Ank07 - Plain Deity

[Ankka]

Nice job. Too bad we lost the coal, good job getting a new city for coal. We eed it a lot currently.


Looks like I'm up again.


Bede - on deck
conehead234 - on vacation
Rik Meleet
Ankka - UP!

REMEMBER: 24h to post a got it, 48 total to complete the turns.



Any idea on where we could get some more players? 3 is a little small number...

 

[Ankka]

1555AD [Preturn]: Check to see where we are going. Looks like we have many cities in former India.

Uh... are we sure we want Coal plants? They produce a lot of pollution...

MM Karasjok for growth & commerce, aque still in 1.

IBT: Our Gems deal with Osman ends, the price has risen from 21gpt to 25gpt, but I continue, it is cheaper than +10% lux.

Dyes with Egypt ends too, continue with 24gpt instead of 20.

Kufah factory > coal.
Khurasan musket > worker.
Karasjok duct > temple.
Close to Karachi temple > library.

1560AD [1]:

IBT: The rampaging Egyptian forces have destroyed the Chinese.

Mecca musket > musket.
Najran settler > factory.
Pollution strikes Kufah.
Merw bank > factory.

Ottomans start the SETI. I guess they got Computers as the free tech when they got into the MA. Now they get MechInf's if they have oil... Would be good for Egypt to try and kill those... let's hope that happens.

1565AD [2]: Osman would sell Electricity for 267 gold + 133 gpt. We have 20 turns left on it.

Abe would sell it for Saltpeter + horses + WM + 267 gold + 123 gpt.

Sanitation is cheap:

Abe would sell it for Saltpeter + horses + WM + 26 gpt + 267 gold.

Isabella wants WM + 37gpt + 267 gold.
Same with Osman.

I think I'll rather trade with Isabella, she's the one we want to keep alive 'n' kickin'.

Trade Sanitation from Spain for WM + 267 gold + 37 gpt.

Change Mecca to hospital, due in 3.
Change Kufah to hospital, due in 8.
Change Najran to hospital, due in 5.
Change Aden to factory.

I can't see any free spots for the new settler, so I leave it in Merw to wait for an opportunity to settle.

IBT: Tabuk flips to Egypt. Luckily it didn't hold a resource or luxury.

1570AD [3]: Find a gap in the Ottoman culture for a city.

Osman would want 164 gold + 138gpt for Electricity. Sounds fair. Deal signed.

Check if we should try to get the Theory of Evolution. No chance, Egypt has it.

Only one wonder that doesn't belong to Ottomans or Egypt?!?

Start the 40-turn research on Replaceable parts. Infantry will help a lot.

IBT: Ottomans have MechInf's.

Cleo attacks Osman!
We'll see which wins: technological advantage and lots of better defenders or the simple amount of troops leaded by a chicken-minded lady.

Karasjok temple > bank.

1575AD [4]: Settle Battlegroud outpost in between Ottomania and Egypt.

IBT: Lots of battles. IIRC for the first tiome ever I see Sipahi's fighting.

Mecca hospital > musket.
Basra coal plant > granary.
Bodo coal plant > granary.

1580AD [6]:

IBT: The fighting sides are quite average compared to each other. No cities have been captured yet, if I see right.

Najran hospital > coal plant.

1585AD [7]: Not good for the Otto's: Egypt has a tank army.

IBT: Otto's take Madras.

Egypt takes New Orleans and .

Basra granary > musket.
Mecca musket > musket.

1590AD [8]: Hurry temple in Battleground for 108 gold.

IBT: Pollution strikes Bodo.
Bodo granary > hospital.
Battleground... temple > library.

1595AD [9]:

IBT: Osman wants something for RoP, I give him saltpeter.

Spain makes MA with Egypt against the Otto.

Cleo isn't willing to continue the RoP. She would settle with WM, 4gpt + 50 gold. Ok

Edrine (Ottoman) Completes the SETI.

Uh-oh. It just occured to me that we'll propably lose by diplo - the Otto's will propably build th UN when they get fission...

1600AD [10]: Nothing. There's a settler coming for the gap I just noticed in the Egyptian culrure near our border and there's a musket waiting there.

 

[Ankka]

The save to next better player.

 

[Ankka]

Bede - UP!
conehead234 - on vacation
Rik Meleet - on deck
Ankka

REMEMBER: 24h to post a got it, 48 total to complete the turns.

 

[Bede]

Got it.

Play tonight.

If we can squeeze our way to 25% we just might win the UN vote.

 

[Ankka]

25% what? If the Otto's build it, Egypt will for sure be the second one to be on the vote... or can there be more than 2 contestors?

 

[Rik Meleet]

There can be more. In fact I think the human player is always elligable to be voted for.

 

[Bede]

You need at least two candidates Candidates for SecGen need 25% of territory or the building, if no other civ has 25% than the next largest is the candidate. IIRC, there is no requirement for human eligilbility. If all civs meet the requirments then you can have all as candidates.
e.g.
1 has building, but only 15% of land area
2 has 30%
3 has 25%
4 has 25%
5 has 5%

You have four candidates and five voters.

