Adventure 10 - sooooo's report

[sooooo]

Adventure 10 - Legionnaire

This was a prince level game where we had to win while having the largest army. It was a tiny map, but the Highlands script means it played more like a small/standard size panagea. We are the Romans. Can anyone say (or even spell) Praetorians?

I only played (and finished) this game yesterday so I apologise about the lack of screenshots and hasty report.

Our starting spot seems very good for army-building, with 2 food resources and seven (!) hills. I settled on the spot, began a worker and researched agriculture. After agriculture I went to bronze working then iron working. Once the worker completed he farmed the corn and I built 2 warriors and part-built a barracks until we were at size 3. A settler was built, and was timed to arrive at the same time as the location of iron was discovered. In the meantime I built some mines and farmed over the plains-wines tiles.

I founded Antium to the south, covering the gold, iron and deer. I then built another 2 warriors, grew to size 4 and built a settler then a worker. The settler settled in the north to get wheat, cows and sugar, but more importantly 10 hills. Meanwhile I had researched Wheel, Mysticism and AH. Rome built Stonehenge while it was waiting for Antium to whip an obelisk, pop its borders and hook up the iron. Once the iron was hooked up, Rome and Antium were set to make praetorians. Cumae caught up when it had built a granary, a barracks and its hills were mined.

Here is the situation in 550 BC.



I had gotten 4 praets to Izzy's borders and was ready to attack. Her first city was a beaver iceball and was defended by 2 archers. I razed it. Madrid was a double holy city so I had to keep it. It was on a hill and had 60% culture bonus, so I lost 2 praets here. Meanwhile Rome had built the oracle and I chose Code Of Laws (whipped a CH in Madrid). Elizabeth had founded confucianism earlier. I planned to raze every other city from here on in, and once I researched HBR (Madrid had horses) I turned off research. A party of 3 praets in the north razed 2 barbarian towns defended by warriors. Once I had razed Barcelona (Jewish holy city), Izzy only had 1 iceball city left so I got peace for Mathematics, Archery, Masonry and Meditation in 125 BC.



Now for the Germans. War was declared in 25BC, and Frankfurt was razed soon after. Stonehenge and the Oracle had given me a priest, who I used for the Hindu shrine in Madrid. When I moved onto Berlin I saw it had the pyramids, so I had to keep it. I revolted to Police State and Hindiusm. Bismark had a few axes, but they're still no match for city raider Praets. Hamburg, Munich and Cologne fell and the Germans were wiped out in 580 AD. In the same year I also declared on Elizabeth and Isabella (again). The spanish had founded a city which disrupted my road network so they had to go (no open borders). Even defending with 2 axes on a hill, I only lost 1 praet while razing Toledo. They're just that good.

Coventry, York, Hastings, Nottingham and Canterbury all fell to Praets and HAs. The final Spanish city Cordoba was razed in 840 AD and finally London fell in 980 AD. Conquest victory for the Romans in 1000 AD!



A nice, fun game that only took a few hours.

[Ruff_Hi]

1000AD seems like a popular date! And I swear that your last SC was taken from my game.

[Ronald]

Preatorians on a small map are fun to play, aren't they? You can walk over your opponents at almost every difficulty level. Nice game