AG13 - OCC Demigod

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Pre-turn
5 turns on alliance left with 6 turns on RoP with Sumer. everything looks good

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Sumer seems much stronger than Persia and they are sending another transport to the resources

1. 1580AD
pound Aleppo, beat 2hp Inf with army, 1hp shows and after looking for a while find an elite sipahi, attack

promote another sipahi and raze Aleppo

IT settler pair landed close to furs colony, but since we blocked all closeby landing spots, the town won't take it away

2. 1585AD
surround the settler pair.

check and we would get 5 cities in a peace deal with Persia, now if we can capture 3 Sumer towns in that same turn we have a second army
but need to wait 4 more turns.

IT Sumer defends well. suddenly Persian infantry appears out of nowhere and kill 1 sipahi

7. 1610AD
finally the moment has come, we get peace for 6 cities, now 2 more and we have a 2nd army :rolleyes:
( by the way, it was impossible to get all island cities from Persia)
mobilize again, bombard and take susa with 2 vet sipahi. bombard and capture Marad, form 2nd army :dance:
raze Kisurra, raze Babil with a elite sipahi loss, west is cleared
1st army razes Kua and we gain cannon and arty, sell improvements and abandon towns
Persia down to 6
unhappiness is very strong due to razing towns, need to increase lux to 20%

IT sipahi defends against inf attack

8. 1615AD
close choke north of our city, attack Apisala and get another leader, what to do with it? rush IA with it
get gems colony

IT one sipahi gets retreated

9. 1620AD
raze Der and wine is ours again

IT lose an inf on defense, Persia recaptures Dabrum in the north, Der is refounded and get pollution :mad: build delayed due to that

10. 1625AD
1st army raze Hubshina, raze Der again, clear 6 inf in or near our territory

IT The Hague is Sumer now, seems they exchange towns, that's good

11. 1630AD
clear 1 inf and advance arty towards Erech, armies need to heal

IT Vitcos is Sumer now and the town next to it has salt, let's hope Persia can hold it :eek:

12. 1635AD
lose 1 sipahi clearing inf

IT irritating Kua is founded again next to wines

13. 1640AD
clear Kua with elite sipahi, raze Erech

14. 1645AD
move on to Isin, slow progress due to arty support but with sipahi we need them
clear 2 inf and lose an elite sipahi

IT Sumer tries to take Dabrum with 6 inf but loses 5 of them
the stream of inf into our territory has stopped, is that a sign of being gassed?

15. 1650AD
raze Isin with the help of 3 sipahi + army
since we have 4 arty in our core to spare, attack Arbela in the north, lose 1 sipahi, raze it taking Bach's and 12 slaves
our arty stack is approaching Ur. If we fear salt in their hands, we should aim to take out the horses faster
Sumer is down to 10 cities, Persia has 5 cities. I left them mostly alone in the north, making sure Persia is busy and won't try to settle land
Combustion is finally in next turn, recommend to build a transport and go after the island cities with a decent stack
research on AI side seems to have ceased with no new techs up except fascism. Even forgot to plant spies since it's not essential, next player can do that.
Once peace is up with Persia, we can easily eliminate them. This game won't come back to me, I wonder how many turns left

 
(15 turns in peace time, 10 turns when at war):
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I always have to smile when I see this. we all have been playing 15 turns, I wonder if this is called peace time, how does war then look like :lol:
 
I mention it because people shouldn't feel pressed to play 15 turns in an arty war era. I won't stop you from playing 5 more if you enjoy it. We all have had our fair share of turns.

AG10 was more intense and there we actually needed a rest after ten (in the age of bombers, Mech Infs, etc...)

It's fun to see that this one is far easier than AG10 (which I considered an awesome win). This has to be because we were able keep the war-times going, preventing real growth of Sumeria and Persia.
 
I think us being located in a crossroads between all the civs has helped a lot too..

I think it got this easy on DG only because of lucky placement..

Got it :)
 
Gyathaar said:
I think it got this easy on DG only because of lucky placement..
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Sipahi are just brutal in human hands. Our choice of UU help a lot even if we waited to long for it.
 
Nice job :goodjob: !

I think the biggest reason that this is easier than AG10 is that this is 80% water instead of 70% (my guess by looking at the map, Aggie never stated the setting).

Also we got lucky at the beginning in trading. Our location certainly helped. This one feels even easier than AG9.
 
