So, how'd your last game go?

My last game was a OCC as Bismarck on a shuffle map.(Difficulty Monarch)I began the game on a continent with Saladin.I had the tech lead.Signed defensive pact with Saladin.Shared religion and long term defensive pact brought us a permanent alliance.Zara,Justinian and Suryavarman tried hard for Space Race but we won.:)
 
Last game was great. Got my first domination win as Shaka of the Zulus. It was my best game yet (69,000, far outstripping any previous score) and the easiest and quickest win I have ever had, I just smashed the enemy aside (by my standards at least). Admittedly however, I probably would have done much less well if I wasn't so amazingly lucky. In my capital's fat cross I had pigs, marble, gold and, oh heavens, copper (!!!). What's more, the founders of Hinduism AND Buddhism were quite close by. So I quickly trained a bunch of Impis and overran 3 civs before two of them even had archers. Due to financial problems, I had to slow down before I got to kill my remaining victims, but by then with the best military, the world's largest religion and the most cities, I pretty much had the game by the throat. This game was also quite easy due the fact I was playing on a standard sized Pangaea and that I was playing on Noble ;) .
 
Lost a prince cultural attempt with Gandhi due to lack of food ressources (had serious :yuck: problems entire game), plus the 4 other AIs (small map) were Joao, Monty, Brennus and HC. How unlucky can one be?

I teamed up with Monty as buddshists (he founded so I knew he wouldn't switch, I had Conf and got Tao later), at the start only Huayna was heathen, but then we let Brennus get Judaism, and he converted HC and Joao (who has techwise behind), I had to DoW Joao to keep Monty happy (but I had bribed him myself, so I knew it'd come. I had SoZ and longbows early, so no problem there).
I decided to stop teching and go 80% culture and run artist specialists when having taken music (for artist and caths), and drama for theaters. I bulbed / GL teched / traded my way to first to phil, then first to lib, picked printing, teched natio for hermitage. It was then the war came. From this point on I was a t war with atleast one of the three jews, sometimes all three, running pacifism. I managed well, but techwise, Brennus and HC kept getting closer, before they advanced too much. I fended them off rather well with only one border city, stacked with pikes and lbows, plus knights with flanking for treb takeouts, but then Brennus attacked Monty and vassalized him. Next turn, his, Montys (reduced) and HCs stacks attacked me at once. I lost my only non-crucial city, then my capital which I quickly took back, then my empire collapsed. Damnit.
 
I'm in a pretty-good continental war right now in the late-industrial/early-modern era...

I have a large map with four large continents on the map... my Germans were on a continent with Aztecs, Chinese & Russians... I eventually destroyed them all... gaining complete mastery of my continent and bringing the entire continent under the homeland influence of the Germans... a very nearby continent (reachable by shallow coastal water and a shallow "inland" sea) contained the Ethiopians, Zulus, Japanese and Spaniards... the latter three all becoming allies or vassals of the Ethiopians. A third continent contains the Persians, Mongolians, Malinese and a few other civs (I forget off the top of my head) who are all roughly equal to my Germans in technology (if not in production or citizenry). There is a fourth "new" continent that had no native civs on it and could only be reached after astronomy... there has been an "old world" race to colonize that 4th continent.

Well, as luck would have it, I started staging "incidents" on the 4th continent to gain control of Ethiopan lands (and hopefully bring at least half of the new continent under firm German control). Eventually war was sparked and now my Germans are at war with the Ethiopians, Japanese, Zulu, Spanish, and two more allies of the Ethiopians, the Mongolians and Persians... all at war with little-old Germany. I've held a SLIGHT tech-edge against the Ethiopians and there has been a MASSIVE naval war over the inland sea between our two continents... my modest fleet of Pre-Dreadnoughts and Protected Cruisers have been duking it out with a rather huge Ethiopian fleet of Ironclad Battleships and Ironclad Cruisers. Meanhwhile over on the 4th continent, my Germans have managed to kick-out the Ethiopians and Mongolians, but the Persians have machine gunners and airships holding his own area, so it's now trench warfare... it's okay, because I'm about to unleash my newly invented biplanes on him in another turn or two!

