Spl02: Noob-Party

I have played and will report to night.

Stuff happened and I did stuff

Like the Fasil for Maoi idea.

Turn 0 (265)

Jaoaoaooa is researching engineering. We will not be able to take his land, sadly. Sitting Bull is there for the taking if we wish. We aren't very behind, somehow. Eh. Don't press it, Quotey!

I am tempted to rename or new aquistions, but I dunno if this annoys people in the group. If I ever start an SG thiswill be a requirement (I have an idea, actually...) Next 4 city names in China are: Tianjin, Macau, Shandong, Kaifeng.

Tianjin Debre Behan was working a plains forest 1/2/0 instad of cows 3/3/0. Maybe a governer mistake.

Infact, Debre is getting 7hpt. Whaaa??? Cows, 3h, City, 1h. Where's the other 3?

I clcked a tile and got Aesthetics down to 8, I'm a research wizard!

And now for my next trick....

POOF

Research: Paper (18)

Switch to 50% at -7gpt to get paper to 14.

RESEARCH WIZARD.

Also, complaint here: Someone's been windmililng hills we won't be working and planted 3 incense instead of 1 or 2. Waste 'o turns.

I also stop a worker building a workshop near chengdu because it doesn't need the hassle right now.

Turn 1 (266)

Whip Huangzhou for a monument. Why did we settle this city again? Maybe we captured it from Zara and some fantastic person renamed it? I remember a city called Fasil Ghebbi. But no, that's south of it and we're gonna keep it.

Turn 5 (270)

Sitting Bull settles a city on our borders >:O

Oh, Bull, as soon as Zara is finished....

Turn 7 (272)

Peace Treaty? Cancelled you say? Well, wouldn't want to redeclare instantly. I'm a noble man.

HA, JOKING ZARA. BANG.

Turn 8 (273)

I capture Fasil Ghebbi losing 2 Cho-Ko-Nus. But Scipio Aficanus our healer gets the last blow and is 1 battle away from his March promo!

Turn 9 (274)

A random event. Get +1c in on a plains forest orrrrrr

-129g, +1c in the plot. And a 67% chance for a free scientist and +3H in Beijing. I go for the second one because christ I LOVE GIVING AWAY MONEY.

The event works! I hope you didn't want a complete prophet pool!

Turn 10 (275)

Apostolic Palace resolution. Vote no on stop war. A horse archer kills a worker of ours, and 2 War Elephants lurk beside Aksum.

Lose 1 Cat razing Adwa (again).

Turn 11 (276)

Resolution to stop us fighting succeeds.

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I'll play one more turn to get paper then stop.

Turn 12 (277)

We can declare on Zara somehow. What?

I decide to stop here anyway, but did not move any millitary units incase the next player wishes to declare.

FP is 1 turn from completion in Aksum.

SAAAVVVEEEEEE

The reason we can declare on Zara is simple .... he is now the vassal of Sitting Bull.

Who's up? with the recent switch and swap and some-play-naked and some-play-like-cook business going on, I can no longer tell.

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GreyFox said:

Who's up? with the recent switch and swap and some-play-naked and some-play-like-cook business going on, I can no longer tell.

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According to the original roster:
Roster:
1. Splime
2. Quotey - just played
3. GreyFox - up
4. Admiral Kutzov - on deck
5. TheLastOne36
6. Morred
7. dawn

The reason we can declare on Zara is simple .... he is now the vassal of Sitting Bull.

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Ugh, I hate the Civ4 announcement system. I did not see this.

well do we just take both of them own? i think we need to have a second stack go for sitting bull's cities.

Also any plan on which cities we keep in NA and which we raze/resettle?

Splimey seems to have missed his turnset, so I'll wait a while for his official roster. Meanwhile, I think we do not have sufficient forces to take on SB, so it will be some maces/spears build up for my turnset. SB has ivory and construction, so we need a lot more spears.

Now, I find myself with some time, so if you guys don't mind, I shall take on the save...

Roster:
1. Splime (up, unless there are any objections...)
2. Quotey (just played)
3. GreyFox (on deck)
4. Admiral Kutzov
5. TheLastOne36
6. Morred
7. dawn

Guys... the AP vote wants to give Aksum to Ethiopia... what should I do?

