Kylearan Wrote:I guess I could manage to write a more detailed report in a couple of days if anyone is really interested.
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Adventure 24 - Kylearan
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Mortius Wrote:Khm, khmYes yes, I know.  I'm really hard pressed for time at the moment, but I've coughed up something I'd be ashamed to call "report", but which unfortunately has to suffice for this event...Late report The upside is that you won't see any boring wonder screenshot in the report.  -Kylearan
There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." - John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
Thanks for the report, Kylearan. A few notable differences in your city placements. Especially the location of the second (Great Lighthouse) city. I never seriously considered settling the north shore so early.
Getting the eastern floodplains city from the barbs was something of a lucky break, but you'd probably have gotten it anyway as long as Mansa didn't beat you to it. I suppose even if he had, you might have wrested it away from him culturally somehow. I'm sort of surprised that Justinian never attacked you considering that he had two cities on your border. In many games, including mine, he seemed to attack to the west and the player either got attacked or Mansa took the blow. Nicely played--as usual--with some excellent strategy on the tech path and the use of forests as Industrious to chop wonders.
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Compromise Wrote:A few notable differences in your city placements. Especially the location of the second (Great Lighthouse) city. I never seriously considered settling the north shore so early.City placement is the one area in Civ IV where I feel really weak. I often fall into analysis paralysis when a settler is completed, I'm unable to do a dotmap (having to decide for more than one city site at a time?!? *shudder*), and at report day, I always slap my head when I see other people's city locations and go "yes of course! Why haven't I taken that location as well?!?". But CIV seems to be quite forgiving in that regard, as long as you don't avoid too many high-food tiles. Quote:Getting the eastern floodplains city from the barbs was something of a lucky breakAbsolutely! Although I'm quite sure I'd gotten it normally as well, it would have been a disaster if I hadn't. That city was really a strong site, and contributed both a lot of science and wonders throughout the game. Quote:I'm sort of surprised that Justinian never attacked you considering that he had two cities on your border.Besides luck of course, I think having a strong military for once helped. I tend to build too few units in my games, but this time I made sure to have one city dedicated to units most of the time, and for once ignored the unit maintenance costs. -Kylearan
There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." - John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
Kylearan Wrote:City placement is the one area in Civ IV where I feel really weak.I really liked your second city actually. I thought it was just brilliant to plant that city there for the simple reason that it had enough forests to chop out the Great Lighthouse
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Atlas Wrote:I really liked your second city actually. I thought it was just brilliant to plant that city there for the simple reason that it had enough forests to chop out the Great Lighthouse I liked the site too. I would've lost the Lighthouse to uberfish's AI's 600BC date, but you wouldn't have. It's not even that bad of a site long-term, either. I think I put a city on the same spot thousands of years after you did. |
