Adv2 Rowains Report

[Rowain]

The Start is a nice river-valley with luxury, stone, wheat so settled in place. Set production to scout and the city to grow first.
Sent the Warrior out west then let him circle around the capital.

Turn 3 and already sighted a Barbscout. 4 turnsl ater and I meet my first neighbour Scythia.
Turn 9 the scout completes and is ordered notrth/northwest. He finds a village. the warrior meets Hongkong

T10 Already forgot the village and move further west where  I meet Norway. Discover a nice spot for a city with marble and gems

T11 remember the village and it yields 40 gold

T18 a barbscout shows near cairo and gets hit by slinger.
T20 After a 1 turn retreat the scout appears again giving my slinger the chance to kill him and earn the Eureka for Archers.

T23 Monument complete start a settler. Targetarea for the settler is the northwest with Marble and gems. Another nice spot is the area southeast of Cairo with a lot of wheat.

T24 stop the research in Foreign trade and start to complete craftmanship (for which I got the eureka already) Hope to find a 2nd continent to get Foreign Trade completed by boost.
Alas as it turned out the starting landmass is a single continent. Go me
Met Perikles of Greece.

T25 Map so far:

T28 Fist AI-AI war as Norway declares on Scythia.

T29: Germany completes Stonehenge and I start to cultrure-research Workforce still hoping for a 2nd continent.
T30: Settler completes and sent to the northwest. Meet Vilnius.(3rd citystate)
T33: Mecca settled on the coast Cairo finished an archer and started another one. Don't want to get caught with my pants down.

The legitimate city-spots in near cairo:

T37 Discover Kilimanjaro far in the southeast and start to dream about a city there which combines the Bonus from that natural wonder with Petra (lots of desert-tiles around).
T39 right after completing my 3 Archer I meet Brussels which asks me to build an Archer

T40 Declaration of friendship with Germany. I'm still culture -researching everything else hoping there is another continent in easy reach   .
T42 Pericles denounces me. From now till the end of game he will constantly denounce me. We never became friends but also went never to war.

T46 I finally accept that there is no other continent on this continent and start to finish Foreign Trade.
T50 Capital is busy building 2 settlers and my Archers start to clear the city-site SE of Cairo.
T56 Early Empire completes and I adopt the faster Settler civic. (yeah better late than never)
T58 Settler complete (and next one started) and sent towards the future Petra-spot.

It is along way to Tipperary

T65 first Traderoute  (yeah yeah better late than never again )

T67 Damaskus founded

followed by Germans demands not to settlle that close (which I promise)
Next turn I got the guarantied Great Prophet. In a moment of madness I decide to build a Holy District in Damascus to use the Prophet for a religion.  

T75 Homs near the Kilimajaro settled (after 17 turns traveling)
T88 Germany asks to not settle too close which is weird as I have not settled any city during the last 13 turns.

T107 Petra started.

T126: Found religion in Damascus which gets wiped out by Scythia Apostles and Missionaries before I can buy any missionaries or convert any of my cities.

T131: 3 turns before I complete Petra an unknown player finishes it. So much for that glorious spot. But still Homs is a strong site and will later become the strongest producer of all my cities.

T137: I finally find a new continent . Norway has already a settlement there.
A bit later I meet france (and Russia) and thanks to barbs get a free settler there

T176: I love Buenos Aires.


T183: Get James Young and learn the location of oil. Luckily there a re sources near my settlement on the new continent.

T205: A Spy destroys production-buildings in Damaskus and I can say I absolutely hate Spies in Civ. Why are there always spies included  
T226: Ruhr valley complete in Homs.
T228: use faith to buy Einstein.
T242: Oxford completes in Cairo.

Around the time the victory screen :


T278 rocketry researched

T301 Use 800 faith to buy Abdus Salam A GS who gives Eureka for all Information-aera techs. The next GS is one who gives 100% to space-parts

~T330 Earth satellite launched Maps(big!)
Homecontinent:

New continent:

T338 Scythia on brink of victory.

And right now Norway declares war

I can't upgrade any units if I want to get Sagan (3000 hammers for space-part) and von Braun (100% production for spaceparts) so I have to fight with what I have.
Which luckily includes a Biplane and I learned to love the Unique Unit of Arabia. Healing after every turn even if you fought is very useful.    

T345 First wave destroyed.

Behold the Armada (1).  It will sit on this tile getting attacked by my plane every turn and slowly drop in health without doing anything. Go AI
And (2) is the settler from the Norwegian attack-picture. I used this gift to settle near Uranium on the ice up north.
 
T348 Buy Sagan for 3935 gold. .
T349: Norway signs peace and pays a lot for it. : 68 gpt(!) 3 luxuries and coal.
Those  past turns were nail-biting not so much because of the Norwegian units but for watching waves of Scythian Missionaries swarming into Russia. But Peter managed to hold up his eastern Orthodoxy.
Later Germany dropped from the converted Civs too.

