Or: The Shadow of Mista Hart
Apologies in advance: This is mainly a placeholder post because I'm not at my home PC so I don't have access to my notes and screen shots. I probably won't be able to write a full report until tomorrow night, so I don't want to miss any reporting deadlines.
That said, let's begin. This is my first report and the first RB event I've completed (though I've started several others).
I think that my game accidentally became a Shadow Game. I tried to keep track of all my units, but I think that on three separate occasions I accidentally had different units in the same category (I know I had Catapults and Trebuchets at the same time before I fixed it, and I had a couple Galleys floating around when I built Caravels). I corrected the problems as soon as I noticed them, but I did fail to stay wholly within the rules.
Anyway, I've played this kind of variant (sans the unit limitations) fairly often, so I kind of knew what to do (even though my results were not as good as others'). When I found Horses in my BFC, I knew that they had to be added, because I have never seen horses pop in this game setting.
I had given myself a few extra variants (that I generally failed to succeed at).
1--Conquest victory: Make things neat and clean. (Check).
2--Research Monotheism first: One god. Very neat. (missed by a turn!)
2a--Failing that, capture the Jewish holy city ASAP. (took me a long time)
3-- ??? (can't remember, but I probably failed)
I think I also missed the Oracle by a turn. I recall a lot of that happening in the early game.
I started off by taking out Stalin with Archers. It was very close because I was short by an Archer or two, but I got a couple of lucky rolls and took Moscow. Unfortunately, it was squashed by holy Justinian and Isabella for quite some time.
I think I spent some time farting around with Not Units and I ended up declaring war on Justinian without sufficient force, so that became a very long and protracted war. Korea also joined forces against me.
Eventually, I conquered my little corner and started to gain a tech lead. Having seen ruff's comments, I see that he originally removed Iron from the map, but I think that an AI popped some, because I know that I built Cannon at some point, as well as a few Knights.
I didn't do it very efficiently, but I ended up conquering my continent, then rolling over the other one with Tanks. The other guys never got their act together, unfortunately. No one ever united the place.
More details later. I think I won in the 1800s or something, so a very late conquest victory. Shame, shame.
Apologies in advance: This is mainly a placeholder post because I'm not at my home PC so I don't have access to my notes and screen shots. I probably won't be able to write a full report until tomorrow night, so I don't want to miss any reporting deadlines.
That said, let's begin. This is my first report and the first RB event I've completed (though I've started several others).
I think that my game accidentally became a Shadow Game. I tried to keep track of all my units, but I think that on three separate occasions I accidentally had different units in the same category (I know I had Catapults and Trebuchets at the same time before I fixed it, and I had a couple Galleys floating around when I built Caravels). I corrected the problems as soon as I noticed them, but I did fail to stay wholly within the rules.
Anyway, I've played this kind of variant (sans the unit limitations) fairly often, so I kind of knew what to do (even though my results were not as good as others'). When I found Horses in my BFC, I knew that they had to be added, because I have never seen horses pop in this game setting.
I had given myself a few extra variants (that I generally failed to succeed at).
1--Conquest victory: Make things neat and clean. (Check).
2--Research Monotheism first: One god. Very neat. (missed by a turn!)
2a--Failing that, capture the Jewish holy city ASAP. (took me a long time)
3-- ??? (can't remember, but I probably failed)
I think I also missed the Oracle by a turn. I recall a lot of that happening in the early game.
I started off by taking out Stalin with Archers. It was very close because I was short by an Archer or two, but I got a couple of lucky rolls and took Moscow. Unfortunately, it was squashed by holy Justinian and Isabella for quite some time.
I think I spent some time farting around with Not Units and I ended up declaring war on Justinian without sufficient force, so that became a very long and protracted war. Korea also joined forces against me.
Eventually, I conquered my little corner and started to gain a tech lead. Having seen ruff's comments, I see that he originally removed Iron from the map, but I think that an AI popped some, because I know that I built Cannon at some point, as well as a few Knights.
I didn't do it very efficiently, but I ended up conquering my continent, then rolling over the other one with Tanks. The other guys never got their act together, unfortunately. No one ever united the place.
More details later. I think I won in the 1800s or something, so a very late conquest victory. Shame, shame.