denyd
Emperor
It's about 660AD and a trade of 1100 gold to Japan has bought Theory of Gravity, the missing tech to move to the Industrial Age.
Biggest surprise is that I'm even on tech with all the leaders.
Ottomans and French are gone and England will be very soon, only London (with the Pyramids) left and I've got 8 cavalry 2 spaces away.
Best moves were taking the out the French and getting the Great Library. I only got 4 techs from it, but through trades based on those techs I've stayed with the leaders. I decided the Ottomans had to go, after they started pulling away on tech. With the help of my Zulu buddies, Sun Tzu, The Great Wall and Hanging Gardens were added to my collection of Wonders. I used my only GL so far to build Leo's and upgrade to current units. I managed to hand build Bach's cathedral for my only 'real' wonder construction. No forbidden palace yet, since only one GL so far. Sitting with about 3500 gold and 20gpt in 600AD.
Unlike some of the other lucky players, it took me 8 galleys to make contact with the New World, they were a little backward, but they manged to keep me in cash trading outdated science to them. I'm in the middle of my fourth war now. The first netted France, the second fought off the Zulu for a couple of French cities, the third brought in the Ottomans and now cavalry & conquistadores are mopping up England. The Zulu are going to be the problem child in this game. Everytime I check military, we are weak compared to them. I was afraid of the Ottoman Siphai, so I was happy to have the Zulu around, now the Zulu size might spell future problems.
Currently building Newton's and Smiths (one will probaby switch to palace then become TOE) but that's for the next thread, if I make it that far.
Only complaint (if you call this a complaint) is the amount of time to play a turn. All the checking for trades and for happiness / disorder prevention and moviing workers / entertainers each turn is about 20 minutes. That's about 3 hours per 100 years!!!
I'm hoping to get to 1000AD tonight and with luck I'll have enough time to finish.
Sorry about the rambling (but a little brain fried at midnight after a 6 hour session).
Biggest surprise is that I'm even on tech with all the leaders.
Ottomans and French are gone and England will be very soon, only London (with the Pyramids) left and I've got 8 cavalry 2 spaces away.
Best moves were taking the out the French and getting the Great Library. I only got 4 techs from it, but through trades based on those techs I've stayed with the leaders. I decided the Ottomans had to go, after they started pulling away on tech. With the help of my Zulu buddies, Sun Tzu, The Great Wall and Hanging Gardens were added to my collection of Wonders. I used my only GL so far to build Leo's and upgrade to current units. I managed to hand build Bach's cathedral for my only 'real' wonder construction. No forbidden palace yet, since only one GL so far. Sitting with about 3500 gold and 20gpt in 600AD.
Unlike some of the other lucky players, it took me 8 galleys to make contact with the New World, they were a little backward, but they manged to keep me in cash trading outdated science to them. I'm in the middle of my fourth war now. The first netted France, the second fought off the Zulu for a couple of French cities, the third brought in the Ottomans and now cavalry & conquistadores are mopping up England. The Zulu are going to be the problem child in this game. Everytime I check military, we are weak compared to them. I was afraid of the Ottoman Siphai, so I was happy to have the Zulu around, now the Zulu size might spell future problems.
Currently building Newton's and Smiths (one will probaby switch to palace then become TOE) but that's for the next thread, if I make it that far.
Only complaint (if you call this a complaint) is the amount of time to play a turn. All the checking for trades and for happiness / disorder prevention and moviing workers / entertainers each turn is about 20 minutes. That's about 3 hours per 100 years!!!
I'm hoping to get to 1000AD tonight and with luck I'll have enough time to finish.
Sorry about the rambling (but a little brain fried at midnight after a 6 hour session).