Pling's Incomplete Civ V Adventure 1

[pling]

Er, yeah, so ... Diablo 3 ate my homework? *shuffles feet awkwardly*

Or more honestly, I failed to start playing in time and so ended up with loads still to play when Diablo 3 came out and I parked this game. Which is a shame, as I was enjoying it and if I'd got myself properly organised I'd've finished it out. I hope there are more Civ V adventures, thanks to SevenSpirits for sponsoring this one

Fortunately I was writing the report as I went along, you can find it here.

I got to turn 70, and hadn't got to any scoring opportunities. I may come back to it someday & finish the game, but it'll very much be a shadow coz I'm going to read the other reports now

[oledavy]

Looks like Napoleon was about to declare war on you. Without swords of your own, fighting his off with warriors would have been a tall order. Definitely doable though.

Really enjoyed your detailed write-up

If you ever finish it and write it up, having the rest of your report to read would be awesome.

[T-hawk]

Thanks for sharing. It might be a bit _too_ detailed, reporting on every single turn is a bit of overkill.

I got confused by that funky mountain by your New York (my Boston) too. I didn't even find Rock of Gibraltar until about 100 turns into the game.

Yes, reloading for your worker misclick was fine. I did that often in Civ 4 events, that's fine as long as you're not actually cheating to make use of hidden information or undo strategic error. Although Civ 5 takes so much longer to reload that I usually don't bother.

Looks like Diablo might eat a lot of reports here...

[pling]

Thanks for reading it, guys

Looks like Napoleon was about to declare war on you. Without swords of your own, fighting his off with warriors would have been a tall order. Definitely doable though.

I might be able to rushbuy a sword or two (I can't remember prices or how much gold I had, but hopefully that's the case ). Or upgrade a warrior or two. I do have spare iron hooked up, just hadn't made use of it yet. I'd kinda been ignoring those French units, coz they'd been there since Japan & France were at war - but they do look awfully ominous.

Thanks for sharing. It might be a bit _too_ detailed, reporting on every single turn is a bit of overkill.

Yeah, that's the problem with writing it as I go, don't know what the storyline is yet, so leave in the boring details. Next time I'll try & budget time for a more thorough editing pass at the end to take out some of the "Turn X I did boring thing Y" stuff

I got confused by that funky mountain by your New York (my Boston) too. I didn't even find Rock of Gibraltar until about 100 turns into the game.

That's a consistent glitch then? I'd wondered. Very odd.

Looks like Diablo might eat a lot of reports here...

Which is a shame I'd like to see what one of the more experienced players did for things like city placement - the two of us we've got for comparison so far settled very differently.

[oledavy]

That's a consistent glitch then? I'd wondered. Very odd..

Yeah, every time I've seen the Rock of Gibraltar the adjacent mountain tile has had that graphical glitch.

[Jkaen]

I also didnt finish the game, but got somewhat further than you.

Washington and new york I settled 1 NE, then settled a linking city 1 E of the iron up the city. my 4th settled city was then 5W of your washington.

Got into an earlish fight with Japan which knocked them back to 1 city, then basically sat back and defended, focussing on culture, and befriended 1-3 culture states at any time. Ended up with 4 additional puppet cities from wars I defended, essentially forming a barrier for my core cities.

Was at an age where minute men and cannons were running my defense, while I cultured away (3rd city had 5 artists settled on tiles around it)