Game: Civ5 GOTM 55
Date submitted: 2013-02-25
Reference number: 28405
Your name: Woodszilla
Game status: Domination Victory
Game date: 1030AD
Turns played: 163
Base score: 1011
Final score: 3159
Time played: 6:02:00
Submitted save: Isabella_0163 AD-1030.Civ5Save
Renamed file: Woodszilla_C505501.Civ5Save
I finished on turn
166 163... Will submit tonight when I get home, and try to do a decent write-up, but I was pretty disappointed by my time. I could see shaving 30, maybe 40 turns off with more focus. Can't image how I would shave off 60 turns! glory and tommy you guys are crazy good. Grats.
Don't think I actually spent 6 hours on this, probably half of that is idle time.
My biggest downfall was unfocused teching. If I had beelined education it would have made a huge difference. As I played, I had taken all caps on my continent and then had my army swimming in the shallow for about 20 turns waiting for astro.
Then by the time I got there, Austria had Great Wall so that slowed me down a good couple turns as well.
Social policies and religion choices could have been better too... I really need to do more planning/strategizing before I just go for it.
EDIT:
First GOTM submission.
I don't want to get into a long write up as my time wasn't that great-
Settled in place. Went 4 cities tradition then went into Honor because I didn't know what else to do, 2 scouts, found 2 wonders first on main continent, bought 2 settlers with the gold. built GL(theo) and pyramids. stole 3 workers from CSs. Hard built all buildings, granaries, libraries etc.... settled 4th city by faith wonder (mainly to be able to upgrade closer to the top 2 civs) with a bought settler, one with nature pantheon. But by the time I got a religion, I had big enough armies built that holy warriors would have been redundant. I took tithe and religious community.
didn't beeline education, kinda just messed around teching toward xb's without unlocking construction. biggest mistake there.
built 2 armies, sent one north toward siam, one east to byz. unlocked construction, upgraded most of my archers and went on a capital spree. 4-5 cbs + war or spear(ruin).
As I said before, my army sat around in the shallows waiting for astro to finish, about 20 turns =/ I did float around and demand gold from CSs while I waited tho, so I had a lot of cash (that i didnt end up using all of) when I finally set sail (west).
Took a settler with me, plopped him between... god i don't even remember the opponents already, the middle and bottom one =x Bought xbows and a swordsman to hit the bottom capital, while my embarked units went to hit Austria and the middle guy.
Austria had Great Wall, so that one took the longest, needed to bring in a couple reinforcements to finish the job.
If I did it over, I would beeline education, settle the faith wonder with 2nd settler, holy warriors, go liberty->commerce, steal more workers and skip pyramids, start warring earlier.
Another good learning experience I suppose. Hopefully I have a better showing on the next GOTM.