Game: Civ5 GOTM 40
Date submitted: 2012-08-08
Reference number: 26866
Your name: Minor Annoyance
Game status: Science Victory
Game date: 2020AD
Turns played: 440
Base score: 1178
Final score: 1338
Time played: 17:27:00
Submitted save: Boudicca_0440 AD-2020-Jan END.Civ5Save
Renamed file: Minor_Annoyance_C504001.Civ5Save
How was your first experience with G&K in a GOTM?
Fine, how was yours?
It was my first GOTM but not my first G&K, and it was a civ and map and difficulty I would have played anyway so it was just playing for a specific victory that was different.
With hundreds of posts it's hard to see the differences between games without reading every one and it's not like I can make my own questionnaire.
How did you have to adjust your strategy and/or play style to adjust to the changes?
I had no previous GOTM strategies and it wasn't my first G&Ks so I was already adjusted.
How did you use religion or spying to your advantage?
Quite well. I named it Druidism. I got messenger of the gods for increased science, and throughout the game most of my gold surplus came from my religion with the 2 gold per city, and also pagodas, Feed the world and I was going for many cities to take advantage of it all.
Did anyone else go for a wide empire?. Also I got about three extra great scientist and three great engineers from spending faith. I had about 120 faith a turn by the end. It was the biggest religion by far. Only civs that founded there own didn't have it. I don't think the AI spreads religion very well.
Theodora failed to found a religion! How bad is that? Add to that the UUs that don't carry anything when they upgrade and they were basically a generic civ after a short time.
I don't really remember how I used spying, but I got good use out of it.
I recorder a whole bunch of details in a text file. I forgot some things and I wasn't always consistent in what I recorded or whether I listed a leader or a civs name etc. and I didn't fix spelling to other mistakes because I wanted to keep playing not edit so there it is.
Some details:
Religion:
Messenger of the gods
Chuch property
Pagodas
Feed the world
religious text
Policies:
Liberty - all
Honor - part
Rationalism - all
Order - a little
Victims:
Inca - Pacal
Lets see what I remember
My warrior was turned into a pictish warrior by ruins so that was lucky.
I used the great library for drama and poetry because it was expensive, but if I had thought ahead I would have make sure iron working was open for it. It's expensive and if you have no iron then it's not that useful so getting it free is the best option. I'm sure I'm not the first to think of this.
I went for Liberty and somewhat into honor because I planned to make use of my early UU and take someone out early.
Was I the only one that took down Pacal? Haven't seen anyone else that did that but I thought it was the obvious choice. His capital was a nice production city especially for wonders. I planned it from the moment I met him. I bought two cats, three pictish warriors, one warrior, a comp archer, and I think a horseman. Left him his second city.
Dido attacked but it wasn't too concentrated. They took Geneva but I liberated it and took out the units around it.
Pacal also declared with that message of them not thinking they can win but they have to try. They didn't killed their few units. One was a pikeman which was above me but he had only one. I pillaged everything he had. Several landmarks. I got 73 gold from hims and 135 gold, marble, dyes from Dido for peace.
I went to war with Attila by request of everybody but never had to fight. At some point Austria sided with him for some reason I was worried because they were so close but they developed no advanced naval tech so I quickly got some and then they were outmatched. Took out several ships but never got as far as invading.
I build many Pictish warriors early on to keep the foreign lands bonus for the future but I never got to upgrading them so really I wasted 1000s in upkeep keeping them for most of them game. It was only in the modern era when I build up significant units as a deterrent for Spain that has turned and had a huge military and often had 7000+ gold on them. I gave away the pictish to CS (I saw Quebec with one later) and built new units with my three good production cities, Douglas Cardiff and the Inca capital. I had four academies around Nantes and just ran out the tech tree and build my spaceship.
That's all I remember.
First city
second city
third city
fourth city
fifth city
sixth city- captures inca capital
seventh city
eighth city
nine, ten and final empire shot
final demographics