Hi
I have been playing a LOTS hehe. I'm up to modern era now. I know I know I SHOULD have did better with checkpoints BUT it was kinda hard to be SURE if I met EVERYONE on my landmass till wayyyyy into the game already so by then I just kinds kept on going. So anyways here is how its going so far.
Anyways hope everybody else is doing ok
Kaytie
I have been playing a LOTS hehe. I'm up to modern era now. I know I know I SHOULD have did better with checkpoints BUT it was kinda hard to be SURE if I met EVERYONE on my landmass till wayyyyy into the game already so by then I just kinds kept on going. So anyways here is how its going so far.
Spoiler :
Well first I settled in place and then went mining, bw while I built work boat. Got a scout first goody hut and then Mysticism the second hut which was very convenient so after first work boat I did worker had him build roads until BW was done then chopped second worker then chopped stonehenge.
By this time I met Monty and knew THAT wasnt good. I went after masonry then farming and chopped great wall just so I wouldnt have to worry about the Barbies. I got my second city going near where the Copper showed up so I could start making axes to go say hi to Monty.
It took a lil while monty got IW by time I was ready. I still just had those two cities plus a barbie city i took over east of me. But my stack eventually got done and RIGHT before that happened a barbie uprising happened. Monty lost a city to em. They left it in uproyected so my stack just walked in and took it over. After that I declared on him and pillaged his iron then took out his capitol then the rest of his cities. I got 3 more cites out of it which was very nice since it doubled my size and Montys capitol is now my second best city
Now I kinda slowed down to build up my new cities and get a better stack for next victim. I may have taken a BIT too long but I wanted to get some better soldiers so I waited until I got a couple of Jumbos and cats after getting construction and then some swords.
Then I porbably made my first mistake. I went after Sitting Bull. I PROBABLY should have gone west after Freddy but SB was getting a lil too big for his britches and so was Degaul and SB was between me and him so I figured I had better take him out soon and then use his cities as launch pad for when I go after De Gaul. And I also took my sweet time about it hehe. instead of swoard and cats it was maces and trebs which sounds nice but ny then SB had engineering and MAN protective leader with castles is NOT fun.
BUt I eventually got him to down to size, took his best cities then made him a vassal. It was also touch and go with AP since the WHOLE land mass is one BIG hindu family. I got AP built so I would be a candidate but SB won first election. I did bribe degaule to DoW on SB though and that helped since whenver stopped the war votes came up me and Degaul had enough votes to block it.
After that I went after Freddy. He wasnt TOO much trouble but the little %&*^*&^ REFUSED to captiulate. I was gonna try and push him off the land mass since he got squeezed in between me and Saladhead so he had a few cities off on islands. On the turn I declare on him though he spawns a colony Rome with Julie leading it. I took him almost ALL they way off the landmass. I left one city just beacuse war weariness was getting to be a pain and that last city would have been swapped in arabian culture if I took it.
So now Mont is dead SB is my vassal and Freddy is pretyt much out of it. Him and his vassal rome are pretty much backward island civs now.
Right NOW I am in middle of war with Degaule. Taking most of SB and freaddys empire gave me enough votes so now I am in control of AP so dont have to worry about war stopping until i want. AGAIN I think I waited a BIT too long. Epic when you are used to marathon is BIG drop back. I am used to tech advantage to last a good long while but on epic it can be VERY short. But I kept teching and building up what I already have but the clock is running out. Just like 250 something turns left or something like that.
Good news though is I do have a pretty decent tech lead now. I am sending tanks artillery and infantry at DeGual and best he have is rifleman. He does have railroad but he hasnt built THAT many machine guns and he does have combustion BUT no oil hehe so my destoyers only have to fight frigates and ironclads and get buzzed by PITA airships. They are not doing MUCH damage but they are ANNOYING.
Airports are making it go faster since I can airlift tanks and Infantry in to keep up the stack and garrison cities as I take em. But weariness is getting to be a pain again. I am 3 turns from finishing Cristo and soon as I do I am switching to Police State and hopes that helps make some of it go away since I have rushmore built already.
