This thread is for lulzy victories. I just lulzed one.
The game, despite being on immortal difficulty, was really easy. It was a kumbaya world where I got to expand to about 25-30% of the map on my own (it was a tiny map though, with only 3 civs, so this is in fact less than "my share") and everyone had the same religion. Then I found a small-medium continent only I could get to with a border pop, and managed to jump up to upper 40%.
Anyway, I was setting up for domination, and was only 2 turns from libbing military tradition. I had already been building and assembling everything I could, having an army of phants, cats, jaguars and muskets (no engineering so no trebs). Then someone built the AP. I was expecting it, as both of the AI's had theology (I didn't) and we shared religion. In fact, I had even prebuilt a bunch of monasteries to make full use of it whenever it finished. Then I get voted head of the AP, but with both of them only pleased with me while friendly with one another, I wasn't going to win a diplomatic victory without cheesily giving them techs, which I didn't want to do. So I continued to build up. 2 turns before the next vote, a buddhist wedding occurs, and I'm friendly with Isabella (spies kept us from being friendly before), and then on the very next turn, genghis catches "a fugitive fleeing [my civ's] justice", and "turns him over" to me. We suddenly have an additional +1, which was apparently all I needed to be friendly with him. Religious leader is my only option for the next vote, I take it, and they both vote for me! Diplo win, when I was 10 turns tops from DoWing both of them. lulz.
I didn't build the AP, I didn't try to keep them happy beyond the standard share religion and give them resources, and I was not aiming for a diplo victory, but I got it anyway just before my cuirassiers would have set the world on fire. Immortal victory #2 for me, though it actually feels pretty hollow. Am probably going to go back to an auto-save, choose not to have any vote, and stomp 'em.
For the record, I was aztec, because the UB discussion made me want to use the sac altar. I got the perfect starting location, as my capital had 2 coastal clams, 3 ocean fish, a fresh water lake, and a wet rice. It had only 75 turns of whip unhappiness when I was finished (marathon), and pop 22. I put the heroic epic in it juist to get more cuirassiers from it when I whipped it all down, which never ended up happening.
The game, despite being on immortal difficulty, was really easy. It was a kumbaya world where I got to expand to about 25-30% of the map on my own (it was a tiny map though, with only 3 civs, so this is in fact less than "my share") and everyone had the same religion. Then I found a small-medium continent only I could get to with a border pop, and managed to jump up to upper 40%.
Anyway, I was setting up for domination, and was only 2 turns from libbing military tradition. I had already been building and assembling everything I could, having an army of phants, cats, jaguars and muskets (no engineering so no trebs). Then someone built the AP. I was expecting it, as both of the AI's had theology (I didn't) and we shared religion. In fact, I had even prebuilt a bunch of monasteries to make full use of it whenever it finished. Then I get voted head of the AP, but with both of them only pleased with me while friendly with one another, I wasn't going to win a diplomatic victory without cheesily giving them techs, which I didn't want to do. So I continued to build up. 2 turns before the next vote, a buddhist wedding occurs, and I'm friendly with Isabella (spies kept us from being friendly before), and then on the very next turn, genghis catches "a fugitive fleeing [my civ's] justice", and "turns him over" to me. We suddenly have an additional +1, which was apparently all I needed to be friendly with him. Religious leader is my only option for the next vote, I take it, and they both vote for me! Diplo win, when I was 10 turns tops from DoWing both of them. lulz.
I didn't build the AP, I didn't try to keep them happy beyond the standard share religion and give them resources, and I was not aiming for a diplo victory, but I got it anyway just before my cuirassiers would have set the world on fire. Immortal victory #2 for me, though it actually feels pretty hollow. Am probably going to go back to an auto-save, choose not to have any vote, and stomp 'em.
For the record, I was aztec, because the UB discussion made me want to use the sac altar. I got the perfect starting location, as my capital had 2 coastal clams, 3 ocean fish, a fresh water lake, and a wet rice. It had only 75 turns of whip unhappiness when I was finished (marathon), and pop 22. I put the heroic epic in it juist to get more cuirassiers from it when I whipped it all down, which never ended up happening.
