Role Play Challenge: Napolean, The Arrogant French

Welcome to my nest RPC game, Napolean the Arrogant French. Yes first there was the Annoying Frenchm, now the Arrogant French. These games are meant to be educational and Entertaining. All comments are welcome!

Napolean is the dictatorian leader of the arrogant French people and also extremely jealous of other civilizations great wonders yet refuses to build any himself during the beginnings of the French empire. At a later date he is fine with building wonders, but early on dthe French MUST have a dominating Army!

So the RPC rules!!!

1) Napolean MUST control EVERY world wonder by the end of the game!
2) Napolean CANNOT build ANY world wonders himself until after Democracy, thus he must take them by force!!!
3) Napolean MUST capture any holy cities and Corp HQs.
Guidelines (What we hope to get, but can alter to help the flow of the game).

1) Napolean dispises cottages, therefore he shall build none. Our economy will rely SE AND the strength of the Organized trait
2) While NO civics are out, Napolean has preferences for the glory of the French people: Representation/Nationhood/Emancipation/Free Market/Free Religion are the preferred civics!
3) Napolean cannot found any religion, except for Confuscianism which he should beeline. The Code of Laws is an important tech for Napolean and he should emphasize it.

Now the settings!

Big/Small standard size map
Monarch difficulty, Marathon speed
All victory conditions are open EXCEPT time
No city Razing (we do NOT want to see any wonder accidently razed)
No vassals

A few items to clarify. It may take alot of strategy to avoid domination victory before the last wonder is built. Likewise we cannot raze a civilizations cities to avoid cultural losses. The rules are much trickier than they first appear, as a French war-fest!

One final comment, after this RPC I shall start trying these games out on emperor level, especially some of the stronger leaders which are actually piling up! But one step at a time, first the Arrogant Little General



And the map



we start off with agriculture and the wheel.

Where to start?

Move Warrior 1 NW and repost

Kidding... but that lake can be better than riverside farms if you can work it with a lighthouse. I would check for sea nearby.

Yeah, it's an odd start. I like settling north to claim the seafood except that unsightly desert (and looks to be more). I rarely like to move the starting settler but this may be one of those exceptions.

Let's strike a deal. In gratitude of your ceaseless efforts at enlightening and entertaining the Civ community, we, the thankful community, will help you un-butcherify one of your favourite typos per RPC. We've already managed to reshape the unfortunate "Willhem" into its true from of "Willem", so let's try something similar here:
The man is called Napoleon.

All in jest, of course. I'd like to thank you for your great tales, typos and all, from the depths of my lurker's heart. Carry on, soldier!

Why the heck should he found confuncanism??????? Just play the game without religion eh? There is nothing of flavour with following the writing of confuncus with the french... Move warrior SE and either found there or found on the plains hill...

Looks like a production capital, which I am not a big fan of. I would settle in place hoping for more food to the S. AH-Mining-BW and chop out workers/settlers or army depending on who/what is nearby.

Lekdevil.NL said:

Let's strike a deal. In gratitude of your ceaseless efforts at enlightening and entertaining the Civ community, we, the thankful community, will help you un-butcherify one of your favourite typos per RPC. We've already managed to reshape the unfortunate "Willhem" into its true from of "Willem", so let's try something similar here:
The man is called Napoleon.

All in jest, of course. I'd like to thank you for your great tales, typos and all, from the depths of my lurker's heart. Carry on, soldier!

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Napoleon, got it

Maybe it would be fun to have Nappie crown himself emperor by invading the apostolic palace and then vassalize everyone. Wonderstealing sounds fun too, though. I do worry that the game will just turn out to be a conquest fest all over again. If this stuff wasn't played at Marathon I might shadow these once in a while. :/

oyzar said:

Why the heck should he found confuncanism??????? Just play the game without religion eh? There is nothing of flavour with following the writing of confuncus with the french... Move warrior SE and either found there or found on the plains hill...

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It is more that we do not want to be limited on agressive pursuing CoL which grants us caste system (for the SE) and cheap courthouses (to leverage the ORG trait). Also Napoleon had ALOT of scourn for religion (he was a borderline atheist) he also saw the use of it to placate the people. He certainly was no Mao in this regard.

Monsterzuma said:

Maybe it would be fun to have Nappie crown himself emperor by invading the apostolic palace and then vassalize everyone. Wonderstealing sounds fun too, though. I do worry that the game will just turn out to be a conquest fest all over again. If this stuff wasn't played at Marathon I might shadow these once in a while. :/

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There are ways to change the games speed,

Open the game, enter world builder, save it as a worldbuilder game. Go to the main menu and open it as a scenario, you can djust the speed and difficulty. The biggest issue is that you have a choice of civs and thus know who the competition is.

There are other ways to do it but this is how I know.

It's not a simple conquest game, we need to get through to robotics for the Space elevator. we also have to plan out what we conquer as we cannot get an accidental domination win. There is also no vassals and no razed cities! Like I said, it's alot trickier than just watching the French army trash the world (Like the drunken Vikings taking the world's alcohol sources)

madscientist said:

It is more that we do not want to be limited on agressive pursuing CoL which grants us caste system (for the SE) and cheap courthouses (to leverage the ORG trait). Also Napoleon had ALOT of scourn for religion (he was a borderline atheist) he also saw the use of it to placate the people. He certainly was no Mao in this regard.

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Sure founding religions can work out but it should not be in the rules at all...

I think settling 1NE to become coastal may be best. You lose the freshwater health bonus, but a harbor with 2 seafood does the same. Plus building a lighthouse will make that inland lake pretty nice.

Can you build shirnes and hq?

Orzio said:

Can you build shirnes and hq?

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Yes, since they are GP dependent and there is no limit on them.

Shrine and HQ are World Wonders.

2) Napolean CANNOT build ANY world wonders himself until after Democracy, thus he must take them by force!!!

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So you'll either have to wait until after demo or you let someone capture your holy city and gift him a GP

mystyfly said:

Shrine and HQ are World Wonders.



So you'll either have to wait until after demo or you let someone capture your holy city and gift him a GP

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But you can argue that he is not building them since there is no build time. Shirne is a gift from god for using a Great Prophet and HQ are a gift from big companies for using a gp

Quoting again the rule...

2) Napolean CANNOT build ANY world wonders himself until after Democracy, thus he must take them by force!!!

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So the argument would be that it isn't nappy who builds the shrine/HQ but the GP. But one could argue that nappy wouldn't build any wonder at all, it would be the poor miners in madscientist's cities. But that would be nonsense

And world projects?

Let's put it this way. Napoleon wants those shiney wonders but does not want to invest any of his citizan's time to building them as he needs a large army. Using a great person for any building such as academies/shrines/scottland yards/Corp HQs are fine.

r_rolo1 said:

And world projects?

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As in teh Bismark game, they are optional. Internet, Manhatten Projecty, Space Parts are left to the Little General's judgement.