A couple of days late & a few points short, but here it is. I finished a while back and flat out forgot to post this earleir in the week...
Wow-of-wow, My first ever tournament win - and on Noble, which is slightly above my usual abilities.
Usually getting KILLED, I figured they would not be much help, so I did not do ANY screen prints, but I do have my saved game from just after the domination win. (In 1994, with 10,061 points and 65.5% of population & 68.64 % of the land mass.) I suspect that this point total does not even come close to the top 10.....
So, here's a text based report - detailed early & MUCH less so later. Perhaps two things might come of this. (1) some newer newby might have an idea of where to start & (2) some more experienced person might point out where I could have done better.
A couple of observations:
1) Not being able to build courthouses, banks, markets & groceries was costly. Late in the game, I was strugling to keep a positive cash flow.
2) Not having to wait out revolutions was interesting, but ultimately, I'm not so sure how valuable that is.
3) I wondered for a number of turns wondering why I did not have visibility into foreign cities due to the religion. Finally, it occurred to me that the religion I had did not have that much influence, so I converted to Judaism. Voila, I could see into a lot of cities.
Anyway, here's the report:
-Settled in place. Figured to go for early religion, since that was suggested. So researched Polytheism. Build Warrior first. Moved exploring warrior S to goody hut (Agriculture).
-Moved NW to another goody hut (93 gold)
-3680-Warrior finished - build worker
-3560-Polytheism done, founded Hinduism, research mining
-found another goody hut off to W (experience-used to get to Woodsman II)
-3320-Mining Done. Now researching BW
-3080-Worker done. Settler.
-2920-Another goody hut (pottery)
-2840-now on masonry
-2760-that experience pays off as I encounter lions which I kill w/no damage
-2720-Ran into E map edge.
-2680-ANOTHER goody hut (Hunting)
-2640-Ran into Napolean
-2560-Finished Masonry. Go for Monotheism.
-2480-Lions again. A little damage this time.
-2080-Founded Judaism. now on AH
-1960-Founded Medina - Encountered Cathy
-1840-ANOTHER goody hut-gold
-1760-ran into George
-1640-Freddy shows up
-1560-Finished Stonehenge. Working on Oracle
-1280-Lost my exploring warrior to some bears.
-1080-Oracle Done. Choose CoL. Founded Confusianism. next - Civil Service.
-900-Got GP Moses. Build temple of Solomon.
-875-Napolean converts to confusianism.
-400-Another GP. Built Kish Vishwanath.
[Here is where I got tired of writing stuff down!]
--AD era--
-150 Founded Christianity in Damascus.
-900 Founded Islam in Najran
Somewhere in here, Cathy asked for help in war with Fred. We went on for a couple of turns - I was attacking one of Fred's cities when she abruptly declared on me. So, NO MERCY. I made nice with Fred and he agreed quickly. So, then I went after Cathy. She finally fell in 1874. I acquired Moscow from her for my 6th Holy City.
In 1927, I noticed I was losing money at a high rate. So I cut back on research. Struggled with this off and on the rest of the game. I assume life would have been better if I could have built courthouses.
Once Cathy was gone, I went after Fred. Shortly after that, Napolean joined the battle with a TON of attackers, but he was half-hearted and although he had all sorts of units in place to take out Fred, he let me do the dirty work and Fred Fell in 1933.
After Fred was gone, I thought I would only have to take out part of George's cities for the victory, but that proved not to be the case... His last city fell in 1987. I was "this close"....... The culture did not expand enough to get to the 68% land mass. So, I quickly built a settler & selted in the far SW corner of the map.
I was getting ready in case I had to go to a brief war with Nappy. He had HUGE armies in cities near my weakly defended ones, so I started moving some defense in. I figured ONE massive attack on his westernmost city which stuck out into my territory would be suffiecent. The culture borders would be enough to get the required territory. BUT, if it took just a little too long and he went after MY cities, It would be a lONG, drawn out battle.
A turn later & the borders of my new city expand enough!!
