Just for a bit of fun, I relocated the Aztecs (via world builder) from the mainland to a tiny island in the middle ocean, cut off from the rest of the civilizations. The island has a maximum room for 3 cities. The first picture shows the initial setup, and the second one is my progress in 1400s. My goal was to get off the island and contact other civs, so I pretty much beelined for optics, with exceptions of some useful worker techs and polytheism. Despite my small empire size, I was able to grab the great lighthouse and the colossus. Catherine came around in caravel in 1100s and discovered me. Not long afterward, I got my own caravels, and start sending out missionary to convert other civs. Anyway, you can download the attached save files, and try your hand at this challenging setup.
Stranded on a Tiny Island in the Middle of Vast Ocean, What ever shall I do?
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It doesn't look like I will win this game, too far behind, and too few cities. I guess the only possible route would be trying to go for culture or UN. By the way, the game was on monarch, standard map, with default # of AI, with aggressive AI and barbarian option on.
friskymike
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I'm in a similar position on tiny continents map on emperor level. Had my own small continent, room for about 6 cities but isolated till I got caravels through beelining for astronomy. Its about 1250 now, the AIs have caravels too but I might be the first to circumnavigate the world and also the first to get Astronomy... but they have every other tech possible I don't have, and have multiple bowmen/pikemen in their cities where mine have one archer each. I don't even have any religion yet.
Any master plans to claw this one back?? Is there some techs I could grab to trade the AI normally doesn't go for, or that are worth beelining for? My plan at the moment is to settle some islands I've discovered, become really friendly with the bottom two AIs if I can and eventually go to war against the top AI to slow them down.
Any master plans to claw this one back?? Is there some techs I could grab to trade the AI normally doesn't go for, or that are worth beelining for? My plan at the moment is to settle some islands I've discovered, become really friendly with the bottom two AIs if I can and eventually go to war against the top AI to slow them down.
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Chieftain
That's the first time I've ever seen Islam as a state religion. And it's Isabella!
Probably shoudl have gone for the cultural victory,s eems like only one you can have, however without supporting cities you cant get cathedrals to do it in time before the game ends :/ This is a very challenging setup, I personally do liek the idea of my own island, however I'd be hard pressed to play a game where I wont win at this point.
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