Epic 7: Ronald's report

[Ronald]

I finished the game and liked it very much. I forgot about the deadline and I am travelling the next days. So I can only publish my detailled report on Friday. I hope this is still OK.

[Ronald]

Finally back home I can post my report: Domination victory in 1400 AD

I settled in place and started to research mysticism and then meditation. Normally there would be no chance to get bhuddism, but with only one opponent who is not usually going for religions, I thought I will get it and I did.



I found out that we don't have copper available. Since I saw ivory, I decided to research towards construction for war elephants and catapults.



This was a good decision, since iron was in a very bad spot. I would have needed to waste a unproductive city to get it.



Alexnader decided that he had enopugh of me and declared war. Fortunately I had already enough war elephants built and I could easily dispose his first invasion troops (2 horse archer and 2 swordsmen)



Now I am ready for a counter attack: Knossos first


Then Corinth. By that time I decided to go for a domination victory.


The war was not difficult at all. The combination of war elephants and catapults is deadly, even for longbowmen.


I reduced Alexander to his core cities and hoped that the remaining lands were large enough for the required 74% land



Since my economy was in very bad shape, I decided to found all additional cities at the same time. In 1388 I had 8 settlers in position.



At that time I had only a bit more than 65% of the land



In 1394 I founded 8 cities. I was not sure whether this would be enough, but I was almost certain that after 3 turns when they have their first border expansion (with an artist) it would be.



It turned out, that I got exactly 74%, so I had my victory 3 turns earlier than expected.


Domination victory in 1400 AD



This was a very exciting game I'm already looking forward to start playing epic 8

[Compromise]

Nicely done! Excellent use of the two units made available by Construction (with Ivory).

Did you find that Alex pretty much kept to his home continent once you started attacking his cities? Also, how did Alex found Knossos (I've seen that in a couple other reports too, but forgot to ask about it)? Did you have Open Borders with him and he sent a Settler Galleyload through your Heliopolis Canal?

[Ronald]

Alex stayed to his home continent after I started my attack. Initially he declared war and landed some troops near the ivory, but as soon as I attacked he never brought any units to support his other cities. I found that quite strange.
I had open borders, as soon as he founded Knossos, he canceled the open border agreement. Actually I don't know how he reached that island. The first time I saw his galley it was north of Memphis.