Ok, here is the next part of the Writeup. I have read again what I wrote in the last part, so I can give you a short summary of what has happened:
- The last date was 1040 BC, where I made peace with Tokugawa after a very fast war (only 15 turns) with 20+ War Chariots conquering 5 cities cities, of which most were really good. I've lost almost my complete Stack (again)y because I didn't wait for Catapults, probably the biggest error I made in this round. Anyhow, it's almost impossible to to judge how severe this error was, because it got me the cities earlier, I would have had losses anyway and with slow moving Catapults, Toku would have whipped a lot more, so the cities would not have been so large after getting them.
- I've won the Musicrace and got the Great Artist from it, I got Philosphy through trade, only thing that's missing before starting a Golden Age is the National Epic. The Great Person Farm Pataliputra got a Library first, because I could not get Code of Laws and simply run Caste, it is constructing a Forge, which had the second highest priority (first being the Libarary) , because I need as many Great Engineers as possible (at least 1 to found Mining Inc, but instant constructing the Kremlin / Wall Street / Statue of Liberty would also be very nice) . The NE will follow directly after the Forge.
- I began the GP production at about 1200 BC, with the priority being a great Scientist to found an Academy, because that would really rock, especially with upcoming Civil Service / Burocracy.
- Another huge focus of mine was the Research, which I doubled in only 20 turns, more in the upcoming clearview.
- I had a lot of bad luck with Slave Revolts in Thebes, they costed me unbelievable three population points, the city could now already be size 11 instead of size 8. Growing the cities was another priority I had, because I was far behind in population after the inital Rush of Gandhi.
- The only wonder I really need besides the Oracle for my games, is the Mausoleum of Maussollos, an incredibly powerful Wonder. I pushed as hard to it as I could, but Frederick got a GE from the Mids. Luckily, I could prevent him from constructing the MoM by gifting him Music, which made him construct the sixtine which is a Wonder with very high priority / value to the AI.
- I've skipped / missed all other Wonders. If you ask yourself what wonders will become important in the future: I want to have the Taj Mahal, I need the Kremlin, and I will do everything to get the SoL. I underestimated the power of the Eiffel Tower, that one's also on my list for the next game.
- I did a lot of tech-trading. Of course, I already have "WFYABTA" from most AIs, but my good diplomatic relations (I got 5 or 6 AIs on friendly already) help me to continue and trade my way to Sushi. Current Target of Research: Paper -> Education -> Liberalism.
- The world is in war, basically, Civs have gangbanged up on the meatshields Brennus and Peter. I hope they will kill lots of the attackers of the 5 Civs that are in war with each of them -> will weaken them -> give me a better position because they burn themselves out in their wars.
Now you're again informed what happened in the last post, I promised you another
clearview of the egyptian empire at 1000 BC, because I conquered a lot cities that would play an important role in the round, and the last clearview is already some time ago. Result of the last clearview was: I'm not yet in a good position, my Research is too low, my cities are too small, my production also has to be improved, I need to grow the cities, I need to focus on Research and developement, I need to conquer more land and get a vassal asap.
First, let's have a look at the cities, because those are the backbone of the empire:
The Capital: Thebes
This city has grown to
size 9, and is currently
working its best tiles (the 2 Corns, the 3 Golds, and the riverside grassland Cottages) . If all the Slave Revolts wouldn't have happened, this city could also work the two non riverside grassland Cottages and make them grow already, which would make a good number of Beakers once it has an Academy / get's the bonuses from Burocracy / has Oxford. It's
well developed having a Library and a Forge and is not only the main source of Research atm, but also the biggest producer of troops.
The last thing is about to change, Universities will become available soon, then comes Oxford, later Observatories... I tell this, because the city is
at the breakpoint from being everything but the GP Farm to the empire, to being a highly specialized Research city.
The GP Farm, Pataliputra:
A lot has happened in this city since the last clearview. The city is
still quite small for a GP Farm, having only a size of 6, but
it has all buildings that it needs atm. and is already constructing a Courthouse because it will become large and therefor cause a high amount of maintenance in near future. All buildings? Yes, not having to produce the Great Library and having a decent amount of Forrests, this city
already has got the National Epic! It was actually constructed just in the time between the summary and 1000 BC, the time which I chose for the clearview.
