The "OMG! Look what happened in DoC!" Thread

[phoenix_sprite]

I'm loving the prevalence of Orthodoxy in that Middle East... too bad Arabia's gunna have to erase all of it.

Most of that was my doing; I had extra hammers due to Rome's unique power and wanted to spread Catholicism. After I built the Apostolic Palace, most of the catholic cities in the East became orthodox but I still got the Hagia Sophia due to being the only state to have Catholicism as their religion. All of the AI leaders were opposed to adopting Organized Religion from Pantheon but it worked out for me.

On a side note: what dictates Byzantium's spawn when the human is playing Rome (they didn't spawn on me this time).

 

[Leoreth]

Your stability. I think you need to be shaky or less.

 

[ales_]

And Greece shouldn't be alive.

 

[phoenix_sprite]

The year is 770 AD. Egypt (now Aegyptus), Babylonia, Phoenicia and Persia are still there but are on the brink of collapse under the weight of the Arabians.

Year of collapse:
Phoenicia - 780 AD
Egypt - 800 AD
Persia - 840 AD

Babylonia, revitalized? (910AD)

Spoiler :

 

[Manuss]

Those borders

 

[phoenix_sprite]

Sadly, the end of the longest lasting civilization of the Ancient world, the work of an Islamic coalition. The year is 1370 AD.

 

[Theodorick]

Swedish and Hindi are both Indo-European languages, good luck finding identical words in them.

There's actually a lot of similarities if you look closely. Swedish for Brother is Bror, which is Brahtar in Sanskrit. Or the Swedish word for Mother is Moder, which is Matri in Sanskrit. You could go on for thousands of words if you wanted to, and even get down to the grammar, where the similarities don't stop.

But this is all because all Indo-European languages came 5000-6000 years ago from a Mother proto-Indo-European language that has long since gone extinct.

edit: Oh sorry, you said Hindi. For Hindi; Brother = bhaii, Mother = maataa... I think I defaulted to Sanskrit since that is been used as an example of the closest surviving language to the lost proto-Indo-European Mother language, and it's there that the similarities are most striking.

 

[Leoreth]

Similarities are obvious, this is why their common language family has been known for such a long time. I said identical.

 

[Alhambram]

What happens if Turkey won battle of Vienna in 1638...
In this game France and Iran are vassals and Greece just declared independence.

 

[Shadow Merc]

What happens if Turkey won battle of Vienna in 1638...
In this game France and Iran are vassals and Greece just declared independence.

I'm surprised Portugal survived if they made it all the way into Spain.

Who's bigger? The Ottomans or your Indonesia?

 

[Alhambram]

I'm surprised Portugal survived if they made it all the way into Spain.

Who's bigger? The Ottomans or your Indonesia?

Since i have many seatiles, i rank 3rd at Land Area behind Turkey and Russia.
If you look to total area tiles, i would say that Turkey is bit bigger.

 

[VGL]

Arabic New World

 

[Wessel V1]

Without Brittannia, Rome tries the Whole Empire Challenge. In total (with Byzantium) they have 23 cities in 440 AD.

 

[Publicola]

No screengrabs, but I might be able to go back and pick up a few. Basically, I was playing a Marathon game as China, following youtien's strategy (Marathon makes it much easier for an early warrior to grab all the tribal huts without much competition).

I got absurdly lucky, and got a string of Tech hut-pops giving me Writing, then Literature, then Music... which pushed me into the Medieval Era. Using those same warriors to harass Babylon and delay their wonder production, I managed to research Metal Casting, built the Oracle to gain Machinery (usually impossible since it's a medieval tech), then used a Great Engineeer to build the Grand Canal in three consecutive turns. I don't have the numbers, but my research was boosted to absurd levels from very early on, and just kept getting better from there.

I wasn't even trying, but I managed to finish the UHV around 750 AD or so. I probably could have pushed it to 500 AD or earlier if I'd tried. Decided to load to a turn before I finished by fourth cathedral, and played on. Now it's roughly 1200 AD, and I'm 20 turns away from a space victory -- 5 to finish the last tech needed, 5 to built the part, 10 to reach the planet.

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Mongols collapsed to core, then expanded double of their territory before, in my game. They got to Iran and collapsed -- really wimpy! But then, coming back from their collapse, they went around Kazakhstan and hit the Ottomans! Imagine this, this tiny Mongol offshoot going and defeating the hugely militaristic Turkey. They ended up taking Kazakhstan, all of the Middle East, capitulating Turkey, and all of northeastern Africa before collapsing once again. Also, they helped their Turkish vassal drive deep into Europe.

 

[ales_]

No screengrabs, but I might be able to go back and pick up a few. Basically, I was playing a Marathon game as China, following youtien's strategy (Marathon makes it much easier for an early warrior to grab all the tribal huts without much competition).

I got absurdly lucky, and got a string of Tech hut-pops giving me Writing, then Literature, then Music... which pushed me into the Medieval Era. Using those same warriors to harass Babylon and delay their wonder production, I managed to research Metal Casting, built the Oracle to gain Machinery (usually impossible since it's a medieval tech), then used a Great Engineeer to build the Grand Canal in three consecutive turns. I don't have the numbers, but my research was boosted to absurd levels from very early on, and just kept getting better from there.

I wasn't even trying, but I managed to finish the UHV around 750 AD or so. I probably could have pushed it to 500 AD or earlier if I'd tried. Decided to load to a turn before I finished by fourth cathedral, and played on. Now it's roughly 1200 AD, and I'm 20 turns away from a space victory -- 5 to finish the last tech needed, 5 to built the part, 10 to reach the planet.

If you have save, you can post about your UHV in the UHV thread.

 

[Publicola]

If you have save, you can post about your UHV in the UHV thread.

I wasn't sure it qualified -- taking credit for getting such lucky hut Tech-pops feels kinda like taking credit for using WB to get a leg up. I probably could have done about as well without the huts -- use Oracle for Metal Casting, then research Machinery manually and GE the Grand Canal. There'd have been a delay, but that way it'd feel more like I'd have earned it.

 

[ales_]

If you haven't used the WB, it qualifies. Just make sure that it qualifies by score/date.

 

[char81]

Um that's a little odd. Singapore with zero population? xD

 

[mrrandomplayer]

That's weirder than a Rocket Artillery spawning as a great person.