Epic 5 - Mihau's 1st Conquest

[mihau]

It seems the Epics R the games where I experiment with victorytypes

I started to play at 3am so I wanted to have it fast. I tried from Buddism and I got it. Initialy I started on a worker. I manged to get the worker out & in place just in time to start building a farm right after discovering Agriculture.



Tech oprder:
Budda --> Agricult. --> mining --> AH (looking for horsie...)
Then beelined for IW.

Since it is not allwed to have fishing and/or SteamPower I had very precisely stated deadline: win the game before industrial age or lose by variant rule. Stopping the reasearch is not the option because:
1) techs will still get researched even at the 0% science slider (SLOWLY!)
2) as any civ reaches steampower I need to declare on it => I will get beaten if I will be outdated myself.

Conclusion:
This rules most of victorytypes: time, space (no techs), dyplomatic (no UN), Cultural (too little time...?). This leaves Domination and Conquest and having agressive race lets go for it :muhahaha:

I will need to target the strongest civs not to let anybody grow too much:
First target... who to choose...?
3280 - Hindu FIDL (Ghandi)
2200 - Juda FIDL (Ghandi)
1330 - Stonehenge BIFAL (Ghandi)
...hmmm... any doubts? Just wait til I get Jags.

Having 2 I attacked my benefactor from Epic4. I did not managed to get his capital (+60 defence bonus was too scary ), but I still plundered his land, razed holy city of the Judaism (small) in the W, and on the way back captured small city half way from Delhi to my capital. Enough!

I attacked Lizy becouse she started to sorround me with her cities. Took 3 of them, and razed another 1 leaving her without iron (in the W). Enough!

Next Ghandi again - he planted a city in the center of the map and I did not like it. I took Delhi and left him 2 cities only (with iron). Finnancially I could not afford more conquest... eeeenough...?
At he moment I had some peace to strenghten my economics - CoL, Currency and their buildings up. I need to state that I did not pick on Alex - he had no iron so he was no threat I was pleased with Alex, and he was with me. He had worse relation with both Mahatma and Lizy, so we were allies in 2:2 teams.
But leavin weak Ghandi pushed Alex to an assault and he took 2 India cites getting access to Iron....

It would probably be the best to attack Alex soon after but I was had too weak economics, and he had many Axes, being first in power. I was recovering + struggling financially. I decided to beat Lizzy befor going for Alex and I declared. I had some cats prepared and went for London. 1 turn after I conquerd it Alex attaced. This was the moment I was MOST VULNERABLE: my units R damaged and located in English territory.
Enough! ..with Lizzy
(especially since I saw a musketeer of hers... whoa...!)

Alex razed 2 of my cites and was on the best rute to squeeze me with his knights + maces.
But I survived (barely), upgraded spears to pikes and whipped like crazy,

got my own maces out, took garnisoned units and counterattacked, took 3 of his cities pushing Alex back to his penisula = no iron for him. Enough! my cities R at size 3 now after whipping...

I returned to Lizzy and razed her 3 cities, my units recovered, cities had 10 turns to grow :D

As soon as I could I got back on Alex. I was feeling he was for cavalry and HE DID!
But had not yet got many of them - I had gathered 2 giant SoD, and marched across greek penisula.



Conquest victory in 1679



Since the end of the 1st war with Lizy I had too much territory than I could keep up. I did not took the lesson from Epic4 and I had negative income even while 0% research... Tech pace was enourmously slow: in 1670 Paper was the most advanced tech.
Adv 9: Stagnation will be good opportunity for me to learn sth. on the financial issues.

[Ruff_Hi]

Seems like a whip, attack, enough type of strategy to me - nice work!

[Compromise]

If you started the game at 3am, when did you finish?! Good job on the conquest. I wish I'd been smart enough to think of doing that instead of sweating it out through domination.

[blid]

When I was hoping to get the latest victory date, guess I'll do with a draw
Well done

[mihau]

If you started the game at 3am, when did you finish?! Good job on the conquest. I wish I'd been smart enough to think of doing that instead of sweating it out through domination.

It was around 10am when Alex stabbed me in the back. I took a break for sleep then.

None of this was arranged -- at least not by hand.

While pre-thinking for the epic I thought U would amass fish/clam/crab/whale in the enemy's vicinity - just to make us suffer a bit more
Tropical map was backing this idea.

I wondered if anyone would get major value out of aquiring AI-improved Calendar resources

Me... me... me...! - during my 1st war with Lizzy I took sugar, during the second took banana + dye, and spices during the 3rd but that did not mattered.
What mattered most was winery from Mahatma stolen at first

I prevented from pillaging plantations, even though I had been greatly dependent on the $$ from pillaging. My own planation resources I worked at first to get +1comm out of 'em. I even put my 1st city on top of spice (the E one)


BTW:
My biggest deficit was -31$/turn at 0% science.

When I was hoping to get the latest victory date, guess I'll do with a draw

not intended for it actually