Monarch Student XVIII - Gilgamesh

[Ai Shizuka]

Final screenshots:

Spoiler :

Demo:

Power:

Stats. Over 300 military units mass-hammered via police state (Pyramids captured) and state property

Score:

Capital:

Heroic Epic/West Point:

Empire:

First stack was waiting for the first shipment of tanks in Istanbul. Second stack was about to kill Isa and move on Meh:

And techs:

 

[Jumbled]

I'm not too sure about changing it to emperor student. Even if the only change is the name, that leaves a big jump from Noble's Club. As it is now, noble/prince players have a game, monarch/emperor players have one, and now immortal/deity have one too. Prince to monarch seems to be one of the biggest jumps in difficulty, and this series helped me a lot making that jump. It seems like we just need a new influx of monarch level players. Maybe lead more players to these games? There are a lot of "help me on monarch" topics.

I've always seen this series as a monarch/emperor game anyway. Changing the label doesn't really seem necessary, but if anything, I would go with something like Monarch/Emperor Student.

As a fairly new Monarch player, I think Phil puts it very well: it's good to have a club every couple of levels, and the gap between Noble and Emperor would be quite daunting. The idea of labelling it as a combined Monarch/Emperor Student club seems a good one though.

 

[assass1n]

I am BACK and am gonna try moving up to Emp
Exams eat up tons of CIV time

 

[djvandrake]

Monarch / Marathon to 960 A.D.

Spoiler :

Mao declares on Sitting Bull in 260 ish. Pathetic stack.

He didn't make any progress against Mr. Bull, and they ended up fighting several other stalemate wars. Mao is always the aggressor.

My first great scientist. Since I could manually tech out Philosophy in just 16 turns, I used the GS for a capital academy instead.

And then teched Philosophy...

Parthenon in Lagash....

Next great scientist bulbs paper....

Which leads to my earliest Liberalism ever....

My Capital

Cities to the Northeast

And the Southeast

And my last city to the south..

Techs.

Stats.

I've made my best early game progress ever with this map. It's well in hand. I'm 3 techs from Rifles and Mao continues to beat his head against the wall fighting Sitting Bull. It's all but in the bag that I'll have Mao and SB as vassals by 1400.

But.

For personal reasons I'm not going to finish this. I'm likely not going to play Civ for a good long while again either. I'll call this game a success to this point for keeping my power rating up while my tech rate, gold, and production have soared.

Bye.

 

[dirtyparrot]

@ VoU

Spoiler :

I don't understand it either. As soon as I saw the potential to have 3 gold, 1 elephant, and FP's in the BFC that's immediately where I sent my 1st settler.

General comments:

Spoiler :

The rest of my game I would consider quite mediocre, but I still have a rather nice tech edge despite making boneheaded moves (maybe I'm a little too tough on myself). But, I let SB expand further south than I should have let him and didn't think that I built enough workers for the amount of improvements that were going to be needed to be built.

Just from looking at the spoilers of a number of games, I don't understand why people were so quick to rush Mao or for that matter SB. Why not let them clear those jungles, develop their (I our land) land, and maybe trade a few techs while we REX the much better land east and south? Neither civ should be a threat with the amount of land available to us. That's about the only good thing I did in this game.

I made it to 1750AD. I'm about to attack Mao's knights/muskets with cannons/rifles. I just waiting to upgrade my muskets to rifles before commencing the assault. I've been hoping that Mao would build Versailles for me after being the only one to have teched Divine Right (but it's been more than 200 years). I've already made short work of SB (DOWed him in 1630AD). I've managed to bribe Saladin and Mehmed (the 2 most powerful CIV on the other continent) to go to fight each other. Hopefully I won't take my usually week to wrap up this game like I did for Vic and SB. I'll go back and post screenshots after I've finished the game.

This map seems like a good map for people looking to make a jump in difficulty.

 

[dirtyparrot]

I forgot to do a write up for this game, so I figured I might as well make one, although I'm a bit hazy on the details of this game (it's been close to a week since I finished the game). I'm not going to bother including screenshots.

Spoiler :

Settled on the FP 2E of the corn for the extra production. My tech order was Mining > BW > AH > IW > Archery > Mysticism. It was a quite poor path to choose. I quickly met our 2 protective neighbours to the North. From what I saw, there were a lot of jungle/forest tiles in their territory and based on the vast amount of land available, decided that I was better off REX than attempting to rush someone. Plus, I wanted people to trade with, not to mention that they didn't pose any danger to me.

Founded Confucianism at 500BC. Both Sitting Bull and Mao quickly converted.

1030AD - Great Librairy
1170AD - Sistine Chapel (pushes back Chinese and NA cultural borders)
1370AD - 1st to Liberalism (take Nationalism)
1480AD - Taj Mahal
1515AD - 1st to economics
1590AD - Bribe Mehmed to DOW Saladin (his buddhist buddy) with Steel and Education (the only 2 threats to victory)
1625AD - China DOW NA - bribe Mao to sign peace with Sitting Bull (who is much weaker than Mao) and proceed to attack Sitting Bull myself with cannons and muskets
1705AD - Sign peace with Sitting Bull (I leave him with only 1 garbage city)
1780AD - DOW Mao (decide to bite the diplo demerit as Mao had managed to be friends with others)
1850AD - Wipe Mao from the continent (he has a couple cities overseas) and Native Americans are destroyed. I decide that Justinians's poorly defended cities would be my next target (he was wonder spamming)
1900AD - DOW Justinian
1922AD - Byzantines are destroyed
1932AD - DOW Saladin. Nuke his best cities back to the stone age. Capitulates the next turn after capturing his capital. His former vassal Izzy also capitualtes, thus I win a domination victory.

Overall, it was a relatively