Double post, but what the heck. What did i say? Land isn't so crappy after all? Well
To 1 A.D., Immortal:
... and to Lib, 820 which is o.k. given the Land and all:
Actually i wanted to take Mil. Trad, but Willem was teching Edu, so whatever.. Taj Mahal should be mine, though. Joao found the A.P., which is nice for the hammers but not so nice for the unhappiness i'll face as soon as i kick someones butt. Will be Joao, most likely, and Willem afterwards, they're teching not too slowly. Toku is so backward he won't be any threat for at least 1k years. Well, what else happned... Built Great Library, missed MoM cause i didn't want to whip my food-poor cap, got an artist from music who was burned for a GA, bulbed Edu and Lib. That's about it, now i'm slowly teching Mil. Trad. for Cuirassiers while building up some infrastructure i'll need for the whipfest. Still, everything's farmed/mined/workshopped, and my research should skyrocket as soon as i tech constitution (which i'll let do my vasalls in spe, i guess.) Well, that's about it, unless there's a supercrazy monstertecher on the other side of the world, which i doubt considering the slow techrace and the laughable wonderdates (just realized that Joao built the Pyramids 640 A.D., LOL!), the game should be pretty much over. Will just vassall everyone and go for space or something.
To 1 A.D., Immortal:
Spoiler :
Well, the thing with the Economy... really not THAT easy on this map, i have to admit. Cottages? Pretty much ruled out, the land's just not made for it. TGL for a traderoute Econ? No seaside Cap and no other side that you could set up in time. SE? Well, not too bad, but 'mids on Immortal and low food all around... Well, finally i chose for some kind of hammer/SE Econ (or something) which made my techrate rather poor...But first things first.
Teched AGG->Hunt->AH, saw horses, and as i had tons of early hammers and at least decent commerce and especially no rush for any "good sites" or something, i decided that this would be worth the try and built Oracle. Took Alphabet which gave me some nice Trades (Sailing, Fishing, Pottery, BW, IW), although i nearly took CoL because the first guy i met was Toku on turn 35 or so? Pretty late. The other two showed up even later... but as i could see from is espionage points, we weren't alone. Whatever, set up a Library in my Cap and ran Scientists almost the whole time, first bulbed Math because i decided that i can turn alot of those forrests into even more cities, second build academy although it'll take thousands of years for this to matter actually, third bulbed Philosophy which founded Taoism... Switched to pacifism instantly, even more GPP, lol. As there's nothing worth growing into my cities are small, and i haven't build a single cottage so far X_X Well, you can't really say that i've any sort of real "economy" going, but as the AI seems to be teching pretty slow aswell it doesn't matter. Currently building Great Lib. in my Cap, planing on double-bulb Education and then for Lib as soon as humanly possible... Atm i only have 6 cities but the western barb city will fall shortly and so will another barb city far in the south. Lib seems pretty save right now, and after that i can develop my land until i can beat the crap out of those idiotic backstabbers on my island Diplo's just fine, gifted Alpha to Toku which, with shared Religion, got him to pleased, the other two are pleased as well ... everything fine, except my econ. But i'll fix that by building wealth and bulbing, i guess. Will also settle at least 3 more cities, which, together with two other barb cities, will bumb me to 11 more or less useful cities, and if i can find more useful spots i'll take them two. Screw the slider
Too bad that there was noone to rush in reach, otherwise i'd have horsearchered someone, the land's pretty much made for it with mass chops available.
Teched AGG->Hunt->AH, saw horses, and as i had tons of early hammers and at least decent commerce and especially no rush for any "good sites" or something, i decided that this would be worth the try and built Oracle. Took Alphabet which gave me some nice Trades (Sailing, Fishing, Pottery, BW, IW), although i nearly took CoL because the first guy i met was Toku on turn 35 or so? Pretty late. The other two showed up even later... but as i could see from is espionage points, we weren't alone. Whatever, set up a Library in my Cap and ran Scientists almost the whole time, first bulbed Math because i decided that i can turn alot of those forrests into even more cities, second build academy although it'll take thousands of years for this to matter actually, third bulbed Philosophy which founded Taoism... Switched to pacifism instantly, even more GPP, lol. As there's nothing worth growing into my cities are small, and i haven't build a single cottage so far X_X Well, you can't really say that i've any sort of real "economy" going, but as the AI seems to be teching pretty slow aswell it doesn't matter. Currently building Great Lib. in my Cap, planing on double-bulb Education and then for Lib as soon as humanly possible... Atm i only have 6 cities but the western barb city will fall shortly and so will another barb city far in the south. Lib seems pretty save right now, and after that i can develop my land until i can beat the crap out of those idiotic backstabbers on my island Diplo's just fine, gifted Alpha to Toku which, with shared Religion, got him to pleased, the other two are pleased as well ... everything fine, except my econ. But i'll fix that by building wealth and bulbing, i guess. Will also settle at least 3 more cities, which, together with two other barb cities, will bumb me to 11 more or less useful cities, and if i can find more useful spots i'll take them two. Screw the slider
Too bad that there was noone to rush in reach, otherwise i'd have horsearchered someone, the land's pretty much made for it with mass chops available.
... and to Lib, 820 which is o.k. given the Land and all:
Spoiler :
Actually i wanted to take Mil. Trad, but Willem was teching Edu, so whatever.. Taj Mahal should be mine, though. Joao found the A.P., which is nice for the hammers but not so nice for the unhappiness i'll face as soon as i kick someones butt. Will be Joao, most likely, and Willem afterwards, they're teching not too slowly. Toku is so backward he won't be any threat for at least 1k years. Well, what else happned... Built Great Library, missed MoM cause i didn't want to whip my food-poor cap, got an artist from music who was burned for a GA, bulbed Edu and Lib. That's about it, now i'm slowly teching Mil. Trad. for Cuirassiers while building up some infrastructure i'll need for the whipfest. Still, everything's farmed/mined/workshopped, and my research should skyrocket as soon as i tech constitution (which i'll let do my vasalls in spe, i guess.) Well, that's about it, unless there's a supercrazy monstertecher on the other side of the world, which i doubt considering the slow techrace and the laughable wonderdates (just realized that Joao built the Pyramids 640 A.D., LOL!), the game should be pretty much over. Will just vassall everyone and go for space or something.