My HOF Writeups

[AutomatedTeller]

I figured I would writeup/link writeups for my HOF games, since apparently it is useful for everyone. A bunch of them are written up in gauntlet threads, so I'll just link those. Most of them aren't all that interesting - I tended to finish last in gauntlets

My first game was the Feb 2006 Small Deity SS game. In fact, I had never beaten deity before this gauntlet.

Here is a link to the writeup:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=3791856&postcount=68

This is a link to the thread for that gauntlet, which went 5 pages

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=157933&page=4

 

[AutomatedTeller]

This was actually a game I played before I played the SS game - I had read the guides to 20K and wanted to play - 20K has, as you might see, become quite the obsession with me.

Sedentary barbs, Pangea, 70%, 4B, Normal, Temperate.

Played against France, India, Korea and Ottomans - I'm pretty sure I picked random opponents for the game.

I really enjoyed this game - funny thing is, I don't think I would play it through now.

I didn't found until 3850 - yes, 3 moves!!

This game is testament to how important an EARLY SGL is. I had a decent 20K location, though not great - cow and deer, could make nearly 100 shields with rails... and I got 7 - count 'em SEVEN sgl's in the game (which is the most I think I have ever gotten)

But the first wasn't until 690 BC, which makes it hard.

It also shows how important war is - I never got heroic epic and I didn't go to war until much later (this was back when I didn't understand how the AI works)

It's funny, looking back on this game.

I think I didn't make any trades in the early going, at all - I was still researchign Monotheism at 10 AD - I usually am most of the way through the middle ages by then.
I had ivory... but I didn't build SoZ until 850 AD.
I'm not sure i ever got consistent 4 turn research.
Not knowing any better, I never tried to get scientific civs free techs at the era change.

I remember thinking: man, I got 7 SGL's... and I wasn't even close to a high score - what does it TAKE???

Culture builds for this game:

Palace Built in 3850 BC 588
Temple Built in 3400 BC 1136
The Colossus Built in 1870 BC 1443
The Oracle Built in 1225 BC 1712
The Pyramids Built in 590 BC 1456
Library Built in 530 BC 1065
The Temple of Artemis Built in 510 BC 1408
The Great Library Built in 450 BC 2058
The Mausoleum of Mausollos Built in 290 BC 642
Colosseum Built in 230 BC 624
The Hanging Gardens Built in 30 AD 1092
The Great Lighthouse Built in 290 AD 456
Cathedral Built in 310 AD 666
Sistine Chapel Built in 570 AD 864
JS Bach's Cathedral Built in 580 AD 846
University Built in 620 AD 528
Shakespeare's Theater Built in 700 AD 1008
Copernicus' Observatory Built in 850 AD 444
The Statue of Zeus Built in 930 AD 412
Newton's University Built in 1080 AD 528
Smith's Trading Company Built in 1255 AD 210
Universal Suffrage Built in 1260 AD 276
Leonardo's Workshop Built in 1315 AD 116
Theory of Evolution Built in 1325 AD 168
Magellan's Voyage Built in 1355 AD 150
Hoover Dam Built in 1410 AD 78
Wall Street Built in 1430 AD 70
Intelligence Agency Built in 1455 AD 30
Battlefield Medicine Built in 1485 AD 24
The United Nations Built in 1560 AD 36
Research Lab Built in 1580 AD 10


Some obvious things jump out at me, looking back:
SoZ was very late in the game.
Built my university and cathedral late - Shakespeare's, too. Not sure what my research path was - I think I got literature pretty late, too.

 

[Elear]

More, more!

 

[AutomatedTeller]

This was my 2nd gauntlet. A link to the original thread

ahh, back then. I didn't realize that coast counted for domination

This has been, so far, my only domination game!! I just realized that. Well, I've have the current gauntlet.

Settings:

Iroquois, pangea map, 6 opponents (Byzantium, Russia, England, America, Scandinavia, Portugal - or, a bunch of guys who don't have early UU and dont' expand well) - no barbs, AI aggression set to almost nothing, 80% water, arid/cool, 5B. I think i would go temperate and normal, allow the AI to grow better.

The start:

Spoiler :

I'm in the bottom center of my island.

There's a 3rd cow to the NE.


1000 BC stats:

17 cities
44 pop
3 settlers
26 workers
1 chariot
2 MW

In Monarchy, researching literature.

Cities were spaced reasonably far apart.

I had met all the AI on my land - I never met England or America.
My strategy for that game was to expand, space cities 4 apart, build long lines of roads, build pyramids and ToA.

I worked around the island - Scandinavia was to my east, russia to the NE, portugal to the N and Byzantium to the west. Byzantium had a sword or 2 by the end.

domination at 10 BC. The winner of that gauntlet got domination at 610 BC!!

 

[AutomatedTeller]

The next two games started my run on 20K. I am not sure how many 20K games I was playing. 2 of them were done as Germany. Why Germany? Well, I figured that Germany gives me SGL's and fast research, and the faster promotions help get elites and a leader for Heroic Epic.
1st: Tiny Chieftain. 70% water, wet, warm, 5B years, vs. Greece, Korea and Sumeria. Raging Barbarians.

Start was nice – 2 cows, 4 hills, 4 BG’s. at size 12/20/with rails I made base

Spoiler :

29/35/52. Final results was 56 (with offshore platform and aluminum)
Culture builds:
4000 BC Palace (518)
3050 BC Temple (952)
3000 BC The Pyramids (1896) (SGL)
1950 BC The Colossus (1245)
1250 BC The Oracle (1444)
1175 BC Library (1062)
900 BC The Mausoleum of Mausollos (658)
875 BC The Great Library (1962) (SGL)
690 BC The Statue of Zeus (1228) (Golden age)
630 BC Colosseum (596)
470 BC The Hanging Gardens (1096)
170 BC The Temple of Artemis (916)
130 BC University (892)
10 BC Cathedral (615)
150 AD Heroic Epic (724)
370 AD Shakespeare's Theater (1040)
510 AD The Great Lighthouse (214)
600 AD The Great Wall (196)
710 AD Newton's University (522)
790 AD Copernicus' Observatory (316)
850 AD Sistine Chapel (438)
910 AD JS Bach's Cathedral (402)
950 AD Magellan's Voyage (189)
1010 AD Smith's Trading Company (171)
1080 AD Theory of Evolution (150)
1090 AD Universal Suffrage (196) (SGL)
1150 AD Sun Tzu's Art of War (86)
1210 AD Leonardo's Workshop (74)
1240 AD Wall Street (68)
1310 AD The United Nations (84)
1320 AD Research Lab (38)
1375 AD The Internet (32)
1405 AD Apollo Program (4)

Final pic of Berlin:

Spoiler :