Qwack - Minireport of HILARIOUS game

[Qwack]

Unfortunately, I thought I would finish this game off today but I could not. Ive played one game over the past few months and im happy it was this one, this was a truly hilarious game, and not in a good way either

Pre-Game Plan: The scoring seems to favor a couple of things: The AD Deadline is very lucrative if you try to maximize your score for that. The game obviously favors cultural victory, so rather than going cultural, I decided to try for space race to maximize my fastest finish points there. My plan was to try to maximize points at 1 AD deadline and rush for a early space race finish without declaring war the whole game.
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Since its archipelago, I sent out the executive to explore the whole island, I had him fogbusting for the first 2000 years . My techplan was Mining -> Bronze Working -> Wheel -> Archery -> Mysticism. I had to get archery since copper was not nearby and the island was larger than expected, so barbs could become a potential pain. Initial dotmap with total seafood resources each city would pull in.



I decided that it would be safe to chase both Great Lighthouse and Oracle and still get a good score at 1 AD. Executives were expensive though, so building the great lighthouse and oracle cost me 3 extra executives, but I think it would be worth it when chasing fastest finish (That was apparently stupid since only 5 people reported so far )

Before finding a foreign civilization to expand my corporation too, I had my executive taking care of important business, such as this:



He popped 3 total huts on differnet islands all over the place. oracle completed in 1600 BC, took Metal Casting for free. Met brennus a few turns later and immedietely spread corporation over to him. 8)

Great Lighthouse completed in 750 BC, while expanding to a few more cities for more seafood resources. Maintenance really kills you in the early game with corporations, so I decided not to spread any corporations domestically until later on. Around 600 BC, I popped code of laws with a great merchant. Also researched compass, monarchy, math and alphabet before the first deadline. So anyways, by the first deadline, I thgouth I pulled in a decent amount of points.

45 Points total to be exact.
10 Seafood resources
5 cities with corporation




I had 4 cities at this point, heres my empires overview



After this point, since I had great ligthhouse and MANY foreign trade routes to exploit, I went into rapid expansion mode, and expanded to 12 cities by 1000 AD. At 1000 AD, I started building more executives for the 1500 AD Deadline. Also, Genghis khan had "Enough on his hands" from about 500 BC to 1250 AD in my game, when h finally declared war on me.

I was completely ready though, with a navy of 10 triremes, 5 caravels and 2 galleons. I sunk his ships before they even reached my landmass, its was really hilarious because Genghis tried to go around the little northern island, but I had his galley's with all his troops trapped. He could have landed his troops on the little island and left them there until he could get more ships, but instead he decided to let them sink.

So anyways, brennus declared on me the same turn genghis declared (Bribe). Just to mention the relations situation at this point, Brennus, Genghis, Justinian and Loius were all pleased with me, and Gilgamesh was friendly. I bribed Loius on the other side to declare on Brennus so I dont have to deal with 2 fronts. Everything was going great, I had gotten together about 12 units to launch an offensive on Genghis since his whole offensive stack was at the bottom of the sea, but then the unthinkable happend.



Notice the relations . Gilgamesh declared war on me from friendly relations, and bribed Justinian and Loius (Who was still at war with Brennus) to declare on me. I had a huge navy at this point of 20 ships, and by turning off research for 5 or so turns, could upgrade all of them to galleons and sink anyone before they got near my land, but this was going to be massive micromanagement. I stopped playing at this point and never got back to this game unfortunately, but it was truly hilarious. Demographics at the end:



And thats without my foreign trade routes since everyone declared war on me.

Since I never got to 1500 AD, im not sure if my points situation from 1350 AD will count, but if it does, here are the numbers:

Cities with Corporation: 22
Seafood Resources: 14
Total Points - 56 + 45 = 101

Not sure if not declaring war will count since game was not technically over, but I did not declare war the whole game and would not have until the end.

Also, tech situation at the end if anyone is wondering: I had constitution also, my plan was to get to democracy after I got the free merchant from economics, and buying all the infrastructure in my new cities before I obsoleted the great lighthouse, then running away to space victory.

[Kylearan]

Hi,

Since its archipelago, I sent out the executive to explore the whole island, I had him fogbusting for the first 2000 years. [...]
Before finding a foreign civilization to expand my corporation too, I had my executive taking care of important business, such as this: [hut]

Oy... Weren't you afraid of barbs? One panther, or hostiles from the hut, and your exec would have been dead.

I *love* that all-at-war screenshot. Don't think that ever happened to me...

-Kylearan

[Muaziz]

Oy... Weren't you afraid of barbs? One panther, or hostiles from the hut, and your exec would have been dead.

I know that I probably used the Exec to Scout for a couple more turns than I should have. But once I saw a Barb, I ran home. I also tried to keep him on fog duty as long as possible since I downplayed military once I knew I was alone on the island (and would only have to worry about Barbs).

[Qwack]

Oy... Weren't you afraid of barbs? One panther, or hostiles from the hut, and your exec would have been dead.

In that screenshot, I moved the executive on the hill first, then if I got hostile barbs I would be able to move back on my galley. The only time barbs could have killed me was on the north eastern jungle island, but I took the risk since it was like 16% odds of barbs, and luckily got a tech from it

I *love* that all-at-war screenshot. Don't think that ever happened to me...

The funny thing is, its happened to me 3 times in BTS. First time with agressive AI, second time with Apostolic palace, and this time from friendly relations and bribes