The Deity Challenge Line-up #37 - France
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SooHongLoo
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T259 Culture Victory
Settled France besides the mountain and beelined Currency for Petra. Was unlucky with ruins. Got only two ruins. Also, lost Desert Folklore to Aztecs. Took God-King pantheon (Palace provides +1 of everything) as there were no better alternatives. Built 2 settlers and settled first near Karakatoa for +5 science to reach Currency early and the next one near Indonesia. Teched to Currency by T60. Was watching India's second city which was on desert for Petra. Also, DOWed Aztecs for good measure. Got Petra by T73.
Built 4th city around T85 and purchased library in it. Finished National College by T101. When I was set to take advantage of Petra capital, got DOWed by Indonesia. Paris was building military for the next 15 turns. I could have lost my city if not for bad unit placement by AI.
Reached Education by T116 and built Maachu Pichu.
Persia and Portugal were competing for all culture wonders. Generated a GE first, so I could rush a theming wonder to take advantage of France UA, but all the culture wonders were gone before I could tech there. Even Hermitage got delayed because of weak culture early game. I could not put any points into Aesthetics between Tradition and Rationalism. Only after two points into Rationalism, I opened aesthetics and then Cultural Centers and then started building culture buildings.
Got Radio with Oxford and picked Freedom Ideology on T174. Used my first GE on Eiffel Tower, and hard built Broadway (only theming world wonder) in Paris and
generated two GM to get the theming bonus.
Once the culture got started was able to eat through policies pretty fast. By the end of the game, finished Tradition, Aesthetics, Rationalism, Freedom 6 policies and two Commerce. Won World's Fair, but lost IG.
Reached Plastics by T220 and Internet by T239, Radar by T249.
Gifted Troyes to Persia and bulbed 3 GM (2 generated and 1 faith purchase) to get culture victory on T259.
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Settled France besides the mountain and beelined Currency for Petra. Was unlucky with ruins. Got only two ruins. Also, lost Desert Folklore to Aztecs. Took God-King pantheon (Palace provides +1 of everything) as there were no better alternatives. Built 2 settlers and settled first near Karakatoa for +5 science to reach Currency early and the next one near Indonesia. Teched to Currency by T60. Was watching India's second city which was on desert for Petra. Also, DOWed Aztecs for good measure. Got Petra by T73.
Built 4th city around T85 and purchased library in it. Finished National College by T101. When I was set to take advantage of Petra capital, got DOWed by Indonesia. Paris was building military for the next 15 turns. I could have lost my city if not for bad unit placement by AI.
Reached Education by T116 and built Maachu Pichu.
Persia and Portugal were competing for all culture wonders. Generated a GE first, so I could rush a theming wonder to take advantage of France UA, but all the culture wonders were gone before I could tech there. Even Hermitage got delayed because of weak culture early game. I could not put any points into Aesthetics between Tradition and Rationalism. Only after two points into Rationalism, I opened aesthetics and then Cultural Centers and then started building culture buildings.
Got Radio with Oxford and picked Freedom Ideology on T174. Used my first GE on Eiffel Tower, and hard built Broadway (only theming world wonder) in Paris and
generated two GM to get the theming bonus.
Once the culture got started was able to eat through policies pretty fast. By the end of the game, finished Tradition, Aesthetics, Rationalism, Freedom 6 policies and two Commerce. Won World's Fair, but lost IG.
Reached Plastics by T220 and Internet by T239, Radar by T249.
Gifted Troyes to Persia and bulbed 3 GM (2 generated and 1 faith purchase) to get culture victory on T259.
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Domination!
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T126
Looking back, I realised I never finished this game, but sadly have lost the save file, so had to restart from the beginning.
Wanted to do Peaceful culture, but a simultaneous 4-way backstab just because I took 2 of Salesman's cities after HE attacked me turned this into a likely Domination sweep. If I make peace with those traitors, it's not likely I can ever get to having Open Borders, and I really don't want to get embroiled in a long drawn out CV or SV. I remember a similar game with the Celts where I won only on account of going first. So I'll just teach them all a lesson and wipe them out.
T160 Update
I have 4/7 capitals. Cannons rule, esp. when protected by Musketeers. The AI should never have messed with me. I'll have Dynamite soon then it will be easy peasy. I'm gonna make things a bit more interesting and go for total domination. I'm aiming for sub-T200.
T192 Update
I am NOT gonna finish this any time soon. Monty's lands are well-defended with terrain features and he has ICS-ed up the wazoo. So after taking out Pocatello and Darius (a few turns away) I am instead going to go mano e mano for a CV. Shouldn't take THAT long with Futurism to get the old Aztec to slip on a pair of jeans.
Looking back, I realised I never finished this game, but sadly have lost the save file, so had to restart from the beginning.
Wanted to do Peaceful culture, but a simultaneous 4-way backstab just because I took 2 of Salesman's cities after HE attacked me turned this into a likely Domination sweep. If I make peace with those traitors, it's not likely I can ever get to having Open Borders, and I really don't want to get embroiled in a long drawn out CV or SV. I remember a similar game with the Celts where I won only on account of going first. So I'll just teach them all a lesson and wipe them out.
T160 Update
I have 4/7 capitals. Cannons rule, esp. when protected by Musketeers. The AI should never have messed with me. I'll have Dynamite soon then it will be easy peasy. I'm gonna make things a bit more interesting and go for total domination. I'm aiming for sub-T200.
T192 Update
I am NOT gonna finish this any time soon. Monty's lands are well-defended with terrain features and he has ICS-ed up the wazoo. So after taking out Pocatello and Darius (a few turns away) I am instead going to go mano e mano for a CV. Shouldn't take THAT long with Futurism to get the old Aztec to slip on a pair of jeans.
GenuineRisk
Warlord
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T271 DiploV
More of a "get me out of here" victory than anything else. My game started to get buggy (kept freezing up) so I decided to just take the DV as soon as it was available. This was actually quite a nice map and I wouldn't mind trying this one from the start again.
More of a "get me out of here" victory than anything else. My game started to get buggy (kept freezing up) so I decided to just take the DV as soon as it was available. This was actually quite a nice map and I wouldn't mind trying this one from the start again.
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LordBalkoth
Prince
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Per Beetle's request, peaceful Cultural Victory, did it OOC as well and recorded the game, will link to YouTube playlist once uploaded. Screenshot from victory turn:
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