Role Play Challenge: All Good Things.......

Volapyk said:

Hmm why wasn't Ning-Hsia settled one title two the west? You would have lost the oasis, which would mean a bit slower growth to begin with, but instead of those 3 dessert titles you would have gotten 2 flat grassland and one plainhill, not to mention the extra forest for more chopping.

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Because of more overlap with Karakorum. Probably not a big deal but seamed OK at the time.

All Good Things.....: The Mongol Bride

Kublai has become obsessed with the Celtic Queen to his west. "I must have her", he mutters! A voice from a distant time wispers in the Khan's era "For me Kublai, avenge my lost love". The voice disapates slowly, like a wisper, but not before Kublai hears "I am Washington." Come my kighty Keshiks, there is work to be done.

Kublai, being the ever gentleman, calls upon The Celtic Queen.



Time to die Boudica.

Meanwhile, our cities at the moment



We have just used the whip on the Mongols to speed along Gers in two pricipal cities. Production will be a bit slower while they grow back, but this helps empower the Mighty Keshiks

Before I show the bloodshed, our techpath

Iron Working/Alphabet/Mysticism/Meditation/Priesthood/Monarchy. Some sped up via trades.

Now onto important matters.



So we quickly take out the seashore city, opening pigs up to Beshbalik.

we also get a glimpse at the Amazon Queen's capital.



SO I think we need to build up our troops a little. Sure we want Keshiks a bit, but we are agressive and melees are great city assault units.

Meanwhile we met another AI



Willem! Sorry dude, but we are busy at the moment. Perhaps we'll kill you a little later.

SO we wait to get some reinforcements and heal a bit. Also note the Gallic Warrior coming at us. Yes, Boudica has iron!



We then meet



Ragner: Are you sure there are only one of you guys?

And after Iron Working



Oh yeah, we have it very close to our capital! Knights for sure!

Oh, by the way. Anyone notice that Gandhi is dead! Damned stupid Indian, we just never get a chance to kill him!

Back to iron, another important question is where is Boudica's iron source (she has no copper). After marching our healed troops around.



SO I decided to circumvent Bribrate and see what else we can raze, making sure we take out the iron mine.

We found Tolsa, with a Dun but not on a hill



Note the pillaged mine

And kaboom!



We them bring our troops back to Mongol lands to heal and pickup a few Keshiks.

We hear the war horns blaze and found Monty has found someone to play with



Good Monty, you attack Arabia, we'll be over there soon enough.

After researching alphabet a bit we finally get someone to trade most of it to us



I am sure Inca will have HBR soon enough.

We take our beaten up stack towards Vienne, the Celtic horse city and find



Pretty weakly defended, so we decide to attack

But before that a few more trades





we need friends and Buddhism seams to be the way to go.



NOW, back to Vienne



A decent area for a city. Kublai makes a mental note to find time to settler that area.

We reassemble the Horde just outside of Beshbalik, adding a few Swords and Keshiks



And time to make a final assault on Bribrate!

To Be Continued.......

All Good Things.....: The Mongol Bride

And very soon we have



Bibracte is ours! We kept this city (RPC rules allow it!) and quickly send a defending archer there.

This battle allowed us to pop our first GG, Erwin Rommell!



We settled him in Karakorum. The next leader get's attached to a Keshik as a medic III

The same turn the Idiot Aztec comes a calling



Damned you Monty, can't you see I am busy with a LAdy! Just never get these things through your head. Idiot, Idiot, Idiot. Well time to start thinking of ending Old Monty's life pretty soon, Kublai got a message from some dude named Hammurabi saying that Monty can be very dangerous if gets the AP!

Kublai has no qualms with asking for help!



She joined the war against Monty without even asking for anything! Her power numbers are pretty bad and Monty now has a three front war, so I forsee these two leaders dropping very early!

But sicne we are technically fighting a 2 front war ourselves, we decided to end that first war.



Boudica has dies. However, Kublai is still intrigued. He borrowed some mummification tips from Hatshepsut and had Boudica stuffed to be displayed in his Palace as sign to future enemies. However, Kublai still considers her his bride! Let's not go any further there!

So we used the last few turns of this segment to finish some odds and ends.

We readjusted eps towards Hatty and Monty.



WE finished off Monarchy via a trade



And met our all time favorite Zealot



Wow, we share the same religion yet she is annoyed at us. Must because she has no religious holy city, you know how Isabella can get.

So we adjust civics



KING KUBLAI! So happiness is not an issue now!

WE planted our next city, Old Sarai, right up against Hatty's captured Barbarian city.



