Replaying a game

[Garth Vader]

How often do you replay a large part of a game?

I am playing a Washington of the Incas game as I try out some unrestricted leaders.

Standard map size, 6 AI's, 5 are on my continent 1 on an island right close to the continent, but on the other side.

First time through I played till about 1AD and I was in bad shape. I am on a long peninsula and at the entrance to the main continent is Saladin of the Aztecs and Togu of the Mali.

Distance costs were killing me, I couldn't get open borders with Togu (no surprise), Saladin hated me and when he DOW's me that cut all trade so my economy was in shambles.

In both games I founded buddism and Saladin hinduism, but the second game I made sure I'd get Stonehenge for the GP and my shrine. I got that and then the Oracle too. I took CoL got that shrine too, rushed courthouses. My tech rate went down to 20 with 10 gold in the bank, but now I am in great shape.

The big difference was that buddism spread to togu so now he likes me and Saladin attacked him instead.

I was surprised the same game turned out so differently with only a few changes on my part.

[rah]

The only time I've replayed sections of a game is when I wanted to see if I could change things in an effort to learn why things work. Mostly having to do with war aspects (gee what a surprise for me) Things like being DOWed. I may go back 20 turns and see if I can keep it from happening, or when in a war, going back and changing my defenses to see if it will change the target of the AI's SOD.

[wodan11]

I tend to experiment with different strategies a lot and thus there have been games when I've replayed significant portions of them. Usually it'll be something such as doing a CE when I did a SE the first time, or a more esoteric variation.

[Garth Vader]

The only time I've replayed sections of a game is when I wanted to see if I could change things in an effort to learn why things work. Mostly having to do with war aspects (gee what a surprise for me) Things like being DOWed. I may go back 20 turns and see if I can keep it from happening, or when in a war, going back and changing my defenses to see if it will change the target of the AI's SOD.

I have done a lot of that for those reasons but this was the first time I replayed such a large portion.

I did end up doing more of an SE style (which I almost never do) because of terrain and economy. I can see how that can work, especially in rep.

Doing a war is also an eye opener. I have been attacked early game with what seems like a huge stack, but reloading from an auto save often the addition of only a few units will save the day.

Really gives you a better feel for the minimum defense you need.

[Ming]

I rarely replay portions of games because half the fun is the surprise of the game

But yes, I will also replay some turns for learning purposes... like how could I have avoided that, or as GV said, what defense could have stopped it.