On Turn 26, I am able to select a Pantheon. It will serve as my trade center and help Babylon to grow by providing a Food Trade Route. Thankfully, there is an excellent spot to expand to the West that has Crab and several Fish.
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My free Great Scientist is planted south of my City. I don't want to have to fight and distract my Cities from growth/Science. I don't want them to quickly Covet my lands. I decline both Civs' request to Accept Embassy. I am first to meet a Religous CS, which gives me +8 Faith. I don't care much about City-States, so it might work out OK. This could be bad, but I hope to befriend him to have a trading partner. This will help me secure Philosophy much, much faster. I hope to have Mining Research done by the time the Worker is out, but want the free Great Scientist from Writing early. My starting Warrior will help defend against Barbarians, while the Scout figures out the lay of the land. My Build Order is Scout > 3 Turns on Worker > Shrine > back to Worker. I am lucky and get +20 Culture from an Ancient Ruin. This would be wonderful with the Earth Mother Pantheon, and might even allow me to Found a Religion. I notice that if I move my Settler on top of some stone, I will be able to have 4 Copper worked by Babylon. I'll post another game soon with a faster time thanks to the lessons learned in these last games. I am anal about tile overlap, and it cost me here. The extra Production and Internal Trade route were sorely needed. My single biggest mistake was being so anal about Tile overlap that I did not found a third City to the Southeast after making my National College. I failed to bring my game length down compared to the Siam game I published, because of a highly aggressive neighbor and some bad habits. While I can pull off a T300 or lower Science win on King/Emperor, my games are typically over 350 Turns on Immortal. Low difficulty, it's much simpler - the AI does not expand as quickly, and there is less to fear. I am working on improving my Scientific game on higher difficulties. The following is a journal of one of my games with Babylon on Immortal.
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Mongolia, Polynesia, Shoshone, Austria, Carthage, Inca and Netherlands. Goal: Scientific Victory utilizing Babylon's UA. Standard size and Game Settings, Continents, Immortal, Babylon. Babylon Immortal Scientific Victory Gameplay Images and Highlights for Learning and Improving