Religion rushing

[ThreeBlackSevens]

Saw someone point out the AI founding christianity in like 500 BC and thought it was a fun idea to see how early a religion could be founded! Here was mine for the same one, I don't think it was nearly as good as it could have been what with negative events and not realising i could reload barbarian spawns to have them appear elsewhere. Pre 1000 BCE might be possible for someone way better at the game than I am lol

Could go for islam on this one too maybe, not sure if persian and greek invaders will be a problem. I doubt I'm getting to theology before both of them appear maybe egypt or greece would be better for that

Not sure what other religions this would even be that fun of a challenge for, I mean hinduism is really early anyway, and buddhism is just build a hindu temple or something like that? But maybe zoroastrianism, catholicism, and protestantism could be fun along with orthodoxy and islam.

Anyway if anyone else tries a lil challenge of this sort post it here I wanna see

Spoiler orthodoxy founded, 705 BCE, Regent + Marathon :

 

[ThreeBlackSevens]

Actually going for buddhism asap was kinda fun too. I think babylonia might just be the play for basically all the really early religions, could probably get confucianism and taoism with a similar strategy as well. This one also could definitely be optimized a bit, I forgot that founding hinduism would let the city in india get to use its whole fat cross and not just the first ring, also didn't expect getting to property for despotism after calendar would take so long so didn't really plan around commerce much

Also this would be incredibly annoying without using worldbuilder to peek at where all the lions and panthers (oh my!) are and savescumming to get the settler over there! Definitely not doing these in a super hardcore way, I think the most fun in this is seeing how early it's possible to get it under ideal circumstances.

Spoiler Hinduism 1964 BCE, Regent + Marathon :

Spoiler Buddhism 1532 BCE, Regent + Marathon :

 

[AOS9001]

I've seen the Babylon AI found Zoroastrianism before Persia spawns, always in conquered Susa.

 

[Rodnok]

Found Orthodoxy as Nubia in 500 BC and it was pretty close race with Greece... Emperor/Epic.

 

[ThreeBlackSevens]

Spoiler Judaism 1684 BCE, Regent + Marathon :

I kinda thought Judaism was impossible without like cheesing by stopping Jerusalem from spawning or something, but after trying for an earlier time on Orthodoxy (didn't work out), I almost accidentally founded it lol. So this was my actual attempt upon realising it was possible

My strategy was to found a city on the desert 2 west of Babylon for a lot of free commerce on tiles and to make masonry unnecessary. Tech path (with free techs in brackets) was mining, (property), ceremony, (writing and switch to republic for free scientist), leverage, (arithmetic), literature

Many curses upon random events in this game......... so many restarts lol