My time off work has ended, so my game time is more limited now, but I had a chance to squeeze in a few more turns in my Russian game.
Lucky me, Germany respawned, taking his towns from my allies. Once I swooped in and crushed the Germans, I had a nice strip of land connecting Russia to Rome. No more relying on the whims of France for my land route!
I think I've almost collapsed Turkey and Mongolia (grabbed the Mongol capitoland razed the useless Turkish one), which would essentially win the UHV (my research is still quite high even with a massive empire, thanks to Rome). Turtle + Apollo isn't the most exciting end to a game, but it'll work.
But the reason I posted this was because I just saw something I'd never seen in Civ before - the AI gifted me a city completely out of the blue! The Vikings collapsed (Everyone near Russia has collapsed or is collapsing - we must have the stability plague! ), leaving his cities open. I didn't really want them, since they lack much useful land/resources, and my empire already included Italy, Greece, Germany and everything east to Mongolia, so I left them for the Dutch and French, my allies who had already taken some Viking towns before the collapse (and the likely cause). Yet, a few turns later, the southern Viking town near Germany flips culturally. Then a bit later, the Dutch (yeah that's right, the biggest trade extortionists in the game! ) pop up and give me an ex-Viking town near my cultural border. I guess he figured he'd lose the city culturally eventually, but I've still never seen the AI step up on his own to give a town away.
Of course, the one time I don't want to expand, the game gives me cities!
Lucky me, Germany respawned, taking his towns from my allies. Once I swooped in and crushed the Germans, I had a nice strip of land connecting Russia to Rome. No more relying on the whims of France for my land route!
I think I've almost collapsed Turkey and Mongolia (grabbed the Mongol capitoland razed the useless Turkish one), which would essentially win the UHV (my research is still quite high even with a massive empire, thanks to Rome). Turtle + Apollo isn't the most exciting end to a game, but it'll work.
But the reason I posted this was because I just saw something I'd never seen in Civ before - the AI gifted me a city completely out of the blue! The Vikings collapsed (Everyone near Russia has collapsed or is collapsing - we must have the stability plague!
), leaving his cities open. I didn't really want them, since they lack much useful land/resources, and my empire already included Italy, Greece, Germany and everything east to Mongolia, so I left them for the Dutch and French, my allies who had already taken some Viking towns before the collapse (and the likely cause). Yet, a few turns later, the southern Viking town near Germany flips culturally. Then a bit later, the Dutch (yeah that's right, the biggest trade extortionists in the game! ) pop up and give me an ex-Viking town near my cultural border. I guess he figured he'd lose the city culturally eventually, but I've still never seen the AI step up on his own to give a town away.Of course, the one time I don't want to expand, the game gives me cities!
and the independent Cho-ko-Nus became Atzec, Incan and Mayan ones.
