So as a complete new member on the forum, I thought I could give it a shot as well at playing this scenario.

I never played Kongo before and just have a couple games under my hat so far, so this would be great learning experience for me.

So first of all, I had a look at the adventure's requirements and what Kongo's benefit are, in order to have an idea how to best approach this scenario. I decided to go for maximum theater and commercial districts to leverage their benefits, while mainly trying to stay in the game. I was also hoping to find the Stockholm city state, as in combination with an Oracle in the capital I was expecting it to generate GPP at a very fast rate.

As I have some trouble posting screenshots and anyway did take too few, I just shortly sumamrize my game.

I did expand fast to the north and west, boxing Spain in and crippling them for the game. They tried to settle around me and started two wars, which I won both and eliminated them from the game.
I managed to build the Oracle and found Stockholm, then beeline for theater districts and commercial districts and build  them everywhere.
My game ended on turn 242 with a cultural victory with 48 GPP.

I should have prolonged the game to after turn 250 and should have focussed more on the task at hand, but enjoyed the game nevertheless greatly and will take part in future adventures as well, as I really like this format.
Hopefully I will take more screenshots then

Alkari
Map Size: Medium
Difficulty: Average
5 Opponents

RefSteel asked me if I'd be up for a MOO succession game, and I said yes, but I'd like to play a few solo games to get up to speed again before that. My write-up for Civ 6 Adventure 4 got me in the mood for writing more game reports, so here we are. I'll be posting updates as I play. (EDIT: The report is now complete.) I'm not great at this game (hints and comments are very welcome), and I still find hard difficulty quite challenging, so I decided to play on Normal difficulty, but with one of the weaker civs. Playing as the Alkari also means that I'll have to step somewhat out of my comfort zone in terms of play style, since the combat bonus especially lends itself to early rushes. Plus, I get to make a stupid pun in the thread title!

   

I'm starting in the north-eastern corner of the map, with only one star in range for the colony ship. On top of that, the star is located even further in the corner, with, as it turns out, no further habitable planets in range. So I need better fuel cells ASAP. At least Bootis is a size-100 terran planet. Here are the results of my initial scouting:

       

The humans are nearby and have at least three colonies already. The yellow star at the edge of the nebula must be Sol. However, they're still out of range for diplomatic contact. I made an initial research investment to see what's available, and luckily, I can research range-5 fuel cells. There were no other choices in the propulsion tree. I would have preferred range-4 so that I could colonize Maretta, the green star north-west of Altair, which has a size-100 jungle planet, earlier. The other techs that I selected were Deep Space Scanner, Improved Industrial Tech 9, Class 2 Shields, Terraforming +10, and Hyper-V rockets (my only choice there). For now, I'll build some more factories and then pour all research into propulsion to break out of my corner.

With Deuterium Fuel Cells researched (next up in the tree was the Inertial Stabilizer as the only choice), I sent out my scouts to explore a bit further and started producing my second colony ship. One of my scouts encountered a (still unarmed) Silicoid colony ship at the blue star south of the humans' nebula. Establishing a colony at Maretta puts me in contact with the humans. Their emperor talks about peace, but I'm not so sure about that in the long run. Or the medium run. But for now, I can keep expanding peacefully, since the colony at Maretta opened up the arid planet at Rotan, in the north-east, for colonization. In tech, I split 50-50 between construction and planetology. Here's the map in the year 2334:

       

A few turns later, Darlok scouts also made an appearance at the same star as the Silicoids.

Have the graphics really improved all that much?

Feel free to post any link to good let's play and streams of master of orion. 
I did the first part of a let's play and i'm streaming each part on twitch.

https://youtu.be/aftgkuk9-fM

So I get to chose form Arabia, China , or France...probably not France.

I am leaning 75% towards Arabia and will post some strategy thoughts in a little bit.

Lurkers/ded lurkers welcome!

Waiting for the Map now.

Let´s try not to make a fool of myself like in PBEM 1, shall we.

The main question now is Japan or Greece.

HELLO ARCHDUKE, ALHAMBRAM, SINGABOY, WODEN, OR ANYONE ELSE STARTING THIS THREAD LATE

I regret to say that my primary hosting service provider, Photobucket, changed their account policy in mid June. Their free account (which I have), no longer supports 3rd party hosting, and they put that service behind a $40/month plan. Unfortunately, most of my images from early in this game (and all my pre-2017 threads  ), now are not showing. Apologies, as I know this will make your reading experience of my game here quite bare and sad compared to what you might have been hoping to find. 

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Ugh, I actually really didn't want to have Rome as an option to play this game, I just really wanted to play China. It's actually killing me that one of the groups I had to reroll gave me China as an option. So now I face a conundrum. 

Rome is objectively better than Gorgo's Greece or Kongo. However, after having two Romes in the first Civ 6 PBEM, I really would like to see something different played. I also don't want to Praet Rush someone, which seems like it is the natural play pattern and something that now everyone will be expecting.

Alright, it is my first time playing multiplayer at Realms Beyond.

I need to make a choice from India, Norway or Russia. At this moment i am leaning towards Russia, it seems better option than India and Norway with current PBEM 2 settings.

Any dedlurkers are welcome!

Hopefully everyone are going have fun with this game, all other players and you lurkers included!

It's curious that I'm getting to be infamous for Sprite abuse, seeing as I'm actually more of a builder type of player with a penchant for Life and buffing. My recent experiments with omniscient sprites brought that back a bit, and I realized that there really isn't any combo there. It's just  two strong strategies lumped together.

Omniscient is paired much better with Life. It lets me focus 100% on buffing, and Heavenly Light is enough of an early boost. Life also lets me take neutral cities early, Halfling Swordsmen with Holy Armour/Weapons, Endurance and Heroism can kill almost anything. With 8 books you can cast Heroism in combat, meaning you only need the first 3 cast overland.

Halflings are ideal for this, having excellent swordsmen for buffing + excellent high end units + excellent economy. Nomads are almost as good, their swordsmen might work decently for taking an early neutral city. Horsebowmen are almost as good as slingers with powerful rangers later on, economy is decent. High Elves are a little weaker but doable.

Recommended setup:
5x Life (Heavenly Light, Endurance, Heroism, Holy Armour)
1x Chaos
1x Death
1x Nature
Omniscient
Cult Leader
Spellweaver

I think this setup is strong and expect to consistently do well with it, but I'll hold off on claiming it's unbalanced. I would really like to add Warlord to it, but I don't see what to remove without ruining the power combo or taking away essential Life spells.

I want to test this after the sprite issue is settled.

So, here we go. I got the choice of those three civilizations.

Honestly, after looking at Egypt, I doubt I would choose them. I am more the warmonger type than trying to win a game via culture or religion. Special abilities also are not my preference.

Now, what should I do? Take the Aztecs and do what Yuri didn't do in its full glory and go on a rampage, trying to gain as many builders fighting city states and then ultimately other players?

Or go for the production powerhouse Germany. This would require a more defensive initial phase, maybe taking out a city state or two (those that do not give me much) and then slowly unfolding its power?

I have two weeks to think about it.

For the lurkers (and especially those that look forward to my many mistakes), I am going to try and update more frequently as in PBEM1, but won't be so crazy as to dedicate my life to civilization to report as extensively as Sullla does.