Hi,
Epic 8 was my first ever completed CIV game at all – it ended with a domination win in 1756 after 17 hours of gaming. I declared on England before 1000 BC - in 1510 BC, so sorry for breaking the one and only rule of this game.
Under my typical playstyle I tend to loose the interest in the game when I have too many cities to manage and I regularily abandon the games in the early AD years. This time the motivation to finish was so strong that I kept on playing, especially that I didn't realize that I broke the "no early declaration" rule.
Key dates from my campaign:
1510 BC – declaring on England
Captures of York (1480 BC), London (1390 BC), Nottingham (1150 BC) – and English are no more.
They founded Hinduism and this way I got myself a religion for the whole game. I converted to the faith Saladin, Mao, Julius and Roosevelt (or the religion spread out on it’s own), so I was planning my next campaign against Mansa. But in
230 AD Mao declares on me and in 290 Julius joins his cause.
I captured Antium in 545 AD and made peace with both of them (all the time sharing the faith with them) to concentrate on Mansa (in Judaism).
In 830 AD I declared, captured Kumbi Saleh (875 AD), Djenne (950 AD) and Gao (1040 AD) and Tadmekka (1070 AD).
As I was closing on Mansa and getting towards ending his misery Julius smelled I was defending my borders lightly in the west and declared on me again in 1040 AD (also this time Mao joined him in 1124 AD).
I made peace with Mansa and rolled my troops towards west. I lost temporalirly Antium in 1118 AD and recaptured it in 1130 AD from the Romans.
I managed to capture also Rome (1184 AD), Pisae (1250 AD) and Circassian (1286 AD), at the same time Tokugawa declared on Julius and captured Cumae from him. after a lot of success in the west I made peace with both Rome and China and returned to the east to conquoer the rest of Mali.
This time I finally completed the destruction:
declaration in 1316 AD - 5 captures and 1 razing and Mansa is destroyed in 1490 AD.
Then it's Julius time:
declaration in 1529 AD - 2 captures and 1 razing and Julius ends his life in 1586 AD.
The next was Mao whom I also never forgot his wars against the mighty Egypt. I started the war in 1604 - 6 captures and again 1 razing and the Chineese are dead in 1727 AD.
All those lands left me slightly short of the land limit for domination so I was forced to declare one more time. This time it was Tokugawa. I captured 2 cities from him and that was enough to cross the domination limit and win the game.
I never had any "major" problems in this game. The cities were usually way under their health and hapiness limits, the war weariness was never an issue too. Obviously there's still plenty for me to learn it this game but at least Sirian and the community gave me enough motivation to finish the game. My biggest problems were: how to grow the cities bigger and how to get more from the use of specialists.
Thanks for the game. I enjoyed the begining a lot, but in the end I had over 30 cities and that was definetely too much for me. Still I felt obliged not to abandon the play and finish.
wojc
Epic 8 was my first ever completed CIV game at all – it ended with a domination win in 1756 after 17 hours of gaming. I declared on England before 1000 BC - in 1510 BC, so sorry for breaking the one and only rule of this game.
Under my typical playstyle I tend to loose the interest in the game when I have too many cities to manage and I regularily abandon the games in the early AD years. This time the motivation to finish was so strong that I kept on playing, especially that I didn't realize that I broke the "no early declaration" rule.
Key dates from my campaign:
1510 BC – declaring on England
Captures of York (1480 BC), London (1390 BC), Nottingham (1150 BC) – and English are no more.
They founded Hinduism and this way I got myself a religion for the whole game. I converted to the faith Saladin, Mao, Julius and Roosevelt (or the religion spread out on it’s own), so I was planning my next campaign against Mansa. But in
230 AD Mao declares on me and in 290 Julius joins his cause.
I captured Antium in 545 AD and made peace with both of them (all the time sharing the faith with them) to concentrate on Mansa (in Judaism).
In 830 AD I declared, captured Kumbi Saleh (875 AD), Djenne (950 AD) and Gao (1040 AD) and Tadmekka (1070 AD).
As I was closing on Mansa and getting towards ending his misery Julius smelled I was defending my borders lightly in the west and declared on me again in 1040 AD (also this time Mao joined him in 1124 AD).
I made peace with Mansa and rolled my troops towards west. I lost temporalirly Antium in 1118 AD and recaptured it in 1130 AD from the Romans.
I managed to capture also Rome (1184 AD), Pisae (1250 AD) and Circassian (1286 AD), at the same time Tokugawa declared on Julius and captured Cumae from him. after a lot of success in the west I made peace with both Rome and China and returned to the east to conquoer the rest of Mali.
This time I finally completed the destruction:
declaration in 1316 AD - 5 captures and 1 razing and Mansa is destroyed in 1490 AD.
Then it's Julius time:
declaration in 1529 AD - 2 captures and 1 razing and Julius ends his life in 1586 AD.
The next was Mao whom I also never forgot his wars against the mighty Egypt. I started the war in 1604 - 6 captures and again 1 razing and the Chineese are dead in 1727 AD.
All those lands left me slightly short of the land limit for domination so I was forced to declare one more time. This time it was Tokugawa. I captured 2 cities from him and that was enough to cross the domination limit and win the game.
I never had any "major" problems in this game. The cities were usually way under their health and hapiness limits, the war weariness was never an issue too. Obviously there's still plenty for me to learn it this game but at least Sirian and the community gave me enough motivation to finish the game. My biggest problems were: how to grow the cities bigger and how to get more from the use of specialists.
Thanks for the game. I enjoyed the begining a lot, but in the end I had over 30 cities and that was definetely too much for me. Still I felt obliged not to abandon the play and finish.
wojc