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From now on, El Jeffe is to be referred to at all times by his new title, El Jeffe - Princess of Enchantments.
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Games: Ad Astra Per Phalla | Choose Your Own Phalla
Go, my minions, go!
Well, did Maddie ever dress up as a princess?
If you want to try... here's the initial save.
http://seiha.org/images/civbts/AutoSave_Initial_BC-4000.CivBeyondSwordSave
I actually played up through 10 AD in my first session, but that would be painful to do all at once, so I've just broken things up.
The game settings are: Noble Difficulty, Continents, Low Sea Level, 12 civs, and I set them all as the new civilizations. It'll probably be a bit of a slaughter in my favor, but whatever.
The Seihan Hegemony is a proud and industrious race, known for their love of red tape and their love of building shit. On our father's blood, we vow to conquer the world. Our ancestors knew the secrets of growing crops and fishing, and we shall put those to great use.
Our beginning area. Plenty of forests, which will be great for our "building shit" purposes, but kind of an irritation for the start. They will be burned to the ground eventually. At least we have some nice animals to eat nearby and some tribesmen to... indoctrinate.
4000 BC
The capital city of Tenka is founded. Hooray. Since we've got some great production, but shitty growth, we'll build up some military to scout around first and hopefully take someone else's workers. Let's also see if we can't learn to use those silly animals nearby.
Our warrior seizes the local tribesmen and forces them to... reveal that they have some useless freakin' maps. At least we have some marble nearby. I'll have to take that later.
3975 BC
Our noble warriors continue their scouting on top of a hill... and what's this blue border we see? ENEMIES.
3925 BC
Great, we've found some civilization of gay clowns. Their city is totally undefended... but so are the tribesmen just southwest... the opportunities for complete chaos here are so SO tempting.
3875 BC
We go after the tribesmen first and ravage their homes. We find evidence that they used some kind of crazy-ass round thing called "the wheel."
3825 BC
Those fuckos are still totally undefended. Oh well, it's early on. May as well take a risk. I've got little to lose.
3800 BC
Our first conscripted warrior finishes, bright eyed and ready to slaughter the gay clowns to the west. Our cultural sprawl also reveals yet more tribesmen to the east.
Are you kidding me? Still undefended? Well, I guess that's the end of the Gay Clown empire.
Awwww.... poor pathetic bastards.
Thus does the first civilization fall beneath my heel.
3725 BC
Oh ho. Hello Sitting Bull... why is your city on top of my marble? We're going to have to... talk about that.
Wonderful. A map. Of the ocean. You fucking worthless tribesmen. I threw them into the ocean for their stupidity.
3700 BC
Curse those religion-founding people. Curse them to hell.
3575 BC
We can now domesticate those beasts just east of Tenka. Excellent. We should really figure out this God thing, so on to Mysticism.
We also get news that yet another religion has been founded in some far off place. Those crazy-ass whackjobs.
3475 BC
Our fourth warrior finishes, and the war machine prepares to assault the Native Americans and steal their workers while we start on one of our own.
3350 BC
We've figured out how to pile up rocks and confuse future historians as well as make statues. On to a belief in multiple gods since we really do want a religion.
3325 BC
Our mini horde has taken up positions around the Native American capital. We'd prefer to wait for the moment though. They didn't start with hunting, so they won't have archers, so even if there are two warriors there, it'll be overkill. May as wait a little while for them to finish a worker (instead of switch off it to fight me) or for the city to hit pop 2 and then seize it.
3125 BC
We've waited long enough. They aren't sending out warriors/scout or anything, so... I have no idea what they're doing in there, probably a settler, but it's getting to the point where I can't risk waiting much longer. It's time to attack!
Heh. A worker in the capital and defended by a single warrior. Easy as pie.
3100 BC
Our own worker finishes and we send him out to go make pastures for the animals while we start on another warrior to keep the citizens happy.
We have some atrocious luck in attacking the city, (lost on 3%, 20%, 67%) bringing the last attack to... another 67%. Undaunted, the final warrior attacks the Native American capitol and...
Captures the worker and burns it to the ground. Another civilization trampled.
Suck it, Sitting Bull. We send the warrior and the worker to Tenka to be useful.
2925 BC
We figure out the whole "God thing" finally, but it fails to really take hold. Maybe we need some priests to spread the word. Priesthood and an Oracle Get.
2875 BC
We're actually fairly overdue for expansion, but still only at 2 pop. In 2 turns, we'll be at 3 though, so dump some points into Stonehenge for a couple turns before switching over.
2825 BC
And there we go.
Except... oshi... bears where we want to settle! Stupid damn bears.
2800 BC
*whew* Our brave warriors slaughtered the bear and held the spot for our future city.
2725 BC
Thanks Bede. Real fucking useful. I put him to death for his stupidity.
Alright, 51 turns down. Good enough place to stop for the moment. I've actually played up through 10 AD (turn 175ish), but that would be an oppressive amount of screenshots and talking. As for other analysis, this was kind of a weirdly bloody start, even for me. Both of them were literally on top of me, and with ice to the south, I was probably a little overzealous in attacking them, but they were so wide open too. Also, having absolutely no river or food bonuses nearby made early workers/settlers a horrible move. That said, I came out of it pretty well. I could have probably harvested an extra worker from one of them, but it wouldn't have taken much for them to totally block me in and cause huge problems.
Ahaha, that's one I made. Weeeeee :rotate:
Is that white liquid stuff magic or what?