Game: Civ5 GOTM 14
Date submitted: 2011-06-19
Reference number: 24445
Your name: Maxym
Game status: Domination Victory
Game date: 1300AD
Turns played: 190
Base score: 300
Final score: 789
Time played: 9:34:00
my first OCC game and a first real try to do it properly, focusing on taking out enemy capitals as quickly as i could. i thought i was doing quite well until i saw some of those posted finishes. WOW
i got warrior rushed by Rome, took them out first (3 Samurai) after getting steel from GL, their warriors delayed that quite a bit by standing on my mine sites
then sent those 3 plus |G|G and extra samurai to take france, in meantime found non ocean link to alex, and sent those guys there next. he proved a tough nut, almost lost 1 unit and had to use most of my saved promotions to survive, and regroup. take one of his other cities to open up some space.
built 3 more Samurai, and when ANother GG popped fighting Alex, sent those to take Genghis, then sailed east from his location into unknown. met monty who was Afraid, loved that... met russia, took monty quickly, then bought open borders to walk my army up through russia.
meantime moved my forces against iroquis and it was a quick and painless conquest. but Russia proved a hard nut to crack, had 5 or 6 cities and bunch of knights near capital. i thought, 3 UU and GG would be enough especially since they were well upgraded to fight in the open and had both heroic epic and honor promotions. was i ever wrong, his 4 knights tore me apart and i was scrambling for the hills north of Moscow. i lost one and saved two, including 1HP samurai who fled to the sea to escape. i sold what i could to whomever i could to ally two city states in the north, and kept sending them my samurai. it helped to avert disaster, but they would not move against moscow. my frigate arrived in meantime and with its help my loaned samurai destroyed rest of russia's knights
i moved against the capital with just 2 UU and GG hoping it would work, and knowing that if it didnt my 2nd army was on its way, but i would never beat 200 turn limit i set for myself at the beginning . furtunately i got a knight from a city state south and it arrived at the capital at same time and drew most of the couterattacks allowing my Samurai to storm its walls...
Rome and |Genghis Dowed me while this was going on but they were hopeless. i guess if i knew how deadly those knights were i would have lured them into my northern CS allies and used Himeji bonus to destroy them, as i just built it to deny it to Russia. So maybe 10-15 turns earlier, at the most. I cant even imagine a 113 turn win.
i am replaying it to see if i can do better by sending one army through france to alex and hiawatha, and second one through Rome, genghis, monty and russia