Rik's Report - Or: "How to slowbuild an Oracle"

[Rik Meleet]

My report can be found here.

[Ronald]

Oracle in 1559 AD . It seems when the AIs are at war, they completely forget about infrastructure.

[regoarrarr]

In my game, I eliminated Tokugawa in maybe the 1600 or 1700s, and by his capital he had cottaged over an iron resource - it looked like he hadn't even researched iron working!!

[Sullla]

Nice going. That is indeed the slowest Oracle I have ever seen.

Commerce and research isn't going to win this game for me - hammers are.

You might want to rethink that though. If you can field more advanced units than the enemy, it's pretty much game over. Hope you had a good time.

[Rik Meleet]

I had an excellent time playing this game. Possibly the best enjoyable cIV game I've played (total number is not that high though).

The remark might require updating or some explanation. I meant that commerce, resarch and food aren't going ot win me the game in the beginning. What is food and lots of money without the shields to build units to protect your lands even with warriors ?
When my lands are safe ® from conquest I did go cottages and heavy researching. I might have forgotten to mention that in my report. This picture shows matured cottages though: http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/5127/e6023uz9.jpg. Other cities had them as well. Sorry for the confusion.

[Bede]

Nice game, Rik. The builder at war!

[Rik Meleet]

Nice game, Rik. The builder at war!

Yeah, I still applied a builder's game and I didn't really fight till my empire was build up and I had cavs. It seems that I cannot "not build".

[Atlas]

Yeah, I still applied a builder's game and I didn't really fight till my empire was build up and I had cavs. It seems that I cannot "not build".

It seems that in this game this was the best tactic.

Nice Oracle build!!