Chapter Six

Putting the Pieces Together

I now had control of my continent, except for an Egyptian tundra city (and I didn’t want to fight my only friend).

As you can see, Railroad was due in 3, my plan was to then research Sci Method, Communism (so I could swap to State Property, adopted in 1740), then head for Biology so I could start building some Size-25 cities. I identified the cities that had enough farmland to grow that big, and had to irrigate over a couple villages in the process. I also built a few more cities to fill gaps, including this gem of a city site (too bad I couldn't have settled here earlier):

Otherwise, it was a pretty steady march to space. I did have some excitement as I pushed as many missionaries as I could into Asoka’s cities, hoping to get him to convert from Buddhism (he was the only AI with Open Borders who hadn’t founded his own religion). Unfortunately it didn’t pan out, as he adopted Free Religion in 1830. To break up the boredom, I decided to invade Exile Island in 1866, the Longbows didn’t stand much of a chance vs. bombers and gunships. @

Tanks were pretty effective as well, as I took Saladin out the same turn.

I had also just started another GA, to hurry my production along. I was able to complete Apollo and 3 Gorges during the GA.

Shortly after that I got a Great Engineer, and I was able to use him to speed the Space Elevator (after being frustrated by not being able to build it in ADV2).

I got a Great Scientist in Beijing in 1896, who I used to speed Fusion, which gave me another Great Engineer. While I couldn’t use him to rush a part, I was able to rush a Lab in Seville. I had gone from the Elevator to building Docking Bay, and didn’t realize I had forgotten to build the lab, so rushing the lab took a couple turns off the completion date for the Docking Bay.

I had a rather uneventful launch in 1921AD, as Life Support, the Docking Bay, and my last Thruster all completed.

This also shows my largest cities, only 3 home-grown reached 25, and 5 of the captured ones did. I also was frustrated with my XP points, I actually had a Cossack at 25XP, but I upgraded him to a Gunship and his XP reset to 10! So my best XP was only 16. My final (in-game) score was 28,198 (Caesar).

Final

Points	Item	Value	Score
1	EACH City founded by Russia	19	19
10	EACH City founded by Russia that reaches size 15 by 1500AD	5	50
10	EACH City founded by Russia that reaches size 25 by end of game	3	30
25	Adopting Hereditary Rule Civic at first & not switching	0	0
20	Adopting State Property Civic before 1800AD & not switching	1	20
15	Adopting Bureaucracy Civic at first & not switching	1	15
10	Adopting Organized Religion at first & not switching	1	10
1	EACH Health Resource you control in 1500AD	30	30
	TOTAL Farmer Points		174

Points	Item	Value	Score
10	Founding a Religion (First)	1	10
5	EACH additional Religion founded by Russia	1	5
25	Adopting Permanent State Religion the first to appear	1	25
20	Possessing the Holy Shrine of State Relgion	1	20
10	EACH additional Holy Shrine built by Russian Prophet	1	10
2	IF you own Shrine: EACH City converted by 1000AD	0	0
1	IF you own Shrine: EACH City converted by end	62	62
10	IF you own Shrine: EACH rival civ who adopts your state religion, by their own choice	0	0
1	EACH Percent of influence by Russian religions in 1500AD	26	26
	TOTAL Priest Points		158

Points	Item	Value	Score
5	EACH City captured by 500AD	3	15
2	EACH City captured by 1500AD	5	10
1	EACH City captured after 1500AD	15	15
2	EACH Captured city that reaches size 25	5	10
1	EACH XP on most-experienced unit alive in 500AD	12	12
1	EACH XP on most-experienced unit alive at end of game	16	16
	TOTAL Soldier Points		78

Points	Item	Value	Score
20	VICTORY (Any Type)	1	20
20	BONUS: Win by Diplomacy, but control less than 40% of world population	0	0
25	Fastest Game Date for same victory condition	0	0
15	2nd-Fastest Game Date for same victory condition	0	0
10	3rd-Fastest Game Date for same victory condition	0	0
5	4th-Fastest Game Date for same victory condition	0	0
3	Time Victory	0	0
	TOTAL Victory Points		20
	FARMER Total		174
	PRIEST Total		158
	SOLDIER Total		78
	VICTORY Total		20
	Sub-Total		430
4	150 or More in all three Categories	0	0
2	50 or More in all three Categories	1	860
	FINAL SCORE		860

Of course, this is pending any points for Finish Date. Now that I've completed the game, I'm sure that getting 150 in each category was quite possible, it would basically have taken a strong military push early, (Spain and Arabia could both have been taken by 1500AD), and then a push for Domination, the southern continent in particular was very backward and could have been blitzkrieged. Great game, I liked the scoring concept as a change of pace. Thanks again to our sponsors and everyone who played!