New challenge: earliest possible UHVs
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Just achieved the VV of a 600 C.E. Dutch game, still need to complete the UHV. I settled Amsterdam as my capital and immediately sent all troops to capture the German cities of Aarhus and Frankfurt. They were only defended with axemen, which my crossbowmen ripped apart. Not only did I get the nice cities, but I also received two extra workers. I then considered either taking Berlin or razing it, however it was defended by a longbowmen and I did not wish to waste too many troops. I let them live, I had to pay them a technology for peace but I never had any more troubles from them. The side effect was annoying German culture spilling into Frankfurt.
My research order was Optics, Calendar, and Astronomy. I sent a galley down with a longbowman and a pikeman to capture Alexandria for an early tech lead. This was very effective, and Alexandria spawned a Great Scientist to save me eight turns of researching optics. While I was researching the rest of the techs I also sent another galley down for a settler in Australia. While I was there I saw an independent Pagan, and the spice nearby looked tantalizing. I took the city to secure my first spice resource. I sent a caravel down for conquerors to capture Aztec cities. I was able to whip out a settler and a galley. The settler was for settling Tucume, Maastricht is the Dutch location. This gave access to my second Spice. When I finally reached Astronomy I upgraded a couple of galleys and sent out a large group of settlers and workers. I settled Havana, with spice on tile to the East, Jost Van Dyke with the dye two squares to the east which I needed to build a fort on, Adriaansz Fort which encompasses two spices in its small cross, and Fort Vredeburg with spice one tile to the east. The only irritating thing is that the game only recognize the spice on the turn after you get your last one.
I will finish the UHV tomorrow. Right now Khmer declared war on me for Pagan, sent a army of Ballista Elephants and catapults to face my loan pikeman. Also Arabia declared war on me to take Alexandria. Luckily if I lose Pagan it will not effect the UHV, as it was already counted.
Edition: Just finished the UHV. I decided to get my revenge on Khmer for taking Pagan. They declared war on China, so I declared war on them. I used my conquerors from the New World. Must say it is very fun to have an overseas empire before the New World was historically discovered. I am not counting the Vikings and the Phoenicians.
My research order was Optics, Calendar, and Astronomy. I sent a galley down with a longbowman and a pikeman to capture Alexandria for an early tech lead. This was very effective, and Alexandria spawned a Great Scientist to save me eight turns of researching optics. While I was researching the rest of the techs I also sent another galley down for a settler in Australia. While I was there I saw an independent Pagan, and the spice nearby looked tantalizing. I took the city to secure my first spice resource. I sent a caravel down for conquerors to capture Aztec cities. I was able to whip out a settler and a galley. The settler was for settling Tucume, Maastricht is the Dutch location. This gave access to my second Spice. When I finally reached Astronomy I upgraded a couple of galleys and sent out a large group of settlers and workers. I settled Havana, with spice on tile to the East, Jost Van Dyke with the dye two squares to the east which I needed to build a fort on, Adriaansz Fort which encompasses two spices in its small cross, and Fort Vredeburg with spice one tile to the east. The only irritating thing is that the game only recognize the spice on the turn after you get your last one.
I will finish the UHV tomorrow. Right now Khmer declared war on me for Pagan, sent a army of Ballista Elephants and catapults to face my loan pikeman. Also Arabia declared war on me to take Alexandria. Luckily if I lose Pagan it will not effect the UHV, as it was already counted.
Edition: Just finished the UHV. I decided to get my revenge on Khmer for taking Pagan. They declared war on China, so I declared war on them. I used my conquerors from the New World. Must say it is very fun to have an overseas empire before the New World was historically discovered. I am not counting the Vikings and the Phoenicians.
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Did you lose your Mexican holdings? (I see some of them were undefended) It doesn't matter anyway since you got your spices.
Egypt was overcome as per the strategy guide.
I scouted the middle east and found that the Persians had already destroyed the Babylonians and captured Sur. I landed on the beaches with my spears and wiped out their wounded Immortals. Babylon fell soon after that.
Fresh mercenaries were ship chained in from Carthage for attacking Jerusalem. I took it with heavy losses. In this way I had 3 Dye resources for the 100BC 5 city date. I used the free golden age to generate most of 3 Great Scientists.
My tech path was Monarchy(from peace treaty with Persia), Math, Calender, Compass(bulbed), Feudalism, Aestethics(couldn't manage to trade for it), Machinery(bulbed), Guilds, Optics(bulbed).
I upgraded my Triremes to Caravels in Singapore and the island off Portugal and went through the Mayans to meet up in the Pacific in 320AD.
I scouted the middle east and found that the Persians had already destroyed the Babylonians and captured Sur. I landed on the beaches with my spears and wiped out their wounded Immortals. Babylon fell soon after that.
Fresh mercenaries were ship chained in from Carthage for attacking Jerusalem. I took it with heavy losses. In this way I had 3 Dye resources for the 100BC 5 city date. I used the free golden age to generate most of 3 Great Scientists.
My tech path was Monarchy(from peace treaty with Persia), Math, Calender, Compass(bulbed), Feudalism, Aestethics(couldn't manage to trade for it), Machinery(bulbed), Guilds, Optics(bulbed).
I upgraded my Triremes to Caravels in Singapore and the island off Portugal and went through the Mayans to meet up in the Pacific in 320AD.
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The screenshot of the UHV is from 350AD, but your post title says UHV in 335AD?
For all circumnavigation UHVs, the date at which the game gives you a UHV is the relevant date. I know that this is the turn after you actually achieve the circumnavigation.
Please advise about the date(s).
usi
Shogun
Greek UHV won at 20AD - not a new record, but my intention here is to show that Korinthos isn't a bad choice, if not a better choice.
I built Korinthos and Ilion, which are ideal GP farms. Most of the necessary techs were bulbed.
There were several mistakes and troubles I had:
(1) It was rather late when I realized that I had to send a settler to somewhere near New Zealand. No GG attached to the caravels, of course.
(2) I could not obtain a GM, which is nessesary to keep up a good research rate.
(3) Everyone except India hated me. Persia, Carthage, and Rome DOWed me, and Roman and Carthagian triremes terribly bothered me generating GPs.
So, without those issues, I guess Korinthos might be better than Athens. Well, I guess I'll try again sometime later. I'll first try the new Japanese UHV, which I haven't tried yet.
I built Korinthos and Ilion, which are ideal GP farms. Most of the necessary techs were bulbed.
There were several mistakes and troubles I had:
(1) It was rather late when I realized that I had to send a settler to somewhere near New Zealand. No GG attached to the caravels, of course.
(2) I could not obtain a GM, which is nessesary to keep up a good research rate.
(3) Everyone except India hated me. Persia, Carthage, and Rome DOWed me, and Roman and Carthagian triremes terribly bothered me generating GPs.
So, without those issues, I guess Korinthos might be better than Athens. Well, I guess I'll try again sometime later. I'll first try the new Japanese UHV, which I haven't tried yet.
blizzrd
Micromanager
Got it TDK, updated the OP.
But as I'm now currently downloading BTS 3.19 and RFC 1.186, I won't be making any further updates to this thread.
I will likely start a new thread though with a similar challenge. I plan to play each civ through under the new patch myself, hopefully others will too and will join in the next challenge thread.
But as I'm now currently downloading BTS 3.19 and RFC 1.186, I won't be making any further updates to this thread.
I will likely start a new thread though with a similar challenge. I plan to play each civ through under the new patch myself, hopefully others will too and will join in the next challenge thread.
