NCG 4-The Triumph of the Mind

[Mu'min]

Spoiler :

Right, after 5AD, my economy really did crash. I was quickly down to 0% science and was still losing money after i deleted all sulplus units and switch over all my cities to commerce. Luckily with less than 4 to go and my mouse hovering over the change civic icon, to switch to a cheaper civic, the crash bottomed out leveled off, before slowly picking up.

By 300AD i was back up to about 40% science/ 30% science, then getting calendar, currentcy, code of laws as well as building the Great light house and the hindu shrine, got my science back up to 50%, then i finished off Qin in 770AD.

After that i settled down to build up my new cities, managed to get my science up to 60% my 1000AD and was in the middle of researching civil service inorder to start irrigating my cities and to get macemen to take on germany.

After 1000AD i researched feudalism, MC, Machinery, Guilds and started to build up a army in sparta to invade german, only to have cathy, who was ahead of me in tech and power to DoW me! .

I managed to repel her stack of axemen and seaborne horse invasion behind sparta. my counter invasion quickly took the city close to sparta, then i headed south for the next city, while i bribe germany to DoW on cathy too. After taking cathy's westen cities i headed for the double holy city, finding and razing a small coastal city on the way. i was going to halt at that point and see if i could get some techs out of cathy, but i then noticed that bismark was doing rather well and had razed one city and taken another, and looked like he was heading for the capital!

Well i wasn't going to have any of that so i got my army together and went and took the capital after a hard fight. My army was getting a bit raggerity by now. By now i was getting worried by the number of german units running around and quickly set of and took the last russian city around 1442.

By now my science was running up to 70% and i was drawing into the tech lead. Then just before the 1500's i declared war on the romans. I wanted to take them out while i had macemen ect. so i could tech up to rifles and use them to take on germany and mongolia.

 

[Mu'min]

WOW mice. i just had a look at your save. how have kept so much forest! i didn't even know that there was a forest south of moscow, by the time i got there it had all gone!

Spoiler :

I had a quick look at the rest of your world too, via worldbuilder, I can't believe how different it is from my game!

p.s. i just left the roman empire with just one size 2 city(no border pop as yet) helmed in by mountains and mongol land. hehe

 

[Mu'min]

Spoiler :

As of 1813 mu'min rules the world!!! having achieved world domination.

Here is what happened:
1600 got rifles
1674 got cannons
1690's declared war on bismark
1746 end of germany.
late 1700's got infantry and great merchant
next turn upgraded almost all to infantry
next turn declared war on khan and invade with infantry and cannons
late 1700's-1813 go through mongolia like a hot knife though butter finishing off the romans as i go.
1813 win!

A large foot army is the way to go with Alex. the combat I promotion really allows to build up a powerful army. with the right civics you can turn out really strong plaxaxs either for anti cav. or medics with healing I & II. Macemen with combat I and city raider I & II are good city takers too. i produced a huge army of these just before getting rifles so i could upgrade them.
Anyway here is the winning save:

 

[Hackapell]

:suicide: :suicide:

Wow, What an idiot I must be ! I blanked on the save for a month! you guys have permission to slowly rot my guts out as punishment...
Jeez, how stupid of me! note to self, next time, get someone to watch the thread for me when leaving. ah well...

Seeing as that was a massive error on my part, we could move on the the next NCG, which will start on most likly monday with Mehmed II. We could also continue with this game for a while, but I leave the desicion in your hands.

EDIT: I found my personal warm-up save to this NCG. It's a little different (semi-isolated start) but the gold in my capital made for a interesting game. Here's my earliest save for that.

 

[mice]

It's a pity but I cant manage a dual install of Vanilla after installing BTS. Not the old save won't play. I have to abandon this game at 1500. Well it was an assured space victory anyway I think.

Nice dom victory Mu'min.

 

[Hackapell]

Well, with everyone done, I think we can move on.
A few things to report; over my vacation I made a list of all the leaders we would go through in an order. The list is:

5: Mehmed II
6: Stalin
7: Cyrus
8: Frederick
9: Napoleon
10: Victoria
11: Washingtoon
12: Huyana Capac
13: Hannibal
14: Ramesses II
15: Shaka
16: Saladin
17: Asoka
18: Qin Shi Huang
19: Tokugawa
20: Wang Kon
21: Kublai Khan
22: Peter
23: Ragnar Lodbrok
24: Julius Ceasar
25: Bismarck
26: Brennus
27: Louis XIV
28: Elizabeth
29: Isabella
30: Roosevelt
31: Montezuma
32: Mansa Musa
33: Hapshetsut
34: Mao Zedong
35: Genghis Khan
36: Catherine
37: Augustus Ceasar
(the list is subject to change)
I also picked up warlords today, so even though I'm a bit behind on the curve(macs get no gamer love), I am farther along than I was for about 8 hours today. I honestly don't know how tough the new AI is, so I will play through a game and start the pre-game thread at a later time, perhaps when I am nearly finished with my test run.
That's all for now. Thanks to everyone who participated, and I apoligize for the inconveinence.

 

[Hackapell]

The pre-game thread for our next game is here.