aCK-1 Behaving Ourselves
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S.ilver
Emperor
Take your time sturick. That Petey set was indeed brutal, even by S.ilver's standards (although S.ilver would never intentionally paint himself into a corner with enemies in every landward direction).
Definitely worthy of the "Frantic Defense" title
Definitely worthy of the "Frantic Defense" title
This should be the finished product...sorry about the delay.
Ok gonna take a moment and refamiliarize myself with the world of ACK.
Moscow is on the Kremlin...sweet
Pete one turn left on a temple then likely a spy hut
Nova is working on a grocer....I'm gonna switch that to an observatory since we will likely be running 100% science the whole set.
Rostov can kill time for 4 turns making military while we wait for Nat to come in
Yaro can finish its market and then maybe go for a worker or settler.
Yek just started a spy hut...looks good.
Yak same deal.
Vlad is on settler duty.
Smolensk is stagnant so I work the two farms instead of the two forests so we can grow a little more.
Oren can finish its market.
The other islands:
Krazy is working a forge yup thats good.
Khab has culture on its fish so eventually I'll get a boat down there.
Bryan is slowly finishing its courthouse
All the growing New World cities are getting there and on the right track.
Alright...lets do this.
(1) 1520 AD
Pete temple>spy hut
Rostov Hindu Mish>Knight
Vlad Settler>Settler
NewNovo Granary>Forge
Boudica declares on Fred...thats more like it Baud!
Lots of shuffling workers and settlers...boring.
(2) 1525 AD
Yaro market>spy hut (yes I changed my mind)
Smol temple>quick workboat for the fishies
Scotland Yard is up!
No go for Hindu in Moscow
BK will trade the gunpowder but I think I'll wait for a better deal than PP for GP Map and 50 gold.
(3) 1530 AD
Vlad settler>xbow since Rostov will be busy for a few turns we will push out some garrison here for a while.
Hindu spreading in Moscow...take 2.
Success.
Chita is founded a little behind schedule...
Starts in on a granary.
Ok so this turn BK will trade Lib for Gunpowder. Thats more of an even trade beakers wise so I do this trade.
Now Ramesses is the only one left who wants it so I sell it to him.
Thanks to the overwhelming deal that Ramesses just got he is now pleased with us rather than cautious.
The only leader not pleased with us now is DeGaulle...I can live with that.
Pleasant change of pace from my other SG.
(4) 1535 AD
Nationalism arrives and I queue up Constitution due in five.
Rostov Knight>17 turn Taj...might be closer to 20 once we leave GA.
Smol WB>spy hut...loves me some EPs
Samara founded on crazycoolgreendot.
Workboat here for the clams.
Wang is one turn away from Nat...what do you think that is worth???
Not that much...thanks buddy!
(5) 1540 AD
Vlad xbow>musket
Oren market>spy hut...I think I might have a problem.
Arkhangelsk is founded on teal dot.
Workboat queued up.
(6) 1545 AD
Pete spy hut>jewish synagogue for the culture multiplier.
(7) 1550 AD
Wang wants OB and I don't
Yak spy hut>knight
Workboat to blackdot is delayed by a galley...had to detour a galleon to escort it. Will be there soon.
(8) 1555 AD
Constitution comes in and Democracy next.
Yek spy hut>jail
Khab forge>barracks...not sure what to build in crap towns like these.
bryan courthouse>forge
Fish hooked up south of Khab
(9) 1560 AD
Vlad settler>galleon...I've got a shipment of troops ready to go but no boat...go figure.
AP vote comes up...Fred is the only choice.
Why not vote for him. I believe Silver spread the Hindu in order to block a victory vote so we should be fine.
Nope nevermind the galleon in Vlad...I found one so switch to a musket.
Last turn of the golden age here...sniff sniff
(10) 1565 AD
Pete synagogue>jail
Yak Knight>musket
OMG...just hit esc by accident and nearly gave myself a heart attack.
Thought I lost the report!
WHEW!
Fred wins the AP vote but we have as many votes as he does so we can easily protect against a victory vote.
I drop science to 80% now that the GA is over...still bleeding 117gpt with almost 3K in the bank.
I've seen caravels from Wang, Boud, and Fred sailing around the New World.
I guess the secret is out...no galleons yet though.
(11) 1570 AD
I see Wang send airships over our land...jerkface!
Yaro spy hut>jail
Orange dot granary>WB
got a crew ready to attack bactrian or punk a worker depends on whether the workers go and hide or not.
Fish finally hooked up on the black dot...woulda been there sooner but I didn't see the sleeping galleon in Tver
(12) 1575 AD
Fred wants us to join in on the war with boud...no thx.
Yak musket>musket
The musket will finish when Demo comes in so we can start right in on the Sol as this is a good choice...36 nominal hammers should do the trick.
vlad musket>settler
Krazy forge>lighthouse
khab barracks>harbor
(13)1580 AD
Nova grocer>spy hut
Smol spy hut>jail
Fred and Boud kiss and make up...no more war.
Speaking of Boud she has a decent amount of gold so I pull this trigger.
I just wish she would trade military tradition though.
(14) 1585 AD
Boud wants a defensive pact now...since she has been going to war with Fred every set it seems like now. that makes this a bad idea I think.
Pete jail>hindu temple
For some reason the temple produces hammers for us so I'll take it.
Can some one tell me why temples sometimes produce hammers?
I don't get it.
Tver forge>WB
Hehe...gems pop near Nova.
Now thats where we want to pop a commerce resource!
Demo in 2 and I tune down research to 70% still in 2 turns
(15) 1590 AD
Yek jail>musket
Vlad settler>mace
Newreddot granary>WB
Uh oh...we have our first galleon sighting.
Chelblahblahblah is founded to deny oil.
Granary started.
(16) 1595 AD
Democracy finishes...rifling slotted in.
Who are you kidding????
Ramesses wanted a free tech...you don't get no free tech!
Yak musket>36 turn Statue of Liberty
NewNova forge>worker (5 turns...not too bad for the New World
DeGaulle gets a GA...think they wasted an engineer on it.
Wrapup
Uh EPs are frackin awesome.
When my turn started we were getting about 9 points per turn on each leader.
Now look at this:
We can see all but two of Boudica towns!
All research is known to us...those one turn trades are the best!
I had some galleon shuttle foulups during my set so troop transport was not super efficient.
I would love to see the canal get built once the chain irrigation to reddots corn is finished.
It would make our lives sooooo much easier.
Wang has a galleon headed towards Liq and Laq dot. It might be empty but lets assume it is not.
I have a crew there ready to finish off the barb town and plant that puppy immediately.
I was a little hesistant to attack with our macemen.
I had 63% odds to finish off that barb town 3 or 4 turns ago but I didn't want to risk it.
Worker crews are busy hooking up the dyes from "Town", the iron on the east coast and the newly popped gems...it needed a road.
Once that is finished I imagine alot of preparation for rails will be in order.
The three workers that finished our northern island were moved to hook up the dye. When they are finished with that and the fort they could go back to get those 2 island tiles off Bryan. I forgot about them...but the dye was more important anyways.
