timerover51
Deity
I was playing last night on one of my fairly heavily modified map files for Play the World. I was on there because I can see all of the improvements and overlays in the editor, whereas I am having problems with that in the Conquest Editor. I was also experimenting and having a little fun too.
The map is one of my big ones, 300 X 240, 70% Ocean, Archipelago, Normal Temperate Climate, 4 Billion Years, with Raging Barbarians. I have also boosted the Terrain yields and the bonuses of resources, along with adding a few of my own, resources that is. This makes for a fast moving game. The standard Barbarian units are the Gallic Swordsman, the Cossack with +2 hit points, and the Privateer with +2 hit points. As the standard Barbarian level is Conscript, I added a couple of additional hit points to make them harder to kill. As a side note, my combat experience ratings are Conscript 2HP, Regular 4HP, Veteran 6HP, and Elite 8HP. I also put a lot of Barbarian Camps on the map, in likely places near resources, and a fair number on the coast. As you should be able to figure out, I like lots of Barbarians on the map, causing everyone problems.
Ever hear the phrase, "hoist with one's own Petard"?
I am playing as the Americans, and with the size of the map, there are quite a few good size land masses to work with. I am on the largest land mass, which is really good size, and have the Aztecs, the Persians, and the Arabs each on their own land mass. (Still have not encountered any of them.) I have the Heroic Epic set to be built with the Literature Advance, and it does not require a victorious army. It is set to allow armies to be built without leaders. (I like to build Wonders, too.) I was busily advancing along, running into wandering Gallic Swordsman on a fairly regular basis, but not having that many problems killing them, although I did loose a couple of Warriors before I got the Swordsman with Iron. I reached the Middle Ages, got Chivalry, built an Army of three veteran knights, called the 1st Cavalry, to start eliminating bothersome Barbarian camps, and also meet the Victorious Army requirement for the Military Academy. Given what happened, I should have called it the 7th Cavalry.
I take out one Barbarian camp with it, and dispose of a couple of wandering Gallic Swordsman. Then my Military Advisor pops up and warns me of a massive Barbarian outbreak near Atlanta. I know that there is an un-eliminated Barbarian Camp near Atlanta on the coast, so I shoot a caravel over to investigate. After sinking a Privateer, and taking some damage, caravel reports that the camp now has 8 Cossacks and 2 Gallic Swordsman. I think to myself that is probably doable, and send the 1st Cavalry to the rescue. I get near the camp and send in my trusty caravel, the Mayflower (I like to name my ships), for another recon. No Privateer, but now 16! Cossacks in the camp. This does not look good. The Cossacks come boiling out of the camp like yellow jackets out of a poked at nest, and hit the Knight Army in steady waves. It had 3 Veteran Knights, 2 of which upgraded to Elite during the battle, and a total of 24 hit points to start (my armies get a 6 hit point boost). Did not matter, as it turned out there were TWO Barbarian camps in full outbreak, so the army was hit with between 24 and 32 thoroughly stirred up Barbarian Cossacks. The army takes out quite a few, but goes down to defeat. The Barbarians then go storming past Atlanta, clearly no Sherman is leading this bunch, and head for Chicago.
By now, I am building Musketman as fast as possible in Chicago, building Knights in near by Philadelphia to feed into Chicago as reinforcements, and Knights in New York to feed into Philadelphia. Then, to add to the fun, on a good size island, 3 Galleon moves away from my capitol of Washington, Seattle gets hit with its own Barbarian out break. I manage to hang on to both cities, getting quite a few Elite Musketman out of it, and after getting to Military Tradition in the middle of all of this, clean up all of the nearby Cossacks with a mixture of Musketmen, Knights, and Cavalry. I also cleaned up a bunch of Barbarians and one camp to the west of my settlement area, where I had already explored but had not gotten anything built in yet.
Did I tell you that I am on the largest Continent? Based on my circumnavigating ships, the entire Southeast section of the Continent is overrun by Barbarian Cossacks, and the Privateers have sunk one caravel and one galley. I have also lost one caravel to Privateers operating off of a different landmass, that also looks like it has Barbarian Cossacks running amok, along with Privateers that have badly shot up another of my caravels, which I am trying to get back home. Not sure yet if she will make it. I have an Ironclad and a Frigate heading to meet her as escort.
As of now, I have yet to encounter any of the other three civilizations on the map. I did make sure that they had a goodly complement of Barbarian camps on their continents, so I am not sure what I am going to find when I do meet them.
As near as I can tell, all of the Barbarian camps on the entire map went into Outbreak overdrive at the same time. Has anyone else ever encountered this? I should also add that I am playing at the Chieftain level (given my slow style of play, that is challenging enough), with the bonus against Barbarians in combat set for 200, rather than 800, but I have built the Great Wall to give me better odds.
Another thing that I have modified is that I have the Army set with the "Finish Improvements" box checked. Based on what has gone on so far, I can rush Wonders, normal improvements, and surprisingly enough, units with it, along with building armies. I can only have one Army per three cities, so I need to get out there and build more cities. First, have to kill a lot of Barbarians. Definitely have too much of a BAD THING.
