BNH04- The Five Sultans Conquest Diety

BNH04 – 1600AD

T1-T5 (1605-1625):
- Signed peace and ROP with Dutch, transferred forces to rubber isle.
- Continued build-up and infra improvements.

T6 (1630):
- Lisbon completes Manhattan Project .

T7 (1635):
- Declare honorably vs. Portugal.
- France DOW against us (they had MPP with Port.)
- Byz. DOW against us.
- Capture Faro.
- Kill the Portuguese SOD in the NE.
- Kill the French SOD by Valencia.
- Kill the Byz SOD in the south.
- Embassy with Russia, they sign MA against Portugal for 11 gpt.

<IBT: Byz DOW vs. Russia; Dutch DOW vs. Portugal ; Port. counter-attacks by Faro kill a Sip. army, but the city holds.>

T8 (1640):
- Clean up more Port. forces by Faro.
- Message from our military advisor: “Ottomans will always triumph because Portugal is dumb.”

<IBT: Submarine activity near rubber isle, we lose an empty transport and a couple of frigates; MP => MT; global warming.>

T9 (1645):
- More combat near Faro.
- Dutch lose the SE city on rubber island to the Portuguese.
- Too much cultural pressure on Faro, it will flip soon. Decide to disconnect the rubber, sell off the improvements and abandon it. A settler is nearby to keep our claim to the rubber.
- Byz land more forces in the south.
- Dutch DOW vs. France.

<IBT: Lose another frigate to a sub; most likely nuclear since they don’t have oil, so it looks like they have at least one source of uranium.>

T10 (1650):
- Outpost founded on rubber isle.
- Our forces are moving in on Rio, it should fall within 1-2 turns (lack of roads kept some atty. from getting into position this turn).
- Kill the Byz SOD in the south, get a GL.

Recap:
- 156G, -16gpt, MT in 7.
- We have a nice world war going, with ourselves, Russia and Dutch vs. France, Portugal and Byz. Our side controls all the world’s oil and rubber, but it looks like they have uranium so I assume nukes are being built.
- Main focus was on continuing our build-up and getting set for tanks. I did not use the GL yet (he is in Istanbul) in case we decide to rush Battlefield Medicine with him. Right now there are 7 empty armies (and counting…)
- I wouldn’t advise moving any ships around Outpost until we can deal with the subs. I ordered up some destroyers, but right now we have just one in the fleet.

SAVE

Got it, sorry it took so long, knew I was up yesterday but I was busy with GR8 and RL. Finish today, hopefully.

Save won't work . Happened before, a black line appears on the load bar, and I have to restart the computer. Swap me please.

Got it. I don't think the GL will rush Battlefield Medicine since there are only 4 hospitals (it shouldn't be too long before getting another one, and by that time we'll have 5 hospitals).

I don't know what I was talking about in the parentheses of my previous post (only two landings all of my turns).

1650(0): move a bunch of MPs, MM accordingly

IBT: Byzantines drop off some units
Netherlands, Russia sign MA against Byzantines
trade embargo between Netherlands, Byzantines ends
sub kills frigate
Bonn riots

1655(1): kill a sub

IBT: Portugal drops off infantry by Outpost
New Edrine, Urfa riot
Emerita builds UN

1660(2): Portugal is in anarchy

IBT: Tokat, Sivas riot

1665(3): Raze Rio

IBT: sub sinks a destroyer

1670(4): Portugal is fascist

1675(5): Next turn MM Ankara

IBT: learn MT, start on flight
switch sipahi builds to tanks

1680(6): plant spy in Portugal
they have 3 workers (plus a Russian), 3 marines, 4 rifles, 1 cav, 115 inf, 5 artillery, 24 frigates, 22 galleons, 11 nuke subs, 71 TOWs, 3 mobile SAMs
they haven't started any SS parts
researching flight is 5828, a safe steal is 3424; science to 0%

IBT: Russia, Portugal sign peace

1685(7): fail to plant spy in France

1690(8): zzz

1695(9): zzz

IBT: subs sink two destroyers
propaganda upsets New Hamburg

1700(10): zzz

Notes: I've merged all native workers but 3; only useful work I see is forest chopping and pollution cleaning
I'd recommend stealing from now on (what type of steal works best?); Russia and Netherlands could trade us techs (sci method at the least)
you could try to plant a spy in France again
Next player will have chance to start invasion
It may be noteworthy that France and Portugal have trade embargo against Russia (so no worry about resource trades).

I figured a military advisor picture might be useful.

Up in two games right now (not to mention I got civ4 tonight )

I got it, I hope to pry the game from my computer tomorrow and play this one.

dl123654, I just swapped because of computer troubles, so I can take it now...

I'd recommend stealing from now on (what type of steal works best?

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Concur, moderate I found in a game is the best chance for your buck.

