AK06 Eclectic

[Admiral Kutzov]

conquests 1.22
mass regicide enabled (my choice)
small
panagea
diety (grahamiam's choice)
SGL off
cultural starts off
Celts (bede's choice)

Roster (order to be determined)
AK
Bede
Viper (may need a replacement for the holiday's)
Grahamiam
therat

viper and therat get to pick something

when the roster is finalized, I'll roll some starts. This game is my anti in-law for the holidays. Short, sweet, lot's of blood.

Eclectic is each player chooses one aspect of the game.

Please note I've used an 8 letter word in the correct context (I think)

 

[viper275]

Checking in.

 

[grahamiam]

checking in

 

[Bede]

the QD.

Reporting for duty.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

These are the first three I rolled. Original seed was 999111.
#1

#2

#3

I like 2 or 3 for obvious reasons. Whatever blows the air up the group's skirt...

Who wants to go first? What shall we do with all those king thingies?

QD saluting is not encouraged unless one wants the snipers to notice...
Know why marine officers have gold braid on top of their dress covers? To prevent the enlisted marines from mistaking them from naval officers and shooting them in combat

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Viper didn't get to pick anything yet. How 'bout who starts?

 

[ThERat]

do you need another player, since one slot is open? Rat01 just finsihed and will start only after xmas. so I wouldn't mind joining

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

@ ThERat - you're in. Care to make a choice about something?

 

[Bede]

Gotta be three.

 

[ThERat]

haha maybe I am blur...care to make a choice about something
starts are rolled...so what's my choice?
errr, ok go for start 2, looks like celtic land. they didn't live in the desert, did they?

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

@ therat - you could always specify something like Defiant or Barbaric...

 

[grahamiam]

i like #2 as well. forest has game, right? (can't tell with those screwy graphics ) anyways, if it does, at least we get to +4 fpt by chopping and irrigating it. #3 is too shield poor and can only get to +3fpt max with what's showing. i have a feeling we'd get run over pretty quickly there.

i got time to start later tonight if you want

 

[viper275]

2's my favorite, you can see dyes in the fog, you're on fresh water, and you get game, plus some hills for production.

Just my opinion, but defiant seems like a bit much. I assume at Deity (I almost never play on Deity) that the AIs demand a lot from you, sounds almost like AWD to me (I'm also guessing something's gonna get razed at war [in defiant, a civ must be eliminated if they raze something IIRC]), which sounds kind of dangerous. Again this is just my opinion.

For the kings, I'd just let them sit around in the capital (wouldn't want barbs to destroy any), although scouting of the immediate area running away when they meet danger doesn't sound bad.

 

[ThERat]

defiant on a small pangaea at deity? suicide
what about this rule:
we must go after their capital first since the kings would be there. does that sound feasible?

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

@grahamiam - start us off on #2

IIRC the kings spread out and don't stay in the capital. A civ is not dead until the last king is killed. Therefore, we only need to keep one alive. Use the rest as scouts to make contacts early and start the trades?

www.civfanatics.net/uploads8/Eclectic2.SAV

 

[grahamiam]

i'll play tonight. just let me know the additions. btw, capitol killing sounds like fun, but could be a bear @ pangea, diety with 7+ defenders in the capitol, not to mention all the terrain we must pass thru.

being celtic, we start with pottery and CB. i plan on not researching anything in the beginning, till we trade for Myst or Mas and we can research math or Poly. otherwise, we must trade like madmen because the tech pace will make us dizzy.

btw, what is the barb setting?

 

[viper275]

I like the capital killing idea.

BTW, I will be away December 23rd through January 2th. Please autoskip me until I'm back (starting on the 23rd.)

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Capital killing is fine. Just don't expect all the kings to be there. I played about 40 turns on #3 this morning and there SOD's of king/warriors running around all over the place. Can we tweak the rule so that we must follow a direct line to the capital but it is okay to take out obstacles in our path?

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Barbs are roaming IIRC, water is 70%. arid, temp. 4 billion

 

[ThERat]

the tweak about capitals should be fine, I forgot that in Deity the capital will be full of units, let's see what happens, so we shoudl try go for the capital but take what's on the way.
we do have 4 opponents? since its small, or 6?