Open Game Emperor Challenge

[autopsy-turvey]

4 food 1 production 2 commerce unimproved or whatever it is is pretty good but improved its only going to be on par with any other food resource tile, a nice bonus starting out but not game balance breaking

im at about 1000 bc so far, i was going to goonrush augustus but cyrus got judaisim and i still dont have any religion so he hates me. he invaded right as i was sending the armies towards rome, but thankfully hadn't declared war yet. i would have been hard pressed to fight off the praetorians and cyrus at the same time

the imperious civs didn't expand too fast, i was able to get 3 prime cities down and there's still a decent open spot in the tundra if I wanted a fourth. I probably won't settle it until later though, better to take cities at this stage

fun map

 

[50_dollar_bag]

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I only settled 2 cities plus my capital. I had a third city planned on the iron pigs fur city South of Rome but Cyrus bet me to it a couple of turns after I captured Rome So I ended up settling it in 1000AD after I finlally culture flipped Cyrus' city (which was 2 tiles north of my planned spot)Because I went on a rampage early I didn't notice the expansion rate of the AI, but if I had to guess I say I could have got 4-5 cities.

 

[MrFelony]

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did you beeline archery and then rush him?

 

[cheffster]

I've started playing this one.
Extreamly fun so far and its got me back into playing civ after a 3 week break. My game's at 1000BC, I've settled 3 citites, built some wonders, and stole some Roman workers (then made peace again twice ), Update later tonight maybe.

 

[shyuhe]

Glad to hear you guys are enjoying it I thought about removing all metal and horses nearby but I figured that'd be a little too mean against all the imprealistic civs. Although to be fair, you can always do an elephant/catapult rush too. I'm still in my BC's but I'll hopefully progress my game a bit tonight.

 

[50_dollar_bag]

An interesting by product of all the imperialistic civs was many settled MIs

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And one thing I remembered about my game was I built the Shwedagon Paya and went Free religion, probably only the second time I've built it and the first time I've done that, but it definately was useful.

 

[shyuhe]

I finally finished my game.

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I had a ton of warring, ended with domination in the mid 1800's. I started the game by grabbing a few cities + copper. Then I declared on Joao. I didn't want to incur diplo penalties for declaring multiple times so I kept on pushing until I hit feudalism (which I went for pretty early this game). I was in the tech lead for the first half of the game by a pretty significant margin (took MT off of liberalism). After vassalizing Joao, I teched up to curassiers and trebs. I then declared on Augusts as Cathy had vassalized to Cyrus (voluntarily) at this point.

I wanted cathy's shrine but I didn't have the power to take on Cyrus so I went east. Augustus was teching pretty well so I had to be quick. Unfortunately, I suffered a lot of losses as he got up to curassiers as well (I had cavalry/rifles when I finished him off). I ended up using spy revolts to knock out his big cities, then vassalized him after conquering 4 cities. The war was in 2 parts though, because he managed to get peace via the AP at one point so I had to declare twice. But the peace from the AP gave me a chance to build up more troops so it worked out in the end.

After Augustus was gone, I built up some troops and drafted out some rifles. I then declared on Cyrus/Cathy, the other monster in the game. I fought a defensive war initially as Cyrus had a MASSIVE stack. I think it was around 50 units. I used some cheese, by sitting outside one of his cities and constantly hammering it with cavalry while not conquering the city itself. Poor Cyrus sent troops little by little into the city so I killed off the smaller trickles until I shaved off the entire stack eventually. I also used police state (from the pyramids that Joao built) + jails to control my WW. We did most of the fighting in Augustus' former territory so we both accumulated a lot of WW. It was putting a serious dent in Cyrus' teching ability as he had around 10-12

Cathy was holding up pretty well considering she was a vassal - I was hoping she'd unvassalize but I ended up conquering her completely since she refused to unvassalize herself till the bitter end. The AI stupidly ignored rifling as usual, and went up to physics first. Cyrus got MT+rifling pretty soon after that though, so it was a real slug fest for quite some time. I finally got the upper hand when I hit assembly line and started fielding infantry. Cyrus couldn't take them down and I eventually wore him down with the combination of WW and superior units.

I finished the game off by vassalizing Cyrus. My vassals were marginally useful - I didn't want to gift cities back because their capitals were amazing and I didn't want the extra culture pressure against them. Lisbon in particular was a production power house - it was almost as good as my capital post levees.

The funniest thing was that I got enough GG's in the end that I was producing level 5 units without vassalage or theocracy in my capital. 17 XP

 

[cheffster]

My game is comming along, I've been too busy to post extensive details and SS's but its comming

 

[50_dollar_bag]

Shyuhe

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Sounds like you had a lot of fun, lot's of wars. Cathy vassalized to Cyrus in your game, interesting, what's up with her wanting to become someones lapdog

Cyrus is pretty good at huge stacks he tends to get along with everyone and rarely goes to war so he'll always have a handy horde of troops ready. He had the same in mine, I watched it at my borders for about a 1000 years, it wasn't until he declared war on Victoria that he finally moved it. So I waited about 10 turns and when I saw him capture a city off vicky I thought it was a good time to attack hoping that his stack was gone, sadly I was wrong, he diverted it back to a city I captured off him and flung everything he had and killed about 8-10 infantry . Took it back though

 

[cheffster]

my game is really commming along as soon as I have time Ill make a detailed post (been real busy)