First game played :)

[snoopy369]

Thanks CM + all ... I suck at storytelling, but I find this reporting fun

Well, more news on the culture front. I just hit the jackpot on culture-wonder-techs; right in a row I got techs for Broadway, Eiffel Tower, Rock+Roll, and Hollywood ... meaning I'm going to get a huge boost in those two cities that need it.

And, this past turn, I got ANOTHER Great Artist!! Adding it to the smaller culture of the two, I now have 2 cities @ 26k culture (and Mecca at 48k !!!). They're both near 200 a turn now, and with the +50% of each of their wonders respectively, plus the +50% of the Eiffel Tower's broadcast towers, plus whichever gets Hollywood (probably Satsuma), plus more cathedral type things (they each have FIVE religions in them ... I'm tempted to ask the Aztecs for a jewish missionary just so I can add that religion. I have Hinduism, Confucianism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam in both cities, and will eventually add Taoism once I remember which city has Taoism in it (actually it's damascus, which is all the way on one end of my empire, thus why I forgot about Taoism). That's 6 +50% bonuses, or 300% bonus, just from those

[snoopy369]

Mecca achieves Legendary Culture in 1955, with 95 turns left.

[snoopy369]

Aztecs declare war on me ...

Alexander cancels his def pact ( ), but then declares war on the Aztecs ...

[snoopy369]

Elizabeth has built the Apollo Project ... though I have to think it'll be a decent while until she's done, I have to consider the possibility that I either have to win a space-race, or take out some of her cities. Rocketry underway, and a few cities will begin a military buildup ...

Here's my part of the world, circa 1967 ... Nearly 30k culture in both of my secondary culture cities, and a great artist held in reserve (since i'm not sure which of them will be the faster city in the long run).

[Addled Platypus]

wait till three civs gang up on you!

I have played through to complete games and have yet to see any aluminum?

you are blessed

[snoopy369]

Yeah, i've got plenty of aluminum

I doubt I'll see 3 civs of any meaningful size gang up on me.

Of course, that's because there really aren't 3 civs of concern left ... Montezuma is across the sea and trying to use galleons to get past my battleships, Julius Caesar is lucky his capital doesn't flip to me, and Asoka got his rear handed to him by me and Alexander, and has less than half a dozen cities left.

Alex and Elizabeth, conveniently enough, are enemies ...

Anyway, I got ANOTHER great artist ... now have a 4k bomb in EACH city, waiting to be let off for the semi-sudden culture victory, with luck. I also had a power graph ... I'm highly amused that Montezuma is supposedly more powerful than me. Right ...

[gamadict]

Impressive cultural output. I just won my first game, a pathetic run-out-the-clock time victory. I was trying for culture, but could only get two cities over the Legendary mark, despite having about 2/3rds of the culture in the game

[snoopy369]

Hmm, apparently the Indians aren't doing too well monetarily ... and are asking me to war with Alexander? Are they nuts?

Gaining 300c/turn now in one of the two cities, which is more than enough to gain the 20k culture it's short. In fact, it's short closer to 15k taking the artist into account, meaning it's 50 turns (at current rates) from a win The third city will be at that rate shortly, once it finishes Holywood and is allowed to have more great artists.

[snoopy369]

It's bedtime, and I leave you with my ship-blockade of the Aztec forces. Undoubtedly someday they'll figure out how to put those weird metals together and make a larger Destroyer ... but until that day, they shall pretty much just ... die one frigate or galleon at a time Total losses to date for the Aztecs are 5 frigates and 4 loaded galleons (3 knights/cavalry on each!). (Plus the 2 galleons that landed their forces, at the start of the war ... all 6 forces destroyed, galleons also destroyed, just not by destroyers).

I'm going to win a culture victory, the question is how soon ...

[Nikolai]

A culture victory, eh? I wish you luck against Apollo then.

[Solver]

Wow, looks like your secondary cities might indeed manage to hit 50k. That's impressive! Then again, I wouldn't say that victory is assured for you at this point.

[snoopy369]

I shall have to make sure Elizabeth is kept ... busy ...

Meanwhile, the Aztecs are playing nice once again, thanks to my shipping industry.

[Louis XXIV]

Good luck getting a victory, its been interesting to follow so far

[Simplicity]

Almost there... Almost there...

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Louis XXIV
Good luck getting a victory, its been interesting to follow so far

Oh, luck shall have nothing to do with it

For example ... the 'surprise!' part of my attack on the English.

They will be backed up by the bombardment of battleships. I'm not sure if i'll take a city with this fleet or not, but I should have a decent shot at it, and at least i'll scare the #$%#$ out of Elizabeth enough to ensure she stops with that silly "space ship" she insists on building ...

Space ... we have much greater frontiers here, in the hearts and souls of men ...