Okay, as some of you may have known from my succession games, my hard drive got nuked after I'd played the whole game. All my saves, notes, and everything was completely destroyed. So, I have nothing to verify my game with except my word; maybe I can cash in my "returning hero" award and get my results accepted anyway?
Victory, Space Race, 1932. Barely pulled it out a couple turns ahead of Washington, but pull it out I did.
In my game, I was a wonder hog. I captured practically every last wonder. I got both pyramids and stonehenge. I can't remember which ones I missed, but it wasn't more than a handful of them.
I also played fast and loose with my military capacity, leading to a few *very* close calls, both at Monty's hands and the Khan's. But I survived every time, although one of my border cities (I think it was Orleans) got burned down not once, but three times. Scary, but I made it through.
However, my game is marred by what is probably dishonourable activity, although I did not think to consider it as such at the time.
Late in the game, I was at war with Monty, and holding my own just fine, waiting for him to tire and sign peace. Suddenly, the Khan dials me up, and despite being vastly behind me in points, threatens me for 350 gold. I tell him to stuff it, expecting at least a few turns to prepare on that front. Instead, he declares immediately.
Now, I have no navy, and an army in the north, and only skeleton garrisons in the south. The Khan hits me there. Plus, he kills all my nets within a few turns. I was also trading health resources with him, which I lost, along with the ones I lost from Monty declaring on me. So, in the late game, with size 15+ cities, I suddenly lose a huge chunk of health. Cities are now losing upwards of eight food each turn.
At this stage, I was still thinking in terms of the Civ 3 rule: no intentional starvation, so I thought I was okay. I certainly didn't *want* my cities to be starving, nor did I choose the circumstances that caused it, except by rejecting an unreasonable tribute demand, or not building a navy.
I certainly lost a few population points in this period. How many, I'm not sure. Not more than half a dozen, but pretty much every city in my empire was starving, and I just stopped looking at the red after awhile.
I probably could have stopped the starvation, though, by plowing over my towns and windmilling my mines. I didn't really think of those as options while I was playing, though. I needed tech to catch Washington, who had the whole tree before I'd even built the Apollo program, and I needed production to stop the Khan from pillaging my cities.
But that's strategy, so I definitely made a strategic choice, not thinking it was in contravention of the rules, to not farm over my tiles to feed the cities. I'll ask for judgment, but I'm pretty sure that's against the variant rules.
So... that's my report, or at least what I remember of the game. Shadow or not, I had fun, and I look forward to the next!
-Jester
Victory, Space Race, 1932. Barely pulled it out a couple turns ahead of Washington, but pull it out I did.
In my game, I was a wonder hog. I captured practically every last wonder. I got both pyramids and stonehenge. I can't remember which ones I missed, but it wasn't more than a handful of them.
I also played fast and loose with my military capacity, leading to a few *very* close calls, both at Monty's hands and the Khan's. But I survived every time, although one of my border cities (I think it was Orleans) got burned down not once, but three times. Scary, but I made it through.
However, my game is marred by what is probably dishonourable activity, although I did not think to consider it as such at the time.
Late in the game, I was at war with Monty, and holding my own just fine, waiting for him to tire and sign peace. Suddenly, the Khan dials me up, and despite being vastly behind me in points, threatens me for 350 gold. I tell him to stuff it, expecting at least a few turns to prepare on that front. Instead, he declares immediately.
Now, I have no navy, and an army in the north, and only skeleton garrisons in the south. The Khan hits me there. Plus, he kills all my nets within a few turns. I was also trading health resources with him, which I lost, along with the ones I lost from Monty declaring on me. So, in the late game, with size 15+ cities, I suddenly lose a huge chunk of health. Cities are now losing upwards of eight food each turn.
At this stage, I was still thinking in terms of the Civ 3 rule: no intentional starvation, so I thought I was okay. I certainly didn't *want* my cities to be starving, nor did I choose the circumstances that caused it, except by rejecting an unreasonable tribute demand, or not building a navy.
I certainly lost a few population points in this period. How many, I'm not sure. Not more than half a dozen, but pretty much every city in my empire was starving, and I just stopped looking at the red after awhile.
I probably could have stopped the starvation, though, by plowing over my towns and windmilling my mines. I didn't really think of those as options while I was playing, though. I needed tech to catch Washington, who had the whole tree before I'd even built the Apollo program, and I needed production to stop the Khan from pillaging my cities.
But that's strategy, so I definitely made a strategic choice, not thinking it was in contravention of the rules, to not farm over my tiles to feed the cities. I'll ask for judgment, but I'm pretty sure that's against the variant rules.
So... that's my report, or at least what I remember of the game. Shadow or not, I had fun, and I look forward to the next!
-Jester
