In this thread i shall attempt to dominate the world...

[ense7en]

t279, north-eastern kingdom

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South-east. Somehow, France has let Germany take Bremen and looks to be losing Troyes...
Greece wiped out Sweden, removing a trading partner from the game

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West. The early victims of Arabian aggression have warred against each other many times, and it looks like the Aztecs are holding a slight advantage.

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South, Babylon has become powerful enough to produce wonders, instead of that load being all Mecca's to bear.

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A stack of doom is purchased, and still much gold to spare.
4 triplanes, 12 great war bombers. Each one with air-repair as the third promotion.
We have yet to acquire the tech for carriers, but for any civilization close enough for our planes to reach via land cities, great danger is coming.

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Finally, Ironworks is completed!
Due to constant war and city razing, it has been an almost impossible task.

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t280 demographics. Game is long over...it is only a matter of time.

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tech tree

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[Heerlo]

I think you got this one in the bag.

 

[The Pilgrim]

Game is long over...it is only a matter of time.

And that's where the hard part begins...

 

[ense7en]

I think you got this one in the bag.

Yeah the only real threat was Germany, as they were starting to run away with things had i not interfered.
Once i got their cap the game was over.
No other AI has managed to become huge or do well in tech in the same way Germany did, so i've had little competition.

I am delighted to be able to finish Autocracy...it's going to be insane how strong i am in war with the finisher.

 

[dashwinner]

thanks for all the pics... i love reading these during a slow day at work. seems like a fun game, i never tried frontier before, i think i might give it a try next!

 

[ense7en]

thanks for all the pics... i love reading these during a slow day at work. seems like a fun game, i never tried frontier before, i think i might give it a try next!

Yeah i love screenies, so i know i've got a lot.
I can't tell a good story, but i can share about the game via screenshots, and those tell a better story than i can

My favorite thing when reading about other people's games is seeing their screenies, hehe.

Frontier makes really interesting maps, i'll say that.
Never really know what they will look like, very much like Fractal in that regard.

For the next update you'll see that i discover there's a huge sea separating landmasses that is not accessible via the rest of the ocean due to ice, so in order to reach the remaining land-based civs i must swim all my land units across it.

The most time consuming part of this game is just moving the units from one area to the next due to how massive the map is!

 

[ense7en]

The Huns fought hard, but they simply could not handle the technological superiority their Arabian attackers possessed.
From far back, Artillery fired upon the few remaining defenders and at last, Attila's Court fell.
Inside was a wonder of great use to Harun, the Statue of Zeus.

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A Citadel was placed near the last Hunnic city, adding even more Oil.

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1828AD (t284).
An extremely important year in Arabia's history arrives.

Eiffel Tower building is completed in Mecca, to the delight of the Arabian populace. Happiness abounds.

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Research of Plastics is done.
Harun's hoarded gold disappears as Research Labs are purchased throughout the empire.

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Total War is taken, finishing the Autocracy tree.
25% more strength in war for the next 50 turns should instill even more terror into the remaining leaders of the world.

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And the momentous year ends.

Boudicca is convinced to attack our former friend, Alex.

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Izzy continues to try to spam her religion upon the world, as she does in every game.
Scouts, workers, and the Inquisitor dance around the Spanish prophet, turn after turn.

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Japan loses their capital to Dido!

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Electronics allows for Carriers, and Frigates to be converted into Battleships.
Carriers are bought in various locations to assist in the migration of Triplanes and Great War Bombers.

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Harold agrees to attack Dido for some gold.

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We revive Sweden a second time!

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Alex is having trouble with Arabia's air dominance.

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The Atomic Era.

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Our citadel by Babylon has already connected Uranium to our network!

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Greece's capital is ours.

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More uranium hiding in the jungles near Lyon.
We annex Lyon to be able to purchase the tile to hasten connection of the resource.

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Our citizens hard at work creating science and great scientists gain extra production!

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After spending many years forming lines holding hands to form a preventative line, Harun had had enough.
War is declared on Spain again, for one reason alone: to kill their prophet.
In one shot, the city destroys their carrier of pagan faith.
Not too long afterwards, with no units lost on either side, Spain accepts peace.

Our naval fleet has set sail for western targets, and encounter a herd of swimming Songhaimen somewhat far from home...not sure where they are going, but the fact they are far from home works quite well with what Harun has planned for their homeland.

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Once Greece, now Arabian lands.

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Ptolemy reminds Harun of his scientific prowess.

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As usual, we leave Alex with one crap city, down south with Germany and France.

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Another great general is expended in an effort to secure the uranium from falling into enemy hands.

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Arabian military dive into the ice-locked ocean to venture to the other side.
They hope for more plunder beneath the clouds.

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[Heerlo]

That's alot of civs.

Btw, where's Sweden?It showed you liberated them, but I don't see them in the list on the last pic.Did they get wiped out again?

 

[ense7en]

That's alot of civs.

Btw, where's Sweden?It showed you liberated them, but I don't see them in the list on the last pic.Did they get wiped out again?

No, for some reason it does not show liberated civs in that list. They are still around.
With Germany "dominating" the southern area of crap cities, i suspect both Sweden and Greece will be in trouble though.

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t304
Dr. Manhattan finishes his project.
Once we reach Nuclear Fission atomic bombs can be made. Not that they will be needed, as already our military dominance is ridiculous.

t305, Radar researched. Triplanes > Fighters. Great War Bombers > Bombers

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We disembark to the frozen tundra northern of Boudicca's land and find culture from barb kills awaiting us!

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Hah, Askia revels in opportunities to defeat me.
Two turns into our war with him, his cap becomes ours.

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[ense7en]

As i mentioned in the initial post, this game might take me a while to finish.

It took so long mainly due to how much i procrastinated finishing it off, since it's rather insanely tedious in these huge war games.

Continuing on...

Last time we left things, my military was swimming across toward the lands of the Celts.

We decide to convince Boudicca to attack her neighbor Dido so she'll be occupied when we declare we on her.

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Honor tree completed.

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Carriers have brought my fighters and bombers close enough to wreak havoc with Boudicca.
Our land units push southeast toward Dublin.

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Meanwhile, our navy has sufficiently decimated Askia and he agrees to peace, giving us one of his cities.

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We give Sweden that city we just got from Askia.

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Hanoi is freed from Celtic control.

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Even the Great Wall hasn't stopped the great Arabian forces.
Edinburgh is about to fall.

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Edinburgh spoils.

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We have three GS saved up with another set to spawn soon.
Before and after bulbing:

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About to attack Dido.

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Yep, Dido is willing to attack Harold.

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And Harold is willing to pay me to attack Dido...

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We'd been selling Dido an exorbitant number of luxuries all game, so when we declared war on her, her happiness actually plummeted, putting her into very unhappy territory.

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We completely wipe out Boudicca, as at this point i no longer care about diplomacy, and her cities were all in the way of where i am going.

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Patronage opened. Already allied with most CSes anyway, so this just a bonus since we've finished the main trees we wanted this game.

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Mongolia's cap sniped with a single Cavalry...with the help of lots of bombers and fighters

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Four atomic bombs purchased just to add insult to injury...

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Carthage is ours.

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Nuked some Carthage and Denmark cities, with more nuking done after this screenie.

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Our navy had been racing down to Copenhagen, and with the support of the bombers on the opposite side of the land-mass...

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t324, goal achieved. Victory by domination.
Definitely a slow start, but once we acquired the German capital, the game was in cruise control and it was just a matter of moving units around.
Getting flight was a massive boost and the entire endgame war was primary won with bombers.
I was so far ahead in tech that Dido had just gotten a couple Great War Bombers as i was capturing her cities.

I think this Frontier map proved to be an excellent choice, as there was a bit of everything.
Land battles, naval battles, and sections where i had to move land units across sea sections due to how the landmasses cut off access via sea.

 

[ense7en]

Homeland.

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Moving my settler down to where i did seemed very risky initially, and it was, but wow, it really paid off.
If i had settled in place, my cap would have been extremely lacking in production all game, and would have been far weaker.

Southern lands. Babs and Monte were my first victims in this game.

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Southeastern craplands.

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French immersion

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Spain and Huns area.

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Germany/Sweden area

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Denmark; this was the final cap i took.

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Dido/Japan/Mongolia

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Celts

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Songhaisland

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Demographics and replay screenshots, t324, game over.

Demographics

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Social policies.
Finished Liberty, then went right side Honor, then finished Autocracy, then finished Honor, and finally, opened Patronage.

Tech tree.
I never got to use Stealth Bombers even though i'd been heading there and finally bulbed that tech two turns from the end.

Happiness.
For the entire last part of the game, it worked out incredibly well, and i didn't even need to annex all that many cities (for the courthouse +3 happy) or worry about rush buying any buildings.
I could have easily bought Stadiums all over to have been well in the + happiness, but i didn't care at the end.

City economic overview.
GPT was outstanding pretty much all game, initially due to Tithe, and then due to so many cities connected via trade routes.
I had so many extra luxs/resources that i was milking the AI of their gold+gpt all game long.

 

[ense7en]

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[smallfish]

tis be not that interesting map, personally speaking... other than Songhai, everyone else was stuck on a Hemispheres-esque continents

But it looks like you had fun

 

[ense7en]

tis be not that interesting map, personally speaking... other than Songhai, everyone else was stuck on a Hemispheres-esque continents

But it looks like you had fun

I found the map interesting as i've never really played a game with such interesting landmass shapes.

I should have done Immortal as Emperor is a bit too easy usually, but i was worried that with 15 civs a runaway would get too far ahead of me and i really didn't feel like posting about a loss.

I had great fun; it just got kinda tedious for the end as the game was long over and moving around so many different units was very time consuming.

Probably won't do anything like this again anytime soon, but it was fun.

 

[Heerlo]

Nice win. I wasn't thinking about you already being that close to winning for some reason.

Good job though.

 

[smallfish]

I should have done Immortal as Emperor is a bit too easy usually, but i was worried that with 15 civs a runaway would get too far ahead of me and i really didn't feel like posting about a loss.

Me thinks most of them will be too busy fighting amongst one another, unless they happen to start relatively isolated, but that also seems kinda unlikely even with this map script.

Of course there's the problem of a sandvich start...