Turn 306 Diplomatic victory.
After some failed attempts at multi-city starts, I finally 'settled' for a 1 city Tradition start. Early objectives were get a quick National College (then over to Xbows) and stay out of Attila's way. I paid Attila to fight Maya, got Sun God for growth. I believe I had Attila at war with everyone else on our continent when I declared against him with 7-8 Xbos and 2 spearmen.
After taking the main Hunnic cities, I slowed the war down so as not to 'build new cities to quickly'. Eventually, I conquered every Hun city on the continent, leaving 1 left on an island.
The Mayans had a lot of wonders in their first 2 cities, so they were the next target. I think leaving them with 1 city was a mistake and I should have cleared them off.
I only captured the 2 main Netherland cities, leaving the rest for Babylon. From this point forward I played a peaceful game, though my former enemies denounced me which made things frustrating.
Social policies: full tradition, partial Rationalism then mixture of Order and Rationalism (finished). I held back on culture early, which allowed me to go straight from Tradition to Rationalism.
I don't know how to execute a continents domination victory and thought a Science victory would be easier. I'd been setting Washington up to be a tall, science powerhouse from very early on. But in using all my money either towards city states or to keep other civs at war with each other, it became clear a diplomatic victory would be easier.
Highlight of the game was building a citadel immediately next to an enemy city - never done that before! I went out of my way, using 2 (extra) great generals, to set that up again next to the Mayan capital.
USA! USA! USA!
Missed the first vote with only 38, this was the second vote.
Victory!
Nice shot of the capital
Spoiler :
After some failed attempts at multi-city starts, I finally 'settled' for a 1 city Tradition start. Early objectives were get a quick National College (then over to Xbows) and stay out of Attila's way. I paid Attila to fight Maya, got Sun God for growth. I believe I had Attila at war with everyone else on our continent when I declared against him with 7-8 Xbos and 2 spearmen.
After taking the main Hunnic cities, I slowed the war down so as not to 'build new cities to quickly'. Eventually, I conquered every Hun city on the continent, leaving 1 left on an island.
The Mayans had a lot of wonders in their first 2 cities, so they were the next target. I think leaving them with 1 city was a mistake and I should have cleared them off.
I only captured the 2 main Netherland cities, leaving the rest for Babylon. From this point forward I played a peaceful game, though my former enemies denounced me which made things frustrating.
Social policies: full tradition, partial Rationalism then mixture of Order and Rationalism (finished). I held back on culture early, which allowed me to go straight from Tradition to Rationalism.
I don't know how to execute a continents domination victory and thought a Science victory would be easier. I'd been setting Washington up to be a tall, science powerhouse from very early on. But in using all my money either towards city states or to keep other civs at war with each other, it became clear a diplomatic victory would be easier.
Highlight of the game was building a citadel immediately next to an enemy city - never done that before! I went out of my way, using 2 (extra) great generals, to set that up again next to the Mayan capital.
USA! USA! USA!
Missed the first vote with only 38, this was the second vote.
Victory!
Nice shot of the capital