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[ControlFreak]

The save is here

I think the plan should be as Belial outlined. Try to finish Mongols or at least get the two closest cities. Then upgrade to elephants and hit China. Depending on how many elephants we have either:
a)Go straight for the Great Library from the mongolian region. (If there are a lot left.

or

b)Go for Chendu and take all the cities south of there.

Go ahead and invest the money to investigate Chendu or Beijing when the time is right. We don't want to bring too few units.

Note that we have around 20 turns to wait for deals to expire. Use the time to build up a decent war chest and build some markets. If we get a leader, we might just want to save him for the UN and try to steal the victory by getting everyone to war at the time of the vote. Other thought would be to make an army and hide all of our horses under a pikeman army. The AI might not attack that at all.

I'm back to being depressed like Tsukemono about this game. We definitely had bad land to start with and did not use it well.

 

[Belial]

I'm actually impressed in how this game is turning out now. We have a far, far better chance now knowing that the Babs have no iron (or not yet) and that the Chineese have no horses (may speed rush a few galleys to take that city which would be ideal for our lone scientist). It's a good idea to take those cities from the Mongols, it nets us 6 luxuries which pretty much means we can war the rest of the age and once we take China's capital, we'll be up in tech parity.

Imagine that, who would have thought a chance at the hoovers? But as said, keep it to two wars, take their native iron supplies. Getting the Chineese and Ottomans to war was a great, great idea. Now hopefully the Chineese will at least lose half their military making it that much easier for us to take key cities.

If you guys are depressed, wait until it gets around to me, I'll make some magic happen. The game isn't really over until the ai is into the last age and if we trail then. Unless we don't have tanks, that is. If we can grab a Chineese core city in our first war, then all is good and the GL pave the road to our victory.

 

[ControlFreak]

Belial@

I'm glad you're optimistic. We have a slim chance of taking the Great library but a good chance of taking the iron cities. Too bad you wont be the one fighting the Chinese. I suspect you can eliminate the mongols on your turn though.

The chinese horse island is a 1-tile island and untouchable by us until marines. I hope we can get it in our first war's peace settlement.

May ARANYANI clear your way, KARTIKEYA guide your spear and KALI seek your enemies.

(Excuse my uneducated reference to Hindu gods.)

 

[Belial]

Hehe, you're forgetting the fact we're just taking one city.

Just remember, 100 warriors can kill a tank.

It's like how the Chineese have the most powerful army in the real world today. Not because they're the most advanced, but simply because of the numbers they have.

All we want to do is take the city, we don't even need to keep it, just get the techs, and then run away with the game.

Pretty sure we can manage it.

 

[amirsan]

Nice set of turns! By getting the Chinese against the Otts they will throw most of thier military all the way up north. You have to be carefule that maybe the Otts have Horses and or mor iron that they may capture and will ruin our plans. Other than that, nice thinking.

 

[amirsan]

I agree with Belail, that excactley what I did in a game on Diety, I took the city, luckily the rest of the world killed them off but now I can use that city for some money .

 

[ControlFreak]

Actually I'm hoping that the ottomans grab Beijing. As long as they don't raze it, we can get it from them easier than getting it from China. For the Chinese, we have to walk through their entire empire to get to the GL. For the Ottomans, it would be on our side of their empire. We can get a right of passage with china, renew our MA against the Ottomans and run under cover of the riders until we get to Beijing and kindly take it back from the Ottomans. We could even gift it back to the Chinese once we get the windfall in techs.

Remember, don't get education before we do this!

Also remember, if the chinese still want horses they will pay a tech for it.

Now that we have a harbor, we can trade with most civs but remember that all trade routes go through China or Babylon. Don't ruin our rep or we're toast.

 

[amirsan]

Ok, who's got game?

Roster:
amirsan- ON DECK!
Takeo-
Belial-
ControlFreak- JUST PLAYED.
Tsukemono5- UP NOW!

Ok, Tsuk said he will be gone untill Wensday. Its Thursday and he hasn't made a peep. The 24 Hour "Got it" is up but I wont be able to make my moves untill like 7:00PM tonight or even tommorrow so if you are around Tsuk, you can take the game and play it before I get back. Just so the game can continue on smoothly.

 

[Belial]

Tsuk said he'd be gone for a week, so you're up.

 

[amirsan]

Ok, I dont know if I could post the game today but will absolutely be posted tommorrow.

 

[Belial]

After Amirsan's turns, I'll post a detailed strategy on what we can do to snag ourself a good shot at winning this.

I really do hope I get to hit the Chineese on my turn, but if not, I'll leave you perfectly setup, CF.

 

[amirsan]

Ok, ya is jus going to have to skip me because I cant play it tonight and I dont wanna make ya wait any longer. Just skip me.

 

[Takeo]

got it...i'll try to post tonight

 

[Takeo]

preturn-we were researching invention instead of chivilry, change to chivilry
hit enter and a longbowman redlines 1 horseman from mongol capital

(1) 460AD
Delhi builds horseman->horseman, Bangalore builds barracks->horseman, Bengal builds marketplace->aqueduct, attack on Almarikh fails-take out 1 of 3 spearman, we lose 1 horse and most of rest have 1hp

IT: lose elite horseman to mongol counterattack, chinese rider goes in and out of view=going north

(2) 470AD
move more horseman towards mongol capital and move hurt ones away, war weariness is showing-increase lux to 10%

(3) 480AD
Delhi builds horseman->horseman, Ankara builds temple->barracks

(4) 490AD
Karachi builds horseman->horseman

(5) 500AD
Delhi builds horseman->horseman, Calcutta builds Forbidden Palace->marketplace, Lahore builds horseman->horseman, Kolhapur builds catapult->catapult

(6) 510AD
Chittagong builds walls->catapult, attack Almarikh-lose 3 horseman and fail to take it again, they have 1 spearman left with 1hp

(7) 520AD
Delhi builds horseman->horseman, capture Almarikh with no losses this time

(8) 530AD
Bangalore builds horseman->horseman, Karachi builds horseman->marketplace

(9) 540AD
Bombay builds settler->horseman, Lahore builds horseman->horseman, don't know what the settler was supposed to be for-there is a spot beside Amalrikh with 2 cows, sending settle to Bangalore and next leader can decide

(10) 550AD
horseman army outside of Ta-tu

550AD Save

 

[Tsukemono5]

Guys, I'm back. Continue in the normal rotation.

 

[Takeo]

bad news, real life has 'asked' that i spend more time with her and less with civ3. so, i need to back out of this game. sorry!
good luck!!

 

[amirsan]

Yoooo, thats sucks!! But a man gotta do, what a man gotta do so I hope you still could stick around to give some replies, you know.

 

[Belial]

Alright, I don't have it yet and I realize this is two days, but it's been pretty havoc here.

I'll have it tonight and post by tonight, for sure.

 

[amirsan]

Please post some pics too, we need it .

 

[Belial]

Argh, I can't dl the save, it says that page can't be displayed.

Can anyone else DL the save and/or repost as zip format?