At this point, I am running projects where I don’t have anything necessary being built and will run projects in the remaining cities when their current builds are being completed. I am running industrial projects in cities with industrial zones, naval projects in cities with harbors, and commerce projects in the remaining cities with commercial zones. I plan on turtling and hoping Aztecs or Germany don’t declare war on me, so I don’t have to upgrade any units or build anymore and spend unnecessary gold or production on units.
T223: I captured a settler from the Vikings before I killed him off. I send it to the desert west of Nidaros for a junk city. I don’t think it will become anything because it is too late in the game. I do start a builder in it in case I need anything copped before T250.
T224: Earn a great writer: my hometown boy, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
T225: Get my third themed museum, for another +12 food, +12 production, and +24 gold in Mbanza Nsundi.
T226: Earn a great merchant: John Rockefeller.
T227: Finish Flight, start Steam Power. I also got a Relic by suiciding an apostle against a German one. I got the apostle a while ago that was eligible for the martyrdom promotion and have been sending all over the map. Apparently, nobody was built apostles. I first sent him down to Monty’s territory but he only had apostles with the same religion. Then I send him over to Gandhi’s, but there was not an apostle or missionary around for ages. Finally, one of Fredrick’s apostles attack another apostle of mine I was using to scout to see if he was building Big Ben. So, I tactfully retreated bring the German apostle towards my other apostle so he could die. Usually, the land is fully of the AI’s religious units, but here I couldn’t find any for the life of me. I beat I had this guy running around for at least 50 turns. He earned the “Beard of the Evangelist”. Thanks for the additional +2 food, +2 production, and +4 gold in the capital. Weird thing happened when I got it, it was placed in a temple at the former Vikings capital and I had to move it to my capital. Shouldn’t the temple have been destroyed when I took the city?
T228: Earned a great musician: Johann Sebastian Bach.
T229: Finished Suffrage, start Opera and Ballet. Monty seems to have a fair number of troops around Yerevan, mostly out dated stuff (just left of the Suffrage announcement in the screenshot below). I don’t know if he is think about attacking but I move the few troops I have from the Vikings campaign and in garrison duty at my edges into better positions.
With Suffrage complete, I finally switch out of Classical Republic to Democracy. I did not realize until this point that Democracy not only provides 50% discount on patronage of great people but also provides a 30% bonus yield on projects. I should have beelined it faster, I probably could have had it 20 turns earlier and had bonuses to more projects. That might have cost me a couple of great people. Anyway, here are the civics I ran when I moved into Democracy. I tried to use the policies that would provide the most gold. My gold rate jumped from 590.1 to 890.7. I think some of that was from projects because the previous screenshot shows 755.9 gold per turn, but still an increase of 135.2 gold per turn.
I also earned a great engineer: Gustave Eiffel. He provides 2 shots of 480 production to wonders. I should find a wonder to build. I am not going to use him to complete Big Ben because it is almost done and I want to leave it at 1 turn until T249. I have scouting apostles looking to see if anybody is building it and no one has even started it. I definitely will get it since nobody can steal it with this great person.
T230: In between turns, Monty declares war. I am not too worried. He is bringing Pikes and Crossbows. I have Infantry and Calvary in the area and as soon as Big Ben gets down to 1 turn, I will chop out a tank in Mbumbi. He may pillage Mbanza Nsundi a little but I am no danger of losing any cities.
T231: Finish Opera and Ballet, start Scorched Earth. Earn a great merchant: Sarah Breedlove, who provides +25% tourism for trade routes to other civilizations. She should be helpful after T250 when I shift to chasing a cultural victory.
T232: Finish Steam Power, start Radio. Earn a great scientist: Alan Turning. Also, start eating back Monty’s troops. I use my great engineer to complete the Great Zimbabwe in Mewila, increasing my trade route capacity by 1 and adding +4 gold for 2 bonus resources to trade routes from Mewila. Not a great deal but the extra trade route and gold will help. Also get my fourth themed museum in Mohenjo-Daro for +24 gold.
T233: Earned a great writer: Leo Tolstoy.
T234: Earned a great artist: Angelica Kauffman.
T235: Finished Scorched Earth, started Conservation.
T239: Finished Radio, started Electricity. Also finished the tank at Mbumbi, time to 1-turn kill Monty’s crossbows and start pillaging him to get concessions for peace. Earn a great admiral: Horatio Nelson.
T240: Finish Conservation, start Capitalism. Earn a great merchant: Helena Rubinstein.
