(June 14th, 2020, 19:34)Dark Savant Wrote:Gandhi 1st, Caesar 2nd panned out very well last game, even though it was certainly a gambler's pick. Shame my pick for Gandhi to win by culture just barely didn't work out. I'm going to not-very-rationally react by picking another cultural victory!
Not that much of a gamble IMO, since the game was set up as a race between those two. If Gandhi won, Caesar second was a logical consequence. And even the reverse order wasn't out of the question : in the case of a Caesar succesful domination run, it would have been a toss-up between Gandhi and Hammurabi as to the last one standing.
One thing I didn't believe in was the Caesar-Suleiman ticket : even though peace weight seemed to favour such an alliance, the fact that Suleiman started much closer to Caesar than to Gandhi made it pretty unlikely to me.
One of the reasons Caesar tends to do well is that so far he hasn't been prone to launching expeditions across the map : he conquers methodically, starting with his neighbours.
And while I thought, like most people, that he would first murder Frederick, the next target was Suleiman.
I did note that Gandhi would lose the early wonders, which would slow his cultural progress but somewhat speed up his science... and I got punished for picking an early cultural victory which ran contrary to that observation.
One thing I didn't believe in was the Caesar-Suleiman ticket : even though peace weight seemed to favour such an alliance, the fact that Suleiman started much closer to Caesar than to Gandhi made it pretty unlikely to me.
One of the reasons Caesar tends to do well is that so far he hasn't been prone to launching expeditions across the map : he conquers methodically, starting with his neighbours.
And while I thought, like most people, that he would first murder Frederick, the next target was Suleiman.
I did note that Gandhi would lose the early wonders, which would slow his cultural progress but somewhat speed up his science... and I got punished for picking an early cultural victory which ran contrary to that observation.