Recent content by carl corey

Sorry, everyone, I'm really busy right now, including the weekends, so no civ for at least two more weeks. Didn't expect it when I started the series. :)

Go ahead and pick this up. I'm pretty busy right now, which is why I haven't played this or finished the Immortal Cookbook game. If anyone wants to continue that series too, feel free. I'm quite busy right now, and while I still play from time to time it's just for fun, no reports. :)

That's a bold thing to say from your professor, considering that hunter-gatherer societies that have survived up to our times have not shown the same level of "sophistication" as those who "researched" agriculture. :)

And no, you can't steal a tech that you can't research on your own. So you'd have to steal Mining first, which isn't allowed in this game variant.

I'll play this tomorrow, as I was out of town for work the whole week. Can't wait to see what the shadows hide. :)

I'll try to do it this weekend. I was away all week for work, with no net and no civ. The horror... Glad you managed to go ahead without me. ;)

True, true. The problem I see is production. It's not that artillery isn't the better unit here, it's that building all those troops from scratch even with the whip is not as effective as drafting. By that time we might be hit by others. Pre-Astronomy I'm ok with no military when we're on an...

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The first game is up here: CC Skipper I: Mineless Khan

Welcome to the Skipper series, comprising six games that show the effects of completely skipping one of the first-level techs: Fishing, The Wheel, Agriculture, Hunting, Mysticism and Mining. In order to avoid random chances of getting these techs I'm going to disable huts in all of them...

1. Sleepless - Peter a bit far from Rifling, maybe we can try a drafting round and take a couple of cities. Still a bit late to do it... 2. Soirana - not bad tech-wise, but Peter won't give us Constitution for Rifling so I expect our monopoly won't be long lived. Too bad, drafting is quite...

Nope, no globe city. I had infrastructure up pretty late so it was either committing a city to building it now, or going ahead with drafting and building units without it. I chose the latter since we're in Theocracy/Police State; not sure if it's optimal, probably not.

I guess we have all the saves for this round, so voting can actually begin now. Since I'm away on Saturday that will help us get the next round started before I go away.

To 1500AD:

Neah, I'm gonna skip one tech at a time, I'm not that much of a masochist! :lol: Keshiks do seem a good choice for the no mining game. I'll start with this one tonight. Probably Epic speed, as Marathon is too slow for my tastes, and Normal will get me out of my "best units" era too fast. I...