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RBCiv Epic Thirty-One

This war was the highlight of the early game. I lacked enough units to bowl over the invaders, and I was reluctant to attack the lone hoplite. After wiping out the others, I trained a catapult and began to harass that lone hoplite. The bastard made it all the way into my core to try to pillage my horses (which I wasn't using anyway yet, heh).

Finally took him down.

As you can see in that screenshot, I had grown comfortable enough with the situation to use most of my GA on infrastructure. This would race me out in front, especially in the area of aqueduct construction, which would only further fuel my growth while the AI's stagnated with mostly size 6 cities. I also got a needed boost to speed my FP construction.

The war was too small to pop a leader. In fact, I did not even earn a promotion! Nor did I lose a unit. Came close twice, with legions dropping into the red vs 1hp targets.

Here's my situation after my golden age.

I missed out on all the early wonders, of course, focusing on expansion. I would not get into the wonder race until the cascade died with Leo's and Sistine. I was shocked the cascade died at all on a tiny map, but England and Spain got locked into war in the early middle ages.

My England popped a free city out of a hut in 3900BC and roared out to eight cities where Spain had only five, at one point, plus England built the Colossus in London and got her early golden age, so she was just too strong for poor Izzy down in Spain. By the time I finished my first wonder, Izzy was on her way out.

I also nabbed Smith's and Newton.

Ah, poor Izzy.

After that, England needed a new target.

Silly girl. I fended off her feeble advances easily and rebuked her by taking over Liverpool on that island that was never meant to be hers in the first place. Good thing, too, as my only rubber turned out to be there! (You'd think with having spoiler information, I'd have known that, but I either never noticed or had forgotten. Well sometimes it's better to be lucky than to have inside information!)

I marched on steadily toward my goal: a diplomatic victory! Those are actually harder to nab on tiny maps than one might think, because there are so few civs. Losing Spain meant I had to keep Greece happy so he'd vote for me.

My standard issue builder's game is almost over now. :)

Of course, wouldn't you know, the game would throw a wrench into my plan.

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