So let's review our cities at the moment













And a map of the entire region



OK, I saved here.

The plan

1) Research Currency next. Followed by Code of Laws.

2) Reassmeble our forces and go start razing some Axtec cities. I plan a fast early Keshik stack to pillage followed by the melee stack.

3) Let Hatty alone until the Aztec threat is eliminated.

City Specialization
Karak - Commerce City and Hybrid depending on how you use it.
Besh, Turfan, Ning - Production Cities
Bibracte - Not Sure could be Hybrid/Commerce
Old Sarai - Commerce city

My concern was you need some commerce coming in to handle this expansion espicially when you conquer Monty/Hatty. Once your treasury runs out in a few turns you'll probably 50% or so which will take currency/col forever. I'd turn old sarai and bibracte into commerce ASAP because 3 production cities is probably enough for now but you need more commerce. Have you already thought about this?

EDIT - if you decide those two cities will be commerce, stop building barracks and build granary to help w/ vertical growth because you have HR now so happy cap isn't too much of issue for a while in those citeis.

I don't think I'd leave hatty alone. She isn't much for warring and will probably do one of the following. A. maintain the token war without attacking B. sue for peace and let you fight alone. C. while doing either of the two settle in all that unclaimed land. That's going to be the trickiest part in this game is combating the hordes of settlers that will swarm in like vultures after your wars.

I haven't seen a power graph, but since hatty is already breathing down your neck I would just double cross her. Monty isn't going to be much of a power house right now in this age with your keshiks and because of the perceived distance your gonna have to wait for some slow catapults lumbering over there to dislodge him. Hatty is closer has some good lands and will be an easy target.

You are low on gold and taking a few quick hatty cities will gaurantee you with the funds to finish col keeping you out of tech hell in your warring path.

This was my first post on here and more than likely I would have never posted in the first place if this wasn't mad's last rpc. These threads not only keep me coming to this website but out of all the thread games his are the ones that keep me entertained and learning something new to try every time. So thank you for all your hard work. I'll miss them.

socialhavoc said:

I don't think I'd leave hatty alone. She isn't much for warring and will probably do one of the following. A. maintain the token war without attacking B. sue for peace and let you fight alone. C. while doing either of the two settle in all that unclaimed land. That's going to be the trickiest part in this game is combating the hordes of settlers that will swarm in like vultures after your wars.

I haven't seen a power graph, but since hatty is already breathing down your neck I would just double cross her. Monty isn't going to be much of a power house right now in this age with your keshiks and because of the perceived distance your gonna have to wait for some slow catapults lumbering over there to dislodge him. Hatty is closer has some good lands and will be an easy target.

You are low on gold and taking a few quick hatty cities will gaurantee you with the funds to finish col keeping you out of tech hell in your warring path.

This was my first post on here and more than likely I would have never posted in the first place if this wasn't mad's last rpc. These threads not only keep me coming to this website but out of all the thread games his are the ones that keep me entertained and learning something new to try every time. So thank you for all your hard work. I'll miss them.

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Glad you found the RPCs fun and educational! Feel free to join in any other posts, they are also fun and educational

On topic, not sure what to do with Hatty yet. I am definitely looking at settling around that in-land lake since slot of nice rivers shoot off it. But I know what to expact from Monty, and he pretty much has to be cut back is not out right destroyed. Besides, it's alot more fun killing him off that Hatty!

Looks good from here. Thanks for posting links in you OP!

I know! Holy crap, is this the first time you've ever done that?

Good game so far but... really sad to see these go. I have read through every RPC, and with the exception of Mehmed enjoyed them all (well, at least it was kinda funny, thinking of you tolerating all those end turns). Hopefully we will still see you around CFC, Mad.

^My understanding is he's going to make a mod!

Double-cross Hatty Mad. And don't build anything you can take by force!

I wouldn't go after Hatty yet. She has too many friends and you will have diplo demerits with almost half of the other civs.

Fight the war against Monty and resettle Boudica's lands.

All Good Things....: Bullying Aztecs!

Kublai's eyes continue to blaze red with fire. Montezuma has insulted us, and he shall pay! Keshiks, BURN!!!!!!!!!!!

But first, a trade to try and boost relations with teh Zealot Spaniard!



NOW, onward to Aztecia!



BURN, BURN it to the GROUND!!!!!!!!!!!

And to show Kublai has his charming side.



Which speeds along Currency. Speaking of which

Our techpath went: Currency/Construction/start Metal Casting

And we make a few more trades





Now about Monty, we sent our melles force back to regroup and sent of the Keshiks to do a little more damage



And soon Khan get's his tribute from Aztecia!



