Pariah
Outside Influence
I'll get on it by Sunday night, I promise. Anyone else want to go before me?
SGOTM 05 - Geezers
- Thread starter AlanH
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Sam_Yeager
Another Original Geezer
I ran out of time in my last turnset so I'll play a few more turns.
Sam_Yeager
Another Original Geezer
Summary 1910 AD - 1930 AD
Got a bit carried away and played another 20 turns
We now know Industrialism (tanks are being built) and Communism. Revolted to Free Religion and Free Market although rather stupidly not at the same time. Currently researching Flight for gunships. Qin came along and demanded 360 
. 
Decided to pay up. I prefer us to have control of when hostilities start rather than the AI. Both Qin & Izzy have completed Apollo. Cyrus completed a couple of thrusters and three gorges dam. 
Izzy has forgotten about our mutual struggle against Asoka and is now furious with us. 
This may another reason why Izzy is furious with us. 
Got a bit carried away and played another 20 turns
We now know Industrialism (tanks are being built) and Communism. Revolted to Free Religion and Free Market although rather stupidly not at the same time. Currently researching Flight for gunships. Qin came along and demanded 360 . Decided to pay up. I prefer us to have control of when hostilities start rather than the AI. Both Qin & Izzy have completed Apollo. Cyrus completed a couple of thrusters and three gorges dam. Izzy has forgotten about our mutual struggle against Asoka and is now furious with us. This may another reason why Izzy is furious with us. Spoiler :
Spoiler Game autolog :
Spoiler SGOTM log :
The-Hawk
Old Original Geezer
I'm available today. Pariah, I've got it. I'll play a turnset in the next couple of hours.
The-Hawk
Old Original Geezer
OK, I got in 20 turns. Summary:
- Built a Caravel (whipped it to boot
) so we could spy on Sally. - Mecca has 6 infantry, 8 arty, 7 cavalry, 3 Samis. Najran (his island city to our east) has only an inf and a sami.
- He also has a pretty strong navy (destroyers and a battleship). However, we should be able to invade none-the-less. We can sit outside his cultural borders then DOW and land in one turn.
- Building a stack in case someone wants to have at Sally. I even stripped some of the higher quality units on Cyrus' side of lush island. Face it, with his power curve, if he DOW's on us, we will lose all of those lush island cities anyhow. I did continue building units near Izzy (and left them there).
- Our invasion force on home island is now 11 tanks, 8 inf, 2 samis, and 11 arty. Two tanks are in transit. Once the in-transits arrive, I believe we will have enough transportation for 39 units.
- Qin DOW's on Asoka, Asoka's capital is now on an isolated island.
- Cyrus goes to cautious because of close borders. I decide we can't really afford having him DOW, so I trade marble for GPT and gift him one of our sleeping workers. He is back to pleased.
- We research flight, plastics, radio. Working towards Mech Inf (or Modern Armour).
- Cyrus has Engine, Life Support, Stasis Chamber left to build.
- Finished in 1950... and we got the "100 turns to go" message.
Spoiler :
Sam_Yeager
Another Original Geezer
The-Hawk said:
I didn't even realise we could still build caravels! I assumed that they were obsolete with frigates. 
Sam_Yeager
Another Original Geezer
Looking at the Sally attack forces it looks like we can take down Mecca's defence immediately after DoW with the destroyers and frigate, attack with arty from the ships to weaken the defence and then attack from the ships with the tanks. Should be pretty devastating. 
The-Hawk
Old Original Geezer
Yep, I got a real chuckle out of this... building a caravel instead of a destroyer. Because of the spying capability, it is a pretty useful thing to have.
I like your plan for attacking mecca! If we can kill the city on one turn (killing his navy while it is in port), our transports might even live to fight another day.
Harbourboy
Deity
I would never have thought of doing that.
Harbourboy
Deity
I think we should give serious thought to optional 20 turn turnsets in the next game. They do seem to ensure that things keep moving along nicely.
Harbourboy
Deity
Who's having the next go then?
Sam_Yeager
Another Original Geezer
Roster:
Sam
Pariah - UP (says he'll get to it by Sunday night)
The-Hawk - just played
drhirsch - on deck
Harbourboy
AgedOne
markh (away from 25th - 31st October
Sam_Yeager
Another Original Geezer
It's certainly easier to do this in the late game when the broad outlines of what to do are fairly clear although reporting can suffer as a result.Equally perhaps we need to be a bit more ruthless at skipping team members if they don't post a 'got it' within 24 hours or submit their turnset with 72 hours. The flip side is that team members should post at an early stage if they are likely to have problems meeting the deadline rather than posting towards the end of the 72 hours.
drhirsch
Warlord
Is it still sunday night where pariah lives? ;-)
Anyway, I'll check back in a few hours, and if you don't mind, I'll grab the save and play some turns.
Anyway, I'll check back in a few hours, and if you don't mind, I'll grab the save and play some turns.
Sam_Yeager
Another Original Geezer
I'm not quite sure where Pariah lives but time's a getting on. Go for it.
drhirsch
Warlord
Downloading and playing now.
drhirsch
Warlord
We took Mecca and Damascus.
We know Satellites and are resaerching Composites.
We lost all destroyers but no transports, but sunk 6 arabian destroyers and 2 battleships while capturing Mecca. We lost a couple of tanks and SAM Infantry. Saladin hast at least 15-20 gunships, a lot of them probably promoted ^^
This is the reason we made peace.
A second Invasion fleet is currently being loaded at Kyoto, this time with more SAM Infantry on board. Saladin seems to like gunships very much :-(
We know Satellites and are resaerching Composites.
We lost all destroyers but no transports, but sunk 6 arabian destroyers and 2 battleships while capturing Mecca. We lost a couple of tanks and SAM Infantry. Saladin hast at least 15-20 gunships, a lot of them probably promoted ^^
This is the reason we made peace.
A second Invasion fleet is currently being loaded at Kyoto, this time with more SAM Infantry on board. Saladin seems to like gunships very much :-(
Sam_Yeager
Another Original Geezer
Corrected your post.
Looks like a successful initial assault. 
I just can't believe that Cyrus snuck in a city on Sally's land. Sigh. The AI really do go to town building lots of units don't they? And as for that wretched worker building a farm over that town next to Mecca.
EDIT: Those UN resolutions haven't exactly helped our cause either by forcing us out of slavery.
Pariah
Outside Influence
OK Geezers... what can I say? I'm a jerk. I broke my promise, let things get on top of me (metaphorically & literally) and let you all down. I guess you're not too happy with me, but I still say you've done really well, Sam & Drhirsch.
Now I AM about to take a turnset, and hope I can redeem myself a little.
I guess you're not too happy with me, but I still say you've done really well, Sam & Drhirsch.Now I AM about to take a turnset, and hope I can redeem myself a little.