We are 7 turns from the Taj in Rostov and 2 turns away from the Kremlin.
I fell off the boat as far as city MM as I found a few tiles were being mismanaged by the governor.
How often do you check your MM during a set?
Take a look and
for poor "town"
Without a way to hurry production its gonna be a long haul here.
I might have hogged a few turns...but this is a learning game...and I learned how to by watching you guys.
I think thats it...sorry about the early half post if you happened to catch it.
If you missed it...well it was boring so be glad you did.
Ok gonna take a moment and refamiliarize myself with the world of ACK.
Moscow is on the Kremlin...sweet
Pete one turn left on a temple then likely a spy hut
Nova is working on a grocer....I'm gonna switch that to an observatory since we will likely be running 100% science the whole set.
Rostov can kill time for 4 turns making military while we wait for Nat to come in
Yaro can finish its market and then maybe go for a worker or settler.
Yek just started a spy hut...looks good.
Yak same deal.
Vlad is on settler duty.
Smolensk is stagnant so I work the two farms instead of the two forests so we can grow a little more.
Oren can finish its market.
The other islands:
Krazy is working a forge yup thats good.
Khab has culture on its fish so eventually I'll get a boat down there.
Bryan is slowly finishing its courthouse
All the growing New World cities are getting there and on the right track.
Alright...lets do this.
(1) 1520 AD
Pete temple>spy hut
Rostov Hindu Mish>Knight
Vlad Settler>Settler
NewNovo Granary>Forge
Boudica declares on Fred...thats more like it Baud!
Lots of shuffling workers and settlers...boring.
(2) 1525 AD
Yaro market>spy hut (yes I changed my mind)
Smol temple>quick workboat for the fishies
Scotland Yard is up!
No go for Hindu in Moscow
BK will trade the gunpowder but I think I'll wait for a better deal than PP for GP Map and 50 gold.
(3) 1530 AD
Vlad settler>xbow since Rostov will be busy for a few turns we will push out some garrison here for a while.
Hindu spreading in Moscow...take 2.
Success.
Chita is founded a little behind schedule...
Starts in on a granary.
Ok so this turn BK will trade Lib for Gunpowder. Thats more of an even trade beakers wise so I do this trade.
Now Ramesses is the only one left who wants it so I sell it to him.
Thanks to the overwhelming deal that Ramesses just got he is now pleased with us rather than cautious.
The only leader not pleased with us now is DeGaulle...I can live with that.
Pleasant change of pace from my other SG.
(4) 1535 AD
Nationalism arrives and I queue up Constitution due in five.
Rostov Knight>17 turn Taj...might be closer to 20 once we leave GA.
Smol WB>spy hut...loves me some EPs
Samara founded on crazycoolgreendot.
Workboat here for the clams.
Wang is one turn away from Nat...what do you think that is worth???
Not that much...thanks buddy!
(5) 1540 AD
Vlad xbow>musket
Oren market>spy hut...I think I might have a problem.
Arkhangelsk is founded on teal dot.
Workboat queued up.
(6) 1545 AD
Pete spy hut>jewish synagogue for the culture multiplier.
(7) 1550 AD
Wang wants OB and I don't
Yak spy hut>knight
Workboat to blackdot is delayed by a galley...had to detour a galleon to escort it. Will be there soon.
(8) 1555 AD
Constitution comes in and Democracy next.
Yek spy hut>jail
Khab forge>barracks...not sure what to build in crap towns like these.
bryan courthouse>forge
Fish hooked up south of Khab
(9) 1560 AD
Vlad settler>galleon...I've got a shipment of troops ready to go but no boat...go figure.
AP vote comes up...Fred is the only choice.
Why not vote for him. I believe Silver spread the Hindu in order to block a victory vote so we should be fine.
Nope nevermind the galleon in Vlad...I found one so switch to a musket.
Last turn of the golden age here...sniff sniff
(10) 1565 AD
Pete synagogue>jail
Yak Knight>musket
OMG...just hit esc by accident and nearly gave myself a heart attack.
Thought I lost the report!
WHEW!Fred wins the AP vote but we have as many votes as he does so we can easily protect against a victory vote.
I drop science to 80% now that the GA is over...still bleeding 117gpt with almost 3K in the bank.
I've seen caravels from Wang, Boud, and Fred sailing around the New World.
I guess the secret is out...no galleons yet though.
(11) 1570 AD
I see Wang send airships over our land...jerkface!
Yaro spy hut>jail
Orange dot granary>WB
got a crew ready to attack bactrian or punk a worker depends on whether the workers go and hide or not.
Fish finally hooked up on the black dot...woulda been there sooner but I didn't see the sleeping galleon in Tver
(12) 1575 AD
Fred wants us to join in on the war with boud...no thx.
Yak musket>musket
The musket will finish when Demo comes in so we can start right in on the Sol as this is a good choice...36 nominal hammers should do the trick.
vlad musket>settler
Krazy forge>lighthouse
khab barracks>harbor
(13)1580 AD
Nova grocer>spy hut
Smol spy hut>jail
Fred and Boud kiss and make up...no more war.
Speaking of Boud she has a decent amount of gold so I pull this trigger.
I just wish she would trade military tradition though.
(14) 1585 AD
Boud wants a defensive pact now...since she has been going to war with Fred every set it seems like now. that makes this a bad idea I think.
Pete jail>hindu temple
For some reason the temple produces hammers for us so I'll take it.
Can some one tell me why temples sometimes produce hammers?
I don't get it.
Tver forge>WB
Hehe...gems pop near Nova.
Now thats where we want to pop a commerce resource!
Demo in 2 and I tune down research to 70% still in 2 turns
(15) 1590 AD
Yek jail>musket
Vlad settler>mace
Newreddot granary>WB
Uh oh...we have our first galleon sighting.
Chelblahblahblah is founded to deny oil.
Granary started.
(16) 1595 AD
Democracy finishes...rifling slotted in.
Who are you kidding????
Ramesses wanted a free tech...you don't get no free tech!
Yak musket>36 turn Statue of Liberty
NewNova forge>worker (5 turns...not too bad for the New World
DeGaulle gets a GA...think they wasted an engineer on it.
Wrapup
Uh EPs are frackin awesome.
When my turn started we were getting about 9 points per turn on each leader.
Now look at this:
We can see all but two of Boudica towns!
All research is known to us...those one turn trades are the best!
I had some galleon shuttle foulups during my set so troop transport was not super efficient.
I would love to see the canal get built once the chain irrigation to reddots corn is finished.
It would make our lives sooooo much easier.
Wang has a galleon headed towards Liq and Laq dot. It might be empty but lets assume it is not.
I have a crew there ready to finish off the barb town and plant that puppy immediately.
I was a little hesistant to attack with our macemen.
I had 63% odds to finish off that barb town 3 or 4 turns ago but I didn't want to risk it.
Worker crews are busy hooking up the dyes from "Town", the iron on the east coast and the newly popped gems...it needed a road.
Once that is finished I imagine alot of preparation for rails will be in order.
The three workers that finished our northern island were moved to hook up the dye. When they are finished with that and the fort they could go back to get those 2 island tiles off Bryan. I forgot about them...but the dye was more important anyways.
