Ank06 - 3CC Conquest

[jb1964]

On second thought I think it would be best if you initiate this war. To come in at this point is a little overwhelming. I can jump in once the carnage begins and I have lurked longer.

Besides, I have to officiate a swim meet this evening.

 

[Bede]

I will pick up tonight, play if I can.

 

[Ankka]

On second thought I think it would be best if you initiate this war. To come in at this point is a little overwhelming. I can jump in once the carnage begins and I have lurked longer.

Besides, I have to officiate a swim meet this evening.

Getting scared?

 

[Bede]

Play tonight. Scared....it's only a game. You bet I'm scared.

 

[Ankka]

Good luck.

 

[jb1964]

Damn straight I'm scared!

The team has invested far too much time for me to come in and screw things up. And since I would like to keep playing SG's I don't want to take the rep hit. Additionally, I could play this part w/ reckless abandon or give it much time to deal w/ all the fine details. I don't have a block of time to pay attention to the details and turn this around in 48 hours.

Some things that didn't make sense...
We're mobilized but not at war. I have not used mobilization but a few times so I assume that we were at war, mobilized, ended the war, never went back to peace-time production.

We know two civs but I can only see one. The big pink one!

There are a number of placeholders for Civs we have not met. Do they really exist or have we not discovered that they are long dead?

 

[Ankka]

Some things that didn't make sense...
We're mobilized but not at war. I have not used mobilization but a few times so I assume that we were at war, mobilized, ended the war, never went back to peace-time production.

We know two civs but I can only see one. The big pink one!

There are a number of placeholders for Civs we have not met. Do they really exist or have we not discovered that they are long dead?

Answers:

It is possible to mobilize even thouhg not at war, we just can't change to peacetime until we have changed our stance, in this case declared war.

Carthage is on a boatrace.

Dunno why this happens, but only 2 civs really exist.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Carthage has a settler in a boat. So technically, they are still alive. If the boat sinks, the settler is killed, or they found a city and it is sacked, then it is down to us and Abu.

A good example of a human player doing this is Sirian in the Gauntlet Epic. I'll see if I can post the link. A very interesting read.

 

[Ankka]

Someone has done it? Interesting... I want to see that.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Sirian was the settler in a boat.

 

[jb1964]

That's stupid. No cities with or without a settler wandering the seas or countryside should be elimination.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

That is the situation when we start the game. If you were to set the code to do that, no one could ever move off the starting location.

Here's the thread to Sirian's write up in Epic 12 - The Gaunlet - http://sirian.warpcore.org/civ3/epic12.html

 

[Bede]

Take a short tour of the fortresses and decide declaring on the Arabs is not in the cards right now. The south and eastern defenses are still paper thin as several outposts have only one defender and losing just one would mean a flood of Arab infantry through the gap into the mountains. So..spend ten turns building infantry and artillery. The three towns can produce one battery and two supporting infantry in two turns. Do a couple of short rushes (artillery in Alesia, and Infantry in Entremont and Lugdunum). Long about 1904 Hannibal comes calling looking for an RoP and an Alliance against the Arabs. Turn him down and in 1908 Abu sinks Hannibal's boat.

The rushed production removed any temptation to try a technology steal.

The workers have put the last buckle on the rail belt and built the last fortress in the mountains. The most exposed fortresses now have a minimum of two defenders and most have one battery and all are reachable by rail for reinforcement.

The Arab forces in the east have been running barbarian killing contests and the bulk have disappeared in the fog. IMHO the biggest threat right now is not the east or west but the southern towns of Mosul, Tingis and Hannover. It was from there that Abu launched his assault on the east before, so I have an itchy feeling that he has a stockpile of reinforcements down there.

I fully intended to open the dancing in this set, but just couldn't bring myself to do it.

The Save


Bugsy's pictures say it all.

 

[Ankka]

Ok.. who wants to fight?

 

[Sir Bugsy]

I'll do it. It may not be pretty. This also may take some time. That's two furballs I'm going to be in.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Pre-flight – 1910 AD – Time to put on my defiant face. Crank Midnight Oil -
The hardest years, the darkest years, the roarin' years, the fallen years
These should not be forgotten years
The hardest years, the wildest years, the desperate and divided years
We will remember, These should not be forgotten years

Declare war on Abu!

Forsaking, aching, breaking years.
The Time and tested heartbreak years.

We wake up our artillery and create the killing zones. We only get half of it pillaged. Move our units forward into the empty forts

About half of the tiles cleared. The southern portion of our western front will probably get hammered. Position units accordingly.

Offer up some virgins to the RNG Hit enter.

IBT – Abu has bombers. We lose our two colonies. We fight off some cavs. AND THAT”S IT!!!

1. 1912 AD – Continue creating the killing zones. Abu also has marines. Most of the western front has bare ground in front of it.

Since it worked last time, I scrounge around for some more virgins. Our troops are bummed out about the sacrifice of these nubile young ladies, but it is for the good of our civilization. I expect a bit more counter attack this time around.

IBT – Not as nice. First we get bombed by a good fifty bombers. Most of our luxes are pillaged. Then the Arabs arrack with tanks we hold them off. Their cavs crumble against our forts. Then finally the Arabs break through on the northern most tile of the western front.

Here’s the tactical situation on the northern portion of the front at the end of the IBT:

To be continued…..

 

[Sir Bugsy]

2. 1914 AD – We lose an infantryman retaking the breach. Then start pounding the SOD. There are 58 units in the SOD. We lop off a hp from their top units. The best they have are healthy regular infantrymen.

Our workers start fixing the damage.

We’re out of virgins so we just

IBT – Only one breach on the southside this time. All the wounded are pulled back and Abu deploys his units across our northwestern front. WW kicks in very heavy.

3. 1916 AD – I overthrow the government and our people are much happier in anarchy than they were in democracy.

Use some cavs to pick off Arab cavs in the east.

 

[Bede]

Tanks and Bombers...Ruhroh. Must have been oil in them eastlands.

 

[Ankka]

Yeah, and we have no way of stopping them as they must have harbors or airports there...and we don't have enough troops to do a little attack there...


Nice job so far, Bugs, keep it coming!

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Without refining we can't see where the oil is. Since this is PTW, they probably have multiple sources.
Without flight we can't see where their airports are.

I'm actually starting to get the impression that this may be winnable. If we can continue to have a 10:1 kill ratio, we'll be in great shape.

A thought I had overnight. We need a CIA. We won't be able to steal with just an embassy in wartime. I'm going to switch science over to espionage right away.