1650AD, turn 0:
We have 76 slaves, and still seems like we have some units stitting on mountains just to scout for landings.. take 10 of the slaves and make outposts that give full view of all the northwestern areas.

upgrade the last cannon to artillery

move up the sipahi that was doing nothing but busting fog

IBT:

2 sumerian infantery suicide against one of our infantery in mountains, and promites our infantery to elite


1655AD, turn 1:
Turn off research, since any research we do with positive cashflow will not finish before the game is over, so might as well save up some cash for spymissions.

attempt to plant a spy in sumeria, but get caught

bring in all hurt sipahi in the field to heal up in capital, use atrillery that cant get into reach of Ur this turn to bomb all summerian infantery in the north

Since we have iron inside borders now, and no ai units can get in reach of it, I take the infantery on iron colony and place it on a mountain next to Dabrum to scout better

IBT:
A sumerian atrillery bomb the infantery I put on mountain by Dabrum, but dont attack it.
A sumerian infantery comes into view by Istanbul

1655AD, turn 2:
bombard 5 infantery in Ur.
army takes out two 2/4 infantery
5/5 sipahi kills 1/4 infantery, drops to 3/5
5/5 sipahi kills 1/4 infantery, take no damage
5/5 sipahi kills 1/4 infantery, take no damage
raze Ur with ToA (and prolly other wonders, didnt check)
Get an artillery and 5 workers and 27 gold.

make an oil colony so we can build transports (forgot to do it last turn)

hmm.. transports dont get extra shields from mobilization.
disband a slave and rush a shortrush the transport with a settler

use rest of artillery to bombard Antioch, it is defended by 3 infantery.
Use 2nd army to kill off the first 2 infantery
a 4/4 sipahi then flawlessly kills a 3/4 infantery and raze the city for 27 gold and 3 workers

use 3 sipahi and kill off all hurt sumerian units in view.

Realize I can use the atrillery I captured in ur, and use it to hurt another summerian unit

Make an outpost in the east

IBT:
transport -> transport (shortrush it same way as last one)

1665AD, turn 3:
bombard and yellowline 2 sumerian infantery up by Dabrum
kill them off with 2 elite sipahi

close off the choke between Dabrum and the northen x-Dutch towns with 2 infantery
redline infantery and rifle defenders in The Hague.
raze The Hague with 2 sipahi (I dont want persia to get it back)
Capture an artillery and 17 gold

IBT:
Persia kicks out some units that killed sumerian units in teir lands (good, saves me a turn in movements)
Ouch, Istanbul riots and I missed it :( must have been higher WW

1670AD, turn 4:
raise lux to 30%
set up to raze sumer next turn

IBT:
transport -> sipahi

1675AD, turn 5:
artillery redline 3 infantery in Sumer
5/5 sipahi attacks 1/4 infantery, redlines but wins
5/5 sipahi flawlessly kills 1/4 infantery
5/5 sipahi dies to 1/3 infantery
4/4 sipahi flawlessly kills 1/3 infantery and raze sumer with Great wall.
Get 27 gold, 8 workers and 1 artillery

bombard and kill 3 exposed sumerian infantery, but loose a sipahi

Been try to plant spy with sumeria again, and get caught again, mumble

IBT:
sipahi -> sipahi

1680AD, turn 6:
bombard Kish
use army to kill off top 3 defenders.
5/5 sipahi kills 2/2 infantery (redlines)
4/4 sipahi retreats from 2/4 infantery
4/4 sipahi redlines, but kills 2/4 infantery and raze Kish
Get 26gold, an artillery and 5 slaves

Before I go further I attempt to plant spy with persia.. and get caught, but no war.

redline 2 exposed sumerian infantery
kill them with 2 elite sipahi


IBT:
sipahi -> sipahi

1685AD, turn 7:
Just troop movements

IBT:
Sipahi -> sipahi

1690AD, turn 8:
Bombard Umma, but miss alot
Army kills top infantery defender, but is redlined
elite sipahi attacks, redlines and I get a leader
4/4 sipahi dies, but defender redlined
4/4 sipahi dies, but defender redlined
4/4 sipahi kills 1/2 inf
4/4 sipahi flawlessly kill 1/4 inf, promotes and raze Umma for 24 gold and 5 slaves

Sumeria is now down to 4 cities, one of them size 1,
Persia has 5 cities, one size 2, one size 3, one size 4 and two size 5

Land a full transport of units on the island with a sumerian towns and persian capital

IBT:
Sumeria and Persia sign peace

sipahi -> sipahi

1695AD, turn 9:
Bombard Bad-tibira
army kills top defenders in Bad, redlines
5/5 siaphi kills 3/4 inf
4/4 sipahi kill 3/4 inf, raze bad-tibira for 48gold and 6 slaves

bring the leader back home, he will rush a stock excange after we wipe out sumeria prolly

try to plant a spy with sumeria, and finally succed

Sumeria has 11 infantery, 7 frigates and 5 galleons left

5/5 sipahi dies to 4/4 inf in Vitcon, but drops it to 1/4
5/5 sipahi kills 3/3 inf
5/5 sipahi kills 3/3 inf, redlines
4/4 sipahi kills 1/4 inf, and raze Vitcos for 35 gold, and also kills one of the galleons

IBT:
sipahi -> sipahi

1700AD, turn 10:
sumaria has 8 infantery left, 2 of them are outside istanbul
They also seem to have gotten 2 guerilla IBT (they dont have rubber anymore)

