Merz02 - Emperor Island Empire

[Luv_Muffin]

... make that four days ago.
Looks like this SG has been cancelled from lack of interest.

Oblivion gets released, and my team evaporated on me!

[Merzbow]

I'll put it on hold until everyone on the roster chimes in and indicates that they're willing to play. I know you're willing to play Luv but I don't have time for just a two-man game... It's still an uphill climb to win, but not impossible... we are technically first place in score, after all.

[Scowler]

Originally Posted by Luv_Muffin

Oblivion gets released, and my team evaporated on me!

Guilty as charged!

Give me a couple of days and I'll be ready. I have to play a turnset in another SG first.

Could one of you please post an updated turn order? I'm still not sure who is officially "up".

[S.ilver]

I was under the assumption Liq was gonna grab it, saving me the humiliation of more .

What's oblivion? Is that Elder Scrolls 4?

[Merzbow]

Technically this is where the turn order stands:

Turn-Order:
Merzbow
Luv Muf -- complete
S.ilver -- Up Next!
Scowler -- On Deck
Liquidated

Liq did offer to take it, but he seems AWOL, so if you could S.ilver that's fine.

[S.ilver]

I'll see what I can do tonight without messing our empire up.

[Liquidated]

ok well short story long, FIANLLY got my pc up again after oblivion fried my vidcard just after last post. yeah I love the irony.

Irony how liq?

well my vid card was oblivionated!

and well that card was the ONLY thing not overclocked on my pc. seems the heatsink seperated and the core just toasted.


sigh.

pain in ass to get a replacement agp card and no point sinking cash into this pc. Not ready to get a new pc either so geting a co workers old 9800 roughly the same card that fried on me cept I doubt it's purple.

needless to say liq is flaking and oblivion is laughing at me.

guess it's back to feeding frenzy for my pc game fix. =/

Sorry for the late reply but work blocked civ fanatics HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I blame muf for that **** no doubt. him and his evil jpg's.

@#%@#%@#^%@#^%$&@$*%@$*&%@$^$@&$&@$&@$&@$&@$&@$&@$ &@$&

there feel better.

Good news is pc is sorta back up and running with my old gf 3, I got the disco free zone via the CBS running, Sonic addiction stylee.


Cheers!
-Liq This!

[S.ilver]

Finally got time today to play the game... and lo and behold, the link to the save does not work!

Call me stupid for not grabbing the save earlier...

[Merzbow]

Odd... I can download the save fine from the link here:

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11....Civ4SavedGame

[S.ilver]

Obivously more on my part (or my browser).

[Merzbow]

Is it working now? Do you want it emailed?

[S.ilver]

Must've been a major glitch in my DNS again. I'm able to grab it now.

Fairly confident that it will be played and posted tonight. If not, it would probably be best to skip me until July, so I don't keep wasting your time

[Merzbow]

This game is about one day from me officially killing it...

[S.ilver]

Sorry for wasting your time guys... Extremely bad etiquette on my part. Going to have to drop from SGs permanently, at least until summer rolls around.

[Liquidated]

got a new card gotta get dravers and crap , so I'll play tomorrow. sorry but anyone need an old 9800pro with burnmarks?

Cheers!
-Liq

[Scowler]

I have some free time, so should hopefully be able to slip in a turnset tonight - unless Liq particularly wants to go first?

[Scowler]

Turn 0 (1818 AD)
I do what I can to improve our finances a little, but it doesn't amount to much. I change the scientist at Rome into a merchant (it doesn't affect Assembly). The barracks at Setia is changed to a Harbor.

Nice of Muf to set things up so that I can take Damascus on the inherited turn. This conquest really belongs to him

Battle of Damascus
Grenadier loses to: Arabian Longbowman (0.72/6)
Grenadier defeats (12.00/12): Arabian Longbowman
Captured Damascus (Saladin)
The city is nicely stocked with buildings:



IBT:
Pisae finishes: Confucian Temple
Ravenna grows: 8
Setia's borders expand
Kumbi Saleh grows: 7
Gao grows: 5

Turn 1 (1820 AD)
Cathy offers us fur in exchange for wine, and I see no reason not to agree to this. Maybe it will help repair relations.
Pisae begins: Bank

IBT:
Rome finishes: Work Boat
Cumae grows: 8
Arretium grows: 11
Arretium finishes: Cannon

Turn 2 (1822 AD)
I guess Cathy just likes being a bad girl: she demands Steam Power and then gets Annoyed when I refuse. So much for repairing our relationship.
Rome begins: Bank
Arretium begins: Cannon

IBT:
Grenadier defeats (8.40/12): Arabian Camel Archer

Turn 3 (1824 AD)


IBT:
Pisae grows: 11
Ravenna grows: 9
Ravenna finishes: Theatre
Kumbi Saleh's borders expand
Gao grows: 6
Gao finishes: Harbor
Mecca's borders expand
Mecca finishes: Theatre
Confucianism has spread: Abydos (Egyptian Empire)

Turn 4 (1826 AD)
Ravenna begins: Work Boat
Gao begins: Colosseum
Mecca begins: Library

Battle of Khurasan
Cannon promoted: Barrage I
Cannon defeats (2.88/12): Arabian Longbowman
Grenadier defeats (12.00/12): Arabian Pikeman





