Emperor SG?

[Daeron]

Should be able to play this tomorrow, so next player will have the weekend.

 

[Daeron]

That hoplite is annoying, it pillaged two tiles so far, including the incense.

turnlog

Spoiler :

Preflight:

Science: 10 % (IW in 11 turns)
Taxes: 90 %

Income: -1gpt

Treasury 204 gold

Goal, improve and try to avoid pillaging

IBT

Greek hoplite is scouting it looks like, so no trouble from him. Archer and warrior from greece appear otu of fog.

Turn 1, 2110 BC
Add second worker to chop wood at Edrine this turn, Settler and growth now in 4 turns

IBT

Greek troops move back again

Turn 2, 2070 BC

We could buy IW from India, if we had cash. Inly 9 turns left anyway.

IBT

Greek units return, stacked in a group of 2

Turn 3, 2030 BC
Not much

IBT
Sumerians complete the Colossus
Hoplite moves next to incense, can't protect it

Turn 4, 1990 BC
Not much, move back warrior

IBT
IStanbul granary -> spearman
Edrine settler -> spearman

Turn 5, 1950 BC
Nothing much

IBT
We defend succesfully against an archer (1 of 1)
Hoplite pillages the incense

I should have guessed Istanbul would riot..

Turn 6 1910BC
Nothing much, fix the rioting.

IBT
Hoplite moves back into woods

Turn 7, 1870 BC

Kill one warrior (2 of 2)
Locate purple borders, India.

IBT
Another archer shows up..
Hoplite moves to the roaded woods

Turn 8, 1830 BC

IBT
Istanbul spearman -> archer

We see a light blue unit

Turn 9, 1790 BC
We meet the Sumerians. They have Alpha, TW< CB and IW as fas as I can see.

Simply can't protect our tiles against the hoplite right now. Crank up luxury and use as much units as reasonable

IBT
Defend against against archer, spearman promotes (3 of 3)
Gilgamesh offer CB for 100 gold. Not interested of course
Ghandi boots our explorer.

Turn 10, 1790 BC
Edrine is back at size 2, at 4 spt. The settler was too risky after all. I haven't even be able to pull him out of the capitol yet.

Spoiler :

 

[madviking]

So...if Spathage or Gamezrule wants to take this, go ahead. Otherwise it'll be me again.

 

[Sparthage]

I'll join the game. But I require a skip for 3 weeks. If someone else decides to join, they can have my spot.

 

[TheOverseer714]

It might be worth an archer or 2 to kill that pillager. Annoyingly, losing to him will generate a Greek GA. Unless we want that...

 

[GamezRule]

I might be able to play over the weekend, but I need somebody to fill me in...

EDIT: I'm out of school now, but I am busy Monday so I can play either over the weekend or Tuesday.

 

[madviking]

I'll be AFK for the rest of today and until noon tomorrow. So Gamez TAKE IT NOW.

 

[Daeron]

It might be worth an archer or 2 to kill that pillager. Annoyingly, losing to him will generate a Greek GA. Unless we want that...

I don't think we want to while we're still at 2 cities. Even so, I think it'd take up too many units to keep it from pillaging, so we'll have to kill it at some point. Plus, there will be more.

We'll discover iron very soon though, and if that is close, we might want to wait for swordsmen. Otherwise gather 3 archers and whack it at some point.

 

[GamezRule]

I started to play when I discovered that I didn't know where to settle our settlers!

 

[TheOverseer714]

Build some Spears to escort first, use one on the middle of the 3 Spice tiles, where they can't pillage.

 

[GamezRule]

However, it may be a good Idea to generate the Greek GA now instead of when they are stronger.

 

[GamezRule]

I am away from my Civ Computer today, but I can post the save late tonight.

 

[GamezRule]

Okay, sorry for the delay, but here is the save and my turnlog.

Spoiler :

Still can't get Civ Assist II to work, oh well, guess I play with out it...


Turn 0: Move workers east to (hopefully) return them to spices. Bring better defence into Istanbul.

IBT: Hopilite continues to pillage.
Iron Working -> Alphabet (can be changed later)
Two sources of Iron to the south, we must hurry to beat the Greeks!

