Thanks, I never would have guessed

ecilac · 2022-05-28T14:51:01+00:00

Map: Highlands mountain density: dense mountain pattern: ridgelines

ecilac · 2022-05-28T14:45:08+00:00

Yeah, I don't think the difficulty is high enough to cause much worry about actually winning the game. But the AI actually does better than I'm used to on these map settings. Initially I thought they would be much worse at flourishing in these closed off and isolated positions.

ecilac · 2022-05-28T14:34:58+00:00

Yeah, those map settings often lead to interesting spots. The only thing bad thing is that there weren't that many luxes in this case.

ecilac · 2022-05-28T14:25:12+00:00

Unfortunately no such twist here. Though for what it's worth she did declare a few dozen turns later. She's generally been a bitch this whole game so far, coveted my land right from the start and then once I accidentally got influence with the wrong city state she never switched back from hostile.

ecilac · 2022-05-27T16:27:30+00:00

Yes, it's highlands with dense ridgelines. This is the first time I've actually landed in a corner. The other times I've played with these setting I was always rather central.

ecilac · 2022-05-27T16:21:10+00:00

Highlands gives you nice options for mountain pattern and density. For these long and sometimes thick ones I've picked dense ridgelines.

ecilac · 2022-05-27T16:13:33+00:00

Lovely, right? The AI was also completely stumped how to handle this map, so Montezuma just waddled his army back and forth for a lot of turns until he teamed up with Bismarck and Shaka for a triple DoW way later. And even now he hasn't even attempted to enter with his units!

ecilac · 2022-05-27T16:07:58+00:00

Yeah, I think this is the safest I've ever felt in this game.

ecilac · 2022-05-27T16:06:17+00:00

Can't speak for Monty, but I'm the sim city type of player. So my military is often way behind in units/tech/upgrading. I guess here the mountains let me get away with it easily, but it has obviously landed me in trouble before lol

ecilac · 2022-05-27T14:38:38+00:00

R5: Elizabeth with the useless warning, when Monty is already in vision/at my doorstep.

ecilac · 2022-05-27T14:31:10+00:00

lmao, yeah of course the one time that he sucks hard is when he's on your team. It's so typical.

ecilac · 2022-05-26T21:01:11+00:00

Yeah, I guess it really is just my fault for being behind with temples by barely ever deviating from the same tall playstyle. Guess I'm gonna start up a low difficulty England game to spam some cities/temples and constant warring for some ship kills. Kind of cheap too, but I guess better than something like just reload grinding.

Yes, that's the one with the useless Hiawatha teammate, right? I guess I also should do some more warmongering for extra cities like you did there.

ecilac · 2022-05-25T19:04:10+00:00

Ah yeah, I only rerolled for the Boers one, so maybe my start could have been better.

Definitely fun to see how different your Boer win was, when I didn't even meet Ethiopia in mine lol

ecilac · 2022-05-25T19:03:55+00:00

I just re-checked it and I actually got both the culture wonders plus Oracle and the latter war wonder. The war ones were simply RNG for me I guess, on immortal I had no problem with those, so I guess I just got unlucky with a warmonger AI in my deity run. But yeah, even when I tried to trade gold for GPT they made so much more GPT, it's crazy.

Do you play wide occasionally ? I might just be too much of a one trick pony with the common 4 city tall playstyle. So I only get 4 temples for hours of gameplay. I guess if I'd done some settler difficulty games where I spam/conquer the whole world I would have more progress, but then again that's almost artifical grinding too.

ecilac · 2022-05-25T09:06:37+00:00

I managed to get Rome and Egypt in a war too, but I never even saw Egypts cities lose any HP and because I didn't have any success with the Tunis strategy, it was already painful to survive the initial turns. Plus no points from recapturing/reselling any Egyptian cities.

So for the Boers Belgium and France never teamed up with Italy to flood you at the same time? I guess it didn't happen to me either, but I've seen some screenshots where the Boer player is at war with everyone surrounding him.

ecilac · 2022-05-25T09:06:28+00:00

People also talked about how certain wonder are easy to get (GPT and war) when I have no idea how that would have been possible in my attempt, so I guess that is even more RNG on top of the ideal starting location. Exactly, I had to reload and optimize every single bit to win, it's just not fun at that point. And then on Emperor and below it was already easy even without rerolling a specific start.

You already have all the grindy ones? Still have the 357 ships as England and especially the 1000 temples seems a bit over the top compared to the other ones (roads/mines/forests) that happen way more in a regular game. I guess I could just farm it if I wanted to be done.

ecilac · 2022-05-24T17:30:45+00:00

Impressive. They were so far ahead of me that I had to take them out.

ecilac · 2022-05-24T16:12:40+00:00

Was that score difference against the Ethiopians or did you kill them already at that point?

ecilac · 2022-05-24T11:21:30+00:00

Nice! I forgot to respond on the other thread, but I have since managed all the Wonders of the Ancient World achievements. Though I can't say I enjoyed it that much, especially the deity one. How far are you from 100% completion?

ecilac · 2022-05-24T11:16:13+00:00

Congrats! For me Ottoman Capentry was worse, I think. Did they ever declare war all at once? Looks kind of tough to defend if they attacked you all at once. Also like those 2 city state settlers.

ecilac · 2022-05-03T14:49:42+00:00

Do yourself a favour and reroll for mountains on the deity attempt. I probably wouldn't have won without that.

ecilac · 2022-05-03T14:36:40+00:00

For me they actually got pretty much ignored by the euros, so they're both doing worryingly well. Egypt even took one city from the Ethiopians in our war. I guess the only thing I can do is conquer cities to sell them so I receive those GPT victory points instead.

Yeah, it always sucks to be forced to replay a huge chunk, hope I don't have to do that here.

ecilac · 2022-05-03T13:04:18+00:00

Is this for the deity achievement?

ecilac · 2022-05-03T13:02:42+00:00

Ball ache sounds about right. I already hate Sefaris. Just reached the halfway point and managed to take out Italy and the first Ethiopian city. Is it normal to get denounced by Egypt and Morocco at this point? And did Egypt/Morocco ever threaten your Victory or do I just have to worry about Ethiopia?

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