, -1hp. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 musket –win, -2hp. 4/4 cav vs 2/3 musket – flawless retreat. 4/4 cav vs 2/3 musket – win, capture city & 1 slave & salt.
Give Ottomans Ivory for WM, 70gp & 4gpt.
760 AD – Battle for Pharsalos – 4/4 cav vs 3/3 musket – win, -3hp. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 musket – win, -1hp. 5/5 knight vs 3/3 hoplite – lose, -2hp. 4/4 knight vs 1/3 hoplite – flawless win. It is a flip risk to the Babs so I raze it. This gets be 2 slaves.
770 AD – Battle for Knossos – 4/4 cav vs 3/3 hoplite – flawless retreat. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 hoplite – flawless loss. Really?
Give the Aztecs Nav for WM & 24gp.
780 AD – 2nd battle for Knossos – 4/4 cav vs 3/3 hoplite – win, -2hp, promote elite. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 hoplite – win, -3hp, promote elite. 5/5 MDI vs 3/3 LB – flawless win. Capture city and Greece is banished from the mainland. Capture 2 slaves in the field.
790 AD – Battle for Argos - 4/4 cav vs 3/3 hoplite - retreat, -1hp. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 hoplite – flawless loss. Really? Again?
800 AD – DOW on the Aztecs. Battle for Texcoco – 4/4 cav vs 3/3 spear – win, -1hp. Capture city. 5/5 cav vs 3/3 LB – flawless win.
Make peace with Greece, WM, Plebos Nexia, slave & 7gp.
810 AD – Battle for Teotihuacan – 5/5 cav vs 3/3 spear – lose, -2hp, promote vet. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 spear – flawless win. I swear this game has something against my elite. This is pitiful. 4/4 cav vs 2/4 spear – flawless win. Capture city.
5/5 cav vs 3/3 jag – flawless win. Capture a slave in the open.
820 AD – 4/4 cav vs 4/4 jag – flawless win.
Battle for Calixtlahuaca – 5/5 cav vs 3/3 spear – flawless win.
830 AD – 4/4 cav vs 3/3 LB – flawless win. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 LB – win, -1hp.
2nd Battle for Calixtlahuaca – 5/5 cav vs 3/3 spear – flawless win. Capture city.
Give Greece Steam for WM, 7gpt, 14gp & slave. Give China steam for WM, 14gpt, 30gp.
840 AD – Trade Korea Industry for Nationalism, WM & 28gp. Mongols get medicine for WM, 10gpt, & 40gp & 1 slave. Arabia gets industry for WM, 25gpt & 80gp. Give industry to Ottomans for WM, 5gpt & 5gp.
Battle for Tlaxcala – 4/4 cav vs 3/3 spear - win, -2hp. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 spear – win, -1hp. Capture city & gem area. No gems connected yet.
860 AD – Give Mongols Nationalism for Furs, WM & 11gp.
870 AD - Learn Corp, start Refining. Give Greece Nationalism for WM, 4gpt & 40gp. Give Ottomans Corp for 85gpt & 50gp & WM.
890 AD – STC builds. Battle for Tenochtitlan – 4/4 cav vs 4/4 spear – flawless retreat. 4/4 cav vs 4/4 spear – win, -2hp. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 spear – win, -1hp, promote elite. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 spear – flawless retreat. 4/4 cav vs 3/3 spear – flawless win, promote elite.
Give China Industry for WM, 18gpt & 40gp.
900 AD – 2nd Battle for Tenochtitlan – 5/5 cav vs 3/3 spear – win, redline. Capture city & GLH.
930 AD – Battle for Atzcapotzalco – 5/5 cav vs 3/3 spear – win, -2hp.
940 AD – 2nd Battle for Atzcapotzalco – 5/5 cav vs 3/3 spear – flawless win. 5/5 cav vs 3/3 spear – flawless win, capture city & 1 slave. Give China Corp for WM, 20gpt & 60gp.
Build an embassy with Ottomans to see where they are at with US for 64gp. Pop 12, 17spt, 39gpt(12/26), 4 rifles, US due in 30t. No rails at the capital yet and they would need to mine a lot to get any benefit anyway. So 30 t.
Build an embassy with Korea for 52gp. Pop 8 (2 clowns), 10spt, 29gpt(17/11). Could rail some to increase. US due in 24t.
Build an embassy with Arabia for 68gp. Pop 10 (2 clowns), 12spt, 33gpt(14/18), 4 spears. Coal, no iron. No rails. US due in 32t.
Build an embassy with China for 65gp. Pop 11, 12spt, 60gp(31/28), 4 spears, few rails & mines. Need some improvements. Bank due in 1t. Oil nearby. Investigate Canton for 106gp.
Canton is size 7, 11spt, 30gpt(11/16), 1 spear, 1 rifle, missing lots of improvements. US just started. Due in 66t. No problem there.
Build an embassy with Babs for 54gp. Pop 12 (1 clown), 14spt, 71gpt(42/28), 2 pikes, 1 cav, 4 rifles, 1 warrior. Rifle due in 4. Really, you need another rifle? No rails, few mines. Investigate Eridu for 110gp.
Eridu: Pop 8, 8spt, 34gpt(13/18), 1 pike, 1 rifle. US due in 55t. No rails, only 1 mine.
Earliest steal on ToE is 24t by Korea, maybe a little less with rails.
Give Arabia Dyes for WM & 74gp.
Give Babs silks for 31gp & 8gpt.
950 AD – 5/5 cav vs 3/3 LB – win, -3hp. Whatever. Battle for Tlatelolco – 5/5 cav vs 3/3 spear – win, -2hp. 5/5 cav vs 3/3 spear – flawless win. Capture city. The Aztecs are gone.
Give China Refining for WM, 45gp &34gpt.
960 AD – Learn Steel, start combustion due in 4t @ 90% +201gpt.
970 AD – Give Greece Iron for WM, 13gp & slave. Give Korea Corp for WM, 17gpt & 118gp.
980 AD – Give China Steel for WM, 33gpt & 98gp.
1000 AD – Build Hoovers. Learn Combustion, start MP due in 4t @ 80% +331gpt. Build Ironworks. Slow down my build for the Internet. Give Babs Steel for WM, 30gpt & 50gp. See that they have RP now. Give China combustion for 34gpt, 60gp & WM.
1030 AD – give Korea Refining for WM, 8gpt, 20gp, 2 slaves. China has PP. Wow.
1040 AD – Give China MP for PP, WM, 23gpt, 60gp. Give Arabia Corp for WM, 29gpt & 16gp.
1060 AD – Give the Mongols Corp & Electricity for Furs, WM & 4gp.
1070 AD – Build US. That kills all wonder builds.
1080 AD – Give Ottomans Refining for WM, 65gpt & 2gp.
Build an embassy with Greece for 29gp. Pop 5 (2 clowns), 4spt, 13gpt(7/5), 4 hoplites, 1 frigate. Rifle in 7t.
Build an embassy with the Mongols for 82gp. Pop: 10, 14spt, 29gpt(12/16), 3 spears, factory due in 12t.
1090 AD – Give China SM for WM, 72gpt & 90gp.
1110 AD – It looks like the Mongols have got it into their stupid heads to attack me. I find that hilarious considering I am building tanks at the moment. I bite and tell them to take a hike. They agree but are not kicked. Hmm?
IBT – I am, of course, shocked when the Mongols DOW on me. Didn’t see that coming. They sacrifice a cav on my infantry and another retreats. My loses – zero.
1120 AD – first tank builds. First things first – 5/5 cav vs 1/4 cav – win, -2hp. Build walls and barracks along my defensive line. Learn flight, start Radio due in 4t @ 100%, +222gpt.
1130 AD – 5/5 cav vs 3/4 horseman. Really? Flawless win.
1140 AD – 5/5 cav vs 4/4 horse – flawless win. 5/5 cav vs 4/4 horse – flawless win. Give China AT for WM, 63gpt, 129gp.
1150 AD – Babylon has come up with communism, which is good. I will use it trade to Greece when I gift them up to the MA. Purchase communism, 42gpt, 3gpt for Combustion, AT, silks & gems.
5/5 cav vs 4/4 Keshik – flawless win. 5/5 cav vs 5/5 horse – win, -1hp. 5/5 cav vs 4/4 horse – flawless win.