So let's start a GA you say, don't you? No I say.
Things speaking for a GA:
- I've lost a lot of my Forces, the higher production would come in real handy right now.
- I need a great Scientist, it would get fastened up by a good amount of time.
Things speaking against a GA:
- The city is still too small. If I'd start a GA now, I could only work 4 Specialists in it. If I let it grow to size 9, I could work nearly twice as many.
- The time of War Chariots is as good as over, Toku as good as finished, I don't need the higher production atm. , I might find it really nice though once Universities and Cuirrassiers have become available. By then, then general population count / the worked tiles would also be a lot higher so the benefits from the GA would be greater.
- I might get Nationalism late, because I don't plan on researching it myself, and want the production boost for the construction of the Taj Mahal.
- This round is going to take a long time still, and the way to Sushi is very very long, I'm going to need as many GSs on it as I can get, therefor, a larger city would be of greater use and especially if the other cities would also be larger, I could run multiple GP Farms!
One thing that really annoys me on that picture though, is that I'm neither running Pacifism, nor Theocracy. Pacifism would have made a great deal for the GS, which is already late, and Theocracy could have gotten me the "crazy Philosopher Event" (= free Academy in the Capital in exchange for 2 Unhappiness) . This is, because I still wanted to spread Religion and hadn't built a Monestary in the Capital to take over Missionary production, and it is because I still wasn't used to the Spiritual trait. Another flaw in my round, but don't worry, it's not gonna be long until I notice and finally get it / switch to Pacifism.
Gandhi's former Capital, Bombay:
This city is
very simlar to the Capital. It's
working it's best tiles (the Floodplain-Cottages, the special Ressources, the Food) and has grown to a decent size since the last update, it's
size 7 atm, and it's
well developed. It doesn't have the 3 Golds that the capital has, that is, why this city only has less than half the output of Research than Thebes has, but, it has
about the same production (don't get confused by the 22 Hammers, those are actually only 11 that get doubled because of the Industrial Forge) and
has donated greatly to the production of troops until now. Notice the minor difference, that this city has a whip-timer, while the Capital didn't have one, this is because the Capital really had the largest focus on Growth for the upcoming Academy and Burocracy, while this city had its focus on production and developement.
A nice thing that you can see in all 3 Screens that I've posted until now is, that all cities have more developed tiles than they actually work, which is proof of the good Worker Management I had during the whole round (I really payed a lot attention to that, as it's probably the 2nd most important thing, after Macro, and before Micro) .
Again, this city is
at a breakpoint from being everything to a specialized Research-city.
Ahmedabad, the future main Military-city:
Yes, you see that right, this
city has the
Heroic Epic! It's still
very small with a size of 4, but will grow large in near future. Things that costed pop were the 2pop-barracks- and 2pop-forge-whip of which I let the Overflow go into the HE, that is, why it has been constructed so fast and that is why this city has got Forrests left, which are already being pre-chopped for the time Cuirrassiers become available (it would be a waste using them now, because WCs are so cheap, that 1 chop would generate more Hammers than could be saved -> generate gold which I don't need) .
Atm. , the city is producing the last Warriors for Military Police, after those, it shall get a Courthouse because it lies at the eastern edge of the empire -> causes high maintenance and then, it'll be all set up and rdy to pump troops without further interruptions.
A newly conquered city, the future home of the Globe Theater, the city of Osaka:
You may have noticed already, that the cities aren't listed in the order in which I got them, but in the order of current / future importance / research - hammer output / size. This city isn't that important atm, but
it'll have very high importance in the future. It has 2 good sources of Food and some grasslands which can also be farmed, it has 3 plains-Elephants, so 5 good tiles and.. No, I won't tell that, you'll see :> Just a hint:
It has 50 turns of whipping anger, make a guess, how high will that number grow?
As all cities, this city has a Granary and will get a Forge (IND-Forges are a musthave building imo) . After that, it'll get a theater to unlock the GT, a Lighthouse which can be discussed if it's needed, and then? Yes, nothing. This city will stay small until the very end of the round, it's close to the palace, therefor it doesn't even need a Courthouse in near future.
