Many leaders Game 6 Emperor Spaceman

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@ Swiss Pauli,

Spoiler :

Great Game, i've never even considered a thief economy, i think that this is something i'll try in my next solo game.

 

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Darius - Round 7

Spoiler :

The plan as normal was to keep everyone happy, build up the military to keep everyone honest and to slowly edge myself towards space.

The effect of the above was generally to be a lot of button pushing while moving settlers around to build railways where not already built.

Wonders were to be built as and when needed but i ended up building quite a few, the only two I really wanted were the UN and the Space Eevator.

1816AD Saw the beginning of the space age with the building of the Apollo Program in Susa, Sardis completes the Globe Theatre mainly for the culture in its ongoing culture war with the Chinese cities to the north.

1824AD Persepolis Completes the Eiffel Tower, the free broadcast towers are a nice late game bonus

1832AD Pasargardae completes Cristo Redentor and Ecbatana completes Rock n Roll,

1836AD The United Nations are finished in Dariush Kabir, I’m pretty confident that I will be president and the first task is to ban nukes.

1842AD Ergili completes the Hermitage, the cultural war rages on

1846AD Bactra completes Scotland Yard

1856AD Sardis completes Hollywood, this cultural war is the most exciting this happening

1874AD Susa completes the Internet, three techs are learned including Fission

the Space Elevator completes next turn and then its just a race to stars, Asoka looks like he's going cultural but i'm quietly confident that he will run out of time

 

[Ozbenno]

@Swiss Pauili

Spoiler :

Nicely played game from start to finish. Well done.

 

[pigswill]

Ad astra....

Prologue

Spoiler :

In 1800 Elizabeth addressed the Royal Academy of Science. "Ladies and gentlemen. I am tired of this world. Tired of bloodshed and treachery. Tired of lies and deceit. But not yet am I tired of life.
You tell me that the Sun is a star like countless others in the galaxy. Maybe there is another star with another world where we can start afresh. Find me that world, find a way that we can travel there. That is all that I ask"

Chapter One

Spoiler :

The period up to 1880 was an age of peaceful prosperity and almost totally uneventful. A faux war with Catherine to please Joao. Qin at war with Joao because he had a lot of soldiers and had developed a taste for war.

Catching up on research:

Getting on fairly well with the neighbours:

The New Forest had turned into a decent GP Farm (5GPs in 50 turns):

However I was still 10 turns from building Apollo and Asoka was getting on fairly well with his cultural victory.

But for every problem:

There is a solution:

Chapter Two.

Spoiler :

Life got interesting. Very quickly.

1880 Declare on Asoka. Qin declares on me. Most of my army is on the wrong continent, So much for being pleased with me. Got about half a dozen artillery and a couple of marines + 1 unit garrisons.

1882. Bribe Joao + vassals (Vicky and Cat) to DoW on Qin. Qin captures Westward Ho! Lots of small stacks emerging all over the place. Fighters and bombers ruin my improvements. My air force at this point consists of nothing, nada, zip. Not to worry.

1884. Capture and raze Delhi. Qin suicides small stacks (cannon, cavalry, few infantry) on CG mechs without bombarding defences.

1888. Evacuate expeditionary force from India after minimal losses. Get peace with Asoka. Qin captures Goldwine Truro!

1890. Recapture Goldwine Truro; half the buildings are lost.

1894. Expeditionary force returns to Albion.

1896. The Home Guard capture and raze Bremen.
Build Space Elevator.

1898. Build Apollo. Start building a spaceship.

1900. Our Glorious Army captures and razes Tianjin. Qin's power is plummetting. I'm in a position to annihilate China.
But I'm meant to be building a spaceship. So, its Peace. Launch a double Golden Age.

1903. Complete first casing.
1912. Complete second engine.
1913. Launch!

What shall the people of Albion do now?

And that's it. The End of the Beginning.

1923 Space Victory (first win on Emperor) 41k score.

 

[Ozbenno]

@pigswill

Spoiler :

Well done on the win . Never seen that event before. Too funny.

 

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@Pigswill

Great Game,

Darius - The End

Spoiler :

First emporer win for me as well in 1930AD.

i could have done it quicker i think in the end, but i just let it turn into just a button pushing exercise.

i did start to get worried about Asoka and cultural but in the end his third city just got over 40k

 

[·Imhotep·]

@all winners

Spoiler :

Very impressive, guys. Wish I had concentrated on REXXing rather than those wonders...land is power, you showed that once more clearly !

 

[pawelo]

Wasn't a catwalk though

Plan:

Spoiler :

Obvious, get this SS done and sent to the space
- get 3GD, Internet and Space Elevator
Don't let Asoka get 3 legendaries

Reality:

Spoiler :

When last played, I was chasing Asoka in his culture play, while teching towards space.
With two super prod cities, I tried to get some culture wonders, to avoid war and delay his winning perspective.

271


Will prove useful...

