DMI X - A noble way to Deity

dazedroyalty · Jul 2, 2008

FYI, if I come up before next Thursday I will need a skip or swap. I will be out of town for vacation. I will still be able to access internet, so I can chime in and stay up to date, but will be away from a computer with CIV.

·Imhotep· · Jul 4, 2008

Any progress on this, MyOtherCar ?

MyOtherCar · Jul 4, 2008

Was planned for yesterday, but RL got in the way. Tonight's the night, though.

r_rolo1 · Jul 4, 2008

Remember to use the GA on the iron city... we need to block the incense area before that Willem gets stupid ideas about settling there.

MyOtherCar · Jul 4, 2008

Played a couple of turns tonight, will finish tomorrow. Here are my notes so far. I'll make a better report tomorrow (with pics).

Ok, got very little feedback from the team, so I'll take another look at the game. WW is very high, we need to heal up get some more siege and the next Indian city is at least 4 tiles away. I settle for peace for Archery, Meditation, Monarchy, 80g and 4g/turn.

I'll play a peaceful set. Our new acquisitions need theatres and walls first, well maybe not Lahore, that will get a visit from none other than Louis Armstrong
Switch Madras to theatre, Madrid to a market, Cordoba to a theatre, Barcelona to Moai Statues

Hit enter
Seville treb-> fishing boat for the extra health,
Culture bomb Lahore. Sell spices to Hannibal for 6g.
Madrid market -> Walls
Cordoba finishes Treb -> Heroic Epic, lots of hammers so good for production and +4 culture ain't bad either.
Lahore walls ->theatre

Start roading from our new Indian lands towards Cordoba.

Willem has enough on his hands an we are his worst enemies.. I guess I better start moving troops to Cordoba.
No dutch stacks in sight yet. Hannibal now too is wheooh, but he is our buddy.

MyOtherCar · Jul 5, 2008

Continued report...

I played till 1400 AD when we popped a Gsc. First a picture of the use of Louis Armstrong

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Now we have some incense, I trade it to our buddy:

Spoiler :

While I'm moving units from our new Indian lands to Cordoba, this happens: 1370 Ragnar declares on Hannibal!
Well since Ragnar is a vassal of Willem that explains some things. I believe Hannibal may be in some trouble here.

Spoiler :

Next turn, first Willem, then Hannibal comes asking for help. I decline, let these guys slug it out for a while. Maybe later we can backstab Willem. I see poor Hannibal has no elephants, but he has nothing to give in return so we wont give it to him.

Feudalism in, guilds selected. New Indian city south of Madras, near the furs.

Spoiler :

We may need to found a city near the horses.
There is barb city down south. I sent our trireme to investigate. Jewish missionary spreads the faith in Bombay.

That barb city, Apache is a worthless ice cube. An elephant is on the way to gain some exp.

Madrid spawns a GSc. I stop here after 10 turns, (how many turns do we play anyway?) he can bulb Philosophy or start a GA. Madrid also started on a settler for Horse city. In 2 turns we gain sugar, while Moai (4t) and HE (3t) are nearly finished. Cordoba is very slowly gaining in the culture war with the Dutch.

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Guilds in six, nice for the grocers, but we need the horses for Knights. Peace with Asoka ends in 1 turn. We could go after him again, or try and take it to Willem while he is busy with Hannibal. Willem hates our guts anyway.

Our lands:

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Oh, nearly forgot the save

·Imhotep· · Jul 5, 2008

We have to do something about Willem ASAP. If he manages to vassalize Hannibal also he will soin become too powerful. So I vote for sticking it to the Dutch ASAP !

Roster duty:

1. Imhotep >> ON DECK
2. dazedroyalty
3. GreyFox
4. Strauss >> UP NOW
5. r_rolo1
6. MyOtherCar >> JUST PLAYED

I can't play until Tuesday anyway. Anyone is free to take the save as long as Strauss hasn't posted a got it.

r_rolo1 · Jul 5, 2008

Tackling the dutch will be hard. They are powerful, have a good teching and all of their border cities are in hills.....

But it will only get worse with time. Time to move our troops north.....

