Adventure 20 - Turfit's Report#2, the shadow

[TurfIt]

Note: This is a second run through the scenario approaching the variant differently. See [here] first for the 'real' game.

Round 2 - A shadow game.
As round 1 was played with distributed Holy cities nullifying the variant, round 2 will go the other way... All religions are to be founded in Mecca!

4000BC - Again Mecca founded in place.


3920BC - Agriculture popped from hut. Again.
3680BC - Buddhism in Mecca. Again!
3680BC - A map. Finally something different happening.
3520BC - 59 gold.
3280BC - Hinduism in Mecca.
3040BC - Catherine met.
2920BC - Napoleon met.
2360BC - Washington met.
2320BC - Frederick met.
2320BC - Stonehenge built in Mecca. 800 years earlier than round 1.


2080BC - 32 gold.
2000BC - Judaism. 80 years later than round 1. Strange... I must've went for some other tech here although I was sure I beelined the religions so I could move beyond Mecca sooner...


1840BC - Horseback riding popped.
1000BC - Moses arrives to found Christianity.


975BC - The Parthenon built. 925 years earlier than round 1. Not having to build/support settlers sure helps the wonders.


700BC - Oracle BIFAL. Guess I spoke too soon! 24 gold from the hammers... round 1 seen the Oracle at 400BC!
575BC - Confucianism in.
575BC - Mahavira burned for Civil Service. 575BC vs 740AD due to Philosophy not researched because of the Oracle loss. Interesting.


150BC - Taoism in.
25BC - Chichen Itza built.
100AD - Zoroaster finishes off Divine Right yielding Islam completing the mega BudHinJewConfChriTaoIsl hydra!


100AD to found all 7 religions in Mecca vs. 50AD to found all 7 in 6 different cities in round 1. Surprisingly close considering Taoism had to be done the long way this time...
500AD - Angkor Wat built.
660AD - Mencuis delivers The Mahabodhi. My first shrine. Now it's time to make an empire...


740AD - War with Russia.


1060AD - St John brings in The Kong Miao.


1070AD - The world has gone Confucianist. Join them.


1140AD - The Americans finally get a religion - Confucianism and join the rest of us.
1210AD - Finally found my first city. Medina founded to hopefully grab that iron.


1300AD - St Paul builds The Kashi Vishwanath.


1330AD - The capture of St. Petersburg eliminates Catherine.
1370AD - Chartres revolts and joins us.


1410AD - All those veteran Maces just sitting around.... get to work!



Yes, that's Seattle twice! Washington manages to sneak a catapult and mace back at my lonely mace in the city taking it back for a turn.

1515AD - Moscow builds the Colossus. For a whole 4 turn investment, why not? Mecca should have enough Prophet points coming in that I don't end up with a whack of Merchants again!


1530AD - Mani for The Church of Nativity.


1615AD - Frederick steals The Spiral Minaret.


1625AD - Liberalism. Steel taken again even though I still don't have iron.
1625AD - Round 2 sees us to Liberalism. Round 1 had achieved Domination now.


1630AD - With New York captured, the American were down to 1 city deep in French lands. Peace made for some tech.


1680AD - St Patrick for The Masjid al-Haram.


1680AD - Once again veterans sitting around. Time for Napoleon to go.


1750AD - Zhang Qjan (GM) yields +1300 gold.


1755AD - Damascus founded cutting off Fredericks settling party by one turn.


1760AD - Redeclare on the Americans and finish them off by capturing Los Angeles.


1760AD - Marseilles capture also finishes the French. Now to wait for the border pops.


1804 - Domination.


State of the hydra.


Compared with round 1 and its distributed Holy cities, the economy definately crashed harder here as the conquered city count grew. Just look at that economy tank!


More cities definately pays off in manufacturing.


Crops...


Power!


Religious units and buildings top the lists.

[Compromise]

I'm glad you made the comparison between founding religions in one vs. many cities. The difference in the finish dates is impressive. And manufacturing is certainly a critical statistic, especially for the warmongering human player.

And you have a knack for editing and compositing photos. Very nice. I especially liked the minimap views of conquest and the side-by-side comparisons at the end. Cool.

[T-hawk]

The full seven-headed hydra? *applause* I have not seen that before!

[Coolhand]

Great recap!!

[haphazard1]

Fantastic comparison game, Turfit! The ultimate hydra, and a totally different approach than your first report. Interesting to contrast the dates for all the religions and then the final domination.