DMI IV - The Grand Line (BtS)

I just played my turns but it's too late for a report. Would put it up tomorrow night
 
Strawhats at dinner :

- Luffy : I love that corn pudding of yours Sanji but we've been eating this every day for a while
- Sanji : we have abundance of corn and I don't like to waste food
- Sogeking : I hear Spandam would be happy to have some and he would give us gems for it.
- Nami : What, gems for corn. Who's stupid enough to trade jewelry for corn pudding, let's trade it right now.
- Sanji : Oh, Nami Swan is so gorgeous wearing jewelry :love:

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- Luffy : so I hear we've completely taken down that shark head Arlong, how are his cities doing ?
- Sogeking : Oh, the ones I curshed with my mighty army of 50.000 pirates ?
- Chopper : but you were here with us all the time, and you don't have an army anyway
- Sogeking : yes I do
- Zorro : Where's the sake ?
- Sogeking : let's focus, we are speaking serious stuff here
- Zorro : I'm going to get me two barrels, want some luffy ?
- Sogeking : DON'T IGNORE ME !!
- Luffy : Yeah sure, and bring some meat with you, don't know why Sanji thinks I became vegetarian
- Sogeking : AHHHHHHHHH, those mermen cities are building courthouses and theatres
- Luffy : what are courthouses
- Nami : they help maintain order and avoid wasting money. That's what all you always do, spend money on useless stuff
- Luffy : who cares about courthouses, shouldn't they build those funny houses where you can store food.
- Sogeking : yes, but we already started courthouses
- Luffy : then change
- Sogeking : that would be rude and the cities have not expanded yet, they can't have too many people
- Luffy : what do you think Robin ?
- Robin : they can build culture to expand ?
- Luffy : we can do that, just for a few turns. That won't be rude, right ?
- Sanji : Robin Chwan is so intelligent :love:
- Sogeking : okay, but let's make sure to switch back when they expand
- Nami : don't worry, the governor switches back to the queued building on his own when the city borders expand ?
- Sogeking : Cool, are we recruiting governors that intelligent now ?
- Nami : I was amazed myself (:goodjob: great addition from Blake)
- Luffy : this culture stuff is boring, tell me about the war with Whitebeard, how are we doing ?
- Sogeking : we are healing and the guys who took Arlong park are on their way to help
- Chopper : I can go and heal them quickly, there's no doctors with them
- Nami : remember we decided not to help with any wars
- Luffy : why can't we, fighting is fun
- Nami : ask Imhotep
- Luffy : who is Imhotep ?
- Robin : he's an egyptian god
- Zorro : zzzzzzz
- Sogeking : just send one of Chopper apprentices there, he should do fine. They don't need such a great doctor for their minor wounds
- Chopper : :woohoo: , I'm not pleased at all you moron :woohoo:
- Luffy : are we preparing more army to conquer the whole world ?
- Sogeking : no, we are building infrastrucutre
- Luffy : Infra what ?
- Sogeking : our production cities need more infrastructure so we can build units quickly in the future and get more happiness
- Luffy : people are unhappy ? Give them more sake
- Sogeking : it doesn't work like that, they start complainig again the moment they're sober
- Luffy : then give them Sake all day
- Sogeking : and who's going to work ?
- Nami : don't worry, we would soon be able to build jails. That's what lazy bums understand, just send them to jails and they stop pestering about wars and crowded streets


Strawhats at lunch :

- Sanji : you need to try my brand new recipe, stewed corn
- Luffy : is there any meat inside ?
- Sogeking : the reinforcements have joined our advanced post near Four emperors base and they did great damage
- Luffy : great, was there a good fight ?
- Sogeking : they were still defending with archers and horse archers
- Zorro : zzzzzzz
- Luffy : so we took the base ?
- Sogeking : yes, and we also took another city, called Kish

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- Luffy : then, there wasn't too much action ?
- Nami : if you wanted more action, you could have accepted to help Spandam with his war
- Luffy : I don't like Spandam. He's weaker than all his subordinates. Don't know how he ever became a leader
- Nami : but he's giving us jewelry, it would be unfortunate if he stopped trading with us
- Luffy : I don't care
- Sogeking : you know we've been working on our military and we discovered a new weapon much more powerful than the muskets
- Luffy : Oh, let me take a look. Funny thing ... BANG
- Nami : LUFFY, you moron ! Stop playing with that
- Luffy : but this can't hurt me. I'm rubber
- Sanji : stupid captain
- Zorro : ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
- Sanji : stupid swordman
- Zorro : I heard you
- Sanji : so what ?
- Zorro : wanna fight ?
- Sanji : Bring it on
- Nami : STOP, what the hell am I doing with this band of morons
- Sogeking : our navy is patrolling the world and reports say the world might be round
- Luffy : :rotfl: good one Sogeking
- Sogeking : I'm serious, ships went both sides and they seem very close
- Luffy : did they meet ?
- Sogeking : No, mountains are blocking our way, we're still looking for a passage
- Luffy : is this true Robin ?
- Robin : some old fragments speak about that. It may be true, maybe not
- Luffy : is the war with WhiteBeard finished ?
- Sogeking : no, but he is down to one city

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- Luffy : this guy is Whitebeard, right ?
- Sogeking : yes
- Luffy : but his beard is not white. Why do we call him that ?
- Sogeking : ask Imhotep
- Luffy : where can I find him, Robin ?
- Robin : On CFC
- Luffy : Where ?
- Sogeking : let's finish him anyway, our army is healing but they can resume the war soon
- Luffy : who's the next target ?
- Sogeking : that's for Ralph to decide
- Luffy : Oh, I know him. He's a devil fruit user like me. He sure would come with a good decision

540 AD save
 
Ok this is my got it but I wont be able to play / report till late on Friday, so if somebody wants to grab it for a swap just post here. You never know hell might freeze over accompanied by flying pigs instituting a delivery service from America allowing Greyfox to road test his new copy of BTS :rotfl:

Seriously if I have a chance to play earlier I will post here to avoid confusion..


Ralph
 
Sanji: Boss I have finally cracked the marketing slogan for our new venture. Listen to this:-

“Avast, me hearties an’ Shiver me Timbers!
If you landlubbers fancies a more traditional ocean going sickness
then why not climb aboard the Straw Hat Pirates Gastroenteritis Special.
A guaranteed trip of a life time as you are laid low below deck with nausea, vomiting and uncontrollable diahorrea..”

Luffy: “Sanji, I think you are going to need to make it more enticing than that, your cooking isn’t great but its not that bad. Anything else to report?”

Sanji: “ Well this scary guy in a uniform pitched up at Shell Town offering to either make our troops better or at least build them faster. Well you are always shouting at me to get things moving so he has built an Academy and says troops will start shooting out of there like… well remember what I was saying about diahorrea.. you get the picture.”

560 AD. GG builds military academy at shell town, combined with heroic epic will be anice military pump.

Luffy: “ Whats happened with those ships we sent out to find a way to the Grand Line, any progress.”

Sanji: “ Well they haven’t found anything spectacular yet but they have put their heads together and decided the world is round.

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And we finished writing down all those rules you gave us . Finished the Constitution and are busy looking at how we can make dome dosh from all this spare food if we get organised.

Start research on Corporations.. Seems with all our GP’s and Spare resources it would be wrong not to try playing with corporations?

“Okey Dokey Sanji,” said Luffy “Sogeking what happening down south”
Sogeking: “we found some more gold so with those gems you got in trade we can make Nami some cool jewellery”
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580AD: Pop Gold in Beijing

“Did you remember to wake up Zorro and ask him how the war was going.”
“Yeah he said they have all been wiped out as we razed their last city because it wasn’t worth keeping particularly.”
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600AD: Raze Lagash end of Whitebeard.

“Anything else”

“Well yes some of the guys reminded me we were actually Pirates and not having a few skull and crossbones ships out was just plain wrong. They are not as cool as Ships of the Line etc but they should be obligatory in a Pirate game”
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600AD. We finish corporations and the Taj Mahal. And start the long job of ferrying troops as its quite a maze this map.. more hidden surprises yet to be uncovered?
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660 AD. Democracy comes and we start on Steam Power.

In a normal game this Random Event might have meant something but really can’t see the point in our game?
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700AD. This is a nice round number and a small amry has been settled ready to start work on. President Mr O if the next player desires.
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It seems worth starting a second front to the East versus Buggy this set once we have assembled some troops and a couple of ships?

Note Great People are fortified in our capital. Normally a no –no but we have a hatful of them, enjoy.
 

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Nice one :goodjob:

I've got it then. Will probably play tonite or tomorrow morning.
 
Nami: Luffy, our intelligence discovered a distressing news ...
Luffy: What? Is it about our missing chicken?
Nami: ... Yes ... it seems the culprit is Mr. O.
Luffy: WHAT!?! He stole my chicken??? This means war!!!

Steam Power came in

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Joy, another GS is born. Are we planning to invade someone with an army of Great People?

Well, at least we're not dumb like Spandam here :lol:

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It's kinda unfair to use cannons/rifles/grenadiers against archers/swords :p But Tokyo fell easily :D

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Luffy is seen dancing around town ... why? This is why

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Railroad came in, and our benefactor gave us no coal

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Here's something new, we'll need to make a decision on this one as well

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Another easy victory for Luffy and the gang

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Mr. O's frantic attempt at a come back :rolleyes:

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Those dang senators ... waitaminute, we're pirates!!! Where are these senators coming from?

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Poor Spandam needs some help, sorry

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I think we've got enough to take out Mr. O with whatever is on that island at the moment. I'm amassing another stack at Beijing ready for anything.
 

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wow, I've never seen those two quests before ~ do you recall what were the other results of the "Ailing Senator" event?

i've got it, and will play tomorrow.
 
Yep.

The "let the senators fight amongst themselves" gives +2 espionage points and the "support ruling party" gives between 450 - 650 gold.
 
Luffy awoke late in the day. He had been sleeping for . . .let’s see, I’ve missed 16 meals, so a little more than 3 days. . . . boy, I’m hungry

“Nami, what has been happening?”

“Well, after your victorious attack on Kyoto using Gear Second. The city was ruined, but Mr. O is no more! However, you soon passed out and –“

“Yes, yes, we won. I’m hungry! Have we food?”

“Of course, we have corn fritters, corn kabob, corn goulash, corn on the cob, creamed corn, buttered corn, corn on the half-shell, and so on . . . but it’s all variations of corn.”

“How ridiculous! Our pirates are masters of the ocean, now traveling in gigantic steel sea monsters, and all we can get to eat is corn?!?”

“Well, there’s always the Devil Fruits.”

“No, no. You know I like to give them to our pirates. It has helped us so much. No, I’ll take the corn fritada and the corn pie and the corn meal pancakes and the fried corn and the corn a l’corn and the—“

”I get it Luffy. One of everything, as usual.”

“Yes. You get me perfectly, Nami.”

“Any other news?”

“Hmmm . . . no. Oh wait, we declared war on Buggy the Clown.”

“WHAT?!?! You declared war while I was sleeping??”

“Well, we had all these extra men, and they’d just eaten their Devil Fruits and were itching to try out their rubberness.”

“Yes, but you KNOW who I like to declare war! They always look so surprised . . . and the parties! I missed all the parties . . . and the PARTY FOOD!”

“I’m sorry, Luffy, but we had all these pirates hanging around, doing nothing. They were starting to wreck the place.”

“Fine, fine. I don’t blame you, Nami. I never should have let that clown live, anyway. Now, let’s see what we can do about that corn.”

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Well, all the screenshots I took really don't fit into the story line. Somehow, I thought tech shots and ruined cities would fit in . . .

anyway, we DID finish of Mr O; i razed all the cities there. Also, as i said, we declared on Buggy. He had the highest power rating of everyone left, and it's still a cakewalk. I have amassed a smallish army there, with some more being produced on teh home continent. I also razed Gaziantep,and took 1 city (NW of Gaz):
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I upgraded all galleons to transports as we got combustion, assembly, and are heading for Industrialism.

All i built were units. We're at 0% sci and Fuschia is powering us along. I merged all those Great People there; didn't see much use for them to hang around so . . . normally i wouldn't do that, but this game is HARDLY normal.

I also i'm producing solely units. We really don't need many infra builds, so i figure let's take the fight to the world ASAP! All the cities on teh home continent have waypoints for the EAST but should be redirected soonish so that we can prepare to head west again with them.

Im, did you handicap the AI in any way? I find it odd that they still only have archers this late in the game.
 

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Wait, you merged ALL the GPs at Fuschia? Did you leave an engineer to build a corporation? or are we not even going to build one?
 
oh, sorry ~ I DID use it for Mining, Inc. Sorry about that . . .
 
·Imhotep·;5895366 said:
The precious roster:

1. blid - ON DECK
2. Ralph Jackson - still recovering from those devil fruits at Amsterdam
3. berserks01 - got some new quests
4. pholkhero - JUST PLAYED
5. GreyFox - location: where no one receives BtS any time
6. Rex Tyrannus - mid-term entry after cleaning up SGs
7. Imhotep - UP NOW
I think this still stand as is.
 
I'm halfway through my turns, will finish up tomorrow or Saturday...
 
I've finished my turns. Played 12 and brought us to a round number again. The game definitely draws to an end... I will report tonight.
 
First of all I gotta apologize for the delay. I did plan to play this on Friday evening but totally missed that there was a hockey game of my local club I had to go to. Anyway, they won, so it was not wasted time :D . Since then I'm trying to catch up, but now I'm finished. As said, I played 12 turns to bring us to 180 total. As I see it the game will go on for 2 turnsets at best, we're very close to achieving the victory and meeting the variant condition.

We got another Great General. I was too lazy to ship him up north so he's still there - it doesn't matter if we have Infantry with 2 more XP if all they face is Longbows and Maces...

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We had a fair amount of events that round. The Federal Bank especially was cool, though we didn't need it economically.

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We captured a whole bunch of cities, as expected. Buggy the Clown will not withstand much longer.

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Wow, I'm scared totally of 4 Partisan Maces :D

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Well, as you see, this is a walkover. I feel sorry for the AI. I didn't mean to stick it to them that bad...

We hit the Modern Era in 1180 AD. On Emperor. *cough*

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Another event...

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...and another...

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...another city falls...

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Actually this request was quite hilarious - in One Piece Cipher Pol 9 is one of the secret Police Forces of the World Government. Seeing that they're at war is so funny...

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Another event...

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Now we come to the most important part of my report. Look at this:

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What does this tell us ?

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We're close to seeing the Straw Hats in action. Flight is landed in 5 turns, and all but Chopper then can join the fray...

I'm still surprised the AI is so backwards in tech. I didn't tune down their starts, and they had pretty much land to settle - so I'm not sure why they put up such a poor performance in this game...

Imhotep
 
ya never know, Immy ~ those longbowmen might have big, pointy teeth! ~ we may need those extra xp's for the "Killer Rabbit" promotion
 
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