[C3C] One City Conquest Challenge

[curtastic]

I found this to be a fun challenge. Win by conquest without building any other cities. You have to destroy the world! Has anyone here tried that?

This is a random map, all one continent. You are the Arabs and you start with ivory, which is crucial.

Civ: Arabs
Difficulty: Monarch
Map size: Normal
Map topology: Pangaea
Rivals: 7
Barbarians: Normal

Rules:
No building cities except your capital.
When you defeat a city you have to choose Raze the city.
If you get a city any other way you must abandon it immediately.
You are allowed to demand cities for peace but you must abandon them immediately.
You must win by conquest.
No reloading.
You won't be able to build armies since you have only 1 city. You can't take any actions in between receiving cities and abandoning them.

 

[curtastic]

Spoiler My first attempt spoiler: :

On my first try I won but I was barely able to keep all the other civs at bay. As soon as I razed a few cities I'd make peace asking for more cities, then declare war on someone else. I kept doing that and the civs kept regrowing. I managed prevent anyone from completing the Temple of Artemis and the Great Wall the entire game. So civs would keep trying to build wonders, and their shields would be wasted when I raze the city before they finish. I did most of the work before getting Ansar Warriors, and before getting my golden age.

I first built a warrior and a temple, then immediately the Statue of Zeus, prebuilding it with the Pyramids. I probably should have built another scout first.

Oh and I should have built the captial one tile northeast, because then it would get 2 more bonus grassland. It probably doesn't matter much though because I was building horseman almost the entire game and couldn't get it to produce 30 shields in a turn, only 20, so I was wasting 10 each time.

 

[justanick]

Try an archipel-setting and use the Vikings. You already have the fitting avatar.

 

[need my speed]

You won't be able to build armies since you have only 1 city.

Is that so?

 

[Civinator]

Is that so?

These are the standard settings for supporting armies in the editor (of course changes can be done without any problems):

 

[zerksees]

I have not tried that approach. I enjoy "growth by acquisition", meaning no building of settlers.

 

[Lanzelot]

Has anyone here tried that?

I played in a succession game, where we did that on Deity level. Here is the story: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/occc1-one-city-conquest.491935/
Also, AG-10 back in 2004 was another succession game, where they did a One-City-Conquest on Emperor level: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/ag10-occ-conquest-emperor.90464/