At the request of other CFCers, this thread is for stories, screenshots and events from the "Pioneer" Play-by-email Multiplayer game only. It was the first of its kind started on CFC, hence the interest in how long it takes before people start backstabbing each other :).

Also playing:

Joespaniel (Germany)
Cgannon64 (Celts)
Grandmasta Nick (Egypt)
Mauiduck (replacing Wildfire444 as Persia)

Three AI players control China, the United States and Rome.

I will be moving some documents and historical data on the progress of the British Empire in the "Pioneer" logistics thread shortly. Stay tuned.

R.III (England)

"Queen" Richard III of England
"Time for my milkbath!"

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Chancellor joespaniel of Germany
"Do not post spam in this thread!"

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King Cgannon of the Celts
"Just one more turn, hurry!!!"

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Grandmasta Nick of Egypt
"I'll slap you all with a large trout!"

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Emperor mauiduck of Persia
"We're rich! Surfs' up!"

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Primitive cave drawings.

Here is a re-post of my scout's discoveries, as recorded in the dawn of a primitive era. A more useful but censored shot of the world around me will follow next turn.

R.III

And here is the screenshot from the game's first contact between me and the Yankees. I have since moved just beyond those mountains, found Washington, and shifted west again to follow the path of the "Richard Mountains" back to the sea.

So far, I have made one tech trade with the Celts, who have also made one trade with the Egyptians (as noted above, the Egyptians appear to be somewhere to the north, northeast or east of my position). I also - top secret info coming... - made a fairly helpful military trade with my friends the Americans.

The gap in the mountains in view in this shot has been christened "Contact Pass" in the story notes I have; my primary strategic fear right now is that the Americans will spill north through this pass into the fertile plain above before I can get there in strength. However, there are two bits of good news; first, that the Americans have already founded New York and it is somewhere else, and second, by a process of elimination, it seems fair to guess that the Romans are south of the Americans and therefore acting as a counterpressure on them.

R.III

Here is the latest map of the Land of the Celts, fresh from the Carthographer's Office in Entremont. Top Secret details of the map have been censored, but the rest is free for the uncivilized tribes to view.

A Brief Celtic History: Our land was named and founded in 4000BC when the first Gallic settlers decided to settler down. They claimed various parts of their land, and exploration quickly revealed lesser advanced neigbors. As of late, the Celtic territory has nearly doubled in size, and exotic Incenses have come under our control.

Unfortunately, the map is too large for this forum. :lol: I'll get back later to post it.

CG

The game is very young, so this should be taken in context.

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mauiduck has taken over for Wildfire444.
Sultan Bhargash subs for Cgannon part time.

First contact!

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After being snubbed by the Chinese, German warriors look for new friends.

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Perisa wonders aloud why Germany doesn't wax the Chinese...:)...Things on the Persian front are slow. We have three cities going now but we need more laborers. Our development of Iron Working is almost complete and soon it is hopeful that we can produce our Immortals and send them far and wide. King Maui or He Who Strikes his Thunderstick against the Backside of Ur, (the Goddess of fertility) has ordered that once Immortals join the ranks that we set out in serach of laborers for the emerging Empire's growth. Persia has one division of warriors to the north east while another heads due north. Barring a radical departure of events, our advisers speculate that we might be on AN ISLAND CONTINENT...:ack:

Originally posted by mauiduck
Perisa wonders aloud why Germany doesn't wax the Chinese...:)
;) Oh, dont worry...:mwaha:

Barring a radical departure of events, our advisers speculate that we might be on AN ISLAND CONTINENT...:ack:
Earlier German sages once believed this too, about our homeland. The discovery of the Chinese, and a landbridge to (?) somewhere... has renewed our efforts to make contact with other tribes.

We march. http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads2/joespanielsmile.gif

LOL@ joespaniel's Civ avatars. Persia is rich and we are the capital of surfing in the Ancient world. (We have just got done discovering Leashes. We are researching the Thruster right now...LOL..:)....) Things are quiet in our neighborhood. One of our wariors has discovered another lost village of huts and as they bmove inot to discover what they are about are military is posied should evil barbs come spilling out. We are two turns away from Immortals and are hoping that are present boundaries will also have the iron neccessary to create our mighty units to defend the Bank of Persia. Since we have no customers the Mighty King Duck or He Who Makes the Earth Tremble with the Roar of His Bowels has ordered that all money be put into research to keep up with our expectations and the advances of our as-of-yet undiscovered neighbors.

The mighty Egyptians, upon advice of council have decided to expand their territory. We plan to settle in the fertial banks of one of many river banks in our area. We already have Iron working:P and should get another settler in 4 turns. Then at a rate of one every 5 turns:). "Suck it Trebeck" *Nick slaps everyone in the room with a large trout.;)

The German people have gone into total war-production mode, gearing up for an attack on China.
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The goal is not to conquer them in entirety, but to "slow them down" enough so Germany is ensured to dominate our little corner of the world. And hopefully net some workers. ;)

The Lone Warrior trudges through dense jungle in hopes of discovering other, more hospitable neighbors. Peril lurks at every turn, behind every tree, around ervery hill...
But he is not afraid! http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads2/joespanielsmile.gif

Persia 24 -- The great Persians have begun work on another settler. A division of spearmen have moved up to protect our worker in case the village spawns hostile barbarians when our warrior encounters them next turn. Our other warrior continues to explore north, while our workers toil endlessly to run more roads and mines and to connect our two great cities.

