4000BC-1400BC

The starting position didn’t look that bad to me. We’ve got 3 deer and marble and we’re on fresh water. My original plan was to beeline to iron working and crank out Jaguars to wipe out my nearest neighbor with the good land.

Since we start with hunting, I order worker first, so as to build camps on the deer and start researching mining. I was lucky with hut popping. I received: 1) scout 2) Animal Husbandry 3) Masonry 4) map 5) gold. However, learning those 2 key techs caused me to deviate wildly from my war plan. By 3120BC, I had learned Mining and Bronze Working, built a warrior in Teno and contacted the Romans. At this time, I made my first deviation from the war plan, by starting Stonehenge instead of barracks. My next tech to study was Fishing intending to follow with Sailing so I could build galleys as the desirable land was in the south. In 2920BC, I foolishly lost one of my scouts to pop a hut even though I had seen a bear lurking in the area. He died for a map. After learning Fishing in 2840BC, I deviate again and start research on wheel. I’m going for my standard Oracle – Code of Laws – Confucianism plan. Stonehenge finishes in 2400 and I start a settler at size 4. I found Teo in 1960BC, while I’ve followed through on the religion plan by learning meditation and priesthood and start on writing. After building barracks in Teno, I start the Oracle in 1880BC. I learn writing in 1600BC followed shortly by completing the Oracle in 1560BC while founding Confucianism in Teo in 1520BC.



1400BC-980AD



At 1400BC I have 2 cities, Teno at size 5 and Teo at 3. Wow! I learn sailing in 1320 because I realized that I had to expand to the south. By 900 I began building Jags planning to attack the Chinese and Tlatelo was founded as a beachhead.



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But, my religion spread to Beijing and Mao converted so I was reluctant to attack. I didn’t have enough Jags anyway. I began building infrastructure. Texcoco, was founded in 275BC. Tlaxcala was founded as a canal city with dreams of sending waves of galleys to attack the Arabian heartland, but these were only dreams. Calixta was founded in 860AD completing my 6 city “empire”.



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Perhaps, I needed to settle more aggressively, in the south. The copper site was available for a long time, but China has Macao there now.


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and I failed to attack the barb city in the east with its sheep and iron. I didn't get iron or copper until very late in the game.




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I began to attack with missionaries, converting Caesar in 700 AD. Perhaps, unwisely in 720AD I refuse Caesar’s demand for 90g and he declares war in 980.



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980-1280

The war lasted 300 years and was mostly an assault on Tlatelo. I couldn’t get Mao to cancel his open borders with JC, so the Roman waves came through China. Having learned from Epic 1 to fortify heavily, I spent these turns ferrying defenders from Teno and Teo and I managed to hold the city. Just as praetorians began to show up, JC agreed to “peace with honor”.



1280-1802

I was also at war with MM, who DOWed me in 1080, I sent a meager force to try to capture the former barb city, but I failed. In 1560, I tried to capture a barb city in the east and failed by 1 turn before Saladin captured it, so I DOWed Saladin to take that city, but I couldn’t hold it. Another 250 years of defensive war followed as Saladin sent many attackers at my cities, but I repelled all, somewhat more comfortably this time. However, I’m not going to win the game ferrying defenders across the Inland Sea!



1802-1991



I was the first one to Liberalism, but my tech lead began to wane after that. Let’s just say Vicky launched in 1991, with me having built just 8 parts and still needed to research a few techs. Notable events during this period was the demise of MM. That barb city was his last city and I failed by 1 turn to capture before Mao razed it. I re-built the city there, but it was too late to develop it properly. Also, in 1932, Alex DOWed Saladin and I paid Mao off to join the fight and Saladin completely collapsed and was eliminated in 1983. I can only conclude that I failed to expand rapidly enough. I should have captured the barb city in the west and explored the east as well as settle aggressively in the south. I think I had time to do this, but I waffled too much with half-hearted feints in one direction then another accomplishing nothing.

My Report

A disastrous attempt and an early retirement I'm still torn about. At least the start was good...

Report's in PDF form, 'cuz I tried doing it with LaTeX. Hope you enjoy, it's about 2MB all told.

