I have family visiting in town, so I do not have time to write a full report. But that is alright, since my Epic 7 game was somewhat boring, and a loss to boot:
From the beginning, I was behind in techs. I managed to found Buddhism (after Hindu was founded), but he founded all the other religions. I expanded very fast, building few defensive units, but clearing fog quickly.
After I had filled my home isle with 5 cities, I spread to the east, I saw what I thought was his home continent to the west. Eventually, he seemed to have the west half of the map, I had the eastern half. He had all the little isles to the north. He never conquered the barbarian city on the southern western isle, so I eventually did with macemen (he had rifles at the time), taking both that city, and one of his former cities the barbarians had taken, which was the holy city of Confucius.
Over the course of the game, Alex declared war on me three times. The first time I bribed him for peace with a city I had just flipped which was under my cultural influence (on the barbarian isle). The second time I paid him about 4000 gold. The third time I gave him a tech. The fourth time the war was still going at 2050 AD.
Every single war, including the last one, was virtually the same. He would take one unit (first cavelry, later tank), on the barbarian isle and pilliage. He would use his massive fleet of ships to kill all my fishing boats. If he had planes, they would bomb my improvements. And that was it. It seemed he was playing with the same varient. He never even attempted to land troops anywhere, much less my homeland. Each of these wars was only a momentary setback. Never was any city threatened (other than by starvation), in any way.
He built virtually every early wonder (I tried many, but failed utterly), but by the middle ages he seemed to give up on wonders. I built virtually every late game wonder, from Angor Wok to Broadway.
The big flaw in my game was a huge strategic error I made in the middle ages. I decided my plan to catch up was to beeline to Fiber Optics (did you know you can do that without Assembly Line even?) and build the Internet. I can say this went flawlessly. I had several techs over him (and he had a ton over me) when I reached this point. What I did not have was proper math skills. One opponent. As in, no two other civilizations to know anything!
So, here I was 150 turns from the end of the game and hopelessly outteched in military. The instant troop upgrade I was expecting did not come. I tried to recover, but I was about 500-800 points behind in score for the rest of the game, and hopelessly behind in military techs. With about 13 turns left, he declared war on me, just to rub it in.
Despite him building several space ship parts (I had built many as well), he won in a time victory at 2050.
The most suprising thing about this game to me was how ineffective he was at warfare. He never made any effort at all to capture a single city. Not once did I ever see even a two unit stack headed to any of my cities.
I apologise for no pictures, I took 75 screenshots, but frankly, they would not add much.
Thats it, back to the family!
-Iustus
From the beginning, I was behind in techs. I managed to found Buddhism (after Hindu was founded), but he founded all the other religions. I expanded very fast, building few defensive units, but clearing fog quickly.
After I had filled my home isle with 5 cities, I spread to the east, I saw what I thought was his home continent to the west. Eventually, he seemed to have the west half of the map, I had the eastern half. He had all the little isles to the north. He never conquered the barbarian city on the southern western isle, so I eventually did with macemen (he had rifles at the time), taking both that city, and one of his former cities the barbarians had taken, which was the holy city of Confucius.
Over the course of the game, Alex declared war on me three times. The first time I bribed him for peace with a city I had just flipped which was under my cultural influence (on the barbarian isle). The second time I paid him about 4000 gold. The third time I gave him a tech. The fourth time the war was still going at 2050 AD.
Every single war, including the last one, was virtually the same. He would take one unit (first cavelry, later tank), on the barbarian isle and pilliage. He would use his massive fleet of ships to kill all my fishing boats. If he had planes, they would bomb my improvements. And that was it. It seemed he was playing with the same varient. He never even attempted to land troops anywhere, much less my homeland. Each of these wars was only a momentary setback. Never was any city threatened (other than by starvation), in any way.
He built virtually every early wonder (I tried many, but failed utterly), but by the middle ages he seemed to give up on wonders. I built virtually every late game wonder, from Angor Wok to Broadway.
The big flaw in my game was a huge strategic error I made in the middle ages. I decided my plan to catch up was to beeline to Fiber Optics (did you know you can do that without Assembly Line even?) and build the Internet. I can say this went flawlessly. I had several techs over him (and he had a ton over me) when I reached this point. What I did not have was proper math skills. One opponent. As in, no two other civilizations to know anything!
So, here I was 150 turns from the end of the game and hopelessly outteched in military. The instant troop upgrade I was expecting did not come. I tried to recover, but I was about 500-800 points behind in score for the rest of the game, and hopelessly behind in military techs. With about 13 turns left, he declared war on me, just to rub it in.
Despite him building several space ship parts (I had built many as well), he won in a time victory at 2050.
The most suprising thing about this game to me was how ineffective he was at warfare. He never made any effort at all to capture a single city. Not once did I ever see even a two unit stack headed to any of my cities.
I apologise for no pictures, I took 75 screenshots, but frankly, they would not add much.
Thats it, back to the family!
-Iustus
. I'm quite surprised that an immortal AI, even with no tech trading partners, could not build the spaceship before 2050 AD. Especially as he is philosophical and had the pyramids/great library combo.
Maybe not to play, but certainly to read.
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