CONE1-diety 5CC modified

[Ankka]

Nice , denyd & gozpel.

I hope I'm not up, I'm up in 2 other SG's as well...

 

[conehead234]

Good job. What victory condition are we going for?

 

[Ankka]

Good point...

IMHO:

Space race: no way, China is way ahead.

Conquest: no chances, China is too strong.

Domination: No idea, I don't think this is possible.

Culture: We dont have enough.

Diplo: The only possible?

 

[conehead234]

I think if we have any chances for victory we have to invade china. That means a d-day invasion. If you check out the team's d-day invasion in Space 2 HERE. It is possible we can do it. So china need to go. The siege is spread out through 2 pages.

 

[Ankka]

Sounds like some real tough to me.

 

[grahamiam]

excellent work denyd! really liked those steals. how often can we attempt safe steals based on our current economy? seems like you were doing it every other turn

 

[denyd]

We're making about 180-200gpt and a safe steal costs about 2400, I used most of our original treasury for steal of combustion (about 2100 of 2300) - I then sold rubber to China for 2400g and was able to pull off a immediate steal of Mass Production for 1500g (that was a gamble) - I was able to trade for Atomic Theory the next turn - a couple of turns later and our treasury was able to support another safe steal of electronics, I was left with about 400g in the bank then. It will probably be another 5-6 turns before we'll be able to try safe steal again. Just a thought, though, we might try this steal as immediate. The worst that can happen is China catches us and declares. We could then use the tech we have to get a dogpile on China. If we happen to get fission, our GL could hurry it and with everyone aligned with us a UN vote should go our way.

 

[Ankka]

Nice plan.

Risky, sounds good.

 

[grahamiam]

ok, just curious, am I up? being that i'm norm-the-new-guy here, i don't want to step on toes

 

[conehead234]

yup you are up.

 

[grahamiam]

ok, got it!

 

[grahamiam]

ok, only 6 turns into it. Hope to finish tomorrow night.

Plusses: able to steal Motorized Transportation & Radio, England down to 1 city

Minuses: China building UN (IBT T4 & T5) and we're about 7T from our next steal attempt unless I can get some more money out of someone. In 4T, our incense for gems deal will be up with China and I should be able to get some money from her. everyone else is poor unless they discover flight

 

[grahamiam]

first, the 1390AD save

Preflight check: I find an empty army in Pas. What’s he for? Well, load up with cav once I get the chance. We can always build another for tanks. Tax starve London. Change Pers to hydro plant from hospital (I figured we could us the higher production right now). MM here and there to get gold up to +186gpt. No decent deals available from anyone

Will wait till next turn for attack on Newcastle so infantry can be redlined by all those arty.

IBT: Aztec & China sign peace (just in time for the Aztecs as it appeared they were starting to fall apart); Arabia & England sign an alliance vs Spain; Cadiz riots

T1: 1345AD Attack on Newcastle: Bombard with lots of arty and destroy a bunch of city improvements but don’t hurt the defenders very much; Army kills ¾ infantry; Cav army dies to ¾ infantry; elite* cav kills ¾ infantry; 7 more cav later (only 1 dies!) and the city is ours with 4 workers and it’s furs.

Load 4 4/4 cav into army and move it to Hastings; the additional lux resource allows me to fire a bunch of clowns and taxman, boosting production and gpt. No good deals available.

IBT: England and Spain sign peace; England throws a few Rambo’s and Infantry @ Hastings but fail to capture thanks to Army; Palace gets some stone figurines

T2: 1350AD Move army and arty’s onto mountain in range of York
Trades: Arabs: WM, 13gpt, 320g for iron
Steal from China: Motorized Transport!
Switch some cav builds over to tanks
Find that Pas can make 1 tank per turn after hydro plant; Pers finishes hydro plant and starts hospital

T3: 1355AD Near Newcastle: Bombard inf on top of furs; attack inf on furs with 5/3 army and win; blitz with army and win.
York population had dropped dramatically in the last 2 turns (11 to 7). Begin bombarding York with large stack of arty: destroy SE, Market, Lib, Uni, Bank, kill 5 citz, and take off 7hp from defenders; Attack 2/4 inf with cav army and win (-10hp); vet cav attacks 2/2 rifle and wins; vet cav attacks ½ inf and wins; vet cav attacks ¼ inf and wins, taking the city + 2 workers and 29g; capture 2 more outside the city
Move some cav into position to take Reading.

