TSG87 After Action thread

[4N4C0ND4]

T84

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Game: Civ5 GOTM 87
Date submitted: 2014-06-24 16:04:01
Reference number: 31277
Your name: 4N4C0ND4
Game status: Domination Victory
Game date: 775BC
Turns played: 84
Base score: 1394
Final score: 8712
Time played: 4:19:00
Submitted save: Bismarck_0409 AD-1989.Civ5Save
Renamed file: 4N4C0ND4_C508701.Civ5Save

Actually fairly easy.
Warring from the start, other continent was too busy fighting to be any SV threat for a long time.
The hardest part was taking hun's capital early, he had mass arties lol, as much as an human would do
Took only autocraty, my biggest mistakes was having 0 happiness policies early, hurt my growth too much since there were so few lux on the starting ground.
Finished w/o sleath.

Attached the funny parts of the game: CS were BEAST, and somehow took Egypt's cap, and almost Songhai's one too Don't mess with Brussels lol

 

[glory7]

Game: Civ5 GOTM 87
Date submitted: 2014-06-26 14:56:26
Reference number: 31291
Your name: glory7
Game status: Domination Victory
Game date: 2000BC
Turns played: 50
Base score: 889
Final score: 8890
Time played: 3:41:00
Submitted save: glory7_gotm87.Civ5Save
Renamed file: glory7_C508701.Civ5Save

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Went for exploration opener, +3 hammer, and autocracy up to happy barracks, and secularism, and totar war and +25% attack for 50 turns.

Was quite surprised to see that none of AIs went for freedom, and all 3 in my continent went order. I had to build some units instead of sci buildings for one city to def against mongols if needed. I finally could bribe him to attack china, but I had to pay some price.

This gotm was my first time using Xcom and now I see why this is OP. especially with siege upgrade (60XP, military academy and total war will do it). I 'detoured' for nukes but that turned out to be not needed at all.

I rush bought as many Xcoms I could. I believe that optimal play would be beeline to the Xcom tech, while bribing others into wars so that you can just place your Xcoms next to their caps. I built several battleships and missile cruisers (and built one and bought one nuke) but they were marginally effective. At least, plundering naval trade routes gave some gold.

 

[IronfighterXXX]

Yes, XCOMs were all you need in this GOTM.
I made mistake and built Hubble for stealth, what was not necessary; instead I should built paratroopers to upgrade later.
I finished in 52T, with better planning early 40 is possible (actually hambridger finish in replay in 45T).

 

[Fluphen Azine]

T84
Attached the funny parts of the game: CS were BEAST, and somehow took Egypt's cap, and almost Songhai's one too Don't mess with Brussels lol

Really Cool! I have never seen a CS take an AIs Capital before, that is something I always thought could happen but never seen it till now! Kinda like Barbs taking over a city, I know we have an achievement for that but I am not sure how to obtain it. After seeing this pic we should have a CS takes over a Capital Achievement as well!

 

[4N4C0ND4]

Really Cool! I have never seen a CS take an AIs Capital before, that is something I always thought could happen but never seen it till now! Kinda like Barbs taking over a city, I know we have an achievement for that but I am not sure how to obtain it. After seeing this pic we should have a CS takes over a Capital Achievement as well!

Once I had barbarians "taking" a city of mine, saying it was at 0 health and their unit came in. What happened is that I lost gold, that's all.
And I think it was my capital IIRC

 

[Hyperion529]

i lost on the very turn (t74/399) i was going to take Rome, Gao and Ulundi all at once because Wu was able to launch all spaceship parts from her only remaining city. when i let her pay me generously for a peace treaty exactly 10 turns earlier, she had only finished 1 part and i was sure i would have won by the time she came even close to winning. should have wiped her off the map back then, this is so frustrating

well at least i finally go the achievement for Bismarck and order/domination victory when i played that one more turn...

didnt have the time to play any test games before, so i was a bit overwhelmed by the possible social policy choices at first. i finally chose 2 in exploration for the extra hammers, 3 in order for 2 bigger cities at the start and took rationalism/secularism next.
i bribed Mongolia into war with China and Songhai into war with Egypt and focused entirely on science. when Genghis finally DoWed me around t45 i had my first xcom soldiers and stealth bombers ready, stopped his invasion and started rolling. later added a handful of missile cruisers and nukes to finish off the far away civs quickly.
i also built a beachhead by taking over Kiev, so i could rebase my bombers onto the other continent.

although i lost in the end it was a very fun game overall. i really enjoyed the late era start and hope that there will be more GotMs like this in the future.

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[tommynt]

Game: Civ5 GOTM 87
Date submitted: 2014-07-01 16:56:07
Reference number: 31321
Your name: tommynt
Game status: Domination Victory
Game date: 2200BC
Turns played: 45
Base score: 884
Final score: 9822
Time played: 2:50:00
Submitted save: GOTM88_turn370win_tommynt.Civ5Save
Renamed file: tommynt_C508701.Civ5Save

rocket artilery way too powerful

tommy is dumb and really sucided his only mellee unit of naval flat 1 turn before finish.
Good thin he is lucky and just got superop xcoms so its just been 1 wasted turn instead of 10