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if i make peace with catherine i wont really have any victory available

too many cities and too far behind culturally, my science is middle of the pack, lost a few diplo votes by being at war

i should have played this game differently and spent gold on purchasing buildings/units instead of feeding tons of citystates

they are good for defense at the beginning while you expand, but they just get in the way at later game

should have also went into rationalism tree for my third policy so i can spend my faith on great scientists instead of great engineers

great engineers are somewhat useless when you cant build any wonders (11 AI civs on immortal)

gonna remake same game since i have learned said stuff

also better manage my buildings so that i always am getting rome's special ability in every other city

didnt pay enough attention to that and probably wasted a lot of production turns because i didnt build something in the capital first

spawned in almost exact same spot, northeast india

turn 66, i have 5 new cities (all pop 1 still, building libraries/granaries in each as opening construction), 3 workers (1 from social policy)

one scout has been scouting since turn 5 or so, met 5 enemy civs so far, 7 citystates

carthage and the celts both just declared war, i think i probably have 3 turns before they each have 3-4 warriors/spearmen appearing at the doorstep of Ravenna

pic for location of those 2 civs capitals

ironworking researches in 3 turns, hopefully i have an iron supply, would probably take 8 or so turns to get a worker there and have a mine built, then i can produce roman legions to defend myself

i dont like playing the rome style games, where you need to expand to more marginally good cities. i have more fun playing with smaller core cities and build them up.
but thats just me ofc, though i guess if you rush the liberty policy with free settler and bonus production then just pump out a quick 4 or so, but that always seems to trigger the computer to attack because ofc you cant defend it.
so im back to i prefer smaller, more focused empires. until puppet cities.

fortunately ravenna is in a great great locations with the mountain range to defend itself

really blows to not have any iron in your, makes early war tough

depends on the map and size

im playing a huge earth map so rome is great

at least they changed catapults/trebuchet/etc to not require an iron any more, that was killer having them plus your swordsman both take iron and not having any of it

that wouldnt change my enjoyment. the part about being attacked was only if you have proper civs/map size ratio. either way fuck rome.

oh i was also producing another settler and had one out on on the map, so now its turn 70 and i have 7 cities

update; no iron within my territory, but there was a deposit just north, in the mountains, where i had a settler hiking his ass up to

secured the iron source, its just on the inside of Mediolanum so i should be able to keep it safe from pillaging without any problem

the carthage troops have started to arrive

i dont understand faith if you arent one of the civs that gets to found a religion, do you just not build any sort of faith buildings and accept whatever enemy religion is spread to your cities?

i wont be able to get a religion this game probably since i didnt build any shrines outside of my capital, and theres only 7 allowed for 12 players

note to self; make sure cities have enough buildings to be self-sufficient and not detrimental to the empire before building units

everything has been going very very well so far, all my warriors are upgraded to legions and started building roads, i have enough luxuries to keep me happen until more cities build colosseums, and my cities are all in great defensive spots

only celtic unit ive seen is a single scout which i killed, dido has brought her first actual force, they are just arriving now through carthage, my military and city defenses are more than enough to hold them off

building libraries in all these cities is already looking like its paying off huge

not having to make a single military unit from my capital really helps too, since i can make every building as the tech is researched, and keep up on settler production as well

dido made peace, gave me 80 gold, 5 gpt and crab for 30 turns

still havent heard anything from the celts, i guess were still at war

i settled a new city in the desert, its pretty close to austria's southern border and maria theresa is pissed

maria theresa declared war

used my great engineer from finishing the liberty tree to hurry Petra in that city, its going to be my desert stronghold that is a foothold into settling this austrian bitches lands, do you even know my name?

i commend you for playing without the resource/tile icons
same

So wait, there's a 30 dollar version and a 50 dollar version, which one would I need?

Also there's like 50 expansion packs...wtf?

and she gave me 81 gold and 12 gold per turn for peace

wat

theres 1 expansion, a few single civ dlc's, a lot of community made free content and mods

buy the 30 dollar vers, i assume its not on sale any more?

or you can wait until the steam holiday sale and probably orig will be 15 and expac 15 again

there's a regular version and a "game of the year" version for 20 more.

Then there are 11 dlc packs for the game as well.

says it's 30, so guessing not.

the last sale ended like 2 days ago

boooo dis. Sales should only be on Fridays, because that's payday.

There will be another Steam sale in a couple weeks for Christmas probably.

turn 150 literature chart

1. 29
2. 28
3. 27
4. you 27
5. 26
6. 25
7. 25
8. 25
9. 24
10. 24
11. 24
12. 24

i guess research agreements will start changing that a lot

you are doing really well
i would never have lived this long on immortal or diety

every other time ive had to spend so much production on military just to stay alive, this game was just awesome with the terrain i had

you should play the earth map, it adds another dimension when you know the general terrain of everywhere on the map

was able to build notre dame, 21 happiness and i have theatres building in 4 cities

economy is ok but not sure how it compared to the AI's (63 gpt)

holding research agreements with 5 civs right now

national college should finish in rome and boost my science by about 20 points (224 currently) and just in time to start working on big ben since i think i will be the first to hit industrialization

starting that desert city with petra was huge, its my highest producing city and it was the second-last that i built

this legion has seen some shit

second gr8 engi spawn from rome, hurried the porcelain tower (not sure if i had to hurry but taking no chances, +50% scienece from research agreements will probably be huge in this game, especially for science victory)

leaning tower of pisa was built by another civ with 6 turns left on my desert production city

this game has the intense feeling like its almost near being won, but its only 1360 AD

turn 200 update

gonna stop now for the night before i find myself awake at 7am

random game, immortal
huge map
spain
was going good
sweeds declair war
capital taken, was slow to react, cities aint what they used to be

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