We are 7 turns from the Taj in Rostov and 2 turns away from the Kremlin.
I fell off the boat as far as city MM as I found a few tiles were being mismanaged by the governor.
How often do you check your MM during a set?
Take a look and
for poor "town"Without a way to hurry production its gonna be a long haul here.
I might have hogged a few turns...but this is a learning game...and I learned how to by watching you guys.
I think thats it...sorry about the early half post if you happened to catch it.
If you missed it...well it was boring so be glad you did.
Liquidated
Goofed Up on Cough Syrup!
Great turns mate.
A few things..
AP makes temples of its alignment give hammers as well. That and Angkor Wat making priest specs pass out an extra hammer, plus factoring in the UniSank for beakers and the SpiralMin for cash and well... that's a ton of booty from pushing religion.
Communism spams Spy Supermarkets, Demo Spams Spy Huts! Addictive little guys to hammer home early huh. Every turn you have those buildings up and running over the AI means EP they have to spend slider to get back.
About Micro Management. Early on, MM is important as times are tight on grabbing land and pulling in wonders and winning liberalism.That race to econ was fun, not to mention getting those 6 uni's done in a minimum of time, but to be honest, MM isn;t critical anymore.
Missing the save btw!
Cheers!
-Liq
A few things..
AP makes temples of its alignment give hammers as well. That and Angkor Wat making priest specs pass out an extra hammer, plus factoring in the UniSank for beakers and the SpiralMin for cash and well... that's a ton of booty from pushing religion.
Communism spams Spy Supermarkets, Demo Spams Spy Huts!
Addictive little guys to hammer home early huh. Every turn you have those buildings up and running over the AI means EP they have to spend slider to get back.About Micro Management. Early on, MM is important as times are tight on grabbing land and pulling in wonders and winning liberalism.That race to econ was fun, not to mention getting those 6 uni's done in a minimum of time, but to be honest, MM isn;t critical anymore.
Missing the save btw!
Cheers!
-Liq
goblinmarine
Chieftain
good turns. always good to see those 1 turn trades for free gold. I love how wang gets to the new world just in time to miss all the good spots.
S.ilver
Emperor
Nice turns there sturick. And don't worry about the turn hogging. Turn hogging to accomplish objectives is encouraged! Liq and S.ilver have hogged turns for less .
Liq's correct about MM not being as important late game. Unless for some reason you want to time something (see Liq squeezing out the Uni's in front of Oxford and S.ilver squeezing out the Prophet and State Property on the same turn). With the huge amount of land, it becomes unrealistic to MM every town constantly. I usually just do a quick run through of the towns at the start of the turn to fix any questionable governor issues. This works with SGs because then towns will be checked every dozen turns or so.
Finally, have to say that that's quite a fine report there, worthy of the Boff-0 novel length reports
.Liq's correct about MM not being as important late game. Unless for some reason you want to time something (see Liq squeezing out the Uni's in front of Oxford and S.ilver squeezing out the Prophet and State Property on the same turn). With the huge amount of land, it becomes unrealistic to MM every town constantly. I usually just do a quick run through of the towns at the start of the turn to fix any questionable governor issues. This works with SGs because then towns will be checked every dozen turns or so.
Finally, have to say that that's quite a fine report there, worthy of the Boff-0 novel length reports
Liquidated
Goofed Up on Cough Syrup!
Preturn:1595 AD
Ok spammed Spy huts and supermarkets and jails, spamed so many workers in the new lands not sure just how many and spammed a ton of new towns hehe. Went physics for no reason
seeing as at the end of my turn Liq realized lets just roll over effing Wang for researching electricity. Oh effing well!!!!! that means tech is Steel -> artillery and we rush his ass with AT crews and artillery or something hahaha silver is silly like that. Mass spies caught all game btw, not worth mentioning individually as we are next to Wang and it's business as usual for that flake.
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Rofl at the EP's we are pulling in. Liq will double that EP per turn np as jails are cheap and mass huts to build.
Notice Wang's galleon poking around liq n lag so do or die time for Gus!
He takes the trash out np. That one dude you see on the beach is sunning himself.
No problem! Then realized settler has no movement hehe.. like it matters as wang needs to drop a settler off before nabbing it.
[1]1600 AD
Pop Tobol'sk as Town #1 on liq n'lag and well no point spamming a screen shot on account soooo many more to come and this one looks like garbage! The pigs and corn are already gussied up thanks to the barb workers!
Seems we have no settlers being built so 3 turns from Vlad sounds boffo.
Knight spots one of Sid's Finest so El Punk for the win...
Sid's "Benefaction" it is!
Baudica DOW's on France hmm WTH. France power owns baud's she may be in trouble!
[2]1605 AD
Kremlin in and Moscow will finally finish it's effing stable hehe.
[3]1610 AD
Wang Galleon disappears into the icy north without dropping anything off that I can see..
So Free Beer Dot time it is!
2x knights and Paul are there so might as well.
First knight barely makes it at 70% odds, talking 1.0/10 hp lolz
Second knight easily takes out the second so we win Mycenian, Sid's "Endowment" (who will be put to work posthaste) and some gold. Name Free Beer "Big Sur' on account all those lovely trees.. that and cannot be effed to try and pronounce the old name.
Town #2 hehe
That place has a whopping 11x forest + 2 more forests with spices. since NewNovo has spices at the least, we can forest preserve all of them! Going to nuke the roads the barbs built actually, and redo them over existing forests as this place screams National Park like a drunk girl scout looking for the campfire.
Vlad finished a settler so load it onto a boat and sent it over to pony poop.
Tver pops Cathy's "Infamy" just as the double farm chops come in so another worker in 2. Will push out a work boat for pony poop next.
[4]1615 AD
Wow something I didn't notice and may be 'new' to BTS, Astronomy era work boats can enter uncultured ocean tiles!
Another settler shows up at Vlad (where are all these settlers coming from?) and send if on SE to grab dot Area! Running out of effing boats actuallt, jsut too many settlers coming in.
Boat is hanging around new free beer dot in order to shuffle the troops south to take out marble town then realize screw it a few turns later and run off to grab more settlers hehe.
[5]1620 AD
Fred beats us to the Taj by blowing a great engineer...hehe... oh well. We were 2 turns away so should get some nice cash. Ok so that frees Rostov to spam Sp[y huts hehe.
A few new workers are built in the new lands... reproach and uh... disgruntlement. Names getting mighty thin!
Barbs popped another town in the south where silver punked one before haha. Knight in the south gets 10 exp taking out the barb town's first longbow and well is 8/10 strength... will promote combat three and get the job done in a moment.
[6]1625 AD
I spot an Egyptian galleon heading east to the new lands! oh noes! Well pony poop dot is otw as well as sheep/crab dot in the south.
yeah just under 1k gold from losing taj... that works.
[7]1630 AD
Workers and settlers popping all over. The Confused Party Palace popped in St pete and slotted in the Hermatage in 9 hehe. Sick sick culture incoming baby!
[8]1635 AD
France takes one of baud's towns and pops a great general... hmm...
Ow, WTH did baud do?