Give Babs Electronics for WM, 46gpt & 40gp. Give Korea Steel for WM, 6gpt & 4gp. Give China dyes & silks for 19gpt.
1160 AD – Learn radio. Gift AI into the MA. Greece first. Give them electricity for WM & 15gp. Gift them the rest. Keep Communism & PP for trade value. They get rocketry. Gift Babylon flight for 3gpt, 20gp & WM. Babs receive computers. Ottomans receive fission. Korea gets SM for 9gpt, 13gp & WM. Korea receives rocketry.
Rocketry is my way in. Greece will give it up for communism, PP, salt, oil, coal, horses, rubber, WM & 280gpt. Ha. Korea will give it up for oil, iron, Communism, WM, 160gpt. Deal. Ottomans will give up Fission for rocketry, communism, WM, dyes, ivory, rubber & 600gpt. Deal. Babs will give up computers for Fission, Rocketry, WM & spices, ivory & 180gpt. Go back to the Ottomans and give them computers & aluminum, silks & gems for 510gpt. Korea receives Fission for 152gpt & WM.
Only ecology is missing and I will let the AI research that. Hopefully they can do that much. ToE next turn for miniaturization & Nuclear Power. Pompeii will build the Internet the turn after.
1170 AD – ToE doesn’t build because of pollution! Grrrr! Put off palace build for another turn. Start UN at Entremont. Swap Rome to SETI due in 18t.
1180 AD – Build ToE. Take Miniaturization & Nuclear Power. Swap palace build over to the internet. Set to space flight. Internet builds. Space due in 5t @ 100% -63gpt. Give Babs mini for Democracy, WM, 143gpt & 100gp. Give Korea Democracy for 20gpt & 40gp.
1190 AD – join workers to cities to get space down to 3t @ 100% +110gpt. 5/5 cav vs 4/4 cav – win, -1hp, GL2. Will use for SETI. Send back to Rome. Swap Rome to Wall Street. Rush SETI next turn.
DOW on Greece now that they are not needed any longer. 4/4 tank vs 3/4 cav – flawless win.
1200 AD – Battle for Argos – 4/4 tank vs 3/3 rifle – flawless win. 4/4 tank vs 3/3 hoplite – flawless win. 4/4 tank vs 3/3 hoplite – win, -2hp. Rush SETI with GL2. 5/5 cav vs 3/5 archer – flawless win. GL3. Sure, now I get them all. 4/4 tank vs 2/4 archer – flawless win.
1210 AD – 2nd Battle for Argos – 4/4 tank vs 3/3 hoplite – flawless win. 4/4 tank vs 3/3 hoplite – win, -2hp, promote elite. Capture city & 1 slave. Greece is gone. 4/4 tank vs 1/4 mongol Keshik – flawless win, promote elite. I sign the Ottomans against the Mongols in the hopes of triggering a GA for them. Give them Miniaturization to sweeten the deal.
1220 AD – Learn space, start laser due in 4t @ 90% +241gpt. Swap the UN over to Apollo. Use GL3 to rush the UN. Mongol Cavalry appear. Goody, something for my tanks to do!
5/5 tank vs 4/4 cav – flawless win but take -1hp passing a cav.
1230 AD – UN builds. 5/5 cav vs 2/4 Keshik – flawless win. 5/5 cav vs 3/5 archer – flawless win.
1240 AD – Apollo builds. 5/5 cav vs 1/4 Keshik – flawless win and GL4. Give Arabia Refining for WM, 24gpt & 30gp. Give China Radio for 34gpt, 20gp &WM. I do not sell any futher techs to sci AI because I want their gpt to be spent in beakers to get me ecology.
IBT – China declares on the Ottomans. Darn.
1250 AD – 4/4 tank vs 4/4 Keshik – flawless win. 4/4 tank vs 2/4 Keshik – flawless win, promote elite. 4/4 tank vs 2/4 Keshik – flawless win. I see that Sanitation & Espionage are now known. Stupid AI. But it looks like the Babs now have all the gpt from the AI so hopefully they’ll do some useful research. Give computers to Korea for espionage, sanitation, WM & 318gp & 186gpt.
1255 AD – Learn Laser, start Super conductor, due 4t @ 100% +267gpt. Robotics is down to 4t @ 100%. That’s good!
1275 AD – Learn SC, start Sat @ 80% +508gpt. SS Party Lounge complete. Intelligence Agency builds.
1280 AD – SS Docking Bay completes.
IBT – Babs DOW on us. :Hmm?: Where do they think they are going? Lose a tank to a cav. They advance two LB and they have a warrior guarding a radar tower on a mountain. Nice.
1290 AD – Build SS Fuel Cells. Plant a spy on the Babs for 78gp. Fail. Plant a spy on the Mongols for 110gp. Fail. Great.
Battle for Uruk – 4/4 tank vs 4/4 MI – flawless loss. 4/4 tank vs 4/4 MI – lose, -2hp, promote elite. 4/4 tank vs 3/3 MI - lose, -1h, promote vet. 4/4 tank vs 3/3 MI – lose, -1hp, promote elite. 4/4 tank vs 3/4 MI – flawless loss. This is stupid. 4/4 tank vs 3/4 MI – flawless loss, promote elite. Give up.
4/4 tank vs 2/4 cav – flawless win. 4/4 tank vs 3/3 warrior on radar tower – flawless win. 4/4 knight vs 4/4 LB – win, -1hp.
Battle for Zariqum – 4/4 tank vs 3/3 spear – win, -1hp. 4/4 tank vs 3/3 spear – win, -2hp. Capture city.
IBT –lose a tank to a tank.
1295 AD – learn sat, start robotics due in 4t @ 90% +227gpt. 4/4 tank vs 4/4 MDI – flawless win. 4/4 tank vs 4/4 LB – win, -2hp.
1300 AD – Build Manhattan. Start nukes as prebuilds. Build SS Cockpit.
Battle for Nippur – 4/4 tank vs 3/3 spear – flawless win, promote elite. 3/3 tank vs 3/3 spear – win, promote to vet. Capture city.
4/4 cav vs 3/3 warrior – win, -2hp.
IBT – lose a city to a raiding mongol cav. Grr. Also lose a MI to a bab tank on the fist try. Like that is anywhere near fair after I lost 5 tanks in a row! And lose a tank on a mountain to an attacking MI! Whatever.
1305 AD – Build SS Life Support. Kill the raiding cav – 4/4 cav vs 3/4 cav – flawless win. Replace the lost city. 4/4 tank vs 2/4 tank – win, redline.
Battle for Shuruppak – 4/4 tank vs 3/3 rifle – flawless loss. Sure, that makes sense after my MI dies to their tank. 5/5 tank vs 3/3 rifle – win, -2hp. 5/5 tank vs 3/3 spear – flawless win. Capture city. Island is mine.
Battle for Kish – 4/4 tank vs 3/3 rifle – flawless win. 4/4 tank vs 3/3 spear – win, -1hp, promote elite. Capture city.
IBT – Make peace with the Babs – they give 12gp & WM.
1310 AD – Build Battlefield Medicine. 4/4 tank vs 1/4 cav – flawless win.
1315 AD – Learn robotics, stat Ecology since the AI can’t do anything right. Due in 4t @ 70% +759gpt.
4/4 tank vs 4/4 cav – flawless win, promote elite. 3/3 tank vs 2/4 cav – flawless win.
Through a series of mistaken clicks I gift Korea with space flight and Arabia with steel! Oops!!
1320 AD – Babs have Free artistry. Really? Give Arabia AT for FA just for the heck of it.
1325 AD – Build SS Thrusters. 3/3 tank vs 4/4 cav – flawless win. 4/4 tank vs 1/4 cav – flawless win.
1335 AD – Learn Eco, start SF due in 4t @ 70% +726gpt. Upgraded a few radar arty since I rarely ever get to use them. Bomb some Mongol cavs. 4/4 tank vs 4/4 cav – win -1h, promote elite. 4/4 tank vs 3/4 cav – flawless win.
It’s the last 4 turns to victory. Give Babs Eco for WM, 242gpt, 1490gp. Give it to Korea for WM, 41gpt & 80gp. Give it to China for WM, 58gpt & 20gp.
1340 AD – Build Shakes.
1345 AD – Build SS Engine.
1350 AD – Build SS Stasis Chamber.
1355 AD – Learn SF. Swap palace for casing and ICBM for Storage, only ways 46 shields. Build SS Supply/Storage. Build SS Casing. Launch.

