Yeah, it's brutal actually. Painful to watch. Burnt popcorn at this point. They cut it too close with their espionage points. Could have put more into eps and far less into tech. THe third era was only 12 points versus all those cultural points available.
Hm...well I guess that explains how they came so close to beating us. They squeezed blood out of every rock they could find. Could they have gotten in before 225 or was it just not there to be had?
FYI, we gained 21 points with our last round of culture spread, which means that, with more endgame planning, we could have won 2t sooner (175 AD) without 1 wonder (Sistine).
Yeah, we really got lucky in this SG. Should have lost it from our own carelessness. We had plenty of blood left in our rocks. Kind of amazing that we needed the full 4+ months to play 74t.. And we weren't really lagging anywhere either. Kept trucking along the entire time, iirc.
Speaking of blood in our rocks, we also could have somehow figured out how to use Korea's eps too, right?
fyi, I coulda had Sistine and MoM, etc. all by T72. Sooo many forests south of Moscow. I didn't even use a Tao missionary and still chopped Sistine.
No, we had about a month with no play. Right after my previous turnset (when it was supposed to be your turn
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Shows how much you were dialed in at the end. We did use Korea's EPs.
Maybe they didn't realize that a shrine was a wonder?
You would think a golden age, or even bulbing Theo would still be better.
yea, btw I think XTeam did a golden age.Maybe they didn't realize that a shrine was a wonder?
O)mg. That's 8 points right there. Of course, minus all that gold and hammers but when did they settle the second? COuldn't have been too early. And in a 70- turn game, why settle rather than start a GA? Ouch.Maybe they didn't realize that a shrine was a wonder?
No, I meant they settled the GPro and the Gspy. not 2 GPros.
Ah ha! Okay, that explains their early advantage right there. Hm. Have to think about that one. I don't think it was the right move. I still think beeelining HBR and holding on to the Prophet for an early GA after capturing and growing cities a bit would have been a lot more powerful. WOnders were easy to build later on. The real points left on teh table were a pile of earlier spies, lots more early failgold, and maybe Engineering to get all those spies into position a lot sooner.
Getting lots of early failgold always seems to be a Holy Grail, but if there ever was a scenario, this was it.
Not too early. After Kremlin. Then we shoulda gone crazy with it.
Right. We needed units at the outset obviously.
We did, we all seemed to think it was the obvious move but no other team did lol
