Khan_Asparuh
Just a Bulgarian Eddie
Hi guys, I just wanted to share with you a game of mine going now.
It's a Deity standard 60% archipelago world, warm, wet 5 billion.
I'm the Celts, and I've preselected my 4 opponents for Zululand, Mongols, Portugal and England.
The reason to be excited is the way it goes so far. It's in 250BC, I'm first in all categories (culture, territory, points about 1350 with second Zululand at 1000).
I've just handbuilt the Pyramids on my private island of about 20 cities, am sure that I can get another AA wonder going in the capital (depends on the cascade, I'm 2 turns away from the Halicarnassus) and have a prebuild for Sun Tzu. We've just entered the MA, I'm in GA, I'm confident. If I manage to add Leo, fear me AI!
Became Monarchy in 1300 BC or the like, after a Philosophy slingshot. This was the first time I made it on deity to get a govt tech for free.
Some details on this lucky game of mine.
I started with a cow and deer in range, quickly found another cow and the capital and the second city pulled settlers like mad. I hadn't alphabet in the starting techs, researched it at 50 turns rate and then writing at max. The Zulus beat me to it, but I was able to buy it and trade it around. Then philo, trading for Poly and picking Monarchy.
I had all the contacts quite early, and what do you know, the AI has 2 continents with 2 civs on each, who were fighting for at least 2000 years. I was middleman for quite a while, and the AI was crippling its expansion. The Zulus beat up badly England, while Portugal was toying with the Mongols.
I saw in 2000BC that the only wonder being built was the Pyramids in a threatened city of England... I was already able to dedicate one on this so it came in a few turns ago... The first time I build an AA wonder on Deity, except a all or nothing run on TGL.
I was over the unit limit, half of them workers, but I still decided to take it to Zululand who had finally signed peace with poor Elisabeth playing 5CC. She'll catch up, there's a lot of place for expansion.
When I landed 10 gallics, I was able to raze 2 first ring Zulu cities and the capital. That's where I'm right now, having just signed MA with Portugal (they've met Zululand with a curragh) and England (she got used to fight Shaka, old habits never die).
I'll post a few pics later if anyone is interested, but I think that this game is going to be a big personnal pleasure for me and it's going really well. I think that it deserves to become a histographic win and if I don't do major stupid stuff (this time I'm keeping many saves, about 10 for the first 100 turns), it can be quite nicey one.
I called the thread "Lifetime" because my Civ time is quite limited now, being stolen on my girlfriend's PC, and you know how the average GF takes Civ... At least from my own experience, you can't expect them to stay calm in the corner while you finish Shaka off... So anyways, this game gets another hour or something added a day, so it will certainly take a long time. I hope it doesn't pass over 100h, because this is my personal limit of a game. If I ever pass over, I'm done with Civ3. Or had I said done with any Civ???
That would be cruel, I must check. I must have been drunk. Anyways, better safe than sorry, no more than 100h of gameplay.
Be back with pictures if someone is interested.
It's a Deity standard 60% archipelago world, warm, wet 5 billion.
I'm the Celts, and I've preselected my 4 opponents for Zululand, Mongols, Portugal and England.
The reason to be excited is the way it goes so far. It's in 250BC, I'm first in all categories (culture, territory, points about 1350 with second Zululand at 1000).
I've just handbuilt the Pyramids on my private island of about 20 cities, am sure that I can get another AA wonder going in the capital (depends on the cascade, I'm 2 turns away from the Halicarnassus) and have a prebuild for Sun Tzu. We've just entered the MA, I'm in GA, I'm confident. If I manage to add Leo, fear me AI!
Became Monarchy in 1300 BC or the like, after a Philosophy slingshot. This was the first time I made it on deity to get a govt tech for free.
Some details on this lucky game of mine.
I started with a cow and deer in range, quickly found another cow and the capital and the second city pulled settlers like mad. I hadn't alphabet in the starting techs, researched it at 50 turns rate and then writing at max. The Zulus beat me to it, but I was able to buy it and trade it around. Then philo, trading for Poly and picking Monarchy.
I had all the contacts quite early, and what do you know, the AI has 2 continents with 2 civs on each, who were fighting for at least 2000 years. I was middleman for quite a while, and the AI was crippling its expansion. The Zulus beat up badly England, while Portugal was toying with the Mongols.
I saw in 2000BC that the only wonder being built was the Pyramids in a threatened city of England... I was already able to dedicate one on this so it came in a few turns ago... The first time I build an AA wonder on Deity, except a all or nothing run on TGL.
I was over the unit limit, half of them workers, but I still decided to take it to Zululand who had finally signed peace with poor Elisabeth playing 5CC. She'll catch up, there's a lot of place for expansion.
When I landed 10 gallics, I was able to raze 2 first ring Zulu cities and the capital. That's where I'm right now, having just signed MA with Portugal (they've met Zululand with a curragh) and England (she got used to fight Shaka, old habits never die).
I'll post a few pics later if anyone is interested, but I think that this game is going to be a big personnal pleasure for me and it's going really well. I think that it deserves to become a histographic win and if I don't do major stupid stuff (this time I'm keeping many saves, about 10 for the first 100 turns), it can be quite nicey one.
I called the thread "Lifetime" because my Civ time is quite limited now, being stolen on my girlfriend's PC, and you know how the average GF takes Civ... At least from my own experience, you can't expect them to stay calm in the corner while you finish Shaka off... So anyways, this game gets another hour or something added a day, so it will certainly take a long time. I hope it doesn't pass over 100h, because this is my personal limit of a game. If I ever pass over, I'm done with Civ3. Or had I said done with any Civ???
That would be cruel, I must check. I must have been drunk. Anyways, better safe than sorry, no more than 100h of gameplay.Be back with pictures if someone is interested.