The Latest Reports: The great city of Entremont gears up to recruit new Celtic settlers to furthur our grip on our territory. Spearmen divisions are shuffled around to protect our brave future settlers. Exploration continues to reveal our world, and we encounter an Egyptian warrior in the Southern Jungles. Our foolhardy warriors wish to attack, but we call it off just in time. ;) Our other warrior division continues their trek west in search of another culture who is believed to be there. (I'll post a map when its my turn again. I just found out that you can't reload saves you already played. :()

CG

Nothing of great interest to report, however feeling emboldened by our isolation, I have decided to release a partial screenshot of German Lands.

This was taken several turns ago.

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Study it well, for your future failed invasion attempts. :p

Here is the latest from the Cartographic Office of Entremont, an upclose (and edited) view of the Celtlic homeland. Do not underestimate the Celts because they are smaller than their rivals; the red circles should be be noted.

Here is the pic, hope it works. ;)

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Our newest city was founded this turn upon the banks of the river Nile. the name of this great city is Memphos. With its addition to our ever growing cities the Egyptians declare their devotion to GrandMasta Nick XXIV. Also an evil barb camp has been spotted in the distance, our warrriors are prparing to take those evil dmons to the pits of hell, were they belong.

I have decided to change strategy, and will build 3 new cities instead of building up for war.

An interesting developemnet with regards to China, they are in as bad a position as I am, and are expanding slowly. Once I have 6 cities, I may go ahead and attack after all.

Bah! Who am I kidding, ofcourse I'm going to go to war with them! :mwaha:

Game sent to Cganonnon.

Persia flexes her military muscle as pretty boy barbarians with flowing hair are given the bronze by our newly created phalanyx of Spearmen. We have discovered a vast plain of Elephants and, according to our scouts, an Elephant's Graveyard of ivory! The Bank of Persia is expecting a susbstantial economic boost onece the settlement and annexation are complete. Judging from intel made public by other nations, public opinion is strong in the belief that we are alone, however, due to the barbarian hordes our exploratory division of warriors who were enroute to confirm such a belief were refitted and renamed for combat to help defend the vaults of our good King...

Our freshest troops have been sent north to dispatch a rebel barbarian camp, who are apparently sitting north of our city and spitting and throwing various farm animals at us. ;) Our continued exploration has allowed our cartogrephers to estimate that we are on a ball shaped peninusula, along with Nick, with RIII and the Americans protruding in a shaft to the south. Hopefully that helps some of you figure out where you are. :D

EDIT:

Originally posted by joespaniel

Game sent to Cganonnon.

:lol: I love how much my name has morphed: started as cgannon, became cgcannon, gcannon, cgcgannon, cganonnon! You've made the best of all, joe! (Don't worry, I understand, its easy to double letters and stuff ;)).

From now on I'll call you jospannial, joeepspsaniel, etc. ;) :p

CG

My latest map is attached. Things are still going according to the plans I spelt out for myself about 20 turns ago, although the American decision to build a city (Boston) in the so-called "Contact Pass" area is disturbing. Further encroachments north will lead to hostilities...

China is growing annoyed with Germany, and threatens us. http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads2/minhsmile.gif

A military confrontation is avoided, for now.

However, our best generals are already looking into "alternatives".http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads2/joespanielsmile.gif
The "Horse Road" is nearly complete.

Germany (turn31)

Two settlers completed this turn, 1 more in production. A new city shall be built on the landbridge to form a bottleneck and keep China out of Germany. Their efforts so far to explore near Berlin have been frustrated by a lone spearman with big cajones.

The brave warrior continues his treck to find other (more friendly) civilizations.

Game sent to cgannon.

The Celts have realized through espionage (and reading threads ;)) that we are behind in city count. We've developed a crash settler program to colonize the remaining Celtic homelands.

Game to Nick.

CG

Perisa goes and now we have three cities with a fourth one soon to built near the Elephant's Graveyard so that we may become richer with our ivory and our industrious people will live the good life of splendor. Science progresses rather quickly, even though we are still alone in the world. Our warrior scout, fresh from having achieved veteran status, thanks to their victories in the Barbarian Wars are back enroute to the north. Another worker was ordered up to help connect our third city to the other two and develop more bonus grasslands near our second city. The source of the barbarian scourge has been identified! Our great Leader King Duck or He Whose Thunder Stick Makes Mules Blush has ordered a detachment of spearmen and two warriors to wipe out the camp and restore security to the financial center of the free known world.

Germany (turn32)

Pushing back the curious Chinese with our army, and allowing a settler to sneak onto the land-bridge, will now keep the interlopers out for good.
If they are smart, they will attack me now, otherwise I'm going to destroy China in about 10 turns. :D

Workers building road to bring horses into Berlin, and another settler heading to next city spot.

Game sent to cgannon.

