Epic 13 - Kodii - Dutch

[Kodii]

As currently discussed, the Dutch had the most powerful starting position, and I wanted to use it to the fullest. Here is our starting position:



I founded on the spot and sent my two warriors scouting. I had mixed hut results. I popped Writing, Mathematics and Mysticism, but also a bunch of barbs who ended up killing my scouting warriors. I beelined to Pottery to get some tasty cottages up and running in the meantime.

My first city, Utrecht, was founded aggressively to the west of Constantinople. I had beautiful land and I had to claim it. The Hague was founded to the south at the double-gold site. Rotterdam was put in between those two locations, effectively blocking off Justinian. Nijmegen was founded south of the stone, which helped me complete the Pyramids in Utrecht. Maastricht and Middelburg were founded to the west, blocking off Pacal. The rest of my cities just filled in the spaces, my final city being Haarlem.



I was involved in two wars, where Joao and Sitting Bull declared war on me. Only a single advance was made, when I captured Angle at the border of Native America, Ethiopia and Maya.




Being financial and having loads of floodplains was fun. I sailed ahead in tech (literally), and colonized the larger of the two islands (literally). Meet Abraham Lincoln:



By now, any victory path was plausible. Being BtS, the AIs were doing a good job of keeping with my tech lead, but I still managed to rid Pacal and Justinian from the world. Things got quite messy at one point.



I ran out of time and my game is currently Incomplete at 1814AD, preceding the assult on Sury, who was beginning to surpass me technologically. Here is America and the Netherlands: