Aabra02: Hammy Builds a House
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scoutsout
Minstrel Boy
So you've got what...one more day of insanity before you get a break? Here's a virtual beer for ya.
Admiral Kutzov
Idiot Emeritus
lurker's comment: and now, some holiday spam (what, you were expectorating a turducken?)
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even Bede and the monks;
The cats were placed by the cities with care,
In hopes that bowmen soon would be there;
The rocks were loaded, all snug with their craddles;
while visions of wonders danced in their heads;
And the arab in his silly hat, and I with beer on tap
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,
When out on the plains there arose such a clatter,
Gma sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window she flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,
When, what to her wondering eyes should appear,
But AK and three tiny armies, all poised to attack,
With a hardly a quiiver, so lively and quick,
Scout knew in a moment this should be over right quick.
More rapid than eagles the armies they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;
"Now, maces! now, trebs! now, templars and horsemen
On, Jumbo! on bowman! on, axes and rifles!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! (after affixing bayonets and setting hair afire)
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"
salutations to all and to all a good night. still lurking (more screenies please)
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even Bede and the monks;
The cats were placed by the cities with care,
In hopes that bowmen soon would be there;
The rocks were loaded, all snug with their craddles;
while visions of wonders danced in their heads;
And the arab in his silly hat, and I with beer on tap
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,
When out on the plains there arose such a clatter,
Gma sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window she flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,
When, what to her wondering eyes should appear,
But AK and three tiny armies, all poised to attack,
With a hardly a quiiver, so lively and quick,
Scout knew in a moment this should be over right quick.
More rapid than eagles the armies they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;
"Now, maces! now, trebs! now, templars and horsemen
On, Jumbo! on bowman! on, axes and rifles!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! (after affixing bayonets and setting hair afire)
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"
salutations to all and to all a good night. still lurking (more screenies please)
gmaharriet
Ancient Crone
Loved the poem! A big happy holiday
scoutsout
Minstrel Boy
That'd be a good'un. :hammmer:
Now let's see what sort of whackage Whomper can come up with.
Now let's see what sort of whackage Whomper can come up with.
A fairly uneventful round until the end. I stopped at 9 turns...
Objective is figure our FP. Pretty slim pickuns.
Clear out the invading MI since we have a knight to cover our MI. Wake a couple workers.
IT our injured knight survives the attack.
860 Gain an elite and win with one too. Move on Mecca. Need to up our lux rate to 10%. Get a territory map 1gpt and 10g from the French for our world map. Get territory map for world map from Chinese.
870 Another elite victory on a LB. At Mecca's gate.
880 At least 5 pikes in Mecca. Our army takes one but at a price of 6hps. We can extort astro and 5 workers out of Abu but we'll get the workers and we can wait on astro. Cities are more important.
890 We're going to need to heal that army to do damage. Get another elite victory. I'm inclined to make another army to close the Arabs out since their cities will likely make the best FP.
...more elite victories
In 910 The Ports and Mayans make peace and the Ports declare on us.
940 Take Medina with a elite loss. Hit Mecca hard but our army drops to 2hps taking two reg. pikes. Eventually we get this...
I think one more army should do the trick. What are we going to do about research? I think we can exploit the Mayans and the Arabs out of techs but at some point we'll need to figure out what to do in this area. Unis or libs or cash buying, trading and extorting?
The AI hasn't done us many favors with city placement. Lots of ducts.
Objective is figure our FP. Pretty slim pickuns.
Clear out the invading MI since we have a knight to cover our MI. Wake a couple workers.
IT our injured knight survives the attack.
860 Gain an elite and win with one too. Move on Mecca. Need to up our lux rate to 10%. Get a territory map 1gpt and 10g from the French for our world map. Get territory map for world map from Chinese.
870 Another elite victory on a LB. At Mecca's gate.
880 At least 5 pikes in Mecca. Our army takes one but at a price of 6hps. We can extort astro and 5 workers out of Abu but we'll get the workers and we can wait on astro. Cities are more important.
890 We're going to need to heal that army to do damage. Get another elite victory. I'm inclined to make another army to close the Arabs out since their cities will likely make the best FP.
...more elite victories
In 910 The Ports and Mayans make peace and the Ports declare on us.
940 Take Medina with a elite loss. Hit Mecca hard but our army drops to 2hps taking two reg. pikes. Eventually we get this...
I think one more army should do the trick. What are we going to do about research? I think we can exploit the Mayans and the Arabs out of techs but at some point we'll need to figure out what to do in this area. Unis or libs or cash buying, trading and extorting?
The AI hasn't done us many favors with city placement. Lots of ducts.
gmaharriet
Ancient Crone
Ooooh, another Army!!! 
Nice job, Whomper! 
