Advanced Game 3 Discussion Thread

[RobWorham]

Advanced League Game 3 has closed for submissions. Please feel free to discuss your game in as much detail as you want. The more we talk, the more we can learn from each others successes and failures......

Just three submissions this time, all going to infinity and beyond.......

The top three :

1st : Dominae : Won Space Race Victory - 1958AD - 3363 points / 17838 points

2nd : Playshogi : Won Space Race Victory - 1972AD - 3786 points / 17527 points
3rd : CyberShy : Won Space Race Victory - 2049AD - 3858 points / 6272 points

Congratulations!!!!

[Nugog]

Well done to all the winners!

[Robert]

Congrats to Dominae and Playshogi!!!!

Too bad we used normalised gamescores

[Nugog]

I don't know about that - winning earlier should IMo give a better score.

[Robert]

It does give a better normalised score (as you can see in the scorelist for this game above).
Conclusion: it's a good thing you guys did do that!

Though personally I wouldn't have minded if you hadn't done that, since I would've won otherwise

[Dominae]

A really enjoyable game.

Great Lighthouse and the Colossus were must-haves in this game, of course. I got a little lucky by discovering Copper near my capital shortly after starting the Colossus. I would have expected that feature to have been rolled into the Event system.

Upon contact with all the other civs it was clear that I would be able to retain a tech lead until the end of the game, barring a suprise killer AI. That seemed unlikely though. I therefore decided not to expand beyond the starting island much, at least not militarily. Partly I did this because it would result in the most parsimonious victory, partly because I expected going to war would slow down the lauch date. It's difficult to predict this though; it could have gone either way if I had, for instance, concentrated on taking out Rome early.

The other civs were mostly Pleased with me, except Isabella whom I went to war with a few times. My advanced navy and air power sunk her transports, so there was never much danger.

I initially beelined for a Diplomatic victory, but miscalculated how popular I was compared to Catherine. So I spent the rest of the game shifting gears for a Spaceship victory, trying to avoid a Diplomatic loss.

I was once again really impressed with the power of the Dike. On a map like this one it really is unfair.

I agree that it's important to use a scoring system that takes into account the date of victory. Otherwise warfare/conquest would be the only viable way to win the competition.