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It had been a fun game in principle, but my enjoyment was somewhat diminished by the fact that the game had been too easy. I'm not sure it was because of the level alone; I'm used to more active AIs even on Prince or Monarch games. The AIs were extremely tame in this game! Monty had been the only one declaring war on Mansa repeatedly, and actually managed to take some cities. Apart from that, everything had been quiet. But the AIs staying at peace didn't mean they would have been a danger tech-wise, oh no! They were horribly backwards; Hatty being the only one with at least some space parts at game's end. What had been strange as well was that half of Huayna's lands were unimproved when I invaded them! What had he been doing all the time?!?
But I liked the scoring system very much. These are the most enjoyable Epics for me usually: The ones with really crazy variant rules, or those with complex and innovative scoring systems. Thanks Sirian, and I hope we'll see more of these!
A word on the combat changes patch 1.52 had brought us: I've come to the conclusion now that I don't like them. I've fought wars with old units against modern ones under the new patch, and thanks to this game now fought a war with a tech lead. I really liked the old way better; in my Clan Wars game for example, my superior forces had been more easily overrun by lots and lots of obsolete units, which I liked. This game however, I moved medium-sized stacks to enemy cities and had to suffer lots of counter-attacks, but I very rarely lost a unit.
To repeat Arathorn's mantra: Tech is king. Tech über alles. This is too simple a formula for an otherwise complex game. Now the tech leader has an even easier time, which I don't like and which hopefully will be changed back in one of the next patches.
RBCiv Adventure Three Scoresheet - Kylearan
F - Farmer items
P - Priest items
S - Soldier items
Items to score in 500AD:
S: ___________1 cities captured from barbarians or rivals.
S: __________13 XP on most-experienced unit.
Items to score in 1000AD:
P: _________yes Do I have a permanent state religion and own its Holy Shrine?
P: __________11 cities converted to my permanent state religion.
Items to score in 1500AD:
S: ___________1 cities captured from barbarians or rivals since 500AD.
F: ___________3 cities founded by me that are currently size 15 or larger.
F: __________11 Health Resources within my borders and connected.
P: __________21 Percentage points of Influence (F7) for religions I founded.
Items to score at game's end:
F: ___________9 cities I founded.
F: ___________5 cities I founded that have reached size 25.
S: __________64 cities captured from barbarians or rivals since 1500AD.
S: __________20 cities I captured that have reached size 25.
S: __________63 XP on most-experienced surviving unit.
F: _yes Did I adopt Hereditary Rule and stick with it for the duration?
F: _yes Did I adopt State Property by 1800AD and stick with it for the duration?
F: _yes Did I adopt Bureaucracy and stick with it for the duration?
F: _yes Did I adopt Organized Religion and stick with it for the duration?
P: _yes Did I adopt the first religion to appear in Russia and stick with it for the duration?
P: _yes Did I found a religion?
P: _yes Did I build the Shrine for my Permanent State Religion?
P: ___________2 Number of non-state religions I founded.
P: ___________2 Number of non-state religious Shrines I built with my Great Prophets.
P: __________77 cities converted to my permanent state religion.
P: ___________2 rival civs (ever) converted to my permanent state religion.
FARMERS SUBTOTAL: ___________170
PRIESTS SUBTOTAL: ___________225
SOLDIER SUBTOTAL: ___________189
_yes Did I win?
__no Did I win by Diplomacy with less than 40% of world population?
_______________________Domination My Victory Condition, if applicable.
SCORING SUBTOTAL: ___________604
(Note, final score cannot be determined until results of "fastest finishers" can be determined.)
(This subtotal scores everything that I can calculate for myself.)
_yes Am I a Tsar? (Did I score at least 15 points in each catetory? F/P/S?)
_yes Did I "bind the three" by scoring at least 50 points in each category?
_yes Do I desert to be called "Tsar the Great" by my comrades? (Did I score 150 in all three categories?)
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