With Hiawatha of Iroquois

[ShadeSigma]

I played this game trying to play as a Civ I'm not familiar with. Since I'm going with a harder difficulty I set the map around to his liking. In the game I had the Aztecs in and everything got crazy.

User Civ: Hiawatha of Iroquois
AI Civs: Any
Level: Emperor
Map Size: Standard
Civs: 8
States: 16
Game Speed: Epic
Map Type: Pangaea
Resources: Standard
Rainfall: Wet
Climate: Temperate
World Age: 5 Billion
Sea Level: Medium
Victory: All

Have all Special Conditions unchecked.

I managed to get deep within the game but I was neighbored by Japan and the Aztecs. First we were jockying for lands with forests and jungles. Then we hated eachother for our expansion. I rushed researching Iron Working for the Mohawk Warriors but I was so financially challenged I only managed one. Meanwhile, Montezuma had like 4 Jaguar Warriors with a Longswordsmen on the side. I just completely left the game. I think with Iroquois it takes a lot of patience to play with them because they start off kinda slow.

 

[Firvulag]

Ergh. Going to have to try this one again later. France got too big too quick, and while friendly, I was just getting my muskets build when he was putting musketeers on the border. I really expected a backstab, but instead, the second biggest nation, on his other side decides to DoW me, and in rolled the cavalry, just as I got Rifles. Was too tough a fight, and while I could have survived, I was not going to win or place in any sort of category

 

[ShadeSigma]

I think Hiawatha is hard to play with I think. But those Mohawk Warriors kick major ass in a forest. If I were to guess I think Hiawatha could win a Domination victory if the military is prepared better. I just found out one perk though. Say Napoleon settles near you and gets big, meanwhile you settle near him surrounded by a lot of forests. You can take that city in no time using Mohawk Warriors.

I'm gonna give it another shot, but if I don't complete this I will set it in my high challenge list.
I'm glad you tried BTW.

 

[Firvulag]

My biggest issue with them is getting the Mohawks. If you tech at a rate that allows you to get them, and have time to develop some iron to build them, then I find myself behind in the military tech and they're up against crossbows and longswords. They aren't as awesome then

 

[ShadeSigma]

The reason why I tech to them so fast is because I wanna get the good Iron sources before the neighbor player gets them. But I see your point. I think they are equipped for a Domination victory, but not for the quick ones. I know this type of game is good for Hiawatha it's just something I'm missing or not doing right. But I will figure it out with more practice.

You don't have to keep playing this if you want, but thanks for keeping me updated.

 

[Firvulag]

My second attempt at this also had me in a nice distracted mindset. Initially set out with culture/Diplomatic/Science asperations, but they quickly closed to just culture/science when a couple of the AI decided to kill some CS. I kept bribing the americans to wars they wanted to be in anyway, and also the french. I ran heaps of RAs, but wasn't focussed enough to tech block properly.

In the end I was about 20 turns short of Culture and maybe 40 from Science when America decided to win by Diplomatic. Used his 15k that I couldn't get out of him over time to buy them all and only managed 12 votes. Knew it was close, but I just couldn't take them off him, and the other AI were all broke.

I'm sure I'll try again, but not for a while