Bombard Lagash
4/4 sipahi retreats from 2/4 inf
5/5 sipahi kills 2/4 inf, redlines
4/4 sipahi dies to 4/4 guerilla, guerilla down to 2/4
4/4 sipahi kills 1/4 inf
4/4 sipahi kills 1/4 inf, promote
4/4 sipahi kills 2/4 guerilla.. raze lagash for 65 gold, and sink a galleon

IBT:
Sipahi-> sipahi

1705AD, turn 11:
Sumeria has 5 inf and 1 guerilla left.. of of the infantery are redlined inside our borders..

bombard Agade
redline all defenders
5/5 knight kills 1/2 inf
4/4 sipahi killa 1/4 inf
4/4 sipahi kills 1/4 inf, raze Agade for 109gold, 4 workers... and:


Persia has electronics, but dont want to part with it for combustion and all our lump sum of gold, so I use the leader to rush Heroic epic instead just because I can :p

can lower lux to 20% again

one turn left on peace deal with persia.. I attempt to plant spy, and succed

Persia has 3 rifles, 11 infantery and 1 guerilla (plus 14 frigates and 5 galleons)

Getting units ready to attack persia next round, load up one transport with 2 infantery and 4 sipahi to be dropped off next to Ghulaman.
There is already 1 army, 5 sipahi and 1 infantery waiting outside borders of persian capital Samaria on the island.

make some outposts and place some workers in the east to get rid of all fog, also make a spice colony.

IBT:
finish HE
start stock exchange

1710AD, turn 12:
Call up Persia and cancel the peace deal.. they would be insulted from a straight up peace deal.. well.. your loss Xerxes.. :D

Unload transport next to Ghulaman

redline 2 inf defenders in Dabrum
5/5 knight finally dies to a 1/4 infantery :(
4/4 sipahi kills 1/4 inf
4/4 sipahi kills 1/5 inf, raze Daabrum

Make an incense colony

redline inf and rifle in Ghulaman, also kill three citizens after destroying barracks.. no poprushing in that town..

use army to kill a 4/4 inf in amsterdam

IBT:
nothing

1715AD, turn 13:
redline infantery, rifle and guerilla in Ghulaman

5/5 sipahi kills 1/3 inf.. and Get a leader
4/4 sipahi kills 1/3 rifle
4/4 sipahi kills 1/3 guerilla, and raze Ghulaman.. kill several boats

artillery hurt 2 inf in Rotterdam
4/4 sipahi kills 2/4 inf
4/4 sipahi kills 3/3 guerilla
4/4 sipahi killa 1/4 inf, and Rotterdam is razed with great lighthouse

army kills 4/4 inf in amsterdam
army kills another 4/4 inf in amsterdam
army kills a third 4/4 inf in amsterdam, is redline now so dont push on
5/5 sipahi dies to 3/3 inf, but redline it
5/5 sipahi kills 3/3 guerilla
4/4 sipahi dies to 1/3 inf, and inf promote :(
4/4 sipahi dies to 2/4 inf, inf 2/5 now
3/4 sipahi dies to the demonic 2/5 inf
4/4 sipahi finally kills the infantery, and amsterdam is razed.. persia only has their island capital left

Persia has just 2 rifles, 1 infantery and 1 guerilla left
Army kills infantery in Samarra
army then kills a rifle
5/5 sipahi kills 4/4 rifle
Just a 4/4 guerilla left..
move 5/5 sipahi into position to kill last persian defender..
Grr.. sipahi loose.. guerilla 3/4 now
move 4/4 sipahi into position...

4/4 sipahi kills 3/4 guerilla, raze Samaria... and :



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Gyathaar said:
I save and press enter:
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In case anyone else almost misses the save.


Congrats to the team on an win in a insane variant.
 
great team effort :goodjob:

after getting a little flamed a few turns ago, I feel our strategies (letting AI's fight each other while building our infra) have really worked well. sipahi are monsters, I agree.

Aggie, if you don't mind, I am surely interested in your deity 0CC.
 
I don't think ThERat knows what he is getting himself into. In his post, it looks like he wrote a 0 (zero) instead of a O. Winning on Deity without any cities may prove challenging.
 
bed_head7 said:
I don't think ThERat knows what he is getting himself into. In his post, it looks like he wrote a 0 (zero) instead of a O. Winning on Deity without any cities may prove challenging.
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I don't think there is any player crazy enough to try a Zero city challenge. :rolleyes:
 
By the way, I realize that this isn't the proper place to sign up, but if you lose a player from this crew I'd love to have the spot in the Deity game.
 
as usual, bedhead trying to pull my leg, but I had a good laugh. who knows 0CC might work on chieftain, i should try it out :lol:
 
Aggie said:
bed_head7: you will be in the team if not all AG13 players join the deity game!
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He is in. I am not joing the deity game. When I signed upped I didn't realize that Conquest was the only win wanted. I don't feel like another 1CCC.
 
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