First game played :)

[Colonel Kraken]

Wow. Great job on your first game, Snoopy. Thanks for the great story.

[conmcb25]

Having fun with the new game I see Snoopdog

You are doing better than I was on Noble.

[snoopy369]

Oh, i sucked totally in game 1... but I think the culture game is easier than the conquest game, by far. I'm intrigued to see how this works out in MP

Okay, update for today #1. I'm trying to get an actual culture victory now, just because it's probably easiest (or most appropriate at least). I found out it is 50k culture in THREE cities ...

Sadly, i've already used 4 GA's in 2 cities that are neither one particularly big producers of culture, but i need to stick with those two anyway (plus my capital) because they're each over 8000 culture, which is more than any other city'll get to by itself.

So my three pronged approach:
1) Running at 20% culture right now. I still get plenty of techs, but now i get a few more culture per turn in those big cities
2) Going for wonders in those cities, starting with Versailles. That should allow me to build more quickly, and increase my culture/turn there.
3) GPs. At first i'm trying for a great engineer, but eventually i'll be trying for great artists... so far only great merchants I'll use my non-GAs/GEs for golden ages.

I also found the Aztecs... who hate me already Aww, poor guys ... I'm so scared ... really ...

[snoopy369]

1410, and I'm in a Golden Age! I've finished the Taj Mahal in Mecca, and am nearly done with the Spiral Minaret in Satsuma (one of my 8000+ culture cities). Baghdad (city #2 >8000 culture) is about 14 turns from Versailles, I may actually finish it

Oh, and I am apparently not building enough military, according to the opinion of Bede ... for some reason i'm not too worried

[snoopy369]

Couldn't resist posting this ... India has apparently realized that i'm halfway done converting THEM to my religion, so they are trying to counteract this

Dueling Missonaries!

[Solver]

Culture victory is the easiest? Well well, good luck .

The AIs may decide to conquer you anyway .

[snoopy369]

Yeah, sure Solver ... good luck to them with that

I am now at war with Japan for the second time. There are three civs - Japan, Rome, and Aztecs - who couldn't beat me under any concievable scenario. The Indians are the only ones i'm worried about, and i'm carefully keeping them very, very happy. The other two civs (England and Greece) are too far away to have any reason to war with me, or any real ability to wage it.

Below is a picture of what's going to happen to Edo next turn I have two more Camel Archers also down there within range next turn... The AI was kind enough to send all of its catapults and several other units away this past turn (to go attack the Indians, i think, or the Romans, both of which I asked politely to help slaughter the Japanese...)

I'm also going to try and take Bangalore culturally. I'm going to settle next to the horses (one to the west of them), which should be settleable. Bangalore as it is, is only 55% indian ... thanks to my amazing cultural city there

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Seems like I'm going to have to get used to purple Romans (although I suppose it makes some sense, what with the togas with the purple stripe and whatnot). At least India is still a shade of purple.

Also, what the heck is that one tile south of Satsuma?

[snoopy369]

One tile south of Satsuma is an irrigated Rice Paddy. It gives +1 health (it's a resource).

[snoopy369]

Osaka's mine ... and so is a marble square, as soon as i can manage 10 culture in there (hmm, maybe a great artist should be diverted ... though that would slow down my culture victory ... must consider this) ...

Kyoto's next ... next pic will be the conquest of the Japanese capital

Notice what's 1 square NW of osaka ...

[Simplicity]

Sorry, snoopy, but I think you're in for a massive whooping fairly soon. It's far easier in this game to over-emphasize growth/culture without proper defense.

Given your military status (low)... I think the AIs are going to demolish you...

[Solver]

Snoopy, I certainly hope that Asoka and Alexander gang up on you and give you a beating, just so you could see how it happens .

[Scrapper82]

War Elephants will hopefully help.

[snoopy369]

I don't think i'm that weak any more ... and I'm giving a massive whupping to the japanese, supposedly #4. Not that i'm saying i'd be doing this to the #1 civ, but ... they haven't killed anything on offense, at all, and have maybe killed 3 units total of mine (In part thanks to the camel archer...)

I'd love to see the power graph now.

I'm also doing a LOT to keep people friendly with me. Even mortal enemies are okay with me... alexander and Asoka for example I'm giving techs as i need to, making favorable trades, and involving them on my side in wars. Lots of green plusses. Only the #4 and #5 civs in that power graph are mad at me (japanese and aztecs), and the aztecs are on another continent (which i'm keeping one eye on the shipping of).

But we'll see

Anyway, Kyoto is about to fall to me (I hope). I have a few camel archers in reserve if this falls, plus several macemen, but I think this will succeed, based on my successes in other cities. Surprisingly, Kyoto (their capital) only gives them a 60% defense, compared to Edo's original 100%; obviously they didn't properly work to defend their capital ...

After Kyoto, there is only Pisae and Tokyo left. I will probably go ahead and eliminate them, to ensure I keep osaka (the only one I really care about). Suggestions on keeping or razing Kyoto? It has sugar, which none of my other cities have ... on the other hand, Osaka will have sugar once it hits 100 culture (3 radius), and it'll do that fairly soon once i start building aggressively in there.

The pasted parts are my units - in two stacks. The lefthand unit list are the Japanese. They attacked once already with a catapult, that withdrew and did small bits of collateral damage to various units (6). I probably should have moved the units that got there early down to another square or two... hard to get used to the fact that, unless you have a unit that's city raider, it's to your advantage generally for the enemy to attack you out of the city (since units have same att/def value), and thus no reason to leave in a stack (at least not with these units, camel archers are fine with being attacked)...

[snoopy369]

Asoka and Alexander don't like each other one bit ... so that's unlikely. It's certainly likely that they'd kick the crud out of me if they ever did gang up, but they were mortal enemies from the start Asoka got mad at me for a while for trading with alexander ...

I'm +10/-3 to Asoka, and I'm +15/-3 to Alexander... Alexander is also Hindu, thanks to my conversions, and Asoka may follow suit soon (going to convert a few more of his cities post-war). I'm also in the process of weaseling Bangelore away from Asoka, which will weaken him considerably, although he has a LOT of cities; Bangalore has several valuable happiness and healh resources.

And with his cities being hindu, I can notice a buildup and stop him