After reading a lot of the excellent reports on the events on RB, I've decided to give it a go myself.
Though this game was a bit of a leap in difficulty (I've been playing on Prince, but winning consistently) I was set for a challenge. As the title contains a small hint of the outcome
I can tell you it was too great a challenge for me. After losing (the first time 
) I've tried a second time, and still lost, but survived about a 1000 years longer.
Anyways, I still liked the event, drawing up a plan, trying to execute it. I'm curious to see other reports and what they did differently. It's probably even more interesting reading up on them, while having given it a shot myself. I'm not putting up a major report as I lost in 500 AD but will sum up my "game-plan"
So here we go:
- I've decided to go for maximum points, so no war declaration of my own, no forbidden civics.
- At some point I had to have a war to rescue more animals, so I had to get bad relations with some other civs. It couldn't be done the non-war way, bc you cannot pillage roads in your own territory, so cultural acquisition was off.
- To get bad relations I wanted to have control over who gets what religion, so I could pick the one I didn't have the same religion with and try to get them agry with me. 8) (If it wasn't difficult enough to survive at all.....)
- So I went for buddism and hinduism first. Got buddism, but failed on hinduism. Seeing this would bring me that far, I gave up on this quest for now.
- Meeting the neighbours I knew I wouldn't have a problem getting a war at some point. Seeing mad-Monty brings back some nice memories of winning wars against him, but I forgot this is one step higher on the difficulty ladder.
- I've build up a bit, scouted most of the continent in the BC-years, so I knew where the animals were that needed to be rescued, founded my 2nd city south of Delhi near the sheep and a third one west of Delhi, near the mountains, when Monty declared war. My military was quite thin at that time, to thin for what Monty brought along. I lost Delhi somewhere around 500 AD and I decided this was a lost cause, being last in score and all....
I hope other's had more luck (or actually more skill) in this game, and I'm looking forward to reading up on them.
See you on some other event.
Though this game was a bit of a leap in difficulty (I've been playing on Prince, but winning consistently) I was set for a challenge. As the title contains a small hint of the outcome
I can tell you it was too great a challenge for me. After losing (the first time ) I've tried a second time, and still lost, but survived about a 1000 years longer.Anyways, I still liked the event, drawing up a plan, trying to execute it. I'm curious to see other reports and what they did differently. It's probably even more interesting reading up on them, while having given it a shot myself. I'm not putting up a major report as I lost in 500 AD but will sum up my "game-plan"
So here we go:
- I've decided to go for maximum points, so no war declaration of my own, no forbidden civics.
- At some point I had to have a war to rescue more animals, so I had to get bad relations with some other civs. It couldn't be done the non-war way, bc you cannot pillage roads in your own territory, so cultural acquisition was off.
- To get bad relations I wanted to have control over who gets what religion, so I could pick the one I didn't have the same religion with and try to get them agry with me. 8) (If it wasn't difficult enough to survive at all.....)
- So I went for buddism and hinduism first. Got buddism, but failed on hinduism. Seeing this would bring me that far, I gave up on this quest for now.
- Meeting the neighbours I knew I wouldn't have a problem getting a war at some point. Seeing mad-Monty brings back some nice memories of winning wars against him, but I forgot this is one step higher on the difficulty ladder.
- I've build up a bit, scouted most of the continent in the BC-years, so I knew where the animals were that needed to be rescued, founded my 2nd city south of Delhi near the sheep and a third one west of Delhi, near the mountains, when Monty declared war. My military was quite thin at that time, to thin for what Monty brought along. I lost Delhi somewhere around 500 AD and I decided this was a lost cause, being last in score and all....
I hope other's had more luck (or actually more skill) in this game, and I'm looking forward to reading up on them.
See you on some other event.
