This was the first RB adventure/epic I have entered but rather unfortunately I didn't manage to complete it. Real life was hectic with family commitments up the yingyangâ¦
Still - this is what happened:
Mused over which GP to take for some time⦠but settled on an Engineer in the end for an early wonder. Seriously considered early academy and an early general for xp 5 units with barracks! Early rush would have been fun! (And in hindsight the English would have gotten a pummelling!!!!)
My plan was to win a cultural game without using the slider by more than 20%. As a rule I don't like culture wins using the slider. I know to get into the position it take a lot of skill and I am not knocking that at all - I just like my games to last a little longer and involve grabbing lots of cultural buildings early.
Settled on plains hill and got going researching to masonry first and then completing Pyramids in capital asap to get those GPP's going!
Oracle went in 2nd city and took Metal casting for early forges and more GE points. This would help building those wonders as we are not industrious.
Managed to get Great Library in the FP rich 3rd city and around this time got pillaged by some barb galley⦠whipped a trireme and beat it down to the bottom of the ocean and was rewarded by spotting marble on the island near by! Beeline settler, worker and galley!!!!!!
The marble helped a lot and soon I had National Epic in Capital along with Maoi sp?? statues for production. This city was an immense GP farm!
I built Hero Epic (had an early fight with izzy when she got a bit cocky after she nabbed a barb city right near my capital... then she started demanding stuff.) Could produce 2 turn maces and another city could do 3 turn cats. Izzy declared again and so I raised and army, paid the English to come in too (They were my Jewish pals! (I was Jewish only for that fact as most of my cities were Conf)) English lost Warwick which I then stole and then we jointly marched into their core, me with maces and cats and the English with Knights. Izzy got a pasting! Ha ha - I love it when the aggressors get beaten back! She can't help herself! Around this time the malinese vasselized on their own free will to the Englishâ¦.
Uh oh⦠Thatâs a teching giant right there!! And I'm best friends with them⦠They already had about 4 techs on me and their combined GNP was going to be HUGE!
I knew I wouldn't be able to hit them hard anytime soon either as I was reeling economically after the war (Izzy destroyed!) and then they would have had redcoats! Give me a break! My only chance was the UN⦠F4 - everyone loves the English although - I am a close 2ndâ¦
At this point real life opened the door - said hello - calmly poured itself a scotch and settled down for a long chat⦠I wouldn't get back to the game⦠I intend on going back to it soon...
Still - this is what happened:
Mused over which GP to take for some time⦠but settled on an Engineer in the end for an early wonder. Seriously considered early academy and an early general for xp 5 units with barracks! Early rush would have been fun! (And in hindsight the English would have gotten a pummelling!!!!)
My plan was to win a cultural game without using the slider by more than 20%. As a rule I don't like culture wins using the slider. I know to get into the position it take a lot of skill and I am not knocking that at all - I just like my games to last a little longer and involve grabbing lots of cultural buildings early.
Settled on plains hill and got going researching to masonry first and then completing Pyramids in capital asap to get those GPP's going!
Oracle went in 2nd city and took Metal casting for early forges and more GE points. This would help building those wonders as we are not industrious.
Managed to get Great Library in the FP rich 3rd city and around this time got pillaged by some barb galley⦠whipped a trireme and beat it down to the bottom of the ocean and was rewarded by spotting marble on the island near by! Beeline settler, worker and galley!!!!!!
The marble helped a lot and soon I had National Epic in Capital along with Maoi sp?? statues for production. This city was an immense GP farm!
I built Hero Epic (had an early fight with izzy when she got a bit cocky after she nabbed a barb city right near my capital... then she started demanding stuff.) Could produce 2 turn maces and another city could do 3 turn cats. Izzy declared again and so I raised and army, paid the English to come in too (They were my Jewish pals! (I was Jewish only for that fact as most of my cities were Conf)) English lost Warwick which I then stole and then we jointly marched into their core, me with maces and cats and the English with Knights. Izzy got a pasting! Ha ha - I love it when the aggressors get beaten back! She can't help herself! Around this time the malinese vasselized on their own free will to the Englishâ¦.
Uh oh⦠Thatâs a teching giant right there!! And I'm best friends with them⦠They already had about 4 techs on me and their combined GNP was going to be HUGE!
I knew I wouldn't be able to hit them hard anytime soon either as I was reeling economically after the war (Izzy destroyed!) and then they would have had redcoats! Give me a break! My only chance was the UN⦠F4 - everyone loves the English although - I am a close 2ndâ¦
At this point real life opened the door - said hello - calmly poured itself a scotch and settled down for a long chat⦠I wouldn't get back to the game⦠I intend on going back to it soon...
