ZeroOne is the winner of Apolyton's first Civ5 story competition!

Ruling the Iroquois, "Hiawatha's" glorious efforts shaped the (literally) earth-sprawling empire that trumped lesser creations, overshadowed inferior cultures, and fought historical battles. Winning through a time victory, this produced the following screenshot of the final turn. Click read more to read the extract, or click on the originating article to view the entire story!



ZeroOne narrates, in the following extract: "The starting place looked nice with a river, forests, plains and some hills but it quickly turned out to be a bit crammed: there was tundra to my north, mountains and then desert to my south and city-states to my east, west and south-west. I eventually found out that I had started the game somewhere in Russia"

I figured a culture victory would be possible from where I stood so I focused on buildings that provide culture and didn't build that many units. In the 1970s or so I did some math and figured I'd never have the time to complete the Utopia Project, even if I managed to completely unlock the required five social policy branches. However, the opponent that controlled Africa started getting hostile. In addition, I had lost my lead in the scores for a time victory. Through a surprise attack on my Indian neighbour, I could recuperate the score. Unfortunately, there was an unpleasant surprise: he already had tanks, whilst I did not! Because I had anti-tank guns I could effectively counter these though. Gandhi put up a good fight for Delhi and nearly managed to recapture it. Shortly thereafter I indeed won a time-score victory by a fair margin.