Aabra02: Hammy Builds a House

[Tone]

There is a small Chinese island not far from our southern border (off the coast of old Celtia) that would provide a fine leap frog landing zone as it is only one or two turns from our coast. Using a variant of the "Beach Babe" tactic we could bemuse any squids that China may have patrolling the waters around that island by keeping an empty galleon within sight of the Chinese fleet but tantalizlingly out of attack range.

Good point about the island. It's still a fair distance beyond that though so we'll need to be careful on the high seas.

I'll do some research on Beach Babe. From the context, I think I know what it is but I've simply never called it anything by name.

And yes, gma; I think that we were!!!

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

I think the original name was Blonde Bikini Babe, after Bede's foreign advisor. It's from Handy's AWS writeup, that much I remember.

And I'm up, will try to play tomorrow.

 

[scoutsout]

Where are we in the order-of-go on this one?

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

Skippy skip.

 

[Whomp]

How about a roster?

Beorn-eL-Feared - skippy skip
scoutsout - Up and at em
gmaharriet - on deck
Bede -
Whomp -
Tone - just played
Aabraxan - indefinite lurker status

 

[scoutsout]

Lemme read through the logs and stuff...I'll try and get it played in the next night or two.

 

[Aabraxan]

Who put the bump in the bump babump babump?
Who put the dit in the dit dadit dadit?
Who put the bop in the bop shebop shebop? . . .


Any word, scout?

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

lurker's comment:
I wanna be an airborne ranger,
Live the life of guts and danger.

I wanna see an AI slaughter...
Thankfully, I have no daughter.

 

[gmaharriet]

Real life is getting in the way of important stuff...like computer time. If I'm up soon, please skip me for this round. Sorry, guys!

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

I just might have some time to look into it ... next week-end

 

[Aabraxan]

I did find a small opportunity to peek at the save the other day, and I really am trying to keep up with this game. I have a few questions and comments, for the off chance that I'll find some time to squeeze in a turnset:

• We may have drawn the oddest-shaped continent I've ever seen.
  
• I had forgotten about the palace jump, but it looks like it worked out.
  
• Nice collection of Wonders y’all have gathered. Is that 5 that I see?
  
• What was the victory condition again? I see about 6 temples under construction. CivAssist II shows an estimated win date for 20K at 2071 AD, but 100K at 2182. Is a culture win on the table? Those temple builds don’t look like they’re going to grab any resources.
  
• I assume that the Palace build is a prebuild for ToE?
• I see that the Portugese have actually settled a 1-tile island . . . I've never actually used Marines to invade 1-tile island.

 

[Tone]

I assume that the Palace build is a prebuild for ToE?

Yes, but it is only of use if we decide to take out the Chinese build. See my last posts for details. Bede correctly pointed out that we don't really need it and it's not too late to switch it to a military build-one of the reasons why I stopped at this point to allow a little time for discussion on the issue. Trouble is that we've ground to a halt.

 

[Aabraxan]

Well, I noticed that we've only got about ~40 gold in the kitty, so sabotage is out of the question. So we've either got to pound on the Chinese to get their techs, or, well, pound on them for the fun of it.

It does look like this has ground to a halt. Last I saw, scoutsout was up, gma is AWOL for RL issues and Beorn might take a look, . . . is it this weekend? I'm not sure if I'll be able to find the time, but if I can, does anyone object to my grabbing the save and putting in a few turns? This has been a great game, but it has stalled. I'd hate to let inertia kill it off for good.

 

[Whomp]

Yeah I don't want to see this die. Is anyone out there to pick this up soon? I'd hate to have this turn right back over to me.

One other quick housekeeping item. My presence has been requested from March 6-15th.

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

Got it. Will play this weekend.

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

Had a good look at the save, did a little round of MM. We need TONS of workers. Cancelled the ToE pre-build but I'm not sure about that.

China is 2-3 techs ahead of us and they're getting ToE. That means an instantaneous 4-5 techs lead. If we're going to let them get that far, we might at least consider attacking them to get some kind of momentum on their island footholds. This way, we only have to worry about continental China when the UN time comes about.

So that's what I would do: mobilize every army towards getting rid of anything that is both chinese and not central. A few civs would have much to gain from hammering China down a bit and regaining a few cities, especially England. I'm not 100% sure about involving just the English into that, but we could think about doing a complete dogpile on China.

On the domestic side, a lot of cannons were scrapped for workers. We need workers, and lots of them. A lot. Really bad.

 

[Bede]

Sounds like a plan - workers of the world unite to crush China!

 

[Whomp]

I'm not sure where we're at but I'm out of pocket from the 5th till the 15th.

 

[gmaharriet]

I find that I'll be unable to play anytime in the forseeable future. I do hope to be able to lurk a bit. My apologies for any inconvenience to the rest of the team.

 

[Aabraxan]

I'm sorry to hear that, gma.


Where are we on this? Beorn, are you playing? I know that Whomp's out from the 6th through the 15th. Anybody else out there?