King of Deity Challenge **until 2500BC SPOILER**

[Skyfish]

Thanks for posting your reports about the CDZ KoD Challenge #1 here !

THIS SPOILER IS FOR ONLY UNTIL 2500bc, ANOTHER SPOILER WILL BE OPEN FOR AFTER 2500bc UNTIL FULL MAP AND FULL CONTACTS.
PLEASE DO NOT SPOIL ANYONE !

[Lt. Killer M]

the moves of turn one are quite obvious to me:



http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Lt. Killer M/20031021105616_DC01.jpg
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the hut is emtpy [rolleyes], but moving off northwest I meet the Shinese. They have warrior Code but will not trade it. Well, another hut is emtpy but the third gives me Warrior Code....

I decide on a scout/farm gamble.

Some time later I meet a huge Scandinavian stack - headed towards China???
Masonry nets me CB and 10 Gold.
Mao still is quite arrogant about his knowledge:


http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Lt. Killer M/200310211142_CD02.jpg
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around 31oo BC there is fighting in China - the Koreans msut be drunken with victory as they give me Alphabet for Masonry and pottery and throw in 7 Gold. I quickly sell all around that I can and net seom 40 more Gold as contacts between all AIs are imminent.


2850m BC see a Granary done, now I will settle settle settle like crazy. The forests with game get cut as two bonus grass are mined.

[Skyfish]

Unfortunately I did not keep notes, screen or saves until 2510BC as I played it in one quick session.

I got full advantage from the Expansionist trait by getting a settler (or was it advanced tribe [confused]) on an early hut, hope I wont be the only one...

I built 4 scouts and went for maximum contacts and trades, could get an early min science gamble on Mathematics going.

I have all first level techs except The Wheel.
Contact with Korea, China, France, Egypt, Viking.

China is already to close for comfort, they will be the first to go...

Here is my lands :
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Skyfish/2003102395542_2500bc situation.jpg

And my minimap :

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Skyfish/2003102310237_2500bcMinimap.jpg
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[Skyfish]

Now that I read Killer's spoiler I dont believe a settler move was "obvious" ...
Especially since the second game on Forest does not appear on his shot.
Also moving the settler down would lose one bonus grassland (the one W, SW)
but I am probably missing the point here what did you mean Killer ?

[Lt. Killer M]

Sky: the two shield 2 food tile in the first nine (i.e. the game) made the move obvious for me.

[Skyfish]

Oh OK...
For me (in my opinion) : when Industrious, the move to get a bonus shield in the first 9 (that you will get in 10 turns anyway) is wasted.

[col]

Ok - settled where I stood. Scout went west, worker went east. Didnt keep notes but China is settling very aggressively and I had to grab the iron with a culture snatch. I'm getting squeezed along the coast but there is a lot of potential with cattle and game.

[ProPain]

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/ProPain/20031028153126_KoD1_start.jpg
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First I sent the scout west & north, when I saw lands werent better I sent worker east because that would be the first spot the work if I would settle on spot. I decide current location is best and settle on the spot

Build 3 scouts and started roaming the lands. In 2510BC I met all civs but one, am tech par(1st row + myst) and have bled all ai dry financially. NOt too shabby. NY was a settler from a hut founded onspot.

3650BC - BW from hut

3600BC - Meet Vikings, I trade MAsonry for WC+10gold

3400BC - Get settler from hut, found New Yourk on the spot

3350BC - Get 25 gold from hut

3250BC - Discver ceremonial burial, vikings got it 1 turn b4 me [cry]

3200BC - Meet korea, They have alphabet and 60 gold, but lack masonry, pottery and cer burial. They want all my techs and 25 gold for alpha [crazyeye]No deal

3050BC - Korea wont drop the alphabet price and I decide to give in before they meet other civs

2900BC - pop hut, empty

2800BC- Get the wheel for alpha and 2 gold (dunno from who )

2750BC - empty hut, meet celts, they;re standing next to a scandinavian scouting warrior [grr] just a sec too late. I sell alphabet to scandinavia for myst and 10 gold. Switch to min poly gambit

2710BC - Meet egypt, sell myst for 10 gold to cleo. Sell myst to korea for 85 gold, apparently I forgot to check them 2 turns ago.

2670BC - Meet france, they're tech par[cry]

2630BC - Get maps of the region from a hut

2510BC - Korea and China are at war. Dunno if they have been for long but I see a fight in the interturn. Lets hope this fight will last.



2510BC map

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/ProPain/2003102501418_KoD1_2510.jpg
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[Aggie]

4000 BC: Scout moves east, then north. Settled on the spot. Warrior code @ 0%. Scout in 5.

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Aggie/2003102582148_DC4000BCdecisions.jpg
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3800 BC: deserted hut

3750 BC: scout->scout

3700 BC: scout finds map info :(. Other scout finds China. I buy two Chinese workers for Pottery, 5 gpt and 30 g [tongue]

3650 BC: deserted hut [sad]

3600 BC: deserted hut :(

3550 BC: scout->scout

3500 BC: border expansion and growth to size 2. Lux to 10%. Hut deserted. [cry]

3450 BC: meet Vikings. Masonry for warrior code and 10 gold.

3400 BC: scout->granary

3250 BC: I meet Korea

3150 BC: I meet an advanced tribe from hut in the middle of nowhere [mad]. Lux to 30%. I meet France and Egypt. Pottery to France for 35 gold. To prevent that stupid city New York from rioting, lux goes to 50% [wallbash]

2670 BC: granary->settler

2510 BC: settler->settler

Here's my world now. Just look at the GREAT position of New York in the north!!:

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Aggie/2003102582538_DC2510BCmap.jpg
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And my core:

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Aggie/2003102582634_DC2510BCterritory.jpg
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[Skyfish]

Very nice exploration Aggie ! Which techs did you have (and the AIs) at the time though ?

[Aggie]

Hmmm, I don't know exactly and I didn't keep a save. But at this point I wasn't very happy about my luck with the huts. Imho expansionist on Deity sucks big time :(

[ProPain]

Amazing to see the different development of China in the different games. Their either giants or dwarves

[Swingue]

Well, I thought I had a bad start but at 2500 I have 4 cities. Most of it luck though, I popped 2 cities in a row around 3250 bc.


http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Swingue/20031028113535_sp spoiler 2500_swingue.GIF
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I was just able to get the Chinese of my spot near the river.

greetz,
Swingue

[ProPain]

updated my spoiler.