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Thanks all - I have just about as much fun telling stories about my games as I do reading stories about your games!
Dominae: I did consider invading Babylon instead of Persia as my initial "escape" from icy Rome. Several factors led me to settle on Persia: (1) I had a loading point (city) that would allow one turn galley loading, channel-crossing, and unloading (i.e., 3 water tiles) which meant I could ferry troops across every 2 turns en masse -- Babylon was just out of reach and would have taken longer to move troops; (2) While Babylon and Persia were almost equally backwards, I believed that Babylon's position was due to its early isolation and having to catch up, while Persia's was due to deeper problems -- lots of war and no infrastructure; (3) I saw a lot of jungle in Babylon, and figured it would take me a long time to make the land productive with my non-industrious workers -- I needed productive land and didn't want to trade tundra for jungle; and (4) Babylon was an early culture leader (not surprising) -- I wanted to capture and hold cities in my intial assualt and not have to raze them -- the pop points were simply too precious -- and I was concerned about the likelihood of numerous flips of Babylonian cities. My own strongest counterpoints against Persia were: (1) a successful Babylonian war would earn me the entire continent (eventually), because I wouldn't ever fear a trimmed Hammy or an intact Shaka; and (2) I could avoid the more aggressive Germans, Russians and Persians by staying off their continent.
I still want to go back and look at the culture levels in my game (but don't know if there is an easy way to do this other than investigating each enemy city and tallying city-by-city culture?). I didn't strike me until far too late in the game to do anything about it, but I think I was at real risk to losing a culture victory to Babylon. The attached screenshot is the cultural histograph just one turn before my SS launch -- I know that the "waterfall bar graph" shows the per-turn rate of accumulation of culture points versus the total accumulated per civ, but it seems just from eyeballing this that Hammy must have been close to doubling Bismarck's total culture sometime in the late game (since my total culture was almost 70K, Hammy's had to be well over 100K).
Anyone know how to figure out the total culture points of an AI civ?
Catt
Dominae: I did consider invading Babylon instead of Persia as my initial "escape" from icy Rome. Several factors led me to settle on Persia: (1) I had a loading point (city) that would allow one turn galley loading, channel-crossing, and unloading (i.e., 3 water tiles) which meant I could ferry troops across every 2 turns en masse -- Babylon was just out of reach and would have taken longer to move troops; (2) While Babylon and Persia were almost equally backwards, I believed that Babylon's position was due to its early isolation and having to catch up, while Persia's was due to deeper problems -- lots of war and no infrastructure; (3) I saw a lot of jungle in Babylon, and figured it would take me a long time to make the land productive with my non-industrious workers -- I needed productive land and didn't want to trade tundra for jungle; and (4) Babylon was an early culture leader (not surprising) -- I wanted to capture and hold cities in my intial assualt and not have to raze them -- the pop points were simply too precious -- and I was concerned about the likelihood of numerous flips of Babylonian cities. My own strongest counterpoints against Persia were: (1) a successful Babylonian war would earn me the entire continent (eventually), because I wouldn't ever fear a trimmed Hammy or an intact Shaka; and (2) I could avoid the more aggressive Germans, Russians and Persians by staying off their continent.
I still want to go back and look at the culture levels in my game (but don't know if there is an easy way to do this other than investigating each enemy city and tallying city-by-city culture?). I didn't strike me until far too late in the game to do anything about it, but I think I was at real risk to losing a culture victory to Babylon. The attached screenshot is the cultural histograph just one turn before my SS launch -- I know that the "waterfall bar graph" shows the per-turn rate of accumulation of culture points versus the total accumulated per civ, but it seems just from eyeballing this that Hammy must have been close to doubling Bismarck's total culture sometime in the late game (since my total culture was almost 70K, Hammy's had to be well over 100K).
Anyone know how to figure out the total culture points of an AI civ?
Catt
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that I would do over again if I could, as control of the penninsula would have made the later game much less scary.
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