No.1300AD finish?
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To the end
Spoiler :
I underestimated the power of the empire. After cuir techs casually 1-turned most techs towards astro (640AD). The series of golden ages was finally over 720AD and I remained in police-bureau-slavery-decentralization-free religion. Honestly I don't think it matters much as long as you are in slavery. I don't think the xp from feud/theo matters much, especially since I had some stables.
Since I already have the things needed to win, now it's mostly producing troops and moving them. I guess I could just whip off cottages to cuirs, but especially since I got a GS (otherwise only beautiful GMs) I bulbed pp and rifling was near. Also thanks to a total of 4 or 5 trade missions I was swimming in money for cuir->cav upgrades (which is only 80
). Pete capped after 4 cities 840AD. Gifted the starving city and culture swamped Moscow back and imo it doesn't matter if you gift all of them back or not. They will not contribute seriously before the game is won anyway.
You can also see galleons+cuirs prepared for Qin in the bottom left. At this point I was mostly still working cottages rather than whipping them off. At rifling turning tech off and upgrading all cuirs asap.
A few turns later attacked both Qin and Hats. Landed some cuirs to her core area but Thebes would take too much casualties, so just took Heliopolis with upgraded cavs and she capped (in the screenshot they are hiding under the gems).
Qin didn't resist for long either, capture capital with cuirs and upgrade to cavs. Capped after two cities.
1000AD had 53 cavs which is "decent". Due to no tech trading they barely had engineering, no one had gunpowder. GG:s were attached to a bunch of cuirs/cavs for the free upgrade + scattered xp. No healer, healing is for the slow.
Declared on Wash and Sal on the same turn.
Took what I could and they simultaneously bent on 1040AD, leading to 1050AD conquest!
Thanks for providing this game, I haven't had so much fun civving in years!
Since I already have the things needed to win, now it's mostly producing troops and moving them. I guess I could just whip off cottages to cuirs, but especially since I got a GS (otherwise only beautiful GMs) I bulbed pp and rifling was near. Also thanks to a total of 4 or 5 trade missions I was swimming in money for cuir->cav upgrades (which is only 80
![Gold :gold: :gold:](/images/smilies/civ4/gold.gif)
You can also see galleons+cuirs prepared for Qin in the bottom left. At this point I was mostly still working cottages rather than whipping them off. At rifling turning tech off and upgrading all cuirs asap.
A few turns later attacked both Qin and Hats. Landed some cuirs to her core area but Thebes would take too much casualties, so just took Heliopolis with upgraded cavs and she capped (in the screenshot they are hiding under the gems).
Qin didn't resist for long either, capture capital with cuirs and upgrade to cavs. Capped after two cities.
1000AD had 53 cavs which is "decent". Due to no tech trading they barely had engineering, no one had gunpowder. GG:s were attached to a bunch of cuirs/cavs for the free upgrade + scattered xp. No healer, healing is for the slow.
Declared on Wash and Sal on the same turn.
Took what I could and they simultaneously bent on 1040AD, leading to 1050AD conquest!
Thanks for providing this game, I haven't had so much fun civving in years!