Stately Play Decathlon 2019

You all have way more experience with this game than me. I didn’t have a strategy at the time, though I did end up picking up Churchill. In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have picked up that last wonder and instead worked on my farms and mines.

I was feeling pretty good about how the game was going half-way through it. I was wondering why no one else was scoring many culture points. Though I never upgraded my government. There just wasn’t enough time for everything.

It was fun to play this again, except for all the wars at the end.

There’s never enough time for everything…

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Table 1:

@codington gifted me the Library of Alexandria as a pleasant surprise for my second turn, but things took a turn for the worse when Codington ramped up his military very quickly. Both @irishdomer08 and myself were forced to develop Warfare just to get enough MA to stave off Aggressions.

Codington switched to culture early with Michelangelo followed by Bach, and had about a 40 point lead on us. But as in the above game, he fell behind on other developments. When I picked up Churchill to develop Cannon and Air Forces, but I built up quickly to win a 25 point War on Culture. We hit Age IV before I could drop a second war, but the damage was done. I closed with a couple strong Impacts, and irishdomer08 pulled into second being the only one to finish an age III wonder.

Good game everyone!

Yes, clearly I needed to jump forward in time to read this and learn the perils of the Michelangelo culture lead. Or at least I should have searched past postings to learn that “Hardco style” was a thing… :stuck_out_tongue:

I did want to balance out production in the mid-game but the cards never seemed to be there. The 25 point swing for War on Culture, followed by an Aggression to rob me of Science, pretty much made the final standings inevitable.

Any chance at second place was crushed when I predicted the wrong Impacts based on @Hardco’s final turns.

Honestly though it was an achievement just to have made it to the top of the rankings for the final game of this epic Decathlon!

Good game and congrats to Hardco!

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Well played and congrats on the championship @Hardco!

Great game all!

Great comeback. I’m kicking myself because I probably could have kept the lead with the right moves on the last turn but I had no idea what was in the event pile.

Last place again! Woohoo! Good game you two. I’m not sure what I was doing…never good to finish a game with despotism.

No, but I believe there is a possible achievement for that…

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Gg everyone!

This wasn’t a decathalon game, we had remade the tables but this invite was already out and the game started. Noone resigned so we essentially played a friendly.

Gg everyone. @feederofgoats with a big Internet wonder on the last turn to seal the deal.

GG everyone! I got lucky with Sid/Computers/internet

Good game all! I think I got a solid three theatres and then spent rest of game trying not to get overpowered by military.

How we all going on this one?

I believe we are just waiting on the results of Table 6.

@whovian223
@SpiceTheCat
@JMH.75

How’s it coming?

Any word on the final game here?

We started a 2-player game. Currently ongoing.

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Sorry for the delay. @JMH.75 over @whovian223.

Great game!