Another newly conquered city of great value, the former Capital of Tokugawa, Kyoto:
This city still is in revolution, but as another Capital site, it's going to become one of the best cities and one having a
very important role as it's coastal: It'll become
the shipyard! It has borders with Hatty whom I cannot conquer before Cuirrassiers, it's large and will become even larger, therefor a theater is planned. As all cities, it has a Granary and will get a Forge, later, it'll be the only city getting a Drydock, but that's already in far future. The production of a naval fleet is very important on Big & Small mapscript and it's of major importance when playing a Sushi game, this city had high production and a settled GG, it'd be perfect for this role.
Missed the horses city already? Here is Alexandria:
I nearly feel guilty that this city is listed at a 6th place, as it was one of the most important cities in the past, but this post is about the now and the future. One thing you can see very good in this city, is, that it's
again only working it's best tiles, and that it has a high whip-timer. This is following the rule to "only work your best tiles" and "produce troops whenever possible" . The city is currently under border-pressure, therefor it's also building a Theater, one of the buildings I learned to find most useful, just because the GT is so ueber-powerful, and because an early Theater secures the Borders for the whole game, while if not building one, the city would get crushed.
The library in this city would be of use, as it's working 2 Luxury Ressources, but it got delayed over and over because troops had higher importance than Libraries.
Again, this is changing right in this moment, as the HE-City is set up, so I have a superior source of troop-production, and need more cities being able to construct a Theater / University to unlock the National Wonders.
Those were 6 cities, here is Number 7, the future home of Ironworks, the city of Bangalore:
Like Alexandria,
a city under the rule of "work your best tiles only" . High whip timer to get the necessary Infrastructure, under Border-pressure -> Theater. In hindsight I now notice, that the Obelisk in it was a waste of hammers, and the hired Engineer would also never play a role. Anyhow, it did play a role at that time, because I wanted to have a city that would produce a GE with 100% of safety, and once the city would have gotten IW, it would also be able to hire more mid-game Engineers so this had some kind of synergy for me. The city is getting a Courthouse atm because it's not that near to the palace, and as a city that would grow large, cause high maintenance in the future.
Plans for it are to use it for anything that's needed, it'd get a University just because it was one of the few cities being able to build one, it would serve as a Settler-pump, it did build some Warriors for MP and will produce units later again, and it should grow to get powerful by the time of Steampower / Steel, but that's in the far future again.
City Number 9, another old city, Calcutta:
If you see that city, and remember the last ones, you should have gotten a feel for what "work your best tiles only" means. This city is size 4, works 2 lighthouse lakes, the Spices, the Cows, and everytime it wanted to grow to size 5, I whipped something in it (mostly Missionaries) . Nothing more to say about it, but, that it would be one of the cities constructing a University which I found astonishing, because this city looks weak to me having no real source of Food, it didn't even have a Library at that point of the game so it really wasn't planned for a task of that size (the construction of a University) .
The home of the Mausoleum of Maussollos, "Hieraconpolis" :
Yes, you got that right, I managed to get the Mausoleum of Maussollos :> . This city is pretty crappy with all it's plains, but not so crappy as it sounds at first, because it has more production then one would think, having been founded on a plains-Stone-hill and working plains-Cows.
Work your best tiles in this case means, that the city has reached it's optimal size, the size of 2. This city is great for producing Workers and Missionaries, working the plains really isn't worth it, nor is a grassland farm a good tile imo, so this city would stay small until Sushi feeded it. Can you believe it that this city would be able to construct a University? I could not, but really underestimated the power of the Stone-hill and the plains-Cow.
Three to go, here comes Kagoshima:
A decent city having Copper and Clams, but too many coastal tiles for my taste. Anyhow, that won't matter until a size of 7, therefor, good city, especially because I have to few coastal cities yet.
Hang on, we're almost through, here is the city of Lisht:
This city is in a superb place. It was
founded only a few years ago, that's why it still lacks underdeveloped, but it'll soon catch up and
will become a high production coastal city, that would first construct the Kremlin, and after that become the home of the Spies. This is in far future again though.
One thing: I'll leave the city ruins untouched for as long as possible, because those always get you some free Beakers via the random-event. I think this round it were 1500 Beakers towards Printing Press.
