Swiss Pauli Wrote:Iâd be surprised if we see a game without a Great Wall gambit.
I didn't go out of my way to prepare a report.
I didn't try for the Great Wall. If I did, I would have missed it. It was completed BEFORE Stonehenge- Kublai must have popped masonry, or something.
So how did that work out for me? Fine, I guess. I never lost a city. Mainly because I settled few. Barb cities appeared very fast, and blocked my expansion. I did settle a St. Petersburg, but could not get any tiles improved for long. There is no "+50% Defense on Plain, +25% Defense on Wheat" Promotion. Nor is there a "Stay healthy after 3 barbs hit you" promotion. If the barbs made stacks they would have got me.
I will have to play a game PA'd with the barbs as I find their BTS behaviour fantastic, with the building roads and stuff. Pretty cool. I hear there's a mod where barbs can grow up and found cities.
Eventually I just got bored as the barbs got all the strategic resources (actually there might have been an Iron Mine in my borders but I could not keep tiles improved). The AI was far aead as the guys on the other side filled up the space very quick.
And yes, Justinian's borders are invisible.
If you want a rough retirement date go with 700AD. I have lost all saves (and pictures, though i am sure we have all seen the 50 barbs converging on the capital one).
After reading some of these I'm really impressed. I am unsure if my AIs were behind, I don't play Immortal. I do know Genghis brought a massive stack over to Justinian.