I founded my capital and named it "Sparta!!!!". I thought the extra explanation marks were funny, but after I named my second city Athens, the game always suggested "Sparta" for my new city names.
I went work boat first, scouted east and popped sailing from the hut. On turn 20 Tokugawa's warrior showed up and I finished mine. But for some reason I kept him in the capital instead of moving him NE to the choke point. I don't know why I did this, I think maybe I didn't want to risk losing a battle defending a forest square and then have Tokugawa's warrior walk into my capital. But he would only have had 10% odds or so I think, and he probably wouldn't have even attacked me. So this was a really bad decision.
Tokugawa went past my capital and explored east, but he came back to pin down my worker until I finally got an archer on turn 33.
I founded my second city on turn 63. Does this look like a good city spot?
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OOPS, there's a crabs hiding behind the peaks. If I had known that I would have founded directly on the sheep.
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I founded Horse City 3N of the capital on turn 81. On turn 112 I researched Monotheism, founding Judaism. I built the Oracle in Athens on turn 126 and took Monarchy for free.
On turn 131 I captured Poverty Point with a stack of 3 Phalanxes, 5 Chariots, and an Archer.
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However, I sent my stack north towards Cahoika, and Tokugawa recaptured the city on turn 141. I probably should have just razed it. On the plus side, I did raze Mound City, which had been built on the elephants, the same turn I lost Poverty Point. I also recaptured Poverty Point with a single chariot on the same turn, but again I did not raze it, and lost it again the next turn. Finally on turn 144 I razed Poverty Point for good.
On turn 142, I founded Eisenburg in the Jungle by the Iron, Dye, Bananas, and Fish. Fueled by double-whip overflows, I built The Great Lighthouse in Horse City on turn 153, and the Pyramids in Sparta!!!! on turn 166.
I lost the city of Eisenburg around turn 166, and retook it on turn 180. After this there was a lot of fighting in the jungles NE of Eisenburg. I did pretty well, taking advantage of the defensive terrain. On turn 212 I razed Chaco Canyon (which had been built on the ruins of Poverty Point). I also founded the city of Iron Isle on the island west of Sparta!!!! on around turn 185.
On turn 230, I had what I thought was a decent sized stack near Tokugawa's capital, when it was attacked by both a Dutch and Sumerian stack, as well as a few of Tokugawa's longbowmen, and utterly decimated. At this point I didn't have much of an army and the stacks coming in had kept getting bigger and bigger, so I gave up.
I replayed a shadow game and in that game I managed to capture Tokugawa's capital on turn 140 with a stack of 5 phalanxes, 2 chariots, and an archer versus an archer, 2 chariots, a spearman, and a dog soldier on defense. After that I was able to slowly advance eastward and westward. By around 1500 AD it was clear that I was going to win and I stopped playing.
I really enjoyed playing this scenario. The main reason I wrote this report was because I wanted to thank Sullla for an awesome scenario design!
I went work boat first, scouted east and popped sailing from the hut. On turn 20 Tokugawa's warrior showed up and I finished mine. But for some reason I kept him in the capital instead of moving him NE to the choke point. I don't know why I did this, I think maybe I didn't want to risk losing a battle defending a forest square and then have Tokugawa's warrior walk into my capital. But he would only have had 10% odds or so I think, and he probably wouldn't have even attacked me. So this was a really bad decision.
Tokugawa went past my capital and explored east, but he came back to pin down my worker until I finally got an archer on turn 33.
I founded my second city on turn 63. Does this look like a good city spot?
OOPS, there's a crabs hiding behind the peaks. If I had known that I would have founded directly on the sheep.
I founded Horse City 3N of the capital on turn 81. On turn 112 I researched Monotheism, founding Judaism. I built the Oracle in Athens on turn 126 and took Monarchy for free.
On turn 131 I captured Poverty Point with a stack of 3 Phalanxes, 5 Chariots, and an Archer.
However, I sent my stack north towards Cahoika, and Tokugawa recaptured the city on turn 141. I probably should have just razed it. On the plus side, I did raze Mound City, which had been built on the elephants, the same turn I lost Poverty Point. I also recaptured Poverty Point with a single chariot on the same turn, but again I did not raze it, and lost it again the next turn. Finally on turn 144 I razed Poverty Point for good.
On turn 142, I founded Eisenburg in the Jungle by the Iron, Dye, Bananas, and Fish. Fueled by double-whip overflows, I built The Great Lighthouse in Horse City on turn 153, and the Pyramids in Sparta!!!! on turn 166.
I lost the city of Eisenburg around turn 166, and retook it on turn 180. After this there was a lot of fighting in the jungles NE of Eisenburg. I did pretty well, taking advantage of the defensive terrain. On turn 212 I razed Chaco Canyon (which had been built on the ruins of Poverty Point). I also founded the city of Iron Isle on the island west of Sparta!!!! on around turn 185.
On turn 230, I had what I thought was a decent sized stack near Tokugawa's capital, when it was attacked by both a Dutch and Sumerian stack, as well as a few of Tokugawa's longbowmen, and utterly decimated. At this point I didn't have much of an army and the stacks coming in had kept getting bigger and bigger, so I gave up.
I replayed a shadow game and in that game I managed to capture Tokugawa's capital on turn 140 with a stack of 5 phalanxes, 2 chariots, and an archer versus an archer, 2 chariots, a spearman, and a dog soldier on defense. After that I was able to slowly advance eastward and westward. By around 1500 AD it was clear that I was going to win and I stopped playing.
I really enjoyed playing this scenario. The main reason I wrote this report was because I wanted to thank Sullla for an awesome scenario design!
