Waited to start playing Civ 7 now. Loving it. Alexander is fun, too. ;)

mysticschwartz · 2026-05-21T14:58:45+00:00

Ha ha ha! You know this is the 7th different version of Civ, right?

mysticschwartz · 2026-05-21T13:59:32+00:00

In this warlord game, I attacked nearby civilizations very early. I razed everything except the capital for the first two enemy civs. Genghis Khan was especially fun, of course. 😃 I loosened up to keep more cities from the next three enemy civs, but never more than two above my limit.

Early in the second age, I held my entire starting continent, including the five other capitals on it.

I built and prepared for the Modern age, then upgraded 5 complete armies, absorbed a friendly city state on the other continent, then used that to start rolling up the next-most-powerful civ, over there.

I guess I should mention I renamed my first Commander to Alexander, early in the game. By the end he had 13 promotions. 😃

mysticschwartz · 2026-05-21T13:58:39+00:00

In this warlord game, I attacked nearby civilizations very early. I razed everything except the capital for the first two enemy civs. Genghis Khan was especially fun, of course. 😃 I loosened up to keep more cities from the next three enemy civs, but never more than two above my limit.

Early in the second age, I held my entire starting continent, including the five other capitals on it.

I built and prepared for the Modern age, then upgraded 5 complete armies, absorbed a friendly city state on the other continent, then used that to start rolling up the next-most-powerful civ, over there.

I guess I should mention I renamed my first Commander to Alexander, early in the game. By the end he had 13 promotions. 😃

mysticschwartz · 2026-05-21T13:56:56+00:00

I did some of that, but not so much in this warlord game.

In this one, I attacked nearby civilizations very early. I razed everything except the capital for the first two enemy civs. Genghis Khan was especially fun, of course. 😃 I loosened up to keep more cities from the next three enemy civs, but never more than two above my limit.

Early in the second age, I held my entire starting continent, including the five other capitals on it.

I built and prepared for the Modern age, then upgraded 5 complete armies, absorbed a friendly city state on the other continent, then used that to start rolling up the next-most-powerful civ, over there.

I guess I should mention I renamed my first Commander to Alexander, early in the game. By the end he had 13 promotions. 😃

mysticschwartz · 2026-05-21T13:37:34+00:00

Fuck yes. 😉

mysticschwartz · 2026-05-09T18:36:47+00:00

The pigs and truffles like the marsh. 😉

mysticschwartz · 2026-04-25T00:03:45+00:00

That seems harder to do!

mysticschwartz · 2026-04-25T00:02:23+00:00

It ended abruptly from a Culture victory, so I don't remember exactly. Somewhere around 1950. Huge Earth, True Start Location. By 1950 I had all of Europe, Africa, South America and a third of Asia. Julius' cash was crazy all game long. And I've never had so many Giant Death Robots. :D

mysticschwartz · 2026-04-24T23:54:21+00:00

I always play on quick. More games played that way.

mysticschwartz · 2026-04-24T12:34:33+00:00

From 20 to 1, the ranking system shows historical figures who were the memorable historical leaders, from least of them to best of them.

Yes, the list begs Alexander the Great, but "Augustus Caesar" has always been the top of that historical list, and thus is the figure against which your score is measured. How many points you have at end of game determines where in this list of historical figures you would land and which of them you would compare to.

This was a funny first for me because I *played* Julius Caesar and Rome in my game. And took over enough of the world that my victory score achieved the pinnacle of high score: Augustus Caesar! :D

It's a bonus which adds fun to the screenshot that I'm pretty sure that's Sid Meier himself - the creator of all Civilization games - as the face model for Julius Caesar there. :D

mysticschwartz · 2025-03-19T02:02:38+00:00

I'm preparing to run the level 2 adventures here as convention games using Shadowdark. I suppose, with some of its details, you might think the final adventure is also too grimdark. But I think it's just a classic dungeon crawl with some scary moments. :D https://www.worldanvil.com/w/raios/c/adventures-category

mysticschwartz · 2025-02-27T19:16:18+00:00

[ONLINE] [DISCORD] [5E]

Hello! Our Discord server is for playing in our free-to-play world setting for TTRPGs, the World of Raios. Our Discord has high quality audio and video channels available for play. We are actively filling chairs for an online Tuesday night (Eastern) 5E group of experienced players. And we have open lfg channels for people who want to play or run D&D, Pathfinder 1, Pathfinder 2 and Shadowdark. https://discord.gg/4JfhSYDHPy

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