I was getting ready to post about how the best thing yesterday was the part where Sam helped me get started on an Emperor game because I was having just the dickens of a time surviving on that level. King level? I can whip that to the point of being bored. Emperor? I’m having my shorts handed to me on a regular basis.

I wanted to take a cursory check of the blog, though, because I’m sure I have written about this addiction game before. And found that not even a year ago, I was crowing about how I had Emperor whipped and was moving on to Deity level:

On that day, I wrote:

– I may have finally conquered the Emperor level on Civilization Revolution, as evidenced by the graphic. I’m Abby Patrick in that thing, and note how I have totally pwn’d the histograph. Next stop: last level, aka Deity. I’m currently playing the easiest scenario in that level and smoking it. Sam is teaching me how to be more bloodthirsty, which is gonna take a while.

What happened? When did I get stupid?

Do not answer that.

Suffice it to say: that confident prediction did not come true, and I’m still flailing around in Emperor unless my training wheels (aka Sam) show up.

Which he did last night, got me over the hump, and I’m having fun again. Having fun with Sam.

NB: If you look at the dates on that histograph, the mystery is revealed. I was playing Emperor, but a scenario called Beta Centauri, which is the easiest of all if you play as the Mongols. Hell, I’ve even won games on Deity as the Mongols on Beta Centauri. Duh.

© E. Stocking Evans 2014