Been out of the country for a couple of days so the following is late but oh well.
After lurking through Realms Beyond for a long time (originally read through all of Sulla's Civ 4 reports back in the day...) I decided to finally participate in one of my own!
I didn't take super detailed notes so I don't have anything resembling a turn-by-turn account but I would like to go over my general thought process going into and through the adventure.
Having recently read through much of the Civ 6 PBEM 1 thread a couple of things really stood out to me about Civ 6.
First I wholehearted agreed with the idea that the most important resource was production, in this game in particular it seemed very important to try to maximize production. Ultimately this was an adventurewhere the goal was getting GP, not a game where you're trying to win via culture.
Second, Civ 6 does not seem to penalize going wide by very much. Sure you spread your resource amenities out a bit more thinly, but honestly the amenity penalty/bonuses are pretty small in comparison to getting additional cities.
Finally I've heard lots of talk about how poor the AI is at military... and given the restrictions on settler placement, the increasing settler cost and having a pretty early UU it seemed like this would be a ripe opportunity to take over LOTS of enemy civs.
With all that in mind I played through the very early game expanding as quickly as possible. Sooner than I would have hoped I was looking at a declaration of war from Spain that prompted me to shift quickly to military. Thankfully between a couple of warriors, cheap upgrades, and this Civ's UU I was able to easily crush Spain.
After having the military units I was able to pretty quickly snowball into taking over Vikings, Germany, and then the Aztecs. At this point I was primarily concerned about accidently winning so I didn't take over too much India. At this point (Turn ~150?) I just focused on disctrict building, prioritizing industrial districts and theatre districts.
By the end I was able to get 84 GP.
I have some screenshots but they're over the forum limit, if someone has a suggestion for where a good location to post them would be I'll upload them.
After lurking through Realms Beyond for a long time (originally read through all of Sulla's Civ 4 reports back in the day...) I decided to finally participate in one of my own!
I didn't take super detailed notes so I don't have anything resembling a turn-by-turn account but I would like to go over my general thought process going into and through the adventure.
Having recently read through much of the Civ 6 PBEM 1 thread a couple of things really stood out to me about Civ 6.
First I wholehearted agreed with the idea that the most important resource was production, in this game in particular it seemed very important to try to maximize production. Ultimately this was an adventurewhere the goal was getting GP, not a game where you're trying to win via culture.
Second, Civ 6 does not seem to penalize going wide by very much. Sure you spread your resource amenities out a bit more thinly, but honestly the amenity penalty/bonuses are pretty small in comparison to getting additional cities.
Finally I've heard lots of talk about how poor the AI is at military... and given the restrictions on settler placement, the increasing settler cost and having a pretty early UU it seemed like this would be a ripe opportunity to take over LOTS of enemy civs.
With all that in mind I played through the very early game expanding as quickly as possible. Sooner than I would have hoped I was looking at a declaration of war from Spain that prompted me to shift quickly to military. Thankfully between a couple of warriors, cheap upgrades, and this Civ's UU I was able to easily crush Spain.
After having the military units I was able to pretty quickly snowball into taking over Vikings, Germany, and then the Aztecs. At this point I was primarily concerned about accidently winning so I didn't take over too much India. At this point (Turn ~150?) I just focused on disctrict building, prioritizing industrial districts and theatre districts.
By the end I was able to get 84 GP.
I have some screenshots but they're over the forum limit, if someone has a suggestion for where a good location to post them would be I'll upload them.