AKSG-01 First Try at Prince

[Corneh]

sorry for the delay guys ill post my turns tonight with screenies

phart = parthenon typo ftl

 

[Corneh]

ok i played my turns with some surprises

turn 0
whip worker in pata
move5 axes out of vaij to lure the aztecs to attack
set bombay to grow using the priest specialist to the grassland cottage we have room to grow 1 time there be4 happy

turn 1
Aryabhata is born in Delhi (sheez whats up with all the difficult names this game ><)

i settle him in Delhi
pata worker --> vcourthouse
whip granary in agra
move 5 axes next to teotihuacan (the city next to vaij)

IBT
Zummy takes the bait and attacks our stack of 5 axes we kill all attacker and dont lose any units

Turn 2
Aesthetics in ---> literature
agra granary --> courthouse
Vaij building wealth ----> parthenon
start chopping the plains forest near vaij
Whip the courthouse in Delhi at 1 turns to completion so i can use the overflow into the Glib, else Delhi would grow next turn and i would have needed to stop growth

turn 3
Bombay chariot ---> chariot
notice i made a mistake lit aint in yet >< also the hanging gardens are in the queue oh well more money for us when the hanging gardens get biadl

turn 4
Bombay grows to 10 and i stop growth by using a priest spec.

turn 5
Bombay chariot ---> axe

turn 6
Barb galley razes our fishing boats near varanasi
literature in i set research to sailing
made peace with zummy getting archery i was so surprised he accepted i didnt make a screenie XD
set delhi to Glib

turn 7
sailing in ---> metalcasting
Bombay axe --> library (it would help us more if we can run a scientist spec instead of a priest)
i dial research down to 30% goin for -4 gpt loosing 1 turn at metalcasting currently at 6 turns
set delhi to stop growth running a merchant we still have 1 unhappy because of my whipping be4

turn 8 nothing'

turn 9
hanging gardens biadl netting us 206 gold

turn 10
nothing

Save:
View attachment AKSG-01 AD-0900.CivBeyondSwordSave

 

[Liquidated]

cool finally can see screen shots looks like. Nice turns and nice report . Let me run over to the other SG's to see if I can see their screens as well hahaha.

Worst SG week ever

Cheers!
-Liq

 

[S.ilver]

Nice job Corneh. Gave Monty a lashing bad enough for him to turn over archery . Saves us some time when we eventually get machinery for the X-Bows.

EDIT: Forget 3.17. Seems as it will cause too many conflicts with current SGs.

 

[Liquidated]

other SG's I'm in are staying 1.13 so I am stuck in it for a bit still.

Yeah nice browbeating Monty for archery.

I'll play tonight, up in 2 sg's! hehehe

Ok so tech wise I'm thinking knock out machinery next as we can use a boost to our passive defence while progressing to optics. From there, a fast Civil Service detour for maces and (most importantly) a beefed up Delhi hehe.

1 point from a great general haha

Going to chop all those plains border forests in VJ, not to rush the phart so much as for denial. Also going to drag 3 axes with woodsmen and the medic warrior on over to the grassland forest so we do not need to nuke it... akk did a fine job chopping the precious little things so time to give back to the trees eh? lol

Cheers!
-Liq

 

[Grover22]

Liq, you might consider garrisoning an axe in Calcutta. There is iron down on that peninsula, and the barbs that come at the city might be axes and/or swords. A single warrior might not be enough defense.

 

[Grover22]

And where are we in the turn order? Doesn't Akk go before Liq?

 

[S.ilver]

Liq is up because AkK is away or something. He posted such a few pages back. I'm assuming he'll let us know when he's back by posting (as having him up while he is still away won't do much for us).

 

[Corneh]

some quick pointers: when the lib finishes in Bombay assign the priest spec there to a scientist spec. in a few turns the whip anger will be gone in delhi and can grow one pop might be a good idea to do so. also keep an eye on agra the dont seem to like to work the gem hills and i had to mannually assign a pop there every few turns

 

[Liquidated]

preturn: so thinks looking good, great Lib in 10 with all chops done and VJ is phart in 7 with 2 border plains forests left. Going to redirect a worker to get that going before monty declares on us again.

Want to keep the grassland forest on the border alive so going to plunk down 3 woodsman axes + warrior medic there to deny monty from hiding in it. We already have a woods2 and a woods 1 so gonna promote one more.

Also be nice to get a spy going, looking like bombay for the first.


[1]920 AD]
So bombay nails the library I move work over 2 scientists to work the cottages while keeping stagnent. That's a few beakers. spy in 3 for the win!

Notice we have a chariot that can promote medic so I do.

