March, OCC [De Gaulle - Immortal]

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De Gaulle

• One City Challenge
• Immortal

Since I have some time again, I ran through a quick game this morning for some OCC fun again.

Normally I do not like to give out any hints but since 99.99% of users find these challenges a little too difficult here, here goes.

Hints: Builder resources MAY be difficult to come by... etc...

That said, I still had fun with it.

 

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I struggled with this. I could withstand war with archers without problems but once cuirassiers and cavalary hit there is no chance.

Another problem I've had is lack of culture. My borders kept getting pushed back. I would have lost the game but for educational purposes i worldbuildered some artists and defence and played on. At the end two camps were in war and I was few techs behind so space is definitely doable here.

Q: how many forests did you chop and farm? I went with 3 Farmed cows and elephants after biology also

I like to play either as always war or always peace with tech trading off.
I tech:
- worker techs
- writing after 2 workers start building library, queue warriors
- alphabet (with tech trading off i almost never research this early)
- bronze working
- in this game i teched towards literature and built great library
then I tech towards math COL, CS, Philosophy. Depending if pyrs can be safely built i go either pyrs or skip monarchy and go for drama
After having rep/monarchy, caste, pacifism I go education and then biology (chemistry before scientific methods) I build all monasteries, otherwise build research and/or units in between
After biology I beline assembly line, steel, plastics and then go rocketry and towards space victory

Seems like I could have teched better to trade since by the time of liberalism I was behind and until biology had no techs to trade.

Also music and culture generating buildings are more important on this level on lower level your city has no problem holding and expanding borders.

Recently I played some OCC always war, no tech trading noble small quick

 

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You should have a tremendous tech lead by the time cavalry show up though

Since I didn't post my results, I'd have to dig though a tone of saves/data to look at it in detail.

I will tell you this, I VERY RARELY will chop BFC trees. I am pretty sure I would not have on this map.

I am doing some experimentation on OCC-Deity as of late... default settings and no cheats. Trying to keep a win-rate over 50% is a lot more difficult than I was hoping..

Try that a few times, and Immortal will seem like a joke to you.

 

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I remember playing multiplayer OCC equal islands (sometimes always peace). I was competitive up until liberalism/biology but then I started to fall behind. I tend to not chop trees in BFC but this city had only one good food source. I did leave one hill for forest to grow.

What is your tech/wonder/bulb path (I know every game varies). Are there any turn log examples?

 

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I don't have a bulb-path... I never bulb anything.

And my tech path changes so much depending on the situation, I really don't want to give any formula. If I CAN... I do try to Oracle MC.... and Lib Astro.... doesn't always work out but it is a goal when the opportunity arises.

I started a OCC deity this morning, saved it around computers. I consider the game pretty much won so won't be continuing it... but I may post the results on the form for others who want a try..