Roster Update:
Beorn-eL-Feared - up
scoutsout - on deck
gmaharriet -
Bede -
Whomp - just played
Aabraxan - indefinite lurker status
Nice job, Whomper! Roster Update:
Beorn-eL-Feared - up
scoutsout - on deck
gmaharriet -
Bede -
Whomp - just played
Aabraxan - indefinite lurker status
Just want to make sure we don't fall off the first page. 
Beorn-eL-Feared
Idiot riding pedals
yeah, that'd be a shame 
Tomorrow morning first thing.
Beorn-eL-Feared
Idiot riding pedals
Alright, I opened it, and I think I have thoughts.
Did we sack 30 turns of min run on banking to get a min run on Chemistry instead?
We'll be due for a FP soon enough. We'll have to develop a lot of infra in our conquered lands to make them productive. Then we'll have enough beaker power to take research on. For now, it'd be costly and we wouldn't get a competitive speed.
Or we could simply turn every new conquered town into a beaker farm without putting more thought into it. We'd lose in the long run but what good are techs beyond replaceable parts, really??
I think we can take advantage of all the new settlements to our west. Peace deals are just THAT much more effective when you negociate right after capturing 2-3 cities in a turn.
I'll keep hammering the Arabs. And I'll keep fishing for tech deals and war happiness.
Did we sack 30 turns of min run on banking to get a min run on Chemistry instead?
We'll be due for a FP soon enough. We'll have to develop a lot of infra in our conquered lands to make them productive. Then we'll have enough beaker power to take research on. For now, it'd be costly and we wouldn't get a competitive speed.
Or we could simply turn every new conquered town into a beaker farm without putting more thought into it. We'd lose in the long run but what good are techs beyond replaceable parts, really??
I think we can take advantage of all the new settlements to our west. Peace deals are just THAT much more effective when you negociate right after capturing 2-3 cities in a turn.
I'll keep hammering the Arabs. And I'll keep fishing for tech deals and war happiness.
I didn't change the min run so I'm not sure about that. Growth has been hard to come by in a lot of these cities and you're absolutely correct the land is junk.
I think it's going to be tough to squeeze a lot out of our cities especially since we need to starve them down and build them back up. I'd be ok with making a run at RP and finishing off the other continent.
I think it's going to be tough to squeeze a lot out of our cities especially since we need to starve them down and build them back up. I'd be ok with making a run at RP and finishing off the other continent.
gmaharriet
Ancient Crone
The tech switch from Banking was my doing, based on a conversation (sorta) between you and Scout, which I may have misunderstood.
It wasn't exactly a 2-, 3-, 4- or 5-way discussion, but nobody objected, so I did it. Maybe Scout meant after Banking came in, and I probably should have asked specifically what was the team's pleasure.
It wasn't exactly a 2-, 3-, 4- or 5-way discussion, but nobody objected, so I did it. Maybe Scout meant after Banking came in, and I probably should have asked specifically what was the team's pleasure.
Beorn-eL-Feared
Idiot riding pedals
It's nothing to blush about, I don't thinkwe'd have gotten much value out of banking either way since we weren't first to it. I was just wondering when it happened.
scoutsout
Minstrel Boy
To add my $0.02... I think we were 40 or more turns out from Banking on my set...so if the switch happened on Harriet's turns I don't think we quite burned 30 turns of min research by swapping.
Beorn-eL-Feared
Idiot riding pedals
30 turns or not, we were getting nowhere with Banking either way.
I just started and had a flash: we have a MGL right on the scene at Mecca. While I agree that it's not the best of locations, it definitely is the best of times to pull a FP.
Mecca would have a lot of food and gold to work with. I'd relocate it 1NE but hey, settlers are forbidden. Still, with rushed lib and univ, this can be a very large supply of gold/beakers we're looking at.
But then the knight army counterpart is also a very good option.
I'm leaning towards FP, faintly, so if that's not the team's opinion I'll get knights a-rolling.
I just started and had a flash: we have a MGL right on the scene at Mecca. While I agree that it's not the best of locations, it definitely is the best of times to pull a FP.
Mecca would have a lot of food and gold to work with. I'd relocate it 1NE but hey, settlers are forbidden. Still, with rushed lib and univ, this can be a very large supply of gold/beakers we're looking at.
But then the knight army counterpart is also a very good option.
I'm leaning towards FP, faintly, so if that's not the team's opinion I'll get knights a-rolling.
With all the elites my inclination is to make an army and work on getting another one. There's so many pikes in Mecca(like 5-6 iirc) it almost needs two armies because of its size. It would be nice to finish this war off with alacrity. We can then finish off the Celts and the rest of the island.
Is it me or are you suggesting putting the FP in the capitol? (Yep, still lurking.)
gmaharriet
Ancient Crone
Um, yep, in the ex-capitol of Arabia...not in Babylon.
I'm glad to see you're still lurking.