 

[Bede]

1600
Of our total income 1/3 goes to other nations, 1/6 goes to maintenance, 1/10 to unit costs, 1/4 to corruption.

We have muskets, cannons and Ansaras while Cleo is cruising around with at least two tank armies.

Any techs are out of reach economically.

After finishing off the Chinese Cleo has turned on the Ottomans.

We are paying Isabella 37gpt for 13 turns.
Cleo 24gpt for 11 for dyes.
Osman 138gpt for 14 (for tech I presume), 25gpt for gems,and saltpeter for a RoP
For whatever eason only Abe is not participating in our largesse.

If Cleo gets bad case of PMS anytime inthe next hundred years.....

There won't be much going on other than using the Ansar in the east to shadow Cleo's armies at a safe distance looking for cracks to settle into. I'm going to try a little MM to get Fustat to a 4 or 5 turn settler farm

If Egypt takes down the Ottomans it is game over.

1610
Found Sutter's Mill in the gold mountains. Cleo's armies are moving north and her bombers are pounding theOttoman towns in the east. Cleo now has jets in her air fleet.

1615
Egyptian pillaging has wrecked the road net to the east and our coal isgone again and the citie in the east are rioting because the luxes are gone.

Ottomans counterattack in the east and take Hyderabad from Egypt.

I am forced to pay the Witch of Endor 32gpt for furs to get the population under control as the western cities are on the verge of riot. Send a bunch or workers west to reconnect the world.

1620
Egypt takes Barcelona from the Ottomans

1625
There are now Ottoman bombers in the sky over eastern Egypt. Egypt has taken Valencia and there is a spiffy little spice farm available for colonizing

1630
Short rush a harbor in Sana'a to provide a connection to the west WIth the harbor we get coal and furs and the eastern towns can start growing again.

1635
Not satisfied with all the money she's getting from us Cleopatra extorts another 19g and our territory map. I think she's about to sneeze and we will get pneumonia.

1640-1645
Build a line of muskets across ground south of Buffalo to keep Egypt from bombing the road connection to the spice farm. Found Front Row Seats betweeen Barcelona and Santiago.

Ottomans retake Barcelona and Egypt loses a healing tank army.

1650
With the harbor in the eastlands run rail across the Buffalo salient.

Found Cheap Seats for spices.

There are trade opportunities available with our new supply of spices. Cleo will offer 1000g.

Egypt's empire has not grown while we have moved up 2 percentage points.

Fustat and Yamama are producing settlers to take advantage of the gaps being created as Egypt rolls up the Ottomans. The connection to the Bleacher towns is protected by a string of muskets to deter bombing raids. We also need to get workers to the east to rebuild the net destroyed by the battles around Madrid, Bangalore and Hyderabad.

It could be our flip problems are caused by propaganda, if so, we might want courthouses after the temples build in the Bleacher towns as well as the other eastern cities.

If we can keep snapping off little hunks of territory as cities trade back and forth we just might make it to 25%; there has been no sign of a UN build, however. Everybody in the world is Communist except Spain which is a Republic.

The map

The Stats

 

[Ankka]

Nice job there getting us a new lux Cleo doesn't have.

Looks like the Otto's have better defenders than the Egypts have attackers... the longer that war goes, the better for us.

1000 gold for a lux... not bad... are they willing to pay gpt?

 

[Bede]

1000 gold for a lux... not bad... are they willing to pay gpt?

Nope. I think her budget is tied up in troop costs and military R&D.

 

[Ankka]

We should try to aviod paying gpt to Cleo as ,uch as possible, and if we make trade deals, pay the money to Osman. We want the Otto's to fight for as long as possible.

 

[Rik Meleet]

I'm up ? --10 characters--

 

[Ankka]

Oops, forgot roster.



Bede
conehead234 - on vacation
Rik Meleet - UP!
Ankka - on deck

REMEMBER: 24h to post a got it, 48 total to complete the turns.


Looks like you are.

 

[Ankka]

Rik? (limit)

 

[Rik Meleet]

nearly finished, expect the report in 30 minutes, max.

 

[Rik Meleet]

IHT: In 3 or 4 turns we'll be getting back a large sum of gpt. Switch some entertainers in the far east to 1 scientist and some taxmen. Switch Hama to aqua. Switch Close to former Karachi to aqua.
Withhold sale of Spices to Egypt till other deals expire. Sell Electricty to Spain for WM + 74 gold + 9gpt.

IBT: Heavy fighting, Ottomans loose yet another city.
Kufah Coal plant -> granary
Death or the Roses colosseum -> Factory
Palace expands.

[1] 1655 AD. Found "Balcony view" in a gap. Temple started.
Stop buying Dyes from Egypt. Stop buying Gems from Ottoman.
Trade with Egypt: Our Spices + WM + 4gpt for their Wines + Dyes + 10 gold. All cities are happy enough.

