Civilisation: Greece
Victory Type: Historical
Version: 1.13 (no Git)
Score (normalized): 45283, Augustus Caeser
Virtual Date: t105
Actual Date: t119, 325 BC
Difficulty: Regent
Gamespeed: Normal
Game Save (virtual):
View attachment Pericles (Publicola) Iron Age Turn 105 -virtual.CivBeyondSwordSave
Game Save (actual):
View attachment Pericles (Publicola) BC-0325 Turn 119 -actual.CivBeyondSwordSave
This one took a bit more effort to do right. I got pretty lucky on my starting turn, as I flipped both barbarian Huluganni in Asia Minor, though my galley was locked to the water tiles to my west, so I didn't get a chance to plant my capital on Korinthos like I would have preferred. I settled Athenai and Ilion (the sheep tile SE of the Byzantion city tile) -- Ilion was able to reach the wheat and marble tiles in Asia minor and wouldn't get in the way of my third core city, Epidamnos (S of the copper tile).
My two Huluganni marched to Babylon while I transported two Hoplites to take on Egypt. Babylon had just settled its second city, so its capital was solely defended by an Archer and a Warrior; a lucky roll for the first fight, and the city was mine. Egypt hadn't yet discovered Bronze Working, so they only had warriors while made it pathetically easy to conquer. Both civs had already built one wonder apiece; Babylon had grabbed the Sphinx, while Egypt had built the Pyramids. Once I'd built a pagan temple in each, I assigned Babylon to build a settler for Epidamnos, while Diospolos Megale built the Hanging Gardens, both to increase my core population and also getting extra 'Great Engineer' GP points.
My build order in Athenai was work boat, work boat, Great Cothon (for the Great Merchant and
), Temple of Artemis, (I hurried the Great Lighthouse thanks to my Great Engineer from Egypt), and Colossus. This order ensured that my capital would produced enough Great Merchant GP points that it would be my next great person; I expended him on a Trade Mission to Rome for 700 gold, just enough to keep my research spinning at 100% until I finished Philosophy.
The main difficulty here was dealing with tech. My first two techs were Masonry and Agriculture, but once those were finished I found that I needed to enter the Classical Age to ensure I wouldn't collapse. So my tech order from that point was Aesthetics, (popped Iron Working from a hut), Priesthood (for Oracle), Literature, Drama, Metal Casting (from Oracle), and Philosophy. I also traded for Animal Husbandry and other techs from Carthage, India, Persia and Rome.
Neither Phoenicia nor Persia started out at war with me, which was annoying and meant I had to wait the requisite 10 turns before invading and crushing them utterly. I'd actually managed to capture the independent Asia Minor city in the meantime, which I gifted to them, which led them to move their spearman north just as I launched my invasion of their capital. Hoplite takes spearman, Huluganni take archers in the capital, war over. Persia was more intimidating, but the AI really didn't use their units effectively (sending their War Elephant off to explore the north, for instance), so I was able to sweep through and capture them in relatively short order as well.
Once I reached the virtual victory, the only thing left to do was wait around until the actual victory date arrived. I continued teching like mad to grab new wonders -- I researched Calendar (for the happiness and for the Mausoleum, which I hurried with my second Great Engineer from Egypt), Construction (for the Colosseum), Machinery, and Monotheism before turn 119. I also invaded Rome, taking a few losses against their sole defending Legion but with so little difficulty overall that I managed to invade Carthage as well. Finally, I pushed every single one of my cities to grow their population, which boosted my final score considerably.
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right after I clicked the red button. Thanks!