The map is one of my big ones, 300 X 240, 70% Ocean, Archipelago, Normal Temperate Climate, 4 Billion Years, with Raging Barbarians. I have also boosted the Terrain yields and the bonuses of resources, along with adding a few of my own, resources that is. This makes for a fast moving game. The standard Barbarian units are the Gallic Swordsman, the Cossack with +2 hit points, and the Privateer with +2 hit points. As the standard Barbarian level is Conscript, I added a couple of additional hit points to make them harder to kill. As a side note, my combat experience ratings are Conscript 2HP, Regular 4HP, Veteran 6HP, and Elite 8HP. I also put a lot of Barbarian Camps on the map, in likely places near resources, and a fair number on the coast. As you should be able to figure out, I like lots of Barbarians on the map, causing everyone problems.
Ever hear the phrase, "hoist with one's own Petard"?
I am playing as the Americans, and with the size of the map, there are quite a few good size land masses to work with. I am on the largest land mass, which is really good size, and have the Aztecs, the Persians, and the Arabs each on their own land mass. (Still have not encountered any of them.) I have the Heroic Epic set to be built with the Literature Advance, and it does not require a victorious army. It is set to allow armies to be built without leaders. (I like to build Wonders, too.) I was busily advancing along, running into wandering Gallic Swordsman on a fairly regular basis, but not having that many problems killing them, although I did loose a couple of Warriors before I got the Swordsman with Iron. I reached the Middle Ages, got Chivalry, built an Army of three veteran knights, called the 1st Cavalry, to start eliminating bothersome Barbarian camps, and also meet the Victorious Army requirement for the Military Academy. Given what happened, I should have called it the 7th Cavalry.
I take out one Barbarian camp with it, and dispose of a couple of wandering Gallic Swordsman. Then my Military Advisor pops up and warns me of a massive Barbarian outbreak near Atlanta. I know that there is an un-eliminated Barbarian Camp near Atlanta on the coast, so I shoot a caravel over to investigate. After sinking a Privateer, and taking some damage, caravel reports that the camp now has 8 Cossacks and 2 Gallic Swordsman. I think to myself that is probably doable, and send the 1st Cavalry to the rescue. I get near the camp and send in my trusty caravel, the Mayflower (I like to name my ships), for another recon. No Privateer, but now 16! Cossacks in the camp. This does not look good. The Cossacks come boiling out of the camp like yellow jackets out of a poked at nest, and hit the Knight Army in steady waves. It had 3 Veteran Knights, 2 of which upgraded to Elite during the battle, and a total of 24 hit points to start (my armies get a 6 hit point boost). Did not matter, as it turned out there were TWO Barbarian camps in full outbreak, so the army was hit with between 24 and 32 thoroughly stirred up Barbarian Cossacks. The army takes out quite a few, but goes down to defeat. The Barbarians then go storming past Atlanta, clearly no Sherman is leading this bunch, and head for Chicago.
By now, I am building Musketman as fast as possible in Chicago, building Knights in near by Philadelphia to feed into Chicago as reinforcements, and Knights in New York to feed into Philadelphia. Then, to add to the fun, on a good size island, 3 Galleon moves away from my capitol of Washington, Seattle gets hit with its own Barbarian out break. I manage to hang on to both cities, getting quite a few Elite Musketman out of it, and after getting to Military Tradition in the middle of all of this, clean up all of the nearby Cossacks with a mixture of Musketmen, Knights, and Cavalry. I also cleaned up a bunch of Barbarians and one camp to the west of my settlement area, where I had already explored but had not gotten anything built in yet.
Did I tell you that I am on the largest Continent? Based on my circumnavigating ships, the entire Southeast section of the Continent is overrun by Barbarian Cossacks, and the Privateers have sunk one caravel and one galley. I have also lost one caravel to Privateers operating off of a different landmass, that also looks like it has Barbarian Cossacks running amok, along with Privateers that have badly shot up another of my caravels, which I am trying to get back home. Not sure yet if she will make it. I have an Ironclad and a Frigate heading to meet her as escort.
As of now, I have yet to encounter any of the other three civilizations on the map. I did make sure that they had a goodly complement of Barbarian camps on their continents, so I am not sure what I am going to find when I do meet them.
As near as I can tell, all of the Barbarian camps on the entire map went into Outbreak overdrive at the same time. Has anyone else ever encountered this? I should also add that I am playing at the Chieftain level (given my slow style of play, that is challenging enough), with the bonus against Barbarians in combat set for 200, rather than 800, but I have built the Great Wall to give me better odds.
Another thing that I have modified is that I have the Army set with the "Finish Improvements" box checked. Based on what has gone on so far, I can rush Wonders, normal improvements, and surprisingly enough, units with it, along with building armies. I can only have one Army per three cities, so I need to get out there and build more cities. First, have to kill a lot of Barbarians. Definitely have too much of a BAD THING.
