u/Dymmesdale

Just wanted to share because I've been working at it and it was hard. I was struggling using a standard size continents map with a random leader, so I made a TSL Earth game as Peter I.

Declared war on Harald literally turn 1, and managed to steal one of his settlers and take Nidaros with 2 warriors and 2 archers. Sued for peace and he agreed to just give me Kristiansand, which turned out to be in Spain/Portugal. Bu that time I had rushed astrology and quickly whipped up Eastern Orthodoxy with Dance of the Auroras and Choral Music by spamming holy site prayers. Settled into the Siberian tundra, and made lavras with +6 adjacency bonus. Had some trouble with the barbs as I went East, which gave Hojo an opening to settle into China and Mongolia, but after he declared war on me for converting his cities, I was able to capture them and leave him with just Kyoto, while converting him entirely to Orthodoxy.

While I was busy with all that, Frederick was building up a lot of Catholic pressure in Europe, so I swarmed him with apostles, killed all his inquisitors, and started spamming missionaries at Kongo. Saladin had a few inquisitors too, but religious pressure took care of most of Arabia and Egypt for me. The endgame was searching around for Harald's last couple of cities, since he decided to boogie out to South America, but my massive army of missionaries was able to track him down and won on turn 200.

A lavra next to Mount Everest was really nice to have, but I struggled with food, population, and science for most of the game.

I’ve been making this in my spare time in blacksmithing class, it’s made of spring steel most likely 5160 or something close. Planning to do a warer quench today, since there’s no quenching oil in class. The instructor didn’t seem concerned about quenching in water, so I’m gonna go for it, but I’d appreciate some tips to keep it from cracking.