When we left we was at war with Suryavarman, Pacal, Tokugawa, Gilgamesh and Peter.
All french cities was starved and unhappy. Every single fishing boat was destroyed and guarded by enemy frigates. And nobody was even willing to talk.
So we decided to ignore culture and focus on our immediate survival.
1901 - Only Kubilai talks to us and we arrange a little trade:
Switch to Nationhood, State Property and Theocracy.
The plan is quite simple: turtle up and try to get some decent ships to secure the coast. Going down anyway, probably, but we'll try to die with some style, at least.
1907 - Pacal has seen enough and vassalize to Sury. Bad news. That war was their only distraction and now it's everyone vs ourselves. We have ironclads at this point, and start destroying some frigates.
1911 - Peter finally arrives. Nothing impressive:
But Sury is a tad more advanced. Still no transports, though:
We try to contact Gilgamesh and he talks about peace, for a very symbolic price:
Promptly followed by Peter, after 2 of his 3 galleons was sunk by our ironclads:
Toku has lost only a couple frigates, but wants to give peace a chance. He wants Avignon, we manage to get peace for 100 golds.
So at this point we are at war with Sury and his vassal Pacal.
Sury doesn't talk to us yet.
1915 - Sury moves in his army:
1916 - And lands his stacks. We suicide 9 cannons on his main stack to soften it up.
1918 - Sury attacks and wastes a lot of troops vs our CG2 riflemen. His artilleries are kinda weakened by our cannons' attack.
And he finally talks about peace. The price, 900 golds, is high, but we are more than happy to oblige, at this point.
So we survived. Gilga, Peter and Toku basically joined the war for diplo points but didn't do anything spectacular. Gilga didn't do anything at all.
20 years later we can rebuild our trade deals to get happiness/health resources, fix all the fishing boats and keep going for the culture win.
Rheims suffered some massive drafting, but the other cities are going to recover quickly.
Switch to representation, free speech and free market.
1921 - Sury completes the Apollo Program.
1922 - We sign a defensive pact with Tokugawa himself and suffer no diplo penalties from anyone.
1228 - Sushi built by Peter. Bad news.
1929 - Gilga's Apollo Program.
1932 - Defensive pact with Kubilai.
1933 - Peter's Apollo Program.
1939 - Peter completes Hollywood. We lost all three modern cultural wonders. The first space component is completed by Gilga (Docking Bay).
1940 - Kubilai's Apollo Program and Peter completes SS thruster.
1941 - Industrialization is complete. Chartres starts pumping out tanks and marines. Science down to 20%, culture up to 50%.
1942 - We can get some techs for Industrialism.
Mil Tradition and some cash from Gilga.
Artillery and Mil Science from Kubilai.
Democracy, Biology and cash from Toku.
We switch to Emancipation.
1944 - We get a Great Engineer and he builds Creative Constructions, providing +18
in the big three.
1945 - Another SS thruster by Peter. At this point pretty much everyone is building SS parts.
1947 - Peter is the UN Secretary.
1948 - At this point, Paris needs 45 more turns, Orleans 51 and Lyons 45. Science down to 0, culture up to 80%, with -24 gpt.
1952 - Toku joins the space club with his Apollo Program.
1953 - Environmentalism voted as global civic. We voted NO, everyone else voted yes.
1959 - In the last 20 years, Sury has always been with enough on his hands. This worries us.
1964 - And six years later, this appears right in front of Marseilles:
Gilga completes his Manhattan Project. At this point we fear another massive dogpiling. With nukes, this time. French future is very grim.
Paris still needs 24 turns, Orleans 27 and Lyons 22.
1965 - Sury's stack is heading straight on Marseilles:
We are trying to mass some defense in Marseilles and our tanks are ready:
1966 - There is hope. Sury enters our borders without declaring war and turns east. Looks like he's heading to Gilgamesh.
1969 - His intentions are quite obvious at this point. Sorry dude, but I'm not going to fight that maniac to defend you:
1970 - Sury declares war on Kubilai. Still 18, 22 and 16 turns to go for our legendary cities.
1971 - Peter completes the Space Elevator. He's leading the space race. A Great General is born for Kubilai. Looks like he's not getting slaughtered, after all.
1973 - Wrong. Sury captures a mongol city and wants us to join. We refuse. Probably a mistake, as Kubilai's future as a free empire looks very short. Could have gained a little bonus with Sury.
1976 - A Great Artist. He bombs Orleans and speeds up the process by 3 or 4 turns.
1978 - At this point Peter still needs the engines and the stasis chamber.
1980 - Sury launches a couple tactical nukes and captures Karakorum. Kubilai joins the Khmer empire as a vassal.
1982 - Global warming strikes near Rouen.
1984 - Orleans is the first to Legendary status.
1986 - Followed by Lyons.
1988 - And Paris. Victory.
The world:
Our mediocre demographics:
At least our cities are up there:
The lousy score:
The legendary three:
Diplo relations:
We are horribly backward:
Glance screen:
And our military. Not enough to fight off a possible attack by Sury, but ready to put up a decent fight:
Overall, a bad game. Super-late culture win and I managed to lose every single modern culture wonder. I was dead last on the tech board and suffered 2 invasions on my island. I ended with 2 religions only and the second +50% building was ready in the '900. Way too late.
Power ratio was horribly low and I think that was the main cause of that 5 vs 1.
Still, a win is a win and my other single isolated game so far has been an utter failure, at Noble. And I think I've learned something from this one. So, an interesting game.
Definitely looking for the next one.
faces. I massively whiped these into forges benefiting from gems. Still lost a time.
And i was thinking i am doing fine. They are what living in goldmine land?
across the sea, and bought himself out, proberly worried Surry was facing off against him.
Crazy game...fun too.
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