WBCM1 - Allons enfants de la patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé! French SG

Ye sons of France, awake to glory!
Hark! Hark! the people bid you rise!



This is the first succession game in a new series for the Play the World expansion, v. 1.14f.

This game is dedicated to those who feel ready to step up to monarch but has been having problems beating it. I'd like at least one player who is familiar with monarch (besides myself) and then take on 3 players looking to take the step up.

Version: PLAY THE WORLD 1.14f
Civilization: France
Difficulty: Monarch
Map Size: Standard
Opponents: max
Map Type: Continents - 70 %
Terrain: Random
Climate: Random
Barbarians: Roaming
Victory Conditions: All are open.

Cultural links are off as are respawns. There will be no exploiting of faults in the AI programming nor any automation of workers.

First round is 20 turns by first player, then 15 for each and then up to 10 turns in every following round. 24 hours to grab it and 48 to post. If for some reason you are unable to make the deadline, then post and let us no.

Roster:

Harleqin
Brian W
Jumbo2002
Hot_Enamel
?????

Every setting, but the civ and the difficulty are open for discussion. What do you want?

And just to get in the mood: http://www.copcity.com/anthems/france.html

hmmm...testing my French there Harleqin. My first SG, first game with the French in ages...hopefully a first monarch win too

Hey Harleqin,

I'm a pretty consistent Monarch winner (also, do pretty well at Emperor, if given a good start location).

I'd like to play in this one!

Thanks!

Welcome onboard Jumbo I'm getting consistent at monarch, but am too much of a chicken to try Emperor

Ha, I thought from the title that this was going to be a game played in French! Sorry, I like the idea but my plate is full at the moment - and I'm probably not the kind of player you're looking for anyway.

Peut-etre une autre fois.

I had the same impression... J'espere que ce jeu vous plairez. Bonne chance!

JMB

Nah, my French is terrible. About all I have is that line which I dug up on the net and then a few phrases I've picked up over the years. We could do one in Danish if you want

Anyway, we need two more players before rolling.

I would like to play......If you are willing to accept an absolute newbie with succession games.

I play at emporer level and win most of the time, so I should be able to handle monarch.

Regs

hot_enamel

Ooops.. Just re-read the 1st post.
You're after new Monarch players.

It's up to you if you let me in....I would still like to play.
I've never played a succession game, so I was looking for a monarch level.

I can win at monarch pretty easily, but that does not mean I can win picking up from other players stategies.

Welcome to the team Hot_Enamel. We can use players of all experiences as long as they want to play monarch
It will be good with an emperor player as I'm hoping to make the step up in a few months and perhaps an SG would be a good way to do it. Then you could be team captain there

I was under the same impression to. Could you put the title in English in the first post? My French is a bit rusty...

Here I go and try to be original but if you want it in English, you got it

Well, I will kick this off tomorrow though we're still a player short. Any requests on size of the map and shape of the lands? I was thinking about a standard map with continents.

Standard map with continents is my preference. Any weather/age (or random) is fine. Any Barbs are ok, although I'd prefer lesser barbs.

think I'd prefer barbs to be the lower end of the scale...more than just huts though. Standard, continents sounds good...and I always randomise the weather settings.

Any settings is fine with me.

I prefer roaming barbs (I think thats the low end of scale - I dont have PTW with me to check)

Regs

It seems that we are agreed. I will start it up and post when I get back from work. Expect it in about 9 hours.

Hopefully we will have our last player by then.

Well, first, let me show you what we got from the world generator.

Our starting position:

EDIT: removed pic. Am having upload problems. The files get there, but with a size of 0 KB. Odd. I'll just attach it and then experiment

The start:

4000 BC (turn 1): The tribe of the French get's sick and tired of wandering around a a particular strong warrior

named Harleqin takes control of the tribe. He likes it where he is and ponders where to settle. He'd like to be on

the coast, but it would either spoil a bonus grassland or take him too far from the herd of cattle. While moving to

the hill next to the sea looks good it would take him too far from the river and the fresh water there. Eventually

he decides to settle where he is standing as the defensive bonus he gets from being on a hill outweighs the benefits

of mining it later. Plenty of hills are around. The town of Paris is founded and a band of warriors is ordered

trained to scout and defend. The worker moves north to mine and road his way to the cattle so that they will be

ready upon border expansion in ten turns. Research is set at full throtle to pottery.

3750 (6): Paris trains it's first unit of warriors. A second unit is commissioned to act as a police force. Moving

on to the mountain our braves fighters detect another herd of cattle to the northeast

3650 (8): A second unit of warriors are trained. This is a tough world so they are ordered to stay at home and

protect the chief...ehm... the citizens. Construction starts on a barracks though it will be switched to a granary

soon.

3500 (11): Our borders expand taking the cattle into our radii and allowing us to boost production.

3350 (14): We learn how to make clay pots. This causes massive happiness with the chief as he is now able to keep

his mead in a cup rather than having to lick it up from the floor. The people are so happy that they start to build

a granary claiming they need food rather than military practice.

3300 (15): A barbarian village is spotted, but just as we are about to go and visit it a scout runs through it

denying us first contact. Someone is out there to our east.

3200 (17): Our brave exploring warriors report back that theyøve found high concentrations of silk to the east. We

will need to claim these so that we can start a true French fashion. We also meet a people calling themselves Arabs.

Their leader, Abu Bakr, is not happy about meeting us. They have knowledge about bronze working, warrior code and

ceremonial burial, but knows nothing about the alphabet. With their scouts they will make contacts before us and pop

more huts so we might as well trade it while we can get something. I have the choice between selling alpabet and

getting bronze working and 10 gold...hmm....no thanks. Or pay everything we own plus 2 gpt for bronze and burial.

After some talking we decide upon our tech and 3 gpt for two of theirs. This takes them down to cautious toward us.

3000 (21): Paris builds a granary. I start it on a settler.


I see I got just a little too far, but it should even out and 3000 is such a nice round number. 15 turns from now on in the first round and then 10 each for every round following.

Up next: Brian W
On deck: Jumbo2002

EDIT: I see the problems are on the server. I will post another screenshot later when it's been fixed.

the game: