dd2 - "The resourceless Commander"

[gormdragan]

he already placed the FP on Satsuma.

 

[Gengis Khan]

Very nice indeed!

 

[Sir Bugsy]

gorm,
now you just need to capture the rest of our FP core and we'll be set!

 

[Sir Bugsy]

I've gone back over all our game logs, and I don't see one place where we did anything that could have ruined our reputation. The only two MAs we've had... with Toku against the Iroquois, Japan made peace first. And this second MA with the Iquois against Japan, we're still fighting Japan. We haven't made that many gpt trades, like zero as far as I can see. I don't know why our rep is trashed.

 

[gormdragan]

770return

Mobilise garrison elephants.

780:
Sun Tze is ours.

OSaka is ours.

790:

Kyoto is ours.

800:
Resigned ROP with Germans. Please keep re-nego on.

End MA with Iroq....YOU ARE NEXT ON MY MENU!!!!

Nagasaki is ours. We destroyed Japanese.

Declared war on Iroq.

810:
Salamaca is ours.

820:

Nagara Falls is ours.

830:

We discovered gunpowder...this is not good....not good at all.
China got gunpowder, but it's saltpelter source is near the border. I'm going for it very soon. Mobilizing troops against China now.

Cattaraugus is ours.

We have 1 source of saltpelter, I pillaged.

840:

Tonawanda is ours.

850:

Izumo is ours.

860:

Sorry ppl I missed a horse resource...moving a unit to pillage now.

Allegheny is ours. I have 2 elephants ready to take last iroq city.

Declare war on China.

870:

Macao is ours.

I will play a few more turns to round the clock to 900AD

880:

St Regis is ours.

Chinan is ours.

Tientsin is ours.

Chengdu is ours.

890:

900:

Next better player.....
SOD at Canton, galleys move to west coast, in case we need more land than available on our continent. Galleys can cross using Tientsin.
If there are any Go-Tos, they are on the way through the China peninsula. Sorry.

The save

I wouldn't see this game again. So everyone!!!!

 

[Gengis Khan]

got it.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

We have 272 tile to domination. Go get 'em Gengis!

 

[Gengis Khan]

Sorry for the delay guys. Finishing up the turns now & will be posting in a couple hours.

Domination is looking inevitable.

 

[Gengis Khan]

Pre-turn: We only have 4 galleys. If we’re planning taking out an oversees Civ we’ll need more then that. Building up our galley force to upgrade to Caravels & wiping out the Chinese will be my priorities this set of turns.

The AI’s also have Education, looks like our GL has worn out its usefulness.

IT- Longbow retreats Elephant.
We learn Education.

1- I’m kinda baffled why we’re researching Printing Press? I doubt with the constant war we’ll be changing to Decocracy. But I guess someone sees something I don’t. With the completion of Education, I increase funding to get Printing Press in 3, after that I’m gonna research Astronomy as quick as possible. Then pretty much turn off research.
Elite Eleph kills spear in Canton, -1hp.
Vet El kills spear. Takes Canton; 4 resistors & 1 slave.
Vet El kills spear in Hangchow, -3hp.
Vet El killed redlining last defender.
Vet El kills spear. Takes Hangchow; 2 resistors & 1 slave.

2- Capture Beijing. Lose quite a few Elephants in the process, & retreating even more. Beijing comes complete with 10 resistors, 4 slaves, & Leo’s.

3-

IT- Learn PP. Start on Astronomy, due in 6 while still making a profit.

4- Elite Elephant kills spear in Tsingtao, -2 hp & spawns Shivaji. I build an army, but don’t load it up to full strength so it will be transportable.

5- Lizzy offers us 22gpt, 120g & a bunch of other stuff for PP. I politely decline since they will be our next target.
Take Nanking. 3 resistors, starts on temple.

6- Take Shanghai, comes complete with 9 resistors. Try to make peace for Mao’s island cities to prevent island jumping. No dice, at most he’ll give us 1 of them. His loss, line up troops outside Xinjian.

7- With China only having 1 city left before we have to take to it overseas, I bump up research to get Astronomy in 2 turns.
Army victorious.
Take Xinjain. Make peace with Mao for 1 of his last 3 cities to give us a landing point on his island. We can always attack England while we wait for the 20 turns to end.

8- People want the Hero Epic. Change Dehli to Epic, due in 9.
Not much else, stack troops for transport to our island city & over to England.

9- Learn Astronomy. Couldn’t decide whether to start on banking or chemistry(for physics then Magnatism), I decide to go with banking. You can never have enough money.

10- Bizzy offers ROP. HA!!

End o’ Turn Report
*Some elephants on auto-move down to a Xingjian for transport over to England.
*You can pass galleys/caravels through Teintsin so save a lot of time/prevent going around Chinese territory.
*Don't load up the Army any more or we won't be able to transport it.
Not much else, Good Luck!

Save!

 

[gormdragan]

PP is good for trading. AI always ignores.

 

[Gengis Khan]

Yea, I looked into that. But I didn't want to be stuck with a 20 turn deal & I'm a stickler for keeping my deals, even with no reason too.

 

[gormdragan]

hmm, in that case, it is a bad call on my part.

 

[Gengis Khan]

Not at all. Most likely would be better to do that, I'm just psychotic like that.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

We're only 49 tiles from domination. If we expand the boarders of our newly captured cities with temples, the game is over.

I guess I won't get to fight with elephants

I might have to replay from an earlier save just for the experience.

A job well done to all, especially our defacto leader tao.

 

[gormdragan]

Good job guys.

Thanks tao, I have learnt alot from you

 

[eric2075]

Yes, good job everyone. A very good learning experience for me as well.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Who's up?

Gengis - Just played
Eric - Up
Bugsy - On deck (won't happen)
tao
gorm

Looks like Eric gets to put this one in the win column.

 

[eric2075]

Thanks Bugsy, I didn't realize it was my turn already. I got it, will try to play my turns soon.

[edit] I haven't looked at the save yet. Is more culture definitely all we need or will we need to take it overseas also?

 

[Gengis Khan]

You might have to take 1 or two cities from England.*shrug*

I've rushed temples in all our newly acquired cities so they'll soon be expanding their borders.

 

[eric2075]

Yeah, I just looked at the save and there's a nice 2-city island of Lizzie's that ought to put us over the limit if we don't already have enough.