August 6th, 2007, 14:41
(This post was last modified: August 6th, 2007, 15:14 by Gusto.)
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Obviously I renamed the leader to Alexzuma.
Every turn, I used the Sky Gods to recon my borders. The recon kept the raging barbs to a minimum on my peninsula; allowing me to have thin defenses â an archer in every city. Barbs were popping out of the dark jungles at the edge of my recon view. I believe the distance to my cities was too great because they choose to ignore me. I smiled as I watched the barbs traveled westward to create havoc on Cyrus or Kublai Khan. The raging barbs were a non-issue. The early recon revealed the location of three tribal villages â popping for gold twice and a map. Recon every turn was a bit monotonous; however it yielded its benefits. It toned down as the land was settled.
I quickly settled six cities. I captured a barb city located in the jungles by the banana and ivory resources for my seventh city. My seven cities encompassed most of the peninsula. Cyrus settled a city near a small mountain range on the peninsula edge to capture a copper resource. The city borders were land locking me on the peninsula. We didnât have open borders because we converted to different religions and he didnât like me. The same situation happened in the early game. His capital borders land locked my scout by the time I discovered his city. Shortly thereafter a bear ate the scout. My foreign relations were only Cyrus or Kublai Khan for awhile. Only later after Cyrus established open borders with the other civs did I discover Caesar, Hatshepsut, and Roosevelt. I never did learn who the last unknown civ was?
My research started with Fishing, Polytheism, and a few worker techs. I found Hinduism and converted to it. It was my goal to found Hinduism because it felt natural to discover and convert to in a game about Sky Gods. I researched Fishing first so I could build a fishing boat for the seafood resource in my capital. My capital build queue was worker, switched to fishing boat upon researching Fishing, completed worker, settler, settler, Stonehenge, Oracle, and the Parthenon. I forget the order but later the city build a granary, library, monastery (or two I forget), Great Library and National Epic. I grabbed Code of Laws with the Oracle and found Confucianism. I popped four great prophets. I used the first one to lightbulb Civil Service (completed research at my earliest date of 300BC), the next two build shrines, and the fourth was to be used as a sacrifice to the Sky Gods for early warmongering. A fifth great person was going to pop in a few turns. My capital was generating 52gpps per turn from a combo of wonders built and two hired scientists. I was debating to use the next great person as a sacrifice for 10 frenzied bloodlust turns or maybe build an academy in my capital if a great scientist. I missed the great artist from researching Music to Kublai Khan for perhaps 15 (guarantee 10) frenzied bloodlust turns. As you can see I was trying to stockpile a bunch of frenzied bloodlust turns together for early warmongering in a group sacrifice. Who would have thought great people would be used as sacrificial fodder en masse in a game! No pun intended; I was going for the gusto to attack both Cyrus and Kublai Khan at once. Hereâs way.
First the early game was a builder game: grab land, start specializing cities, get the economy growing, and begin the great people popping machine. Pop, pop, pop, pop! I was preparing my early warmongering by the time I, *cough*, retired in 600AD. My plan was to build two stacks of city raiding jaguars, flanking war elephants, formation spearmen, and bombarding catapults to attack both Cyrus and Kublai Khan. During the frenzied bloodlust turns the Sky Gods would bombard city defenses, catapults would cause collateral damage, and jaguars would capture the cities. War elephants and spearmen would be used as secondary units attacking cities or counter-attacking enemy units. I was building spearmen before my war elephants came online. There was barb city that impeded their time to production. I wanted to capture two/three cities from each civ to effectively cripple both empires until I could regroup/reinforce my stacks to eliminate both. Cyrus recently discovered Feudalism so Longbowmen were coming. I was researching Metal Casting and next Machinery to bring Macemen online. I wanted to start my attacks by the time Machinery was researched. My reinforcements would be Macemen, War Elephants, and Catapults for conventional warmongering. The frenzied bloodlust turns would have past by the time the reinforcements arrive. Ultimately I wanted to integrate the territories of both Cyrus and Kublai Khan into my empire; and later conquer the remaining civs simply razing cities along the way. Of course, during the course of the game try to pop as many great people as possible for sacrificial fodder en masse. Anyway this is what I was planning. I *cough* retired in 600AD.
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