Adventure 23 - TriviAls report

[TriviAl]

I'm late posting... but better late than never says I? (If that's wrong, then apologies!).

Thanks to Atlas for organising this!

I was a man with a plan. A plan so cunning that you could put a tail on it and call it a fox. A plan very similar to someone else playing this game, it seems...


After a lot of thinking, decided to move 1 east. Part of my masterplan is a high prod city. 2 more grassland and 1 more plains+stone hill is too good to pass up. Not sure if this is right.

Found 1 turn late and set for worker/bronze working. There's some science. The usual worker actions and a collection of religious techs.

Chop out some workboats, workers, settlers and Stonehenge.

Meet the neighbours and start spreading out, plopping down a few cities.

In 1440 BC tokugawa goes for Hatty. Excellent first war of the game!

My masterplan comes to fruition here:



Which leads to:



50 AD the Christian Apostolic Palace is built. I vote for myself as leader. Build the Shrine (riskily!). Spam some settlers to cover more ground!

Push out enough missionaries to convert Hatty and Wang Kon - Tokugawa and Ragnar get converted by shrine. Unfortunately, the one to Wang fails to take. Oh no! A long time later, in 375AD I get a missionary into Akkad. Yay, all 4 leaders are now christian.

In the meantime I have been training Praetorians, test drive them against Angle. Those guys are fun.

Second Great Prophet born in 425AD. Pop a GA with him for want of anything better to do. Just twiddling my thumbs waiting for victory!

Finally in 540 the elections come around. YAY! I Win! Party Time!



Or not. I lose. By 6 votes. DOH!

I decide to make some more votes with those praets I'd been making:



In 740AD, I get a chance for another vote. Yay WIN! #1 #1 #1!



Or not. Oh dear.

In 800AD I notice this:



Gods - the prospect of having to win a legitimate diplomatic victory rears it's head. In 860AD my economy looks like this:



Not even at CoL yet. Others teching up over me. I can see a long hard slog ahead of me... Sadly, I'll admit that I wussed out at this point, leaving my game unfinished.

It was a valuable learning experience in trying to be too clever. Which is always humbling.

[Sullla]

Whoops! Close but no cigar it seems. If your initial missionary to Wang had succeeded, you might well have won the game. (Later vote giving the AI civs more time to spread Christianity around, of course.) The obvious comparison is to Kylearan's game, where he used a lot of irrigation and Hereditary Rule to increase his own population for the vote.

It looks like the strategy was sound, but the devil was in the details!

[TriviAl]

You're right there - I saw Kylearan's game and his was brilliantly done. Much of it never crossing my mind....

Also in retrospect, building the shrine was really asking for trouble - it may have made tokugawa convert, but could have had all kinds of unintended consequences.

Ah well, it's all a learning experience.