Brotato

Click for parts one and two.  Lets see if I can’t finish this up.  To recap, I have hardly any army, no culture, and stupid, demanding people.  Will try for the space victory but I’m likely to lose.

Turn 172, 1120 AD

Finally learned astronomy, now to complete navigating the globe.  There are still a few civilizations I have yet to meet.  A majority of the barbarian tribes have been wiped out.

Turn 200, 1400 AD

I’ve explored much of the globe, except for interior areas of other civilizations there’s not much unknown parts on the map.  I am earning 106 science per turn.  Unsure if that is good or bad at this point.  It’s been peaceful so far.

<Disaster Strikes>

Game crashed, last autosave is turn 190.  Granted, I’ve only lost 10 turns but my heart is not in this game.  I may come back to it at a later time, but I think it’s best to start a new game.  This time I will choose a leader myself and a better map type.  Too much time was spent trying to sail the seas this time around.  Also, will be looking to bump the difficulty up to the next notch.  Stay tuned.
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Click here for part 1.  Today I plan on getting a couple hours of play in before football starts.  Lets see where I’m at…

Turn 109, 150 BC

I’ve expanded to the north and am in the process of expanding west.  My people are slightly unpleased with my rule; I will have to work on making them happy.  Up til now I haven’t really thought about what kind of victory to go for.  It may be kind of late to be picking one now, too.  Domination is out; I’ve neglected my army since I have few neighbors.  I’m barely generating culture, so that victory is out as well.  Remaining options are space race and diplomatic.  Leaning towards space race.  I am unsure of the capabilities of my opponents so this may turn out interesting.

Turn 137, 540 AD

The barbarian threat to the north makes expansion difficult and slow.  I hope to have the barbarians wiped out shortly.  Built a few libraries in my cities, but science is still low.  Met a few more civilizations.  Made a trade to get pearls, making my people happy for the time being.

Turn 158, 960 AD

Keeping the happiness of my people up is a constant struggle.  For a while I had thought I had created a few buildings to increase happiness, but I must have imagined it as I noticed I was generating 0 happiness from buildings.    I could swear I had build some circuses and colosseums earlier.   Anyways, time to take a break.  May play later today if I get a chance.
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Join me on my quest of world domination. The settings are:

• Random Leader
• Random Map
• Standard Map Size
• Warlord difficulty – I’m a noob lol
• Standard pace

I’ve played through a few hours at chieftan difficulty, so I am now bumping it up a notch.  Let’s see what I get with random leader and map…

Turn 0, 4000 BC

I am Gandhi, leader of India.   I’ve spawned on a narrow strip of land.  There’s sugar, cattle, sheep, and marble within view.  Good spot for a city.  Delhi is founded.  I send my warrior out to explore.  I start building a scout and learning animal husbandry.

Turn 20, 3200 BC

I’ve explored my whole island, which is situated near the southern pole.  More cattle have been found, along with some horses and deer.  Other than a barbarian camp which I dispersed, I am along on this island.  I’ve adopted tradition and I’m learning to sail.

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