T363 Moon mission complete.

T365 use Sagan for Mars-project and switch to Democracy for the cheaper Patronage

T367 Buy v.Braun (3393 gold)

With the last 2 tiles in production one last view over the victory-screens:

Cairo's districts

and the traderoutes:

T388 On the last interturn Peter criticize my lack of science which is funny because the next turn greets me with:

Science-victory at start of T 389 (Hey at least 100 turns faster than in Adv01 )

All in all a nice game where besides the close miss on a religious loss the AI was not a thread.

Addendum: Villages gave me: ~200 gold, 2 scouts, 1 trade-unit and 4 times a boost for culture-techs.

[Sullla]

Thanks for the report Rowain. One potential request for the future: you cropped out the interface from almost every screenshot, and that's one of the best ways to tell what's going on in each game (since it shows the beakers/culture/gold per turn, current research, minimap, etc.) It might be helpful to preserve some of that information in future reports. It was a bit difficult to follow this report at times.

Could you explain why you picked the northern coast for your second city location? Out of all the other games, I don't think anyone else chose that spot. I'm curious since I didn't see a rationale in the report. Your map at the end didn't look anything like mine, with just the seven spread out city locations.

I'm also amused at the comment how the AI was not a threat, but Scythia converted 6/7 civs to their religion and Russia was over 2/3 of the way to a cultural victory. I hope it was a fun game to play.

[Athmos]

Very different game from mine as well, interesting report !
I'm amazed you managed to avoid war until the very end, this is quite uncommon in my experience when playing against emperor AI or higher.

I didn't think to check the GP list until the very end, It's a good idea to plan for them early I think.
I can't believe I didn't even think of the potential of that Mount Kilimandjaro + Petra Combo That you saw and Sulla got, This spot went unsettled to the end in my game.

Also, your comment about the search for a second continent reminded me that I was super lucky in my game, I got the inspiration for foreign trade in a hut. While I'd like to think I wouldn't fall into that trap, I know I would probably have delayed the civic too much without that, always hoping that the next scout move would complete it ;-).

[Rowain]

Thanks for the report Rowain. One potential request for the future: you cropped out the interface from almost every screenshot, and that's one of the best ways to tell what's going on in each game (since it shows the beakers/culture/gold per turn, current research, minimap, etc.) It might be helpful to preserve some of that information in future reports. It was a bit difficult to follow this report at times.

Hi Sullla
Thanks for your comments (and for Hosting the adventure). I always fear to get the screenshots too big. But I will try to put together a timeline for this information. I do miss the after-game-display  how the game developed .

Could you explain why you picked the northern coast for your second city location? Out of all the other games, I don't think anyone else chose that spot. I'm curious since I didn't see a rationale in the report. Your map at the end didn't look anything like mine, with just the seven spread out city locations.

Several reasons:
The south-east spot I was confident  to get later (Damaskus).
For a spot in the southwest (your Mecca) I didn't want to put myself between Norway and Scythia. As I got burned by an early 2-AI attack in a game a few days before I started Adv02.
I wanted to settle that spot before Norway does as a Norwegian city would be able to reach my capital with ease.
The NW spot had 2 Luxuries and I'm still struggling to get rid of the civ5-mindset.

I'm also amused at the comment how the AI was not a threat, but Scythia converted 6/7 civs to their religion and Russia was over 2/3 of the way to a cultural victory. I hope it was a fun game to play.

Being 2/3 on the cultural victory while I'm finishing the last 2 Space-parts during the next 10 turns is not a thread. At last turn he was at  250/300 which means still ~12 turns away.

Scythia was really close but I do trust the AI's to prevent that kind of victory which so far has always been the case in my games. Although I currently play a game as Egypt with the goal to win a religious victory I do know that I don't like that part of the game. I rather lose the odd game where an AI converts all others than taking part in something I'm not interested in.

[Rowain]

Very different game from mine as well, interesting report !
I'm amazed you managed to avoid war until the very end, this is quite uncommon in my experience when playing against emperor AI or higher.

I didn't think to check the GP list until the very end, It's a good idea to plan for them early I think.
I can't believe I didn't even think of the potential of that Mount Kilimandjaro + Petra Combo That you saw and Sulla got, This spot went unsettled to the end in my game.

Also, your comment about the search for a second continent reminded me that I was super lucky in my game, I got the inspiration for foreign trade in a hut. While I'd like to think I wouldn't fall into that trap, I know I would probably have delayed the civic too much without that, always hoping that the next scout move would complete it ;-).

Thanks for your comments

At the end I felt like the donkey running behind the carrot on a stick.