Whole Empire challenge

[killerkebab]

France is not required to own all of Canada though, Germany is required to own all of its less historical land. France is only required to build its traditional East coast cities and one city in Louisiana. I believe some UHV's, maybe one per nation, have requirements which are not historical, but could have feasibly been historical. For example one requirement for Rome is to not a lose a city to barbarians until 1000 C.E., obviously not historical.

I always thought the UHVs were designed in a way that you had to take your civ to slightly greater heights than it really achieved in history - i.e: As Germany take all of Europe.

Has anyone managed a full USSR empire?

 

[AnotherPacifist]

Not the USSR, but the Russian empire before the Revolution and the Russo-Japanese war:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=6754296&postcount=84

 

[BurnEmDown]

Sorry, he didn't get enough Polish lands, doesn't count

 

[Tibur753]

Here is alexander's empire minus india in turn 119 (325BC). I got pretty unlucky with Persia and was losing a lot of battles at good odds (I don't reload.). If I try again, I might be able to get it about ten turns earlier and take part of India, too.

 

[blizzrd]

What did you do with your second settler? Did it found Alexandraeia? Why not Chalkedon (personal favourite), or at least Byzantion?

 

[Tibur753]

What did you do with your second settler? Did it found Alexandraeia? Why not Chalkedon (personal favourite), or at least Byzantion?

I was playing a game as Greece and not going for the UHV so I didn't found Chalkedon because it would flip to the the Turks before I had a chance to take them out as soon as they spawn. Otherwise, I normally would have founded it as it is an excellent production city. Now that you mention that I might try another with Chalkedon and see how early I can get it. I expect that it should almost double the amount of phalanxes I could use against Persia.

 

[Tibur753]

I just finished another game for Alexander the Great's Empire. This time I used Chalkedon and was able to conquer Persia on turn 102(580BC) and pushed on to India, taking Harrapa (Talkshashila) in turn 114(400BC) and thus reaching the banks of the Indus river as Alexander did. I don't think that I was particularly lucky in this game either. With the help of Chalkedon, I had a modest stack of ten phalanxes before Persia had the time to amass much of a defense other then their starting units and they only had three cities. I healed my army for a few turns and sent a stack of about ten phalanxes (reinforcements arrive every other turn or so.) to attack Harrapa. The RNG really screwed me here because they only had 2 archers and a warrior and they beat my whole stack. I eventually was able to take the city with the few reinforcements that I could get there as my units were on strike and Rome had declared war near the end.

 

[BurnEmDown]

Funny tho, that in both games you didn't settle Macedon .

 

[Hangly Man]

I once tried it and succedeed as the Dutch. I'm going to play one as 'Italy'. I'll play as Rome until the industrial ages, and then I switch the name and behavior and colonize Africa.

You mean attack Ethiopia and lose?

 

[Rhye]

Added an entry here:

http://rhye.civfanatics.net/wiki/in...ivilization_challenges#Whole_Empire_challenge

Might be good to add a table like I did with other challenges

 

[ezinter]

Another thing with the Mongol empire is razing or vassalizing SE Asia, sacking of Delhi, and controlling Damascus, vassalizing or controling Ottoman Turkey (Timur saved Byzantium by capturing Ottoman Sultan) also invasions towards Egypt and Vienna

 

[kairob]

I still think Mongols would be best represented, in the west, at least as a huge horde of barbs followed by a code x turns later flipping all barb units and cities to the Mongol civ. As at least the barbs are violent enough...

 

[Cethegus]

I still think Mongols would be best represented, in the west, at least as a huge horde of barbs followed by a code x turns later flipping all barb units and cities to the Mongol civ. As at least the barbs are violent enough...

I agree.

 

[xcrissxcrossx]

I've gotten close with portugal. I colonized most of the empire except for the two spots by thailand and the smaller islands, and newfoundland. I wasn't actually going for this challenge though so i quit after i got 15 colonies.

 

[CivFanaticMan]

I would like to see some one achieve a historical Rome size by 200 A.D. This means all the area from the UHV and Egypt, Greece, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. First person to do it gets... I guess a lot of pride. When i get BTS in a few days I'm going to try it.

 

[BurnEmDown]

I think it's been done in the BC's already.

 

[lumpthing]

I would like to see some one achieve a historical Rome size by 200 A.D. This means all the area from the UHV and Egypt, Greece, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. First person to do it gets... I guess a lot of pride. When i get BTS in a few days I'm going to try it.

Been talking about that very subject myself

I've been trying to get the 14 AD historical Roman empire size by 14 AD. Pretty much impossible, but you can close enough to make you keep trying, and trying, and trying. I've now realized it was an addiction which was destroying my life so I've given up.

 

[Zagoroth]

It depends on what you are trying to do. If you want to control all their land it is quite easy and I have numerous times written the strategy on this forum. If you want to have your cultural borders cover all the land they historically owned, it is much harder (and possibly impossible).

 

[BakingTheArt]

I played a game a few days ago as England where I settled:
South Canada: Montreal, Halifax, Vancouver, and something somewhere in Manitoba - possibly Winnipeg.
South Africa: Durban, Cape Town, and East London
Australia: I settled it, but not filled it out - Sydney, Perth, Darwin (I think), and Hobart
Most of India: All I can really remember is Madras, sorry. I did conquer Bombay, though. Redcoats just marched in the undefended city
Parts of South China: I brought too many redcoats to just protect Australia, and the French were tired of supporting me, so I needed some quick pillaging cash. I razed a city in the south and captured Hangzhou (My income actually went up with it due to a grocer, market, and a bank miraculously surviving).

At this point I was planning on invading Egypt to finish it off, but my troops began to go on strike around 1850 so I called it off to grant independence to everything but South Africa and Australia, which brought me back up to running a profit at 30%. So, I was close.

 

[ICNP]

My Ottoman Empire (Monarch) contained Berlin, Rome, Brest Litovsk, Kilia, Athens, Parsa, a city NE of Parsa, Mecca, Trebizond, and I USED to own Egypt until they respawned. Plus Inca as a vassal.

And I STILL didn't get the UHV (I have no idea which one they faulted me on, I had Montenegro and Budapest in Balkans, 3 cities bordering the Black Sea, and there wasn't any other cities outside of southern Arabia that I didn't own in the Near East. Although I wasn't looking forward to getting 3 vassals with all of the good ones picked up.