I'm not sure keeping it was a good idea as all the buildings have been destroyed and there are no bonus resources available. Bad Scowler

IBT:
Rome grows: 11
Neapolis finishes: Taoist Temple
Arretium's borders expand
Setia grows: 8
Timbuktu grows: 6
Djenne grows: 4
Medina's borders expand

Turn 5 (1828 AD)
Sally comes begging for peace, but he doesn't offer us ANYTHING in tribute. Loser.
Neapolis begins: Cannon

Battle of Najran
Cannon defeats (3.36/12): Arabian Longbowman
Grenadier defeats (6.96/12): Arabian Longbowman



Najran is razed: it is all ice and we are so far off a domination victory that keeping it won't make any difference.

IBT:
Cumae finishes: Courthouse
Neapolis's borders expand
Arpinum finishes: Theatre
Timbuktu finishes: Library
Gao's borders expand

Turn 6 (1830 AD)
Cumae begins: Confucian Temple
Timbuktu begins: Harbor
Damascus begins: Harbor
Arpinum begins: Confucian Temple

IBT:
Cumae grows: 9
Neapolis grows: 8
Arpinum grows: 6
Arpinum's borders expand
Setia finishes: Harbor
Djenne finishes: Barracks
Grenadier defeats (10.56/12): Arabian Catapult

Turn 7 (1832 AD)
Djenne begins: Harbor
Khurasan begins: Lighthouse
Setia begins: Library
Cannon promoted: Barrage I
Cannon promoted: Barrage I

IBT:
Tech learned: Assembly Line
Antium grows: 10
Antium finishes: Library
Ravenna grows: 10
Arretium finishes: Cannon
Kumbi Saleh finishes: Library
Damascus's borders expand
Cyrus completes Kremlin

Turn 8 (1834 AD)
Research begun: Physics
Antium begins: Bank
Arretium begins: Infantry
Kumbi Saleh begins: Confucian Temple
It seems that Cyrus is willing to trade us Railroad... except he isn't. Weird. Or maybe just greedy.



Battle of Baghdad
Cannon promoted: Barrage II
Cannon loses to: Arabian Longbowman (3.48/6)
Cannon promoted: Barrage II
Grenadier promoted: Combat I
Grenadier defeats (9.96/12): Arabian Longbowman
Grenadier defeats (3.60/12): Arabian Longbowman
Grenadier defeats (12.00/12): Arabian Maceman
Grenadier defeats (10.32/12): Arabian Musketman



Again, I can't really see any point in keeping this (perhaps I am wrong). It was down to size 2 by the time I captured it and I'm sure all the buildings were destroyed. It would be just too much of a drain on our already stretched resources.

Sally is now down to his last city.

IBT:
Ravenna finishes: Work Boat
Timbuktu finishes: Harbor

Turn 9 (1836 AD)
Had to turn science down to 40%
Ravenna begins: Work Boat
Timbuktu begins: Bank
Timbuktu begins: Infantry

IBT:
Djenne grows: 5
Djenne's borders expand
Medina finishes: Theatre

Turn 10 (1838 AD)
Medina begins: Lighthouse

War-weariness is continuing to build up: finish Sally off ASAP. A force of cannons and grens is on its way to his final city, Kufah.

Despite what I said earlier, it seems that Cathy is now Cyrus's worst enemy so it might be worth reassessing our deals with Cathy before we are forced to choose between them.





The vase

[Merzbow]

Nice going... kind of mind-boggling how far behind we are in gold/commerce though. Looks like Liq is up next.

[Luv_Muffin]

Whoa! Scowler went rampant, captured two cities, and razed two others!
I see that an attempt was made at correcting our cash situation. Good job, Scowler.

Looking at the civic's screen, should we switch from Free Market/Theocracy to State Property/Free Religion? It would drastically lower our expenses and give us a small boost in beakers, non state religions would get a free happy as well (our distant colonies might like that). Maybe Merz and Liq can chew this proposal over and decide. I just don't see the need for the bonus on troops anymore, since our war with Sally is pretty much a victory for us at this point. Switching the religion civic to something else might be a better way to go.

Our economy bites, but I blame it all on our newly conquered territories. Once courthouses are built in our new additions, and we throw banks and markets across our developed cities, we might be better off. War weariness is robbing us of a lot of coin too, from citizens who refuse to work.

Wall Street needs 7 banks, we have 2, more are being constructed. Once we can build that national wonder, we may be able to raise our research to a decent level? For Oxford University, we need 7 Universities, we have 1 built. With all the new libraries in cities, the OU might be our next national wonder project after Wall Street. Hopefully these two wonders will get us back on track for catching up to HC in techs.

Even though our research is at a sorry 40%, we have enough beaker production all around to still make decent attempts at getting techs. More money would be nice though, but when the war is finished we should be all set.

[Scowler]

Hmmm. I mis-counted. Sally actually has another pitiful size 2 city east of Djenne. Not very convenient, seeing as most of our troops are halfway round the world at the moment. Poor management by me.

Finances should definitely improve once the bank comes online at Rome. I deliberately left science at 60% until Assembly came in so that we had access to infantry ASAP.