Oh and finally finished Rifling yay. That nets the economy nothing, making InfraLiq sad but Maxwell'SilverHammer will love to play with the guns!
Chemistry in 5.
Big Sur comes out of revolt finally and needs to pop it's borders to get those pigs online so let the Governor keep the artist spec. That's actually a nice little thing the AI does to get the phat cross up and active asap in caste.
[9]1640 AD
Town #3 Pony poop dot founds!
Knight is healed up so punks the brand new barb town for 9 effing gold heheh.
More Workers to name OMG!!!!
[10]1645 AD
More dots!!
Towns #4 and #5 founded tho not sure which 5 was.. purple dot?
get some random event, culture or beakers towards dr... take the culture.
[11]1650 AD
ho humm
[12]1655 AD
Omg wang settled on the new land!!!
hehe missing fish again. What a Moron. (oh seems Liq cropped the picture a bit too much, the "fish" was a crab just south of the sheep that the moron could have nailed easy and kept all the other goodies)
[13]1660 AD
Chemistry comes in supercharging all those workshops hehe. Black dot is splitting out settlers now in 4 turns hehe.
Wang is going electricity so doing a 12 turn physics so he doesn;t have freee run on all those wonders. yeah suck it up!
[14]1665 AD
oh goodness more workers, really having to stretch here to come up with names!
[15]1670 AD
More Goofiness in worker names. Up to 32 workers, need to get them over to the new dots hehe.
[16]1775 AD
The Hermitage Builds in petes and the town is now spitting ou252 culture per turn hehe.. Hindu RomperRoom in 9 turns.
[17]1880 AD
Trying to pown the barb town in the south with a combat 3 knight and 2 muskets hehe.
Baud and France make peace.
[18]1885 AD
Forest grows near black dot, converts a grasslands into a forest in the bfc hehe.
[19]1690 AD
Ok so crap barb town south has one long bow in it at 20% culture. Knight was beat down bad killing the first so he's back in sheep town healing. Have two crap muskets there so promote one to combat and has 43% odds to die and let the other take the bow out... problem here is the musket won hehehe.
Ok nice going man. earned 4 effing exp from that fight haha.
Astrakhan pops on Magenta in the north
Town #6
[20]1695 AD
Will the madness stop???
Odesa pops on Tundraland dot in the far south.
Sevastopol Pops where Purple dot was.
Kursk pops on Pos desert dot just north of magenta!
Towns #7, #8, #9 and no, no screenshots hahaha.
Had to make up some names there as I mistook the ' in the last name of magenta as something I typed, so had like 3 repeat city names!! No worries, all made up names were Ukrainian!
A settler is rushing to Meh dot in the far north.
A settler is shipping to the tundra for crockett dot as well
Blackdot is on a settler for crap filler just to the north but silver says NO! boo.
Blackdot has a second settler ready in queue to hook up with the galleon circling around to take him to the island paradise of tanktimeish dot!
And.... we are done for dots?!! unless we really want too much beer dot I guess.
Canal is about 2 turns away from getting completed.
Liq built Mass effing workers. So many workers in fact a few might not be named haha. yap caught a naked worker!
Anyway Germany is in too much mode (not attacking us)
Liq chased Physics to catch up to wang then realized... why not just attack wang? lololz. whatever, silver can suck it. With rex mode over, expect silver to go ape crazy as he is wont to do right about now.
So physics in 4 like a moron Then lets go steel for cannon. That means spam rifles now from all mainland towns... mass rifles then spam cannon and wheeeee.
Btw we are now at +53 ep's per turn on everyone and we have city visibility on a lot of people.
Silver is up tho so he can suck it up and call smoke on liq... p0.. The ForeverRex is officially over so silver can get to the hammer portion of the ack!
Look at all those dots!!!!
keep in mind that it takes us 2 turns to pop into the phat cross of culture... look how many towns are a turn old haha.
oh and we gained a few points in the lead...
+48 points and we didn't even tech anything!
So plan here is once Silver realizes we cannot really expand anymore.... wang is going to get beat down like the loser he is.
Cheers!
Liq
Ok spammed Spy huts and supermarkets and jails, spamed so many workers in the new lands not sure just how many and spammed a ton of new towns hehe. Went physics for no reason
seeing as at the end of my turn Liq realized lets just roll over effing Wang for researching electricity. Oh effing well!!!!! that means tech is Steel -> artillery and we rush his ass with AT crews and artillery or something hahaha silver is silly like that. Mass spies caught all game btw, not worth mentioning individually as we are next to Wang and it's business as usual for that flake.-------------------------
Rofl at the EP's we are pulling in. Liq will double that EP per turn np as jails are cheap and mass huts to build.
Notice Wang's galleon poking around liq n lag so do or die time for Gus!
He takes the trash out np. That one dude you see on the beach is sunning himself.
No problem! Then realized settler has no movement hehe.. like it matters as wang needs to drop a settler off before nabbing it.
[1]1600 AD
Pop Tobol'sk as Town #1 on liq n'lag and well no point spamming a screen shot on account soooo many more to come and this one looks like garbage! The pigs and corn are already gussied up thanks to the barb workers!
Seems we have no settlers being built so 3 turns from Vlad sounds boffo.
Knight spots one of Sid's Finest so El Punk for the win...
Sid's "Benefaction" it is!
Baudica DOW's on France hmm WTH. France power owns baud's she may be in trouble!
[2]1605 AD
Kremlin in and Moscow will finally finish it's effing stable hehe.
[3]1610 AD
Wang Galleon disappears into the icy north without dropping anything off that I can see..
So Free Beer Dot time it is!
2x knights and Paul are there so might as well.
First knight barely makes it at 70% odds, talking 1.0/10 hp lolz
Second knight easily takes out the second so we win Mycenian, Sid's "Endowment" (who will be put to work posthaste) and some gold. Name Free Beer "Big Sur' on account all those lovely trees.. that and cannot be effed to try and pronounce the old name.
Town #2 hehe
That place has a whopping 11x forest + 2 more forests with spices. since NewNovo has spices at the least, we can forest preserve all of them! Going to nuke the roads the barbs built actually, and redo them over existing forests as this place screams National Park like a drunk girl scout looking for the campfire.
Vlad finished a settler so load it onto a boat and sent it over to pony poop.
Tver pops Cathy's "Infamy" just as the double farm chops come in so another worker in 2. Will push out a work boat for pony poop next.
[4]1615 AD
Wow something I didn't notice and may be 'new' to BTS, Astronomy era work boats can enter uncultured ocean tiles!
Another settler shows up at Vlad (where are all these settlers coming from?) and send if on SE to grab dot Area! Running out of effing boats actuallt, jsut too many settlers coming in.
Boat is hanging around new free beer dot in order to shuffle the troops south to take out marble town then realize screw it a few turns later and run off to grab more settlers hehe.
[5]1620 AD
Fred beats us to the Taj by blowing a great engineer...hehe... oh well. We were 2 turns away so should get some nice cash. Ok so that frees Rostov to spam Sp[y huts hehe.
A few new workers are built in the new lands... reproach and uh... disgruntlement. Names getting mighty thin!
