Monarchist Cookbook Game II

Skimming over the thread again, I'm not quite sure what I was thinking in stopping at 1100BC instead of 1000BC.

Oh, and, out of curiousity, Vale,

siggboy said:

Autosave is your best friend ;-).

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Autosave on posts? I dont think that would work, because I was writing it in the thread itself. Now if I was doing my report in another program like Word or something, maybe that would work, but I would never turn on any form of autosave on document work.

What I really needed was a battery back-up that gives you a few minutes of power if your machines power is interrupted. I have used them at work, and they are really invaluable, especially when you have spent an hour repairing a document or adjusting a photo (I worked in the pre-press department of a print shop).

I've played the first round very casually, so no save from me, but here are a few screenshots and random comments (turn 113):

Quotey said:

Weird and abusable game thing:

Spoiler :

The Lion in this screenshot will ONLY move to the tiles with a red dot. After observing this for a few turns, I have concluded that the black dot has a resource in it- for some reason, animals CANNOT move onto resources. I will found a city 1W of black dot (it has fish 2N of it). So I am sure I will have one of Iron, Coal, Aluminium, Oil, or Uranium. Fantastic.

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Very interesting, actually I got a Lion locked in at the exact same spot but didn't know about the move restriction. Well, Bleys will be happy about that, considering his initial settlement decision ;-).

Settled 1 east of initial spot to pick up corn. Early on, got some luck (popping the wheel and then AH from the only 2 huts I saw). I also got the herbal remedy even while building workers at pop 1 (got the health bonus). By the time I actually was ready to whip, all that whip anger was gone. So thats about the best time I could have possibly got it. So there was now a permanent +2 health in my empire. I switched tech from Agriculture to Mining when I popped AH since my workers had stuff to do now and then beelined BW. And found copper was in my fat cross. At this point and knowing that Moscow is close, it is 100% in my mind that I will be rushing Peter. Teched up Agriculture and Pottery while chopping out a settler and building a couple of warriors (worker worker was initial build).

I founded Sparta in 2550BC.

The state of the world at this point as I knew it at this point:


Athens:


Sparta:


Chopped/1 pop whipped out a Granary in Athens and started doing queue swapping tricks with a phalanx and a barracks to make sure I could whip a barracks for 2 for maximum overflow before any phalanxes were made. Setting up a 2 pop whip of barracks and then later a library was much easier than trying to 2 pop whip phalanxes with so many awesome tiles in the fat cross that gave entirely too many hammers. I did the same thing in Sparta and so by 2000BC they both had granaries up. Athens had its barracks up and Sparta had it ready to 2 pop whip when it was time:

Here is the world in 2000BC:

The archer at the bottom there will come into play later.

Athens:


Sparta:

This is a good screenshot. You can see exactly what I did here to enable 2 pop whipping. The barracks was the first build after the granary was in, but I took it out of the queue the turn before it would have had 30 hammers in it. I then built a phalanx until it was almost done then built a library until I was ready to whip the barracks and then start mass producing phalanxes. When it was time, I got the library ready for a 2 pop whip and whipped it.

Before I went to war, I noticed that archer from earlier running around south of Athens and standing on 0 defense tiles. It was too good an opportunity and I waited until he did it again before declaring and taking St. Petes and killing the wayward archer. St. Pete's had a granary and immediately started work on a barracks.

I worked through his lands pillaging his stuff to minimize his ability to keep producing stuff. He did have iron but hadn't quite hooked it up (I saw the worker mining a hamlet right as I arrived near Moscow. It is the tile NW of Moscow for future reference.

I razed Novgorod and planned on choking him a while but when he for whatever reason left himself with only 3 defenders to try to harass St. Petersburg with 2 Archers and I had around 7 healthy attackers, 3 with CR II and 1 almost healthy CRII axemen and 1 more that was less than almost healthy. I took my chances with it. First three attackers died but the 4th was at 61% and the 5th and 6th were 95+% to kill him.

Coincidentally, on this turn a Great Scientist was born in Athens. I had been working Scientists as needed to constrain growth and also go for an early Great Scientist. He was immediately settled in Athens.