Uh actually if I chop those border forests, VJ will be stripped... ug why not the border forests copped first..sigh. Get phart down to 5 turns hiring a preist.

And SOZ falls to someone.. we never had a chance hehe.. getting worried here.

[2]940 AD
So MC comes in and the tech screen is nice looking hehe.. 3-4 turns for half the avilable techs hehe.

We need defence now so Machinery in 8 since we have archery

Need to boost science to 50% just to shave a turn off so leave it at 8. Go GO specs!

The workers been chain chopping the jungles around vara as if you leave them up they tend to grow back haha vara is gonna need some hammers for sure.

[3]960 AD
Abusing workers! Delhi is back to 11 happy so I move work off a few cottages for the growth in one turn.

freaking barb galley is harrasing vara's fish.

[4]980 AD
Mausoleum is built as well.. hmm well too late to start choppin hehe. can whip library soon and keep the specs employed...

Bombay finishes our first spy awwwww isn't he cute? er.. she? obviously impossible to screen shot thesse spys.

move bombay onto an 8 turn forge,

Whip granary in calcutta... back to size one and lovin it!

3 pop whip the courhouse in vara otherwise it's never gonna get done hahaha. Need those fish back sigh.

more worker abuse!!!

[5]1000 AD
So I can 5 pop whip the library in Delhi and it's got the food to get it all back fast.. the way wonders are falling ...

I take a long break, watch some football (cannot understand them but those guys sure get excited!) and eat some mini tacos...

hmm
ok not gonna lose this bastard on my shift ..bye bye Delhi, we hardly knew ya!!!

I set patty on a 6 turn tireme to take those effing fish back!!! how effing sad is that honestly.

Calcuttta starts on it's workboat in 16 hehe get a workshop going on the non river grass
vara gets a workshop too.

I go 60% science to save 2 turns on machinery.. only dragging -16 gold a turn.. really not bad hehe.

Bombay and delhi are fighting for next GP bombay is gonna pop a priest most likely tho delhi is a mystery meat gp!

Can see montys research now hehe... 3 turns to monotheism! rofl. he's not trading any techs hehe. was gonna try and sling priesthood for construction =)

Machinery in 6 lets see what damage this end turn does.


[6]1010 AD
So Spam!!!!!!!!

wheeee.

VJ works on a ten turn forge, delhi on a 34 turn forge hehe. That will speed up in a few years rest assured.

Btw dehli is pushing a paltry 42 gp points a turn =/ time for National Epic soon to pump it up.

GP in 4!

Isn;t it about time monty declared war again?

[7]1020 AD
Peace is over with monty and he dials me up for.... open borders? pftt.

Maxwell gets a look at monty's hills collection.. so yeah x bows are going to hurt.

Nother raze town!

Delhi's forge down to 14 turns hehe.


[8]1030 AD

Our first workshop yay.


[9]1040 AD
monty demands something silly. I goad him. oh yeah horses... uh huh sure monty.

And we win

Just realized Watermills weren;t engineering hahaha time to pave over a few workshops.

So leaving it here.

Lots of ways to go for techs I put it on an 10 (unning positive) turn civil but man, so many cheap techs for some much yummie.

A 60% GS/40% GWTF is born tomorrow and bombay's forge is in 2 turns after some marginal mm. be sure to fix it's tiles after the forge comes in.


Monty has at least a 3 fishie start but hold on there's fog there still...

So many surprises for Silver yessir indeed. Notice monty has a galley... another reason to have a tireme near vara.

Montys power is a wee tad higher than us... too bad he only has archers!

The workers ganged up on vara to get it out of the pits while bombay worked on a bare minimum of worked tiles hehe. Bombay is next for the worker army imo.

Can eather fill in a few more dots or attack monty.

Texico needs to get razed and replanted on top of marble. Teotihuckacan or WTH ever is just a crap town no matter how you look at it, keeeeel it. Monty's capitol is our globe town.. and it has hammers!!!!!

honestly doubt gonna need too many x bows to knock this fool off hehe but what's the rush.. spy is there just to kock down teo's 60% culture but well the trash towns are 50% too. Haven;t seen a single monty catapult BTW.
Twhree main ways to tech.. construction if we are going for monty, compass to get the ball rolling Civil Service for irrigation (some food poor towns and the civic. I'd hold off on the low ball techs like calender as trade bait

Honestly think it's about time we meet the civs in this game.

Only barb I saw was an archer that was playing peekaboo with our borders. We seem to have the barbs scared.

Cheers!
-Liq

 

[Corneh]

Nice turn set liq .

U noticed the chariot with C1 and a promo ready i was indeed thinking of making him our medic. good spot too

 

[Grover22]

So I'm up after Liq? (ie, now?)

