Acid_01: Emperor

[acidsatyr]

EDIT: Game has started!

My Fellow Warmongers,

In this quest for the world domination, we’ll be playing none other than the last of the great Khans to ever live - Kublai Khan.

Settings:

Difficulty level: Emperor
Map type: Inland Sea
Map size: Standard
Game speed: Epic
CIV : Kublai Khan
Victory conditions: All enabled. We must win by conquest or domination.
Opponents: random 6 civs
Barbs: On

Roster:

acidsatyr
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Anybody is welcome as long as you think you are up to the challenge.
Normal SG etiquette applies -> 24h for got it, 48h to play. I don’t think I need to mention that you need to notify teammates if you need a skip.

Other minor rules I expect you to follow:

Discussion. I expect us to have a discussion before actually making the moves. Things like city placements and tech research paths is what I primarily have in mind. Do not just choose a tech if you unsure of the right path.
Pictures. To keep the game flow more interesting, I want to see at least one pic per post when you play your turn; one pic is minimum and it doesn’t require any extra effort on your side.

Our starting position:

I will settle in place and start with 40 moves as soon as I see 4 people. You play 20 first round, after that it’s 10. Tell me if you are interested so i can sign you up.

 

[ThERat]

you might have chosen a difficulty that will scare a lot of people here But you can count me in here.

 

[acidsatyr]

Excellent my friend,


I am willing to consider lowering the difficulty maybe by turning barbs off?
We'll have to wait and see...
I know there are more warriors out there…

Roster:

acidsatyr
theRat
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[Mutineer]

Well, not dificulty that repess me, but boring conquest/domination map and speed.
If you make it continent normal speed you will have me.

 

[acidsatyr]

Switching to continents is something I am willing to consider, the fact however is that continents are played much more then inland sea map. It is minor detail I can change if more people want me to. I think inland sea would be more interesting as having a navy would be optional and dictated by circumstances.
Epic speed is set in stone however, sorry.
Let me know if you are interested.

 

[Qwack]

Hehe, I started a raging barbs highland emperor game yesterday with dense peaks and large lakes. I quit it after 20 minutes later when the barb's took 2 of my cities .

I will join but only if you dont mind me skipping 1 or 2 turnsets over the next few weeks. Inland lake is kinda overdone, I would love to try a highland's map with these settings and a SG team . Mostly because highlands is done by very few SG's so far and kinda fits in with the theme.

[Edit] But even if you dont want to switch to highlands, ill join up.

 

[Mutineer]

Well, I will go half way. Continent/epic speed.

I really believe Continent are mach more fun, because every game are very different from other and one need to consider more strategic posibilities.
You are not going to meat everyone on the start and after you beat up your cotinent there is other one posible running ahead.

 

[acidsatyr]

Very well,
Will switch to continents, theRat I hope you don't mind this kind of change.
Do you prefer custom continents with equal number of civs on 2,3 continents, or just default continent setting (if we get stuck on one continent with 4 other civs, it is almost like playing Pangaea map, since the other two civs on other small continent are not going to stand a chance).

Roster

acidsatyr
theRat
Mutineer
* Qwack
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Qwack -> I assume you can play several of your first turns, since I want to start with all 5 players?

One more person and I’ll roll the dice again.

 

[uberfish]

Sure, I'm up for this. (and I'm happy to stick with Inland sea as I've never played that, believe it or not.) Conquering is more fun on flat maps or pangaea, it is really tedious to move troops around in boats all the time on Continents.

On the start posted here, it's almost certain there will be metal or horses within the capital radius.

 

[Mutineer]

Up to you, but even on standart continents and second continent with only 1-2 civ could be a trouble if they are big.

 

[Qwack]

Qwack -> I assume you can play several of your first turns, since I want to start with all 5 players?

Yes, I might need a skip once or twice over the next 3-4 weeks but most likely I will play all of the turnsets.

 

[acidsatyr]

Ok, I guess we have 5 people, now we need to agree on what map to play
Mutineer, will you consider playing inland sea? If not, do others mind playing continents map (which one)?
I will start as soon as we decide on that.
I was afraid nobody would sign up for this....

 

[Mutineer]

NO, sorry, do not want to play Pangea kind of map.
I do not want to be a pest, but I really dislike one side maps like Pangea or Islands. Inland sea even more boring then Pangea, as there even no new land option.

 

[acidsatyr]

I will bend map settings for you Mutineer this time, so
New settings:


Difficulty level: Emperor
Map type: Continents
Map size: Standard
Game speed: Epic
CIV : Kublai Khan
Victory conditions: All enabled. We must win by conquest or domination.
Opponents: random 7 civs
Barbs: Off

I decided to up the diff a notch - no barbs means we won’t be able to grab barb cities; also I added one more civ.
Since we’re building drylocks at half a price, continents in this case are good choice

Playing right now…

 

[ThERat]

maybe you can post the start and we can discuss what to do and where to settle, the more discussion the better

 

[acidsatyr]

And so the saga begins

Went for mining -> bronze working. We have bronze right next to, which is very, very fortunate.
I suggest we expand to the east and try to grab Ivory before Roosevelt.
Oh yeah, our opponents are:

Saladin
Huayna Capac
Roosevelt
Mansa Musa
Peter

HC already build his city just south of us. There is a lot of nice land to the east, so i suggest we concentrate on taking out America sooner better than later. Everybody seems to pissed of at him anyway except Musa.
Musa found Hinduism, and somebody else on other continent Buddhism (Isabella ?).
We have warrior in our capital, and worker just finished chopping a forest for settler. I guess one more should finish and the rest should go for barrack or another worker right away. I popped few huts so we have some money…
There seems to be a lot of very nice resources laying around.
Maybe we should let Roosevelt grab the ivory east, which we’ll take few turns later anyway

Agric. done in 8...Pottery seems like a natural choice…AH, writing, HR, should be there as well…

Good luck

Roster:
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acidsatyr <-played
ThERat <- NEXT
Mutineer
Qwack
uberfish

 

[acidsatyr]

Sorry theRat, I played already. First few moves were pretty straightforward. I settled in place since there wasn&#8217;t any reason to move it.

We seem to have a nice start but very crowded cont. already!
Good luck

 

[Mutineer]

I am at work can not grab and look at save, but ...

I see some gold near by and I think opponent there.
Can we Grab some lucturies and pull off Axe rush?
To claim some gold would be nice.
We have 2 food sources at Capital, Ideal for axe rush. ONly problem is luck of happiness.
I see gems and ivory not to far away.

 

[ThERat]

got it, maybe someone can have a look at the save and post a dotmap for the expansion...by the way, how many turns do we play in the first turnset?

 

[acidsatyr]

@theRat
20 moves as I stated in 1st post. After that it's 10 each.

@Mutineer: that gold is far, far away....
Having bronze so close pays off for not having any lux resources nearby I guess... We should settle east and grab ivory if we can. After that I think getting dozen of axmen and rushing Roosevelt right away would be very nice, IMO (he&#8217;s got that gold as well)... Incas south seem to have lots of jungle, and everyone else is just to far&#8230;
oh, nice thing is we have lots of forest we don't really have to save.
The question is, do we bline for math before we chop axmen, or just do it right away...