Novice Game 5 Discussion Thread

[RobWorham]

Novice League Game 5 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......

A tight one this time with zed64 just taking top spot from Captjack2037 and LaTuFu

The top three :

1st : zed64 : Won Cultural Victory - 1954AD - 3442 points / 10451 points

2nd : Captjack2037 : Won Cultural Victory - 1850AD - 1822 points / 10076 points
3rd : LaTuFu : Won Cultural Victory - 2025AD - 7048 points / 9633 points

The rest :

N/A

Congratulations to all three of you!!!

[Makahlua]

Urf. I didn't submit because I got down to the end and was stuck with either an unwinnable war against Mr. "Former Apostolic Palace resident and major but-kisser" Joao, who kept winning the UN election, despite me building it :/

So faced with either killing my economy by overexpanding off-shore, or throwing mysef on my sword trying to take out Joao, I chose to chicken out and play something else for a while

I can blame Boudicca for my defeat - I lost trying to attack her capital 3 times before finally getting an edge with Cho-Ko-Nu's, but of course by then I was too late for the AP, and a bit late to try and culture build. I probably should have gone culture early, but I wanted to take a shot at Domination, and figured she was the most likely to be a thorn in my side.

Well I was right, just not in the way I'd expected

[OFogy]

I didn't finish either, mostly because the wretched Boudicea kept on declaring war on me. Her numbers of horsemen just overwhelmed my fine but amateur army.
I'm a lover not a warrior, but I couldn't bring myself to try to seduce that lice-ridden hussy!

[RobWorham]

[LaTuFu]

I made fast friends with Z to my north, and tried to keep friendly relations with Boudica. Didn't work very well though. Early Game, I went after Joao to try to keep him from expanding too close to me. I thought about going after Boudica after that, but she was pretty close to me in technology at the time, so I decided to leave her be for the moment. Genghis and Sitting Bull were pretty weak, so I crossed the ocean and began taking them on. I was fighting a war on two fronts. Pretty easily, since I was well ahead in techs and sheer numbers. I wasn't paying attention, however, and when Sitting Bull got close to annihilation, he went to Z and begged for his protection as a Vassal. I didn't allow that mistake to happen with GK. Once he was defeated I turned my attention to Boudica, and systematically beat her down into capitulation as well.
I was reloading my armies and navies to take down Saladin when I won a Cultural Victory.

As soon as I had all of the major techs, I had switched my culture slider to 60%, and turned most of my conquered cities that weren't production sites into culture outputs.