Novice Game 14 Discussion Thread

[RobWorham]

Novice League Game 14 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......

Only one submission this game......

1st : Carch : Won Space Race Victory - 1979AD - 7911 points - 16645 points

Congratulations to all those who took part!!!

[Carch]

My game went surprisingly like those described in the advanced game discussion. I got an extra scout early and spotted England in the south and the big juicy open area to the east. I decided to expand quickly and deny open borders to keep England out of the eastern land, and continued expanding as fast as I could to fill up the map. A couple of times England decided to be a bully, invading one of my border cities, but each time she accepted a peace treaty straight away.

Throughout the game I kept losing out on wonder building to India. Fairly late in the game I checked and sure enough, 3 Indian cities were fast approaching legendary culture. I switched the majority of my production to building a huge invasion force and pushed in to take over one of the high culture cities.

Then India got the UN and started pushing for diplomatic victory! With England still a thorn in my side and voting for India to win, I decided she had to go. I took my huge Indian invasion force and swept over and eliminated England, securing enough population to avoid any chance of a diplomatic loss.

After narrowly avoiding first a cultural then a diplomatic loss, it was smooth sailing to Alpha Centauri, since I had maintained a decent tech lead over India.

By the way, one thing that I've found has been helping me quite a bit with these games is a quick trial run with the leader on my own randomly generated map, before I download the tournament map. This gets me familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of the leader, unique units and buildings.

[RobWorham]

Excellent write up Carch!!!