Executive summary: Loss to space race (1992AD, Victoria) after nearly getting wiped off the map. Survived, though!

Report!

The report

No climbing back from far behind to win this time as :
1. I didn't fall behind to start with, I was relatively quickly in the leader pack.
2. but I didn't manage to finish first either.

Vicky, unmolested during all the game (and protected by Cesar from me), launched first in 1972.
(No contest as I had chosen another path in the end end was expecting both Apollo and Internet in 1974).

Jabah

Hi,
being new to RB and just found out about the adventures a few days ago.
Thanks to Sulla I have spend more time reading game reports than actually playing myself. I only have finished one single CIV game so far. Winning on noble!
<cough>.
I like the concept of writing up nice game reports regardless of the outcome. So sticking to "regardless of the outcome" here is my report of a retired, hopeless Adventure Two. Do not bother too much to comment on mine gameplay. I knew it was far from being Monarch-worthy.

http://www.schumacherswelt.de/realmsbeyo...report.htm

I am sorry for lumping everything into one htm file. Still trying to figure out a way to write up these reports efficiently.

Disclaimer: This was my first ever game Realms Beyond game! (hooray!), but also my first on Monarch (in any game of civ); and what a horrid starting spot it was. I think that it was also my second game of Civ, so I was still feeling out the game (especially after not playing Civ III for a few months). That’s enough to probably tip you off to how this game went--not extremely well. I did survive and would have survived until the end, but it was getting stupid. And sorry for the lack of shots.

But enough with the disclaimer, onto the report.

After rounding the glorious city of Tenochitlan (really little more than a few huts and a large, wooden building), the young Montezuma decided that all was well. His father had just passed away, but he had been blessed with almost near immortality. After mourning his father’s death, he met with a few of his elite scouts, and sent them off north, to learn more about this cold, cold land in which they lived.

After several hundred years of struggling through icy and hard terrain, the warriors found a small village. As they drew near, the Aztec scouts saw the inhabitants fleeing. By poking around in the camp, the Aztecs found valuable metal deposits worth 47 gold.

Shortly after this news arrived, greatly exciting Montezuma, a group of brawny young men, trained in the art of Ser-Tun Deth marched out from the capital, intent on glorifying the name of the Aztec people. Before they left, Montezuma held a great feast, and hinted to his closest advisers that another group of young, similarly equipped, would warrant at least a pat on the back.

His scouts sent back another bounty from their travels, a bright grayish metal called silver. Later, they reported that they had been provided with maps by some ancient, nomadic relatives that lived far, far away.

Eighty years passed, until a momentous event occurred. One of Montezuma’s sons, disgusted by the state of material wealth, and the splendor of the palace, found enlightenment in the denial of self. Though Montezuma was a bit wary of this strange religion’s fascination with sitting and doing nothing, it made the people happy, and Montezuma was nothing if not a people person.

The chanting and meditations of the Buddhist (for Montezuma’s son had taken that title of Buddha, meaning Enlightened One) Aztecs seemed to have greatly increased their luck, for they soon received word that a tribe of nomads had decided to follow in the footsteps of their scouts, and had pledged allegiance to Montezuma. As preparations for festivities began, a strangely clad man made his way through the crowd.

“I am Julius Caesar of Rome,” he declared, and Montezuma ushered him to a prestigious seat at the table. They talked long into the night, and at dawn the next day, they agreed on friendship, for the time being.
Later in the year, the scouts sent back a map, detailing just where this “Rome” was. It lay many leagues away, and the man had been nice enough, so Montezuma made good on his word, and peace prevailed for many years.

Puzzled by the lack of another warrior regiment, Montezuma spoke to his advisers again to learn that in his drunkeness at the celebration, he had said the word “war-hic-er,” which the adviser had interpreted at “worker.” The next day, that same adviser achieved permanent enlightenment; he no longer had to worry about any physical desires, because his head became detached from his body. While Montezuma mulled over this slightly humorous solution to the problem, he couldn’t help but kick himself. How stupid could he be?

The next years brought bad news from the front lines. His warrior regiment had seen massive, flesh-eating beasts called “bears”. Though anxious at this unknown threat, they dug in, and waited out an attack, which never came.

