Ank06 - 3CC Conquest

[Ankka]

Here's the turnlog:

Preturn: Check to see the situation... set personal prefs...

IBT: Barbs come closer...

Entremont spear > GS.

530BC [1]: Our gpt is at -14, we can't afford it anymore... lower tax rate to 50%, construction now in 14, gpt +1.

A GS whacks some barb horse and promotes to veteran.

Another barb is also killed by a GS.

I move a reg GS from the furs colony stack to fight the barbs in hope of getting promoted.

IBT: A Zulu Impi kills a barb horse in our territory. No fair, he was ours...

Alesia GS > GS.

510BC [2]: We have 2 sources of Iron? Quite nice for a 3CC...

IBT: Lugdunum spear > spear.

490BC [3]: We lose a reg GS to a barb horse...

470BC [4]: A GS kills a barb horse.

Interestingnote I made: only man-lead civs on the map...

IBT: Entremont GS > GS.

450BC [5]: A barb is killed by our brave GS...

430BC [6]: Whack two barb horses with GS's.

IBT: A barb horse attacks a GS, we win & get promoted to elite.

Alesia GS > GS.
Lugdunum spear > horse.

390BC [8]: Switch sci down a notch, we have 0 gold and were running decifit...

A vet GS whacks a barb horse.

IBT: Bizzy offers WM for WM + Currency... no way...

Azteca starts the GL.

370BC [9]: - IBT - Entremont GS > GS.

Germany starts the GL.

350BC [10]: A GS kills a barb warrior.

330BC [11]: Whoops, one extra turn... I pressed enter. I didn't do anything yet, though.

 

[Ankka]

Next better player

 

[Ankka]

AndrewN - UP!
yoshi74 - on deck...
Sir Bugsy
Gengis Khan
Bede
pindicator - skipped
Ankka - just played

REMEMBER: 24h to post a got it, ~50h to post the save.

 

[Bede]

Happy viewing

, Ankka

 

[Ankka]

Oh, I forgot the screenies. Thanks for posting them.

 

[Gengis Khan]

Back from my "vacation", sort me back in whereever.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Bede - did you change your advisors, or were those Ankka's screen shots? Don't tell me the abbott is forcing your advisors to "tone it down"

 

[Ankka]

Good point, Bugs, I never noticed...

 

[Bede]

Nothing gets by the gimlet eye of Sir Bugsy, no wonder J D'Arc is getting antsy.!

Took those shots on a different machine and haven't invited the girls to play, yet.

 

[Ankka]

AndrewN - skipped
yoshi74 - UP!
Sir Bugsy - on deck
Gengis Khan
Bede
pindicator
Ankka

REMEMBER: 24h to post a got it, ~50h to post the save.

 

[yoshi74]

Sorry, need a skip right now. Maybe i can make my turns in the OCC space race today, but more isn't possible at the moment

 

[Sir Bugsy]

I've got it. Here is a preliminary Zulu campaign that I would like to get everyone's input into.

I'm setting four goals for the campaign:

Raze four cities (see chart) to deny iron.
Protect our iron.
Set up holding force on our southern front
Get tech for peace.

It will be a while before I play so please give me your thoughts.

 

[Ankka]

Looks good.

 

[yoshi74]

A nice little tour with one SoD.
But have you taken the iron near Hlobane into account (west of the city, on the mountain)?
Maybe the tour should be slightly longer. Putting a size one city in the shedule should be o.k.

 

[Ankka]

Zulu's have 3 Iron's that close to each other? And we've got 2? Incredible!


If we've got the units, we could try and hassle around to pillage and fortify on the Irons...

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Yoshi - Good catch! I didn't see that. So this will be a bit more intense. Let's hope that the rest of the world doesn't have as much iron.

I think I am only going to be able to get the first three cities during my turns. Tramping through those mountains are going to negate our speed. I think that we might want to reevaluate our position at the end of those turns.

 

[yoshi74]

Just looked at the save. Iron is as scarce as sand on the beach. Only germany and arabia lack it. Everyone else has it in or near its territory.

Interesting sidenote: The mongols and germany seem to be at war. One mongol city is razed, the germans also put their best efford into military instead of settlers. So this direction should not yield much trouble for the future.
The americans and arabia are the big ones, especcially after the zulu taken out.
Unfortenatly i doubt we can take on america and especially arabia before they get their knights :/

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Originally posted by yoshi74
Just looked at the save. Iron is as scarce as sand on the beach. Only germany and arabia lack it. Everyone else has it in or near its territory.

Well maybe resource denial won't be our strong suit.


IMHO, Mongolia and Germany should be on our list right after the Zulus.

 

[yoshi74]

I've would suggest america/arabia. The best would be to declare on one and get him dogpiled by the other. Unfortunalty we don't have much to offer except our eternal wrath when they don't take it. Would not be sufficent, i suppose

 

[Bede]

There is lots of iron around but it is hard to get to deep in the mountains in most cases.

As for the Mongols and the Germans, I think they will do a pretty good job of taking care of themselves and the barbarians comiong from that wasteland to our east will take care of the rest.

Yoshi's right, America and Arabia are going to be the big problem.

Have at 'em Sir B.