And the last city, a ctiy without Food yet, Tokyo:
This is actually
the only "bad" city that I have. It's bad,
because it doesn't have any Food (yet) . Luckily enough though, it still has a Forrest left, a Forrest that I'm going to invest in a Theater. I'll also make sure that it'll get the Religion asap, and it'll then produce 4 Culture, which will be enough to steal the Pigs from Hatty. Yes, I could not believe that myself, but
this city later stole the Pigs from a CRE-Leader and a city that was at least 1000y older than it, I just say that, to show the power of theaters and Religion-spread.
Puh, that really was some work, here is a short summary for the tl;dr people:
- 13 cities.
- Heroic and National Epic set up.
- All cities working their best tiles only but further growth is planned.
- Land is well improved, as most cities are. The newly conquered ones of course need some developement.
- I got the Mausoleum of Maussollos (not how I write Mausoleum of Maussollos and not MoM? Although, if it'd be Stifflers MoM... XD)
- Most cities are really good, except that I don't have a real GP Farm with 3-5 sources of Food, all I got is a GP Farm that's medicore at best, but it'll do...
- Cities are on the way to getting specialized cities, like Research-cities, Military cities, Coastal-production-cities, etc.
Now that you know the cities in detail, I'll zoom out and give you a picture of where they're lying again:
That's a nicely, medium sized empire with empire. I'll zoom out further, because
the research of Paper has been completed and I can show you the first Screens of the complete Worldmap!
Some things you can see:
- Peter (as hoped) has a city at a choke-point, that is the entrance to his Empire. With a city like this, he can hold back any attackers for a long time.
- He, Willem and Pericles got blocked very early, they will never be of any threat at all.
- The largest empire is still the one of Victoria, but, I'm on 2nd place already!
- Wang Kon has no access to the coast, therefor will never be able to expand to dozens of islands on this map.
- Hammurabi's empire is also huge, he's only 4th because he lacks a lot of techs, but he's strong and close to Brennus, whom he is in war with, it's likely that he'll vassal him soon.
- Lincoln has lost a lot of positions, why, I don't know. Maybe because he's simply on of the weakest AIs.
- Lizzy has canceled her Vassal-agreement with Hatty.
- Toku has some cities on islands, I have to build Galleys before I can conquer him completely.
- There is a huge black (undiscovered) area on the map, islands that will become reachable with Astronomy. I was very happy about this, because on some maps, many islands are reachable earlier already -> get settled by AI. On this map, I can conquer Toku, then Hatty, and after that expand peacefully onto the islands.
Now that you got a clearview of the empires, let's have a quick look at the demographics at the end of this post and see how I compare to the others 500y after the last clearview, where I was last in almost all disciplines:
The Demographics:
That's even better than I expected it to be. I still
have to do a lot about the GNP, but those will go up tremendously once I have the Academy / run Burocracy. Production and Food looks very good, and
I'm number 1 in owned land area! It's not good that I've lost so many soldiers, and I have to let my cities grow further, but
it's enough to call this round "won" already imo.
A direct comparison between Hatty, Darius, Mansa, Hammurabi and me:
Again, these graphs look a lot better than the demographics, where I'm compared to insane Viccy.
In direct comparison to these 4, I can compete in any way, maybe my troops are a little low after having been decimated by Toku's PRO-Archers / AGG-Spears, but with a production that high, I can build them up again in no time. The developement since the last clearview can be seen exellently, graphs go straight upwards, this is, because cities have grown and the land has been improved. Only graph that doesn't go straight upwards is the power-graph, where one can easily see the 2 wars.
With this screen, I'll finish this post and leave you alone and this game up for discussion again. Next episode is called: "The education of the Egyptians!" Till then, cya.
Seraiel
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(too busy for Civ 
) with starting a business and the end of school etc...
. But I think I understand what you mean, problem of this game is mostly, that it's finished but more so, that it has very unusual settings. I used to use savegames, but nobody ever shadowed me, 18 Civs on a Huge map with Marathon speed is too much too adapt to for most I think, as the game takes more time than the normal 10 games the players play here as coanda said.
Maybe in the next 10 years 
And by the way, I just tried out a WC rush on a deity game 
I actually pulled it off almost 
. Then you know where the iron is. If he get's it through trade, you can see that in the diplomacy tab, try to negotiate an embargo. If the game is already advanced, you can also pillage the ressource he gets with spies, or you can pillage what he trades for it, both cancels the deal 
