SoI Domination Challenge

[Jusos2108]

Fatimids collapsed beneath me and I rolled up the indy Levant quickly. I then expanded into Iraq and vassalised Karamanids. With them and Ottomans we collapsed the powerful Byzantine Empire, after which I backstabbed the Ottomans and left Anatolia to the Karamanids. I expanded into Iran with three GAs for the win. Other vassals were Ak Kouynly and Yemen.

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[Akbarthegreat]

I read the other domination thread; why is it good to have the Ottomans as a vassal? Is it because they build a large empire?
And how is your stability so good as the Mamluks? Temples and courthouses?

 

[Jusos2108]

Ottomans accept cities on wide areas.
Economy and that.

 

[Akbarthegreat]

I just finished an Ottoman domination on Emir in 1611. Had some questions:
1. Why does the land required for domination keep increasing? Just after I got 25% after taking Georgia, it increased to 29. When I culture bombed a couple of cities in Persia to get ~28%, it increased again to 31. It was almost as if the game was trolling me.
2. How much % does 1 tile account for?
3. Whats the song that is played when domination any victory is won?

It was one of the most fun games I have played recently

 

[DC123456789]

I'm pretty sure domination requirements change depending on the number of living civs.

 

[SanJose]

3. Whats the song that is played when domination any victory is won?

Super Mario Oud

 

[Akbarthegreat]

Thanks guys.

 

[Jusos2108]

I'm pretty sure domination requirements change depending on the number of living civs.

Yeah, that's pretty much correct.
When the number of alive civs drops to a certain level (not sure what's the exact number) the land requirement begins to increase when more civs die. The population treshold seems to be more complicated and dependant on the total population or then on the population of the next biggest civ. The algorithm is a bit hard to figure out without looking at the code.

 

[SanJose]

Kingdom of Armenia 1298AD score 15923
Setteld Yeghegnadzor and Maragheh at start, capture indi workers from Qazvin and Mosul. Hire improved horse archer and axeman, easy capture Mosul, later all Abbasids in Iraq cities except Basra and Ahvaz with Buids help. Only in 990AD i founded Manazkert.
Next step - prepare for Seljuks spawn; spread Orth in Iraq, build everywhere church, market and barracks.
In 1070AD after losing Hamadan, Esfahan and Ray Seljuk capitulated. After my horde of horse archers moved to West(capitulated Rum and PoA both 1133 AD; KoJ and Georgia became a vassal state in 1145AD and 1175AD). Mamluks capitulated in 1270AD.
After the Mongol invasion i moved hordes of promoted HA and lancers to Yemen and Khwarezm.

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[2phunkey4u]

Marageh - what an unusual start. Why did you do it?

 

[SanJose]

Marageh - what an unusual start. Why did you do it?

Good:
1. Salt, cotton and dye;
2. Fast road to Mosul(before Buids spawn) and control over the crossroads Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia;
3. Border province;
4. No cultural pressure, no flip before 1402AD, easy to defend;

Bad:
1. Poor in food (max size 6 with windmill) with 8.

 

[SanJose]

Samanids 1294AD score7953
Settled Masar-e Sharif and Khavakend, capture Kerman with starting army, hire mounted merc, capture Medinah, Mekkah and Sana'a, razed Zabid.
Agree all flips. Peace vassal: Abbasids, Oman, Zengids; capitulated: Khwarezm, Mamliks, Gujarat. Barbarian Yazd revolted to Abbasids and broken my Shahanshah title

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[SanJose]

Gujarat 1384 score 8115
In first try i collapsed in 1320 with 24% of land (without vassal).
Restarted from 1250AD, convert to sunni, capitulated Omani and Zengids, liberated many cities in Caucasus, Iraq and Iran for reduce maintenance and recive stability booster.
Again bad in tech, capital in Sindari(2W from starting plot).

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[SanJose]

Sultanat of Rum 1384AD score 26958
Rolled for found weak protection in Tartus, razed Eskişehir and Gelibolu, settled Aydin and Hergen Kale(2S Eskişehir). Meeting mongols with 15 trebushets and pack of mounted ghulams Vassals Yemen, Zengids and Oman(collapsed in 1360).

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[SanJose]

Byzantine Empire 1163AD score 47880.
So strange that Abbasids never respawn when my stability become between -30 and -50. And i can't liberated Hamadan, Qazvin and Ray when Seljuks capitulated.

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[SanJose]

Yemen 1376AD score 16418

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Capture fast Hejaz, Iraq. Managered to do Esfahan capital of Buids, capture Kerman, Yazd, Shiraz and Esfahan before 1075AD. Vassal -Zengids, capituleted - PoA. Recive total 5 Golden Age
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[2phunkey4u]

Nice one. And Armenia did well in that one, too, which is also nice.

 

[SanJose]

Nice one. And Armenia did well in that one, too, which is also nice.

Thx. Makuria grows strong too. Next try with Sindh, i rolled start when HoW and SM don't builded.

 

[SanJose]

Sindh 1442AD score 8173
Build How in Mansura 1NW, SM in Kolachee(on sorghum), found Quetta with last settler. Capture barbarian Multan, crushing Ghaznavids. Strong Malwa control Khambhat, so i missed 2nd UHV. Capitulated Malwa(collapsing)+Mewar(see below) and Delhi(collapsing next/last turn).

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[SanJose]

KoJ 1488AD score 6583
Capture Damascus with megabonus and Aqaba at start, losing Akka for additional crusaders. Settled Massawa, beeline to 2/3 UHV. Karamanids peaceful vassal, Ak Kounlu through capitulation. Bulbed 2GA in Dongola and Marv.

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Pretty mercenary from Damascus:


~27% of land:


24 more than the previous record by Jusos2108:


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