Moved Warrior south and liked what i saw. Moved settler next to deer and settled. This discovered marble
as well.
Started scouting and it appears we are on a peninsula that is blocked off by mountains. I only built one scout. and prioritized optics so i could get those ruins teasing me from the other side.
Tech: Pottery, Mining, Optics, AH, Writing, Philo
Build: Scout, Worker, Granary, Shrine, Trireme, Settler, Settler
I built a boat to help scout.
Once Optics was done I went to go explore. But i forgot the scout needed to touch my land before it learnt to swim. So this wasted a few turns.
Early on i got a weapon upgrade for my warrior. the scout popped only one ruin (a faith one) T48.
This got me a pantheon. Picked Earth mother (faith from salt). Which led to founding first on T76.
Getting the religion first made me priortise religion tech and buildings a little more.
I had met william and nebby by this stage.
About T50 (or something) i settled my two expos. Land was not really good aside from cap.
One city went on marble to the north for a coastal mountain city.
Second went across the bay next to the cows and bananas for river coastal city.
This would allow me to run food ships all day.
Early on i also had luck with cs quests for barbs. allied HK T67 by popping nearby camp.
And wondering scout was a hero and killed archer camp after 6 turns for worker return and two cs allys (both merc singapore and one other i think.) So happiness was no issue. I considered a fourth by the crab to the west but didn't like the prospect of a city with all water tiles. Maybe a third food ship would have boosted the cap even more?
No civs were really in cargo range early on so this never happened. Not sure if it matters on immortal but it could have slowed down early game. Cargos went to cap for ridiculous early growth.
Given the strong cap and early religion I went Theology and built Borobudur and HS.
This let me spread to every city state to William. Both him and nebby had religion at this point so i didn't spread there. Although the early spread let me dominate nebbys religion and williams cities flipped a bit too.
Later i met Dido, pedro and askia.
I can't remember timings for NC and education but i was rich enough to buy uni in cap and third city (which was struggling prod wise until i got stable and workshop up.)
Went into renaissance with acoustics a few turns after someone else (i assume sejong in hindsight)
Built SC, lost LToP to pedro by a few, lost Uffizi to Sejong (who i had now met.)
Hit sci theory and then checked for coal.
Used oxford to get to radio.
Was second strangely. I think pedro went order first. don't remember.
Went freedom.
Next teched for Louvre.
Built Louvre, PT, rushed ET, broadway, SoL in 3rd city, CR, Neue in 2nd city.
At this point i just teched to Plastics, fertilizer and then internet.
City growth was rediculous. 27pop in cap by T166
Was stringing we love the king days when i remembered.
Had open borders with everyone and trade route+diplomat with culture leaders (Sejong and Pedro)
Used two GM after internet to catch pedro and a third shortly after on nebby for the 20% to everyone. I think rammy was the last to be caught simply because i neglected him.
Most people followed me to freedom idea. Askia went autocracy and pedro and sejong order. They were all in revolutionary wave status for the rest of the game.
This was entirely peacful on my part. Everyone was my friend. I built very few units. like two archers and two triremes. and later a few frigates.
Only bought one war and it was more out of spite. Nebby kept converting my cities late. maybe i neglected diplo a bit. So i paid askia to dow him for cheap.
Sejong was at war with rammy who was city spamming.
carthage did nothing. even getting dowed by pedro and sejong before losing her cap.
pedro nebby and william all dowed askia late. maybe cos he took a few city states.
In the end it was kind of boring game. The mountain range at the start was different but after that it was pretty regular op salt start.Perhaps dom would have been more interesting but i was in no state to do that last night
I could have gained control of the world congress to speed up victory. I completely forgot about it. and the ai kept proposing dumb stuff. Arts funding was passed though. I was in control of proposals for one session and put WF in (quite late though) which i won but i perhaps should have gone for Olympics at this point instead. (yes WF didn't get proposed for that long). The timing would have worked out better for late tourism push. My peak was only 500 maybe.
I'll post a pic when I figure out the best way for this site.
Thanks guys for the challenge lineup and i'll post a few maps for your consideration.
especially of my current favourite civs.
Edit: Heres the image
