I sort of tried one, though it won't qualify. I noticed a few openings in C3C Diety level, and thought I might put a score of my own up, even if only temporarily. I noticed the bottom score had won domination as Persia, and that seemed like a fine idea to me, unless conquest came first. So I think I selected pangaea, 80% water, 3 million years old, sedentary barbs (I don't know why I didn't turn them off), three random oppenents, and my HoF attempt was underway.
Actually, I did this three times before the game I actually used was started. I got a tundra start, I had the Vikings and the Germans as neighbors and decided that was a bad idea, especially when I got archer/warrior stacks moving through my territory. And then I had no visible source of iron in one.
When I finally made it to the map that I used, I couldn't believe my eyes. I had gems and spices inside my expansion boundary, and a goody hut inside the city radius. Founded Persepolis, and got a map, showing wines to the south and silks to the north. I was going to easily have four luxuries, with my first three cities. My original build order was warrior, barracks, settler, then I did warrior, warrior, spearman, settler (no food bonuses, or fresh water for that matter). I was expanding fairly quickly, and before long I was running into the French to the north. We raced for dyes on a lake, and I won, and apparently that didn't sit well with Joan. So I get hit by a lone regular warrior, who dies at the hands of a veteran spearman. Having recently hooked up iron, I upgraded six warriors immediately and set all cities building immortals or workers.
The French too had recently hooked up iron, and this is where I ran into trouble, and why I will not be able to submit this game, I think. My immortals ran north to stamp on the warriors and archers attacking Arbela, with the next stop in Tours. On a hill outside of Tours, my now seven veteran immortals ran into four swordsmen and an archer on a hill. I brought the spearman out of Arbela, since there was a replacement coming next turn, to defend my immortals. All four swordsmen attack, and all four win, one without taking damage. The archer, at least, died, but four swordsmen winning in a row, when I had an extra hit point, was tough to take. France also brought another sworsmen to the stack, putting the numbers at two undamaged French regulars and three others, with varying health, against four undamaged veteran immortals. I decide to at least even up the losses, expecting an attack of 4 to beat defense of 3, if 3 had beaten 3 minutes ago. I was wrong, and lost my first two immortals. When the RNG does this, the game isn't fun, and it was late, so I decided to quit. Apparently, I forgot to save, and when I reloaded the next day, I was surprised to see six healthy immortals on their way to Arbela. This forced me to make a choice. Should I load an autosave and send my immortals to their death, possibly making it so I wouldn't even win my HoF attempt, or play on as if this was the way it was supposed to be, and give myself a shot of at least surviving (I am only really monarch level player, so I basically skipped two levels to play C3C diety). I decided to go for survival, and when the time came to send my immortals to that hilltop to die, I decided to hold them in Arbela and wait for the two other immortals on their way.
This post is getting lengthy (for me), and I am not much of a storyteller, so I will summarize events as they happened after I disqualified myself. I captured Tours and Rheims, and burnt Orleans, then made peace and demanded all techs. At this point, I wasn't sure if there was another civ to France's north, so I waited the twenty turns, invaded again, and discovered there was nothing to their north. I capture all but Paris and Lyons, made peace to get a few more techs. THen, I gave them all the luxuries I had and a lot of gold to get a few more techs, though for some reason I couldn't get them to give me all that much. I immediately invaded again, took Paris and Lyons (as well as the MoM, ToA, SoZ, and Great Wall), and France was no more.
I began working on infrastructure some, and galleys to explore, since I still had two undiscovered neighbors, despite choosing pangaea. Fairly quickly, I found Portugal and India, who apparently had been fighting. I didn't notice, unfortunately, a two tile wide strip of sea, that allowed safe passage to Portugal. So I tried to move towards Astronomy as quickly as I could, with little success. I was pleased though to build the Sistine Chapel, after using the Great Library as a prebuild (building the Great Library would have gotten me only Education at that point). Soon after, galleys from distant lands were doing a lot of traveling within Persian waters, taking advantage of RoPs. Then, a few War Elephants came to visit. I sent Ancient Cavalry and the immortal army I had built during the Franco-Persian war as a welcoming party, and upgraded a few spearman to pikeman. My precautions proved valuable, as two war elephants died and another retreated, only to be killed by my Ancient Cavalry. Strangely enough, a long Portuguese archer dropped by, and I found my self in wars of defense against the only two other civs.
It was right before this point that I discovered the safe route to Portugal. So I loaded up a few galleys with immortals and Ancient Cavalry, and my presence known to King Henry. The Portuguese were weak, and fell quicky, but managed to give me a Great Leader as their last gift to the world. I decided not to use it, however, as I saw that I was near the domination limit. I made peace with India, and now I am irrigating wherever possible, because despite India's small size, all her cities are above 10, while most of mine are just getting past 6, so 36% of the population is Indian. Though I won't be able to submit, I am happy to have won (I guess I haven't quite won yet, still need 2%), and should get in the 7000 range, which will replace the 5600 hundred I got a week ago as the Iroquis on Monarch. And I should be able to do it again, at least, though the map may not be as nice. After defeating France, I had all 8 luxuries on my medium sized continent, while India and Portugal had none. I also had an abundance of horses and iron. The only thing missing was an early accessible freshwater source, but I don't think it made too much of a difference.
