Intermediate Game 19 Discussion Thread

[RobWorham]

Intermediate League Game 19 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......

Looks like this was a tough one for you guys. Only two submissions, and only one of those a victory!!! Congrats to Jungle III!!!

1st : JungleIII : Won Domination Victory - 1972AD - 6483 points / 27620 points

2nd : Chuckman : Lost to Gilgamesh - 1932AD - 1233 points / 5157 points - LOST

Congratulations also to all those who took part!!!

[JungleIII]

This map was a bit too large for anything quick and made for a tough game – at least for a domination victory, which due to a lack of choices (or poor choices) was all that was left for me.

It really was a tough and almost tedious task to work my way to that domination level and hope such a huge land mass doesn’t pop up again very often. I spent nearly 30 hours on this game for a crappy score of 27,900. But since victory was sooo late – in 1971, I got to use units and tactics that are rarely available when conquering much earlier in the game.

I can’t think of anything really interesting to talk about my conquests so, I’ll just mention I built the Oracle (got Code of Laws), Great Library, Taj Mahal, and Mausoleum of Maussollos. I took the Apostolic Palace from Gilgamesh, but was never popular enough to work a victory.

I built 50 camel archers
77 Cavalry
41 Catapults
25 Infantry
95 tanks (a lot of ground was gained when these were built)
27 fighters
27 bombers
and produced 8 great generals

I eliminated the Orange Gilgamesh as it was too confusing having two Gilgameshes, and then vassalized Purple Gilgamesh and later Hannibal. During the same turn Cyrus, and Hatshepsut capitulated in the end, which gave me 80% of the population and 73% of the map. Only Hammurabi was left on his own when I won.

Still, a victory is a victory – so I’ll say a good, albeit tough game.

[crescentfresh]

Originally posted by JungleIII

I eliminated the Orange Gilgamesh as it was too confusing having two Gilgameshes