Actually finished this game a while ago but had to go away for a bit so I missed the reporting period. Here's a few shots from the end anyway, Conquest in 1645AD.
Stole a ridiculous number of early workers from Rameses with successive war declarations with just a solitary warrior. Steal a worker or two each war and then camp by his city asking for peace. Rameses was therefore never a threat and was eliminated around 100AD I think. Made terrible mistakes managing economy with military expansion, also wasted a lot of turns trying to keep some cities (Justinian's power cities mostly) and having to stick around to prevent a revolt. This game really should have been over 50 turns earlier. Note the crazy overkill in the power graph. My multi-promoted units were so powerful that an even power match is a cake-walk so little dips in Greece and Roman power (and subsequent capitulation) should have quickly followed the Justinian dip and capitulation but I had to keep every spare cavalry sitting defending cities I really didn't need
Looking over things, now a month after I actually played this game it appears I got the oracle. No idea what I got with it though. Can't really report much else with this game as I have mis-managed my screenshots and saves and they all have been overwritten. These screenshots are all from the final 2 turns. I remember popping Silver and building a heck of a lot of workshops.
By the end Carthage had 105Hammers/turn towards 21 XP Cavalry (3 Military Instructors, WP, Pentagon, Theocracy, Vassalage, Barracks, Stable). Screenshot of Carthage is 1t post win to show post anarchy. No idea why I was in anarchy or why I'm working a spy specialist there.
Stole a ridiculous number of early workers from Rameses with successive war declarations with just a solitary warrior. Steal a worker or two each war and then camp by his city asking for peace. Rameses was therefore never a threat and was eliminated around 100AD I think. Made terrible mistakes managing economy with military expansion, also wasted a lot of turns trying to keep some cities (Justinian's power cities mostly) and having to stick around to prevent a revolt. This game really should have been over 50 turns earlier. Note the crazy overkill in the power graph. My multi-promoted units were so powerful that an even power match is a cake-walk so little dips in Greece and Roman power (and subsequent capitulation) should have quickly followed the Justinian dip and capitulation but I had to keep every spare cavalry sitting defending cities I really didn't need
Looking over things, now a month after I actually played this game it appears I got the oracle. No idea what I got with it though. Can't really report much else with this game as I have mis-managed my screenshots and saves and they all have been overwritten. These screenshots are all from the final 2 turns. I remember popping Silver and building a heck of a lot of workshops.
By the end Carthage had 105Hammers/turn towards 21 XP Cavalry (3 Military Instructors, WP, Pentagon, Theocracy, Vassalage, Barracks, Stable). Screenshot of Carthage is 1t post win to show post anarchy. No idea why I was in anarchy or why I'm working a spy specialist there.