We send our Melee force down to the former Celtic Horse city



We leveled the barb city and resettled on the hill to the east, allowing us to work the deer and horses.

We made a great trade with mansa



And finally, we meet our man of the RPC year in review!



Doing what he does best, currently at war!

So we assemble a force of on Keshiks



And move them north towards Monty.



And notice Monty is distracted with Willem right now.



A perfect time for a lightening fast Keshik attack!



BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!



BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weakening old Monty quite a bit. By the way, if you haven't noticed Sal is dead and his lands acquired by Monty. You'll see in this treay



We saved here while we build courthouses and heal our Keshiks.

A look at our lands



Not so bad. I figure when we are ready to expand in realestate we simply take them from Hatty and resettle.

Techs we are doing OK although Hannibal has Fuedalism.

And Demographics



I think we really need to start getting an economy going.

So my thoughts

1) Courthouses/Libraries/Markets.
2) Keep slavery to whip out the above. Then adopt Caste.
3) Turn Bibracte into a GP farm.
4) When cash runs low go pillage Aztecia for some funds.
5) Slowly build a conquer/settling force to seriously take Hatty out. we cannot hope to win with acquiring those lands. Right now she's at war with Tokugawa.

A little slower segment. Definitely infrastructure next segment, but perhaps some more Keshik action just to keep us sharp (and get a medic III Keshik).

Techpath I am heading towards MC/machinery/Civil Service.

So how am I doing!

I'd do CS first... Bureaucracy and the AI's love to tech machinery before CS, you have enough to build as it is so you don't need forges immediately

Settle more land, your tech rate is too high! Probably not a bad idea to have a 5-6 pop city whose job it is to just pump settlers out non stop.

Can you get OB with Mansa?

I would have kept up the war against Monty. Now when you declare war again you may get demerits with the other Buddhists since Monty is now part of the happy Buddhist family.

I agree with PaulisKhan-you need to settle more cities. Both Issy and Hatty have agressively settled towards you and you will have to attack them to gain more territory.

I cannot imagine Kublai is satisfied with just 1 bride. Go fetch yourself another one and expand, expand, expand!!!

Looks like your power numbers are good vs. Hatty, and with her being distracted by Toku this could be a good time to get yourself some space at her expense. Knowing Toku, it could be difficult to get peace from the guy, so she could be in a 2-front war with the two of you for a while.

Kev said:

Looks like your power numbers are good vs. Hatty, and with her being distracted by Toku this could be a good time to get yourself some space at her expense. Knowing Toku, it could be difficult to get peace from the guy, so she could be in a 2-front war with the two of you for a while.

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This is exactly what I was thinking. Still the economy may be an issue, but the hell with it. Are we Khan's or mice!

Also Hatty is in this game because I befriended her way too long in the Fred game!

All Good Things....: The Egyptian Backstab

Kublai begins by finishing researching Metal Casting, with the plan of exploiting the world through trades!

First



You would think the world would be throwing techs the Khan's way. Nothing doing. We got minimal for it



Woopie!

So Kublai decides to research Civil Service and starts preparing to do the Khan thing

NW, our melee stack with a settler



NE, the Keshik Horde



Only one thing missing



Time to Backstab Hatty!

We quickly destroy one Egyptian city.



And another



And another



The last we resettled as Samarqand



So very quickly Hatty has been reduced by three cities and essentially blockaded into the east. We regroup a bit and start mobilizing troops to the eastern front.

We also settled Tabriz on teh northern lake.



Note that Monty settled that eastern region of the lake already. Perhaps it will be time to smack him back again. But first things first

We need to refuel the war machine a little bit, so



Very useful this Aztec dog!

We start using the Keshiks to trim back the Egyptian border cities a little bit



Then tacitus determines we are not the strongest in the world!



Just who does this damned Tacitus think he is! Kublai consider this and decides we need some techs to up the power game.

We did get our second GG, Vercingetorix, which we attached to a Keshik to get that medic III unit



We then take our Keshiks deep into Egytpian territory.



Pillaging everything we can, breaking communication lines, and pressing for the "far side" lands.

Like the Capital, much more weakly defended than the front





Sure I could keep up, but I decided to raze it to leave room for our Horde to operate!

We did get a random event getting us a free scientist specialist and +3 health! Hey, in this game we will take every beaker we can get!

As we start seeing Egyptian War Elephants, we decide to organize our troops to bear down on one last city



Meanwhile, the AP rears it's ugly head



To Be Continued..........................