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World conquest without firing a shot!
Dec. 14th, 2019 07:03 pmJust got finished with a nearly all-day marathon Civilization VI game. I was supposed to be playing D&D, but my guts flared up again and I didn't want to be the guy missing huge chunks of playing time while answering the utterly unreasonable demands of Mother Nature.
Plus, I have no idea how sensitive my microphone is, and the bathroom is only like six feet away.
So, between bouts of cursing our utterly ineffective digestive systems, I played Civ. Started a game with Eleanor of Aquitaine in her guise as Queen of England. Eleanor is the only leader in the game who has two civilizations she can run. You can play her as either France or England. In this case, I chose England simply because I liked the mix of advantages that she gave mixed with England's special units. I had a pretty decent start position, so on with the game.
I'm not going to bore you with the details, just the highlights. One of Eleanor's special abilities that a city with Great Works drain enemy cities of their loyalty at a rate of 1 per turn per Great Work. This is a massive incentive to built those Theater Square districts and fill them with amphitheaters, museums, and broadcast studios. A loaded out Theater Square has slots for six Great Works. Place it right, and enemy cities (and even the free city-states0 quickly lose loyalty to their empire. The next best thing is that with Eleanor, there is no period when the now-rebelling city acts as a free state. This is the time between when the old loyalty drops too low for the old empire to control the city, and the new empire to gain enough loyalty to take over. During this time, the city acts like a super-barbarian state. But with Eleanor, it just jumps to your control.
I took six enemy cities this way. Plus two city-states. The most amazing thing is, I never fought a war. Not once, even with Montezuma as a close neighbor. I was never denounced, never attacked, and ever had any real reason to attack anyone. Although you can be sure I kept troops on the border with the Aztecs.
Reached a Cultural Victory in 1870. The whole world was wearing London fashions and listening to English bands like Deep Culture and Fast Sushi while enjoying our lovely seaside resorts. I was miles ahead in technology, with the London Spaceport nearly complete and two mechanized infantry corps just to make sure Montezuma remembered what was what.
Plus, I have no idea how sensitive my microphone is, and the bathroom is only like six feet away.
So, between bouts of cursing our utterly ineffective digestive systems, I played Civ. Started a game with Eleanor of Aquitaine in her guise as Queen of England. Eleanor is the only leader in the game who has two civilizations she can run. You can play her as either France or England. In this case, I chose England simply because I liked the mix of advantages that she gave mixed with England's special units. I had a pretty decent start position, so on with the game.
I'm not going to bore you with the details, just the highlights. One of Eleanor's special abilities that a city with Great Works drain enemy cities of their loyalty at a rate of 1 per turn per Great Work. This is a massive incentive to built those Theater Square districts and fill them with amphitheaters, museums, and broadcast studios. A loaded out Theater Square has slots for six Great Works. Place it right, and enemy cities (and even the free city-states0 quickly lose loyalty to their empire. The next best thing is that with Eleanor, there is no period when the now-rebelling city acts as a free state. This is the time between when the old loyalty drops too low for the old empire to control the city, and the new empire to gain enough loyalty to take over. During this time, the city acts like a super-barbarian state. But with Eleanor, it just jumps to your control.
I took six enemy cities this way. Plus two city-states. The most amazing thing is, I never fought a war. Not once, even with Montezuma as a close neighbor. I was never denounced, never attacked, and ever had any real reason to attack anyone. Although you can be sure I kept troops on the border with the Aztecs.
Reached a Cultural Victory in 1870. The whole world was wearing London fashions and listening to English bands like Deep Culture and Fast Sushi while enjoying our lovely seaside resorts. I was miles ahead in technology, with the London Spaceport nearly complete and two mechanized infantry corps just to make sure Montezuma remembered what was what.