The Age of Boredom continued to reign over the stale lonely existwence of Persia. Efforts to explore have been hindered by barbarians. We have wiped them out but have noticed that when our troops leave they reappear...gasp.... We have begun to make plans to "farm" these barbarian resources and add that to the wealth that is accumulating from our gems, so when we do contact the others the coffers of the Bank of Persia will be full. Until then historians agree that this will go down as the Era of Yawns.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads2/joespanielsmile.gif Germany (turn33)

Well, wake up Maui!

We have found the Persians!

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The clever and industrious German folk wonder if glorious Persia would care to offer anything for the wheel?

Game sent to cgannon.

Yes we will. We would also like to offer our assitance in waxing the Chinese as we know that given our experience with the AI in other PTW games that they are actually smart and ruthless this time around. If we don't axe China now it will get harder and harder especially if the Chinese find any other AI civs...:o

Offer a tech for the wheel and its yours. I'm not picky. :D

At great expense, the government of the Kingdom of England is proud to announce the opening of two new embassy buildings. One is in the city of Thebes, and the other in Entremont. British foreign ministry staff are jockeying for an opportunity to work in the Thebes compound, since that city of 108,000, with its gleaming barracks and fine furs, looks to be the most fashionable spot to visit in the world so far.

(And I must say, HRH is amused to discover that Entremont - a tiny, cold, forlorn city much like London - is undefended! So the Celts are cocky as well as scruffy! If only that Egyptian warrior was in front of that capital instead of mine. Speaking of which, Nick...)

R.III

The Celts have decided to execute all spies who deem themselves "ambassadors". Relations between the English and the Celts are strained as rumors fly of the English spy calling the Celts "scruffy". More on this situation as it develops.

CG

How about a princess from my kingdom for the Persian leader in exchange for iron working?

This deal seems to have your name writen on it... :D

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Joe, please PM me with whatever the original text said, eh?

And the government of Great Britain does not look kindly on scruffy countries that kill The Soveriegn's ambassadors... it's not like there's anything TO spy on, since the Celt army appears to be off in the forests somewhere spending quality time with their Druids.

R.III

Originally posted by joespaniel
How about a princess from my kingdom...

:hmm: Must have had another blackout...

And here I am thinking that since I quit drinking tequilla that these things would stop happening.:crazyeye:

@ Chieftess - ;)

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We discover Ironworking this turn, so the deal for my "princess" is off. :D

However, we have accepted your proposal for Masonry - Wheel, now please do the same to seal the deal. :)

Emden founded on the landbridge, Kiel founded to the north.

Building up forces to go after the Chinese city with iron in its radius, on the west coast of the peninsula.
They shall not have that iron...:hammer: I will. :D

Warrior continues his heroic journey to meet the other civilizations of the world.

Save off to cgannon, "the Scruffy".

Originally posted by Richard III
Joe, please PM me with whatever the original text said, eh?
As you requested, sent. :satan:

...the Celt army appears to be off in the forests somewhere spending quality time with their Druids.
:lol: Darn tree-huggers... :D

Glad you are back around again RIII. :)

Originally posted by Richard III
And the government of Great Britain does not look kindly on scruffy countries that kill The Soveriegn's ambassadors... it's not like there's anything TO spy on, since the Celt army appears to be off in the forests somewhere spending quality time with their Druids.


The Celtic ambassador turns away. He has nothing to say in response. ;)

A press leak has been released that says the Celtic empire will soon double in size, with more settlers on the way. The "government" of Great Britain should be trembling.

CG

P35

A decent turn, 6th settler finished and is heading for a gem spot next to China.
Nice pile of archers defending our landbridge now, we feel safe. :)

Our warrior scout passes by some Persians, and continues south...

Save to cgannon.

Persia notes Germany offer and will take the Wahine in exchange for the Chasitiy Belt tech which we abhore. Our Domestic advisors hope that the Princess will not break under Lord Maui's Mighty Thunderstick...:)... Persia will be posting a map to show our intentions to others so that we can grow in peace with our warm-blooded neighbors. Iron has been connected to our cities and two divisions of Immortals are a round away from being trained. Another barracks is almost complete in our northern cities and another settler is ready to move out towards the lands claimed by Perisa in the map to be released by the Royal Cartographer's Office...On to RIII and map coming soon...Maui...P.S. Joe send that local loving my way....;)

By Order of the Lord of Persia the Royal cartographers Office has released the following map of our region. The Persian government feels that making our intentions known in our region that planned growth and cooperation can develop. The sign of the Chinese horde and their disdain for banking has led our Generals to the conculsion that the sooner we can initiate military action, the better we will be at keeping the horde out of our sphere of influence. Several Immortals are soon to be dispatched to join the two archer divisions near the River Ur. While we don't know the intentions of the German scout, we can tell them that the ocean lies to the soputh of Persia and that all lands in that regin have been settled by the Persians. We hope the Germany will assist in our rightcheous cause of eliminating the Chinese menace which will provide room to grow for Germany and help us establish a military-economic alliance that will bring security to the region...:D

The Germans are seriously thinking about smashing the Chinese... :satan:

Game to cgannon.