Other Enjoyable Civilization V Games (Immortal and below)

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OECG#105 Good starts give a good feeling, part 1

This time we play as the Shoshone on a large Fractal map. The level is Emperor. Go in any direction and just enjoy the ride.

I've played this one a couple of times. First time was the fastest: SV on turn 328. Liberty, Commerce. Rationalism, and Freedom. IIRC (this was a week ago), I build 4 spaceship parts and bought 2.

I tried it again to see how Order would work; I almost never play Order. Much different game but the end result was about the same, SV on turn 342. I had a great engineer just standing around and Spaceflight Pioneers, but he wouldn't have sped anything up because I finished building the last 3 parts all at the same time. (so the engineer should have built the Pentagon or Great Firewall) This game was Liberty, Patronage, Rationalism, Order, and a little Commerce. I also played much more warlike in the early game, eliminating William and then Pedro. Monty asked me to join him in the war with Brazil and I said yes; then I did all the work. Monty and I were best friends the whole game after that, although he was annoying and I considered killing him a few times when he converted my cities or settled in awkward places.

 

[Nizef]

OECG#108 There is no business like show business

Here comes an easy one! We play as Poland on a Lakes map with standard size and quick speed. The level is Emperor and the task is to go for a Culture Victory. However, on your road to victory you also have to capture at least one AI capital. I managed to win on t163 and I expect no less from you! I mean, Poland with a Salt start on a map template where AIs usually struggle. This is a blast!

 

[zxcvbob]

OECG#108 There is no business like show business

Here comes an easy one! We play as Poland on a Lakes map with standard size and quick speed. The level is Emperor and the task is to go for a Culture Victory. However, on your road to victory you also have to capture at least one AI capital. I managed to win on t163 and I expect no less from you! I mean, Poland with a Salt start on a map template where AIs usually struggle. This is a blast!

Culture victory on turn 225. I didn't start bulbing my great scientists soon enough; finished the game with 2 or 3 of them left and I haven't built Hubble yet. America was the last to buy my blue jeans and listen to my pop music; I could not get open borders with Washington and it wasn't worth declaring war for a concert because I would lose my trade route and diplomat.

It was a fun game. I may try it again and see if I can time things better.

 

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Culture victory on turn 225. I didn't start bulbing my great scientists soon enough; finished the game with 2 or 3 of them left and I haven't built Hubble yet. America was the last to buy my blue jeans and listen to my pop music; I could not get open borders with Washington and it wasn't worth declaring war for a concert because I would lose my trade route and diplomat.

It was a fun game. I may try it again and see if I can time things better.

I tried it again; CV on turn 211 -- not much faster than before, but it was a totally different game. Instead of Tradition, Patronage, Aesthetics, Rationalism, and Freedom, I went Tradition *and* Liberty, Aesthetics, Rationalism, and Freedom. I built the Great Library this time (it's a better wonder for culture victory than it is for science), as well as Pyramids, Hanging Gardens, and Oracle. The only wonder I went for and got beat to it was Petra. I also did a little better job of managing my great scientists.

The International Games came late; I had just finished them pretty-much by myself when I overtook Hiawatha. I would have won on the same turn w/o the International Games.

William built the Great Wall this time, so it took a while to capture Amsterdam. I had 3 or 4 camel archers, and I enter the Industrial Era by way of Rifling so I had riflemen and wing hussars, so I managed to take it without many losses and without citadel-bombing my way up to the city. I think I lost a tercio, a scout, and a crossbow. (the scout was out exploring and got caught between a barbarian camp and a city-state that was allied with the Netherlands.)

 

[Nizef]

I had 3 or 4 camel archers

I also found it very convenient to have Camel Archers as Poland! OP x OP = even more OP

 

[Nizef]

OECG#109 It is a jungle out there

If the previous one was kind of easy, this one is "slightly" more demanding. The level is still Emperor but now we play as Indonesia on a Rainforest map with standard size and speed. Make sure to bring your machetes and your sails. Otherwise you are in too deep. Enjoy!

 

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I'm about halfway thru #109. Not sure exactly what victory I'm going for yet but it's a lot of fun. I haven't been in any wars yet, but they are inevitable; everybody is denouncing me because they hate Freedom.

Spoiler :

I probably need to kill Japan just because they are close and they backstabbed me.

 

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OECG#109 It is a jungle out there

If the previous one was kind of easy, this one is "slightly" more demanding. The level is still Emperor but now we play as Indonesia on a Rainforest map with standard size and speed. Make sure to bring your machetes and your sails. Otherwise you are in too deep. Enjoy!

Science victory in a pathetic 394 turns I had a chance at a diplomatic victory a few turns earlier, but one of my Globalization diplomats got kicked out of Addis Ababa when the city was captured the turn before world leader vote and I didn't feel like throwing a couple of thousand more gold at another CS, perhaps only to have Siam grab one back and leave me a vote short.

I built 3 Kris swordsmen and never got a chance to see what their superpowers were (probably Enemy Blade) They are the muskets in my screenshot. I didn't want to promote them farther than that until I knew what they were, and I had no wars whatsoever the whole game. It wasn't peaceful though, more of a global cold war with shifting alliances and wars between the AIs. I would be friends with Siam (Autocracy) or one or two Order civs, then one of them would denounce me and start insulting me. Only to turn friendly again a few turns later instead of declaring war; it was weird. Probably because I was selling them nutmeg, cloves, and pepper really cheap.

For a while I just barely kept my happiness above zero because I had -30 from ideology pressure. But I turned that around with my diplomats and by winning the International Games.

 

[Nizef]

OECG#110 No Tradition & No Liberty = No Problem

This time around we play as the Mayans on a large Fractal map with Standard speed. The level is Immortal. The start is OP and the civ is OP, so the plot twist is, that we can´t use Tradition nor Liberty at all! It is up to you whether to go down the warpath with Honor or do you aim for a peaceful victory through Piety? Your homeland is mostly excellent quality tiles, so going for goofy policies just about even things out. However, remember to build settlers as early as possible and then you can´t go wrong! This will be different and fun. Enjoy!

 

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Oh good, Immortal. But no Tradition/Liberty will make it harder than normal Immortal. I'm tired of warring so will go Piety.

Is moving to the hill/mountain a bad move; will you miss another lux off to the east. Will need to move the warrior to check it out. But probably worth it for the Observatory anyway.