Blast From the Past - Lexi Plays Adventure ONE!

[LexiSilva]

Yeah! Not only is a forum reader back after a months long hiatus, she decided to play the first CivIV adventure!

This lovely Adventure was a Terra map with no restrictions or scoring, but the objective was to colonise the new world with Victoria of the Brits. I ended up not even getting to Optics before winning! How, you may ask? Well...

(NOTICE: I didn't take many pictures because I didn't plan on posting anything, but this story...)

First few turns, I notice that Isabella is very close to me. And some Russians (turned out to be Peter) were bordering my Civ on our first border expansion!

Animal Husbandry comes in, and horses are north of London! I race a settler over there and colonise my second and last self-founded city. Yes, I went for an early rush. First to die was Peter. Chariots were created and sent for Moscow. Peter's light defences (an archer and 2 warriors I believe) were no match for four chariots. Despite the "late" date, Moscow was the only city.

Next up was Isabella. I planned on not attacking her, but her city of Barcelona bordering me just became the Jewish holy city. Luckily for me, I had a few horse archers on hand from researching Horseback Riding. Barcelona became mine, and Madrid was not that much more heavily defended.

Isabella's dead now. At this point, I knew my fate. I wouldn't wait to colonise the New World. Frederick and Asoka must be destroyed. My economy won't tank, however, due to my military strategy...

Frederick = 532'd. Dead. Destroyed. No maintenance.

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The story of Asoka's last archer! Oh dear God was it a story to tell! Asoka's last city had three archers in it. I had 4 at the beginning of the "siege". Archers #1 and #2 were killed at 70% odds. It took the last archer 3 kills (all at 70%! ) for reinforcements to take it out and win me a Conquest victory.

That archer killed all of my veterans from the other wars, and delayed my victory by a turn. I honestly feared that the RNGods were going to revert to CivIII days (as so I hear)

Conquest Victory before the AD years! 550 BC Not bad for my first RB Adventure, huh? Fine, it WAS a Warlord difficulty game but still.

[Huinesoron]

Wait, are people actually still allowed to play that Cilivitizationer game thing? I thought the interactive functionality had been phased out in favour of just talking about it...

So I have no idea how hard Adventure 1 was, but a BC victory sounds impressive to me... I see that only one person topped that in the original run, so apparently it is impressive!

Were you playing with spoilers, or was this a 'clean' victory? Either way, it's impressive (there's that word again)! I'm pretty sure I'd have trouble duplicating a game I'd been spoiled on, let alone improving on it...[/i]

[LexiSilva]

This was only clean because Sulla didnt play this one I've read all his reports, plus some succession games.

[Whosit]

Hey, not bad. Sounds like a pretty speedy victory. I know there was one game more recently that had a similar premise except you play as Portugal and there were special scoring rules. You planning to try more of the old adventures/epics, or too spoiled?

[LexiSilva]

A. They're too recent
B. I don't play the expansions, mostly because of corporations and espionage. I prefer Vanilla Civ4.

[Bobchillingworth]

You should try FFH! I hear there's a game or two starting up now which could use another player