Adventure 6 - mihau's report

[mihau]

Hi,

Finished adv6 about a week ago and did not had opportunity to even start adv 7 and epic3 (did some heavy pregame thinking about it thoug)

I did True Domination (don't misteake with True Diplomation ) and finished in the 18teen hundreds.
I did made early rush for Toku, had some more trouble with Monty and struggled with Hatti but eventually I made it.

I plan on writing some more but it will be brief - I want to try this AI joint venture and mayby epic 3 ...if I can handle the timing

[Sullla]

If you get the time to post more, the exact date of your victory would be good to include here.

[mihau]

As I preparde for the game I hoped for early Immortals (like many other Players did) and intended to make a rush with them. Since they are good agains archers I hoped to skip cats.
I settled 1 tile SW from starting position in order to use Ivory sooner.
When I met Toku and Monty I knew I will have to make those militia pronto!
I figured out that I need to take Toku down earlier because I mixed up Samurai and Jaguar thinking that Samurai come in earlier


2320BC I founded AntiToku - a city in the halfway between me and Tokugawa, grabbing myself 1st gem ...sorry, this is not epic2 anymore

What bothered me was that I could't find HORSES...
... and suddenly I realized I forgot to research AH !!
It just didn't occured to me that I need it to reveal those stalions :dope:
Soonafter Toku established Tokyo (3rd Japan city) grabbing the horses in the S.
I figured I will have to grab this city as soon as possible.

975BC I founded a city in the W near rice, on the coast

After making 2-3 milit I declared on Toku (775BC) and grabbed Tokyo (horsecity) after about 10 turns of jungle crossing (500BC). Toku used this period to establish another city on the E coast now controling stone and wheat.
Then I started marching for Toku's capital, he made some counterattacks with chariots on the way so I needed to enforce my forces leaving Tokyo behind with no military -- that was also a misteake.

This put me in an interesting situation :
- I was standing at the gates of Japan Capital with all my military, leaving Tokyo about 5 turns march behind ...and Toku sends a galley from his capital (where my troops stand) with a single warrior to retake unguarded, size 1 Tokyo :mad:
I could do NOTHING to prevent recapturing Tokyo ...
Ow well... since I can do nothing I will carry on with the attack I will have those horses either from tokyo or from Kyoto.
I started to attack Kyoto and after a turn defence fell. In the next Turn Toku was supposed to land in Tokyo and retake it ... BUT INSTEAD HE ASKED FOR PEACE...




I could not belive it... he even proposed a tech ...

I took the treaty (225BC) of course

During this war I erected another city (I razed Toku's city on the stone res.) + conquered a barb city in the NW.
Now Toku is squeezed on the E coast and has 10 turns of peace.

1AD I began with declaring on Monty. :] and captured 3 of his cities till 325AD.
Toku's turn again: sudden death in 475AD.
Untill 800AD Monty was left with only one city - size 1, but well placed, I waited till 1110AD to reach size 2 and took it.

Coming up: 2nd continent with more misteakes to be made - stay tuned.

[mihau]

For a half of the millenia I did nothing...
(gathered forces + econo)

I started new age of wars in 1615AD declaring on Hatty (I thing most of Players did went for Hatty...). I had 3 galleons on the Japan Ocean (Major attack) and one on the Aztec Ocean (sneak on the back attack).

I managed to tak 1 city on the coast of the Japan O. and... untill 1750 I couldn't keep it - it was constantly being recaptured (3-4 times), and again: IT WAS ONLY MY FAULT. I was leaving not enough defence units.. Because I was moving them to capture a second city... Around 1750 I finnally did it (this one also got recaptured once... )

On the other side of the continent my "sneak on the back attack" forces only managed to pillage 1-2 tiles before getting exterminated
But after breaking Hatty's neck in 1750 I managed to capture a city on this side too (in 1800AD).

Few turns after I exterminated Hatty and did won. Never crossed swords with Wash.


Domination, 1838AD
normalized score ca. 38k