ChineseWarlord
Prince
Wow, who knew that my very first 1.18 victory would be Korea of all civs?-
I would describe my playstyle this game as suboptimal but moderate. I made quite a few mistakes, but only made a fatal one that I had to reload from once. and so I was able to finish all the UHVs barely in time.
First thing I did was to make Hanseong my missionary city and focus on spreading Buddhism and Confucianism to my cities. Thanks to the larger map, Korea is a bit less starting luck dependent. Northwestern Manchuria, belonged to a strong China this game, but I was able to settle 3 cities instead of 2 in the Korean peninsula, leaving only 1 city that had to be settled in eastern Manchuria. Note that my 4th city (settled on the southern Korean coast) was not a good city. It didn't have many resources and cut quite a bit into Hanseong's growth, Still, with despotism I was able to build the necessary temples in time. Despotism might be important to get your early game monasteries up, but I'm not sure it's necessary to keep it. It certainly would have been easier to keep my citizens happier with Monarchy, but building Cheomseongdae, helped a bit with that.
I built a library in Hanseong at Korea's advanced start. This insured my tech speed wouldn't be too low while I was building temples. I believe I built some libraries and Seowons late-game, but only after I was satisfied with my defensive capabilities In the end, I did have to load an earlier save, and bulb my great scientist rather than have them build an academy, but I managed to get Printing a turn before another civ did.
The 3rd Korean UHV is to sink 20 ships. It's easy as pie with your Kobokseons, and so the real 3rd challenge is surviving. Knowing that Korea would be a prime target for the Mongols and Japanese. I prioritized building walls and castles in all of my cities, and then filled them with crossbowmen and Heavy Spearmen. When the time came to defend Korea, they were more than enough.
Indeed, the thing that I thought would do me in was instability. For some reason (Maybe my lands were overdeveloped leaving my workers with nothing to do?) I got hit with a really bad recession, causing me to almost collapse, but I won before then.
The Koreans have suffered mightily the past couple of hundred years. War, crowded cities and food scarcity and a harsh economic recession caused many to doubt the nation's continued survival. However, the Koreans grit their teeth and endured, and their preservation has paid off. The Kobokseons rule the seas, protecting the populace from Japanese invasion. The Mongols lie defeated, not by Korea, but by themselves, collapsed into a number of petty warlord states. Now, with both Chinese and Mongolian influence over Manchuria gone. perhaps the Koreans will be able to take advantage of the power vacuum and expand their economy and influence there. Either way, they have proved that small nations can make great achievements!
I would describe my playstyle this game as suboptimal but moderate. I made quite a few mistakes, but only made a fatal one that I had to reload from once. and so I was able to finish all the UHVs barely in time.
First thing I did was to make Hanseong my missionary city and focus on spreading Buddhism and Confucianism to my cities. Thanks to the larger map, Korea is a bit less starting luck dependent. Northwestern Manchuria, belonged to a strong China this game, but I was able to settle 3 cities instead of 2 in the Korean peninsula, leaving only 1 city that had to be settled in eastern Manchuria. Note that my 4th city (settled on the southern Korean coast) was not a good city. It didn't have many resources and cut quite a bit into Hanseong's growth, Still, with despotism I was able to build the necessary temples in time. Despotism might be important to get your early game monasteries up, but I'm not sure it's necessary to keep it. It certainly would have been easier to keep my citizens happier with Monarchy, but building Cheomseongdae, helped a bit with that.
I built a library in Hanseong at Korea's advanced start. This insured my tech speed wouldn't be too low while I was building temples. I believe I built some libraries and Seowons late-game, but only after I was satisfied with my defensive capabilities In the end, I did have to load an earlier save, and bulb my great scientist rather than have them build an academy, but I managed to get Printing a turn before another civ did.
The 3rd Korean UHV is to sink 20 ships. It's easy as pie with your Kobokseons, and so the real 3rd challenge is surviving. Knowing that Korea would be a prime target for the Mongols and Japanese. I prioritized building walls and castles in all of my cities, and then filled them with crossbowmen and Heavy Spearmen. When the time came to defend Korea, they were more than enough.
Indeed, the thing that I thought would do me in was instability. For some reason (Maybe my lands were overdeveloped leaving my workers with nothing to do?) I got hit with a really bad recession, causing me to almost collapse, but I won before then.
The Koreans have suffered mightily the past couple of hundred years. War, crowded cities and food scarcity and a harsh economic recession caused many to doubt the nation's continued survival. However, the Koreans grit their teeth and endured, and their preservation has paid off. The Kobokseons rule the seas, protecting the populace from Japanese invasion. The Mongols lie defeated, not by Korea, but by themselves, collapsed into a number of petty warlord states. Now, with both Chinese and Mongolian influence over Manchuria gone. perhaps the Koreans will be able to take advantage of the power vacuum and expand their economy and influence there. Either way, they have proved that small nations can make great achievements!
