Dom Victory T 441. Whew that was a long and fun game! But it didn't seem long. I'm amazed at how much easier (and more enjoyable) long treks across the world are when you have time to do it and your units don't obsolete before you get there.
- Did you play peacefully or warlike? Did you use your UU? -- Not a shot fired
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- What technologies did you prioritize? -- Should have prioritized Astronomy sooner than I did. I didn't anticipate it being as easy to take cities as it was.
- What Social Policies did you choose and in what order? Which Ideology did you choose? -- Full Tradition, a little Patronage. I don't know why I didn't think of opening Honor, this is the perfect game for it.
- How many cities did you have in the end and where did you settle them? -- Four self founded cities, the 4th was probably a mistake - Cologne on the east coast. I thought I might need it to build ships but ships weren't necessary.
Picking up from Opening Actions, Vienna was captured T298; what a terrible city. At least it had two improved unique luxuries so that makes it worth it.
T328 captured Rio. Oops, I didn't realize I had a DoF with them. Did I? It says I made a DoF with the same leaders but no mention of Backstab and no one is mad at me. I do have DoF with William and Napoleon. Why the heck are the DoF durations negative I wonder, how do I tell when they're going to be over? (Looked it up and turns out the game gets confused on marathon speed. They should end at -100). Waited for the DoF's to be over and then took Amsterdam and Paris.
But I still haven't found the other continent. I sent my Athens army west because it seemed the most likely place to look, but there's nothing there but a few small islands. My army scatters in all directions trying to find it; where the heck is it?? Was it all just a tall tale?
Finally, after wandering around the ocean for a thousand years trying to find the lost continent of the old fables, braving the pirates, a half-dead CB limps up to the shore of an unknown land. And there he is - an emissary from the great Khan himself. The Athens army converged on Mongolia. Genghis had already captured Rome and it was a measly 13 defense so my range and logistics promoted CB took it down easily. Then liberated a Roman city just for the heck of it. And on T441, Karakorum falls to the great German empire and the world is ours!