Ding, Dong, the Russians are dead!!!
Man, that must have been fun!
I have to admit that I downloaded from Grey Fox's last turn and played on my own to see how I could do. Heck, I figured it was a nice wartime exercise, and if Thiazi and gonzo couldn't play I would already have my turns played.
And in the interest of gameplay, I would have kept my mouth shut regarding strategy or anything that I came across.
I had some interesting things happen, and Thiazi - I was wondering if you saw some of the same things.
1. Grey did a good job in keeping Tblisi as it contained JS Bach's. It actually ended up "flipping" on me twice. In fact, I had several "flips" including Tblisi, Samarra (also a great idea to keep this city with the dyes), and the Magellan's city that I also kept (for some fun I also built some destroyers and had a great 'ol time sinking those highly annoying frigates of theirs). Did you see a lot of flipping?
2. When I took the Russian's second capital, it contained no less than 101 workers!!!!! Was this the case with you as well? What did you do with them? I actually hit SHIFT-A for each one. You should have seen the worker frenzy when the Russians were finally dead - it was pretty humorous.
3. I ended up losing the city of Chegdu. That was a pain, but I took it back pretty quickly. Did the Russians move into that section of our territory with you as well? Funny how instead of trying to mount a counterattack they decided to attack fringe cities instead. Knuckleheads.
4. I actually did make peace for a turn. I was able to get two cities and all of their tech, but the only tech that made a difference really was Space Flight and recycling. Big deal, we now have our choice of winning methods anyway. I just enjoyed watching Catherine grovel. "Why does Babylon spit in our faces?" Because now we CAN!!!
5. Lots of annoying artillery as I'm sure you noticed. I had quite a pack of them (maybe about 20 or so) after a while. They were actually pretty useful in beating up cities that I was going to raze eventually. Fun. Did you end up keeping all of that artillery?
6. I ended up getting two great leaders! I used the first one to build the Intelligence Agency just for the heck of it, and never used the second one. I switched back to Democracy after the Russians were gone, and techs were coming in pretty swiftly so I planned to use it for Apollo or Longevity or something like that. Did you get any leaders?
7. Boy, the Aztecs were a big help weren't they? Wow, thanks for sending all of those longbowmen out to help. Hehehe, silly Aztecs.:crazyeyes
Well, gonzo, I hope your computer is fixed so you can finish this up for all of us. Your choice as to build some cities or just crush the Aztecs and take back those cities that we gave them.
A great job done by all
I didn't know if we'd be able to pull this one out of the fire, but some clever diplomacy and some foresight in technology and war tactics made it all happen. In fact, this was a game that I consider to be more fun than most - because we did not dominate from start to finish. I think a game has to scare you a bit to make it more fun.
I'll be around for another if there is one.