Space Race Victory.

 

[Quintillus]

This was a fun game. For a long time one or the other of the AI's had the upper hand - at first the Mongols, who conquered China and some of Korea, later the Celts who were next-door neighbors, and finally the Ottomans and Arabs. Until the 1800s the question of survival until the end of the game was open, and it wasn't until the late 1900s that a plan for victory emerged. It also was one of the few times I was fighting a more advanced AI in the Modern Age and one of the first games that I'd had with nuclear war - possibly the first in which the AI initiated the nuclear exchanges.

Log:

Spoiler Early Times :

3000 BC - Found veii; may not have been best location but turned out to be a real fortress thanks to the hills.
825 BC - Build The Colossus in Rome.
610 BC - Celts build The Pyramids which I'd hoped to build, lost due to the barbarian invasions.
1st Century BC - Mongols declare war on me; I buy an alliance with China. By the end of this century the Mongols have already destroyed one Chinese city.
270 AD - Beijing falls to Mongols; Mongols definitely dominant regional power.
330 AD - Wonsan destroyed in First Korean-Mongol war; Mongols expanding their power.
430 AD - Found Palmyra in unclaimed land within striking distance of Entremont, the Celtic capital.
670 AD - In the Second Roman-Mongol war, Mongolia captures Palmyra. This is kind of bad; their Keshiks appeared out of nowhere and took the city in one turn.
690 AD - Forced to turn over Hispalis to the Mongols for peace.

