Au 201 spolier thread

[flash9286]

I dont know if i can start this or im not suppose to but since there wasnt one i will start one.
The map is pretty easy i started on reg with egyptians i have cleard everyody on the contientent expect Americans left them for tech reasons. MY iron went away so no Iron works
my screenshot

[badman]

did both of your iron disappear?

i first tried on monarch but i ended up being way better than everyone else so i'm trying emperor right now
i'm doing pretty good yet i always have troubles bulding more than two ancient wonders, we'll see how many i can build
so far i have built only the pyramids and therefore spoiled my GA but i wanted to have granaries and i don't think that i'll need the GL
i hope that wasn't a mistake but we'll see

so far, i have built the great wall, the hanging gardens, and the pyramids
i have captured every ancient wonder except for the oracle and the colossus and the ones i built myself
mainly i have been fighting the whole game, capturing most of my continent
the french and the indians (one or two turns and that city will be mine as well) only have one city left while the english are entirely destroyed
the americans may live until i have upgraded my war charriots to knights (that's gonna take long though )
the babylonian cities were the toughest to invade but they only have 3 cities left overseas
with their lighthouse they could reach the third continent with the russians, the greeks, and the iroquis even though you can only reach that continent travelling through ocean
the second continent is yet to be discovered
despite of all my fights and my elite units, i didn't get a single leader for a long time, only two turns ago i got one and rushed my FP in a babylonian city (i think one productive continent should be enough)

[flash9286]

both of them just went away, i cleard my continet with all swordsman i thought was going to be hard, so i played it on regent should have tryed monarch.

[Aeson]

You should still be able to build the Iron Works when the time comes. Even though the resource moves away, the city is still flagged as being available to build it.

[flash9286]

nope aeson cant build it i have a nother city that can build it there so im goingt to buildi t here.

[nbarclay]

Operation Pharaoh's Heartland

The year is now 710 BC, and Egypt has just become a Monarchy. Until now, Egypt has built a reputation as a culturally advanced and peace-loving nation. It has built the Colossus, and a Great Lighthouse is nearing completion in the same city. Indeed, both Birmingham and Lyon have been so impressed with the glorious Egyptian culture that they have decided to defect and join Egypt (in 1075 and 900 BC, respectively).

But there is also a darker side to Egypt’s personality. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, Cleopatra has amassed a vast offensive force led by 36 war chariots and eight sword units. Operation Pharaoh’s Heartland, the conquest of the Egyptian continent, is about to commence, and both England and France are about to feel the weight of Egypt’s power.

[nbarclay]

It's 290 BC and my Golden Age just ended. It's interesting how a map can change in just over 20 turns. The bad part is that I still don't have any leaders to build my Forbidden Palace.

[nbarclay]

Originally posted by badman

with their lighthouse they could reach the third continent with the russians, the greeks, and the iroquis even though you can only reach that continent travelling through ocean

Are you playing without a patch (or at least without a recent one)? I remember in the early versions, the Great Lighthouse let people travel through ocean, but I thought that was fixed.

Nathan

[badman]

i'm playing with patch 1.29f and the modded version (at least i hope it's the modded version since i'm not sure if it's enough just to start the .bic file to play with the mod)
since i have their map, i can try to post a screenshot that shows the way they travelled through ocean

[flash9286]

i have got to play the map alot today so im in industaral age, im at war with Russia and Rome they have musketman i have thanks

[flash9286]

well here is my finished game, this is the first au i have been able to finish(this one thinks to me being sick ) won by conquest, was a easy game

[badman]

i don't think i'll finish this one, because it doesn't differ too much from my usual games, it's just easier

i'll try AU107 instead since i have missed every AU so far

[yxhuvud]

I started my warring, and thus my golden age, earlier than nbarclay did, about 13100bc. Having the golden age earlier made so that I 'only' managed to destroy france and india, and like 2 cities of the babs.

The longest time I've been in peace since that is like 3 turns, rearranging troops. No civ stood a chance, and no contact has been made with any other continent. Sadly no ancient GW's were constructed on my continent (I wonder why ), except the GL and the soon to be Hanging gardens (thebes has a production of 22/turn, at size 8).

No gl's were generated during the wars though, so I havn't any FP yet

[flash9286]

lucky me got a gl wit war with england and bulit fp with it helped get infastructue with it.

[nbarclay]

It's 230 AD, and I just eliminated the French remnanat to secure control of the remainder of my continent. I would have done it sooner, but Joan talked me into renewing our peace treaty while I was dealing with the Americans. Oh well, at least the extra time set things up so I could capture two final French cities intact instead of just one.

Still no leaders, but I was able to build a Forbidden Palace in Delhi "the hard way" in a reasonable amount of time. (Rushing a courthouse, marketplace, and temple first helped.) That got me on a 4-turn research pace going after Education, and I'm hoping I'll stay there. And Delhi seems like a great place for the capital of the home continent if I move my palace to the German/Roman/Persian continent later.

Speaking of that continent, Persia got mad at me for setting up a city right next to one of theirs on Gem Island, and they decided to attack. That cost me a luxury, but I'll survive it. In the meantime, just to stir up the pot, I persuaded Rome and Germany to declare war on Persia for me. Sooner or later, I'll probably slip some of my own forces over there, and I'll pretty definitely take out Persia's city on Gem Island unless someone beats me to it. (Unfortunately, an elite swordsman unit got killed trying to attack the first regular spear unit defending it.)

I built all of the ancient wonders myself except for the Pyramids (Germany) and the Oracle (Rome). Thebes is the world's highest-ranked city, and Rakoti, home of the Colossus and Great Lighthouse, is fourth. Thanks to some prebuilds, Leonardo's is scheduled for completion in 14 turns, and Sistine and Sun Tsu's in 17. (The AIs don't have the tech to start any of those yet, so I should be in good shape.) I'm leading in all of the vital statistics I care about except for literacy, in which I'm fifth because most of my conquered cities haven't gotten around to teaching the people how to read and write Egyptian (the world's only civilized language, of course). But eventually, I'll build libraries and a university system to take care of that problem. Culturally, I'm not quite on par with Rome, Germany, and Persia combined, but I'm pretty close (although they have been gaining a little on me lately).

Nathan