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[Mountain Sage]

880AD:
How time has passed quickly!
We went for Monotheism, Education, Banking (another SGL for Smith TC) and will complete Economics in 8 turns. We only have a lousy 880 gold. The new palace has been standing at Murmansk for a while yet. We are at war with the Mongols (again!).

Scandinavia – the Republic and Monotheism
Spain, England and Carthage: + Engineering and Chivalry, - Education.
Aztecs and Byzance: + Engineering and Chivalry – Banking.

With our culture, number of cities and gold (thanks to Smith TC), the rest of the Medieval Times passd quickly: 1120AD Gunpowder, 1160 Chemistry, 1200 Physics, 1255 Theory of Gravity, 1260 Newton University, 1280 Magnetism, 1300 Metallurgy.

[Mountain Sage]

The Modern Times: Medicine (free), 1355 Steam Power (and another SGL!), 1385 Industrialization, 1425 Electricity, 1445 Scientific Method, 1450 ToE, 1455 Hoover Dam, 1470 Nationalism, 1500 Replaceable Parts.

[Mountain Sage]

I stopped the game there as there was no point in going on.
One last pic and thanks a lot Dominae!

[vmxa1]

Two SGL at once, wow, and more later. That is just stunning MS.

[Arrian]

Holy crap, back-to-back SGLs!! The odds of that must be microscopic!

Question: why not use one on the Pyramids? In my experience, using an ultra-early SGL on the Pyramids is the single most powerful thing one can do.

-Arrian

[Mountain Sage]

Originally posted by vmxa1
Two SGL at once, wow, and more later. That is just stunning MS.

Stunning?
No, just sheer luck

But it puts the scientific trait in a new perspective...

[Mountain Sage]

Originally posted by Arrian
Question: why not use one on the Pyramids? In my experience, using an ultra-early SGL on the Pyramids is the single most powerful thing one can do.
-Arrian

I pondered it for a very long time, then decided for a bit more happiness = less lux = more gold = faster research.
Besides that, I already had Granaries in most of my cities, but you make a very good point.

[Aqualung71]

I think I would have used it on the Pyramids, if only so I could remember what it felt like to actually build them!

[Mountain Sage]

Originally posted by Aqualung71
I think I would have used it on the Pyramids, if only so I could remember what it felt like to actually build them!

well, yes, now I see them only on postcards...

[Arrian]

That's why I still like Monarch. I can build 'em there.

Although sometimes it does get a little silly. New game last night, with the help of a settler-from-hut on Turn10: Pyramids, Colossus (GA triggered), Great Library, Hanging Gardens, Statue of Zeus, Sun Tzu, Sistine, Leos, and counting. Could have had the Lighthouse too, but built the Forbidden Palace in that city instead. I might actually manage a 20k culture victory in that one, while playing the game normally (my capital has the Pyramids, GL, HG, Sistine, and is building the Heroic Epic. I also built an early temple, before the Pyramids). Maybe I'll play like I used to long ago: no fighting unless the AI starts it (which of course they do ).

-Arrian

[Mountain Sage]

Originally posted by Arrian
That's why I still like Monarch. I can build 'em there.
Maybe I'll play like I used to long ago: no fighting unless the AI starts it
-Arrian

Stop drinking, please.
No, maybe you should start right away and don't stop.

Arrian is going soft...

[Arrian]

Just a bout of temporary insanity, MS, not to worry.

Upon discovering Steam Power and still lacking Iron, I simply had no choice but to destroy Germany. Sorry fellas, gotta have that Fe. Some advisor said something about buying iron from Spain, England or France, but those advisors are all morons anyway.

-Arrian