Sorry guys, played this in a rush so no screenshots this time. I had good intentions of doing a proper report, but RL intervened and my allotted time over the festivities was significantly less than anticipated.
Apparently Mr Anti Sociable needed to socialise with his guests and put the bloody laptop away, even though I never invited them round in the first place!
A 7 hydra city on Prince level â how many of us thought Christmas had come early? Come on, with North Pole as a Capital too, Sullla really was playing Santa Clause to us!
My initial thoughts at the start were:
1) Get as much of the land explored as possible
2) Build Stonehenge and Oracle
3) Specialise as many Priests possible to get the Great Prophets for the shrines
4) Get at least 6 cities by turn 100
5) Cha Ching â start spreading those missionaries baby!
I went with Warrior â Work Boat â Worker out of the gate, based on my chosen tech path of Fishing, Mining, BW. Yes I was tempted by all those fish in the sea. Went Work Boat before Worker as I thought I wouldnât have enough for my Worker other than road first off.
I had great luck with Goody Huts in this game â first 2 popped sailing and pottery I kid you not. 3rd some gold, 4th a free warrior, 5th another free warrior, 6th a scout, 7th more gold.
By turn 54 I had proven the world was round!
After the first round of builds completed as mentioned above I went Work Boat, Worker, Granary, Stonehenge.
I ended up missing out on Stonehenge, by 1 turn (turn 55). I had every Worker chopping that out. To say I was not amused would be an understatement. To top it off, the Oracle was built on Turn 78, and yes youâve guessed it, 1 turn from completing that too! Again chopping like mad for it. I turned my computer off in disgust.
2:
After a few hours of calming down, and managed to be rid of some unwelcome guests :wink2: who couldnât understand why I was in such a grumpy mood that afternoon, I booted up. Things always go wrong in this community right? And itâs from situations like this that make the game more fun to turn around.
From a positioning perspective, I had Hatte to my West, with Ceaser further West of her. Sitting Bull directly to my south and Elizabeth South West with Louis being West of her and South of Ceaser, but a huge ocean separating the 2. Further to the west was Washington who ended up being East of Sitting Bull who met through a small land mass down at the South Pole.
I went on to found 6-7 cities by turn 100 (so an improvement on my last adventure)
towards Elizabeth first and then started blocking Sitting Bull. Louis declared on me more times than I can remember but showed up with minimal units 1-2 which were easily squashed each time. I decided to go for Sitting Bull, but had inappropriately not brought enough to the table to complete a full whitewash of him or even to a state of Capitulation. I had pillaged him though rather badly. As each turn went by and my reinforcements arrived it was too late 
â he had capitulated to Elizabeth and of course she declares war too. Sitting Bull had nothing aggressive, but adequate defence units so I had to re deploy my attack force to counter what Elizabeth had. By this point it was a bit of a phoney war, I made peace with Sitting Bull after taking control of Cahokia, and eventually made peace with Elizabeth. As it turned out Cahokia finally returned back to Sitting Bull through the Apolistic Palace. I didnât mind in the end as it was in revolt virtually every few turns or so.
I then set to obtaining open borders with everybody and spreading the good faith. I didnât play to finish this game by reporting deadline, just make 1900 AD, so with every possible effort I sent out missionaries and built Settlers to fill any nook / cranny available in and around my empire to spread the faith even more. I stupidly forgot to build a Hindu Monastery anywhere which was a really bad move on my behalf so really struggled with spreading the Hindu faith. I only managed to build 4 shrines in total too.
Sorry for a poor report guys, tempted to play this game again now spoilt, I think I could do so much better in getting more religions spread and all the shrines built. Again, never really sat down and thought about this game too much, and then didnât go on and record it turn by turn, like I have done in some of my practice games earlier this month. Been doing that on Monarch level and even 5 barb axes coming at me early game I had covered when I sit down and plan things properly. Iâll do my best to dedicate more time to the next one. Assuming there will be a next one!
Many thanks go to Sullla for setting this challenge. Again, an enjoyable game, shame I couldnât do it justice it deserved.
I have attached the save file and an excel spreadsheet of my score. And for those that had seen my earlier posts about me not being able to count â well I now can, after checking the world builder for the umpteenth time I finally rechecked my spreadsheet and realised my totals were counting Sitting Bulls twice. If you guys knew what I did for a living you would understand why I couldnât allow this report to be submitted unbalanced!