T242: Finished Electricity, started Computers. Earned a great writer: Emily Dickenson.
T244: Finished Capitalism, started Cultural Heritage. Also, finally c=got all of Monty’s units out of my territory and started pillaging his lands.
T245: Finished Computers, started Rocketry. Earned a great artist: Katsushika Hokusai.
T246: Finished Cultural Heritage, started Nuclear Program.
T247: In between turns, Monty comes calling for peace. I was able to get all of his gold (719 gold and ~+25 gold per turn) and a relic. Earned a great merchant: Melitta Bentz.
T249: Earn a great engineer: Robert Goddard and a great musician: Liu Tianhua. Finish Rocketry, start Advanced Ballistics. I now switch to complete Big Ben in Mbumbi. I have 35,007 gold in the bank and earning 1,391.7 per turn. I am running projects in most of my cities.
T250: Big Ben finishes and doubles my treasury for a whopping 72,810 gold. This should buy me a few great people. Below is a screenshot of my core. I have 1,711.5 faith and 72,810 gold to buy great people, let’s go shopping.
First, I use my faith to buy the cheap great people:
Great General: Samori Toure (1,320 faith)
Great Writer: mark Twain (315 faith)
Next, I used my gold, buying the least expensive I could:
Great Artist: Jang Seung Eop (2,943 gold)
Great Merchant: Levi Strauss (2,913 gold)
Great Musician: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (4,713 gold)
Great Engineer: Nikola Tesla (3,985 gold)
Great Admiral: Joaquim Marques Lisboa (4,113 gold)
Great General: John Monash (5,050 gold)
Great Admiral: Togo Heihachiro (5,050 gold)
Great Engineer: Alvar Aalto (5,050 gold)
Great Artist: Sofonisba Anguissola (5,050 gold)
Great General: Marina Raskiova (5,050 gold)
Great Admiral: Franz Von Hipper (5,050 gold)
Great Writer: James Joyce (5,050 gold)
Great Musician: Franz Liszt (5,050 gold)
Great Musician: Antonio Carlos Gomes (5,050 gold)
Great Musician: Frederic Chopin (5,050 gold)
Leaving me 3,018 gold in my treasury. In summary, I was able to buy 17 great people.
In total, I got 66 great people for 66 points. Better than my test game but I don’t know if this will be competitive. I am sure someone will end up with some crazy count in the high 70s or low 80s. A summary post will follow.
T223: I captured a settler from the Vikings before I killed him off. I send it to the desert west of Nidaros for a junk city. I don’t think it will become anything because it is too late in the game. I do start a builder in it in case I need anything copped before T250.
T224: Earn a great writer: my hometown boy, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
T225: Get my third themed museum, for another +12 food, +12 production, and +24 gold in Mbanza Nsundi.
T226: Earn a great merchant: John Rockefeller.
T227: Finish Flight, start Steam Power. I also got a Relic by suiciding an apostle against a German one. I got the apostle a while ago that was eligible for the martyrdom promotion and have been sending all over the map. Apparently, nobody was built apostles. I first sent him down to Monty’s territory but he only had apostles with the same religion. Then I send him over to Gandhi’s, but there was not an apostle or missionary around for ages. Finally, one of Fredrick’s apostles attack another apostle of mine I was using to scout to see if he was building Big Ben. So, I tactfully retreated bring the German apostle towards my other apostle so he could die. Usually, the land is fully of the AI’s religious units, but here I couldn’t find any for the life of me. I beat I had this guy running around for at least 50 turns. He earned the “Beard of the Evangelist”. Thanks for the additional +2 food, +2 production, and +4 gold in the capital. Weird thing happened when I got it, it was placed in a temple at the former Vikings capital and I had to move it to my capital. Shouldn’t the temple have been destroyed when I took the city?
T228: Earned a great musician: Johann Sebastian Bach.
T229: Finished Suffrage, start Opera and Ballet. Monty seems to have a fair number of troops around Yerevan, mostly out dated stuff (just left of the Suffrage announcement in the screenshot below). I don’t know if he is think about attacking but I move the few troops I have from the Vikings campaign and in garrison duty at my edges into better positions.
