Epic 5 - Ruff's Report

[Ruff_Hi]

Here is the link to my Epic 5 report where I got to learn why Monty is such a nut case.

[regoarrarr]

Nice. I was going to go for a religion and then build the Oracle and take IW but in the end just decided to forego a religion and tech straight to IW. It was nice to see an example of someone doing it the other way

[Iustus]

Very nice job.

It was your successs with religion that decided me to post my failure founding a religion. Of course, my failure was because I was stupid after I founded the first religion.

-I

[Sullla]

A very creative gameplan, something different from what most everyone else tried, and yet it came out successful in the end as well. Congratulations! I must say I'm a little disappointed at the success of your "chop everything in sight" approach to get Stonehenge and the Oracle, since we tried to rule that out in 1.61, but given all the forests around the start, it was well-played.

I do wonder though whether putting all those shields into wonders was an actual benefit for this kill-and-attack game. Certainly those players who captured the Stonehenge/Oracle combo largely got to have their cake and eat it too. Your attacks came later, and so the AIs were more built up, and you went through your economic crisis later than most of the other games. So was it better or worse? That's something I'm still trying to think about!

One last point - you certainly could have reached Domination earlier by attacking Alex sooner. As you said in the report, perhaps it might have been better to push rather than waiting. Thanks for the report.

[Ruff_Hi]

I must say I'm a little disappointed at the success of your "chop everything in sight" approach to get Stonehenge and the Oracle, since we tried to rule that out in 1.61, but given all the forests around the start, it was well-played.

I do wonder though whether putting all those shields into wonders was an actual benefit for this kill-and-attack game.

Thx Sullla. My "chop everything in sight" is a bit of a stretch. I just checked a late save that I have and my capital still has 4 forests in its BFC. My build order was something like stonehenge until city=2, worker, warrior, settler, stonehenge, oracle. The warrior went with the settler to found my second city. I did chop on stonehenge but most of the hammers were natural (it completed in 1480BC). The Oracle got some chops to and completed in 985BC. I didn't mind putting hammers into them because I didn't really see anything else that I wanted to build (Jags only after IronWorking which I picked up from the Oracle). The beakers that would have gone to IronWorking went to CoL / currency instead and helped me keep my economy in some sort of state for longer.

This stuff should have been in my report.

I notice that my reports are broad brush what I did with some micro-management tips. There is some discussion about why. You reports are all about WHY. I hope (dream?) of moving my reports in your direction.