News: BOTM 16 Final Spoiler: Game Submitted or Abandoned

[ShannonCT]

last minute submission! I'v played all night and finished game just now. So there were a lot of hurry mistakes... But what a game it was!

I need to go... technical result is:
domi 1755AD pop 2203, land 356, tech 237, wonder 170. Final score 519K.

82 cities built, some number of cities was captured.. maybe 20-25.

Well done Gosha (grumble, grumble ).

I guess you managed to keep your empire more compact and pack in the cities tighter?

 

[Gosha190]

I guess you managed to keep your empire more compact
and pack in the cities tighter?

sure! I had 56% lands and it was a some problem for me to get rest 8%.

You can compare my final land = 356 and your's final land value. I played milking stage too fast and without any calculations. Because of that I prefer to have comfortable gap to avoid unexpected finish.

my capital, example of cities packing, Seoul (sushi capital), happy city

 

[Gosha190]

some log dates

There were 5 wars:

Spoiler :

560-600AD 1-st war to Vicky

580AD York, London
600AD Nottingham, peace.

660-720AD 2-d war to Hanny

680AD Carthage
700AD Hadrumentum
720AD Utica, peace

840-1000AD 3-d war to LKS

800Ad Seoul
900AD P'younyang
1000AD Wonsan, Korean civ destroyed.

1050-1160AD 4-th war to Mad Viking

1060AD Nidaros
1100AD Uppsala
1110AD Bjurgvin
1130AD Birka
1160AD Haithabu, MV killed.

1410-1490AD 5-th war to Jaro

1410AD Sagres
1420AD Lisbon, Oporto, Lagos
1430AD Fargo
1450AD Braganza, Leiria
1460AD Guimar?es, Santar?m, Coimbra
1490AD ?vora, Braga, Jaro killed.

Wonders

Spoiler :

Oracle and GLh failed, Pyrs 1030AD, Oxford 1200AD

Research path:

Spoiler :

1160AD SMeth
1170AD Liber -> bio (I couldn't wait more because of Jaro)
1180Ad Bank
1200AD Econ
1210AD RepParts
1260AD SteamPwr (for dikes!)
1300Ad Rifl
1370AD Nationalism
1410AD Costit
1430AD Medicine
1460AD Corporation (research slider set to zero to the game end)
1525ADA Commun
1570AD Steell
!600AD RailR
1620AD Democr
1640AD MTrad
1645AD AssemblL
1655AD Combust
1665AD Phys
1675AD Electr
1695AD Radio
1700AD Refr
1705AD Artill
1710AD Rochetry
1715AD Sattel
1725AD Industr
1740AD Plastics

There were 5 Golden Ages:

Spoiler :

1-st 375AD (8 turns)
2-3-4-5 1460AD..to the game end (12 turns x 4 =48 turns).6 turns left unused.

 

[Gosha190]

One more info: Sushi covers 81 cities.

 

[jesusin]

Gosha190, didn't you have financial problems in the spread sushi phase?


Late wars, no GLH, late sushi...
The key seems to be more cities, faster spread of sushi. What's your view?


Also, why did you end the game so soon? Had the score growth stopped already???

 

[Gosha190]

Gosha190, didn't you have financial problems in the spread sushi phase?


Late wars, no GLH, late sushi...
The key seems to be more cities, faster spread of sushi. What's your view?

I believe the key point in this game was HUMMERS! I suffered all time until I got dikes. And I was constantly happy after I researched Steam Power.

Yes, there were financial problems. Initially I spread Sushi too fast and went to the strike! I got -1500 gold per turn at zero science. Happily I got 16000 gold in my treasury. I switched civics from caste to slavery and pop-rushed courthouses in all new cities asap. It was my first game with Sushi and I learned while playing.

Also, why did you end the game so soon? Had the score growth stopped already???

are you laughing at me? I played last session more than 15 hours in a row! I finished my game 1 or 2 hour before deadline. And you call this "soon"?!

I was more dead than alive at that moment. I felt me like marathon runners at a finish line. So I disagree with you

 

[Gosha190]

some thoughts about civics.

I used Repr + Bur + Slave/Caste + FreeMarket + Paci/FreeRel.

All of them, except one, looks reasonable. I mean Bur. I forgot to switch from Bur to Nat. There were 3 reasons to do this.

1. Bur is too expensive civic when you have more than 100 cities.
2. Nat has no cost at all.
3. You can build cheap barracks and get 2 more happy citizens!

I built some barracks but later forgot to change civic because I was too tired.

 

[Ronnie1]

I've finally had a chance to read through most of this thread....

I got a very late Diplo win, circa 1950AD....

My game was tedious and not very noteworthy. I warred way to late, and changed VC plans 2-3 times. I have never really played around with the Corps...but after reading this thread, and after capturing a number of size 3 cities that were doing 50H/t with Mining Inc., I really need to reevaluate their use.

I humbly bow to your superior skills!

 

[srad]

I played last session more than 15 hours in a row! I finished my game 1 or 2 hour before deadline. And you call this "soon"?!

Oha, this sounds though! Nice screens of your empire - never seen this before. And interesting to see that you'll maybe will win the gold medal without GLH and late sushi!

 

[Gosha190]

And interesting to see that you'll maybe will win the gold medal without GLH and late sushi!

to tell the truth, I failed GLh before 1AD but I got it when York was captured. It was in 580AD. It was rather late... though captured GLh worked for me until I researched corporation in 1460AD.

 

[toller pretzl]

In this game I won one battle at 0,8 percent odds. I will remember that now everytime the AI wins a battle at those odds And feel better about it.