Sorry did not keep any screenshots. Overall, this was a most enjoyable game and forced me to war almost exclusively throughout the entire game. This was my first ever domination win at Civ4, so am I really happy with outcome.
Overall details:
1) Met Victoria almost immediately. Researched AH early for cows and found horses near capital. Prepped for chariot war, and conquered 3 cities. Moved capital to London in anticipation of Civil Service. Probably the wisest move I made all game. Tenoch.... became my GP farm.
2) Met Cathy and Louis very quickly as well. I decided that I had to take them out quickly as the Creative trait was going to cause me issues.
3) Attacked Louis first, immediately took 3 cities. My SoD got beat up pretty bad. Cathy was a close 2nd in score at this point, and my spies were showing some imminent attack on her part, so I vassalized Louis and began prepping for Cathy -- more Seige please...
4) Took 5 of Cathy's major cities, including St. Petersburg and Moscow. Again, was very concerned as Alex was close with Chinese and had significant stack of units ready to attack clearly. I vassalized her as well.
5) At this point, my economy was in shambles. So I traded resources for cash to keep me affloat while I built up the cottages in English cities, got Courthouses up and running. My vassals didn't help either as their constant culture pressure kept infecting my conquests.
6) Finally researched Grenadiers, Cavalry and Cannons, and prepared to take out Qin. I decided that leaving Alex and Ragnar alone was just too dangerous, so I bribed Alex into backstabbing Rags and then immediately attacked Qin. Took 3 more cities, but Alex also declared war and took both Shanghai and Beijing.
7) Given Alex's subtle move, I turned my production advantage to Ragnar instead as he had declared war once Qin was attacked. I conquered North at 1st and then cut a swath westward to cut off Alex from securing Rags territory. Much to my surprise Rags vassalizes to Alex. I'm now at 68% pop and 60% land. Uggh!
8) Next I built stacks on the Eastern front against Alex and kept my previous stack near Ragnar as a deterent. I know I have to take cities from Alex in order to win at this point as there is many more tiles in and around his majors, and rest of my Viking conquests are too near Rags capital. After all my forces are ready, I attack. Alex counters to the south and I bring up a counter stack from Moscow.
9) 3 cities quickly fall. Alex offers capitulation. Being lazy I take it. Game over.
Things I learned:
1) Better diplomacy. These guys were easy to manipulate as backstabbers, but none the less I tried out some things I wouldn't have done in the past.
2) Forests are for rushing, not wonders.
3) Economic recovery is very difficult without CoL and CS. I probably should have taken Currency earlier, but I was really focused on military techs.
4) I probably should have built more stacks earlier on, instead of relying on one big one. Just very tough to produce all those hammers early.
5) Creative civs are a pain.
6) Communism and Fascism are huge for late warring. I've always been a space race person, so I never really seen this in action.
7) More and more workers...
If anyone has any pointers -- though I know it is difficult with no screenshots -- I would love to hear them.
. Oh well, I chopped out some settlers and such and REXed, having dismissed a warrior rush due to the distance my neighbors Alex and Qin were away. Then I went to Writing and established open borders with just about everyone.
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. I can think of 2 or maybe even 3 leaders who could be in her face ASAP no problem.