FunGame.png

Continents are numbered above:
1) My home German continent... Capital of Berlin in center of box (Germans in Dark Grey)
2) My enemies continenent across the shallow inland sea (Ethiopians in light blue)
3) Continental home of most other civs in game
4) New-World continent I am fighting over with other civs
5) under-developed continent of Spaniards and Babylonians

{Continents 1, 2 & 3 were "home civ" continents, while 4 & 5 were "new world" continents}

(Random Map created with SevenSpirits "NewWorld" map script, included in my Wolfshanze Mod)
 
Wolfshanze said:
I'm in a pretty-good continental war right now in the late-industrial/early-modern era...

I have a large map with four large continents on the map... my Germans were on a continent with Aztecs, Chinese & Russians... I eventually destroyed them all... gaining complete mastery of my continent and bringing the entire continent under the homeland influence of the Germans... a very nearby continent (reachable by shallow coastal water and a shallow "inland" sea) contained the Ethiopians, Zulus, Japanese and Spaniards... the latter three all becoming allies or vassals of the Ethiopians. A third continent contains the Persians, Mongolians, Malinese and a few other civs (I forget off the top of my head) who are all roughly equal to my Germans in technology (if not in production or citizenry). There is a fourth "new" continent that had no native civs on it and could only be reached after astronomy... there has been an "old world" race to colonize that 4th continent.

Well, as luck would have it, I started staging "incidents" on the 4th continent to gain control of Ethiopan lands (and hopefully bring at least half of the new continent under firm German control). Eventually war was sparked and now my Germans are at war with the Ethiopians, Japanese, Zulu, Spanish, and two more allies of the Ethiopians, the Mongolians and Persians... all at war with little-old Germany. I've held a SLIGHT tech-edge against the Ethiopians and there has been a MASSIVE naval war over the inland sea between our two continents... my modest fleet of Pre-Dreadnoughts and Protected Cruisers have been duking it out with a rather huge Ethiopian fleet of Ironclad Battleships and Ironclad Cruisers. Meanhwhile over on the 4th continent, my Germans have managed to kick-out the Ethiopians and Mongolians, but the Persians have machine gunners and airships holding his own area, so it's now trench warfare... it's okay, because I'm about to unleash my newly invented biplanes on him in another turn or two!

FunGame.png

Continents are numbered above:
1) My home German continent... Capital of Berlin in center of box (Germans in Dark Grey)
2) My enemies continenent across the shallow inland sea (Ethiopians in light blue)
3) Continental home of most other civs in game
4) New-World continent I am fighting over with other civs
5) under-developed continent of Spaniards and Babylonians

{Continents 1, 2 & 3 were "home civ" continents, while 4 & 5 were "new world" continents}

(Random Map created with SevenSpirits "NewWorld" map script, included in my Wolfshanze Mod)
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I'm puzzled, isn't dark grey the colour of the Byzantines?
 
Pieman said:
I'm puzzled, isn't dark grey the colour of the Byzantines?
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Not in my mod!
DEAL.GIF


I'm also fighting the Ethiopians who have ocean-going Ironclad Cruisers and Battleships with my own fleet of Pre-Dreadnought Battleships and Protected Cruisers... none of which are in the default game either... I did custom color for the civs, new flags, new units, etc, etc. You're also not going to get a map like that with the default map generator either.

It's all in the quest for the better gaming experience... which Civ4 can definately give with a little tweak here and there.
BANDIT.GIF


Here's my German fleet in the top right corner heading into Ethiopean waters... you can see some Ethiopian Ironclads on the left side of the screen.

FunGame2.png
 
Total disaster,
starting out on a large continents map,
random civ, turns out to be Willem!
Yay, not too bad. I like Willem.
So, everything goes well, after a few turns
I got both copper and horses, and the oracle / stonehenge,
when suddenly I get a message that there
are barbarians outside our borders,
and 7 swordfighters pop up out of nowhere,
with my strongest unit being a archer,
..It sucked.
 
RoVaDo said:
Total disaster,
starting out on a large continents map,
random civ, turns out to be Willem!
Yay, not too bad. I like Willem.
So, everything goes well, after a few turns
I got both copper and horses, and the oracle / stonehenge,
when suddenly I get a message that there
are barbarians outside our borders,
and 7 swordfighters pop up out of nowhere,
with my strongest unit being a archer,
..It sucked.
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Damn, that's quite a shame.

