One City "Challenge" isn't ...

[OneInTen]

Well, at least not in this game going for culture victory.

I'd had a culture victory or two before, so I thought I'd say how the game played if you only went with a single city. I choose the egyptians just the be different.

To my dismay, the 20,000 point culture victory is actually easier with only one city (at least on regent), as you dont waste shields and population building that initial settler. And as you've only got one city, the AI doesn't seem to see you as a threat and is mostly happy to just let your city sit there.

When you have a palace, template, library, colosseum, cathedral, pyramids, oracle, great library, great wall and hanging gardens all built by 70AD, well, you do the math.

Maybe it was my blessed starting position that helped win it so easily and early, but you'd expect the AI to put up a bit more of a fight and, well, kill me really.

On the up side, it's the first time I've played a full game of civ in under 3 hours.

 

[enelrad]

You made this sound like such a cakewalk that I decided to give it a try. I opened on a fabulous spot and got underway. I built two warriors (for exploring) and a temple before starting my bowmen (Babs) for defence. first attempt at regent level.

I have sacrificed countless warriors to the Civ Gods in the hopes of getting a settler from a goodie hut -- this is the game in which they decided to be gracious. It wasn't convenient but I could fit the growth into Babylon even though the settler had to take 15 eons to get home.

Got the Pyramids and several other wonders under my belt.

Following the advice of another post here, I listed the Yanks as the Civ nearest me because they are (supposed to be) honourable. Yes, I'm a wuss - I can live with that label as it is true.

Those Yanks wanted me dead so badly they could taste it in their dinners. It didn't matter that they had a huge (for a small map) continent practically to themselves.

When my four bowmen rebuffed [with deadly force ] the first 15 warriors and archers they sent, the Yanks got serious.

They put their 12 cities into production of the deadliest troops they could create.

They destroyed every improvement around Babylon. --chaos and hunger set in.

When my last bowman defender was on his last hit point, I just quit because I couldn't stand to see it happen.

I made several more attempts to restart but they gave me jungles and deserts every time.

{she sneers angrily} perhaps Egypt is just such a nothing empire that the others could afford to ignore you. Great Babylon is not so easily dismissed. Sob. . . sob. . .arrrrrgh.