1994 - Victory is sweet!
Wow-of-wow, My first ever tournament win - and on Noble, which is slightly above my usual abilities.
Usually getting KILLED, I figured they would not be much help, so I did not do ANY screen prints, but I do have my saved game from just after the domination win. (In 1994, with 10,061 points and 65.5% of population & 68.64 % of the land mass.) I suspect that this point total does not even come close to the top 10.....
So, here's a text based report - detailed early & MUCH less so later. Perhaps two things might come of this. (1) some newer newby might have an idea of where to start & (2) some more experienced person might point out where I could have done better.
A couple of observations:
1) Not being able to build courthouses, banks, markets & groceries was costly. Late in the game, I was strugling to keep a positive cash flow.
2) Not having to wait out revolutions was interesting, but ultimately, I'm not so sure how valuable that is.
3) I wondered for a number of turns wondering why I did not have visibility into foreign cities due to the religion. Finally, it occurred to me that the religion I had did not have that much influence, so I converted to Judaism. Voila, I could see into a lot of cities.
Anyway, here's the report:
-Settled in place. Figured to go for early religion, since that was suggested. So researched Polytheism. Build Warrior first. Moved exploring warrior S to goody hut (Agriculture).
-Moved NW to another goody hut (93 gold)
-3680-Warrior finished - build worker
-3560-Polytheism done, founded Hinduism, research mining
-found another goody hut off to W (experience-used to get to Woodsman II)
-3320-Mining Done. Now researching BW
-3080-Worker done. Settler.
-2920-Another goody hut (pottery)
-2840-now on masonry
-2760-that experience pays off as I encounter lions which I kill w/no damage
-2720-Ran into E map edge.
-2680-ANOTHER goody hut (Hunting)
-2640-Ran into Napolean
-2560-Finished Masonry. Go for Monotheism.
-2480-Lions again. A little damage this time.
-2080-Founded Judaism. now on AH
-1960-Founded Medina - Encountered Cathy
-1840-ANOTHER goody hut-gold
-1760-ran into George
-1640-Freddy shows up
-1560-Finished Stonehenge. Working on Oracle
-1280-Lost my exploring warrior to some bears.
-1080-Oracle Done. Choose CoL. Founded Confusianism. next - Civil Service.
-900-Got GP Moses. Build temple of Solomon.
-875-Napolean converts to confusianism.
-400-Another GP. Built Kish Vishwanath.
[Here is where I got tired of writing stuff down!]
--AD era--
-150 Founded Christianity in Damascus.
-900 Founded Islam in Najran
Somewhere in here, Cathy asked for help in war with Fred. We went on for a couple of turns - I was attacking one of Fred's cities when she abruptly declared on me. So, NO MERCY. I made nice with Fred and he agreed quickly. So, then I went after Cathy. She finally fell in 1874. I acquired Moscow from her for my 6th Holy City.
In 1927, I noticed I was losing money at a high rate. So I cut back on research. Struggled with this off and on the rest of the game. I assume life would have been better if I could have built courthouses.
Once Cathy was gone, I went after Fred. Shortly after that, Napolean joined the battle with a TON of attackers, but he was half-hearted and although he had all sorts of units in place to take out Fred, he let me do the dirty work and Fred Fell in 1933.
After Fred was gone, I thought I would only have to take out part of George's cities for the victory, but that proved not to be the case... His last city fell in 1987. I was "this close"....... The culture did not expand enough to get to the 68% land mass. So, I quickly built a settler & selted in the far SW corner of the map.
I was getting ready in case I had to go to a brief war with Nappy. He had HUGE armies in cities near my weakly defended ones, so I started moving some defense in. I figured ONE massive attack on his westernmost city which stuck out into my territory would be suffiecent. The culture borders would be enough to get the required territory. BUT, if it took just a little too long and he went after MY cities, It would be a lONG, drawn out battle.
A turn later & the borders of my new city expand enough!!
1994 - Victory is sweet!
