Math02: 100K with limited cities

[MeteorPunch]

7 Turns for Persia...

Personally, I'd kill everyone I could because we're down to just 1 small wonder (Strategic Missle Defense), and then it's just pressing enter every turn. Either that, or sign peace and assign an "enter turn presser" so we can get this game finished.

There's really nothing else to do but wait until we win.

 

[Methos]

Plus, it would probably be wise to wipe some of them out or close to before nukes come around. One question, what do nukes do to culture? I assume it just destroys all improvements, meaning we won't build any more culture. Of course this is if they get nukes.

Unless something changes we'll easily finish off the tech tree.

 

[pindicator]

Well, I don't think Persian culture will be a problem any more. As far as razing goes, don't kill anybody off. I would say keep razing Vikings in the south until they talk and probably raze all the Persian cities in the south. If the Vikings decide not to talk, probably should leave them one or two in teh south just to be safe, but Persia has enough towns in the north that you can go ahead and get rid of the rest.

Hell, we could probably raze ever city that looked at us funny if we decided to; just make sure we win by 100k.

 

[Mathias]

I agree with pindicator, except I would go ahead and raze all cities in the south. When my turn comes around again, I'll play it to the end as MP suggests.

 

[Methos]

Pre-Turn: A little naval action.

1@1792 AD: Tromso (V) razed

Korea: We get World Map, 273 gpt, and 416 gold; we give Combustion
America: We get 15 gpt and 52 gold; we give Fascism

IT: Renew Mayan deal

2@1794 AD: Oslo razed
Trondheim (V) razed, destroyed Statue of Zeus

Korea: We get World Map, 259 gpt, and 270 gold; we give Mass Production

3@1796 AD: Bergen (V) razed
Odense (V) razed
Ghulaman (P) razed

IT: Ottomans declare on the Hittites.

Research Smart Weapons>Superconductor

4@1798 AD: Stockholm (V) razed
Tyre (P) razed

5@1800 AD: Copenhagen (V) razed
Pasargadae (P) razed

IT: America and the Ottomans sign a MA versus the Hittites

6@1802 AD: Alesund (V) razed
Birka (V) razed
Antioch (P) razed

IT: America and Persia sign peace. Persia establishes an iron colony and a coal colony.

7@1804 AD: Zohak (P) razed
Istakhr (P) razed
Izmit (O) razed
Take out both Persian colonies.

8@1806 AD: Edrine (O) razed
Bodo (V) razed

IT: Korea and Persia sign peace

9@1808 AD: Zzzz

10@1810 AD: Iznik (O) razed

Notes:
-On the west coast of the other landmass we have 75 units ready to be shipped wherever. We have two modern armors that are basically wiping out any colonies that pop up. In the past couple rounds three Persian colonies have appeared.
-Wasn’t for sure about the Ottomans but I got a little raze happy, so I wiped out a couple of their cities. I was in the process of taking out their spices (have removed only one so far).
-Everybody is willing to sign peace with us.
-Integrated Defense is done in seven turns, so we should decide where that wonder is going and when to set-up the pre-build.

Here’s the mini-map:

Here's the save.

 

[Mathias]

We should make peace with Persia and the Vikings, then build those colonies ourselves, especially the luxuries and more modern strats. Keep enough MA over there to prevent resettlement too close to our colonies.

 

[Methos]

Pindicator, you're up.

 

[pindicator]

bah, why all of the sudden am I forgetting my place in line?

Okay, I got it and will play this afternoon.

 

[pindicator]

Quiet set of turns. I opened up by declaring peace (for Ironclads and all the gold I could get) and promptly regretted signing peace with the Ottomans. But oh well...

I set up colonies for ivory, dyes, and silk in the shattered lands that once were Persian and Viking. I also set up a uranium colony in the patch of Ottoman land that we hold.

1820

Hittites and Americans sign peace

1824

Missile Defense started in Santiago. 1cpt baby!!!

1826

Korea is our largest cultural rival at 24500 total culture
America declares on Korea

1830

Korean total culture is 26880 @ 190cpt. Might need to war with them before it's over. But I didn't do any math on that.

 

[Obormot]

Is it my turn now? Well, Mathias promissed to press Enter at the end of the game and it's my turn in some other SGs too, so i can give the honour of building the integrated defense and finishing it all up to Mathias. Or i can play it tomorrow.

 

[Mathias]

We need 30,093 more culture to reach 100K. Korea needs another 25,120 to reach 50K. There's no way they could generate enough culture. They could possibly threaten spaceship, but that's easy to deal with.

Why regret peace with Ottomans?

 

[Mathias]

I can finish it tonight... Will wait for final comments, though.

 

[MeteorPunch]

Take us home Mathias!

 

[pindicator]

Why regret peace with Ottomans?

Ah, nothing big. Just to grab those spices of theres.

Finish 'er on up, Mathias! It was a good one, maybe a bit easy but fun all the same.

 

[Methos]

Go ahead Mathias but make sure you let us know how it ended. I think for the fun of it I'm going to play it on from pindicators save as well.

I'm going to miss playing this game. This has been a lot of fun and I really enjoyed playing this variant. If Mathias does decide to do another variant like this I'd love to join in.

Take her away Mathias!

 

[Mathias]

Screenshots, tiled together as one image.

 

[Methos]

That was an excellent game! Thanks Mathias!

Just curious if you are still thinking about trying this variant again? You mentioned possibly 6 cities or on a harder difficulty level. I'd definitely be willing to join in on such a game.

Again, great job everyone! It was a lot of fun playing this.

 

[MeteorPunch]

Neato!


This was really a fun variant and I learned a few thingies too. Thanks for hosting us, Mathias.

 

[Mathias]

1834 - Sell MT, Eco for a total of 605 gpt, 185 gold
1838 IT - SMD, we're at 380 cpt
1856 IT - Korea destroys the Americans
1874 IT - Last tech discovered

I kept an eye on Korean science progress, they weren't close to being a threat. They did end up with a bit more culture than I expected. I guess-timated that they would have 40K~42K, and the got over 46K.

Great game guys. I have definitely enjoyed it.

Math04 starts this weekend, but I haven't decided what I'll do yet.

 

[Mathias]

I expect an average of about 7,000 culture for each city from improvements by the late 1900s, or about 55K culture for 8 cities. That leaves 45K needed from wonders. We should get most of the AA wonders for about 25K, and all later wonders should be able to cover the last 20K.

We actually had an average of nearly 8500 culture per city from improvements, just under 68K. We only built half of the AA wonders, for a little more than 13K. Other great wonders gave us 17K, and the final 2K came from small wonders.

Math04 is another 100K...