If I don't get a response soon, I will defy...

say "never" we own the Apolistic Palace right? and we're not even christain. (although i'm not 100% sure)...

I played to Turn 290, just to keep things even. That's 13 turns I played.

(Sorry, I have no pics...)

I mostly built troops, with a bit of infrastructure. Forming a new stack just near Sitting Bull. Also, culture is starving Guangzhou, so something will have to be done, if at all possible (which I doubt).

Also, there's a quest to build 7 Triemes, if we wish to pursue it.

The AP Vote to give Aksum to Ethiopia failed narrowly. We defied the resolution, but the only person to vote yes was Zara, who is the only one with the palace's religion. We should get a Jewish issionary into Aksum so that we can take it over. (As it stands, we can't use it to our advantage.)

The save: http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/59830/Spl02_AD-1350.CivBeyondSwordSave

Well, unfortunately, a misclick razed my pictures, so this is one of those rare reports from your Grumpiness that has zero screenies.

Not that I took a lot. Only 2 or 3 as I recall, since it was a boring build-up turnset.

I was not entirely happy with the lack of spears. Proceed to change that with Guilds in. Traded it away immediately for engineering + 130g from Charle, and got aesthetics + optics + 200g from Joao. Thus we now feature pikes, a better match for Sitting Bull's Elephants. I suspect we should be able to declare late in the next turnset, or early the following one.

With aesthetic, I got Drama. We are getting culturally pressed left and right like Pamela's boobs, time to add more silica in them so that they firm up. In other words, Chinese UU -- Pavilions.

I have tentatively set research to Education. Feel free to change if you need to.

We are really falling behind HRE and Portugual ... we need to quickly finish Sitting Bull and Zara, and catch up with our sheer size.

I have it. Play later today.

Hi all sorry for the delay and the brevity of this report. I have a function to attend in about an hour. I went a little long. Whipped hard. Need to take gondar and finish Zara before we end this war. I haven't tried to puzzle out what Zara has in Gondar, but it is pumping an amazing amount of culture and choking Aksum. I started the war cause Aksum got culture choked down to three or four tiles. I didn't worry about burning units cause we can't afford them anyway. We need to do economic repair after we finish the war. We need to kill or take gondar and Bull's southern most city (Iforget what its called). sorry for the lack of screenies, pressed for time. Need combat settlers to fill in for the Bull cities we're going to burn.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/11866/Spl02_AD-1480.CivBeyondSwordSave

Turn 303 - AP to reassign Debre to Zara. Defy.

304 - Charley get liberalism

305 - notice Zara's got jumbos. Swell. Culture squeeze starts. Turn off research.

306 - Go. Army Group south moves onto horses @ Barbera. Army Group Central moves next to Adulia (it is on the coastal copper). Army Group North moves next to Snaketown.

307 -South reduces Barbera to 4%. Central reduces Adulis to 8%. North reduces Snaketown to 8%

Barbera autorazes in 1440. Take Adulis in 1440. Burn Snaketown in 1445.

Addis falls in 1480. St. John BIDL. Stop. Lots of unmoved units. Take the two suggested cities before smoking the peace pipe and then do a cease fire as we should resume after regrouping. The research should go back up after we recover the economy and spam some missionaries.

MONTY POPPED and is resting in Debre.

BTW, we have knights.

TLO36 is up!

BTW, Admiral, what exactly do you mean by "Monty popped"?

BTW, Admiral, what exactly do you mean by "Monty popped"?

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Sir Bernard Montgomery, GG, popped and is sort of wandering aimlessy pending more razing of Sitting Bulls cities.

oh, ok...

I was scared for a bit, since I've only seen monty in reference to Montezuma...

too much history channel. sorry for the scare.

i got scared when i heared monty to >.<

this is a "got it" but won't be able to play till tomorow. If Morred wants to pick it up before i play, be my guess.

anyway, ounce we recover the eco, what should the research path be?

What about trying to beat Jman and Charles to Rifling? I think that's the only way we're winning this. But if we beeline for it we'll hit it.