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Delicious but Deadly
Diplomacy? Religion? Space race? Bah. These are things for wimps and cowards and people who don't have the word 'Khan' after their names. I don't even know what culture is, but it sounds tasty.
Civ 4 is a great game, but eventually sitting back and teching yourself into space gets a bit dull. So, I've designed this match with the intention of murdering a few empires. This game is for all you psychopaths out there who enjoy nothing more than seeing a Fast Worker curled up in the corner, crying softly to himself
I've set it to Pangaea, normal size, 8 civs. I picked my opponents, something I rarely do, to try and get the biggest, meanest opponents possible. It's on Noble, because I don't want my inglorious defeat plastered over the internet, but I've ticked Aggressive AI to make up for it.
With that, let's begin!
Since time immemorial the Mongolian people have lived a nomadic life, and they're getting pretty cranky about it. Now they're ready to settle down and plunder whoever their closest neighbours happen to be. Beat your ploughshares into swords, people, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Now let's see where the random number generator has placed my bloodthirsty Mongols...
That's... not actually bad... trust me to land right on a floodplain when I'm played a warmonger's game
I see no reason not to settle, so I promptly do.
Hooray. Cows.
Btw if anyone's interested, that tribal village gave us gold. Clearly there were intimidated by our Mongolian might. I start research into Mining, for it is a manly and character-building pursuit.
I take a step to the south, and whom should I find?
Ah, so we have Vikings as neighbours. I can't see how that could end badly. A little exploration reveals fertile land for my hordes to rampage over.
The villagers lend us a scout, on the condition we bring him back when we're done with him. We agree to do so and walk off, sniggering to ourselves. A quick trip down the road reveals our next neighbour, who gives perhaps the most ominous stare I've ever seen.
Salad? Pah. Mongols feast on men!
Hinduism is discovered around this time. My scouts find Caesar's lands to the east. And oh, what's this?
Oh, did I not mention I threw Gandhi into the mix to play with the big boys? I can be a real bastard sometimes
We discovered the warlike technology of Bronze Working and start on the not-so-warlike technology of Animal Husbandry, as it turns out feasting on men is not particularly efficient in a military society. Then begins a time of relative peace, as I scout around and meet three more equally ominous stares.
Turns out Ole Featherhead above discovered Buddhism when I wasn't looking. Incidentally I have got Choose Religions on, but the AI is nothing if not resistant to change, and so we end up with Buddhism and Hinduism founded first again.
We learn how to husband our animals, so let's see if we have anything we can ride into battle nearby...
Hmm... we have horses some way away. This shall have to be rectified. Work soon starts on a settler to claim them for the greater good (ie. hundreds of Keshiks pillaging the land).
Soon we find our final rival...
Somehow, I cannot be intimidated by a Frenchman. My settler runs out and grabs horses for us, building Beshbalik in quite a forward location...
So right now Beshbalik is at the mercy of the Vikings and the Romans, but I plan to turn it into a production centre and backfill the land behind it very soon. So ends my first session, with so far disappointingly few heads being cracked. I imagine my first victims shall be Ragnar and his merry crew, as soon as I have swordsmen and keshiks running around
now, should I cottage the floodplains around Karakorum for greater science output (to build bigger swords, you understand) or farm it for my production powerhouse? I look forward to hearing the thoughts of fellow Civ fanatics
Civ 4 is a great game, but eventually sitting back and teching yourself into space gets a bit dull. So, I've designed this match with the intention of murdering a few empires. This game is for all you psychopaths out there who enjoy nothing more than seeing a Fast Worker curled up in the corner, crying softly to himself
I've set it to Pangaea, normal size, 8 civs. I picked my opponents, something I rarely do, to try and get the biggest, meanest opponents possible. It's on Noble, because I don't want my inglorious defeat plastered over the internet, but I've ticked Aggressive AI to make up for it.
With that, let's begin!
Since time immemorial the Mongolian people have lived a nomadic life, and they're getting pretty cranky about it. Now they're ready to settle down and plunder whoever their closest neighbours happen to be. Beat your ploughshares into swords, people, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Now let's see where the random number generator has placed my bloodthirsty Mongols...
That's... not actually bad... trust me to land right on a floodplain when I'm played a warmonger's game
I see no reason not to settle, so I promptly do.
Hooray. Cows.
Btw if anyone's interested, that tribal village gave us gold. Clearly there were intimidated by our Mongolian might. I start research into Mining, for it is a manly and character-building pursuit.
I take a step to the south, and whom should I find?
Ah, so we have Vikings as neighbours. I can't see how that could end badly. A little exploration reveals fertile land for my hordes to rampage over.
The villagers lend us a scout, on the condition we bring him back when we're done with him. We agree to do so and walk off, sniggering to ourselves. A quick trip down the road reveals our next neighbour, who gives perhaps the most ominous stare I've ever seen.
Salad? Pah. Mongols feast on men!
Hinduism is discovered around this time. My scouts find Caesar's lands to the east. And oh, what's this?
Oh, did I not mention I threw Gandhi into the mix to play with the big boys? I can be a real bastard sometimes
We discovered the warlike technology of Bronze Working and start on the not-so-warlike technology of Animal Husbandry, as it turns out feasting on men is not particularly efficient in a military society. Then begins a time of relative peace, as I scout around and meet three more equally ominous stares.
Turns out Ole Featherhead above discovered Buddhism when I wasn't looking. Incidentally I have got Choose Religions on, but the AI is nothing if not resistant to change, and so we end up with Buddhism and Hinduism founded first again.
We learn how to husband our animals, so let's see if we have anything we can ride into battle nearby...
Hmm... we have horses some way away. This shall have to be rectified. Work soon starts on a settler to claim them for the greater good (ie. hundreds of Keshiks pillaging the land).
Soon we find our final rival...
Somehow, I cannot be intimidated by a Frenchman. My settler runs out and grabs horses for us, building Beshbalik in quite a forward location...
So right now Beshbalik is at the mercy of the Vikings and the Romans, but I plan to turn it into a production centre and backfill the land behind it very soon. So ends my first session, with so far disappointingly few heads being cracked. I imagine my first victims shall be Ragnar and his merry crew, as soon as I have swordsmen and keshiks running around
now, should I cottage the floodplains around Karakorum for greater science output (to build bigger swords, you understand) or farm it for my production powerhouse? I look forward to hearing the thoughts of fellow Civ fanatics 
although I do not appreciate christos200's display picture. Alexander shall cower before the Mongol hordes, as soon as I have some! 
I exercise some Mongolian democracy and completely ignore what they want. Then some probing in the south uncovers something altogether more worrying.
) but I'll update this when I have about four hours to kill 
so now I've got an Aztec-French-Zulu triumvurate forming next door. Hopefully if I can drag one of them into the upcoming war with Ragnar I can gain enough you-shared-a-war-with-us brownie points to get one of them to backstab their Buddhist buddies.
JC is gonna pound poor ghandi into the ground! 
