u/Grompson

Long story short: I'm not destroying him so much as....doing ok.

Not a ton of great Campus locations as you can see, but I'm doing alright. My son is not beside me (as Seondeok) or even all that close, so while he's been dominating in science and taking out two of AI players, I've been battling floods and barbarians and slowly but surely spreading my religion, Green Space-Cows, and getting some decent money and production coming in. Building Petra in Hattin started to turn things around, and I'm going to pump out a couple of settlers. I'm friends with Brazil, but not loving him there.

We haven't had a ton of playing time this week, but I'll keep everyone posted. It's looking like my most likely route to victory is once again religious, but my scientific output is climbing and with decent production I might have a chance in the Space Race.

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Hi all! Tonight my son (12, warmonger) and I (42, mom) are going to start a new game, and I want to absolutely obliterate him. I've won the last 2/3 games by eking out religious and diplo victories by the skin of my teeth, and I have been told that those victories are "lame, bro". He is a pretty good player and is an absolute nuke-flinging warmonger who focuses on science victories, and I'd like to just blow him out of the water with a science victory as he'll never expect it of his dear old pacifist mom.

He will be playing as Seondeok, as he lost with her last time and is determined to get a victory before moving on to a new leader. I'm considering using Hammurabi and jumping up the tech tree as fast as I can, but I've never played a full game as him.

Any tips, tricks, warnings? After his almost-disastrous nuking of Winnipeg during yesterday's endgame I want to make him sweat.

ETA: It's game time and I picked Saladin (Vizier). I am 100% stealing some of these ideas for future games though! I will update when there is something to update.