I'd rather be playing epic 8 than writing a report for epic 7. Nevertheless, I achieved domination in 1902. My opening was to found Thebes on the spot. This popped a scout, so I went worker first, and researched mining, then Bronze Working. My 2nd build is a settler. With a scout and a warrior for fog busting it seemed I could move my settler unescorted and found Memphis where I could work the stone, fish and banana. (This is the red dot on Sooooo's screenshot in his report). While this is true, it has the drawback of leaving the new city undefended, and ultimately a barb warrior came wandering by. I moved my scout north as bait to give me time to get a warrior in the city, but after killing my scout the barb withdrew anyway. Meanwhile, I had forgotten to get a religion and was only reminded when I heard the sound of buddhism founded. Luckily, I was able to in 1720 BC found Hinduism in Memphis. Alex got all the other religions.
I found 4 cities on the main island. The capital on the spot as mentioned, red dot, and blue dot. My 4th city was on the spot where the bear is between yellow and pink dots. Here is my screenshot:
[trying to figure out how to upload it]
In 655 BC Alex declares war and lands a chariot and an archer near Memphis. I rush an archer, and it defeats the chariot without taking any damage, Alex's archer moves to pillage the quarry, but my archer defeats it. It was a 50-50 chance and I won the toss. End of invasion. I take advantage of the war to move my work boat through Alex's territory.
In 535 BC I complete the pyramids in Memphis.
In 400 BC I earn the circumnavigate the globe bonus.
I get beat to Collossus, but I pop a GE and build Great Library in my capital.
Now there is a long, long gap in my notes. In fact the next note is for 1832! This happens a lot to me. I just keep playing without taking notes or screenshots.
The 2nd Greek war was started by Alex in 800 AD. He landed 4 units near Memphis again and once again I scramble to organize a defense. However, in just a few turns the offending units are eliminated, but not before pillaging many of the improvements. This war culminates in 1238 when I capture Corinth which is on the island between my home continent and the Greek home continent. (See sooooo's screenshot. Corinth is in the exact same place.) This city would rebel 3 times before my culture grew sufficiently to block such attempts. I didn't do anything each time so my force of about 8 units must have been adequate to control the mob. At this point I made an interesting move. For some reason, I wanted iron, but did not want to settle the tundra island to the south to grab it. There was a nice island, reachable only by galleon, that had iron, though. I wanted this island anyway for domination, so I decided to research astronomy now rather then tech toward liberalism and grab astronomy for free. I was worried that if I failed to get astronomy for free, Alex might beat me to that island. As it turned out, after researching astronomy, I still was able to get to liberalism first. I guess, the game is in the bag, because Alex only has 3 cities on his home continent.
1832 Third War
Once again Greece launched a surprise attack killing 2 galleons conviently lined up outside of Heliopolis. Another fleet with 2 cavalry, a rifleman, and 3 cannon are prepared to disembark at Corinth. I immediately drop science to zero to raise cash, and I revolt to Universal Suffrage, Nationhood and State Property, this alone drops civic costs from 92 to 66. Total expenses before govt change was 257 and this dropped to 162. I draft 1 infantry in Corinth and upgrade a unit to infantry and fan out my remaining units to protect my towns from pillaging. I leave the sugar square open hoping the AI lands there Where I hope to wipe him out.
1833 Alex falls for the trap, and lands 1 cav 1 rifle and 1 cannon, but the other galleon loaded with units returns to mainland Greece! And that's that. Those 3 units are killed easily in the Battle of Sugar Plantation at the price of 2 catapults, which were on hand since 1238.
1837 Against the odds a Great Prophet was born in Corinth to celebrate the great victory of Egyptian troops, so the Hindu shrine gets built in 1845! By far the latest date I ever built my 1st shrine.
