New Civ 6 challenge of the month: Know Your Enemy

[FXS_Sar]

Hey all! We're back with monthly challenges (for PC AND console players)!

In the new challenge Know Your Enemy:

• Play on a map inspired by a section of the Great Wall along the Yangtze River
• Work with AI allies (Yongle & Qin Shi Huang) to hold back waves of attacks from Genghis Khan
• Utilize Wu Zeitan's mastery over spycraft to best your opponent

Dates: Sep 11 - Oct 16

Game Parameters:

Spoiler Reveal challenge parameters :

Difficulty: Prince / Emperor
Speed: Standard
Player Leader: Wu Zetian
Map Type: Custom
Map Size: Custom
Rule Set: Gathering Storm
Start Era: Medieval
Resources: Sparse
World Age: Old
Start Position: Standard
Temperature: Standard
Rainfall: Standard
Sea Level: Low

Good luck challengers...

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[crocivfanatic]

First!

 

[FXS_Sar]

First!

Quick with it!

 

[Pantubo]

I played this on Prince level, and the Mongols never attacked. It was about 150 turns of settling and building and fighting a few barbarians. And that was it. Game over and an easy victory.

Genghis actually offered me several trades, and I accepted a couple of them. On the last turn, I asked to Declare Friendship with him, and he said Yes.

This is not the Genghis Khan I was expecting. Is this a bug with the challenge?

 

[mudfoot]

Just finished it on Emperor and it was the same. Peace the entire game and it's team score against Genghis, so easy win.
Genghis just has a lot of cities and was burning through most wonders. I think he has a lot of units, but I only saw part of them at the very end because I was scouting through part of his lands with a general.
From the city graph, he started with 9 cities and he had 16 at the end and was top in almost all the graphs.
I build some extra units expecting Genghis to come at me, but hardly had to do any fighting. Even barbarians were a non-issue after about 30-50 turns as the other 2 Chinese leaders aggressively settled towards me, so they basically had to deal with most of the barbarians.

I agree, that's not what the description promised, so it must be a bug. As it stands, it's a builder game (not a fighting one) and a disappointing one at that, because Genghis was beating me to all my favorite wonders and great people.
Maybe I'll try again next week to see if they fixed it.

 

[Disgustipated]

Would have been an interesting concept if the Mongols actually attacked. They should be locked at war, I'm not sure if the game mechanics can allow teams and have that team locked in war. I didn't even get the highest score on Emperor since Yongle was expanding like crazy, but still got the badge. Pretty easy stuff.

 

[E.C.H]

My experience concurs with what everyone else is describing, not even a hint of the Mongols trying to war, and an effortless win. I even played on Emperor, when I usually suck even at King, and found that it seemed to help more than hinder, as even though I was definitely the weakest civ of the game overall, having two Emperor AI's as teammates really ensured the victory, especially Yongle's grand empire. Frankly, I suspect I could have sat in my capital and hit enter 170 times to win. To be fair to Genghis Khan, I wouldn't want to attack a three-player team, even if I start with a bit of an empire advantage, and my educated guess is that the AI calculated it's move's in the same way.

 

[Nigel_Tufnel2]

I actually enjoyed this challenge on Emperor as I almost never play the late game due to boredom (once I explore the map and am clearly winning Zzzzzzz.)

Spoiler Map :

Early on it seemed the biggest challenges were Housing in the cap, Amenities, and gold. I settled SE to nab Silk and then NW on the Cotton. First build was CH in all 3 to get TR going to Qin. I then settled the tile E of FoY and got City Patron to get those early districts up faster (Holy Sites were 1st in later cities). Work Ethic, Holy Order, Stupas, and Tithe finished my religion. I hard-built most Stupas to save Faith for Naturalists. I ran the Civil Prestige card to get Housing and Amenities from Govs with 2 promos. Ended up with +5-10 Amenities per city, but most of the game I was 0-1. The Toys GM didn't seem to do anything, even the next turn.

I ended up having 11 cities, 8 Natl Parks, 6 Artifacts; as well as 7 GW and 1 Relic (bought these last turn). The last 20 or so turns I just ran HS Prayers as I was desperately trying to buy my last Naturalists (built my last Park on the last turn).

I built 15 Wonders, including I think all the Religious ones, most of which I had never built. So it was enjoyable to see the Wonder animations.

I nailed the Era Score (Me 179 - Khan 105), I think I had one Normal Age but the rest Golden. Near the end I even bought a Battleship and upgraded a Frigate to get a Fleet for +3.

Team Score 1880-896. I had 975, Yongle 476, Qin 429. I trounced Khan on everything except Tech, which he won 90-88. I only built 3 Campuses. Yongle and Qin were right there too. Fairly early I built plenty of Great Wall sections, trying to work the middle 2 in lines of 4 to ramp up Culture and Gold, which really slowed Production, esp for Settlers.

My Spies did great for a while, but several got arrested and I just quit caring (stole money).

Mid-game became Barb Hunter VI as usual for me. If I was to replay I would likely attack Khan - but having to go so many directions and be regularly sniped by Barbs would have been a real challenge. I did end up with a pretty massive military, but it was quite small until mid-game. Just no need as Khan only took a peek once with one unit. Barbs raided the AI mercilessly almost everywhere it seemed. The river NW of FoY was littered with Builders when I finally got tired of watching the mayhem and cleared that Camp.