Pong Report

The Golden Empire of Kongo - Pong-6  This session of Pong we used a drafting system. The system allowed us to pick between three civs. The three I rolled were Indonesia, Russia, and the Kongo. I was initially underwhelmed due to the fact that typically I play domination and science games. I eventually settled upon the Kongo due to their bonuses for relics and sculptures and decided I would play a cultural game. I got an amazing and relatively isolated start.  The first screenshot I took of the surrounding area. A very solid start. I spotted Kandy very early on and with their suzerain bonus making it significantly easier to acquire relics decided keeping them in my sphere of influence was essential if I was going to obtain the culture victory I sought. Initially, I was overwhelmed with barbarians, but I fought them back and managed to secure a golden age in the classical era and used it to my advantage. I pre-built warriors and upgraded them to the Ngao Mbaba un...

Hey there Pong fans! This is Zach, back with coincidentally another Scotland game blog. I never got to finish the interim game with Basic a while back so I figured I would give Robert another go in Pong 6. My other options in the draft were Macedon and Spain, both of which are strong civilizations in their own ways. However, I didn't want to get pigeonholed into a domination game with Macedon, and I don't like how so many of Spain's bonuses rely on continents and random map generation, so I was happy to play Scotland again. Not the best start to be honest. I actually spawned on the river to the southeast, but I didn't want my capital to be in tundra so I moved and settled on turn 2. I have some decent growth tiles and 5 potential pastures visible, but that's where the good news ends. No river, not much production and poor luxuries could make this a tough game going forward. But I decide to play it out anyway. I first-meet Armagh and Muscat givin...