Extreme summary report here. I played slowly considering each move and trying to do well. The lands to the West looked as bleak as the starting area, so I planned to move south into China (who had great land). I got a big break during the first war with China - I captured a city and was able to rank up to build the Heroic Epic - after this, China was easy.
As I was slowly but comfortably taking China's cities through on and off again wars I was able to build my infrastucture to compete with the other civs. I was ranked between 1-3 in all the important categories: GNP, production, etc.
Now my heroic epic city was building nothing but defenders for a long time in preparations to win by Space. There was a period towards the end where I became delusional and started building infrastructure in this low-commerce city which I really didn't need instead of pumping out steady streams of defenders. Saladin took advantage of this and declared war with his better units. I was holding him off well as he got to pillage a few tiles, but nothing major.
...then Caesar declared on me.
My buddy Mansa Musa was able to come through for me when I asked/bribed (can't remeber which) him to attack Caesar for me. This though didn't help much as Caesar's knights started to pillage at will. I couldn't hold both fronts at once and keep up in tech so I called it quits. 1735 AD retirement.
I enjoyed the challenge.
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I played the game without mods, but the picture above is with BMT, taken later.
As I was slowly but comfortably taking China's cities through on and off again wars I was able to build my infrastucture to compete with the other civs. I was ranked between 1-3 in all the important categories: GNP, production, etc.
Now my heroic epic city was building nothing but defenders for a long time in preparations to win by Space. There was a period towards the end where I became delusional and started building infrastructure in this low-commerce city which I really didn't need instead of pumping out steady streams of defenders. Saladin took advantage of this and declared war with his better units. I was holding him off well as he got to pillage a few tiles, but nothing major.
...then Caesar declared on me.
My buddy Mansa Musa was able to come through for me when I asked/bribed (can't remeber which) him to attack Caesar for me. This though didn't help much as Caesar's knights started to pillage at will. I couldn't hold both fronts at once and keep up in tech so I called it quits. 1735 AD retirement.I enjoyed the challenge.
I played the game without mods, but the picture above is with BMT, taken later.
