Old Nick's Adventure 56

[Old Harry]

I hope I'm not too late - been laid low with the lurgy so couldn't play the last few turns until this morning - I promise I haven't read any of the other reports yet.

So this sounds like a lot of fun, I prefer nice easy games to struggles (I tried the Dutch Mazeters but didn't get very far!)

Our first decision is warrior or settler first - warrior for exploring it is.

t1 - got 78g from a hut
t9 - grew to 2
t13 - grew to 3, started a settler
t18 - popped a scout from a hut
t21 - second settler
t22 - settle Toronto
t29 - settle Montreal
t31 - 1t Stonehenge - we are charismatic after all...


t37 - Ottawa settled
t42 - Vancouver settled. Economy is down to break even at 0%. I may have expanded a bit quick. Lets get some cottages down...
t49 - The economy is back up thanks to gold and cottages
t70 - Moved the capital to Vancouver as it'll get a lot more commerce, sorry T-Hawk, but if I was Santa I'd definitely relocate.
t80 - I just seem to be going for every possible wonder. Lost out on the Oracle, going for TGL, Pyramids, TOA, The great wall.
t85 - got the great wall...
t86 - got alphabet and started trading things around - writing first
t87 - got the great lighthouse. Lets see how broken it really is? It looks like I'm getting about 30 gpt extra...
t90 - I'm going to declare on Freddie. I want Cologne.


t91 - Got the Temple of Artemis to help push borders against Ghandi and go with the Great Lighthouse. But even with TGL its still rubbish!
t92 - Got Cologne
t93 - Got the pyramids.
t104 - traded around code of laws, up to 14 techs now. Got the hanging gardens.
t109 - MOM
t111 - Declared on Fred again
t112 - great library
t114 - the sortie against Fred goes terribly. lost 6 axe and 2 sword. Will need to get construction to have another go...
t115 - start my first MOM golden age
t120 - I got research visibility on everyone, meaning I can gift techs to anyone who is 1t from finishing. Wish I'd thought of it earlier
t149 - Missed out on Religious Leader by 90 votes. This is a good thing as I want to end the game as near to 1600AD as possible so as to gift the maximum no of techs


t159 - declare on Hanibal - I want enough budhist cities that I can just call and win a vote about 1590
t161 - Lib Steam Power
t167 - got Taj, change civics to Nationhood, Free Market and Theocracy. Will draft some rifles...
t185 - taken all but one of Hanibals cities, but they are shrinking because Washington has cultural control, only one thing to do about that...
t189 - took New York
t208 - Apostolic palace is a return city vote, not allowing me to become resident and get a diplo victory so I'll go for domination instead
t217 - Up to 65% of land area, when Hamburgs borders pop I should win, so I've gifted as much tech as possible


t218 - 1540AD - We have a winner



I screwed it up a bit - I got elected religious leader this turn, and so could have gone for a religious victory just before time was up. So thats the extra techs over the next ten turns and the 5 bonus points I've missed out on. Ooops...

Really enjoyed playing this one, thanks T-Hawk!

[T-hawk]

I think we can count it and trust your assertion of honesty. (I might think twice if you had squeaked out just ahead of another finisher.)

Temple of Artemis has a long-term payoff. The +100% means a lot more once the city has grown to size 15 or 20. And the priest GPP take a while to pay off too. But given how long-term this all is, the wonder is probably usually better off as fail-gold instead.

The game wasn't meant to expire in 1600 AD, just that gift scoring wouldn't count after that. A few players misread that so I could have been more clear.

As far as easy games vs struggles, I try to cover both extremes with some in the middle too. Thanks for playing!

[Old Harry]

Thanks t-hawk, I'll go look at how much toa was worth at the end of the game, but even 100% isn't that great as its only additive, it took me ages to realise the % bonii in civ are additive.

I'd put my misread down to me, I managed to answer 6 questions instead of just 3 on a physics exam for similar reasons once...