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RB-Adventure 10: Rising Sun
Pre-game Thoughts
Part 1
Part 2
Final Words

This is my game report for the Epic 10 event held at: Realms Beyond Civilization

Game Setup

This extreme adventure was sponsored by Sulla and didn’t really have any variant twists, except the only victory condition enabled was conquest. No scoring was set for the game, submitted games would be split into 3 groups: defeated, survived until 2050 and victors… Neat. Here’s the basic setup:
  • Map Script: Continents, Tropical
  • Sea Level: Normal
  • Game Speed: Epic
  • Difficulty: Deity (!)
  • World Size: Small
  • Opponents: Four

And we are playing this guy:
Tokugawa


Initial thoughts:

Ok, I’ve only ever win one game above normal difficulty, and that was on prince. So a jump to deity is not going to be smooth. The main thing that made me even consider playing this one is that I’ve recently been able to play quite a few games peacefully through diplomacy, I’m mainly a builder at heart so maybe, just maybe I can survive until 2050, that would be cool. Winning this thing by conquest or even highest score at 2050 would seem to be a dream.

As the above shows I choose to go into this with the sole aim of surviving, in retrospect that was a mistake as it often leads to somewhat sloppy play with no real strategy throughout the game. The classic words of Yoda come to mind: "Do, or do not. There is no try."

Pre-game Thoughts
Part 1
Part 2
Final Words