Turn 1: Move workers towards spices. Shift Defence units.

IBT: Gilgamesh sends us a warning, I oblidge.
Istanbul: Archer -> Archer
Edrine: Spear -> Spear

Turn 2: I send the fresh archer to attack archer outside of Istanbul. He gets a promotion! Send a spear out to claim the Iron closest to Greece.

IBT: Greek Archer and Hopilite stack on each other.

Turn 3: Connect Spices.

IBT: GREEKS ATTACK ISTANBUL! We win, and Hopilite retreats!

Turn 4: Our Spear I sent out discovers Hopilite and Settler right next to Iron.

IBT: Greek Archer moves towards spices.
Istanbul: Archer -> Spearman

Turn 5: Send Settler out to Grab Iron while I can.

IBT: Hopilite moves towards newly roaded spices.
Cathrine demands we leave, I oblige.

Turn 6: Nothing worth Reporting.

IBT: Greeks found Corinth on farthest Spices.
Hopilie pulls away from Spices.
Edrine: Spear -> Spear

Turn 7: Nothing of Interest.

IBT: Istanbul: Spear -> Settler

Turn 8: Found Bursa on Iron, road almost there.

IBT: Nada.

Turn 9: BORING!!!

IBT: Hopilite moves into Corinth, there is now 2 in the city at least.

Turn 10: The standard stuff, moving units, managing towns...

Couldn't get my Screenshot to upload!

Add in more stuff later, I need to go.

 

[madviking]

Got it. I'll see what I can do.

 

[GamezRule]

We need to complete the road to the Iron city, then with our swords we can take down the Greeks.

BTW, Does anybody have any objections to my placement of the city. (On Iron)

 

[madviking]

Situation looks grim...

Pre-turn:
Turn entertainer in Istanbul to a taxman, add two more taxmen without delaying settler
Trade Iron Working + 150 gold to Russia for Alphabet and The Wheel
Start on Writing
Change Bursa to Rax
Change Edrine to Rax
Disband some warriors to save on maintenance
Greeks do not have iron hooked up!
1 (1475BC) - Uneventful
2 (1450BC) - Russian found Smolensk up north
3 (1425BC) - Istanbul Settler -> Rax
AS get Horseback Riding
Send settler party to southern iron
4 (1400BC) - Indians found Lahore near, but not in the fat cross, of the southern iron
5 (1375BC) - Edrine Rax -> Sword
Kill Greek archer roaming around Bursa
6 (1350BC) - Uneventful
7 (1325BC) - Kill another wandering Greek archer
8 (1300BC) - Russians found Krasnoyarsk in the north
9 (1275BC) - We found Iznik in the south -> Rax
10 (1250BC) - Bursa Rax -> Sword
Greeks still do not have iron!

 

[GamezRule]

Yes, situation looks very grim.

 

[madviking]

madviking - just played
Overseer - up
Calis - waiting...
Daeron
Gamezrule

 

[GamezRule]

If Sparthage has no objections, how about we take turns since I am very busy this Summer.

 

[CommandoBob]

lurker's comment:

(Inside Spoiler Tags) Still can't get Civ Assist II to work, oh well, guess I play with out it...

If your main use of CivAssistII is to check for trades and city unrest, try Map Stat (part of CrpSuite) instead.

I use both of them, but for different reasons.

In game, I like Map Stat and use three tabs every turn: Territory (civ, city count, culture and culture change), Happiness (?) which lists all my cities and shows which ones are cranky/about-to-be-cranky at the top of the list and Trading (available gold, resources to sell, resources to buy, techs to sell and techs to buy). There is also a tab for flipping, which I check from time to time.

CivAssisst does all that, too, and more. It counts your slaves, shows the details of each seperate trade deal with each civ, gives technology cost and shows city production, and a bunch of other good pieces of information also.

With MapStat you can Alt+Tab to another program (like Notepad or Word). CivAssistII doesn't do that as well, and that is a slowdown ingame.

MapStat isn't as pretty as CAII, but it is very functional for quick stuff.

I use/view MapStat like a quick check-up with the doctor. CivAssistII is more like a full-blown physical.