WOTM 42 Final Spoiler

[neilmeister]

WOTM 42 Final Spoiler

So how did your game go after 1AD? Please tell everyone and discuss it in this thread.

Boasts and sob stories are both welcome and equally compelling.

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[nocho]

Conquest 1420AD for 159565 points. Not entirely bad, not stellar either, as usual.

The recently built HE started spitting out swords and axes to start finishing off Shaka shortly after 1AD. The idea was to go bulb some techs along the MC/machinery/engineering path, but got some unfortunate artists during the game. Can't remember now if I actually bulbed any of these techs, do remember though that I ended up self-teching engineering, which was the immediate goal after CS came in. Of course with machinery and CS got maces and then trebs and faster road movement from engineering were nice. After Shaka set my eyes on Genghis. Like with Shaka it went quite well, until he showed up with a surprise mini-SoD at the soft underbelly so again took peace before he was willing to capitulate. In order not to lose too much time quite immediately after went for Stalin and Capac who both capped after getting a reasonable amount of cities. Money started bleeding here, so built the FP in Moscow. Anyway, with the conquest cash research still went quite okay so went guilds for knights and gunpowder basically to get some faster units quicker to the front. Being an aggressive lot, the AI tech pace was far from impressive. Genghis was put to sleep definitely before I headed to the inevitable Military Tradition for cavs. I hoped for once I could finish a military game without needing cavs, but it wasn't to be... Slogging my way through all these aggressive folks apparently had cost valuable time, so ended up killing Alex and capping Monty with cavs. They were actually battling it out between them at a standstill, so gracefully helped them both in their objective of killing the other guy.

So all in all a nice war game, were I used more medieval stuff than usual but where cavs had to be finishing touch after all. At least I'm glad I didn't tech education this time around... I guess the supreme warmongers can do this before 1000AD.

 

[srad]

Conquest 1300AD, 265k

Nappy's world:

Spoiler :

Hm, 70 Cavaleries; bit overkill?

Spoiler :

This was a fun game!!


Capitulation seems really different from BTS. They are faster dead then willing to capitulate. Is there a fixed number of turns before the talk again with you? In BTS they give up after capturing 4 cities in two turns and killing almost all units.... but not in Warlords.

 

[Chris1229]

This was my first ever emperor game (second time i tried one of the Gotms), and it didn't go quite like I planned. I was keeping up; until I founded four cities in about 6 turns, that brought my economy crashing down and research went to zero. I declared war on Genghis Kahn to get some cash. By pillaging up and down his land and razing several of his cities (I guess that is a little bit of a historical antithesis) I managed to keep my research from completely stopping. He eventually bribed Stalin to declare war on me, and I saw my end approaching. I gave Genghis a city for peace hoping to convince him to close borders with Stalin (what was i thinking?) but had no such luck. I retreated to my on borders and prepared to defend. I held all my cities for about 300 yrs but eventually was done in when Shaka and Genghis joined Stalin to overwhelm me around 1330 AD. i was so backwards in tech that by then i still had only spearmen and HA. I don't have a save from the turn before my defeat, so i cannot submit, but it was a lot of fun, and i think i learned more from my mistakes on emperor than i would have from 10 games on warlord or chieftain.

 

[Greeder]

Late Dom, but over 90k points. As for me it is a lot.
I had a small problem, autosave not on every turn. So I suppose my submission will be rejected

 

[Sleepless]

Napolean to space 1894. Thought with all these gentle AI I would play a peaceful game. Well peaceful in the fact that I never declared on anybody.

I should have been more aggressive in my early settling so was left with 2 good cities plus a few ok ish ones till GK declared on me. As I'd just taken mil trad from Lib that wasn't his best move especially as I had a DP with Alex as well.

Ended up wiping him out and still the aim was to play peacefully. I kept everybody pleased or better. Obviously HC wasn't very pleased after all so ended up with a surprise declaration. Still one thing with all these warmongers they are easy to bribe into war. Monte joined cheaply with the plus point he had Stalin as a vassal. Also got Alex to join in as well just for fun. All was going well. Managed to pinch Cuzco from Monte when HC vassaled to Shaka. Mmm instant war with Shaka which wasn't helped by the fact that I had a lot of border with him and no real defenders. I had one city razed but managed to survive with upgrades and new troops from my core. So bribing Alex again and Monte/Stalin it was the world v Shaka and HC. Well HC didn't last long and Shaka was left with a couple of cities when he vassaled to Monte so I could get back to my research. So ended up having Monte as a DP friend - Alex friendly as well meant I was safe from anymore wars and so off to space.

 

[Greeder]

Neil was gracious and accepted my save. May he live for ever in peace and health etc. etc.
So you'll be treated with my more detailed spoiler.

Stalin DoWed Khan 300 AD. I was focused on building Cats and research. Till 400 AD I had Monarchy ->HR, and Currency. 450 AD I attacked Stalin. I captured Yekaterinburg 540 AD which was right behind my border. Moscow with Mids 600 AD. It was my main goal in this campaign.
I continued this war, Stalin even managed to recapture and keep Yaroslavl. Because of that Moscow was under cultural pressure the whole rest of the game. But I captured two other cities making a land bridge between my country and Moscow.
840 AD after capturing second one, I accepted his capitulation and immediately declared on backward Shaka. Till 1080 AD I captured 2 border cities with some Calendar resources and lost my impact. So I sued for peace and focused on Lib race. I got it 1230 AD and took Nationalism.
1260 AD declared again on Shaka and till 1500 AD I captured 6 of his cities.
Oh, 1490 AD I had my crash. Unbelievable. I played on monitor connected to my laptop. I was going to turn comp off, so I moved Civ window from monitor to laptop's screen... and it hanged! Black screen just like that.

Fortunately Monty and Khan were almost all that time in war with HC, so only Alex was in peace mode and I was able to hold on tech lead.
1565 AD I attacked weaked HC. Till 1640 I captured 3 of his cities and he capitulated. Fast war at last.
I declared on Shaka again. Captured only one city. War weariness was eating me alive, and his last 2 cities were behind Khan's borders. So instead off finishing him off I attacked Khan. BUT, before that I bribed Alex to attack Monty. In less than a century I captured 8 of Khan's cities, HC captured one and I razed one. He capitulated and I could finally kill Shaka. He was dead 1802 AD and I already had 2 stacks near Monty's border. I needed just several of his cities to reach Dom. 1824 AD I had 6-8 cities more and accepted Monty's capitulation. Alex with his 8? cities was the only civ not under my thumb.

 

[zamint3]

Hm, 70 Cavaleries; bit overkill?

Nah not really...

Spoiler :

I did a lot of whipping.

Lost two cities to the barbs.

My HAs burned the land.

Running -195 gpt at 0% at the end.

In the end Stalin captured a barb city the turn before he should have been dead, and HC sneaked away a city in the northern tundra/ice delaying victory by 3 turns.

... i think i learned more from my mistakes on emperor than i would have from 10 games on warlord or chieftain.

Way to go.
- and welcome to the forums.

 

[Mitchum]

Cultural Victory: 1822 AD

Boy, that was a tough one. I was on my merry way to a cultural victory when I got DOWed by Ghengis. And after I had sold him so many techs too... I had to switch out of culture mode and build up an army since I had disbanded many of my units from my Shaka war to save costs. I also bribed Stalin and Alex to join in the fun. By the time I got DOWed, I was way behind on military techs, so it was spears and knights against cavalry. It was touch and go for many turns.

I could have had quite a bit better date but I made two major mistakes/decision that set me back:

1. I didn't revolt into Free Speech for about 60 turns after learning Liberalism (1000 AD for Nationalism). I revolted to Free Religion instead by mistake.
2. I wasn't able to run a religion until the last 30 turns or so for fear of getting attacked due to religious strife. This greatly slowed down my Great Artist production.

Thanks for the fun game, Neil. You kept me on my toes in this semi-peaceful cultural victory.

 

[Htadus]

Intended for a peacefull game but ended with a 1800AD total kill conquest. It was all Monties fault.

 

[Conquistador 63]

Very nice game. Kudos to those brave enough to play culture or space. My goal was Domination.

As soon I realized what type of neighbors were there, I started stealing workers from the closer AIs (Genghis and Shaka). Took a few cities from each one, then advanced on Stalin as he had Mids and GW in Moscow.

Eventually conquered Genghis and Stalin, and vassaled Shaka and Alex. I was too unfocused and overconfident, so I declared on both Monty and HC at the same turn (1120AD) - they had just made peace with each other. I was spamming knights but didn't realize both had War Elephants (and Monty had LOTS of them).

Thanks to representation specialists, I was able to tech engineering (pikes/trebs) and gunpowder (musketeers), so the war wasn't so bad.

At some point HC peace vassaled to Monty, before even wanting to talk to me.
Nevermind, I kept taking Monty's cities and founding iceball cities to reach the land limit.

I learned a couple of things:

1. On the turn before I won, Monty was finally willing to capitulate. I refused because I feared receiving HC as a unintended vassal and getting an unwanted conquest instead of domination. But this wasn't the case. After the win (1330AD) I accepted Monty as a vassal, but HC was again a free state and at peace with me, finally available to talk. Cost me some points but nevermind.

2. Knights suck. Or maybe not, in the hands of a capable player who can get them before the enemy gets elephants.