With Suffrage complete, I finally switch out of Classical Republic to Democracy. I did not realize until this point that Democracy not only provides 50% discount on patronage of great people but also provides a 30% bonus yield on projects. I should have beelined it faster, I probably could have had it 20 turns earlier and had bonuses to more projects. That might have cost me a couple of great people. Anyway, here are the civics I ran when I moved into Democracy. I tried to use the policies that would provide the most gold. My gold rate jumped from 590.1 to 890.7. I think some of that was from projects because the previous screenshot shows 755.9 gold per turn, but still an increase of 135.2 gold per turn.
I also earned a great engineer: Gustave Eiffel. He provides 2 shots of 480 production to wonders. I should find a wonder to build. I am not going to use him to complete Big Ben because it is almost done and I want to leave it at 1 turn until T249. I have scouting apostles looking to see if anybody is building it and no one has even started it. I definitely will get it since nobody can steal it with this great person.
T230: In between turns, Monty declares war. I am not too worried. He is bringing Pikes and Crossbows. I have Infantry and Calvary in the area and as soon as Big Ben gets down to 1 turn, I will chop out a tank in Mbumbi. He may pillage Mbanza Nsundi a little but I am no danger of losing any cities.
T231: Finish Opera and Ballet, start Scorched Earth. Earn a great merchant: Sarah Breedlove, who provides +25% tourism for trade routes to other civilizations. She should be helpful after T250 when I shift to chasing a cultural victory.
T232: Finish Steam Power, start Radio. Earn a great scientist: Alan Turning. Also, start eating back Monty’s troops. I use my great engineer to complete the Great Zimbabwe in Mewila, increasing my trade route capacity by 1 and adding +4 gold for 2 bonus resources to trade routes from Mewila. Not a great deal but the extra trade route and gold will help. Also get my fourth themed museum in Mohenjo-Daro for +24 gold.
T233: Earned a great writer: Leo Tolstoy.
T234: Earned a great artist: Angelica Kauffman.
T235: Finished Scorched Earth, started Conservation.
T239: Finished Radio, started Electricity. Also finished the tank at Mbumbi, time to 1-turn kill Monty’s crossbows and start pillaging him to get concessions for peace. Earn a great admiral: Horatio Nelson.
T240: Finish Conservation, start Capitalism. Earn a great merchant: Helena Rubinstein.
T242: Finished Electricity, started Computers. Earned a great writer: Emily Dickenson.
T244: Finished Capitalism, started Cultural Heritage. Also, finally c=got all of Monty’s units out of my territory and started pillaging his lands.
T245: Finished Computers, started Rocketry. Earned a great artist: Katsushika Hokusai.
T246: Finished Cultural Heritage, started Nuclear Program.
T247: In between turns, Monty comes calling for peace. I was able to get all of his gold (719 gold and ~+25 gold per turn) and a relic. Earned a great merchant: Melitta Bentz.
T249: Earn a great engineer: Robert Goddard and a great musician: Liu Tianhua. Finish Rocketry, start Advanced Ballistics. I now switch to complete Big Ben in Mbumbi. I have 35,007 gold in the bank and earning 1,391.7 per turn. I am running projects in most of my cities.
T250: Big Ben finishes and doubles my treasury for a whopping 72,810 gold. This should buy me a few great people. Below is a screenshot of my core. I have 1,711.5 faith and 72,810 gold to buy great people, let’s go shopping.
First, I use my faith to buy the cheap great people:
Great General: Samori Toure (1,320 faith)
Great Writer: mark Twain (315 faith)
Next, I used my gold, buying the least expensive I could:
Great Artist: Jang Seung Eop (2,943 gold)
Great Merchant: Levi Strauss (2,913 gold)
Great Musician: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (4,713 gold)
Great Engineer: Nikola Tesla (3,985 gold)
Great Admiral: Joaquim Marques Lisboa (4,113 gold)
Great General: John Monash (5,050 gold)
Great Admiral: Togo Heihachiro (5,050 gold)
Great Engineer: Alvar Aalto (5,050 gold)
Great Artist: Sofonisba Anguissola (5,050 gold)
Great General: Marina Raskiova (5,050 gold)
Great Admiral: Franz Von Hipper (5,050 gold)
Great Writer: James Joyce (5,050 gold)
Great Musician: Franz Liszt (5,050 gold)
Great Musician: Antonio Carlos Gomes (5,050 gold)
Great Musician: Frederic Chopin (5,050 gold)
Leaving me 3,018 gold in my treasury. In summary, I was able to buy 17 great people.
In total, I got 66 great people for 66 points. Better than my test game but I don’t know if this will be competitive. I am sure someone will end up with some crazy count in the high 70s or low 80s. A summary post will follow.