Barbs popped another town in the south where silver punked one before haha. Knight in the south gets 10 exp taking out the barb town's first longbow and well is 8/10 strength... will promote combat three and get the job done in a moment.
[6]1625 AD
I spot an Egyptian galleon heading east to the new lands! oh noes! Well pony poop dot is otw as well as sheep/crab dot in the south.
yeah just under 1k gold from losing taj... that works.
[7]1630 AD
Workers and settlers popping all over. The Confused Party Palace popped in St pete and slotted in the Hermatage in 9 hehe. Sick sick culture incoming baby!
[8]1635 AD
France takes one of baud's towns and pops a great general... hmm...
Ow, WTH did baud do?
Oh and finally finished Rifling yay. That nets the economy nothing, making InfraLiq sad but Maxwell'SilverHammer will love to play with the guns!
Chemistry in 5.
Big Sur comes out of revolt finally and needs to pop it's borders to get those pigs online so let the Governor keep the artist spec. That's actually a nice little thing the AI does to get the phat cross up and active asap in caste.
[9]1640 AD
Town #3 Pony poop dot founds!
Knight is healed up so punks the brand new barb town for 9 effing gold heheh.
More Workers to name OMG!!!!
[10]1645 AD
More dots!!
Towns #4 and #5 founded tho not sure which 5 was.. purple dot?
get some random event, culture or beakers towards dr... take the culture.
[11]1650 AD
ho humm
[12]1655 AD
Omg wang settled on the new land!!!
hehe missing fish again. What a Moron. (oh seems Liq cropped the picture a bit too much, the "fish" was a crab just south of the sheep that the moron could have nailed easy and kept all the other goodies)
[13]1660 AD
Chemistry comes in supercharging all those workshops hehe. Black dot is splitting out settlers now in 4 turns hehe.
Wang is going electricity so doing a 12 turn physics so he doesn;t have freee run on all those wonders. yeah
suck it up![14]1665 AD
oh goodness more workers, really having to stretch here to come up with names!
[15]1670 AD
More Goofiness in worker names. Up to 32 workers, need to get them over to the new dots hehe.
[16]1775 AD
The Hermitage Builds in petes and the town is now spitting ou252 culture per turn hehe.. Hindu RomperRoom in 9 turns.
[17]1880 AD
Trying to pown the barb town in the south with a combat 3 knight and 2 muskets hehe.
Baud and France make peace.
[18]1885 AD
Forest grows near black dot, converts a grasslands into a forest in the bfc hehe.
[19]1690 AD
Ok so crap barb town south has one long bow in it at 20% culture. Knight was beat down bad killing the first so he's back in sheep town healing. Have two crap muskets there so promote one to combat and has 43% odds to die and let the other take the bow out... problem here is the musket won hehehe.
Ok nice going man. earned 4 effing exp from that fight haha.
Astrakhan pops on Magenta in the north
Town #6
[20]1695 AD
Will the madness stop???
Odesa pops on Tundraland dot in the far south.
Sevastopol Pops where Purple dot was.
Kursk pops on Pos desert dot just north of magenta!
Towns #7, #8, #9 and no, no screenshots hahaha.
Had to make up some names there as I mistook the ' in the last name of magenta as something I typed, so had like 3 repeat city names!! No worries, all made up names were Ukrainian!
A settler is rushing to Meh dot in the far north.
A settler is shipping to the tundra for crockett dot as well
Blackdot is on a settler for crap filler just to the north but silver says NO! boo.
Blackdot has a second settler ready in queue to hook up with the galleon circling around to take him to the island paradise of tanktimeish dot!
And.... we are done for dots?!! unless we really want too much beer dot I guess.
Canal is about 2 turns away from getting completed.
Liq built Mass effing workers. So many workers in fact a few might not be named haha. yap caught a naked worker!
Anyway Germany is in too much mode (not attacking us)
Liq chased Physics to catch up to wang then realized... why not just attack wang? lololz. whatever, silver can suck it. With rex mode over, expect silver to go ape crazy as he is wont to do right about now.
So physics in 4 like a moron Then lets go steel for cannon. That means spam rifles now from all mainland towns... mass rifles then spam cannon and wheeeee.
Btw we are now at +53 ep's per turn on everyone and we have city visibility on a lot of people.
Silver is up tho so he can suck it up and call smoke on liq... p0.. The ForeverRex is officially over so silver can get to the hammer portion of the ack!
Look at all those dots!!!!
keep in mind that it takes us 2 turns to pop into the phat cross of culture... look how many towns are a turn old haha.
oh and we gained a few points in the lead...
+48 points and we didn't even tech anything!
So plan here is once Silver realizes we cannot really expand anymore.... wang is going to get beat down like the loser he is.
Cheers!
Liq
S.ilver
Emperor
lol, Liq is comical. I'll grab the save and get us in shape for war for whoever wants to go after. Petey is back tomorrow apparently, not sure if he wants the save, and goblinmarine is next.
The game is essentially won, so now we just need to take that victory.
The game is essentially won, so now we just need to take that victory.
Liquidated
Goofed Up on Cough Syrup!
Seems only 8 towns were founded by last count hehe, no idea WTH Liq was thinking on city #5, something to to do with screen shots likely. Honestly too effing many towns to keep track of though and honestly no effing idea how many workers were spawned.
Oh and it appears nabbing physics wasn't such a bad idea Militarily! Give you a hint as to why Physics wasn't militarily... Starts with 'A'
Any guesses kids?
Tune in wtfever silver wakes up and posts.
Oh and it seems that Rammy Galleon I saw never left the islands north of the old world.... guess he was dumpster diving more marginal islands to kill our trade ratio haha.
Cheers!
-Liq
Oh and it appears nabbing physics wasn't such a bad idea Militarily! Give you a hint as to why Physics wasn't
militarily... Starts with 'A' Any guesses kids?
Tune in wtfever silver wakes up and posts.
Oh and it seems that Rammy Galleon I saw never left the islands north of the old world.... guess he was dumpster diving more marginal islands to kill our trade ratio haha.
Cheers!
-Liq
goblinmarine
Chieftain
wow. i knew we didn't leave any good spots for wang, but where he dropped that city, just wow. good job as always liq.
Diamondeye
So Happy I Could Die
Starts with "A"? Obviously, A Liq is not talking about Blimps?
And sorry for being out of the loop, I figure I could grab it after A Silver if needed.
And sorry for being out of the loop, I figure I could grab it after A Silver if needed.
Good set Liq!
Even though Wang didn't have much to choose from leave it to him to plant a crappy tundra city!
Petes culture is a bit on the ridiculous side...it pushes through the desert and all the way up to Pyongsang(shoulda been green dot).
Heck our border is right on elephantine!
So are we just gonna build a road right up to him so we can send our troops into battle?
Even though Wang didn't have much to choose from leave it to him to plant a crappy tundra city!
Petes culture is a bit on the ridiculous side...it pushes through the desert and all the way up to Pyongsang(shoulda been green dot).
Heck our border is right on elephantine!
So are we just gonna build a road right up to him so we can send our troops into battle?