The Mongol-Roman War Era was a low point for us, with large amount of the Empire falling to the barbaric Mongols hordes. Legions would save the day, but the Keshiks very nearly had us.

Spoiler Mongol-Roman War Era :

810 AD - The Mongols start the Third Roman-Mongol war. We enter a Golden Age thanks to a Legionary victory, but lose Lutetia right away.
830 AD - Brundisium falls. The next city up the eastern coast is Rome.
850 AD - Pompeii and Antium both fall. Veii is alone and surrounded but well defended. Cumae and Rome are both in serious danger.

890 AD - The Roman Legions recapture Antium.
900 AD - The Roman Legions recapture Brundisium, but a naval invasion force takes Pisae from us (in the northwest).
930 AD - Palmyra culture-flips from the Mongols to the Celts.
950 AD - Pisae is recaptured. We're still spread a little thin but our Legions are gaining the upper hand over their Keshiks. We've depended on their defence as well, so it's a good thing we did have Legions rather than Swordsmen.
980 AD - Pompeii recaptured. Smith's Trading Company completed in Rome. Say whaat? Yup. We were beelining the upper techs so we could avoid Feudalism and keep our Roman Legions in service. Smith's was already well underway during the war so we finished it.
990 AD - The town of Eridu falls to the Mongols in the First Babylonian-Mongol war.
1000 AD - Lutetia recaptured; Babylon retakes Eridu.
1020 AD - Hispalis recaptured; all Mongol conquests (except Palmyra) retaken. Rome is triumphant in the 3rd Roman-Mongol War, albeit at a high cost.
1080 AD - The First Aztec-Mongol war starts. The Aztecs get a Golden Age but soon begin losing territory.
The First Roman-Celtic War starts as our Legions attempt to take Mohacs. The Celts have recently entered the Industrial Age and we figure we have the best shot of winning a war while we have a lot of Legions and they don't yet have Riflemen.
1090 AD - Our attack fails miserably against their Musketmen, and in their counterattack they get a Golden Age. I still maintain that the odds were favorable in the attack, but either way we lost.
1180 AD - Bablyon takes a city from the Mongols that they had taken from the Aztecs. The Mongols would retake it 40 years later, but it's another hint that the Mongols' power may be waning.
1100's sometime - Manage to fight the Celts to a standstill and get a truce. Ugly war that weakened both sides. Celts brought in the Aztecs against me and I'm still at war with them.
1255 - Capture the Aztec city of Xochicalco, near Athens.
1295 - Take Tlacopan.
1305 - Mongols take Tzintzuntzen (say that 10 times fast). The Aztecs are falling from both the south (Rome) and the north (Mongols) and appear to be headed to oblivion.
1310 - Take Tlatelolco.
1325 - Take Tlaxcala. Tenochitlan is next, and only one city remains after that.
1337-ish - The Mongols decide that they aren't satisfied with what they can take from the Aztecs, and want their whole former territory. Thus, they decide to start the Fourth Roman-Mongol War! This is bad, as while our force is big enough to take Aztec cities, it isn't big enough to fight off the Mongols and their Keshiks. We also haven't been building all military, as we've been trying to build up some infrastructure back home (we're pretty pitiful in this regard generally).
1355 - Tlatelolco falls to the Mongols.
1360 - Tlacopan falls to the Mongols.
1365 - Tlaxcala and Caesaraugusta (coastal city way far up north) fall to the Mongols.
1370 - In the First Ottoman-Mongol war, the Mongols get a great leader.
1375 - Caesaraugusta recaptured. Our ally Greece takes a Mongol city that's separate from the other Mongol posessions.
1380 - Ottomans enter a Golden Age.
1385 - Babylon begins conquering Korea.
1390 - Tlacopan falls from Rome first to the Mongols, then to Babylon, and finally to Greece, all in one turn. Babylon's kind of at war with everyone right now.
1395 - Tlacopan falls to Babylon again. It's in the middle of everything.
1400 - We retake Tlacopan.
1415 - Korea regains their lost land, as Babylon is too busy fighting their only neighbor, Greece.
1420 - Tlacopan falls to the Mongols, who get another Great Leader in the east.
1425 - In the Greek-Mongol war, the city of Thermopylae falls to the Mongol hordes, but Greece enters a Golden Age thanks to the heroic defence by the Hoplites there.

Meanwhile, Xochicalco also falls to the Mongols, and the Mongols get a Great Leader their, which they use to build an army.

1435 - We attack the Mongol Army in Xochicalco with our finest troops, kill the army, and get a Great Leader of our own. We fail to take the city, however, and our troops are largely defeated, so our leader must run quickly through Greek lands back to our homeland to avoid being captured.

The Celts subsequently take Xochicalco, their first conquest in the First Celtic-Mongol war.

Then comes the period of Celtic ascension and war with the Celts. Again, we are in danger of losing too much land:

Spoiler Celtic War Time :

