johnnyfoodstamp
Chieftain
- Joined
- Nov 2, 2014
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Hello all! I've read these forums for years but just now decided to sign up and post my first post. And guess what? It's not to rage. I just had such a good game that I wanted to tell someone....
So a little backstory - Steam tells me I have 631 hours in on this game. It's my go-to game. I generally play on King or Emperor but I have been messing with Deity a lot lately. Quite a different game as I am sure you are all well aware. I love the cut throat nature of the harder difficulties. It forces you to make risky, but rewarding moves.
So the reason for the post....
I was playing as Siam on a Standard size Pangea map and working on a diplomatic victory. For the most part I stuck to myself. I was only able to grow to 3 cities and my entire empire was cut in half by Arabia so I had to have open borders just to get connected to my Capitol. Not an ideal start. But since I was playing the Diplo game I decided to just ride it out.
I was attacked by Askia first and then Sulieman. Both times I beat them down so hard in my own territory that they offered me cities and gold and all types of things for peace. It was a nice boom to my economy and made both of them fall behind in points. As the turns went by I bought up more and more City States for votes and I owned the World Congress every single year.
Now for the dilemma. Korea had just finished the Apollo Program which made me nervous. I decided to see what I could do about jamming Sejong up so I made a deal for all of his Aluminum and then I also threw in Open Borders on top of the sweetheart deal just so I could use some Calvary to go spying.
So I send a few Calvary through Korea just to get a sense of what I'm dealing with. I've never scouted a Civ in this manner and wasn't sure if I was wasting my time or not. But then, down at the southern point of Korea, I hit pay dirt. I saw 2 Spaceship Parts being moved to the Capital. I readied myself for a war. I built up a resistance at home and then followed the Spaceship Parts around for a little bit. Let's just say they took a quite inefficent route to the Capitol, lucky for me.
When the moment was exactly right, I destroyed both of his Spaceship Parts, pillaged all his Aluminum mines, and then my City States literally engulfed his entire ground troops. So I just moved in and wiped him off the map. I liberated 2 city states in the war and it was enough for a Diplo victory.
Proabably the most fun round of Civ 5 I've ever played. Cheers ya'll!
So a little backstory - Steam tells me I have 631 hours in on this game. It's my go-to game. I generally play on King or Emperor but I have been messing with Deity a lot lately. Quite a different game as I am sure you are all well aware. I love the cut throat nature of the harder difficulties. It forces you to make risky, but rewarding moves.
So the reason for the post....
I was playing as Siam on a Standard size Pangea map and working on a diplomatic victory. For the most part I stuck to myself. I was only able to grow to 3 cities and my entire empire was cut in half by Arabia so I had to have open borders just to get connected to my Capitol. Not an ideal start. But since I was playing the Diplo game I decided to just ride it out.
I was attacked by Askia first and then Sulieman. Both times I beat them down so hard in my own territory that they offered me cities and gold and all types of things for peace. It was a nice boom to my economy and made both of them fall behind in points. As the turns went by I bought up more and more City States for votes and I owned the World Congress every single year.
Now for the dilemma. Korea had just finished the Apollo Program which made me nervous. I decided to see what I could do about jamming Sejong up so I made a deal for all of his Aluminum and then I also threw in Open Borders on top of the sweetheart deal just so I could use some Calvary to go spying.
So I send a few Calvary through Korea just to get a sense of what I'm dealing with. I've never scouted a Civ in this manner and wasn't sure if I was wasting my time or not. But then, down at the southern point of Korea, I hit pay dirt. I saw 2 Spaceship Parts being moved to the Capital. I readied myself for a war. I built up a resistance at home and then followed the Spaceship Parts around for a little bit. Let's just say they took a quite inefficent route to the Capitol, lucky for me.
When the moment was exactly right, I destroyed both of his Spaceship Parts, pillaged all his Aluminum mines, and then my City States literally engulfed his entire ground troops. So I just moved in and wiped him off the map. I liberated 2 city states in the war and it was enough for a Diplo victory.
Proabably the most fun round of Civ 5 I've ever played. Cheers ya'll!