Civ AI Survivor: Season Five

[Eauxps I. Fourgott]

Did Season 4 have this many games where whether AIs had early access to copper or not made a big difference? All I know is that that never used to be a concern, but we're getting tons of results (esp. this season) determined by a leader not having early metal and getting attacked earlier. Pretty sure that it's at least partially because of the drop in starting techs (so it takes longer to research Bronze/Iron Working), but I wonder if there's any other factors going on (map generation?).

In any case, that is the definition of a tour de force. Entertaining even though the results were absolutely not desirable for me.

I'm seeing people saying that Justinian got unlucky, but really I don't think Alex's shenanigans affected his game much if at all. It got Peter two more cities and that's it - I feel like Peter had a significant edge of Justin despite that and would've crippled him regardless. A well-played game by Peter who would be looking like a decent shot to win in most games.

As far as the upcoming game goes - wow is that a mess to predict. The leaders who seem to on the whole have the best positions to me are both missing easy copper! No clue how that one will go.