Ganked by Gandhi: Epilogue

This game made me realise something... im not very good at Civ. Luckily I've figured out why. Weirdly I have managed to learn a lot about how the game works by playing in this slightly different way. I have a better grasp of diplomacy, how to build a strong economy and I understand how to specialise cities and focus great person production. While playing this game I had an apithany about what i had been doing wrong in the past, despite not knowing that I had been going wrong in the first place.The problem? I was far too blarsay about each turn. Turns were just somehing to get through until the fighting started. I am an insanely aggressive Civ player and im usually not happy unless I'm at war with someone. Peace to me is something to tolerate before all the fun fighting starts, so when I played a game that featured nothing but the conituing preservation of peace I knew I had to change the way I play. Every turn I made a tweak to my empire, determined to produce the most efficient cities I could. And it clicked, over the course of one game I became a much better player, so im now ready to try the next diffuculty level; im ready to try King. I know! I'm awesome!

This is actually what will happen in the future, honestly.

There are a couple of things that I want to share which I found interesting when investigating the ridiculus amount of graphs available at the end of the game.

The first was the circumstances surounding the 'Indian-Germanic war of words' as I named the aggressionless war of 1974. I was surprised to discover that at the time of the war Germany had less military strength than I did. The only conclussion i can draw, based on the knowledge that I had one single military unit, no military structures in my cities and a few workboats, is that they declared war while also only possesing one unit who was significantly less advanced than mine.

This is a graph... with lines... and lots of interesting information!

The second was the discovery that towards the end of the game i was not the empire with the strongest economy. Despite focusing solely on improving my economy there were parts of the game where i was making less per turn than Darius, Suleiman and Khan. I put this down to them owning more cities and having larger potential income, but i was still surprised to see them ahead of my wonderful little paradise (and sometimes considerably ahead).

I apologise if you don't find the above interesting but I like graphs!

Gandhi stood at the top of his palace steps surveying the crowd below him. 'We love Gandhi, we love Gandhi.' they chanted, the words shuddering from the marble façades of the palace and surrounding governmental buildings. Gandhi waved to the cheering crowd that seethed before him. There were Ottomans, Persians, Mongols, Germans and Indians, together in one mass of humanity. He had done it, brought peace to the world and now Gandhi ruled an entire planet, voted into office by the United Nations. The other leaders stood a few steps below him also waving in delight to the people. 'Fools' he spat at their backs.

He nodded to his Aide who, in turn, nodded to Dave the Soldier. He now comanded the armed forces of the world, no longer used for war, but instead the keepers of peace, in whatever way was needed. Dave shouted an order at his men who lined the edges of the square keeping the crowd back from their new heroic leader. A number of soldiers turned from their perfect ranks and began to climb the stairs. They stopped a few metres from the other leaders and levelled their rifles. Gandhi, turning his back on the scene before him, shouted. 'Keep the heads, they will decorate the walls of this palace,' to his Aide and strode out of the baking sun into the cool shade of his throne room.

'Idiots,' he said to himself, 'now the fun starts.' The thunder of gun shots rang against the marble walls.

The End...

Thanks for reading! (and sorry about the story bits!)