GOTM72 - First Spoiler

[Più Freddo]

Well, my date of 1050BC wasn't that bad, was it...?

If this was golf, I could have given you an answer. In civ, you must decide that for yourself, for only you know how difficult it was for you.

But the Predator handicap was immense this time: we didn't know Alphabet. That's a whopping 120 beakers. It took me 17 turns to collect them. And all this time the AI was building and researching away, albeit at its Warlord pace. If you could reach the AI at once, it would have been Warlord. A bit later, Regent. Add seventeen turns, and its Monarch.

That the Galleys cost 40 shields instead of 30 hurt less. The first Galley was pre-built anyway. Also the two Pikemen per AI tribe were of less importance than the timing -- when you started beating the AI.

And, granted, here the randomness of the first crossing made the competition a bit unbalanced.

 

[tR1cKy]

Galley in 1250 BC...
The end result was nothing exceptional, a conquest in 1110 AD.
I agree that the predator bonus was quite tough this time, but the game was fun anyway. Just a thing i didn't like: the suicide path to the mainland. At that point of the game the random factor is just too unbalancing.

 

[Più Freddo]

Galley in 1250 BC [...] conquest in 1110 AD

One turn slower than me in the Predator Galley Challenge, eight turns faster in the (implicit) Predator Conquest Challenge. I bow for the master.

 

[tR1cKy]

Oh, thanks. But in game turns it's 226 vs 234, a tight margin IMO. So the master is not that far away