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Rome is eternal, Kongo glows in the dark.
Just finished an amazing game of CivVI. Trajan on a Large Continents map, King difficulty.
As an aside, King is a good challenge for me, and the new computer has solved the slow play issue.
I started with the Cree and America to my South, Kongo to the Southeast, and Persia to my Northeast. I really lucked out in terms of a starting location, as there were plenty of mountains making high-yield spots for campuses and holy sites.
Because I was on King, I built four warriors quickly (I use mods that give you a starting scout and warrior.) Some nice villagers gave me the Holy Lance, so I very quickly was able to select the pantheon that gave me a Settler. As I was building one already, Rome quickly had three cities, and a strong flow of money and Iron.
Which was important, because Poundmaker of the Cree is an ass. He attacked America, taking Washington. I responded by taking Washington, and all of his cities. I gave Washington back to Teddy Roosevelt. But it kept getting conquered, in the end, it and New York were Roman, and America was a backwards state stretching along a pretty barren cost.
Fast forward here. I eventually met the folks living on the other continent. . . the Maori, Sweden, and the Ottomans. Spain had existed but was swallowed by the Ottoman Empire.
But Kongo was becoming my problem. He kept declaring war on my ally America! As I had Mechanized armies and jet bombers at this point, I took about half his cities along with wiping out his invasions force (We had a little WWI recreation of cavalry vs. emplaced machineguns. It got ugly.) and settled so I could develop those cities for myself.
Then he did it again. This time, I had a Giant Death Robot and I nuked one of his remaining cities. Evacuated art from a theater district threatened by rising sea levels and went back to a twin-pronged victory approach of both a Science and Cultural win.
Which is when Darius of Persia began demanding tribute. He had three poorly developed cities and no armies to speak of. Whereas the Grim Death Mechanized Army had all the possible promotions. It was a joke, I literally took each of his cities with a single turn of fighting. So that made four capitals I had conquered.
Which is when Kongo declared war on America. Again. This time, I went Dr. Strangelove on him.
Took about five days of playing, and I got the highest rating possible. Science victory in 1996 or thereabouts.
As an aside, King is a good challenge for me, and the new computer has solved the slow play issue.
I started with the Cree and America to my South, Kongo to the Southeast, and Persia to my Northeast. I really lucked out in terms of a starting location, as there were plenty of mountains making high-yield spots for campuses and holy sites.
Because I was on King, I built four warriors quickly (I use mods that give you a starting scout and warrior.) Some nice villagers gave me the Holy Lance, so I very quickly was able to select the pantheon that gave me a Settler. As I was building one already, Rome quickly had three cities, and a strong flow of money and Iron.
Which was important, because Poundmaker of the Cree is an ass. He attacked America, taking Washington. I responded by taking Washington, and all of his cities. I gave Washington back to Teddy Roosevelt. But it kept getting conquered, in the end, it and New York were Roman, and America was a backwards state stretching along a pretty barren cost.
Fast forward here. I eventually met the folks living on the other continent. . . the Maori, Sweden, and the Ottomans. Spain had existed but was swallowed by the Ottoman Empire.
But Kongo was becoming my problem. He kept declaring war on my ally America! As I had Mechanized armies and jet bombers at this point, I took about half his cities along with wiping out his invasions force (We had a little WWI recreation of cavalry vs. emplaced machineguns. It got ugly.) and settled so I could develop those cities for myself.
Then he did it again. This time, I had a Giant Death Robot and I nuked one of his remaining cities. Evacuated art from a theater district threatened by rising sea levels and went back to a twin-pronged victory approach of both a Science and Cultural win.
Which is when Darius of Persia began demanding tribute. He had three poorly developed cities and no armies to speak of. Whereas the Grim Death Mechanized Army had all the possible promotions. It was a joke, I literally took each of his cities with a single turn of fighting. So that made four capitals I had conquered.
Which is when Kongo declared war on America. Again. This time, I went Dr. Strangelove on him.
Took about five days of playing, and I got the highest rating possible. Science victory in 1996 or thereabouts.