1440 - Hispalis defects to the Celts. Our culture is pretty mediocre.
1455 - The Arabians begin their first conquests against the Mongols, in former Aztec lands.
1460 - By now the Celts clearly have the upper hand on the Mongols, due to superior technology, and are establishing themselves in former Aztec lands.
1465 - Another great Mongol leader.
1495 - Almarikh, a Mongol heartland city, falls to the Celts, the first loss of a contiguous city for the Mongols. This one is probably due to a naval invasion and is a temporary loss.
1515 - Erdenet falls from the Mongols to the Koreans. This city was on the Mongol-Korean border, so represents a more serious loss.
1520 - The Ottomans get a Great Leader while fighting the Mongols.
1525 - The Celts begin permanent conquests in the Mongol heartlands.
1540 - The Ottomans begin moving into the Mongol heartlands.
1600 - By now the Mongols are clearly defeated. They still have a few cities, but little power. The Celts have taken the lion's share, with the Ottomans most of the rest. The Chinese also resettled some lands they'd lost earlier.
1620 - Karkorum is razed.
1650 AD - The Celts declare war on us, having taken all they care for from the Mongols. Lutetia is razed straighaway and a celtic city built in its place.
1720 AD - The Celts create Hoover Dam. Our war with them is turning into a bitter stalemate, with the edge towards the Celts. Their Cavalry are invading our lands along with a few Guerillas (they lack Rubber), while we fight them off with Cavalry, Legionaries, and Riflemen of our own, but in much smaller numbers, and with the help of terrain.
1730 - The Celts take Thermopylae from the Babylonians (whom it ended up with).
1740-ish: We make peace with the Celts, as well as the Arabs and Ottomans who had joined them.
1750 - 1770s: Bablyon is conquered by the Celts and Arabs.
1770 - I declare war on the Mongols and take Ereen, one of their cities on that island in the north. As we were just barely able to defend ourselves against the Celts last time, we want an offshore area that doesn't border them as somewhere we can fall back to if need be. We've already been almost catastrophically defeated twice (to the Mongol hordes and to the Celts).
1778 - The last Bablyonian city falls, making them the first civilization to be defeated (the Aztecs are still in control of Tenochitlan). The Celts took most of their lands.
1780 - I finish the conquest of that island up north and get a Great Leader out of it.

The next century and a half feature a Great War-like war with the Celts which we win, but is not super-eventful:

Spoiler 1800's - 1950's :

1800 - At the start of the century, the Celts are undoubtedly the most powerful country on Earth as well as the most advanced (being in the Modern Age already), and are also my only neighbor. And they decide to start a war with me.
1810 - First Ottoman-Arabic war begins; Ottomans conquer Arabic city in former Aztec lands.
1812 - I capture Hispalis. Infantry and Artillery are the key, but even so things aren't going that great. The Mongols are shelling our coasts to smithereens and bombing out all the roads in our south, making progress very slow. They also are causing riots by bombing luxuries.
1826 - The Celts build the U.N. They also take a Korean city, in their latest conquests. No elections would ever be held. Everyone hated Brennus thanks to my diplomacy, and after I took the U.N., I knew my reputation wasn't good enough to count on winning.
1830 - China enters a Golden Age after their Riders take a city that had defected back to the Aztecs last century.
1840 - China jumps on the anti-Korean bandwagon and takes one of their cities. Both countries are fairly backwards, but China more so.
1844 - We take Verulamium, a city which had been a metropolis but is now a village. Shortly afterwards we make peace with the Celts, collecting reparations. Our infrastructure is once more in ruins, but at least we have sufficient Infantry to defend ourselves.
1848 - The Chinese take a Celtic city in former Aztec lands. They shouldn't really be fighting the Celts, though.
1858 - The Arabs take a Celtic city in former Mongol lands. By now the Arab-Ottoman war has died down, essentially a stalemate.
1866 - Korea is being conquered by the Celts and Ottomans, while the Arabs continue to take Celtic cities in Mongol lands.
1872 - The Celts take the last Chinese city in former Aztec lands. Korea has regained its defences.
1900 - The Celts are no longer dominant in Mongol lands, but control most of the former Aztec lands. They are still the foremost power in the world, but the Arabs are establishing themselves quite well in the east.
1900 - 1930: The Arabs begin gaining the upper hand on the Celts, taking a few cities in Aztec lands, and even Korea takes a city.
1938 - Arabia enters a Golden Age thanks to a belated Ansar Warrior victory, but loses their last city in Aztec lands.
1948 - The Arabs complete SETI Program.
1950 - The past half-century consisted mainly of the Celts and Arabs trading cities while everyone increased their technology.
1952 - The Arabs complete The Manhattan Project. The Arabs and Ottomans, next-door-neighbors and old foes, both begin building nukes. I am not advanced enough to join them.

The second half of the 20th century is interesting as we conquer the Celts (including Babylonian lands), and the dynamic shifts to the Ottomans going for a space race victory and the Arabs a histographic victory:

Spoiler Late 20th Century :

1958 - Hispalis defects to the Celts (again).
1959 - I declare war on the Celts. I'd already been building up, so this is just a couple turns earlier than I'd planned. Currently I am on the brink of researching Motorized Transportation, but I have a large number of Artillery and Infantry already. Hispalis is immediately retaken.
1962 - I take Mohacs, the city that our Legions had spectacularly failed to take 900 years ago. This gives me Dyes, a very helpful additional luxury.
1964 - I take Palmyra, which had defected a millenia ago.
1966 - Augustodurum falls. We clearly have the upper hand in this war. Meanwhile, the Celts have lost their Aztec lands to Arabia, China, and Korea.
1967 - We figure out that the Celts are due to complete The Internet in Entremont in 10 turns. If they don't, the Ottomans or Arabs will. We decide to avoid Entremont in the hopes that they complete The Internet first.
1968 - We take Eboracum and Lutetia, but Mohacs defects.
1969 - Mohacs is recaptured.
1970 - Camulodunum is captured. This gives us Hoover Dam, a manufacturing boost, and less pollution and maintenance.
1975 - We take Lugdunum, but Camulodunum defects. Entremont completes The Internet a few turns ahead of time. I think this is because they were Communist, and when we took their cities, their corruption in Entremont decreased.
1976 - Camulodunum recaptured. The Ottomans begin conquering China.
1977 - We get a spy in Sogut, the Ottoman capital, and learn that they are actively building their spaceship, which the Celts and Arabs are not (we are not advanced enough to do so). This sets alarm bells ringing. At this rate, they will finish and win the game well before 2050. They also have Modern Armor and Mechanized Infantry, while we have Tanks and Infantry - not to mention their superior air force and navy. This will be a challenge.
1978 - We take Richborough.
1979 - The Arabs join in the conquest of China.
1980 - The Arabs complete the Cure for Cancer in a former Mongol city. They are pretty advanced, too.
1981 - The Ottomans complete Longevity. We take Entremont and Agedincum. With this, we gain control of The Internet and Research Labs appear everywhere, despite our not knowing anything about Computers. Our research speeds up even as we decrease funding.
1984 - We take Gergovia, the last Celtic city in their former homeland. With this, we are the dominant power in the west. However, the Arabs and Ottomans are both formidable and legitimate rivals in the east - the former due to size, the latter due to technology.
1988 - We take Nineveh and Babylon from the Celts, beginning our conquest of the Babylonian heartlands. China is being divided between the Ottomans and Arabs.
1990 - The first piece in our anti-Ottoman puzzle is achieved, as we take Hovd, a former Mongol town, from the Celts. We plan to build an airport there to ferry more troops into the region, and from there to attack Almarikh, a city north of Hovd that is the only Ottoman source of Aluminum. Without Aluminum, they can't complete their spaceship. Amongst the risks are that we may not be able to defend Almarikh, so we may have to raze it (and possibly retake it later), or give it to a neutral third party such as the Aztecs or Celts (who will be down to a couple towns by then). There's also the chance that the Ottomans will nuke us, as they have several nukes and we don't. That would be bad.
1991 - We finish our conquest of Babylonian lands from the Celts.
1993 - We take Cataractonium, another Celtic city near Hovd.
1996 - We take Tosontsengel, a Celtic city in Korean lands that has been bombed to oblivion but contains Furs, and make peace.
1998 - Tatung falls to the Ottomans, and China becomes the second civ to fall.

