Epic 22 - TreeHugger for life

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Well a real weedy game design and it sounds like it would be fun. Keeping that in mind I didn't prepare a whole lot for it. I did recognise that once I found out about preserves adding happy faces I knew I wouldn't be limited so much due to happiness and I never thought health would be much of a concern with all the trees and deers and such. Since we're heading for a culture victory I figured religions would be important and would gamble on trying to grab one. With that in mind lets start it up.

I adopt enviromentalism as soon as I load up the game then move my settler 1S to settle and start mysticism. Bad move as I fail on Hinduism with 5 turns left to go.



I then get sorted out on expanding and land my 2nd city next to bronze. However it would take me a while to actually get it connected. I planted the city there as I would be planting one just WNW of there and there were grassland areas where I could road over to the river. This would connect with my other cities so that I could still have a trade network. See I did put some thought into my gameplay this time. There just happened to be some forests grow on those tiles before I could road them. DOH!


Next up was to land stonehenge. I know I know I didn't need it being creative and all but it gave a slight advantage in early border wars so why not?

Turns out it was a waste of hammers but oh well. Live and learn.

On the religion front I would land Confucianism which I believe is from the oracle. I can't quite remember and I didn't take many notes. Regardless that's the first personal religion I had founded. As you can see I'm building the pyramids in that shot. I started them late and figured I would just earn some cash with them but I actually had a really good shot at landing them. In the end I lost them by a 3 turns however I was planning on whipping them and just forgot to check earlier. Turns out they were mine for the taking and I just f ked it up. Early representation/caste system would have helped a lot. Oh well.


And here's a picture of the aforementioned forest ruining my plans for a decent trade network.


A prophet would land me christianity:

As you can see I'm suffering a turn of disorder due to that slavery event.

And here's the shot that pissed me off to no end and made me retire. Louis and Willem warred for much of the time allowing me to expand and build and I neglected a lot of my military. Well having a large enough tech lead I wasn't all that concerned but Louis had enough and he had large numbers so he upped and DOW on me. Not really a surprise but just with his large numbers he was able to take my GP farm. I did get it back but just as I did he took another city. I was about to take it back with and was having visions of wiping his french face off the planet when the apostolic palace intervened and stopped the war. So I'm stuck without what I was planning on my 2nd legendary city and can't get it back so I upped and retired right then and there. The game was really fun up to that point and I had plenty of time to finish the game I was just pissed at the AP and I'm just not that fond of it. Oh well. Great design overall and thanks to Sulla for the effort of organising it.

Retired in 980AD.