Let's play a Succesion Game!

Hey guys and gals. Anyone want to play a SG with me?

I was thinking...

Vanilla Civ 3 (latest patch)
Diety
Roaming Barbarians
Standard Map Size
All else RANDOM!

I can only do plain old Civ 3 because its all I have. Civ 3 was 4.95 while civ 4 was 49.95, so I went with Civ 3.

I have been able to win consistently on Emperor, but have yet to try Diety.

I'd like to do this game with everything random and using the first map we get. I'm always up for a good challenge.

Welcome to the Fourms!

You can count me in.

How many players are you looking for???

Welcome Moxxa!



Uh, just so you know, most SGs here are in Conquests (75%), followed by Vanilla (20%) and then Play the World (5%). If you get Civ 3 Complete, it comes with all three versions. Check eBay for prices. I got my copy for around $20 or so.

Good luck with your SG! I'm in too many SGs to join another, plus Vanilla doesn't work on my machine (it did, but not now and I gave up trying to fix it).

So Random AI and a Random Civ. Gutsy.

Nice to see some interest!

Four players, plus myself, for a total of five, would be ideal. I'm flexible though. I'll say three to six.

Yeah, it is gutsy, but I figure if some of the guys on here can win with only 5 cities, we can win with mostly random settings.

Players so far -

Moxxa
JJJSpider

I always like random first rolls. Sign me up.

Hey,

I'd like to get in on this if possible. If not, thanks.


Blaze injun

Diety, non variant, all random...
And nerovats...
Sound very attractive.
Sign me in

Awesome. Here is the official roster. If there is someone else who REALLY wants to get in on this, if they're good, we might make an exception and let them play, too.

Players:

Moxxa
JJJSpider
nerovats
Blaze Injun
I. Larkin

This doesn't have to be the order we play, but I would like to play the first twenty turns, then 10 each after that. You will have 72 hours to play, starting from the time the last save was posted, before you are skipped. I'll roll the game out first thing tomorrow, because tonight its PARTY TIME! WHOOOOOOOOOO!

Ok, I got a little anxious and rolled our start. It's not bad at all so far...



4 Ivory, Persia, BGs, and shoreline within view. Its kind of a crappy location on the map, but I've had worse starts.

I'm thinking move the worker SW, then settle in place. Research Pottery at max science.

lurker's comment: That start screams,"Statue of Zeus!".

lurker's comment: I scream, "It's only Vanilla"

madviking said:

lurker's comment: I scream, "It's only Vanilla"

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Doh! Another 'senior' moment!

Move worker then decide where to settle. Settling in place will ofcourse save a turn and provide a lux right away. I'd set science for IW. Hopefully we have iron and 1 or 2 ai nearby. Do we want to aim for a cenrtain VC or just see how it goes.
Roster is fine by me. Haven't played with any of you before except for IVan (good to see you're still here), so don't know your strong points.

4000 BC - Settled Persepolis in place, researching Pottery at 100%, Peresolopis building warrior in 5.

3950 BC - ZZZzzz...

3900 BC - ZZZzzz...

3850 BC - ZZZzzz...

3800 BC - Met Monty of the Aztecs, traded Masonry and 9 Gold for Pottery and Ceremonial Burial. Researching Iron Working at 20%. 100% was still 40 turns, but two less GPT.

3750 BC - Peresopolis Warrior -> Warrior

3700 BC - Exploring...ZZZzzz...

3650 BC - ZZZzzz...

3600 BC - Discovered Aztec borders very close to us, only 4 tiles to the south.

3550 BC - Persepolis Warrior -> Spearmen. Two warriors for exploring should be enough considering our position. Now, I want a spearman to defend against potential Barbarian uprisings.

3500 BC - ZZZzzz...

3450 BC - ZZZzzz...

3400 BC - Met Shaka of the Zulus only 1 tile SW of the Aztec borders. I traded Bronze Working and 11 gold for Warrior Code.

3350 BC - Persepolis Spearman -> Granary

3300 BC - Met the Babylonians. We are up Masonry on them.

3250 BC - ZZZzzz...

3200 BC - ZZZzzz...

3150 BC - ZZZzzz...

3100 BC - ZZZzzz...

3050 BC - Traded Masonry for a Babylonian worker and 10 gold.

Here is our situation...



The red dot is where I think we should put our next city. We really don't have much room to expand; only a few tiles in any direction. We are going to have to fight our way out of this corner.

Here is the save. Looking good so far!

EDIT: Whoever wants the next 10 turns, just post here, then go ahead and play it. We can decide the order that way.

I got save, may play soon or after some discussion
Looks that RCP3 is good.
Iwill change granary to settler to have 2 City first.
Barbarians nearby. So I think to return warriors back

Yeah, I couldn't decide whether to build a settler or granary first. I'm an Emperor level player and I would always build a granary before a settler. I think it speeds you up more in the long run, but we are going to have to claim some hills and mountains quickly to increase our chances of having iron.

Since ai is so close I wouldn't build a granary at all. Just get 2 maybe 3 more cities and hope for iron. Build baracks and only units. Don't hold of war to long as they'll get stronger fast. Maybe we can trick the ai into declaring on each other.

Turlog in Doc file looks better.

0 3050*BC See picture. We can localize all 3 capitals. Our corner is not bad. We can have good 3RCP (Black dots) and next 6RCP. Important to find Iron and settle nearby.It is hills or mountings may be.So next City may be at point “2” or “2?”. The rest Rcp3 may be later.Switch Granary to settler. We need more MU and it is too risky to wait until granary will be finished.Sci 20%.
1 3000*BC Settler-> Granary.
2 2950*BC Trade 3 workers from Atzteks and 1 from Zulu. Send them to cut forest and road/irrigate cattle.
3 2900*BC Found Parsargrad. Send workers closer to home.
4 2850*BC Aztecs and Babs fight. Powerful Zulu stack go to our direction. Hopefully they go for Barbarians.
5 2800*BC Workers work…
6 2750*BC Decided to scout North.
7 2710*BC All AI have Wheel and Mystitism.
8 2670*BC
9 2630*BC
10 2590*BC Granary will be ready at 3 turns. Forest cut in 4.

nerovats said:

Since ai is so close I wouldn't build a granary at all. Just get 2 maybe 3 more cities and hope for iron. Build baracks and only units. Don't hold of war to long as they'll get stronger fast. Maybe we can trick the ai into declaring on each other.

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Why early war ? We can settle peacfully and trade. Three partners is a good support...