2000 - 2010 would be the most interesting decade, as I triggered a nuclear war but managed to avoid any of my cities being nuked. Instead, the Ottomans and Arabs nuked each other, the Ottoman Modern Armor couldn't do much, and both of them lost all resources. This prevented the Ottomans from building more spaceship parts. Eventually I switched sides in the war and started bringing down the Arabs, but I won a spaceship victory before I conquered them. It would have been close trying to conquer them and win histographic by 2050, so the spaceship route was the safe one.

Spoiler Nuclear War and Spaceships :

2000 - We declare war on the Ottomans. A healthy dozen or so Tanks, along with a couple Mech Inf, are near Hovd and ready to strike Almarikh. Diplomatically, we have secured Mutual Protection Pacts with Arabia and Greece, and Arabia has one with Korea, so everyone who matters should be at war with the Ottomans starting in 2001. Arabia lacks Rubber or Oil, so we've been supplying them with Rubber for a few turns so they have some defence against the Ottomans. We don't want them to be too strong lest they conquer the Ottomans, as they lead in score and have just begun their own Spaceship (Ottomans are at 6/10). We may need to conquer them due to their score. However, they need some defence lest the Ottomans overrun them, and we want them to absorb the majority of the Ottoman force.

We take Almarikh with moderate losses against their Mechanized Infantry and secure the area. The Ottomans do not nuke us in turn, but do retake Almarikh. This triggers war with Arabia, and the Ottomans take Basra and Chengdu right away.

2001 - Arabia feels threatened and decides to nuke the Ottomans. Four Ottoman cities are hit by Arabic ICBMs.

In retaliation, the Ottomans fire three ICBMs and a tactical nuke at the Arabs. The tactical nuke targets a small Arctic tundra town, but importantly it takes away the Arabic aluminum, which will prevent them from building their spaceship. The Ottomans also take Tatung and Merw from the Arabs. However, I retake Almarikh, and am happy that the AI's expended nearly all their nukes on each other, with my cities nuke-free. The Ottomans due still have one tactical nuke, however, which could be on any of their nuclear subs. I hope it doesn't show up in Rome.

2003 - I finish The Apollo Program.

2004 - The Ottomans take Aden, a city which they nuked earlier.

2005 - With few Ottoman troops in the area, I advance and take Sinop. My Tanks can handle what Modern Armors do show up.

2007 - I take Nanking and Tatung. It's clear now that I won't have to gift Almarikh.

2008 - The Arabs retake Merw; that front has stabilized. In no small part because both of them have no resources and have a third of their cities nuked.

2010 - My Artillery have arrived, and I take Ulaangom. I've established a nice territory in the northeast.

2010 - 2015: Aden changes hands several times. Elsewhere, neither side's Guerillas can defeat the other's defending Mech Inf.

2016 - The Arabs retake Basra, and Aydin two years later.

2020 - I switch sides in the war, making peace with the Ottomans and declaring war on the Arabs. The Ottomans can't make any progress towards the Space Race and the Arabs are probably going to win in score. I take their Mongol-lands city of Shantung this turn, and soon begin advancing in both Mongol and Aztec lands.

2023 - I do some calculations and figure that if I can four-turn most techs, I should be able to complete a spaceship just in time to win the game. However, that's not a guarantee, and I might need to conquer Arabia. So, as a means to that end, I nuke Damascus and Mecca. The latter is ironic, as that's where the Manhattan Project was built. This also cuts off Arabia from all resources.

2025 - I finish taking all Mongol lands. Unfortunately, Korea declares war on Greece because Greece attacked the Aztecs. Korea and Aztecs have an MPP (why Korea agreed, I've no idea). I have an MPP with both Korea and a right of passage with my next-door-neighbor Greece, so I will have to choose sides. Both are Gracious towards me. The good news is, I supply both sides with Oil, so whoever I side against won't have any oil. The bad news is, I'm getting tons of money from both sides for the oil, and I'll lose close to half of that either way. After that, I won't be able to run a profit at 100% science anymore, which could hurt spaceship efforts.

2026 - I side with Greece and DOW Korea. Greece pays more for oil and luxuries, is more advanced, has more upgraded troops, is right next door, and would be harder to conquer.

2027 - I take Cheju and Tlatelolco from Korea, beginning that conquest.

2028 - Ulsan falls, and Ashur to Greece.

2030 - Aydin falls from Arabia to me. This is through rough jungle terrain, and workers are busy at work making roads so I can continue my efforts against the Arabs. It also was nuked, so the old roads no longer exist. In good news, it gives my people nuked spices, which makes them happy.

2031 - Tenochitlan falls to Greece and the Aztecs are defeated.

2032 - Basra and Seoul fall to me, and Aden to my furious ally the Ottomans. Korea is clearly defeated, despite still having Rubber.