IBT: Barcelona is Ottoman again. And back to Egypt.

[2] 1660 AD. The Ottomans are going to loose the war, it seems. Perhaps we can extend our blocking to function as a UN peacekeeping force. If only we'd have more troops ...

IBT: I'm cheering for every Ottoman victory, but there isn't a lot to chear about. Valencia falls. San fransisco falls to the Egyptians.
Kufah Granary -> settler

[3] 1665 AD. Protect Ottoman Philadelphia. Rush aqua in Close to former Karachi. It's stuck at size 6 with 30 fpt !!
Sending muskets to new holes in the cultural boundaries.

IBT: Americans want to talk. TM trade. I get WM + 3 gold for it.
Can someone tell the Ottomans the Mech Inf is for defense only ???
Close to former Karachi aqua -> worker
Egypt starts the UN. 3 settlers ready.

[4] 1670 AD. Found "UN won't beat us". -> temple
Move a musket into Ottoman-core to see if something is happening there.
Found "Claiming yet more land". -> temple
Moving 3rd settler to other gap.
Buy Sci Meth + The Corp from Ottomans for Coal + WM + 193 gpt.
Sell Sci Meth to Spain for WM + 6 gpt + 69 gold. It's cheap, but it helps with the UN-vote.

IBT:

I played all 10 turns and then My PC-crashed. I do have the Autosave on, fortunately, but I do not have the rest of the report.
In short: Seperated the Ottomans (who are loosing the war) from the Egyptians. The Ottomans can now fight back.
Settled a lot of cities in which I rushed culture-buildings. Also build some Stock exchanges.
Got some good lux and tech deals. 2 Settlers are now in position to found new towns.

Next player can allow the Ottomans to (re) capture Valencia, San Fransisco and Santiago. If we then slowly move we can Allow the Ottomans to even capture the rest of Spain (or not) and the new Egyptian cities (Barcelona, Bengal, Hyderabad, Bangalore etc.). Be warned that if Egypt or the Ottoman's ever declare on us; we'll be dead. Keep them Polite and give in to demands.
There is 1 good city-site left; on the furs SW of Madras. The rest of the gaps are filled by the settlers currently in place.

Good luck.

The Save 1700AD

 

[Ankka]

Nice job.


I don't have the energy to do a tedious SG turnset tonight, and I will be gone tomorrow. Bede may play, but no need, I'll propably get it on Sunday.


Bede
conehead234 - on vacation
Rik Meleet - just played
Ankka

REMEMBER: 24h to post a got it, 48 total to complete the turns.

 

[Ankka]

1700AD [Preturn]: Check the F7 screen just in case. And what do I see if not... Egypt is building the UN. In Giza. It is only size 13, so it won't be immidiate, but we'll get a tight race anyway. Really tight.

Otherwise looks good, our citizens are hapier than ever and we're doing a nice profit even as we are paying 235gpt to other civs...

Hurry some temples.

IBT: Ittomans take Valencia and kill a 1-tank army.

Kufah Stock > musket.
Anjar granary > musket.
Cheap seats temple > library.
Balcony view temple > library.
More land more glory temple > library.

17050AD [1]: Move the blockade a little more to the South to allow the Otto's to capture another city.

Build Ocean view > temple.
Build Between 3 others > temple.

Rush a temple.

IBT: Lots of battles.

Basra stock > musket.
Khurasan coal plant > stock.
Lake view temple > library.

1710AD [2]: Nothing really. Rush a settler.

1715AD [3]: The site Rik sugested SW of Madras is unreachable, Egyptian SoD's block it..

Hurry a temple.

IBT: The Otto's don't manage to capture Santiago. Good. They do capture Barcelona, though.

Front row seats temple > library.

1720AD [4]: Another city site is free, a settler will settle in 2.

Hurry settler in Close to Former Karachi to get the furs SW of Madras.

IBT: Ottomans want trade embargo against Spain. No thanks.

Otto's trake Santiago.

We lose our supply of furs. No big deal, I hope.

Bodo stock > musket.
Hama duct > cath.

1725AD [5]: Build poach the terrain > temple.

IBT: Karasjok factory > stock.
Merw stock > rax.

We can build the Wall street.

Panama temple > library.

1730AD [6]: Mecca starts Wall Street.

Settle Taif > temple.

Hurry a temple.

IBT: Death or the Roses factory > stock.
Ocean view temple > library.

1735AD [7]: Settle Furtown > temple.

Settle Bukhara > temple.

Decide it's time to let those two battle again, leave alittle gap in the blockade so Buffalo is on battleground.

IBT: Merw rax > musket.
Poach the terrain temple > library.

1740AD [8]: Settle upper ocean view > temple.

IBT: The otto's had a leader but the Spanish killed him.

Some pollution.
Khurasan stock > musket.
Furtown temple > library.

And then...

I'll stop here, I don't know surely how the UN votes go. Or do we have enough land.

 

[Ankka]

The save. Feel free to take it, if you wish.