Maybe the DemiGod victory went straight to my head, but I decided to have a go at the Sid level myself.
Especially SirPlebs
article on the Sid level gave me some encouragement, so.......... lets rock !
of course, I chose mostly the same configuration as him. Namely
Civ : Iroquois
Opps :
America, Egypt, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Mongols, Zulu and the Chinese.
The only thing I changed from his setting was the size of the map. I am just not patient enough to wait for 5 minutes between turns. I chose Large instead.
After, lets say, 50 restarts
I finally ended up with a fairly decent location 
. Of course, not ideal as usual, but I was left alone because I was the only civ on the island. At first I though it would be a short game. But as I played, I felt that I had never expanded more rapidly in my entire life. This gave me a hope that maybe I could reach Philosophy first. Then go for the GL, like SirPleb and follow his line of play.
Well... to no avail.
I did NOT get a free tech once I reached Phil
so I thought, THATS IT. But then, a saviour came, The Incas... poor bastards. They accepted a tradeoff for writing and philosophy. I just about got all the ancient techs. So.. it gave me a little hope. I could get my UU's up and running, get golden age and.... However, I did NOT have horses.
Hmmmm.. no horses I say ?
I was pretty much stuck, cus the only expansion-path laid in the direction of the chinese, and those were the only ones I could trade horses with. And so I did, and it cost me dearly/./ something like 68 gpt. However, I was lucky that the Aztecs offered me 118 gpt for Iron. I had furs too, so it helped me a with another 30 gpt.
That was how I stranded on my island for decades, centuries
amassing my army to kick chinas rear end. They had been fighting the egyptians over an island to the east. Fortunately they razed the cities they captured, so I hurried over with my mighty Mounted horsemen. I guess I had something like 35 of them as I crossed the channel. 
The war was a HUGE success.. I couldnt believe it at first, I razed city after city and repopulated them with my own settlers. Thinking.. WOW, is this as hard as it is going to get ??
I threw each and every chinese on the sea, only allowing the Aztecs to have 3 cities on the island. Why I did not throw them off as well ?
Lemme tell u.,, I was fighting with mounted warriors, they were present with CAVALRY!! SIGH...so, it wasnt going to be a walk in the park after all.
I looked further to the east, a bigger island covered by the Egyptians. I thought if I were to have a chance at all, I had to strike fast. My production was severely hampered, cus I had mostly reached my limit. Besides, during the war with the chinese, I was unable to build more MW's.
Deep inside me, I felt it was going to be disappointed with this campaign. I shipped over my army once again to bring doom to the Egyptians. Once I got over, in 2 shipments, the Egyptian army was amassed in front of me because I had to make 2 shipments, which alerted them of the coming blow. I had some catapults as well... heeeheee.
OK, so there I was, with the HUGE army of mine, with little or nothing to protect the rest of my Monarcy. Stranded once again, in a final attempt for world souvreignty. Faced with....
OH MY GOD !!!!
I saw him move troops into the city, the preferences were set to not animate enemy movements, but only to show them, it still took 6-7 seconds for him to move them all into the city. Wish I could count that fast!! In addition, 2 more stacks were approaching my target city, and they were all within striking distance of MY army.
There was little choice. My MW's would be slaughtered like water breaking on rocks. He had pikemen and some musketmen defending his longbowmen and his medieval infantry.
OK, it was time to admit I was too weak. What were my options? :suicide:
Ask for peace.. except, they had no intension of even talking to me as I refused to leave their shores after the first shipment of .. inclined to use the word "cannonfodder" So.. could retreat of course, but I only had the capacity to carry half the army back across the straight of doom. Of course, I wasnt going to lay down and die, I would die with the banners flying high first, and THEN retreat IF I was not successful with my first half of the army.
Needless to say, I didnt even make a dent in the size 12 city. He didnt lose a single pikeman.
If u want to see my status so far, u can go to
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/
and check out ConanConQ 1, 2 and 3.
I tried adding screenshots to this thread but found myself incompetent. Advice on how to direct the pointer correctly to the upload7 address will be appreciated.
Any feedback on how BAD it looks, how stupid I must have played or how heroic I seem to have fought will be accepted with joy.
Hold nothing back
Should I quit or is there hope ?
Thanks all !!
