HOF spoiler

[Plux]

aye mateys, i`m going to try to play the HOF game of december 2012, and problably do some spoiling here:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/559830844696023268/D506A92B17DCE41C28DB0B40922EA477DEC35C12/

Three lux resources, that means an early Golden Age!!

[Plux]

Here is 3000BC... I have IRoquois up north and Rome in the middle on a medium small peninsula, I`m in for some territorial urge, I suppose might be blessed if I get 4 cities in. Three should be possible easy.. I build two early workers, 1 out of policy.research. science to some early improvements techs and then optics

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/559830844696329169/9CD91B147F64BE3C90D25011776875ABC8140B64/

[Shabbaman]

Is that jungle or forest?

[Plux]

here s the situation alittle later.. most of the land is settled, not quite how I pictured it, ut I have 4 cities..

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/559830844698213210/C3A232D84000ED24F530AB7BC06FF51268CEAE33/

most of it is jungle, you like jungle??

[Plux]

this is around BC->AD The Romans and Sokhai wanted war so I am in a tough spot:

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/559830844698253756/E4AD63B1600FFED75B5A4C730DFE303D33581361/

[Plux]

The Romans attacked Sparta first, but the city held up, then they switched focus on Argos and after some years of battling and killings a lot of chariot archers and archers, the city fell because of their strong Ballista Catapult. I think the battle system is nicely balanced most of the time. IIRC building a nice stack of doom meant instanteneous victory, but now armada movement is more scattered and thus strong with weaknesses at the same time. It`s a pity that city states are a bit passive on the map, also as allies..

here`s the pic
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/559830844698253756/E4AD63B1600FFED75B5A4C730DFE303D33581361/

[Shabbaman]

Jungle can be great later on, for science.

[Plux]

I never built a lot of uni`s so far in late game.. they seem expensive for the amount of beakers they produce naturally, and in late game there `s never a lot of jungle arond anymore.. it`s a bit of a discrepance in game design imo.. maybe they should change the uni-jungle association, or make it possible to plant jungle and make jungle grow again naturally..