2034 - I take a few more cities from Korea, make peace, and sign a right of passage. I also get Amphibious War for a couple hundred gold in the peace deal.

2037 - I take the former metropolis of Medina, dealing a large blow to Arabia. This is the first city I've taken with the help of Radar Artillery, which are pretty devastating. About half my artillery are upgraded now, but the rest will be soon.

2039 - I take Anjar, a city the Ottomans nuked, from the Arabs. This is the first city I've taken with the help of Modern Armor.

2040 - I take Najran, and finish my spaceship with the help of a Great Leader rushing the exterior casing. My troops are within striking distance of Mecca, site of the Sistine Chapel, when the game ends. Final score: Arabia 1911, Rome 1755, Celts 1512, Ottomans 1397, Greece 1058, Korea 1052.

 

[Garvarg]

So I did not know it at the time, but I also had lost the great wall, in 610bc.

Now for the rest of the story.

Altogether in this game I got 19 Great Leaders. Nine of them in the Modern age, better late than never.

Middle ages and onward…

310BC Library
170BC Coliseum
110 LEADER
170 Hanging Gardens
290 Hero’s
320 LEADER
330 Art of war
390 Cathedral
570 LEADER
590 Leo’s Workshop
640 LEADER
680 Sistine Chapel
720 LEADER
750 University
800 Bachs
860 LEADER
910 Copernicus Lab
920 LEADER
1020 Shakespeare’s Theater
1140 LEADER
1210 Newton’s
1220 LEADER
1260 Universal Suffrage
1325 Magellan’s
1375 Theory of Evolution
1420 Smiths
1490 Hoovers Dam
1515 Wall Street
1545 Military Academy
1575 LEADER
1580 Battlefield Medicine
1585 Seti
1595 LEADER
1605 Internet
1630 LEADER
1630 United Nations
1645 LEADER
1650 Manhattan Project
1660 LEADER
1680 LEADER
1680 Cure for Cancer
1685 Longevity
1710 LEADER
1710 Apollo Program
1720 LEADER
1720 Intelligence Agency
1745 LEADER
1745 Built and Army… Why not ?



Firaxis score: 5756
Jason score: 6978

Not that great a score, but I got all of the great wonders after the ancient age.

 

[Più Freddo]

Conquest in 480 AD.

 

[Garvarg]

Wow look at those numbers.

586 Views for 21 submissions, and 7 people posting.

So is that 7 people looking 83 times each?
Or is it 21 people looking 28 times each?
Or could there be someone stalking us?

 

[Megalou]

Compulsive viewer? Oh yes, that's me! 83 times? Not quite.

 

[tR1cKy]

Conquest in 480 AD.

a close call. are you going to share a spoiler?

 

[Memento]

Im not Piu, but i have few things.

important in bold

Spoiler :

Turn 1 : 4000BC
Rome settled Rome
Turn 14 : 3350BC
Rome settled Veii
Turn 29 : 2630BC
Rome settled Antium
Turn 33 : 2470BC
Rome settled Cumae
Turn 46 : 1950BC
Rome settled Neapolis
Turn 52 : 1725BC
Rome settled Pompeii
Turn 56 : 1625BC
Rome settled Pisae
Turn 59 : 1550BC
Rome settled Ravenna

Turn 64 : 1425BC
Rome captured the Korean city Pusan for free

Turn 66 : 1375BC
Rome settled Hispalis
Turn 70 : 1275BC
Rome settled Viroconium
Turn 72 : 1225BC
Rome settled Lutetia

Turn 74 : 1175BC
Rome gained great leader Trajan
Rome settled Byzantium

Turn 75 : 1150BC
Rome captured the Babylonian city Nineveh
Rome created The Pyramids in Lutetia

Turn 77 : 1100BC
Rome settled Brundisium
Rome captured the Aztec city Calixtlahuaca
Rome captured the Korean city Cheju
both for free

Turn 79 : 1050BC
Rome settled Syracuse

Turn 81 : 1000BC
Rome captured the Celtic city Camulodunum
Rome captured the Celtic city Lugdunum

20 Cities

Turn 82 : 975BC
Rome settled Caesaraugusta
Turn 83 : 950BC
Rome settled Palmyra
Turn 97 : 630BC
Rome captured the Greek city Pharsalos
Turn 102 : 530BC
Rome settled Jerusalem
Rome settled Caesarea
Rome settled Tarentum
Rome captured the Greek city Athens
Turn 104 : 490BC
Rome settled Nicomedia

Turn 108 : 410BC
Rome gained great leader Hadrian
rush Palace in Pharsalos

Turn 109 : 390BC
Rome settled Seleucia
Rome settled Artaxata
Rome started golden age

Turn 110 : 370BC
Rome settled Aurelianorum
Rome settled Hippo Regius
Turn 111 : 350BC
Rome settled Nicopolis
Turn 114 : 290BC
Rome settled Londinium
Turn 115 : 270BC
Rome captured the Babylonian city Ur
Rome settled Eburacum
Turn 117 : 230BC
Rome settled Arretium
Rome settled Gordion
Rome settled Agrippina
Turn 118 : 210BC
Rome captured the Aztec city Tenochtitlan
Rome captured the Aztec city Tlaxcala
Rome captured the Babylonian city Eridu
Turn 119 : 190BC
Rome captured the Babylonian city Samarra
Rome settled Cyrene
Turn 120 : 170BC
Rome settled Tyrus
Rome settled Verona
Rome captured the Aztec city Tlatelolco
Turn 121 : 150BC
Rome settled Corfinium
Rome captured the Mongol city Ulaanbaatar
Mongols captured the Roman city Ulaanbaatar
Turn 122 : 130BC
Rome captured the Mongol city Ulaanbaatar
Rome captured the Mongol city Erdenet
Rome captured the Mongol city Mandalgovi
Rome captured the Mongol city Hovd
Rome captured the Aztec city Tlacopan
Rome captured the Aztec city Atzcapotzalco
Rome settled Mediolanum
Nice Round