S.ilver
Emperor
1695AD (359):
Preflight check. Ok, well this game is dragging while it is clearly won, so we're going to see what we can do to remedy that problem. Which means rolling some people over while waiting on Domination.
Liq did a masterful REX-SPAM job on the new continent. Our territory spans the entire continent from the southern tip, all the way up until just before the northern tundra. And still a few more settlers on the way. Wang spammed a town here, but seeing as Wang is the first target, this is not a huge issue. We'll roll him over just fine.
So going to do a quick check of the cities. Since we own basically one and a half continents, it's no longer practical for me to list all the changes. Rest assured that heavy MM was applied to get us moving.
Suffice to say that the mainland towns are going to get ready to convert to mass military, while the new world towns are going to develop. However, we are going to develop them on a hammer economy basis (build stuff with hammers, and build research if we have nothing else to build) due to not having the time to mature cottages. Also these towns won't be able to help the war effort until flight anyways.
Switch techs from Physics to Steel. Rifles and Cannons will be the main force. We'll get back to Physics for an artillery run later.
Go and try begging, but only Ramesses bites. He gives us 200 gold.
Losing 152gpt is unsustainable, but we'll check back to it after we get Steel.
Fred is in WHEOOH, so interesting to see what will happen.
1700AD (360):
Wang jumps to Steam Power in 6.
Another annoying diplo victory vote pops up. Obviously we move to block.
With almost all mainland worker actions done until Rails, we get to work patching up unfinished road networks.
Rostov done its Customs House, get on a Rifle.
The barbs aren't going to make this easy.
Burger King getting on Corp in 10, so hopefully a juicy trade on the way.
1702AD (361):
Blocked easily. Fred is clearly shedding population (I guess when he lost Essen) as he's down to 73 votes.
We get a bunch of border pops this turn, yay.
More towns growing this turn as well, so get to the heavy MM to get the new continent on its feet faster.
Irk finished a Settler, who heads towards some other town who's name I can't remember. We're meeting up with a boat to found TankTimeRodeo. We start a forge at Irk.
1704AD (362):
Yay, lots of stuff is finishing this turn.
First of all, De Gaulle is the first one to Divine Right, LMAO. Usually the AI loves that crap. So Islam appears in one of his crap towns.
Meh Dot is now Saratov. We start a Granary.
Nova finishes a Jail. Dial a Hindu Temple, as Nova will be of little help in any war effort.
Rostov Rifle -> Rifle
Yaro done a Hindu Temple, and we dial an Aqueduct, which we will need to max the pop.
Smolensk also done a Hindu Temple. Dial a Rifle.
Khab's Customs House is done. Dial a jail as it is cheap, and we still need some work here to make it viable to build units.
Murmansk finished a lighthouse. Insane growth, so ordering workers.
Chita done a Granary. I dial a forge, although this is a zero prospect town, so whatever.
Arkhwtf finished a workboat. We need a granary.
1706AD (363):
De Gaulle finally on Printing Press! Alright, well that's kinda exciting...
Moscow done a Spy Supermarket. We are still in growth mode here, so order a spy hut.
Rostov Rifle -> Rifle
1708AD (364):
St. Petes done a Mandir for some serious culture beatdown on Thebes. Going to line up a spy hut here to protect against spies.
Yek Rifle -> Rifle
Bryn done a Lighthouse. Ok Harbor I guess.
1710AD (365):
Various non-events happen this turn, like Rammy spamming another crap town somewhere out there.
Davy Crockett is Tula. We dial for a Granary.
And well... self explanatory. Workboat first though.
Ramesses is now in Free Religion. Chiefly to ruin his diplo bonuses with everyone else before we attempt to bribe him into a war.
Rostov Rifle -> Rifle
Krazy finished a Library, so go for a cheap Theatre to detonate some serious culture in Ramesses' face.
1712AD (366):
BK spams a town somewhere, but it's nowhere near what we can see, so no problem.
Rostov Rifle -> Rifle
A large amount of towns grow next turn.
Dial science down to 40% to stop bleeding, as Steel is next turn anyways.
1714AD (366):
Slot Physics back in to finish in 6 turns.
Steam up for trade from both Fred and Wang. Too bad they want an arm and a leg for it.
Smolensk Rifle -> Rifle
Tver courts -> Barracks
Murmansk Worker -> Worker
Irk Forge -> Courts
Omsk Granary -> Worker
1716AD (368):
Rostov Rifle -> ... You get the idea...
Yaro is done a duct, so we officially start on Rifle mode!
Vlad finished a spy hut, so also getting on rifles.
Big Sur done a granary, ok... Forge next.
1718AD (369):
BK finished corp but won't trade, boo.
Yek done a rifle, we dial a cannon instead.
Krazy's theatre finished, so dial a confused temple to heap on the culture.
1720AD (370):
De Gaulle is now in WHEOOH.
St. Petes done a spy hut. Joining the rifle gravy chain.
Tver done a barracks, dial a theatre for the happy.
Samara's granary came in, dial a Forge.
1722AD (371):
Ramesses now has Steam for trade, and the idiot revolts back to Organized Religion, sigh... Sending the spy back in.
Nova done a Hindu Temple. We have no barracks, so dial that first evidently.
Yak joins the military party by making Cannons.
Khab's jail finishes, and we go for a theatre.
Novo finally done it's courthouse. Barracks next.
Mag done a lighthouse. Need workers at Mag.
Murmansk done a worker, dial a forge.
1724AD (372):
WTH?
Fred spun off his cities on that northern polar island.
Artillery in 14.
A bunch of towns finish military and start some more. Except for Rostov which needs to divert to a Colosseum due to Emanci anger, sigh...
Tver done a Theatre, starting a jail.
Irk's courthouse finishes, so dial up a barracks.
Tobo's granary is done, we need workers here sigh...
Volo's granary is done, dial a forge.
Go to Gandhi and somehow find this trade.
We somehow WIN in this trade... omg...
With Steam in, I switch from Artillery to Rails in 16. Rails... yum...
Emanci Anger is now all over the place due to...
Yeah, thanks a lot Fred...
Stupid Civs... Ok, so heading for the Civics Screen. It is 3 turns for one Civic, or 3 turns for two civics. WTH? I don't know either. So we hit both Emanci and Suffrage.
1726AD (373):
Wang misses the seafood. Again!
1728AD (374):
Another diplo victory vote. Boring.
Fred now loves us because clearly he loves one of the Civics we adopted. We do this deal.
1730AD (375):
Out of Revolt. Alright, I'm going to stop here as we have a few options (and no beakers invested in stuff yet) for the next tech. It will basically define our military.
Keep in mind that Wang is headed for Railroad in 10.
1. Artillery. 11 turns. This gives us Artillery (duh), which is basically unstoppable with decent stack protection. It's a huge upgrade over cannons, as the only unit capable of flanking out these guys (and Mobile Arties) is the Gunship, which is very easily bounced by just about anything. This means we can move in and not have to worry about our enemies possibly getting Cavs or Cuirs to flank attack our seige units.