The scouts sent back better news a while later, they had discovered how to use taut deer sinews to bend a piece of wood, which could then shoot a stone-tipped shaft of wood called an “arrow.” Dire news, unfortunately, was just around the corner.

The archery-practicing scouts encountered golden beasts, called lions. Though they fought valiantly, the scouts could not escape their wrath, and were utterly destroyed. Then, a marauding group of bears ate the warrior regiment alive. Many around the palace remember Montezuma making a short trip to the cemetery, where he did some digging, and relieved himself several times.

His anger was then relieved another scout returned to show him how to plant seed in the ground and water it, to make nourishing plants grow from the ground. But the icy confines of Tenochitlan were unable to produce much food. Fortunately, Montezuma’s preoccupation with the oceans was able sustain them for now.

Scouts brought back more and more reports, of hundreds of marauding animals (you should’ve seen it, but I forgot to take a screenshot; my next reports will include many more) and of our neighbor Caesar impressing his people into slavery, forcing them to work at his behest. While the Aztecs were shocked at this development, Montezuma mulled the option over in his mind. Once he discovered how to make this ‘bronze’ which Caesar so bragged about, he would implement that plan.

The next year, a similar man (if only because of his strange dress), met with Montezuma’s scouts. He called himself Mansa Musa, and claimed to lead the Malinese people. Montezuma was polite and genuinely liked the man. In fact, he felt a kinship to him, which could easily be explained by reincarnation. But Monty hadn’t ever died…

Later on, the same scouts returned with information that a people in the far south had begun to worship cows and pigs and other animals, which they saw as deific. The Aztecs were puzzled, but they knew no one who followed this strange religion.

Then passed a period of several hundred years, in which nothing happened. After scouts had reported to Montezuma that Caesar had founded another ‘city.’ Interested in the prospect, Montezuma ordered preparations to be made for another to be founded. He chose a location a little ways to the east, and sent a party of archers out to claim it.

Montezuma’s military might was increasing, as his warriors had destroyed several menacing bears. Shortly after this triumph, news came from across the waters that there was only one god. The Aztecs were perplexed at all the different meanings that people could find for the universe.

But that year was a good one for the Aztec people. Not only did their scouts bring back tributes of gold and precious metals from the west, but they also made contact with a ruler that was actually quite close by, the leader of the Chinese, Mao Zedong.

Sometime later, the Aztecs began to develop their Buddhist religion into a system of monks, who worked to spread the religion throughout the land. But along with this joyful development, news came from the south that the final legion of Aztec scouts had been massacred by barbarian archers. This sad occurrence was erased from the minds of the people the following year, when the city of Teotihuacan was founded in the west.

The Aztec people desired greater spiritual leadership, and Montezuma began to develop an Oracle, to determine the course of future actions. While it was under construction, Montezuma implemented his goal of enslaving the people, in addition to making contact with yet another people, the Arabs, who lived to the east.

The Arabs were a strange bunch; it appeared that though they were not the people who had discovered the worship of cows, they were adherents to that religion. Later, another religion was founded, concerning a balanced set of codes and laws. Montezuma was amazed at all these developments, and was beginning to feel a little unsure of his position.

Montezuma completed the Oracle, and with its great power he selected… Translators Note: On the original copy of this short history, this section is fragmented and partially ruined … and then the great Julius Caesar sent messengers, saying he had found a way to derive the seasons and crop times by a massive stone calendar (Stonehenge was built really, really late; like 800 BC or so) . Montezuma was impressed. But he retaliated, inviting the Roman to visit the newly-founded city of Tlateco.

Tlateco was impressive. It was founded below a previously impassable mountain peak to the south, by means of a fleet of galleys. A few years later (literally), the city of Texacoco was founded on a hill, to the south and across the ocean.

The next several years began a semi-golden age for the Aztec people. The barbarian city of Uzbek was conquered, as were the cities of Tlaxcala, Xochicalco, Calixtlahuaca founded (all over a period of maybe 100 years?). But the rapid expansion of the Aztecs greatly hurt their economy, causing them to fall behind their rivals.

