Post a (tough) Deity map for me to play

[Pangaea]

This may not be considered a tough game considering barbs should be less of an issue, but I'll post it anyway. It's with Churchill. Fractal NH/NE.

Spoiler :

(It was made with Buffy, sorry about that).

 

[AcaMetis]

...That's a randomly generated map? How? What voodoo magic did you use to roll that?

 

[Pangaea]

...That's a randomly generated map? How? What voodoo magic did you use to roll that?

It is randomly generated. Then my finger may have slipped a few times

 

[krikav]

The Churchil map, I had no problems with barbarians, but I can't really recommend the map.

Up to T139

Spoiler :

I went straight for monotheism, which was probably a mistake as it delayed the lighthouse and granary...
Then I built the moais with overflow from what I had at hand, such as missionaries, barracks and worker.
Had just gotten techrate up abit with an academy when I was founded by Boudica.

Took alot of turns to finally afford her map. And I had to revolt out of Judaism again to get it too!

I don't think I'll play this one out. I feel like the land disadvantage is abit too harsh!

 

[Olafeson]

I don't think I'll play this one out. I feel like the land disadvantage is abit too harsh!

Lol, noob. Lain would stomp the A.I. already with a stack of 30 cuirs. Nah just joking ofc, i think its fine if you give up on this map. I wonder why you even tried to pull it off in the first place. Seems ambitious.

 

[krikav]

Just for the fun of it.
Got abit curious about the AIs too, and curious about what can or cannot be done on one small island.

 

[Pangaea]

I suppose one of the things that cannot be done is to win the game

And since I simply deleted our units from where we actually started out, whoever was able to fill that land probably got kinda big.

 

[gramm87]

How about this map? It might look easy, but after multiple tries I can't seem to win it, for some reasons
Guess you need some "creative thinking" or at least a good deal of stubborness

Spoiler :

PS: settings is pangea small deity

 

[krikav]

@gramm87
The map certainly has some interesting elements, I would rate it a tiny bit less difficult than the Zara map though, just because it's small. But what do I know!

Played to T130 and then threw in the towel.

Spoiler :

I followed the age long advice of marching inwards and settled on the stone for the extra hammer.
Went AH->Mining->BW->Pottery in the early game.
Settled Memphis where I did to exert cultural pressure, then settled Heliopolis to get cottages matured.
Gifted Toku a iceball city to get him pleased and get open borders, then I built pyramids in Memphis.

Bulbed philo, did an academy and went for burocracy, techrate was very good but both Pacal and Hannibal where also insane.
One bulb into education and one into lib. I have just traded for horses to start building horsearchers and I think I can get two GMerchants out.
But Hannibal got lib one turn before me.
Played very quickly and rather sloppy, so this was kind of sour grapes...

 

[sampsa]

Next game coming soon, @Lain? Fans are getting restless.

 

[Pangaea]

Updated for game 43.

As of game 43, these leaders have been played:
Alexander
Asoka
Boudica (2)
Brennus
Catherine
Cyrus
Darius
Elizabeth
Frederick
Genghis Khan
Gilgamesh (2)
Hannibal
Hatshepsut
Isabella
Joao
Justinian
Kublai Khan
Lincoln (2)
Louis
Mansa (2)
Mao
Montezuma
Pacal
Pericles
Peter
Ragnar
Ramesses
Saladin (2)
Shaka
Sitting Bull
Stalin
Suleiman
Sury (2)
Tokugawa
Wang
Willem
Zara

These haven't been played yet:
Augustus
Bismarck
Charlemagne
Churchill
De Gaulle
Gandhi
Hammurabi
Huayna Capac ( )
Julius Caesar
Mehmed
Napoleon
Qin
Roosevelt
Victoria
Washington

 

[Lain]

New game soon . Will be this map: https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...p-for-me-to-play.620140/page-13#post-15251598

 

[unas876]

This map is a banger iircc

 

[Pangaea]

YouTube Google nuked their own site or something? Everything looks like crap now.

 

[Olafeson]

YouTube Google nuked their own site or something? Everything looks like crap now.

looks fine to me.

 

[Pangaea]

looks fine to me.

Don't know what they've done, but fullscreen doesn't work properly any more. There is a big bar all over the top of the screen, and you can scroll and stuff, as if you were looking at the normal site. The whole video doesn't fit properly in the screen either, so it was very awkward to watch.

 

[Fippy]

Lain: IND will not do much for you in bad positions, very situational..

Narrator: The Great Lighthouse has been built in Bejing.

Lain: Nice, i got my stuff..!

Interviewer: was there something that helped you so far in this game?

Lain: hmm..

Fippy: hides and runs away

 

[krikav]

I think Lain have been pretty lucky that there has been no major use of the PRO trait too.

 

[sampsa]

Lain: IND will not do much for you in bad positions, very situational..

I also think IND is a rather "challenging" trait (on random deity fractal). I'd definitely rather have FIN, CRE, PHI, EXP, SPI, CHA or ORG. Meaning I'd rate IND higher than only IMP, AGG, PRO. And now that I think about it, I really like both IMP and AGG, because they help the early game a lot.

Getting the popcorn out...

 

[Fippy]

Doubt i will get into this one seriously (thus my interview earlier),
but it's certainly funny that he built GLH in many of the difficult maps, while mentioning IND in this way.
Arguments that you can also do so without it are questionable, cos we all know that deity AIs can always steal those wonders if you get unlucky so time matters.

I would also like to mention that i see IND as great trait for the most challenging of maps, cos those either have very limited land (3 city islands anybody?) or poor land, and wonders are called wonders cos they do..wonders!