Novice Game 7 Discussion Thread

[RobWorham]

Novice League Game 7 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 slow start to the year. Carch won comfortably, with OFogy duplicating the Diplo win, while gbo went for the long slog.........

The top three :

1st : Carch : Won Diplomatic Victory - 1969AD - 4397points / 10846 points

2nd : OFogy : Won Diplomatic Victory - 1995AD - 3556 points / 6543 points
3rd : gbo : Won Time Victory - 2050AD - 5084 points / 4091 points

The rest :

Makahlua : Lost to Cultural - 2022AD - 3007 points / 3957 points - LOST

Congratulations to all those who took part in this game.

[Carch]

Hey, thanks again for the game. I found the theme on this one to be a lot of fun, and the relatively early (for me, anyway) diplomatic win was a huge surprise to me. Though I guess it shouldn't have been because I stayed friendly with everyone through most of the game.

The thing that made this work for me is that as soon as I found Lincoln close to me and relatively isolated, I pushed hard to try to take him out. I wasn't able to take him out, but I was able to push him out of the little area he was in. He ended up my vassal, with a couple of island cities he had escaped to while we fought. After that, with two countries worth of resources & cities, I was able to stay ahead of the AIs and stay friendly with them. A couple of them liberated cities, and I befriended the new civs as well (except Isabella, who was being very needy and clingy).

My only worry late in the game was oil. I found some and secured it, kept my tech lead. Eventually the UN vote came up and I got the surprise victory!

Sorry I don't have more details on how it went, but it's been a while since I had a look at this one.

[OFogy]

Good game

Thanks again, Rob and Nugog, for another engrossing game.
I was flabbergasted when I got the diplomatic victory, because I've never been able to achieve one before.
In fact, in *this* game I was chuntering along toward a cultural victory when the opportunity to build the U.N. came along. At first, I offered and had accepted pretty inocuous items -- no nukes, trade routes (i think), then just for the hell of it tried for a diplomatic victory. And by God, the AI said yes.
Yahoo!
OFogy

[RobWorham]