Domination victory in 1784, 114K score (personal best
).
As promised, a few screenies.
First, the situation in 1418, just after meeting all of the overseas gang of idiots. This is a shot of the area around the capital, showing the 2 cities that I managed to beat Joao to after taking Hammi out. They were key in keeping him rather limited through much of the game. Note that I had to settle Arianopole 1 off the coast to beat Joao to this area.
Cuman, a barb city, popped up on the east side of the same peninsula. I was able to grab this with my highly promoted chariots from the Hammi campaign (I got one of them to combat 4!
). This turned out to be a great secondary GP farm, where I later built the Globe Theater.
Babylon, my primary GP farm (d'oh) in 1418.
The tech situation relative to the competition in 1418:
And my own tech status:
As you can see, I'm way ahead of everyone. In fact, no other civ got rifling or steel through the end of the game.
Just after this shot, I switched from constitution to astronomy. After astro the tech path through the end of the game was sci meth, communism (switched to SP), constitution, corp, steam power, RR, combustion, democracy, AL, artillery, biology, electricity, industrialism (not finished before the end of the game).
In 1622, I resumed the invasion of Japan. As you can see, this was a bit of a joke: cavs (I had cannons but didn't need them here) vs samurai, longbows, and knights. I lost very few units for the rest of the game.
While Toku was being beaten down, Louis broke away (Brennus never did
). When Toku was down to 2 island cities I went after Brennus (who was more advanced that Louis). Although he had cuirassiers, I now had infantry. After I killed him off, I cleaned up the last of Toku's islands and DOWed Louis. He had grens (but not cannon). I had C2 pinch cavs and drill2 pinch infantry. I finished off his cities on the mainland and then played whack-a-mole with his remaining island cities.
Now, only Monty was left. He had the highest power of the 4 stooges, and by leaving him until last he had advanced in tech mightily --- he had grenadiers
Of course, I now had artillery and fighters. And around 100 infantry. But on the turn before I DOWed, a bunch of Louis' cities came out of revolt and I crossed the domination limit in 1784.
Just for grins, I decided to play on until all the heathens were conquered. I attacked Monty with 2 main assault groups, one from the NW and the other from his captial in the south. These quickly split into 5 groups of around 25 units each. I think it actually took longer to clean up his many island cities than it did to wipe out his mainland. Here's Monty's last stand:
Monty obviously wiped out Wang before I met him. All in all, a very fun (and very easy) game. So to wrap up:
Thessalonika in 1759, my wall street/holy city. I also built the HE here, as it had the best production after the capital.
Constantinople, the capital, in 1802. I bult oxford and ironworks here.
End of game (1802) charts. First, power:
gnp:
mfg goods:
score:
Units:
A view of the home continent:
And last, the world:
