Watch me attempt a OCC Domination

[firecat318]

I know I like to follow along these types of threads, and plenty of you guys probably do too. I will update this often and will probably finish the game by tonight/tomorrow (weekend ftw).

Below is the information regarding the game setup:

Civ: Songhai
Map Style: Continents
Size: Tiny (3 other civs, 8 city states)
Difficultt King
One City Challenge

The reason I picked Songhai is I'm sure they are one of the few civs capable of pulling off a domination victory with just one city. The reason? Every time you capture an enemy city or a barbarian encampment, the amount of money you pillage is tripled. This is very important because money will be hard to come by. I played an earlier game with Songhai normal map size on king domination and by the end of the game I had 13,000 coins, and that was with an army of 5 infantry, 3 tanks and 2 artillery.

Anyhow, lets get on with the gameplay. (Note that the pictures are resized from 1920x1080 for those of you with smaller monitors.)

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Starting location. Decent enough with a wheat, wine and marble, fish spot in the water. Not the greatest, but it could be worse. Obviously since I can have only one city I really hope there is iron somewhere on my starting location...

After getting settled, I sent my warrior out exploring. I quickly found a culture ruin which let me get a policy, I obviously got the honor policy for the bonus against barbs. The first production was a monument so increase border growth and speed up policies a bit (building a worker first is nonsense, since you have no technology to do upgrades.) Meanwhile I found a barbarian encampment and within 7 turns my UA was paying off (75 gold.)

For my techs, I basically went right down the first branch, Pottery, AH, Mining and I got lucky with a ruin which gave me archery. My basic goal with the tech tree is to slingshot to iron and then to steel so I have the upper hand militarily. I WILL NEED superior units since my armies will be considerably smaller than my foes.

A few turns later I meet my first neighbor, Otto Von Bismarck.

After meeting my first neighbor, I cleared a few more barb encampments and gained a few more technologies, notably bronze working and writing. I produced a worker in the city and started working on the wine and made a farm on the wheat. I don't plan on selling any of the luxury resources since I only have 1 each, but +10 happiness never hurts. My next policy gave me a great general from the honor branch, which was nice addition. Finally, my warrior discovered the German capital of Berlin:

Finally, I produced a granary to speed up city growth and started building some trading posts.

Will be continued shortly.

 

[Giant Dwarf]

Looks good. I haven't played with Songhai yet nor done a OCC so keep it up!

 

[firecat318]

Thanks. I'm a bit disappointed because I realized when you have a OCC going, you don't have the option to "Raze" the enemy cities when you capture them. That means I'm missing out on 400+ gold per city... oh well there are still barbarians

 

[vmxa]

Beeline for HBR and it will not be hard with 3 or 4 horses and an archer to whack neighbhors that are close to your start. I got a break on my run, when my scout became an archer. Moving freely over tiles is very strong early.

 

[firecat318]

Alright post number two.

Right after the end of post number 1, Bismarck decides to build a city nearly on my border... I built an archer in Gao in case he declares war.

Then I get this nice indication of how I'm doing:

And then: the discovery of iron! Thankfully, there was an iron deposit next to my borders. Unfortunately, it only had two iron in it. Oh well, it's the best there is so I immediately purchase that piece of land to avoid letting Bismarck steal it.

Then I started working on the Great Library with the plan in mind of jumping from iron to steel in a short amount of time. I researched Metal Casting and put both specialists in Gao on the library to speed it up. I cancelled the work on the Great Library right before it was finished and started working on the national college for +50% science. About 15 or so turns after Iron was done we had metal casting complete.

Now to research steel would take a good 25 turns, but thankfully my great library was only one turn away from completion. After the great library was complete I obviously chose steel as my free technology.

Thus I was left with 2 longswordsman and 1 archer, all three units are about level 4-6, all of them have the medic upgrade and at least shock 1 and drill 1. As you can tell, Germany is lacking severely in units, with just a few warriors and a couple archers. Here is a comparison picture.

 

[S.K. Ren]

Its even easier with Bismark if you go for the Civil Service Slingshot (Use GL to pop Civil Service) and spam Landshneckt with a few basic Archers for support.