IBT: Hastings flips, costing us 2 infantry

T4: 1360AD Battle for Hastings: tank kills rifle and we take the city
It takes 4 artys to take 1hp off an inf coming to pillage silks near York; Add a 5th later to redline him, then attack with vet cav and win, promoting cav

Near Newcastle: 5/3 Army kills Rambo (-5); cav kills conscript rifle

Birmingham: Stack of arty moves to within range and bombards: redlines both inf defenders; cav attacks and kills 1/3 inf; cav attacks and kills ¼ inf and we take the city + 41g

Reading: vet cav retreats; elite* cav kills 3/3 inf; vet cav dies; vet cav kills inf and promotes; vet cav retreats; vet cav kills Rambo; vet cav kills 1/3 rambo and we take the city + 51g + 1 arty;

Near Hastings: new arty redlines Rambo; vet cav kills Rambo

Trade WM around to pick up some ice cream money

IBT: Mao wants to renew dyes deal for 28gpt, instead, I ask for a lump sum of 653g + WM; China is building the UN in Beijing

T5: 1365AD 100g from next steal so I see what trades are available: nada, most I can get is 79g from Egypt and 15g from Arabs for valuable lux. Instead, I create a colony on 1 fur tile and then sell it to China for WM & 652g; Trade coal to Spain for 10gpt & 247g.
Steal: try a careful steal for 2414 vs china and it works! Take Radio, hoping someone is researching flight

T6: 1370AD Move arty into postion for last English city
Trades: Egypt: WM + 103g for our Silks; Arabs: WM + 1gpt + 20g for Silks

IBT: England and Egypt sign peace

T7: 1375AD Bombard Norwich, stop after only 2 reg inf are redlined; vet cav kills inf; vet cav kills inf and we take the city + 64g + “Strong” English are destroyed. Unfortunately, so was the harbor (not by bombard but it destructed when I took the city)
Move giant group of arty & army, etc, down to Cadiz
WW drops of significantly, allowing lux slider to go to 0 and we get + 432gpt after I also fire as many clowns as possible. Should be able to steal a tech sooner rather than later.

T8: 1380AD Build some stuff. Trades: Arabs: Silks, WM, 16gpt, 46g for Combustion (hope they go for flight); Try to trade for flight from China but they will not sell.


T9: 1385AD
Trade available from China for flight: WM, 443gpt, 1542g. We make 502gpt and have 1547 in the bank. Everyone else on this planet is broke. No time like the present so I do it! We get… Computers arrhhhh!
However, another trade with China available: They will not trade fission but I can send them Computers for Amp War, WM, 214gpt, 10345g so I do it! At 100% research, it will take us 16T to get Fission, not enough time so I go for a safe steal for 3276g and we get it!!!! They only have Fission and this is what I want Man, our science really sucks. I can’t research anything in less than 38T oh yeah, rush UN in Pers.

Now, I need to get everyone on my side. Gift 200g to Egypt, she stays polite; gift 200g to Arabs, he stays polite; gift 200g to Aztec, he goes from Annoyed to Polite. Also, build an embassy there. I don’t have a chance with Spain but she is already at war with China so we should be ok if China’s the other one. I can’t really do anything else since Egypt is at war with both the Arabs and Aztecs. I really wish China would declare on her as well, but this is all I can do for now.

Per the score, we are #1 at 2550, with Spain #2. Spain is at war with China, Aztecs, and Arabs so if they are the other vote, this game should be in the bag.

Take a shot of Stoli’s to calm nerves.

Upgrade 22 infantry to MI for 880g (it’s nice to have cash)

We have 2 sources of Uranium already hooked up.

Hit space….

IBT: renew iron deal with Egypt for 14gpt

T10: 1390AD

And the vote is......

 

[Ankka]

Nice job.

 

[grahamiam]

Here's Mao, telling it like it is

 

[grahamiam]

Here was the Political situation before the vote:

and our power bar after the win

 

[Ankka]

Nice job grahamiam! [dance]





Thanks o you all for such a great game.

 

[grahamiam]

very nice game, guys. i've learned a lot, as usual. we should all play more diety games. the tech stealing was a blast

not only that, but I got to win sorry cone, but i wasn't sure how far along the Chinese were with the UN so I didn't want to risk it and wait.

hopefully, once i clear 1 or 2 more SG's, i'll start one of my own. it's an AA all-star type game that gozpel came up with and i edited the rules to do it. still needs some play testing but not much more. hope to see you there

 

[Ankka]

AA- al star? What's that?

 

[denyd]

Wonderful finish Grahamiam - steals are a real equalizer in diety

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(that's Bugsy on guitar)

Thanks for a great game Conehead234