Flight only costs 5000 beakers , I expected it to be more in the 10,000 range.

Edit: Well, I have started the only two wars, and this would be the third, so if dl wants to take it so I don't have to start every one, then that's fine .

Edit2: Have all the time in the world, so I guess I'll take it. I promise I'll leave some AI for you .

Edit3: Save didn't work . So play on dl

Save

Traveling Turn

The world decided to declare on Portugal, so no UN vote

Filled the empty armies with vet tanks and transported them all over to Portugal on the last turn

Sent a flank just in case there are bombers

I don't know if its a good thing but we can't build armies anymore because we don't have enough cities

Stole Flight, traded for SciMethod and stole AT, currently 1200 in the bank, wait for 3600 before stealing (use safely)

Have changed all cities to tanks or destroyers

Watch for nuclear subs from Portugal and France (even know I just stank 15+ on the way over)

Raze all cities but keep Guimaraes for last (has Smith) all of their other wonders are somewhat useless

Considered mobalizing but didn't

Set it up so the next player should have a lot of fun

Thanks dl123654. Having a frustrating SP game (RNG is so cruel) and you saved me from ripping my hair out.

Save isn't working again . I think it's either my computer is too old and bad, or the file is too big (these sorta mean the same). In another SG, the same thing happened because it was late in the game, and the file was of course bigger. Could you please resave and repost with a different name, and I doubt it's possible, but can a save file's size be reduced? 4000BC saves are usually 71kb and this is 353kb.

What the heck, just skip/swap me. I may have to drop out if my computer can't handle the files.

I won't have time to play this until Sunday. If anyone else wants to jump in before then feel free, otherwise this is a 'got it'.

*sigh* In Gr8 B, again, like in this game I've had technical problems, because the files are too big. I'm getting a new computer soon, so until that happens, I need to be skipped .

BNH04 1750AD

SAVE

Mostly straightforward war-mongering. Portugal has been reduced to just their island cities:



- Put in some airfields so we can airlift reinforcements into Guimaraes.

- Guamaraes flipped in 1758 (turn 4), but I recaptured it with no problem.

- Safe steal of Electronics in 1754, got Ecology for our free tech. I tried another ‘safe’ steal in 1762 but it failed .

- Byz. DOW vs. France in 1766 (T9).

- France and Byz. tried a few small landings, again no problem dealing with those forces.

- Our destroyers killed quite a few subs, but also took some losses. We need to keep on bombarding the Byz. oil to keep it disconnected.

- Planted spies in Paris and Moscow (our Portuguese spy was discovered and booted out).

- Probably we should sign ROP with Russia to get our northern armies at France quicker. Unless we would prefer to crush Russia first – also possible. Lack of rails in the new lands hampers our mobility somewhat.

In the barrel.

I don't have time today, and the save wouldn't work either, so I need a skip. But I bet Tim's turnset will be the last anyway.

Got it. I'll play today or tomorrow.

1768(0): don't bother MMing
start some transports for conquering Netherlands, Byzantines
start some bombers

IBT: Byzantines kill French units
French subs kill 2 destroyers

1770(1): declare war on Russia
raze Bryansk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk
drop off units by Varna

IBT: Russia, France sign MA against Portugal

1772(2): raise lux to 30% so I can lose some MPs

1774(3): raze Novgorod, Rostov, Yakutsk
capture Varna
declare war on Netherlands
fail to steal from Russia

1776(4): abandon Varna
raze Heraclea
capture Moscow

IBT: Netherlands, Russia sign MPP

1778(5): raze Orenburg, destroy Russians
raze Maastricht
get a leader in France

1780(6): found New Urfa on Byzantine island
get a leader on island with Portugal
raze Eindhoven
get a leader in France

IBT: France, Portugal sign peace

1782(7): raze Reoun, Rotterdam, Groningen

1784(8): fail to steal from France

IBT: Portugal declares war on France

1786(9): get leader attacking Haarlem
disband two armies at Outpost so I can build more
raze Constantinople
lose a green army without hurting TOW

IBT: Byzantines, France sign peace, then go to war again
lose another army that had retreated due to horrible RNG luck

1788(10): finally raze Marseilles
capture Haarlem
raze Caesarea

Notes: There were subs near the island with Portugal
There's plenty of tanks and artillery in Moscow (their troops finally stopped swarming there)
Despite my poor RNG luck, dl should finish it

got it

Done

End Save

Played 1 extra turn (1 city left with two constript rifles)

Just hit enter for game history

Final score 8515

Took 95 hours

The save is now 277kb (same size as in 950AD)

The only interesting thing that happened was Paris had 85 artilery (mostly ours)

Great game guys! First SG deity win for me!

I learned tons. Thanks for a great game all. I wish BNH could see our glorious empire.