273
Asoka completes R&R and Eiffel, war will be impossible to avoid
Ironworks in Atico.

274
Industrialism - Plastics for oil and 3GD

276
Wall Street in Cuzco
National Park in Atico
Asoka completes Cristo Redentor (just for culture methinks, he's already spiritual)

277
Asoka completes Hollywood, there is urgency to get this oil online asap!!!

279
Plastics - Computers
Oil online - the workboat was waiting nearby
Start building up a very very very big invasion force (no need to take risks)

281
A nice drydock event (+1 health, +2 hammers) - just in time for the military buildup
Asoka starts a GA

282
I get a Great Scientist and decide it's about good time to get my first GA of the game:



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Computers - Robotics

290
The expeditionary force is getting bigger and bigger while this major wonder completes in Cuzco:



291
Asoka builds UN and becomes the general secretary by a few votes

294
Robotics - Superconductors
I avoid Rocketry so far to get it from the Internet

296
I got the WWW! And plenty of techs:



Military Tradition, Military Science, Flight, Rocketry, Communism, Fascism, Medecine, Mass Media.

The force is ready to strike for Delhi:



So, at Friendly (I feel myself very bad...), I do what is required:



Asoka tries and proposes the Diplo vote, which he will miss by a nice margin (about 10%)

297
Here is the Delhi defense before strike (with 43 CR2 and CR1 tanks) :



With a slight loss (9 tanks), the city is razed :



The army is wounded, but the job is done. With Delhi razed, Asoka loses the Cutural victory prospect - his fourth city is well behind, at 19K!

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After a few attacks (with tanks, arties, infantries, anti-tanks and even cavs) my strike force is full dead in India. But I'm sure of the game outcome right now.

302
India pillages my oil and lands a small strike force. I kill them easily with existing tanks.

304
I settle for peace with Asoka, gifting him Computers. I'm rather confident in my prod ability so far in the game.

307
Asoka comes to request Superconductors - I sent him away. Still, I trade a spare gold for a hit movie with him - has he already forgotten that we have been at war ?

308
Machu Pichu finishes Apollo Program, and I start Thrusters asap
Vicky completes (very early) first set of thrusters.

309
Satellites
Start the Space Elevator in Atico

310
Agra is legendary, but who cares

312
First thrusters ready in Cuzco, 4 turns pre-Space Elevator!

313
Second legendary city in India, but there won't be any third. Bombay is at 22K only.

314
I got Biology stolen by some backward civ. I got stolen DR twice, electricity and communism too. But who cares ?

315
Sid Meier is Incan:



316
The Internet provides me with Laser

317
After 150 years of fight, Russia capitulates to Germany

319
Fiber Optics - Fusion, for a second GP and a final GA

321
Last piece of puzzle, time to relax:



I complete some missing national wonders here and there.
Bismy completes Apollo and starts spreading Mining Inc in my lands. Like if I wasn't already winning this game.

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To get this uber-city even more uber :



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I expand Mining Inc in Atico.

325
Fusion in, and no GE. Seems that Vicky has already been there before. First time I lose the Fusion race when in such a nice position... Emperor is quite challanging regardless what we may hear

327
Asoka retries the diplo victory and fails

329
Bismy bombards me with Mining Inc, forcing a slight drop in my tax rate

330
Composites in, starting Genetics

331
Asoka completes SS Engine, and I'm still being bombed with Bismy executives.
Still, most of my cities are on research, so let him expand.

332
First SS Engine (5 turns in Cuzco)
Got refrigeration from the web

333
Just for fun (and maybe a slight thrill):



334
Genetics in

338
The space race is rather tight and entertaining, still there is no way I lose it.
Asoka has no Ecology nor Superconductors, and Vicky misses Composites and Fiber Optics. If they exchanged techs...

339
Ecology done
My SS Cockpit is destroyed by enemy spies, well no harm - the next one will be ready in three turns in Cuzco

342
Stealth
And, the final part:



Time to get myself a nice beer and live the momentum.

343
Qin completes, better late than never, Apollo

348
I complete SDI just in case
Also, first Future Tech is discovered

351
I'm the wealthiest civ and one turn from victory.
Here is my land, one turn before the end:



As you may have noticed, Brian Raynolds is Indian - Civ 2 has been made

352, 1932AD
This is the end:



Some stats, with the tanks figure highlighted - the real game savior:



First Space Win on emperor (thank you, thank you - no need to throw flowers - I would like to thank the RL for leaving me enough time to play it )
Score-wise nothing exceptionnal - 30488 points.

Conclusion

Spoiler :

What has won the game:
- PRODUCTION
- COTTAGES
- Three wonders - 3 Georges Dam, Internet and Space Elevator
- Capacity to send a huge (43 tanks) strike force when necessary to raze one of the about-to-become legendaries
- Some diplomacy on our own continent not to get DoWed early

Ralph, first of all great thanks for setting up this one. One of the best and funniest game I've ever played.
I learned a lot from all of you - great thanks for all fellow players who made this event instructive and entertaining.

I'm not sure I'll go for the Immy Immortal MLG8 - must think about it first.

Cheers everyone.

Pawelo

 

[pigswill]

Pawelo:

Spoiler :

Start with Congratulations on the win .

I really must post my last round in detail. It was actually even trickier than yours...

 

[Ralph_Jackson]

Well many congratulations to the Victors I will post some commentary later in the week but thought it would be great if players contributed some thoughts on key parts of the game such as (but feel free to add):-

1. Approach at Emperor when you have a lot of potential "space" for expansion as I feel some people handled it better than others.

2. Dealing with a post Astronomy AI going for culture...Ideas and thoughts

3. Managing a fast space race..

4. Key moments / decisions in your game and what was the result.

etc.

Would be a nice way to round the game up as it gradually closes to gets people's thoughts and retrospectives.

Ralph