 

[Corneh]

i guess so akk is on perma skip till he comes back so go on and play i think i held up the game way 2 long allready

 

[Liquidated]

AKk - away
Liquidated
Grover22 <- up
S.ilver
Corneh

Hehe yeah guess so.

Cheers!
-Liq

 

[Grover22]

Ok. I'll take my turn this morning then.

 

[Liquidated]

Trying to migrate SG's to 3.17 btw.. just that a version change is not something that can be dictated unilaterally as a few people are in multiple SGs at any given moment.

You ok on 3.17 grover and corneh?


Cheers!
-Liq

 

[Grover22]

I'm running 3.13 now, but I'd be ok with upgrading. I won't upgrade until we all sign off on doing so.

 

[Liquidated]

Go for 3.17 grover. Good to go in that department.

Updating mid play really only matters to the people that are strewn about in other SG's, tourneys, epics etc. Just so much hatred for 3.13 out there haha.

Cheers!
-Liq

 

[Grover22]

The Highlights

We found Lahore and hook up iron.
We research Compass and Optics and begin two caravels.
We have our first Golden Age, courtesy of a Great Prophet.

Going Forward

Let's finish those caravels and try for the circumnavigation bonus.
There is probably some whipping to be done in some cities--Agra? VJ?
I used the workers primarily for roading and dejunglation, because I wasn't sure whether we wanted workshops or watermills on many tiles. Someone smarter than I should explain that to me.

The Details

Turn 164, 1040 AD, Inherited Turn

I take a C1 axe from VJ and start him marching down to the southeastern peninsula to fogbust the area. The lone warrior in Calcutta worries me a bit, and I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Bombay is at its happy cap and its healthy cap. The pending forge will improve one and worsen the other. So when the forge completes, we'll have to reallocate the worked tiles.

VJ is well below both caps. It's running a scientist and its growth is stagnated. I fire the scientist and work a grassland cottage. Growth in 5 turns.

We haven't put a turn into Civil yet, so I switch to Compass, to be followed by Optics. I want caravels to try for the circumnavigation bonus.
Compass is 6 turns at 0% and 4 turns at 100%. I leave the slider at 0% for now, +16gpt.
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Monty has a workboat scouting the waters SW of Calcutta.
A Great Prophet is born in Delhi.
Apostolic Palace is built in a far-away, Confucian land.

Turn 165, 1050 AD

The GP can only bulb Meditation. I spend him for our first Golden Age.
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Turn 166, 1060 AD

Bombay finishes its forge and is below the health cap. After reallocating the workforce there, we're stagnant again and running one scientist.
We can't build crossbows yet because we don't have iron.

Patty finishes its trireme and starts a forge. It, too, is stagnant now.
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Turn 167, 1070 AD

Calcutta finishes workboat. Starts courthouse.
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We discover Compass.
Chichen Itza is built in a far away land.

Turn 168, 1080 AD

Set research to Optics, 4 turns at 100%.
Our spy reaches the other end of Monty's lands. I will move him to Monty's capital to await further orders.

Vara switches out lighthouse and starts a settler. I intend to settle by the southern iron so that we can build crossbows and maces soon, if we want them.
Bombay finishes lighthouse, starts worker (2 turns).
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Turn 169, 1090 AD

VJ finishes whatever it was working on and starts a worker.
Vara does a 3 pop whip for its settler.
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Turn 170, 1100 AD[/U]

Vara finishes settler, resumes lighthouse.
That settler starts moving to 1S of the iron on our southeastern peninusla.
Bombay finishes worker, starts harbor (for the health).
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Turn 171, 1110 AD

Delhi finishes forge, begins National Epic which Liq had queued up.
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GE born in a far away land.
Shwedagon Paya built in a far away land.

Turn 172, 1120 AD

Lahore founded one south of the iron. Maintenance is -5 gpt. Begin courthouse.
VJ finishes worker, starts missionary (for Lahore). I should have built the missionary first.
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Our Golden Age ends.
We finish Optics

Turn 173, 1130 AD

Bombay finishes harbor. Starts caravel.
Patty finihses forge. Starts caravel.
We have roaded and mined the iron by Lahore.

I set research to Civil Service, 12 turns at 0%, +18gpt.
I end my stint a turn early so that Silver can switch research targets before we invest a turn.

Silver is up.
Corneh is on deck.

 

[S.ilver]

I got it. Working on some other stuff right now, so I'll wait for a bit of commentary. I personally feel that settling SW would've been better, as it would save us some maintenance costs, but it doesn't really matter.

Not sure a GA was the best use of a GP at this point in the game. Settling would've made more sense over the long run. I'm not a fan of early golden ages because there are not enough developed cities to take advantage of.