Adv 49 Report

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Brief report, so we have something documenting Adv 49:

Dom Victory-1818 AD

I decided to play the first few turns to see what happened.

I ended up going south to conquer the Amsterdam civ. I managed to do that losing only one warrior, so I left the injured warrior to heal and sent my other three towards Lisbon. So I DoW and waited for the city to grow to size 2, and then captured it for two capitals.

I turned Amsterdam into a production/GP farm and Lisbon into my HE/military pump.

The maintenance from this made early teching brutal and and I didn't help manners by throwing my first settler, Washington, five tiles from the capital, but it grabbed a gems/gold/rice/horse city.

Then I made matters even worse by settling New York at city 4, which was 9N & 5E tiles from my capital. That grab ended up being great, because that city was the most powerful in my empire, with six FP cottages, and six more grassland river cottages.

At that point, I was teching like garbage, but had lots of good land, so I figured, on Prince, I would win anyway so I decided my goal to make it interesting would be to grab as much land PEACEFULLY as possible, and see how much I could get.

Every city in that screenshot with an American name, plus one that is offscreen just north of Buffalo was grabbed peacefully.

I pulled this off with three sets of two settler grabs.

First, I settled Boston and Philly basically in Justinian's core to block off his expansion.

Then, once I found a double gems, river corn site in the far east, I decided to make that grab, and settled Atlanta (my seventh city, which was like 20 east and 5 north of my capital) and Chicago (name obscured to the NW) to block off Boudica and Asoka. Lastly, I threw down San Francisco and Los Angeles to block off Isabella.

This pissed Izzy's crazy ass off, so she DoW'd me, but I fought her off easily and decided I would clean her up later on.

I also grabbed the island below me.

Seattle, St. Louis and Portland were pure backfills in great land that I simply ignored. New Orleans was a later backfill.

The empty space NE of Lisbon was a former Justinian city I surrounded with culture and choked down to size 1.

I still got Liberalism and the Economics merchant. I don't remember what I took with Liberalism. Democracy maybe.

Once I filled up the land peacefully, I figured I would tech to space easily because that is my preferred victory. But then I realized that Navy Seals could be fun, and I owed Izzy a beatdown, so about 1650 I geared up for Dom victory, which I achieved by 1818.

I am pretty sure I could've won by Dom by 1400 or earlier if I tried. In the end, I just threw down some late settlers in empty land, and revolted to Caste to pop borders in captured cities to reach the Dom limit.

World map at 1818:

Final tally on kills against the AI: 271-15.

Wonders constructed: 'Henge (yeah, I still beat the AIs ), TGL, Taj, SoL.

Victory score: 72128

Demos at various points:

By ~T100 the game was over:

Circa T200, it was just silly:

T270:

End game:

[Ruff_Hi]

GES - thanks for the report and the pics. Your initial battles went better than mine, I lost 3 warriors killing 1.

[novice]

I pulled this off with three sets of two settler grabs.

First, I settled Boston and Philly basically in Justinian's core to block off his expansion.

Aggressive settling is so much fun. I can never resist it in my SP games.

Not exactly the way to beat deity though.