LK54 - Teeny, Tiny Deity, Zulu

World Size = TINY
Pangaea, 40% land, warm, and 5 billion years.
NOT culturally linked, NO restarting players.
Difficulty = Deity
Barbarians = NONE - Tiny will be enough of a headache.
# Civs = 4 (including us)
Civilization =
Remember 10 turns per round - STRICT 24 hours got it, total 48 to complete.

Signed up:
LKendter
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Why the Zulu? I haven't played them since LK9. They are overdue for a second appearance.

I prefer players with previous deity experience.

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The following tactics are PROHIBITED:

RCP (Ring City Placement) - A new tactic that exploits a hole in the corruption calculation. 3 cities at the same distance from the FP / palace suffer the same amount of lower corruption. I feel this turns the game into a mathematic formula. Sorry, but I want cities built for resources, rivers, luxuries and to feel like a civilization that is expanding.

RoP Rape - if you have to ask...

RoP Abuse that includes things such as irrigating all tiles with a city building wonders, denying resources with a RoP, putting a unit to block a land bridge, etc.

Scout resource denial - parking a scout on a resource, as the AI won't ask scouts to leave. The same scenario also applies to workers.

False Peace Treaties (must wait for the 20 years to end).

Declaring War exploit: Using the declare war action to break trade deals including sending gpt / luxuries to another civ.

Demand leave territory exploit: Unless it is a clear sneak attack, you may not demand the AI leave your territory if it could stop you from sending gpt / luxuries to another civ.

False Alliances (ally with several people vs. a civ then peace with that civ), and other actions that completely abuse the AI limited diplomacy ability.

Spy exploit - If you fail to plant a spy, you CAN'T try again for that turn. The exploit is: you can infinitely plant a spy until the Civ declares war.

Demands exploit - You may make ONE demand a turn per civ. The exploit is: you can demand to the end of time, and guaranteed to get a civ furious and almost to war.

The negative science exploit - you can run a huge deficit (-250 / turn) of negative cash with a token penalty of one lost worker / cheap building. If cash will go below zero, the research level must be dropped.

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Ship chaining exploit - you can move a ship, unload troops to another ship, move that ship, etc. This allows you to ship an indefinite distance, and that is why I consider it an exploit.

Resources disconnect / connect exploit - I consider most resource tactics fine. Delaying to hook a resource, trading it away etc is fine. The exploit is to do this every turn. Build a stack of horses, connect saltpeter, upgrade to cavalry, and disconnect.

WOW ... um, no, I don't have enough experience to play this, but I will watch with much interest

Too many 40% games for me lately. Good luck with this one.

- Sirian

I've been having some good results with first contact war events on solo diety/demigod trials. That tactic might work well here. But I'm in three games now so not an immediate sign up. Hot7 should end in 2-3 weeks, if this game is still open then please fit me in.

Hi LK, I never played in your famous series before and this sounds like the perfect opportunity (and setup). I am sort of regularly using almost half of the tricks you list as exploits but of course I will refrain from doing that in your games.

Tiny map was my first ever Deity victory way before I found out about CFC. I played Romans then but Zulus will also do with their Ancient Age UU.

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I would love to join this but I'll be out for 2 weeks Starting Sunday. At the rate LK52 went, on a tiny map, you'll be done before I come back.

I think you should name the ship chaining rule "CF's Folly" since I commited the foul that brought it up.

Good luck.

Like Coffee, I've found that an early declaration of war works extremely well when playing tiny maps at Deity level (in fact my first Deity victory was on a tiny map as the Celts, and actually came about due to America sneak-attacking me just after I'd upgraded about 10 warriors to Gallics )

A lot of talk...

Are we going to get anymore signups?

@Lee

If you don't mind my lack of experience on Deity (I've won on it before, but haven't played it frequently), I'll sign up.

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@ChrTh - welcome aboard. Squeeze you between two players with plenty of deity time.

Alrighty then, I'll update my sig

Oh why not? I have been thinking about getting into a game since finishing the Defiant Nationalist game. A nice bite-size game like this will be just the ticket to get back into the swing of things.

Lee, if you would have me, I am interested in joining. I will need to be placed near the end of the roster as I am out through the holiday weekend.

Ridge

LKendter
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On Zulu: Do we avoid building impi to prevent an early GA, or is the early GA a part of our strategy?

(goes to find LK9)

EDIT: Wow, that was a quick read!

What patchset will we be playing on?

1.27 patch.

Now if we can get that 5th player.

OK, I want to join! The open spot behind Yndy looks just fine

Will squeeze in the start over this holiday weekend.

LKendter just told me that this game will be postponed until Thursday, when his ban is done.