Turn 123 : 110BC
Rome settled Treveri
Turn 124 : 90BC
Rome settled Sirmium
Turn 125 : 70BC
Rome settled Augustadorum
Turn 126 : 50BC
Rome captured the Celtic city Entremont
Rome captured the Celtic city Mohács
Turn 127 : 30BC
Rome captured the Celtic city Verulamium
Turn 128 : 10BC
Rome settled Trapezus
Rome settled Bagacum
Turn 129 : 10AD
Rome ended golden age
Rome settled Lauriacum
Turn 131 : 50AD
Rome settled Teurnia
Turn 132 : 70AD
Rome captured the Korean city P'yongyang
Rome captured the Korean city Namp'o
Turn 133 : 90AD
Rome captured the Korean city Seoul
Rome captured the Korean city Hyangsan
Rome settled Curia
Rome captured the Chinese city Beijing
Rome captured the Chinese city Hangchow
Turn 135 : 130AD
Rome captured the Chinese city Xinjian
Rome settled New Rome
Rome settled New Veii
Turn 136 : 150AD
Rome captured the Chinese city Tatung
Rome captured the Korean city Inch'on
Turn 137 : 170AD
Rome settled New Antium
Rome captured the Chinese city Nanking
Rome captured the Chinese city Tsingtao
Rome captured the Aztec city Teotihuacan
Turn 138 : 190AD
Rome captured the Babylonian city Babylon
Rome captured the Babylonian city Nippur
Rome settled New Cumae
Turn 139 : 210AD
Rome settled New Neapolis
Rome settled New Pompeii
Turn 140 : 230AD
Rome captured the Korean city Wonsan
Rome captured the Chinese city Canton
Rome settled New Pisae
Rome settled New Ravenna
Rome settled New Hispalis
Rome captured the Greek city Corinth
Turn 141 : 250AD
Rome captured the Chinese city Anyang
Rome settled New Viroconium
Turn 142 : 260AD
Rome settled New Lugdunum
Rome settled New Lutetia
Rome settled New Byzantium
Rome settled New Brundisium
Turn 143 : 270AD
Rome settled New Syracuse
Rome settled New Caesaraugusta
Rome captured the Greek city Argos
Turn 144 : 280AD
Rome captured the Korean city Ulsan
Rome settled New Palmyra
Rome captured the Greek city Thermopylae
Turn 145 : 290AD
Rome captured the Greek city Delphi
Rome captured the Arabic city Yamama
Rome settled New Jerusalem
Rome settled New Caesarea
Rome settled New Tarentum
Rome settled New Nicomedia
Rome settled New Seleucia
Turn 146 : 300AD
Rome settled New Artaxata
Rome settled New Aurelianorum
Rome settled New Hippo Regius
Rome settled New Nicopolis
Rome settled New Londinium
Rome settled New Eburacum
Rome settled New Arretium
Rome settled New Gordion
Rome settled New Agrippina
Turn 147 : 310AD
Rome settled New Cyrene
Rome captured the Arabic city Mansura
Rome settled New Tyrus
Rome settled New Verona
Rome settled New Corfinium
Rome settled New Mediolanum
Turn 148 : 320AD
Rome settled New Treveri
Turn 149 : 330AD
Rome settled New Sirmium
Rome settled New Augustadorum
Turn 150 : 340AD
Rome settled New Trapezus
Rome settled New Bagacum
Rome settled New Lauriacum
Turn 151 : 350AD
Rome settled New Teurnia
Rome settled New Curia
Rome settled Rome 2
Turn 152 : 360AD
Rome settled Veii 2
Rome settled Antium 2
Rome settled Cumae 2
Turn 153 : 370AD
Rome captured the Ottoman city Istanbul
Rome captured the Ottoman city Konya
Turn 154 : 380AD
Rome captured the Chinese city Tientsin
Rome settled Neapolis 2
Rome settled Pompeii 2
Rome settled Pisae 2
Rome settled Ravenna 2
Turn 155 : 390AD
Rome settled Hispalis 2
Rome settled Viroconium 2
Rome settled Lugdunum 2
Rome settled Lutetia 2
Rome captured the Arabic city Fez
Rome captured the Aztec city Xochicalco

stop research after rep

Game status: Domination Victory for Rome
Game date: 400 AD
Jason score: very close

 

[Più Freddo]

a close call. are you going to share a spoiler?

Very busy right now. I'll try to outline the game right now from memory.

I built The Great Lighthouse brick by brick starting in the Ancient Age. I let the Celts in peace, hemmed in by my faster expansion as they were.

The first attack was against Greece using a lot of Galleys and a mix of elite Archers from the barbarian mountain training camp, Legionaries and Horsemen. The Great Lighthouse was finished some way into the Golden Age. I largely missed the opportunity to create cheap units through upgrade because I didn't want to set nine Workers aside. Probably a mistake.

Greece was very small and weak. The real target was Babylon below it, since they were set to build The Pyramids. So the eastern army went south through Babylon capturing The Pyramids and then north again along the isthmus with several weak tribes in mainly roadless Jungle. Greece was conquered through fake peace deals and by reserve troops on their way to the front. I failed to make good use of the rather large eastern Galley fleet. I was playing very short sessions over the holidays and wasn't being very creative. The peninsula raging north hindered me although I eventually did place a city across it.

As soon as I could I started building up a western fleet and used the safe passage which ended close to Russia. I shipped a Settler over and founded a bridgehead city near China, which was my first victim on this side. I then sent armies south and north from there using available roads and new ones which connected them. I didn't use Galleys along the coast.

One thing that held me up was the Mongols building The Great Wall in distant Karakorum. I fought my way through from their east (my western army), but the city was eventually captured by my eastern army coming from the west. At this time I was using Knights built as Horsemen and upgraded. I created Leonardo's Workshop on an island in the north where a Great Leader happened to emerge. The AI was researching fairly well and discovered Invention, Theology and even Gunpowder.

I took out the Celts a bit early because of having too little transport capacity in the west. The Galley chain got into disorder and there were too few ships. In the end I was as usual producing troops which never reached the frontier.