Especially SirPlebs
article on the Sid level gave me some encouragement, so.......... lets rock ! of course, I chose mostly the same configuration as him. Namely
Civ : Iroquois
Opps :
America, Egypt, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Mongols, Zulu and the Chinese.
The only thing I changed from his setting was the size of the map. I am just not patient enough to wait for 5 minutes between turns. I chose Large instead.
After, lets say, 50 restarts
I finally ended up with a fairly decent location . Of course, not ideal as usual, but I was left alone because I was the only civ on the island. At first I though it would be a short game. But as I played, I felt that I had never expanded more rapidly in my entire life. This gave me a hope that maybe I could reach Philosophy first. Then go for the GL, like SirPleb and follow his line of play. Well... to no avail.
I did NOT get a free tech once I reached Phil
so I thought, THATS IT. But then, a saviour came, The Incas... poor bastards. They accepted a tradeoff for writing and philosophy. I just about got all the ancient techs. So.. it gave me a little hope. I could get my UU's up and running, get golden age and.... However, I did NOT have horses. Hmmmm.. no horses I say ?
I was pretty much stuck, cus the only expansion-path laid in the direction of the chinese, and those were the only ones I could trade horses with. And so I did, and it cost me dearly/./ something like 68 gpt. However, I was lucky that the Aztecs offered me 118 gpt for Iron. I had furs too, so it helped me a with another 30 gpt.
That was how I stranded on my island for decades, centuries
amassing my army to kick chinas rear end. They had been fighting the egyptians over an island to the east. Fortunately they razed the cities they captured, so I hurried over with my mighty Mounted horsemen. I guess I had something like 35 of them as I crossed the channel. The war was a HUGE success.. I couldnt believe it at first, I razed city after city and repopulated them with my own settlers. Thinking.. WOW, is this as hard as it is going to get ??
I threw each and every chinese on the sea, only allowing the Aztecs to have 3 cities on the island. Why I did not throw them off as well ?
Lemme tell u.,, I was fighting with mounted warriors, they were present with CAVALRY!! SIGH...so, it wasnt going to be a walk in the park after all.
I looked further to the east, a bigger island covered by the Egyptians. I thought if I were to have a chance at all, I had to strike fast. My production was severely hampered, cus I had mostly reached my limit. Besides, during the war with the chinese, I was unable to build more MW's.
Deep inside me, I felt it was going to be disappointed with this campaign. I shipped over my army once again to bring doom to the Egyptians. Once I got over, in 2 shipments, the Egyptian army was amassed in front of me because I had to make 2 shipments, which alerted them of the coming blow. I had some catapults as well... heeeheee.
OK, so there I was, with the HUGE army of mine, with little or nothing to protect the rest of my Monarcy. Stranded once again, in a final attempt for world souvreignty. Faced with....
OH MY GOD !!!!
I saw him move troops into the city, the preferences were set to not animate enemy movements, but only to show them, it still took 6-7 seconds for him to move them all into the city. Wish I could count that fast!! In addition, 2 more stacks were approaching my target city, and they were all within striking distance of MY army.
There was little choice. My MW's would be slaughtered like water breaking on rocks. He had pikemen and some musketmen defending his longbowmen and his medieval infantry.
OK, it was time to admit I was too weak. What were my options? :suicide:
Ask for peace.. except, they had no intension of even talking to me as I refused to leave their shores after the first shipment of .. inclined to use the word "cannonfodder" So.. could retreat of course, but I only had the capacity to carry half the army back across the straight of doom. Of course, I wasnt going to lay down and die, I would die with the banners flying high first, and THEN retreat IF I was not successful with my first half of the army.
Needless to say, I didnt even make a dent in the size 12 city. He didnt lose a single pikeman.
If u want to see my status so far, u can go to
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/
and check out ConanConQ 1, 2 and 3.
I tried adding screenshots to this thread but found myself incompetent. Advice on how to direct the pointer correctly to the upload7 address will be appreciated.
Any feedback on how BAD it looks, how stupid I must have played or how heroic I seem to have fought will be accepted with joy.
Hold nothing back
Should I quit or is there hope ?Thanks all !!
Next time, remember to pack along a settler. When the going get tough, you can just simply use your settler to open a town portal or a dimensional door (kind of like a stargate as in Stargate SG1) for your entire army to escape to safety. 
Um, score. This isn't just the Hall of Fame, it's the High Score Hall of Fame, right?
