Ultimate Power: a more pragmatic approach

[Mountain Sage]

10BC: real rexing at last!
Berlin is pre-building the Sixtine, Japan is at war with us, the Germans and the Persians. Nothing new under the sun.

[Mountain Sage]

10BC: the tech tree
We have a 3 tech advance on everybody else (without the GLibrary!). We are researching fast but with a small + since Iwe will need the gold for a big upgrade after Leo. Things are looking a bit brighter.

[Mountain Sage]

10BC: the tech tree
We have a 3 tech advance on everybody else (without the GLibrary!). We are researching fast but with a small + since Iwe will need the gold for a big upgrade after Leo. Things are looking a bit brighter.
*screenshot included for free*

[Mountain Sage]

470AD: GA
My strategic decisions:
1. I gave 1 tech to the Germans and Persians to declare war on the Japanese (they will be at war until 450BC, it will keep them occupied).
2. I triggered my GA
3. I sued for peace with Japan (for a lousy 5 gold, but they were broke anyway).
Some more ruins dotting the landscape...

Sistine is completed.
Now: GO WEST, YOUNG MEN!

[Mountain Sage]

560AD: diplomatic misunderstanding
That galley should not have been blown off course, that settler should not have set foot on MY land.

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620AD: more diplomatic misunderstandings
The Russians are a bit thick-headed. A well, I never had the time to build workers anyway....

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620BC: the tech tree
Sistine bagged, Leo and Sun Tsu soon. Going for Chivalry, then Economics. 5-6 techs lead.
Luxuries (home-made): 5 Furs, 2 Incense, 3 Spices, 3 Silks (but everybody is broke!!!).
Japan, Germany and Persia are happily bashing each other.

[Mountain Sage]

So, that's it for today. The rest on Monday.
Comments, critics, spoilers?

[Arrian]

Well done, MS! And no, I didn't bug the game so the AI would attack you

You've got the game in the bag. The FP placement isn't optimal, but neither was mine, really. I put mine in Persopolis, and eventually moved my capitol to the SW of Carthage, so I had an E-W axis.

You broke your alliances, eh? Interesting. Your rep is shot, then. Not that it matters... you've already got such a lead that they're never gonna catch you.

2GLs! Well done, grasshopper. I think the RNG was kind in this game. I got 14 of them.

-Arrian

[Konquest02]

Nice game MS, two leaders is great for keeping the game in hand.
I was really peaceful up to date, unlike you I will try to play a little more then post some screenshots.

RE: FP, I will build mine probably in Utica (located 1 tile 3 of Theveste) then move my palace, probably in the western peninsula. It looks like the best spot (from what I know from the map...)

More coming later!

[Mountain Sage]

2670BC

I forgot to put the screenshot in which the Germans tried an early archer rush ON ME!!!

[Mountain Sage]

770AD:
With Leo, I upgraded everything, from warriors to spearmen to horsemen. Hannibal got broke, but I had the ‘feeling’ I would need better troops.

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840AD:
upgrading completed. Now it was just a question of time before the Japanese would do something stupid….

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1000AD:
the Japs really did something stupid… now I won’t stop, I’ve had enough of them. I got another GL (this IS Arrian’s game, after all) and made a Knight army. I must getting paranoid.

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1000AD:
The tech race: Carthage