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I had recently just finished a game that I had no intention of doing any sort of ARR on but the game just ended up as quite a special game, and a very entertaining game to play.
My usual settings (fractal, monarch, marathon, 18 civs) and I chose brennus. I had never used him and mainly wanted to see how his UU and UB worked, mainly if they stacked and gave you free guerilla 2 promo's.
It was his atributes, spiritual and charismatic, that supprised me the most. Together they gave me an advantage I hadn't planned on having.
I started the game with a fairly nice floodplain start. Pretty much beelined to pottery to get cottages up on those floodplains then the mining path to mine some hills. I founded 3 additional cities, mainly as protection for my capital, as I hadnt planned any victory strategy out and was just gonna let the game take me where it willed. The northern and western cities both founded on hills to take advantage of the free guerilla promotions, but my southern city was a jungle city that was placed to take advantage of resources, banana and elephants.
Time tells me that the game WILL be combatative, for 1 simple reason. Ghengis lives next door. So I waste no time in getting iron working and a decent military. And as expected, Ghengis declares war.
Now Ghengis was to my west, Huyana south, lincoln, sitting bull, and fredrick north. Ghandi is close by but I cant see where yet. Once Ghengis started his little war, I used the oportunity to expand at his expense. I took 2 cities from him in a straight line west, and ended the war.
About this time Ghandi's Judaism has spread throught my peninsula and tensions begin to lesson. However Ghandi himself had also founded Hinduism, and he remained Hindu. Poor silly ghandi. Khan turns his attentions towards him as well as us remaining jews. Khan asked me to join him in the war and I oblige. Mainly a way to gain some time to plan my own assaults upon my neighbors.
Khan had many cities, twice as many as I even after I claimed 2. Huyana had an equal amount as me and some remarkable land, even though it was a jungle ridden start. Lincoln to my north had built a couple wonders that made my mouth water. and sitting bull, well he's usually a non entity in my games. A mackaral in a pond of large mouth bass to be fed upon.
I decide on Huyana first. He's usually a powerhouse that can't be left alone less he out tech me. One city in particular perked my intrest. 2 gems, 1 silver, banana and dye, with hills and a river. Such a great location cannot be left to wither under poor management.
I invaded as soon as civil service and machinery where mine. some time around 250ad. About half way through my landgrab, Ghengis declared war on me (likely as a favor to huyana) but my elephants and soon to be pikes held him at bay easily. That settled who the next target would be for 3 reasons. First, I was now already at war. B) You cant trust him as a friend or neighbor. And alternatly, Huyana, ghengis, and I filled a section of a peninsula that would give me a solid border to my north and coastline everywhere else.
The war is long. I tell myself 'I will not stop til the land is all mine'. Even though I might be lagging behind everyone else from high maintanace and pure unit production (no buildings) I persevere. After some time Ghengis is beaten off the face of the planet and Huyana holds one vasalized city that was in such a horrible possition I didnt want it. It did have horses wich I did not have, but i traded Iron for them once he was Vasalized.
Once I thought I was done, a Pleased Fredrick asked me to help him with that Outcast Ghandi and I obliged thus making fredrick Friendly. My stack was already in the area and I finally moved into ghandi's lands (for the first time) and saw what all the ruckus was about.
Just beyond Ghandi was a Buhdist Cambodia. Not very friendly with me and quite large, also at war with Ghandi. He had just captured Ghandi's capital a turn or two after I had gotten his #2 city (bombay? or is that the capital name?) His cap was the holy city for BOTH Hinduism and Judaism. and of course he had built both buildings. It was shear greed that made ghandi a target. Well as I moved my stack on towards another Indian target, Ghandi retook his capital. My stack was adjacent and he now held the MONEY city with a single hurt longbow. Merry christmas to me!!!! I snatch the city, and quickly vassalize him thus ending the bloodshed and leaving me with a buffer against the Khmer. 75+ gold per turn now from this one city alone, In conjunction with my own confucian holy city wich gave me another 20 or so.
I was now set. A nice straight northern border with friendly civs and a vassal buffer against a powerful unfriendly civ.
I had taken a mear two screenshots of this game, and Here is one of an event That made me giggle. It gives you a look at the layout of the land, and who I faced.
By the way, sorry if its so HUGE but daddy got a new monitor for xmas!!!~
This is basicly where I remained throught the game. Not expanding further because I wanted to try using this possition to do a LATE game expansion with all the cool units that I didnt get to use with Tokugawa...
Catharine and Toku shared an island just south of me. Luois was south east alone on an isle. and all the others west of the Khmer on a connected portion of my own continent. Connected by a single tile land bridge under the control of Montezuma and/or the Khmer.