I guess at this point I am heading for domination win. After Degaule is taken down I will go after Saladin but will also build some transports for Khmer. He is off by himslef but the lil snot is trying for a culture win so he have three cities that might need razing if he dont watch it hehe.
I am in lead now in land and pop and score. And my tech lead is widening better mostly because I went after assembly line asap. Not JUST for the infantry but mainly for the factories. Getting them built is making BIG diff in getting everything else done. I am one tuen away from plastics and will build 3 gorges since I havent been building coal plants since it would have REALY caused a lot of health issues. I get competive with teachs sometimes so when I see a civ going for like communism I TRY to get it frist so I can get freebie hehe. So because of that I just only recently got medicine and still dont have enough hospitals built yet but they are getting there. After Plastics is done I will go for refrigderation and that will help health even more.
I THINK I am in pretty good shape to win I just feel pressed for time. it is around 500 trun mark and game feels almost over. On marathon game wouldnt even be HALF over hehe.
I hope other people are doing better it seems like it. I only founded TWO cities hehe. Everybody else seems to be able to get TONS founded.
I also havent been too good at leveraging Lizzys traits or UU. But honestly at beginning gold wasnt a problem. My first two GP were priests so I settled em and one thing bout only starting off with two cites is maintaince is VERY low hehe. And by time I got to cities Monty founded for me I had courthouses and soon after markets so I didnt really NEED cottages to keep decent tech rate going. And GP were coming in decent early on so I mostly focused on farms and mines and most cottages I have now are like the cities someone else built em for me hehe. And tech window so slow on epic I think I build grand total of 10 Redcoats and most of them were upgraded maceman most of those upgraded axemen hehe. But they were all I really used. Mostly a battle would go like. Use siege to take down defense then soften up garrson then use redocats to take city and then whip some archers to be garrions while stack heals then move on. Usually when that city goes out of revolt they can whip a garrison unit and then build another to follow the stack and will be in city by time stack heals and ready to go to next target.
And now garrison is being airlfted in. So even though they werent THAT many redcoats they are a some nicely promoted ones hehe and are infantry now.
Well nayways thats how its going so far. Sorry no screenies but for SOME reason like most of screenshots I take end up all black and I have NOO idea why :/.
I will try to post some saved games tho if ppl want to say or just wait to end and post save of how it turns out hehe.
By this time I met Monty and knew THAT wasnt good. I went after masonry then farming and chopped great wall just so I wouldnt have to worry about the Barbies. I got my second city going near where the Copper showed up so I could start making axes to go say hi to Monty.
It took a lil while monty got IW by time I was ready. I still just had those two cities plus a barbie city i took over east of me. But my stack eventually got done and RIGHT before that happened a barbie uprising happened. Monty lost a city to em. They left it in uproyected so my stack just walked in and took it over. After that I declared on him and pillaged his iron then took out his capitol then the rest of his cities. I got 3 more cites out of it which was very nice since it doubled my size and Montys capitol is now my second best city
Now I kinda slowed down to build up my new cities and get a better stack for next victim. I may have taken a BIT too long but I wanted to get some better soldiers so I waited until I got a couple of Jumbos and cats after getting construction and then some swords.
Then I porbably made my first mistake. I went after Sitting Bull. I PROBABLY should have gone west after Freddy but SB was getting a lil too big for his britches and so was Degaul and SB was between me and him so I figured I had better take him out soon and then use his cities as launch pad for when I go after De Gaul. And I also took my sweet time about it hehe. instead of swoard and cats it was maces and trebs which sounds nice but ny then SB had engineering and MAN protective leader with castles is NOT fun.
BUt I eventually got him to down to size, took his best cities then made him a vassal. It was also touch and go with AP since the WHOLE land mass is one BIG hindu family. I got AP built so I would be a candidate but SB won first election. I did bribe degaule to DoW on SB though and that helped since whenver stopped the war votes came up me and Degaul had enough votes to block it.
