Game: Civ5 GOTM 50
Date submitted: 2012-12-21
Your name: groorg1
Game status: Diplomacy Victory
Game date: 1953AD
Turns played: 373
Base score: 1816
Final score: 2454
Time played: 11:32:00
I'm proud that I won this game. I got off to what I thought was quite a good start, founding five cities quite quickly on Liberty start. I figured that getting a quick start to the Empire, with lots of gold evident, would yield big money early, and the science from the impressive array of cities I started with would carry me swiftly to Globalization. It would have worked, but as usual I played it very loose with the military, and wasn't paying enough to attention to world politics.
I don't know how it went in other games, but in mine Rome and Japan were ravaging menaces. The Romans started trashing city states and took out the Mayans, and eventually the Greeks, unbeknownst to me. Meanwhile, I was friends with India, but Japan first took out England, and then around turn 190 leaped on me. The eastern half of my empire was on fire by turn 200, and I spent the next ~ 100 turns battling for my life. Japan initially took two of my five cities and actually besieged Vienna and my southernmost city. I beat them back and took back one city, before my army was destroyed in the desert. Then a Japanese counterattack took the city back. I counterattacked again and retook both cities and Nagoya, a border city of Japan's.
This was around turn 250. I was feeling good, but then India stabbed me in the back. I was forced to cover Vienna again, and nearby city-state Quebec besieged my northernmost city, coming within a hair's breadth of taking it. I lost all 3 cities I had gained, but India mercifully signed a peace treaty. Around turn 270 my technology, which had been robust because my 3 surviving core cities were very strong, and pumping out military, gave me a decisive edge. By turn 300 I stormed through Japan with Great War infantry, hussars and artillery, upgrading through to tanks and infantry. I even liberated Geneva; I figured they'd be allies forever, but almost immediately they dropped to "friend"; not sure if I got overthrown in a coup or if there was a glitch there.
By turn 330 I had Japan off the map, but at that moment India stabbed me again, and my entire military was just returning from the Japanese. The Romans looked like they were going to invade, but instead took out the last 2 Japanese island colonies. I breathed a sigh of relief.
Then city-state Jakarta declared war on me and took my southernmost city, one of my 3 core cities. I got it back after 2 turns and then took Mumbai, forcing the Indians to sign a peace treaty, but it was ugly. At that point I quickly got the Japanese cities up and running economically. Rome had destroyed its opponents and outnumbered me probably 2 to 1, but seemed patiently waiting for something... and at that point I finally was able to crank out a Diplomatic victory, winning on turn 373.
NOT at all how I expected that to go. Religion played a large part and I continued to buy Pagodas and Mosques in all conquered cities throughout. A continuing supply of Great Engineers proved very useful with key Wonders, but I felt like I could have gotten to the UN a touch earlier. As it turned out, I managed the vote with 1 city-state to spare.
Date submitted: 2012-12-21
Your name: groorg1
Game status: Diplomacy Victory
Game date: 1953AD
Turns played: 373
Base score: 1816
Final score: 2454
Time played: 11:32:00
I'm proud that I won this game. I got off to what I thought was quite a good start, founding five cities quite quickly on Liberty start. I figured that getting a quick start to the Empire, with lots of gold evident, would yield big money early, and the science from the impressive array of cities I started with would carry me swiftly to Globalization. It would have worked, but as usual I played it very loose with the military, and wasn't paying enough to attention to world politics.
I don't know how it went in other games, but in mine Rome and Japan were ravaging menaces. The Romans started trashing city states and took out the Mayans, and eventually the Greeks, unbeknownst to me. Meanwhile, I was friends with India, but Japan first took out England, and then around turn 190 leaped on me. The eastern half of my empire was on fire by turn 200, and I spent the next ~ 100 turns battling for my life. Japan initially took two of my five cities and actually besieged Vienna and my southernmost city. I beat them back and took back one city, before my army was destroyed in the desert. Then a Japanese counterattack took the city back. I counterattacked again and retook both cities and Nagoya, a border city of Japan's.
This was around turn 250. I was feeling good, but then India stabbed me in the back. I was forced to cover Vienna again, and nearby city-state Quebec besieged my northernmost city, coming within a hair's breadth of taking it. I lost all 3 cities I had gained, but India mercifully signed a peace treaty. Around turn 270 my technology, which had been robust because my 3 surviving core cities were very strong, and pumping out military, gave me a decisive edge. By turn 300 I stormed through Japan with Great War infantry, hussars and artillery, upgrading through to tanks and infantry. I even liberated Geneva; I figured they'd be allies forever, but almost immediately they dropped to "friend"; not sure if I got overthrown in a coup or if there was a glitch there.
By turn 330 I had Japan off the map, but at that moment India stabbed me again, and my entire military was just returning from the Japanese. The Romans looked like they were going to invade, but instead took out the last 2 Japanese island colonies. I breathed a sigh of relief.
Then city-state Jakarta declared war on me and took my southernmost city, one of my 3 core cities. I got it back after 2 turns and then took Mumbai, forcing the Indians to sign a peace treaty, but it was ugly. At that point I quickly got the Japanese cities up and running economically. Rome had destroyed its opponents and outnumbered me probably 2 to 1, but seemed patiently waiting for something... and at that point I finally was able to crank out a Diplomatic victory, winning on turn 373.
NOT at all how I expected that to go. Religion played a large part and I continued to buy Pagodas and Mosques in all conquered cities throughout. A continuing supply of Great Engineers proved very useful with key Wonders, but I felt like I could have gotten to the UN a touch earlier. As it turned out, I managed the vote with 1 city-state to spare.