State of the world in 1475:


Athens:

The GS got settled after this screenshot was taken.

Sparta:


Moscow:


St. Petersburg:


From here I prioritized getting Novgorod refounded as Corinth asap. A few turns after Peter's demise, I 3 pop whipped a Settler and sent him scurrying over to the spot. Meanwhile the workers were prechopping and improving around St. Petersburg and Moscow in preparation for the Pyramids in St. Petersburg (I had better whip overflow options there with the granary already in place) and to partial build the GW in Moscow if possible as I was quickly running negative gold at 0% research.

As soon as Corinth was founded the workers improved the stone, then chopped and mined the pre-done stuff in Moscow to get some hammers into the great wall. As they moved on the next turn I decided since I could chop it out that turn, to give one of the forests for the pyramids to Moscow to actually take it (the chop would complete it). So no money. But barbs will not be a problem for the most part now.

Meanwhile, St. Petersburg had put some decent hammers into the Pyramids thanks to some nice overflow from its Library. I miscalculated here and overchopped because I forgot I was getting some hammers from the barracks I had prebuilt to whip for this. So the workers that are chopping now need to move on or waste their hammers on more stuff that we don't really need urgently. Pyramids is due next turn.

Athens and Sparta worked on units mostly but after I got the great wall in they both prebuilt walls as a potential substitute for generating a little bit of cash. Also it gives me a power boost without making more military upkeep which is starting to become painful if we don't war soon. Moscow finished the Great Wall and whipped out its granary for 1 a turn or so ago. Corinth kind of sucks. I've got a worker going over to improve the sheep but it will be a while before that city is worth anything more than bonus hammers to walls or HG if we do that.

I'm still at negative money at 100% which is kind of not good. War with monty needs to come sooner rather than later and I suppose I should send my chariots out scouting down there. That was a messed up micromanagement. I held them back to protect against barbs but then when the GW was in that was pretty dumb.

State of the world:


Our cities:
Athens:


Sparta:


Moscow:


Corinth:


Last but not least St. Pyramidsburg:


Finances:


Military:


Religion - I'm not a big fan of the fact that Hinduism has probably spread to at least one person than the founder meaning they will be all lovey dovey:


Now here is a seriously WTH moment. I think one of the AI's is reading future hermits thread cause this is insanely early for the GLH to be gone:

I thought I played very well, But that was before I read vale's report. THe fact that he is almost done with pyramids impresses me. But oh well.

Wow vale, outstanding round indeed. And the +2 health event?

Still have at least Rolo to play, not sure if Hermit is going to have time, and I do still want to see Diamonds report, even if he overshot the cut-off, but I dont think anyone is close to Vale so far. Everyone else seemed to have a minor bad-break here and there.

I managed to sneak in 45 min today to play out the first round. So far so good. But I leave tomorrow morning and am gone for two weeks

I already played my turnset, but it is in other computer. Will post in 4- 5 h top

Nice round vale

I expect to play this evening.

I feel slightly ********. How do you post saves?

KeeperofSecrets said:

How do you post saves?

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In the "Post Reply" window (not the "Quick Reply") you will see an icon of a paper-clip. Click it, and find your save.

You should name your save in a way that we know what it is, see some of the other names of saves for the idea. No worries if its not EXACT, just have your name, and the game, like "MC_2_KoS_1000_AD" or something, game, your name, round # (although the date of the save will tell us the round), and date of save.

Glad you got a chance to get the round in hermit, good round too, looks like you also have Peter pretty much smoked.

Sigh, I am depressed by my round, totally blew it moving to that coast. Stupid blue circles, I thought for SURE there was a fish up there!

Yeah, I saw the blue circle too, but wanted the corn. 1E would've been the better decision though in hindsight.

I was thinking corn for 2nd city, with a seafood and the 2 AH resources, Athens would have been sweet.

Oh well, thats why we have the Best Ball format, so that gambit plays like mine and bad breaks like OTAKs wont kill us.