One final note on reloading. Most of the time, I do consider it unfair, but when an attack that should be successful about 5% of the time is immediately followed up by defense that should be successful about 15% of the time, putting the total odds under 1%, it is hard to think that the RNG is fair.
Actually, I did this three times before the game I actually used was started. I got a tundra start, I had the Vikings and the Germans as neighbors and decided that was a bad idea, especially when I got archer/warrior stacks moving through my territory. And then I had no visible source of iron in one.
When I finally made it to the map that I used, I couldn't believe my eyes. I had gems and spices inside my expansion boundary, and a goody hut inside the city radius. Founded Persepolis, and got a map, showing wines to the south and silks to the north. I was going to easily have four luxuries, with my first three cities. My original build order was warrior, barracks, settler, then I did warrior, warrior, spearman, settler (no food bonuses, or fresh water for that matter). I was expanding fairly quickly, and before long I was running into the French to the north. We raced for dyes on a lake, and I won, and apparently that didn't sit well with Joan. So I get hit by a lone regular warrior, who dies at the hands of a veteran spearman. Having recently hooked up iron, I upgraded six warriors immediately and set all cities building immortals or workers.
The French too had recently hooked up iron, and this is where I ran into trouble, and why I will not be able to submit this game, I think. My immortals ran north to stamp on the warriors and archers attacking Arbela, with the next stop in Tours. On a hill outside of Tours, my now seven veteran immortals ran into four swordsmen and an archer on a hill. I brought the spearman out of Arbela, since there was a replacement coming next turn, to defend my immortals. All four swordsmen attack, and all four win, one without taking damage. The archer, at least, died, but four swordsmen winning in a row, when I had an extra hit point, was tough to take. France also brought another sworsmen to the stack, putting the numbers at two undamaged French regulars and three others, with varying health, against four undamaged veteran immortals. I decide to at least even up the losses, expecting an attack of 4 to beat defense of 3, if 3 had beaten 3 minutes ago. I was wrong, and lost my first two immortals. When the RNG does this, the game isn't fun, and it was late, so I decided to quit. Apparently, I forgot to save, and when I reloaded the next day, I was surprised to see six healthy immortals on their way to Arbela. This forced me to make a choice. Should I load an autosave and send my immortals to their death, possibly making it so I wouldn't even win my HoF attempt, or play on as if this was the way it was supposed to be, and give myself a shot of at least surviving (I am only really monarch level player, so I basically skipped two levels to play C3C diety). I decided to go for survival, and when the time came to send my immortals to that hilltop to die, I decided to hold them in Arbela and wait for the two other immortals on their way.
This post is getting lengthy (for me), and I am not much of a storyteller, so I will summarize events as they happened after I disqualified myself. I captured Tours and Rheims, and burnt Orleans, then made peace and demanded all techs. At this point, I wasn't sure if there was another civ to France's north, so I waited the twenty turns, invaded again, and discovered there was nothing to their north. I capture all but Paris and Lyons, made peace to get a few more techs. THen, I gave them all the luxuries I had and a lot of gold to get a few more techs, though for some reason I couldn't get them to give me all that much. I immediately invaded again, took Paris and Lyons (as well as the MoM, ToA, SoZ, and Great Wall), and France was no more.
I began working on infrastructure some, and galleys to explore, since I still had two undiscovered neighbors, despite choosing pangaea. Fairly quickly, I found Portugal and India, who apparently had been fighting. I didn't notice, unfortunately, a two tile wide strip of sea, that allowed safe passage to Portugal. So I tried to move towards Astronomy as quickly as I could, with little success. I was pleased though to build the Sistine Chapel, after using the Great Library as a prebuild (building the Great Library would have gotten me only Education at that point). Soon after, galleys from distant lands were doing a lot of traveling within Persian waters, taking advantage of RoPs. Then, a few War Elephants came to visit. I sent Ancient Cavalry and the immortal army I had built during the Franco-Persian war as a welcoming party, and upgraded a few spearman to pikeman. My precautions proved valuable, as two war elephants died and another retreated, only to be killed by my Ancient Cavalry. Strangely enough, a long Portuguese archer dropped by, and I found my self in wars of defense against the only two other civs.
It was right before this point that I discovered the safe route to Portugal. So I loaded up a few galleys with immortals and Ancient Cavalry, and my presence known to King Henry. The Portuguese were weak, and fell quicky, but managed to give me a Great Leader as their last gift to the world. I decided not to use it, however, as I saw that I was near the domination limit. I made peace with India, and now I am irrigating wherever possible, because despite India's small size, all her cities are above 10, while most of mine are just getting past 6, so 36% of the population is Indian. Though I won't be able to submit, I am happy to have won (I guess I haven't quite won yet, still need 2%), and should get in the 7000 range, which will replace the 5600 hundred I got a week ago as the Iroquis on Monarch. And I should be able to do it again, at least, though the map may not be as nice. After defeating France, I had all 8 luxuries on my medium sized continent, while India and Portugal had none. I also had an abundance of horses and iron. The only thing missing was an early accessible freshwater source, but I don't think it made too much of a difference.
One final note on reloading. Most of the time, I do consider it unfair, but when an attack that should be successful about 5% of the time is immediately followed up by defense that should be successful about 15% of the time, putting the total odds under 1%, it is hard to think that the RNG is fair.
j/k
. That means... 11983 points. And it only took me 16 minutes!