Anyway, welcome to Civ Fanatics! Hope you have fun here.
 
Pieman said:
Damn, that's quite a shame.

Anyway, welcome to Civ Fanatics! Hope you have fun here.
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Thank you!

I've been visiting the site for quite a while now,
tought I'd sign up.

OT : I've had worse games, really.
Still quite new to CIV4,
can't even beat noble. :(
 
Just won a OCC with space race. Monarch difficulty, epic, archipelago.

. Started on a continent with Elizabeth. As usual she expanded slow even though she had a ton of room. Didn't fill up the continent we shared until about 1400. She got declared on by brennus, and then dogpiled by shaka and everyone else. I gifted her replaceable parts and rifling and gave her all my money. She didn't lose any cities, and kept expanding during the war, ended up the #1 scorer, and amazingly, the #1 in power! She ranked higher in power than shaka, which was incredible. By the end she had more than twice the power of the next civ, Mansa, who overtook brennus and shaka. I never got declared on, and eventually i got bored so i built a fleet of destroyers, carriers, transports, jets, and marines, and declared on Shaka, and wiped out his capital and about 6 other very mature cities. He dropped in score below me. Then i did the same to Brennus, and this is what allowed mansa to get #2 in power. When I took out Brennus's capital i took out about 10 frigates and galleons.

. I had such a massive tech lead that I then bribed everybody else to declare on Brennus. Brennus was at war with every single civ except Shaka, who he was friendly with. Mansa nuked Brennus and I got a desert title under my grassland horses =(. But by then my spaceship had launched, so no biggie.
 
RoVaDo said:
Thank you!

I've been visiting the site for quite a while now,
tought I'd sign up.

OT : I've had worse games, really.
Still quite new to CIV4,
can't even beat noble. :(
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Don't worry, I'm still trying to master that level myself.
 
In my present game I decided to give a try to Hannibal: Prince, large Continents, low Sea level, Epic speed. I am about to have my first win... by culture :crazyeye: And I have had no state religion at all!

I started at a continent with Ramsess as the closest neighbour, Justinian was much further. I was lucky enough to have Horses in the capital's BFC so after I founded the second city I started to build Chariots. A few turns after Ramsess built Stonehenghe (thanks to Stone in capital's BFC) I attacked him, captured Thebes, waited for reinforcements and captured Memphis (Judaist HC).

In the meantime I had discovered BW (no Copper nearby), HBR and a few other techs. Thanks to forests in the BFC and discovery of Writing I was able to chop Oracle in the capital -> Caste System, Confucianism and Courthouses. I signed OB with Justinian just to spy him. I located his Copper and Horses, placed main assault group (almost 10 Numidian Cavalry and a few Chariots) and pillage group (2 Num. Cav. and one Chariot with Mobility) and attacked. Pillage group pillaged Copper and died to enemy Spearman and Axeman while assault group (with fresh reinforcements) conquered Justinian. I left only Byzantium (Buddhist HC) and one coastal city, the rest (some 4-5 cities) was razed. In the meantime I was contacted by a Babylonian Warrior - it turned out that Hammurabi was at the other side of the continent and in the middle there was a wide range of Jungles. Of course, he was my next target. Fortunately, he was busy building Wonders (Great Lighthouse, Temple of Artemis).

As Barbarians started to be a nuissance, I chopped the GW in Thebes. Just on time, as not a long time after I had a message about Philistines - 5 barb Spearmen who could make trouble to my Warriors and mounted units. Soon after that Thebes popped a Great Prophet, which was used to get Theology and found Christianity. Thebes also built the Pyramids, what allowed a switch to Representation.

Now it was time to deal with Hammurabi. Attacked him once, razed one city and captured Babylon, got some tech for peace, waited 10+ turns and finished him off (only kept a coastal city with the Great Lighthouse). However, I had to lower science slider to 30% but after building a few Courthouses I could afford for 50%. Now I had three goals:

- Aesthetics (for Shwedagon Paya and early Free Religion)
- Musics (free Great Artist)
- Optics (to contact the other continent and get the navigation bonus).

