Novice Game 26 Discussion Thread

[RobWorham]

Novice League Game 26 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 quiet one this time, with only Swissy providing a valid save to win with ease.........

Swissy : Won Space Race Victory - 1964AD - 4575 points / 11684 points

duffer : Invalid save type.

Congratulations also to all those who took part!!!

[duffer]

I made a complete hash of it. I always seemed to be one or two turns behind the AI. Near the end, all that was left was trying for a space win so I put all my resources towards that goal. It looked like I had the victory in the bag until Hatty & her two lapdogs declared war on me. Since I let my army lag during my efforts to win the space race, I was an easy target. Rather than watch the slow slaughter of my empire I retired in disgust.

Congrats to Swissy

[Swissy]

Finding horses near-by, I decided to strike Ethiopia. This was the key to victory because Askum was my powerhouse city. I then invested in a more sizable army than usual, as I had two noted warmongers in Monty and Alex on my border. This worked well as Egypt was constantly at war with one or the other, allowing me to build a substansial tech lead over everyone else on our continent. With Alex and Monty busy I took out Persia, giving me two rather good production cities.

Once I had reserached to grenediers and cannon, I took on the Aztec/ Egypt duo. Monty had subjegated Egypt earlier and Egypt was pretty much still stuck in spearman/Longbowmen/war chariot technology. I rolled Egypt while paying off Alex to attack Monty. In the end Egypt was driven off the mainland and the Aztecs had just two mainland cities remaining. By then I was almost into modern and the others were just getting into industrial. I made peace and went into a major tech mode as I explored the continent.

The other continent was dominated by the Inca and their Spanish vassal , and a rather advanced Sumeria. The Sumerian's tech was nearly on par with mine. The Mongol soon joined the Sumerian in an alliance. At that point I decided to go straight to the spaceship.

The endgame was fairly easy. Previous games taught me the value of the anti-spy buildings and I had those in every city. I also had a nice build-up of espionage points to slow down progess on the other continent. In the end Sumeria/Mongolia had a half-dozen spaceship parts.

[RobWorham]

Nice stuff Swissy!!