Other Enjoyable Civilization V Games (Immortal and below)

[zxcvbob]

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.

 

[zxcvbob]

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!

 

[zxcvbob]

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.

 

[zxcvbob]

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!

 

[raider980]

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.

 

[Nizef]

OECG#111 Not the usual way

Time for a new game. We play as the Incas on a large Terra map. The speed is Standard and the level is Emperor. This template has been modified to better mirror the situation when the europeans "discovered" America. Hence, all civs will NOT start on one contient but instead on two. Build the empire of your dreams and colonize the europeans, if you feel like it. Enjoy!

 

[Nizef]

OECG#112 Definitely the usual way

Now we play as the Zulus on a standard sized Fractal map. The speed is Standard and the level is Immortal. The task is to achieve world domination, what else? Enjoy!

 

[raider980]

OECG#111 Not the usual way

Time for a new game. We play as the Incas on a large Terra map. The speed is Standard and the level is Emperor. This template has been modified to better mirror the situation when the europeans "discovered" America. Hence, all civs will NOT start on one contient but instead on two. Build the empire of your dreams and colonize the europeans, if you feel like it. Enjoy!

Oh good, my favorite Civ. I would love to conquer some europeans. Only one lux visible but it is Salt so that's good. It will be hard to move away from the starting spot since you're within some good intital tiles.

I'm still playing OecG 111 with the Mayans; its going well, leading in science already, but someone just beat me to Sistine Chapel and I was going to try for a CV so that wasn't good.

 

[raider980]

OECG#111 Not the usual way

Time for a new game. We play as the Incas on a large Terra map. The speed is Standard and the level is Emperor. This template has been modified to better mirror the situation when the europeans "discovered" America. Hence, all civs will NOT start on one contient but instead on two. Build the empire of your dreams and colonize the europeans, if you feel like it. Enjoy!

The save file doesn't look the same as the screenshot. Its almost the same but Silver instead of Salt and in different locations. Is the Save the intended game to play or did something happen in the save process?

 

[Nizef]

The save file doesn't look the same as the screenshot. Its almost the same but Silver instead of Salt and in different locations. Is the Save the intended game to play or did something happen in the save process?

Sorry about that. I didn´t remember that I had made two versions of it. I updated the save file. Now the save file and the jpg picture should look the same.

 

[raider980]

Sorry about that. I didn´t remember that I had made two versions of it. I updated the save file. Now the save file and the jpg picture should look the same.

Oops, there doesn't appear to be a save file now.

 

[zxcvbob]

OECG#111 Not the usual way

Time for a new game. We play as the Incas on a large Terra map. The speed is Standard and the level is Emperor. This template has been modified to better mirror the situation when the europeans "discovered" America. Hence, all civs will NOT start on one contient but instead on two. Build the empire of your dreams and colonize the europeans, if you feel like it. Enjoy!

I played this one yesterday. Science victory on turn 322. My production is so high (over 300 hammers per turn in Cusco) I just hard-built all the spaceship parts rather than waste a policy on Spaceflight Pioneers; I took the tourism one instead. So I'm also pretty close to a culture victory.

I was surprised when Pedro showed up, but then remembered that Brazil is in the Americas (he tried to forward-settle me, and did settle a little closer than I'd like even though I blocked the isthmus with a scout) I did 5 glorious Tradition cities, Honor opener, Patronage, a little Exploration, and Rationalism. And because I had lots of coal I took Order for a change for my ideology. Now I may JOMT and go kill some Europeans. I didn't bother up to now because they were so far away. I might should have joined some of their wars when asked and then not participated just to keep them fighting amongst themselves.

I only fought two very brief wars so far; first was with Monty just to capture a prophet that was gunning for my holy city, and later I put Pedro out of his misery after Monty had captured Rio De Janeiro. I waited until he built a Brazilwood camp on the jungle tile that my city could reach. Nobody cared about that, and I was friends with everybody until a few took differing ideologies and even there relations are better than usual. I should propose World Religion and ram it through the United Nations just to piss everybody off...



Good job selecting which civs for this one and which continent they would be on

 

[raider980]

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!

T312 SV. Was going to go for a CV but lost Sistine Chapel and the Inca had a lot of culture so fell back to a SV. It was a surprisingly easy victory for having not been able to go Tradition or Liberty and instead gone full Piety. My religion was strong but not overwhelming; there was a lot of competition on our continent although I did have a ton of faith and was able to buy many GS even after getting a couple of GPr that I didn't even want: Earth Mother, Tithe, Pagodas, Peace Gardens, Internat Preachers and then Jesuit Education.

Played peacefully except for one early war where I had to take a Portuguese settler that was about to settle a city on my continent right between two of my other cities in the only tile they could that wasn't in range of my cities. That could not be allowed. But it was over quickly. It was a weird game too because even though I took Freedom, and most of the AI went Order, they still wanted to be friends and even kept asking me for DoF. I did get lucky and was able to pass Freedom as the World Ideology before many others had taken an ideology. That eventually prompted the Aztec to revolt and switch to Freedom and even gave me one of their cities; it popped up that I had taken Tlatelolco and I was like, what?

Ended up with 6 self-founded cities and then Tlatelolco. I just had to settle a late city, Copan, up north by Mt. Kailash, when none of the AI had done it pretty late in the game; I couldn't resist a prime city location. A fun game overall and easily my best Piety game of all time.

 

[Nizef]

OECG#113: Picking your spots... and your CS

Time for another game. This time we play as Austria on a large Fractal map and Standard speed. The level is Immortal. Go in any direction and make this your Happy New Year.

 

[raider980]

I’ll give this one a try. I just lost the GotM so good timing. Move the warrior to the hill SW to see if it’s worth moving there to settle.

I’ve never liked Austria; I just don’t like the UA. I don’t want to take over a CS, I want to keep them as my ally for the bonuses. I was thinking; they should have made the UA so that you keep the bonuses that come with allying the CS. That might be OP but I don’t think it is any more OP than Korea, Babylon or Poland. It would just make Austria a top tier civ.