And the civilization plunged into a dark age, until 875 years after the birth of Jesus Christ (which occurred in Neapolis apparently 125 years after it should have; this is definitely one of the most amusing parts of the game). That was when Teotihuacan completed the Colossus, and Montezuma made a decision.

For some time, Montezuma had realized that he had been lagging heavily behind his rivals. But it took a report on advancement to indicate to him that he was very, very far behind.

… And now the story ends, because I’ve gotta explain something; and don’t really want to invest so much time in a broken (whoever thought up that start *cough* is evil) game. At around 900 AD, I had decided that I would just quit the game, and not publish a report. I went and ‘won’ a few single player games on Noble --the first one was a close, true diplomatic victory, the second a slaughter-- and succeeded on those. Then I wandered back onto the Realms Beyond website and decided that I would try to finish this one.

So I embarked on an attempt at a space race victory, hoping I would gain the tech lead. I actually did, for a short period of time. I even was the first to liberalism, and got Versailles. But losing the Taj Mahal was a blow I don’t think that I ever recovered from. With that Golden Age, the game would have changed by a lot, but Vicky got it two turns before I did.

I attempted to slow her down by getting Alexander--leader in National power-- to declare war on her, but to no adieu. Casear soon took over the tech lead, and was producing spaceship parts in 1969, when I finally retired (Also, no one would attack him). One, because my machine had such a horrible lag at that time, and two, my best city only pumped out 25 shields per turn WITH THE IRONWORKS. AND A FACTORY.

Looking back, I probably should have actually built a military (it will be interesting to see how many people did this; when I first began the game, I was stuck in the builder mode… I’m beginning to learn), but I think what really killed me was inexperience. I figured this out after I had managed to beat everyone else to Liberalism; it showed me that I could actually succeed. But from there, it just went downhill.

My result: Retired at 1969, in 3rd to last place (in front of war-torn Saladin and Mansa Musa, who got on the bad side of Alex and Mao, respectively). See the screenshots to see how horrible I did!

--Zalson

I have a few questions about apparent bugs, I haven't been able to find them in the Civfanatics bug report thread (which was updated in November...), and wanted to see if anyone else has seen them. I had to wait for Adventure 2 to finish before I could ask the first one, though!

1. Space Elevator on Highlands map: I was unable to build it at all during Adventure 2, and no one else did either. I thought maybe it was due to the 30 degrees from equator restriction being miscalculated on Highlands map, because my Texcoco city was pretty far south. But then I saw in Sirian's game that the AI did build it, so I don't know what the problem was? Maybe on highlands, the bottom of the map is the equator?

2. Space Ship completion screen: I never did see any parts appear, or changes to the screen. I have had lots of video problems, so it may be my computer, but has anyone else seen that picture fill in?

3. Clouds on Globe View: Is there a way to turn them off? Sometimes I can get a fairly clear shot, but usually the clouds cover the entire view (global warming?? ) and all I see are the city tags, no terrain.

Thanks for any help!

My report can be found at

Snaproll's Website

It was a fun game and I'm now reading all the other reports to see how I did!

My report for Adventure 2 can be found there :
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/topic....IC_ID=3357[url=http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?t=568][/url]

Sorry for the not-so-nice style and display, I'm working on it for future reports. As for the game itself, please feel free to launch your harsh comments on my head.

Also, for those who hadn't seen, I had my Epic 1 report late, but it can be found in this subforum as well.

Initial Post - Executive Summary (Will post a better story tomorrow after some sleep)

Result: Loss (Spaceship - I'll click through the last couple of turns to find out if it is Vicky or JC who gets it... right now the turns are 5 minutes each with me doing nothing :P) Last turn taken 1988 (diplo loss check date). Suffice to say I am not in the running for a Spaceship.

It was an interesting game, and if I had taken the opportunities when I saw them it would have been a lot different... also I have *a lot* to learn when it comes to identifying diplomatic blocks. I might have had a shot at a diplo win if I could have picked out a diplomatic strategy earlier. Getting the UN itself was an interesting story... more on that in the morning.

I also did not place last... Mao bit the dust. Steamrolled by the western powers.