Jabah's Epic11 (unfinished)

[Jabah]

Epic 11 - Unfinished report.

Rather than a proper unfinished report, I will start with some of the "highlight" of sloppy play and wrong strategy...

- Isa (score leader, no joke) declared on 2380BC, while being trpped in settler production with only religious techs. Luckily she just sent 2 warriors to suicide and pillage before peace.



- Oracle missed by 4t in 940BC (trying to get a better tech...)



- Capac sent 3 axes (spotted coming since 940BC) while having only warriors (copper not connected, archery still in research), declared and razed Boston (775BC) before being repulsed with whipped axes.



- Missing Liberalism for 3t in 1454AD (trying to get an expensive tech...)
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- and immediatly after being declared by AIs #1 and #2 from opposite direction within 10t...





Now for the quick report between those pictures.

Decided to go Religion chasing (with minimal hope on Hindhuism, but going for the following ones) and exploration early (to see if a coastal strong city is possible - didn't in time). Therefore Warrior x2 while growing to size3 before worker (then settler) while researching religious techs. I stay with 3 cities for a long time to try to gets as much religious culture as possible.

Religion-wise the plan was kind of OK, I missed only Buddhism (Isa) and Christianism (Hatshe, thanks to Capac and his war), but didn't manage to get the religions where I wanted : NY ended 3x holy (Jewish, Confuscianist and Taoist), Wash 1x (Hindhuist), and New Boston (Boston rebuilt) 0x while a latter city gets Islam much later.



A not that good side effect was that almost everyone went buddhist thanks to Isa fanatics (but were still fighting between them anyway).


Military-wise the situation was a disaster until Capac force me to whip an army which protect me for a long time and Wonder-wise I was terrible as I get nothing with points (I still manage to get the Great Library+Hanging Gardens a bit later)

In 260, my 3 cities had
Washington : library + 2 temples
New York : library + 3 temples
New boston : library + 1 temple





Decide to get more cities later (initially was thinking to stay at 3, but having marble just next was too tempting, and then later aim at having 9 peacefully but settling aggressively on my borders thanks to the huge culture of the 3 central cities).


Grow peacefully until 1454AD when Peter then Alex declare.

This being Prince (but quite overpowered ones with a lot of elephants), i managed to sign some backward AIs (Genghis, Monte, Ceasar) for 'modern' techs to help against them, repulse them and even capture borders (with cavalries coming) cities before signing

peace around 1600 when I stopped (sunday night).

1502 scores
3 universities, 2 Cathedrals (Alex+Peter means lots of changing in the build orders between 1450 and 1500).

Situation around 1600.
3 powerfull cities, access to 6 religions and 10 cities.
3AIs already dead (Capac 320AD by Ganghis, Isa 6680AD by Monte, Fred but Alex then Toku) and Saladin (by Alex then Peter) not that great.

Jabah

[Compromise]

Two-warrior super early Isabella DoW? Oracle falls in 940BC?! Wow, you had some seriously bad RNG luck here.

I'm surprised you managed to get so many religions with so many AI opponents. It sounds like the biggest effect of founding them yourself is that the AIs had much larger religious blocs. But the warring sounds about the same (at least through the Medieval period) as in other games where lots of different AIs founded the religions.

[Sullla]

I agree with Compromise, you had some seriously bad luck in this game. The Spanish war was bad enough, but Huayna Capac walking halfway around the war just to sneak-attack? That seriously stinks.

I thought your game was well-played when those freak swings of luck are accounted for, especially on the religious end.