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| As predicted, I opted for a cultural win. I raced for biology, then sushi, dropped research to 0% and hired many many artists. I also built a lot of ships and other units, to at least be able to protect my cultural threesome. Didn't drop behind in science though, so at the end my infantry were the best unit anyone could field. I think it was mainly the two gold mines that did the trick. Anyway, some screenshots...
The list of wonders in this city goes on a bit. I was generating (and settling, as you can see) a lot of great people here. Never built the Statue of Liberty in just (under?) 10 turns before.  This one reached legendary status without much help from me.
This city spot was chosen with culture victory in mind: lots of food for specialists and some forests I preserved for, um, preservations. I did use a culture bomb or two here.
This was a weird little city. Built in a less-than-optimal spot to keep the Zulus out, and starting more as a unit pump than anything else, it became the holy city for 2 religions. I also built some ancient (artist generating) wonders here AND settled the free artist from music here, so this was the third bugger to get selected. It needed the most culture bombs. |
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Edited: 11/21/2007 10:34 PM by Zigeuner
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| You build Upsalla in the same location as I did. Why did you not build Maoi Statue here? That's what I did and regarding production it was competing with my capitol at some stage.
You did probably use more culture bombs (I used 2) compared to my game. And you were clever enough to irrigate all the lands. I did build some cottages which was a mistake. I built MS in the former Zulu capital where I produced most my ships; it had a military instructor when I took it over (as if that explains it  ).
Towards the very end I generated five or six great artists. I didn't build any cottages except where I couldn't irrigate. For a long time, all I wanted was all the wonders; everything else was unimportant. I had quite a few neglected cities, because I didn't want them to lose focus (one built missionaries, one built spies, two built land units, and so on). My cash cow didn't even have time to get wall street.
Zig, how the bloody hell did you manage to build so many wonders in Nidaros with such low initial production? Boggles the mind how you get all those at such a high level. I've not tried this one yet, I'm a little wary of the difficulty level. I might give it a shot, dunno.
I really do prefer Warlords GotM, but since that's been deemed obsolete on this board, I don't bother getting involved with GotM much here anymore. [Sad] First of all, there's marble and stone closeby, and you start out as industrious. Second, low production? Look at all those hills! I kept it small for a long time (not enough food) but I was still working the cows (3), 2 gold (6), and one grass hill (3), which is very decent. Then I settled all the early great prophets which give +2 hammers each, and I was generating a lot of them. An early engineer (+3) helped, and even the scientists from the great library (+1 each). I got the idea from outrageous threads like this one by obsolete (all his threads have "walkthrough" in the title). He did some on emperor too.
BtS is still pretty much the same. You don't have to focus on espionage or corporations. And mongoose is kind to us; we get our own little continent to conquer, and this time so did everyone else. TWO gold mines in the fat cross warrants an entire step up on the difficulty scale. It's truly an enormous benefit. Give it a twirl, you'll be amazed.
Zigeuner, do you have any idea of how ludicrously big those cities are? It seems like I need to get the Sushi Corporation in all of my future games. Thus far I've only used Mining Inc, which r0x0r, but with sushi too I'll soon be winning on Immortal [w00t] Sushi is ludicrous, and with a little direction you can get to it very early.
As for higher difficulties, this little exercise might give you something to ponder... |
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