March Madness: Civ4 AI Edition

[TheSunIsDark]

Winner: Stalin - decent land, will destroy India
Runner up: Catherine
First to die: Gandhi
Number left: 3
Victory: Diplo turn 315

[Lord Parkin]

Winner: Catherine
Runner Up: Saladin
First Out: Ghandi Gandhi
Leaders Left: 3
Victory: Culture T315

My thoughts:

Catherine seems to do well in my test games even when stuck with a cramped start - I'd say it's her game to lose here, with all that land available. In my experience Saladin's the perpetual runner up... he'll defend himself well enough but be too hesitant on the offensive and not claim himself enough land to win. Charlemagne should land a solid middle of the pack position. I'm betting he's more likely to gain from Gandhi and/or Stalin's demise than Victoria, who'll be stuck with a smaller empire (though that could easily backfire on me). I've never seen Stalin play a sensible game, often declaring war on those who will crush him, so he'll likely make an early exit. Probably not as early as the almost certainly doomed Gandhi, however.

My full prediction:

#1 - Catherine
#2 - Saladin
#3 - Charlemagne
#4 - Victoria
#5 - Stalin
#6 - Gandhi

[Sareln]

Winner: Catherine
Runner Up: Victoria
First to Die: Stalin
Number of Leaders Surviving: 4
Victory Type and Victory Date: Domination, T303

NOTE: Edited, thought Stalin was in Red for some reason.

[Sullla]

Just so that everyone is clear with their predictions, Catherine is the Russian leader with the red borders. Stalin is the Russian leader with the orange borders. Sorry for any confusion!

Map repost:

[Twinkletoes89]

Winner: Catherine
Runner Up: Stalin
First to Die: Gandhi
Number of Leaders Surviving: 3
Victory Type and Victory Date: Spaceship, T312

[Molach]

Winner: Catherine
Runner Up: Charlemagne
First to Die: Gandhi
Number of Leaders Surviving: 4
Victory Type and Victory Date: Spaceship, T307

Again I go with the lay of the land here. I was about to say Stalin for the win (in my head I figured Moscow = home of Stalin and St. Petersburg = home of catherine) but then noticed the colors.

So, Catherine gets a large slice of the land here, and will expand peacefully while there be tension in the middle. Gandhi, sorry, I have no faith in a long peaceful life when you decided to start in the middle of ...everywhere. But I predict a certain post-mortem justice - whoever gets the most of your land will find your cities crushed by foreign culture - and they will get angry with said foreigners about close borders and make suicidal attack against someone. Russia II, England or Arabia. Any two of them to go to war over ex-India.

I hope Charlemagne stays out of trouble or simply defeats the English rivals for the second place.

In the end, space to plop down cities will hopfully lead to cities in Space.

[Hashoosh]

Winner: Stalin
Runner-up: Vicky
FTD: Mr. Hunger Strike
Survivors: 3 (Stalin, Vicky, Cathy) in that order at game end
Victory: Space
Turn: 323

[Gavagai]

Winner: Catherine
Runner Up: Victoria
First to Die: Gandhi
Number of Leaders Surviving: 2
Victory Type and Victory Date: 290, Domination

[dazedroyalty]

Winner: Catherine
Runner Up: Victoria
First to Die: Gandhi
Number of Leaders Surviving: 3
Victory Type and Victory Date: Domination, T311

[Brian Shanahan]

Winner: Cathy
Runner Up: Stalin
First to Die: Charlemagne
Number of Leaders Surviving: 2
Victory Type: Domination
Victory Date: 338

Some thoughts on random.orgs picks. I was actually leaning either Cathy/Sally or Cathy/Unkie Joe myself so thats not a bad pick. The RNG rolled Stalin twice for first to die before I got Carolus Magnus (random pick of one to 6 same number three times is 1 in 216 so not unrealistic), and the site seems to think it'll be two left standing with Cathy getting enough spoils to fall over the line.

Knowing how these games are going, I'm expecting either a perfect score or a complete flame out.

Also its a pity I didn't think of this from the start, I could have set up a sock-puppet account to properly test how random these games are.