After that I went after Freddy. He wasnt TOO much trouble but the little %&*^*&^ REFUSED to captiulate. I was gonna try and push him off the land mass since he got squeezed in between me and Saladhead so he had a few cities off on islands. On the turn I declare on him though he spawns a colony Rome with Julie leading it. I took him almost ALL they way off the landmass. I left one city just beacuse war weariness was getting to be a pain and that last city would have been swapped in arabian culture if I took it.
So now Mont is dead SB is my vassal and Freddy is pretyt much out of it. Him and his vassal rome are pretty much backward island civs now.
Right NOW I am in middle of war with Degaule. Taking most of SB and freaddys empire gave me enough votes so now I am in control of AP so dont have to worry about war stopping until i want. AGAIN I think I waited a BIT too long. Epic when you are used to marathon is BIG drop back. I am used to tech advantage to last a good long while but on epic it can be VERY short. But I kept teching and building up what I already have but the clock is running out. Just like 250 something turns left or something like that.
Good news though is I do have a pretty decent tech lead now. I am sending tanks artillery and infantry at DeGual and best he have is rifleman. He does have railroad but he hasnt built THAT many machine guns and he does have combustion BUT no oil hehe so my destoyers only have to fight frigates and ironclads and get buzzed by PITA airships. They are not doing MUCH damage but they are ANNOYING.
Airports are making it go faster since I can airlift tanks and Infantry in to keep up the stack and garrison cities as I take em. But weariness is getting to be a pain again. I am 3 turns from finishing Cristo and soon as I do I am switching to Police State and hopes that helps make some of it go away since I have rushmore built already.
I guess at this point I am heading for domination win. After Degaule is taken down I will go after Saladin but will also build some transports for Khmer. He is off by himslef but the lil snot is trying for a culture win so he have three cities that might need razing if he dont watch it hehe.
I am in lead now in land and pop and score. And my tech lead is widening better mostly because I went after assembly line asap. Not JUST for the infantry but mainly for the factories. Getting them built is making BIG diff in getting everything else done. I am one tuen away from plastics and will build 3 gorges since I havent been building coal plants since it would have REALY caused a lot of health issues. I get competive with teachs sometimes so when I see a civ going for like communism I TRY to get it frist so I can get freebie hehe. So because of that I just only recently got medicine and still dont have enough hospitals built yet but they are getting there. After Plastics is done I will go for refrigderation and that will help health even more.
I THINK I am in pretty good shape to win I just feel pressed for time. it is around 500 trun mark and game feels almost over. On marathon game wouldnt even be HALF over hehe.
I hope other people are doing better it seems like it. I only founded TWO cities hehe. Everybody else seems to be able to get TONS founded.
I also havent been too good at leveraging Lizzys traits or UU. But honestly at beginning gold wasnt a problem. My first two GP were priests so I settled em and one thing bout only starting off with two cites is maintaince is VERY low hehe. And by time I got to cities Monty founded for me I had courthouses and soon after markets so I didnt really NEED cottages to keep decent tech rate going. And GP were coming in decent early on so I mostly focused on farms and mines and most cottages I have now are like the cities someone else built em for me hehe. And tech window so slow on epic I think I build grand total of 10 Redcoats and most of them were upgraded maceman most of those upgraded axemen hehe. But they were all I really used. Mostly a battle would go like. Use siege to take down defense then soften up garrson then use redocats to take city and then whip some archers to be garrions while stack heals then move on. Usually when that city goes out of revolt they can whip a garrison unit and then build another to follow the stack and will be in city by time stack heals and ready to go to next target.
And now garrison is being airlfted in. So even though they werent THAT many redcoats they are a some nicely promoted ones hehe and are infantry now.
Well nayways thats how its going so far. Sorry no screenies but for SOME reason like most of screenshots I take end up all black and I have NOO idea why :/.
I will try to post some saved games tho if ppl want to say or just wait to end and post save of how it turns out hehe.
Anyways hope everybody else is doing ok
Kaytie