Thanks for taking the time to read this, sorry about lack of piccies for this.
Pegasus.
Apparently Mr Anti Sociable needed to socialise with his guests and put the bloody laptop away, even though I never invited them round in the first place!
A 7 hydra city on Prince level â how many of us thought Christmas had come early? Come on, with North Pole as a Capital too, Sullla really was playing Santa Clause to us!
My initial thoughts at the start were:
1) Get as much of the land explored as possible
2) Build Stonehenge and Oracle
3) Specialise as many Priests possible to get the Great Prophets for the shrines
4) Get at least 6 cities by turn 100
5) Cha Ching â start spreading those missionaries baby!
I went with Warrior â Work Boat â Worker out of the gate, based on my chosen tech path of Fishing, Mining, BW. Yes I was tempted by all those fish in the sea. Went Work Boat before Worker as I thought I wouldnât have enough for my Worker other than road first off.
I had great luck with Goody Huts in this game â first 2 popped sailing and pottery I kid you not. 3rd some gold, 4th a free warrior, 5th another free warrior, 6th a scout, 7th more gold.
By turn 54 I had proven the world was round!
After the first round of builds completed as mentioned above I went Work Boat, Worker, Granary, Stonehenge.
I ended up missing out on Stonehenge, by 1 turn (turn 55). I had every Worker chopping that out. To say I was not amused would be an understatement. To top it off, the Oracle was built on Turn 78, and yes youâve guessed it, 1 turn from completing that too! Again chopping like mad for it. I turned my computer off in disgust.
2:After a few hours of calming down, and managed to be rid of some unwelcome guests :wink2: who couldnât understand why I was in such a grumpy mood that afternoon, I booted up. Things always go wrong in this community right? And itâs from situations like this that make the game more fun to turn around.
From a positioning perspective, I had Hatte to my West, with Ceaser further West of her. Sitting Bull directly to my south and Elizabeth South West with Louis being West of her and South of Ceaser, but a huge ocean separating the 2. Further to the west was Washington who ended up being East of Sitting Bull who met through a small land mass down at the South Pole.
I went on to found 6-7 cities by turn 100 (so an improvement on my last adventure)
towards Elizabeth first and then started blocking Sitting Bull. Louis declared on me more times than I can remember but showed up with minimal units 1-2 which were easily squashed each time. I decided to go for Sitting Bull, but had inappropriately not brought enough to the table to complete a full whitewash of him or even to a state of Capitulation. I had pillaged him though rather badly. As each turn went by and my reinforcements arrived it was too late â he had capitulated to Elizabeth and of course she declares war too. Sitting Bull had nothing aggressive, but adequate defence units so I had to re deploy my attack force to counter what Elizabeth had. By this point it was a bit of a phoney war, I made peace with Sitting Bull after taking control of Cahokia, and eventually made peace with Elizabeth. As it turned out Cahokia finally returned back to Sitting Bull through the Apolistic Palace. I didnât mind in the end as it was in revolt virtually every few turns or so. I then set to obtaining open borders with everybody and spreading the good faith. I didnât play to finish this game by reporting deadline, just make 1900 AD, so with every possible effort I sent out missionaries and built Settlers to fill any nook / cranny available in and around my empire to spread the faith even more. I stupidly forgot to build a Hindu Monastery anywhere
which was a really bad move on my behalf so really struggled with spreading the Hindu faith. I only managed to build 4 shrines in total too.Sorry for a poor report guys, tempted to play this game again now spoilt, I think I could do so much better in getting more religions spread and all the shrines built. Again, never really sat down and thought about this game too much, and then didnât go on and record it turn by turn, like I have done in some of my practice games earlier this month. Been doing that on Monarch level and even 5 barb axes coming at me early game I had covered when I sit down and plan things properly. Iâll do my best to dedicate more time to the next one. Assuming there will be a next one!
Many thanks go to Sullla for setting this challenge. Again, an enjoyable game, shame I couldnât do it justice it deserved.
I have attached the save file and an excel spreadsheet of my score. And for those that had seen my earlier posts about me not being able to count â well I now can, after checking the world builder for the umpteenth time I finally rechecked my spreadsheet and realised my totals were counting Sitting Bulls twice. If you guys knew what I did for a living you would understand why I couldnât allow this report to be submitted unbalanced!
Thanks for taking the time to read this, sorry about lack of piccies for this.
Pegasus.
my moves are when rushing. Seriously, don't try and play a game like this, take your time.