AW Shucks

[pigswill]

Railroad and Combustion sounds a pretty good basis for Fortress America. A few levees en route would be pretty useful as well.

astre: unless van makes a sudden reappearance you're UP.

 

[astre]

first look at the save.
Things are going well

for tech, i propose first to go to replacable part.
It will take some times and will make a short break at this point to consider next tech

for build stuff, i will builds building: libraries and grocer everywhere, maybe some observatories and even few dryblock. sorry, i can't resists to build stuffs.
will try to reach the 2-4 real defendor per coastal city (depending the location)
and of course some more fregates...
but we don't have the monopoly on frigate anymore :/
combustion seems to be a priority...

ironwork will be built in south america in amazone asap

i'm thinking to prepare an army to invade england (to make a magnet point and to get the best shrine in this game)

will try to play first part sunday or tuesday.

 

[pigswill]

Sounds good to me (tho Tachy would probably say forget infra and just build units or wealth to research faster). I also like the idea of going for Indonesia to add a pacific focus and additional resources.

 

[lymond]

Tachy, talk some sense to these fellas

Combustion seems like a good tech unless we haven't discovered oil yet.

One thought may be to build a lot of destroyers, some for picking off stacks of course, but also to blockade ports overseas. If you do that, AIs tend to focus more on building ships than units. Might buy us time.

 

[Manco Capac]

Are we sure the entire continent has oil? This is the first time I play Earth18.

Personally, depending the number of farms, I feel the strength of Bio is stronger. We need to feed our economy to its max then we'll pump stuff like madman. For now, it's scary to see small empires (or huge like Qin's) getting techs fast under war with 20% slider automatically on espionage by default.

Lymond has a point that blockading AI's endanger them and push them to overbuild ships.

For now, all we need is to keep an eye on these "passages" on the Atlantic ocean side. From Pacific Ocean, we'll have to build more frigates and some slow Ship-of-Line if the AI starts to include them in their escorts. BUT even though the AI escort their invasion lines, it is not necessary like 10 frigates and 5 galleons. Maybe on deity...dunno. Last stack has one frigate for 6 galleons! The AI's seem worse under AW because they keep sending at a too fast rate to prepare a really good navy.

 

[lymond]

Give astra some pointers on buildings too...no one listens to me

I can't remember about oil but we can always open a game in WB. It's not like don't know what the map looks like. Maybe Alaska has some or Texas.

 

[pigswill]

There's definitely oil in Texas, some in Venezuala too iirc. There's even oil in Alaska but that's miles out of the way.

 

[astre]

I started the game for 3 turns.
it is not that easy to stop all these galleons. in addition, frederic ones are fatser that our fregates... one will find america next turn

oponent fregates are more and more frequent. around england, I spoted 5 of them, this is not good news, I really need to build more of thoses

 

[astre]

sorry about the delay (SGOTM inside), will finish tomorow night my set or at least the first part ^^

 

[pigswill]

No problem. Sgotm can be pretty time consuming. Just kill everyone.

 

[nocho]

Including Humbaba.

 

[astre]

played a bit tonight.
killed 15 fregate so far while losing 10 but I'm loosing navy war around europe.
england and germany pump fregate after fregates...

will continue tomorow.

 

[astre]

played until 1804.
bank is in and rep part is started.

i had to retreat our fregate forces to heal and kill german and english fregates with new ones. no sign from chinese and persians yet...
Things are going smothly.
I built some cash/beaker buildings and now focus on banks.

Please comment the save.
I can continue a bit more (until rep part is complete) hopefully tomorow or let the set for next player

 

[astre]

had the opportunity to continue a bit more.
rep part is in!
next tech is biology, physic or steam.

I think steam would be better as we don't need to growth mutch more due to global angryness :/

My retreat with fregates helped me to heal and fight back.

I'm trying to help the economy by building banks in all acceptable places (we can whip banks, not wealth so it will be beneficial anyway)

builded more fregates and more army to help fighting red faces.
build more workers as there is lot of places that still need them.

I refrain from mass whipping so whip anger did low a bit...

who's up?

 

[Manco Capac]

I think it is me.

 

[astre]

found an old roster:
astre - just played
lymond - UP
nocho (SGOTM is over, come on for extra fun !)
pigswill
r_rolo1
Tachywaxon
vanetteveldt (disapeared)

 

[pigswill]

That looks about right.

Just have to wait for lymond, nocho and rolo to clarify their participation.

 

[r_rolo1]

I'm here again ... still spotty, but i think I can assure my presence in here.

 

[Manco Capac]

Got it.

 

[astre]

astre - just played
lymond - UP
nocho (SGOTM is over, come on for extra fun !)
pigswill
r_rolo1
Tachywaxon
vanetteveldt (disapeared)