Also a large draw on Artillery is that they absolutely destroy Machine Guns, not because of collateral, but because they gain a +50% bonus against seige, and like all seige weapons, can get CR promos, while Machine Guns can't get CG. Dead Machine Guns.
A minor benefit is getting Anti-Tanks. These guys are sucky in that they are no stronger than rifles, but they do gain intercept chances, and well... Airships are annoying! More importantly, they can't be nuked by Grens.
2. Assembly Line. 13 turns. Infantry are the bread and butter of Industrial Age warfare, but they are essentially useless against machine guns unless they have artillery backup (or if they are upgraded from CR3 maces, which we have almost none because we haven't been fighting up until now).
We do win Factories though, which are key to empowering the new continent (as all tile improvements going up there are hammer based), and in general boosting production to even higher levels.
Pentagon is obviously a wonder that we want as well. Rostov has a probable engineer on the way for that, but knowing things, we will probably win an artist!
3. Railroad. 12 turns because I accidentally dumped the overflow beakers into it. Oops. Gets us Rails and moving towards the Flight/Industrialism pathway. Not immediately helpful as it doesn't let us build anything for attacking. However, it should be an immediate priority after we finish one of the above techs, as rails everywhere is more lovely production.
A key tech, just not one that will get us on military building immediately.
Since we have Physics already, Artillery is a logical choice, in that Artillery units have no counter until Tanks, and Artillery gives us the counter to Tanks anyways!
I have the tech dialed into Assembly Line, so please be sure to change it. I also did not MM the specs from SoL, so yeah...
If Petey is back and wants in, he can grab it. Otherwise, goblinmarine is up if his machine is up. If that falls through, DE is up.
Preflight check. Ok, well this game is dragging while it is clearly won, so we're going to see what we can do to remedy that problem. Which means rolling some people over while waiting on Domination.
Liq did a masterful REX-SPAM job on the new continent. Our territory spans the entire continent from the southern tip, all the way up until just before the northern tundra. And still a few more settlers on the way. Wang spammed a town here, but seeing as Wang is the first target, this is not a huge issue. We'll roll him over just fine.
So going to do a quick check of the cities. Since we own basically one and a half continents, it's no longer practical for me to list all the changes. Rest assured that heavy MM was applied to get us moving.
Suffice to say that the mainland towns are going to get ready to convert to mass military, while the new world towns are going to develop. However, we are going to develop them on a hammer economy basis (build stuff with hammers, and build research if we have nothing else to build) due to not having the time to mature cottages. Also these towns won't be able to help the war effort until flight anyways.
Switch techs from Physics to Steel. Rifles and Cannons will be the main force. We'll get back to Physics for an artillery run later.
Go and try begging, but only Ramesses bites. He gives us 200 gold.
Losing 152gpt is unsustainable, but we'll check back to it after we get Steel.
Fred is in WHEOOH, so interesting to see what will happen.
1700AD (360):
Wang jumps to Steam Power in 6.
Another annoying diplo victory vote pops up. Obviously we move to block.
With almost all mainland worker actions done until Rails, we get to work patching up unfinished road networks.
Rostov done its Customs House, get on a Rifle.
The barbs aren't going to make this easy.
Burger King getting on Corp in 10, so hopefully a juicy trade on the way.
1702AD (361):
Blocked easily. Fred is clearly shedding population (I guess when he lost Essen) as he's down to 73 votes.
We get a bunch of border pops this turn, yay.
More towns growing this turn as well, so get to the heavy MM to get the new continent on its feet faster.
Irk finished a Settler, who heads towards some other town who's name I can't remember. We're meeting up with a boat to found TankTimeRodeo. We start a forge at Irk.
1704AD (362):
Yay, lots of stuff is finishing this turn.
First of all, De Gaulle is the first one to Divine Right, LMAO. Usually the AI loves that crap. So Islam appears in one of his crap towns.
Meh Dot is now Saratov. We start a Granary.
Nova finishes a Jail. Dial a Hindu Temple, as Nova will be of little help in any war effort.
Rostov Rifle -> Rifle
Yaro done a Hindu Temple, and we dial an Aqueduct, which we will need to max the pop.
Smolensk also done a Hindu Temple. Dial a Rifle.
Khab's Customs House is done. Dial a jail as it is cheap, and we still need some work here to make it viable to build units.
Murmansk finished a lighthouse. Insane growth, so ordering workers.
Chita done a Granary. I dial a forge, although this is a zero prospect town, so whatever.
Arkhwtf finished a workboat. We need a granary.
1706AD (363):
De Gaulle finally on Printing Press! Alright, well that's kinda exciting...
Moscow done a Spy Supermarket. We are still in growth mode here, so order a spy hut.
Rostov Rifle -> Rifle
1708AD (364):
St. Petes done a Mandir for some serious culture beatdown on Thebes. Going to line up a spy hut here to protect against spies.
Yek Rifle -> Rifle
Bryn done a Lighthouse. Ok Harbor I guess.
1710AD (365):
Various non-events happen this turn, like Rammy spamming another crap town somewhere out there.
Davy Crockett is Tula. We dial for a Granary.
And well... self explanatory. Workboat first though.
Ramesses is now in Free Religion. Chiefly to ruin his diplo bonuses with everyone else before we attempt to bribe him into a war.
Rostov Rifle -> Rifle
Krazy finished a Library, so go for a cheap Theatre to detonate some serious culture in Ramesses' face.
1712AD (366):
BK spams a town somewhere, but it's nowhere near what we can see, so no problem.
Rostov Rifle -> Rifle
A large amount of towns grow next turn.
Dial science down to 40% to stop bleeding, as Steel is next turn anyways.
1714AD (366):
Slot Physics back in to finish in 6 turns.
Steam up for trade from both Fred and Wang. Too bad they want an arm and a leg for it.
Smolensk Rifle -> Rifle
Tver courts -> Barracks
Murmansk Worker -> Worker
Irk Forge -> Courts
Omsk Granary -> Worker
1716AD (368):
Rostov Rifle -> ... You get the idea...
Yaro is done a duct, so we officially start on Rifle mode!
Vlad finished a spy hut, so also getting on rifles.
Big Sur done a granary, ok... Forge next.
1718AD (369):
BK finished corp but won't trade, boo.
Yek done a rifle, we dial a cannon instead.
Krazy's theatre finished, so dial a confused temple to heap on the culture.
1720AD (370):
De Gaulle is now in WHEOOH.
St. Petes done a spy hut. Joining the rifle gravy chain.
Tver done a barracks, dial a theatre for the happy.
Samara's granary came in, dial a Forge.
1722AD (371):
Ramesses now has Steam for trade, and the idiot revolts back to Organized Religion, sigh... Sending the spy back in.
Nova done a Hindu Temple. We have no barracks, so dial that first evidently.
Yak joins the military party by making Cannons.
Khab's jail finishes, and we go for a theatre.
Novo finally done it's courthouse. Barracks next.
Mag done a lighthouse. Need workers at Mag.
Murmansk done a worker, dial a forge.
1724AD (372):
WTH?
Fred spun off his cities on that northern polar island.
Artillery in 14.
A bunch of towns finish military and start some more. Except for Rostov which needs to divert to a Colosseum due to Emanci anger, sigh...