My usual settings (fractal, monarch, marathon, 18 civs) and I chose brennus. I had never used him and mainly wanted to see how his UU and UB worked, mainly if they stacked and gave you free guerilla 2 promo's.
It was his atributes, spiritual and charismatic, that supprised me the most. Together they gave me an advantage I hadn't planned on having.
I started the game with a fairly nice floodplain start. Pretty much beelined to pottery to get cottages up on those floodplains then the mining path to mine some hills. I founded 3 additional cities, mainly as protection for my capital, as I hadnt planned any victory strategy out and was just gonna let the game take me where it willed. The northern and western cities both founded on hills to take advantage of the free guerilla promotions, but my southern city was a jungle city that was placed to take advantage of resources, banana and elephants.
Time tells me that the game WILL be combatative, for 1 simple reason. Ghengis lives next door. So I waste no time in getting iron working and a decent military. And as expected, Ghengis declares war.
Now Ghengis was to my west, Huyana south, lincoln, sitting bull, and fredrick north. Ghandi is close by but I cant see where yet. Once Ghengis started his little war, I used the oportunity to expand at his expense. I took 2 cities from him in a straight line west, and ended the war.
About this time Ghandi's Judaism has spread throught my peninsula and tensions begin to lesson. However Ghandi himself had also founded Hinduism, and he remained Hindu. Poor silly ghandi. Khan turns his attentions towards him as well as us remaining jews. Khan asked me to join him in the war and I oblige. Mainly a way to gain some time to plan my own assaults upon my neighbors.
Khan had many cities, twice as many as I even after I claimed 2. Huyana had an equal amount as me and some remarkable land, even though it was a jungle ridden start. Lincoln to my north had built a couple wonders that made my mouth water. and sitting bull, well he's usually a non entity in my games. A mackaral in a pond of large mouth bass to be fed upon.
I decide on Huyana first. He's usually a powerhouse that can't be left alone less he out tech me. One city in particular perked my intrest. 2 gems, 1 silver, banana and dye, with hills and a river. Such a great location cannot be left to wither under poor management.
I invaded as soon as civil service and machinery where mine. some time around 250ad. About half way through my landgrab, Ghengis declared war on me (likely as a favor to huyana) but my elephants and soon to be pikes held him at bay easily. That settled who the next target would be for 3 reasons. First, I was now already at war. B) You cant trust him as a friend or neighbor. And alternatly, Huyana, ghengis, and I filled a section of a peninsula that would give me a solid border to my north and coastline everywhere else.
The war is long. I tell myself 'I will not stop til the land is all mine'. Even though I might be lagging behind everyone else from high maintanace and pure unit production (no buildings) I persevere. After some time Ghengis is beaten off the face of the planet and Huyana holds one vasalized city that was in such a horrible possition I didnt want it. It did have horses wich I did not have, but i traded Iron for them once he was Vasalized.
Once I thought I was done, a Pleased Fredrick asked me to help him with that Outcast Ghandi and I obliged thus making fredrick Friendly. My stack was already in the area and I finally moved into ghandi's lands (for the first time) and saw what all the ruckus was about.
Just beyond Ghandi was a Buhdist Cambodia. Not very friendly with me and quite large, also at war with Ghandi. He had just captured Ghandi's capital a turn or two after I had gotten his #2 city (bombay? or is that the capital name?) His cap was the holy city for BOTH Hinduism and Judaism. and of course he had built both buildings. It was shear greed that made ghandi a target. Well as I moved my stack on towards another Indian target, Ghandi retook his capital. My stack was adjacent and he now held the MONEY city with a single hurt longbow. Merry christmas to me!!!! I snatch the city, and quickly vassalize him thus ending the bloodshed and leaving me with a buffer against the Khmer. 75+ gold per turn now from this one city alone, In conjunction with my own confucian holy city wich gave me another 20 or so.
I was now set. A nice straight northern border with friendly civs and a vassal buffer against a powerful unfriendly civ.
I had taken a mear two screenshots of this game, and Here is one of an event That made me giggle. It gives you a look at the layout of the land, and who I faced.
By the way, sorry if its so HUGE but daddy got a new monitor for xmas!!!~
This is basicly where I remained throught the game. Not expanding further because I wanted to try using this possition to do a LATE game expansion with all the cool units that I didnt get to use with Tokugawa...
Catharine and Toku shared an island just south of me. Luois was south east alone on an isle. and all the others west of the Khmer on a connected portion of my own continent. Connected by a single tile land bridge under the control of Montezuma and/or the Khmer.
) happy and keeping a close eye on the khmer. Ceasar kept himself Busy with wars with all his neighbors and was amassing a few vassals.
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