5th Apolyton Civ3 Tournament : 1-21/Feb/2002

[PFREMONT]

Zulu conquest in 1420 AD

Very slow beginning as I had to research alphabet + writing + map making (around 120 turns I guess). Persians may be scientific but in this game they only kept attacking me and did not come out with any valuable advance.
I reduced them to one small Capital in the far North of our continent.
At last in 500 BC could start going around with my galleys and found out Germans had a nice piece of continent + large cities + were quite advanced.
So I focused all my energy in building up and bringing 5 galleys full of 10 veteran swordsmen to Berlin.
Conquered the 4 main German cities and gave them to the Persians to prevent them to flip back to "Germanism". After Germans signed peace and gave me all their remaining cities on their continent I easily captured the "Persian German" cities back and built Forbidden Palace in Berlin (500 AD).
Next came the Greeks (800 AD) as soon as I had knights.
Then the Babylonians (1 000 AD) and the Russians (1 300 AD)
When I was finished with the Russians I turned back to what was left of the Germans at the other end of the map but my logistics was not ready and I lost a few turns to bring my troops.
I had the same old galleys I used almost 2 000 years before ...

So here we are Conquest Victory in 1420 : 4060pts

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Alkis
Marko, what's the goal, fastest victory or highest score?

we have winners in both categories

It's funny to have to write in English, don't you think?

i''ve been writing in english for every day the last 5.5 years and i've never left greece

[adamb]

the new 5th tournament file

Had a really hard time with the 4th tournament file (that was a tough game!), looking forward to this one! Usually play on very different settings so its going to be a totally new game for me

[Conqueror]

Cultural Victory at 1924 AD, 2840 pts.

So i ended up with a cultural victory, Zimbabwe hit the 20,000 culture points at 1924 AD, actually my first 20,000 culture points in a city ever

Dont know about you but i like to read how others have been playing so here ill tell a small story.

Noticed from the game description that there were no barbarians and didnt build much military in the beginning as i tought it was a good idea to to explore around first and build few scouts & settlers, but the persians didnt like the fact that i didnt give them 2 techs and 60 gold they demanded, and sneak attacked my scout - well, time to get rid of the persians.

Those bastards had few of their cities up in the hills with walls & spearmen in them so it took me a while and loads of archers to conquer them.

From that moment on, the game was very easy, nothing compared to tournament 4 Just land grab & land grab while the "scientific" civs lagged behind in tech the whole game, seems strange that scientific civs performed so lousy on tech and concentrated on bullying me demanding techs & gold.

Maybe the scientific means that they are especialized on extorting techs from human player

around 1890 i noticed i was going to get Cultural victory in some time and decided to switch my cities to wealth, fortify troops and halt my campaign against germans (last ai remaining). It was much faster this way: i just pressed enter the remaining turns what took only few minutes instead of having to conquer remaining 20-30 german cities which would have taken 2 hours.

Good Game again. Altough i liked Tournament 4 more, in my humble opinion Tournament 4 is the best so far

[godinex]

diplomatic??

I was trying of achieve a domination or a conquest victory, but was diplomatic.

[Xanathon]

i'm a newbie
in 2012 i made a Spaceship victory.. sorry only 1500 points

will be better next time

[LarryLard]

Oops

Well I thought I'd give one of these a go... unfortunately shortly after making contact with the Persians, they sent a warrior over and on the ensuing warrior vs warrior battle they captured Zimbabwe... game over 68 points

ROFL

I won't bother attaching the SAV file

[Sirian]

Mark, I was wrong. This map was about as far from crowded as it could get with max opponents in the game. It played a lot closer to what I had in mind than I expected. The "win" came fairly easily, but it was quite challenging in a different way, racing the clock, rushing to expand.

I achieved Domination in 1120AD, score 5385 (top of my score list! I don't do a lot of ancient games). God bless the Great Wall. I don't think I've ever gotten so much mileage out of any wonder in any other game. I don't think I've recruited that many longbows in all my other games combined! LOL! Didn't get chivalry until the final turn, didn't build a single knight. Didn't get a great leader until the next to last turn, used him to rush a trophy wonder. This game was so very different from my usual "build efficiently, conquer in the industrial age" playstyle, and it's all thanks to the map. Good one.

I'll post my save and some more details as the competition winds down.


- Sirian

[Flight]

score win in 2050

i wont bother attaching the sav unless you ask for it cos its so poor

Realised after i killed the persians in 300bc that it probably wasnt a good idea to have done that. Expanded a bit but not enough, capturing almost all the continent to the south west of the start. I got pretty far behind in tech after the GL ran out and had to buy my way back by putting the slider to 100% and hoping it chose cheap things to sell off.

I did get theory of ev. and sold atomic theory for lots of money to everyone, but then they all caught up with me within a couple of new techs.

The germans declared war for no real reason that i could see and the MPP web gave them no hope (germany vs everyone). The greeks eventually wiped them out while i suffered even in a communism from -ve gold at 0% sciene. So i got out of the war (in which greece remained a democracy throughout and gained about a 3 tech advantage - how!?) and managed to stay on top until the time ran out. I did build the UN in 2036 but only the russians voted for me, despite my many gifts to the babylonians, who voted for themselves (same with greece)

Didn't fit my playstyle - i hate island invasions; and the tech seemed really slow despite lots of tech improvements
/me goes back to try tourny 4

[edit score was 1777 or so, won by 36 points iirc]

[MarkG]

Re: score win in 2050

Originally posted by Flight
i wont bother attaching the sav unless you ask for it cos its so poor

well, if you want to appear in the results, post it. if not...

[godinex]

Poor germans

Poor Germans, they are always the first to be punished.

[godinex]

Re: score win in 2050

Originally posted by Flight

[edit score was 1777 or so, won by 36 points iirc]

Great! You are my hero!!!

[Santa Cruz Tim]

Diplomatic 1992 (or '93?) 2360 Points

Well, at least I won this one!

Getting rid of the Persians early on was easy, with Impis and archers.

Russia should have been next, but as my knights were on their way over, Germany and Babylon decided to gang up on me. I warded them off for what seemed like forever then finally killed off the Russians, but not until after they got their Cossacks.

At that point I was way behind the others in Culture, but even in science. I decided to use the Mutual Protection pacts to my advantage. Got a MPP with Babylon and Germany and kept them for the rest of the game. Eventually Greece declared war on me... bye bye Greece. Then I got the U.N and didn't allow a vote until Germany declared war on me. Next vote: Babylon votes for me. End of story.

Fun game. I personally hate having so many islands, so it was a bit different than what I usually play.

Thanks!

[7EA]

So I guess I have to attach the last save I made just before I pressed end turn and won. Well I thing that is what I have to do so here it is (I'm new to this).

Now lets see... how to attach.. hmm...

[mirrorball]

Shaka Tournament Win

Here's my submitted game for tournament 5. It's a histographic win - 3,000 plus points. I could have won by diplomacy sooner but the d*mn-*ssed babylonians always abstained!

I used the expansionist adv of the zulus to the hilt putting up cities whenever I can. I took out the persians early, then made the mistake of not finishing off the babylonians. Then, I ended the russians misery, and watched as the babs and the greeks fought the germans in the late game.