won my first deity game

[DarkxL0rd]

so for a while i was mastering emperor, and dreaming of immortal. now that I've mastered immortal it was time for the final challenge. i play as the svarts and was determined to win my first deity game with them. played with 14 other civs on a pangea standard map, barbarian world and no settlers. luckily no ljos spawned on the map so i knew i could take my time to get FoL. I spawned next to the khazad and on about turn 140 i noticed he had the world at 78 percent runes. not good. this forced me to declare war and take his holy city. luckily it was on a hill and his troops were off fighting perpentach. on taking the city i had 4 warriors get promoted to hill defence and they held the city for the next few turns. i took 2 other barb cities with my warrior build up and had a nice 4 city empire when everyone else was at 1-2. my economy however, was in shambles. at 0% percent research it took me forever to finally get archery. since i took the city i was able to convert to runes and since everyone else was as well, i had some time to breath and not worry about war. slowly but surely i kept choosing money techs and eventually was able to get up to 20% research. grabbed deception on my way to guilds and founded esus. i was heading towards guilds, and kept pumping out archers. since i was friends with everyone and had a pretty big army, they luckily left me alone...for a while. Varn Gosem decided to get jumpy and he and his 4 vassals declared war on me all at once at about turn 380. i had just finished poisons however...which for the svarts, is pretty nasty. about 3 turns later i popped a great prophet and promptly turned my empire into the invisible realm. let's just say alazkan was up for the job. while my assassins took out the catapults, mages and other assassins, he kept throwing his swordsman at my fully garrisoned archers. i kept my assassins out of the cities which rendered his assassins useless, and after about 80 turns i was able to pay him off me. so peace reigned again. Then I finally got to guilds... beautiful. i had open borders with everyone when i completed the eyes and ears network, and the techs came rolling in. 12 initially and then 5 more over the next 20 turns or so. i was flush with cash after a few turns at 0% research, and all of my veteran troops got upgrades. moved off of runes and picked up FoL. then started my campaign. my invisible, hidden nationality shadows would soften up civs as i started moving on to attacking, and since my culture=invisibilty, it was fireballs and assassins for all who entered.

and that's how i won my first deity game...(sorry for the length, this was a long time coming.)

 

[Demus]

sounds like a fun game, congrats .

The only civ i can win a diety game with are the sidar, in survival challenge settings (if i'm lucky, i've got my 3rd great person settled at turn 50). Empire building is a whole different ballgame though, so nice one!

 

[DarkxL0rd]

i appreciate it, it's definately feels good to win one. next, on to playing with settlers.

 

[JonathanStrange]

Congratulations! Winning at Deity is like slipping the surly bonds of gravity and punching the face of Tali*.





* Angel of the Air for the non-religious

 

[Keeper_GFA]

luckily no ljos spawned on the map so i knew i could take my time to get FoL.

How'd you know that without cheating?

 

[Honor]

who said without cheating?

 

[Monkeyfinger]

Well presumably he went down the FoL path praying "hope this works"

and it worked

so hey, there can't be ljosalfar

trust me, I'm very familiar with that train of thought when I want RoK

 

[DarkxL0rd]

yeah i had no idea there was no was no ljos, until about turn 80 when it wasn't getting founded. i was like "holy crap, im the only elves!" and no, i didn't cheat. surprisingly both mahala and rhoanna, did terrible. hippus died to the malakim(i think) on like turn 200 or so. and mahala was next to falamar(who, for some reason dominates in every game i ever play). even with one city the whole game, he was the leader in points, and brought in basium. anyone else notice this?

 

[Honor]

without cheating? awesome, then.

no reloads either?

 

[apotheoser]

yeah i had no idea there was no was no ljos, until about turn 80 when it wasn't getting founded. i was like "holy crap, im the only elves!" and no, i didn't cheat. surprisingly both mahala and rhoanna, did terrible. hippus died to the malakim(i think) on like turn 200 or so. and mahala was next to falamar(who, for some reason dominates in every game i ever play). even with one city the whole game, he was the leader in points, and brought in basium. anyone else notice this?

I've noticed Falamar tends to dominate my AI games as well. I think it might be Seafaring; they can get Fishing sooner than most civs, which means lots of quick without needing Education for Cottages (and faster access to Education), especially with Pearls.

I suppose in the late game, the extra -10% maintenance on Sea Havens doesn't hurt, either.

 

[DarkxL0rd]

i would only reload on battles lost to 95% or better odds. there were a couple of 91% that broke my heart, but i was determined to win fairly. that, and the fact that i never seemed to win a 30% or lower battle, made me not feel so bad for the 4-5 reloads.

 

[Keyeth]

"i would only reload on battles lost to 95% or better odds."

"but i was determined to win fairly."

Haha.. Well.. Those are kind of at odds. You have to remember that you can't see the odds when the computer attacks you. I bet they lost a few 95%+ battles against you too on their turn, and they can't reload =(

Solid work, nonetheless. And hey, you live in the same place as I do! =o

 

[DarkxL0rd]

so many battles i should have won... so many. in fact, i expected to lose if the odds were 75% in my favor. it was ridiculous at times. and like i said, 4-5 reloads over the course of a 800 turn game, isn't that bad. i deem myself "deity winner" so there...I win

 

[DirtyFinger]

welcome to the club.

deity is making a victory worthwhile, eh ?

 

[Tasunke]

ah ... speaking of Shadows ... I had a Shadow once that could kill an entire empire, even if all of its soldiers were to attack my unit at the same turn. He had the Aeron's Chosen promo, and with total equipment, which was the Netherblade + Black Mirror + Scorched Staff + Gela, he was 20/19 or something. I know he had 20 attack anyways. Also he had almost all the promotions he could pick, including perfect sight (just incase). The only promos I had left to choose were some of the magic ones I think. He could eat an Arquebus in a cultured city on a hill for at least 95% odds. Once I got Dispel, I would be able to make his scorched staff grant much more than 3 fire mana, as I had 3 or 4 captured nodes at least (and I had one raw node in the middle of nowhere, waiting for that metamagic node)

anyways, with mobility two he was able to kill at least 4 enemy units per turn. Oh, since I was running the Esus state religion, and I hadn't built any priests earlier, and I was fighting an enemy that used diseased corpses, this unit had to live with Diseased for the latter half of its existence. It never died, I just eat huge armies with my Death's Bounty, and had a couple beastmasters take the cities. ALso, I found if I cast Illusion from the Black mirror when My shadow was in an enemy city, I would "capture" it. The set-up was truly beautiful.

 

[Andostre]

Hey, another Houstonian, here.

Out of curiosity, how many playing hours would you estimate it took you to win at that level?

 

[DarkxL0rd]

uh, 2-3 days at about 2-3 hours a day. around 800 turns. prolly coulda won quicker, but i like dominating every aspect of the game i.e. having yvain ridiculously powered up with nature nodes, leaving no one alive who's not my closest friend, having one of every node. once you get a big enough lead you can have a little fun terraforming and having insane stacks of doom.

 

[CurseUppl]

Nice story

 

[Mesix]

Congrats on the Deity level win. With all the bonuses it is a tough nut to crack.

 

[DarkxL0rd]

Thank you sir