AU 504 Glory of Culture DAR 6 - Modern Era or Industrial Endgame

[Mountain Sage]

1832AD:
Updated my 100 tanks to MA…

1832AD:
Persia declared war on us!

1840AD:
Santiago was the 1st Arab city to be destroyed.

1848AD:
China declared war on us! (We were at peace since 18xx AD).

1860AD:
WE finally destroyed China.

The Arab Genocide (not really a PP game, isn't it?)

[Mountain Sage]

1874AD:
The Persians were destroyed.

1898AD:
We even completed SETI Programme.

1896AD:
We made peace with the Arabs. They are down to 1 city… We don’t wan to win with by conquest, do we?

We switched to Democracy.

[Mountain Sage]

A new way to have MA hop from island to island...

[Mountain Sage]

1928AD:
We hit the 100’000 culture. Another hollow victory….

[Risa]

AU504, Emperor, AU Mod

Shortly after we got a foothold on the other continent, Iroquis showed us their large amount of knights, and newly developed, gun-wielding cavalries. Being outnumbered, we accepted peace. Peace for preparation, of course. Training grounds, roads, harbors, ships, all busying in sending war elephants reinforcements to the other continent.

1740ad: Peace treaty expired. Time to teach them what is truely 'large amount of troops'.

[Risa]

AU504, Emperor, AU Mod

The war progressed well. By 1774ad Iroquis entered the industrial era, I had already controlled south tundra peninsula, as well as Frankfurt and Leipzig. The conquer of Valencia in 1796ad, which granted us one source of spice, the sixth luxury resource, set a end point of our expansion. The seventh, gem, was still too far away. By the time we had covered 55% land of the world, more conquering would lead us too close to domination of the world.

Map of 1868ad. It contains the same cities as 1796ad, except New Calcutta, which was founded in 1814ad.

[Risa]

AU504, Emperor, AU Mod

Another event in 1796ad is we learned military tradition from Chinese. The last war elephant trainer retired. Indian people will never forget them.

Iroquis became the second nation that developed nationalism in 1804ad. That means no more offensive war was possible in near future. Fortunately, even though Iroquis reached 50k culture in 1782ad, our culture rating is fast enough to catch up to their twice at about the time they reach 60k. In other word, offense was not needed as well.

Later, partly because of our diversion from naval power building by factories, police stations and stock exchanges, and partly due to weakness of our privateers, Iroquis eventually gained an upper hand in the ocean. Our supply line was once cut off. The front line was nearly collapsed by Iroquis fierce counter attack, if without help of our armies. It had nothing to do with military academy, though, which wasn't set up until 1814ad. Of eleven armies on the field, none was trained in it.

Even that, I didn't want to negotiate peace. War can keep Iroquis from building peaceful cultural buildings, which is crucial to my object. Our people invented theory of communism in 1820ad, and couldn't wait to try it out. It may go against the fastest way, but just in case something dire happens.

It turns out that nothing unexpected happened. The game is won in 1870ad.

[Risa]

AU504, Emperor, AU Mod

Compared with other's games, I have a bit few workers (7 native, 27 slave). It didn't hurt in middle age, but when railroad is on schedule, the lack of workpower shows up. Not to mention pollution cleaning...

Top 5 cities of the world:

[Risa]

AU504, Emperor, AU Mod

The biggest surprise of this game is such slow tech pace. By 1870ad the game finishes, I have only researched eight industial tech: Steam Power, Industrialization, Nationalism, Communism, Espionage, The Corporation, Refining, Medicine. Iroquis done three: Nationalism, Steam Power, Eletricity. China remains in middle age.

Culture aspect:
Top4 cities are
Bombay, wonder city, culture amount 12092, culture rating 65;
Bangalore, second wonder city, culture amount 8006, culture rating 47;
Delhi, capital, culture amount 7923, culture rating 38;
Madras, home of Magellan, culture amount 5392, culture rating 27.
Other cities (culture rating * number of cities)
24 * 2
23 * 1
22 * 7
21 * 1
19 * 1
16 * 3
14 * 7
12 * 2
8 * 36
5 *1

total city: 65.
temple/cathedral: 65,
library: 64,
university: 28,
colosseum: 26,
palace: 1.
Small wonders: Heroic Epic, Forbidden Palace, The Pentagon, Military Academy, Intelligence Agency, The Wall Street.
Great Wonders that produce culture: 13.

[-SafaN-]

DAR 6

Tech is on 10% for rushbuilding

1500 AD
our culture: 52704
german culture: 19120

wonder if an attack on germany will be needed. Mayb we can try set the iroquis up against them

1525 AD
Universal suffrage complete
Our culture 56762
german culture 20264

1540 AD
Arabs are extincted

1550 AD
Our Culture 61024
German culture 21437

1575 AD
Our culture 66398
German culture 22919

1590 AD
Hoover Dam Completed

1600 AD
Our Culture 70118
German Culture 23931

1625 AD
Our Culture 74938
German Culture 25200

1650 AD
Our Culture 79996
German culture 26482

1660 AD
Ottomans are extincted, i expect spain to be next

1675 AD
Our Culture 85251
german culture 27762

1680 AD
all 53 cities have all cultural buidings
now creating more culture centers

1700 AD
our culture 90600
german culture 29055
the end is near =)

1725 AD
our culture 96038
german culture 30400

1740 AD
The last turn:
our culture 99380
german culture 31210

1745 AD
cultural victory

[freud24]

Monarch of Glory in 1605 Victory!

AU Mod, Monarch
Cultural Victory reached at 1605 AD
Lots of cities.. rush built temples, libraries, cathedrals, collusum's, univerities in almost all of them. built most wonders. Layout: CxCxC (as tight as possible)

I never reached the industrial age (didn't see the point since there was no culture to be had). I did research democracy and many of the wonders in the Medieval age. My opponents still behind in technology.

[Aqualung71]

Good job freud

It's a little hard to see your victory screen....but is that the Iroquois with only ~ 20,000 culture points at game end? If so, the culture histograph would have been impressive