I got all of them. The other continent had 5 civs: Indians (Asoka) - the big guys, Vikings, Portuguese, Ottomans (Mehmed) - the weakest ones and Persians (Darius) - rather weak but tech leaders. Of course, all of them were Hinduist but Darius founded Taoism.

I decided to research Divine Right (for Versailles) and Nationalism (for Taj Mahal, an excellent addition to Mausoleum of Mausollos). I got all of them but it costed me a race to Liberalism (Darius, got... Gunpowder), Physics (Asoka) and Communism (Asoka). However, after Babylon built FP and Byzantium built Versailles I could raise science slider to 60-70%. Islam happened to be founded in my Heroic Epic city and it was also the Confucian HC so I decided to design it to be my Wall Street city (rather unusual combo!). Thanks to two long GA's (the second one started by a Great Spy popped in Thebes) I was able to build SoL, catch up technologically and then to gain tech lead (the final civic setup was Representation-Free Speech-Emancipation-State Property-Free Religion). The last GW built by the AI was the Kremlin - although Asoka was the first to discover Assembly Line, I had a monopoly on Steel and built Pentagon in Iron Works-powered Byzantium. It also has Hermitage and is one of my top three Culture cities - along with Thebes (now it is a GP farm, size 39 32, with Globe Theatre and National Epic) and Carthage (a science powerhouse with Academy and Oxford University). Each of them have a few Cathedrals, one for a religion in city (Carthage will have 5) and one of the Culture multiplying wonders: Hollywood, Broadway and Rock N Roll, so I may expect a victory in less than 100 turns.

After conquering all neighbours and thanks to GWall, I could afford to neglect military. The only exception was my HE city - after it built all necessary health, happiness and money multiplying buildings it started to crank out CRIII Macemen (recently upgraded directly to Mech. Inf.). Now I think I am safe because:

- my navy is up-to-date and gets stronger and stronger thanks to a very productive city with Moai Statues and West Point
- my HE city produces CGIII Mech. Inf. in 1-2 turns (it will switch to Modern Armour soon)
- recently I got a vassal (Ragnar) so although theoretically Asoka is much stronger, I start to catch up and if he goes mad, my army of 14 CRIII Mech. Inf. supported by a Woodsman III/Medic III plus some other highly promoted MI's will wait in the Ragnar's territory [size=-2](edit: they do not wait any longer, because Asoka invaded Mehmed and one turn later I declared on Asoka and significantly reduced his army)[/size]
- only Darius has Apollo so even if Asoka manages to build Space Elevator before me, I doubt he will be able to build his spaceship before my cities become Legendary
- I have built the UN and I am the Secretary
- Asoka has the AP but Joao is the Secretary [size=-2]edit: and Asoka has discovered MassMedia[/size].

S.
 
It also has Hermitage and is one of my top three Culture cities - along with Thebes (now it is a GP farm, size 39, with Globe Theatre and National Epic)
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SIZE 39!!!! WOW! Can we have a screenshot? That's awesome.

Congrats on your progress, cultural wins are fun. :)
 
My 5th Noble game try, still learning the ropes ;).

Pangea, huge map size. Random generated and I got Kahn. Starting location was meh, I could place 1 other good city then everything else had lots of desert, tundra or peaks ewww. My closest neighbors are Qin Shi and Montezuma. Also have Roosevelt, Sitting Bull, Saladin, Boudica, Stalin and Mehmed II.

Seal of Qin Shi's emprie and make him a friend while keeping him from going anywhere. Monty attacks me during bronze iron age, did I mention I wasn't able to hookup iron till 4 turns before he attacked (horrible location). I proceeded to conquer him during the war.

Peace for me for awhile, computers are fighting all the time. Keeping up in the tech race but Saladin is starting to pull ahead. Mehmed is my big neighbor now and he has the coal I need. Building to go attack him and he declares on me with Stalin for support, I get Qin Chi to attack him as well (not sure why the guy has nothing). I slaughter Memeds forces and take 3 of his cities. Moving in on his capital and another city now. Debating on taking him out.

Problem US and Saladin are both becoming powerful. Greece is small but can easily be a spoiler.

Finally starting to figure out the combat thing. Still don't get the espionage and world relations things well. Hopefully with more reading on the boards and more game time I'll get better.

Still not sure if I can pull this one out, I have some pretty weak points in my country right now.
 
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