1838 I have so many towns that it's cheaper civics-wise to revolt to free speech, instead of back to bureaucracy.
1882 This was the year I completed conquest of the island south of mainland Greece. I just needed a few more squares for my domination win, so the game ends up similar to epic 2 where I rush settlers to grab every scrap of ice.
Conclusion: I could have won much sooner if I had turned off science when I had destroyers, transports, infantry and artillery. I could then use the gold to rushbuy and upgrade units. BTW, I compeleted epic 8 and I have a whole month to write a report and produce my own screenshots!
I found 4 cities on the main island. The capital on the spot as mentioned, red dot, and blue dot. My 4th city was on the spot where the bear is between yellow and pink dots. Here is my screenshot:
[trying to figure out how to upload it]
In 655 BC Alex declares war and lands a chariot and an archer near Memphis. I rush an archer, and it defeats the chariot without taking any damage, Alex's archer moves to pillage the quarry, but my archer defeats it. It was a 50-50 chance and I won the toss. End of invasion. I take advantage of the war to move my work boat through Alex's territory.
In 535 BC I complete the pyramids in Memphis.
In 400 BC I earn the circumnavigate the globe bonus.
I get beat to Collossus, but I pop a GE and build Great Library in my capital.
Now there is a long, long gap in my notes. In fact the next note is for 1832! This happens a lot to me. I just keep playing without taking notes or screenshots.
The 2nd Greek war was started by Alex in 800 AD. He landed 4 units near Memphis again and once again I scramble to organize a defense. However, in just a few turns the offending units are eliminated, but not before pillaging many of the improvements. This war culminates in 1238 when I capture Corinth which is on the island between my home continent and the Greek home continent. (See sooooo's screenshot. Corinth is in the exact same place.) This city would rebel 3 times before my culture grew sufficiently to block such attempts. I didn't do anything each time so my force of about 8 units must have been adequate to control the mob. At this point I made an interesting move. For some reason, I wanted iron, but did not want to settle the tundra island to the south to grab it. There was a nice island, reachable only by galleon, that had iron, though. I wanted this island anyway for domination, so I decided to research astronomy now rather then tech toward liberalism and grab astronomy for free. I was worried that if I failed to get astronomy for free, Alex might beat me to that island. As it turned out, after researching astronomy, I still was able to get to liberalism first. I guess, the game is in the bag, because Alex only has 3 cities on his home continent.
1832 Third War
Once again Greece launched a surprise attack killing 2 galleons conviently lined up outside of Heliopolis. Another fleet with 2 cavalry, a rifleman, and 3 cannon are prepared to disembark at Corinth. I immediately drop science to zero to raise cash, and I revolt to Universal Suffrage, Nationhood and State Property, this alone drops civic costs from 92 to 66. Total expenses before govt change was 257 and this dropped to 162. I draft 1 infantry in Corinth and upgrade a unit to infantry and fan out my remaining units to protect my towns from pillaging. I leave the sugar square open hoping the AI lands there Where I hope to wipe him out.
1833 Alex falls for the trap, and lands 1 cav 1 rifle and 1 cannon, but the other galleon loaded with units returns to mainland Greece! And that's that. Those 3 units are killed easily in the Battle of Sugar Plantation at the price of 2 catapults, which were on hand since 1238.
1837 Against the odds a Great Prophet was born in Corinth to celebrate the great victory of Egyptian troops, so the Hindu shrine gets built in 1845! By far the latest date I ever built my 1st shrine.
1838 I have so many towns that it's cheaper civics-wise to revolt to free speech, instead of back to bureaucracy.
1882 This was the year I completed conquest of the island south of mainland Greece. I just needed a few more squares for my domination win, so the game ends up similar to epic 2 where I rush settlers to grab every scrap of ice.
Conclusion: I could have won much sooner if I had turned off science when I had destroyers, transports, infantry and artillery. I could then use the gold to rushbuy and upgrade units. BTW, I compeleted epic 8 and I have a whole month to write a report and produce my own screenshots!
