Adventure Two - Sullla's Game

[VoiceOfUnreason]

The written part seems nice, but I feel kind of like I'm missing out on the full experience because I can't see the pictures. Is anyone else having this problem?

Taking a wild wild guess, you are using Firefox, and running with the Adblock Plus extension? If so, your software is helpfully filtering out all of the pictures that some chucklehead decided to name as though they were advertisements. (AD2-1.jpg, AD2-2.jpg, etc).

Quickest workaround would be to go to Adblock Plus.Preferences and disable Adblock while reading the report. Or grab IE.

[Yosh]

I run Firefox + Adblock and had no problems viewing the pictures...

[Veovim]

Taking a wild wild guess, you are using Firefox, and running with the Adblock Plus extension? If so, your software is helpfully filtering out all of the pictures that some chucklehead decided to name as though they were advertisements. (AD2-1.jpg, AD2-2.jpg, etc).

Unusually named pictures... That's a first for me. Thanks for the help!

[kryszcztov]

Congrats on that win too ! Winning on that map is, errr... crazy. On Monarch. Just like Sirian, you made sure that you had good friends early on and would eventually form a solid political block with some AIs. That's something I need to learn because this concept is totally new to the series. Politics was almost absent of Civ until now. And of course religion, important too, and in fact, at the heart of politics.

So, you won almost on the same date as Sirian, using a very different strategy (but not fogetting to do the same winning moves, see my comments above). I thought that the crappier the starting position, the less choices you have. If you can win through very different strats on this map, I guess that some better starting positions can lead to totally different games ! But I'm just rediscovering what Sirian has been telling all along.

Anyway, thanks for the detailed spoiler !

[zilchy]

Nice game and another great report.
I didn't have time to do this adventure but decided late last week to at least have a quick look to get a flavour of the position before reading everyones reports.
The good news is that I must be learning after reading the reports here as my initial start was identical to yours in Worker first and same second city location. My scout also popped another scout but unfortuantly neither of them made it past the roman borders due to barb animal attacks. I also realised the need to get the water techs early (but I was a little later than you in this due to the fact that I did not realise the way that the highlands script worked. I thought that everyone would have the same sort of terrain as me, little did I realise until way too late that thier were much jucier lands to the South).
By the time I got my third and fourth settlers across the lake there was not much free space to take as Mao had taken most of the Lake side plots.
I got Hinduism, stonehenge & the oracle and Mao and Caeasr both converted to the same when the religion spread on its own.
Unfortuantley this was not enough to stop Caesar deciding that I was ripe for the pciking and he wiped me out.
I'm sure if I had taken some time and had some previous knowledge of the Highlands maps that I would have lasted longer which given the start shows me how far I have come. So thanks to you and the others for the fine reports.

[Bezhukov]

Unless one has stone and/or the industrious trait, Stonehenge costs the equivalent of two settlers. Building it means getting to the south late if at all.

[Sullla]

That's an oversimplification, Bezhukov. Settlers cost food and shields, so you can't grow while building them. I built Stonehenge while I was allowing my capital to reach size 3 (initially) and then size 4 (afterwards), which greatly increased the rate of future settler production. I may have been slowed down slightly compared to a pure settler pace, but not nearly as much as you make it out to be.

[Bezhukov]

Ision's been over this ground before. I chopped the settler to reduce the amount of time not growing, and building units instead of Stonehenge meant I could work higher growth tiles instead of higher production tiles and still get things built, growing faster than had it been necesssary to work the latter (as when trying to build an early wonder and units too). It's about priorities, and when one is sitting on tundra, I can think of few more pressing than getting off it!