Tver done a Theatre, starting a jail.
Irk's courthouse finishes, so dial up a barracks.
Tobo's granary is done, we need workers here sigh...
Volo's granary is done, dial a forge.
Go to Gandhi and somehow find this trade.
We somehow WIN in this trade... omg...
With Steam in, I switch from Artillery to Rails in 16. Rails... yum...
Emanci Anger is now all over the place due to...
Yeah, thanks a lot Fred...
Stupid Civs... Ok, so heading for the Civics Screen. It is 3 turns for one Civic, or 3 turns for two civics. WTH? I don't know either. So we hit both Emanci and Suffrage.
1726AD (373):
Wang misses the seafood. Again!
1728AD (374):
Another diplo victory vote. Boring.
Fred now loves us because clearly he loves one of the Civics we adopted. We do this deal.
1730AD (375):
Out of Revolt. Alright, I'm going to stop here as we have a few options (and no beakers invested in stuff yet) for the next tech. It will basically define our military.
Keep in mind that Wang is headed for Railroad in 10.
1. Artillery. 11 turns. This gives us Artillery (duh), which is basically unstoppable with decent stack protection. It's a huge upgrade over cannons, as the only unit capable of flanking out these guys (and Mobile Arties) is the Gunship, which is very easily bounced by just about anything. This means we can move in and not have to worry about our enemies possibly getting Cavs or Cuirs to flank attack our seige units.
Also a large draw on Artillery is that they absolutely destroy Machine Guns, not because of collateral, but because they gain a +50% bonus against seige, and like all seige weapons, can get CR promos, while Machine Guns can't get CG. Dead Machine Guns.
A minor benefit is getting Anti-Tanks. These guys are sucky in that they are no stronger than rifles, but they do gain intercept chances, and well... Airships are annoying! More importantly, they can't be nuked by Grens.
2. Assembly Line. 13 turns. Infantry are the bread and butter of Industrial Age warfare, but they are essentially useless against machine guns unless they have artillery backup (or if they are upgraded from CR3 maces, which we have almost none because we haven't been fighting up until now).
We do win Factories though, which are key to empowering the new continent (as all tile improvements going up there are hammer based), and in general boosting production to even higher levels.
Pentagon is obviously a wonder that we want as well. Rostov has a probable engineer on the way for that, but knowing things, we will probably win an artist!
3. Railroad. 12 turns because I accidentally dumped the overflow beakers into it. Oops. Gets us Rails and moving towards the Flight/Industrialism pathway. Not immediately helpful as it doesn't let us build anything for attacking. However, it should be an immediate priority after we finish one of the above techs, as rails everywhere is more lovely production.
A key tech, just not one that will get us on military building immediately.
Since we have Physics already, Artillery is a logical choice, in that Artillery units have no counter until Tanks, and Artillery gives us the counter to Tanks anyways!
I have the tech dialed into Assembly Line, so please be sure to change it. I also did not MM the specs from SoL, so yeah...
If Petey is back and wants in, he can grab it. Otherwise, goblinmarine is up if his machine is up. If that falls through, DE is up.
Diamondeye
So Happy I Could Die
Good set, Silver. Lol bigtime at Wang this game, those seagoof (yeah that was on purpose) are really too hilarious.
I would say... Artillery? Or Railroad. Rifles are good for quite some time if everything they meet is pounded to dust by shells first.
Did you build any BLIMPS?
I would say... Artillery? Or Railroad. Rifles are good for quite some time if everything they meet is pounded to dust by shells first.
Did you build any BLIMPS?
goblinmarine
Chieftain
my computer seems to be working better now... took a bit of uninstalling and killing stuff running in the background. vista loves background tasks like nothing else. but it seems to not crash anymore. so if petey's not around i can take a turn.
artillery looks like the best bet to get things taken care of. that is if we want to do it sooner rather than later (which it looks like we do)
artillery looks like the best bet to get things taken care of. that is if we want to do it sooner rather than later (which it looks like we do)
Liquidated
Goofed Up on Cough Syrup!
Gobo, what are the base specs of your pc? Actually eff base specs (cpu speed is a farging joke now), how much memory does your pc have?
If you aren't running 2+ Gigs of system memory, Vista is total suckage hehe. Better off just dual booting to XP to play Civ4 to be honest if 2 or less GB of memory.
Artillery is win since Wang will have machine guns.
Cheers!
-Liq
If you aren't running 2+ Gigs of system memory, Vista is total suckage hehe. Better off just dual booting to XP to play Civ4 to be honest if 2 or less GB of memory.
Artillery is win since Wang will have machine guns.
Cheers!
-Liq
S.ilver
Emperor
I haven't seen Petey back yet, so you should probably take the turn if you can goblin. Want to keep this game moving to the conclusion of rolling Civs over.
So looks like the basic plan includes lots and lots of artillery. The cities in the new world basically won't be able to contribute until we get flight to fly stuff back, but for now, make them build some up to date garrisons and a decent force to take down Wang's misplaced cities. By the way, we don't need any commerce improvements in the new world because they'll take too long to come into effect. We are going for pure hammer economy here.
Keep any CR maces we still have and try to get them to CR3 alive so we can having some city raiding infantry.
So looks like the basic plan includes lots and lots of artillery. The cities in the new world basically won't be able to contribute until we get flight to fly stuff back, but for now, make them build some up to date garrisons and a decent force to take down Wang's misplaced cities. By the way, we don't need any commerce improvements in the new world because they'll take too long to come into effect. We are going for pure hammer economy here.
Keep any CR maces we still have and try to get them to CR3 alive so we can having some city raiding infantry.
Liquidated
Goofed Up on Cough Syrup!
Have access to levees now yay!
Need to tack on levees to the main hammer pumps when their queues become available. Main exception would be Tver should should switch to levee now and push the jail after. Basically look at a town, if it's currently working 2 or more river tiles Town is going to work soon, levee beats forge though a forge should be right after still. Just stick with forges in the newest dots like magenta and pony poop btw.
Consider jails to be a core building after food+ and hammer+ builds are done btw. Oh and harbors in coastal towns hehe.
Cheers
-Liq
Need to tack on levees to the main hammer pumps when their queues become available. Main exception would be Tver should should switch to levee now and push the jail after. Basically look at a town, if it's currently working 2 or more river tiles Town is going to work soon, levee beats forge though a forge should be right after still. Just stick with forges in the newest dots like magenta and pony poop btw.
Consider jails to be a core building after food+ and hammer+ builds are done btw. Oh and harbors in coastal towns hehe.
Cheers
-Liq
goblinmarine
Chieftain
got it, will play tomorrow
i have exactly 2 gigs of ram and no access to a copy of XP. if i did i'd be running xp.
i've turned off most of the services that i don't need but vista keeps undoing my settings.
and i was trying to run a calendar/planner on top of my wallpaper and it ate my processors and ram
i have exactly 2 gigs of ram and no access to a copy of XP. if i did i'd be running xp.
i've turned off most of the services that i don't need but vista keeps undoing my settings.
and i was trying to run a calendar/planner on top of my wallpaper and it ate my processors and ram