MyOtherCar · Jul 6, 2008

At the moment he has two huge stacks near at one of Hannibal's cities (each at least 15-20 units). Mostly trebs, cats and horse archers as far as I can see. We still have most of our stacks in our Indian cities. If we go for Willem then, let's move our units up to Delft and Leiden, finish HE and Moai, and switch to theocracy. We'll need horse city when we finish guilds.

r_rolo1 · Jul 6, 2008

It looks like a decent plan.....

Who's up BTW?

MyOtherCar · Jul 6, 2008

Strauss is up, but he's been missing in action for some time now. So we can expect Imhotep to tell himself he's up any time now

·Imhotep· · Jul 6, 2008

Certainly it would help to actually read my humble postings to the very end

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The Legendary Builder himself said:
I can't play until Tuesday anyway. Anyone is free to take the save as long as Strauss hasn't posted a got it.

MyOtherCar · Jul 6, 2008

Good point

. Maybe Greyfox then? The next player can pick what he's gonna do with our GG, btw.

GreyFox · Jul 7, 2008

Nice picture of the cultural bomb ... really good way of presenting it :thumbsup:

I think, however, that we should give elephants to Hannibal. He has some happy resources, plus even if he has nothing, it will also help us by helping the enemy of our enemy.

The general should either be used for a great medic, or as an Instructor in the HE city. The GS should be settled in Madrid.

I could play, so this is a got it (EDIT: but not today

).

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GreyFox · Jul 8, 2008

Unfortunately, I am suddenly bored down with work today ... so no, I don't think I can play. It's Tuesday already anyway, so Imhotep please go ahead. I shall wait for my turn.

·Imhotep· · Jul 8, 2008

Three turns in, we have major decision to make. According to the DM SG etiquette I put up a team vote. This is what happened:

As suggested, I settled the GS at Madrid.

I also settled the GG at our HE city Cordoba - 5 XP units are of greater worth than a Medic III in the upcoming war.

We are not totally advanced...

Why does the game think we attacked Asoka ?

This is Willy's army. Huge.

We will face problems with Lahore, our culture bombed city. Due to cultural pressure it is likely to flip. We can prevent this with garrison, but we can't afford tieing up units right now.

Made some trades with Hannibal.

The first city falls. Not good.

I've pulled all our units to the north. We have two decent stacks and can attack. I've postponed the settler for now, there is one turn to go on it. But we need units. I fear if we don't strike immediately Hannibal will soon vassalize, leaving us with an annoyed Willem and two vassals right on our border. This is a bill to big to stomach for us I deem. Here is our army:

Team vote on immediately attacking the Dutch:

1. Imhotep - attack
2. dazedroyalty -
3. GreyFox - attack
4. Strauss -
5. r_rolo1 - attack
6. MyOtherCar -attack

I'll finish my turns once we have a clear vote. The save is attached for further investigation.

Imhotep

r_rolo1 · Jul 8, 2008

Attack.....

GreyFox · Jul 8, 2008

Hear hear ... I concur, attack! :hammer:

MyOtherCar · Jul 8, 2008

Once more: into the breeches! or something like that

·Imhotep· · Jul 8, 2008

So it begins. The great battle of our time.
(King Théoden, The Lord of the Rings)

We besiege Varanasi. This is the situation:

The city falls at the cost of 1 Cat, 1 treb and 1 Mace.

We relieve Cordoba of cultural pressure at the cost of 1 Treb. It can now work the full BFC again.

A combined Dutch-Viking stack prepares for a counterattack at the still stripped down defenses of Varanasi. I decide to sacrice 3 cats to soften the attackers.

Success ! We hold and didn't lose a single unit. We get a great event: That's +6 gpt at the cost of 29 gold...

Willy comes in earnest now. He shows up with a reduced, bit still impressive stack. I fear the city won't hold.

We are at the siege of Leiden though.

Willy will make piece for Varansi. Gunpowder comes in 11 turns. A small settling party is on the way to horse-filler spot, and we did get another GG.

Imhotep

Spoiler The log :

DMI X - A noble way to Deity

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The answer is 42

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