Yeah, BB this late was unexpected. I think the AIs performed quite poorly overall, except Hiawatha who also made a pretty solid attempt at violent CV
Unshackled Hiawatha is a bloody annoyance but at least this time willing to take bribes for war.
I have one request: please don't give units orders to travel for multiple turns if it overlaps with the next player's session. I had a few situations where units moved in ways I didn't expect.
Oops, sorry, I do that occasionally not to actually move units but to remember where I planned them to be going but I can see this creating a mess if unprepared.
There were a couple of hiccups in this game, so I'm in favor to have a small chat about the general plan and tactics whenever necessary so that everyone's on the same page. Raider's map of potential city locations was really helpful in that regard.
I think we're on the right track with the ruleset. Just need to decide on GMus - do we want to limit concert tours somehow? How about 1 per civ so that you can't just triple-tour the culture leader?
Yes, I would be in favor of limiting GMu Tours, so encourage making GW from them, and making Broadway more appealing.
Some/most/all of the planning mess can be tributet to me & my playstyle which at times seems
radical or violently different to others, especially with Beetle so I was about to take a game off to learn but apparently it doesn't affect the outcome of a game so I can participate though I'll be a roughly week away hiking on weeks 36 & 37. The game will likely be ongoing even after that. I'm still not selling buildings, pillage & repairing etc. If only Raider had played the 10 turns...
I generally like the current ruleset. GMu concerts could be limited more than just one per civ. Something like we earn a bulb (max=1) for each era on which we can naturally spawn AND convert to a GW. If we have a strong religion we could also limit the buying part to non-consecutive GPs or whatever.
I would like a conversation about promotions. I think we we should be keeping things simpler. Which is to say just give melee units double Cover before anything more exotic. Ranged units should be taking Accuracy until Logistics. There are probably some other things that make sense when playing alone but are not so good for shared toys.
I usually go along the lines of Double Cover for first 2 or 3 wannabe tank Pikes, always for the true melee line, ranged gets Range on offense, Logistics on defense after Barrage - every 3/4th starts with Accuracy, Frigates have more situational awareness. Logistics seems the nicer option but it's not useful unless there's something to shoot and 2 or 3 XBows with range can take city down and are practically guaranteed a shot every turn - CS if nothing else as a target dummy. AAG & SAM get Medic asap - at least first 2 or 3 first ones which seem to contradict with Bettle as Cover is wasted on my AAG/SAMs
Small notion about the game itself & my plan after T250. The main purpose for the Washy war was to free him of Uranium. After that there wouldn't have been a way to lose a city (or even a unit) to him and that front would've been an xp harvest with occasionally liberating CSs. Few SAMs could've killed his whole Air Force and rest was no threat. Meanwhile most of the units could've bee preparing for Hiawatha & effectively take him out with relative ease. The gpt bonus from from Washy would've been enough to buy an AB in every ~2nd turn to Hiawatha intact.
Not going for the Uranium meant that the Washy front needed to be manned even for status quo and even then leaving the troops there vulnerable for acute mass extinction instead of making the game like Bulls occasionally did back in the days of Jordan due to moronic rules of NBA - pack everyone else on one side leaving Jordan 1 vs 1 on the other.
Though the very flexible bulbing rules made this obsolete as well.
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minor correction in the promotion part
