Role Play Challenge, TNG: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!

Since I’m 100% confident that TheMontyInTeam is not going to show me any mercy in the other 17 games, I’m not showing him any this game either…

This is the only emperor game in history where I will have the opportunity to warrior rush...so, TMIT, builder of my second capital, say hello to my little friends:



And the next image is very graphic and disturbing…please exercise discretion in viewing - I have spoilered it for the weak of heart:



Our fallen hero, TMIT's last defender, lying impaled among the city ruins. Let us have a moment of silence...




It was not meant to be for the Aztecs, and Roosevelt’s warriors stand triumphant amid the burning embers of Tenochtitlan.



But we in America were taught never to look back, we can only look forward…and we look forward to building our wonders in peace and quiet, but first, it appears as if our beloved comrade Neal fared equally as poorly as TheMontyInTeam:



But we must look forward – on to wonders! GW, Mids, Colossus, GLH, this:



Yes, IND/ORG, with an early forge and organized religion is truly unfair...This guy is kind enough to pop as I'm about to start the glorious american library:



And the last wonder of the segment:



TheMontyInTeam's capital is a fine worker/settler pump, allowing me to place plenty if cities while washington focuses on wonders. Many more cities to come, no doubt.



I've played this as monty before, never as roosevelt. Exceptionally easy with all civs starting with warriors, but sometimes easy games are fun too!

Basic round - just filling out land and going down the wonder path:



Then decided to head to music for the artist to continue making Washington an uber-capital.

Founded taoism, zeus, chapel, wat, sankore. And wanted to establish my foothold in the awesome cottage land in south america.



Lib - astro. Time to meet some of my fellow fanatics.

I went lib-astro, even though it obsoletes colossus. The trade routes will more than make up for it after a few meetings. Meetings were uneventful – everyone behind in tech.

We meet madscientist – looks like he’s having some tech issues, but I decide that it’s time to get me some horses!



What would America be without cavalry - thanks Mad! Meanwhile, Yared is really big - he's pleased though, and has more pressing issues, i presume. I’m starting to settle/farm/cottage south America, and finally, once I see people getting close to astronomy, time to mount a force to end the existence of futurehermit, my former BFF. Switch one of my two worker/settler pumps (TMIT and I really played this game similarly – he had two cities doing that as well) to producing units to protect against any surprise attack and start massing my army.

Meanwhile, teching up the democracy line for the first of two gamebreaking wonders for the Americas…and then to physics & communism ideally for the two great people and the most important civic of the game –SP. An engineer comes to help speed along statue.

After we finish communism, it’ll be time to wipe the other fanatics off the face of the earth. Oh, and in my game, DaveMcW appears very unliked as well:



Sorry I never got the chance to meet you, Dave. Gamebreaking wonder 1 is complete:



By 1740, that meant about 40 specialists with all my cities on the landmass. And the other gamebreaker, Kremlin, will be started very soon. Now, my force lands to backstab poor futurehermit, who has now become pasthermit:



I popped a prophet soon after, who I happily used to shrine Cuzco, the powerful jewish holy city. And simply readying the forces with a few more techs, it’s time for my next victim, and time to start claiming more land – first, off, Africa. Mansa was not the superior this game - here was his rogue island city I had to look for after wiping him off africa - war took 10 turns longer than I wanted as a result:



While I was finishing him, jaaboo tried a sneak attack:



Whatever jaaboo - I killed a few cossacks, got the battlefield random event, and took it for peace - want to deal with him later.

I also finished cristo, allowing for switches – 3 turns in rep, FS, FR, and 1 turn in US, vassalage, theocracy – amazing for massing army while continuing to power tech. Foothold in Africa well established, and bandobras is next…



That’s one of three stacks I’m hitting him with at once. Meanwhile, death to madman:



In the next segment, it's time to claim all of Africa, which means it’s time to DOW Jaaboo AND madscientist all at once! The next update will see whether or not I can finish the dom win off before TMIT – it’ll be close – I have 79 turns left to pull it off. We both had pretty strong leaders – although Roosevelt might be stronger on this map given all that land to develop on his own. It still will be close, as it'll take some time to finish plowing through Africa, and I haven't started really attacking Europe - intending to do both with power rushbuying in next 20 turns...

First things first – when using US and Kremlin, I want to maximize our gold. Hammers are important, but I like to rushbuy banks, grocers and markets in my gold cities first. After trading a tech or two around for as much gold as possible, all the gold goes towards rushbuying the gold multipliers for a few turns.

That’ll be the theme of the rest of the game. Tech turned down to a minimum – 10%, at refrigeration. I have a solid tech lead, and no tech necessary after refrigeration. Unfortunately, I’m facing a bit more infantry than TMIT did. Same concepts as his game though - North American and South American waypoints, a couple dedicated drydock cities, and mass unit spam, mainly tanks, artillery and navy seals.

Stupid Yared controls UN and asks for environmentalism as global civic, forcing me to defy. I never should have built the stupid thing – thought I’d control it. Forces me to put culture to 20% for a bit.

And….what seems like about 5 turns later:



He does it again. So this sucks. Meanwhile, mad scientist is out of Africa:



I take peace from him for a bit



Embarrassing, mad, that you would give me a roman city for peace! Beating him won't be relevant for a dom win - Jaaboo and JTMacc are much more important.

Switch focus to Jaaboo and insanity first to take over all of Africa, and then jtmacc and all his culture is my next big target. And for the THIRD time in literally, 20 turns, he gets to throw the environmentalism crap up – how can this come up so fast? I defy for the last time – I’ll go environmental if I have to next time. This is complete crap though.

While fighting both JT and Jaaboo, a resurrection:


How did that happen? Dave is back, after being destroyed earlier - weird, weird glitch. He disappeared again 2 turns later – extra weird. Maybe we wanted to make sure I had enough cottages to maximize universal suffrage??? Anyway, back to mowing my way through the world, and Bandobras gives up mecca:



Think I have all but one holy city now. Check out the gold I'm massing at this point. For these last 40 turns or so, I was rushbuying about 15 units every other turn - no need to tech with that much gold coming in. Coasted through bandobras, semirami and some of mad’s land, and I massed enough firepower to Jaaboo and jtmacc at once, who each put up one heck of a fight. Especially Jaaboo - I slaughtered a couple of GIANT stacks of his, and he actually blew away one of my 30-40 unit stacks of tanks/infantry/artillery. The end of JTMacc:



That started the snowball effect on Jaaboo - I had my force split into two opponents before that, but then all my forces landed in Europe and I started to simply ram tanks into Jaaboo's cities - had about 6-7 stacks of 25-30 tanks just mowing through everything.

Also, I was clicking really fast at this point, and some random event popped up that had a few choices involving espionage, but before I could read it, I accidentally clicked a choice, and like 20 tanks showed up in Washington. Anyone know what that random event was? Not that I'm complaining - I shipped them right to the front lines.

And finally, 8 turns before TMIT did it, I finished the dom win:



To be fair, though, i had the perfect traitset for having a huge, isolated landmass - wonderspamming in one of my two main cities, and worker/settler pump in the other. No way to really compete with that when you have one super city pounding out wonders and settling all the great people. As you'll see when comparing our times, TMIT also did it a lot faster (although an hour of this time was idle time while I was dealing with my son, but he still was 2 1/2 hours faster).

Even though we used slightly different paths, you can see major similarities, right down to the builds and the score below. Fun game to play as Roosevelt - I've played it before as Monty, but never as Roosevelt.

...Well, when was the last time that you haven't seen a religion in the Old World until Confu and Christianity? That is what you get if you don't have Isabella spamming religions , I guess

Well, the rest was typical: chariot rush to Paris, chariot rush to Rome, making some wonders, cat + phant to England. Founded and shrined Christianity in Paris, and also did the AP ( I lost control of it fast... damned big world ). Rome , after losing it's cap, was mercilessly dogpiled by a 6 member coalition ( from Egypt to Mongolia ) and is out of the game, as well as England and France. Teching Education and will try to Lib Steel and give those infidels ( and not only ) a taste of spanish steel in theform of cannon bullets.

A note: Neal and mad are in war for the n-th time... good grief