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RBCiv Epic Eighteen - Game B

It took a while to build 400 shields worth of cultural buildings (80 cathedral, 120 col, 200 uni, in that order) and then I finally snuck my granary in there, as I had nothing I could use for prebuilds lasting longer than a turn or two. I had to wait until tech actually came in before I could start building.

As the turns clicked past, I became aware that I could not build all the wonders. Or... at least I could not build them all in my capital. If I worked it right, I might have a shot at all three of the 400 shield wonders left, but I would HAVE to build Smith's too -- in a city other than my capital -- and run the table on the remaining wonders. On ALL of the remaining wonders. This was going to be a tightrope act for sure.

The first step was to start a palace prebuild. I had a uni going in my city just south of the capital, and I swapped it to palace while my capital nabbed the first of its three targetted wonders.

You can see that I was going min sci on democracy, but that didn't hold up. I ended up kicking up my own research into high gear and researching the tech myself, followed by Free Artistry. In the mean time, I used Smith's as a prebuild in the capital, while using the palace in my second city as a prebuild for Smiths. Yep, got pretty intricate here. But wait! It gets better. I was in a bona fide race for Smith's with the AI's, because I was NOT building it in my capital. And yet I HAD TO delay Smith's completion until the same turn Shakespeare's would complete in the capital or I would lose it in the cascade. Needless to say, I spent a fortune investigating my rivals (all but the ones clearly too sad to be in the race). It was a most satisfying result when Shakespeare's completed, followed on the same turn by Smith's, killing the cascade JUST TWO TURNS before the AI's got hold of Theory of Gravity, and causing all of them to waste all their shields. What a coup!

I used Wall Street as prebuild for Newton's. Meanwhile, the Zulu moved a unit into my territory on my island I shared with them (they captured the Iro colony in the desert). They could not be heading anywhere but to attack me, so I immediately sent reinforcements and the largely phony war was underway. (I hadn't had any saltpeter, but the Iro's source fell into my borders when the Zulus captured the town. Heh. And now that very saltpeter fueled the muskets I used to fend off their invaders).

Newton's completed, then I used Wall Street once again as prebuild, this time for factory.

I made peace with the Zulu without counterattacking them. My capital built coal plant, then Suffrage. Meanwhile the Zulus came back for another piece of the action, and this time they were bringing actual troops to the shores of my island in the southeast. It was time for me to build myself some cavs.

Note that I'm doing my own research. I had WANTED the tech pace to stay as slow as I could keep it, earlier, to give me more time to snag wonders and culture. Now that phase was done, and I wanted to get the tech going as quickly as I could, to get up to the remaining wonders ASAP, as they were now all mine mine mine mine mine. :)

The Zulus stopped attacking me in the north and started landing only in the south. Must be rubber down there, all those jungle tiles. That, or the AI was smoking again. Stupid AI. My cavs finally popped a leader (quite late in the game, sadly) but of course I welcomed him. I HAD TO use the first leader for an army, so as to give me access to 4cpt from the Epic, and 1cpt from the Academy (or more like a prebuild I could use to start ToE and Hoover).

w00p!

I had to wait for Suffrage to finish first, of course. That came in 1420AD, and the Epic was done three turns later. Now on to ToE!

Now check this out. Oh, excellent! Hoover will done a turn after ToE! Ahaha!

OK, this thing is all but on cruise control now. Just the mop up phase left to go.

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