Fox-03 -- Trying to be Special

Bede · May 18, 2006

@namliaM, that's that little arrow of teal at the gates of Turfan.

I probably should have waited for Flight as the advance is going to stall for a bit and fighters would have done good things to keep it moving, especially in the west.

Kikinit · May 18, 2006

Bah... what's all this wimpy talk of waiting for flight to go to war?!? We've got artillery, infantry and he's only got riflemen... The planes can come when they're bl**dy well ready. This is a game of conquest not "lets be nice to Alex."

Ok.. I've let my warmonger out of the bag now... by the way, nice turns Bede.

namliaM · May 19, 2006

What blue arrow? I dont get it? It must be me ... :crazyeye:

Up and at em GreyFox... I hope you recovered from beeing drunk... :cool:

Kikinit · May 19, 2006

namliaM, see if this helps to explain it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salient .

I think Bede was basically just waxing lyrical. And Teal is the colour of Alex.

GreyFox · May 19, 2006

Got it ... playing later tonight (i am up at 3 SGs) :eek:

Just something to whet the lurkers: we are at 65.49% pop, and 53.69% land-area. I am abit worried about our south-eastern most cities as Alex's main force is in Calcutta ... he may choose to shift them south instead poulling them back west.

We have sucessfully break Alex's land into two. The western half is easy picking (should be), the eastern half are recently conquered, so may not be that great in production. So, I think we should try to take out as much of his western cities as possible befor ehe can recover.

@namliaM: fully recovered

... I wasn't too drunk ... you can't get very drunk in Singapore ... its a virtual impossibility.

Kikinit · May 19, 2006

Grey, I've managed to get quite drunk a number of times in Singapore. I'm not sure how it's virtual impossibility, you just have to drink more or drink heavier spirits. I was also out at boat quay last night and had a headache this morning.

We will need to take quite a bit of Alex's lands to reach the domination level. We had talked about going conquest but I seem to recall that Alex has got a town in the new world so we would have to go take that out to win conquest.

GreyFox · May 19, 2006

Because its too expensive for a poor old man like me to buy that much alcohol to get drunk

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And to be on topic: Playing ...

Rex Tyrannus · May 19, 2006

Good Grass said:
And to be on topic:

Heaven forbid that you would violate the sacrosanct no-spam rules of a Fox SG.

GreyFox · May 19, 2006

That's right ... absolutey no spam!

Just an update ... played 11 turns :eek:

... sorry.

However, there is too many pictures, so I am going to post tomorrow morning ... Just a bit of spoiler: rex, don't cancel your plans to play Fox-03 ...

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Rex Tyrannus · May 19, 2006

our sober Asian said:
Just a bit of spoiler: rex, don't cancel your plans to play Fox-03

???

Okay. I won't. Was I planning on canceling?

namliaM · May 19, 2006

Kikinit said:
namliaM, see if this helps to explain it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salient .

I think Bede was basically just waxing lyrical. And Teal is the colour of Alex.

Aha a salient, still dont totaly get it.... but I guess its somewhere where you easy see oponents comming and kill them before they get there ....

GreyFox said:
@namliaM: fully recovered ... I wasn't too drunk ... you can't get very drunk in Singapore ... its a virtual impossibility.

How is that? I mean you drink and drink and get totaly pissed?! Not very drunk? I like Singapore allready

You should try getting drunk in sweden ... :beer:

Kikinit · May 20, 2006

Hey Grey, it's tomorrow night already. They must be really big pictures if they take this long to upload... :mischief:

GreyFox · May 20, 2006

yep they are ...

Patience ... coming up in an hour.

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GreyFox · May 20, 2006

GreyFox once again looked upon the Great Emppire of Germany. Its was once a small city, just like the GreyFox family was once a humble lowly cook. Now Germany spans the entire main continent, and the GreyFox family is now the Imperial Family.

The war with the Greeks rages on, but GreyFox knew they would eventually crush the treacherous Greeks. The Western front may be a bit more delicate, but that's manageable as long as the Indians keep the Greeks busy.

The key is to keep the pressure on the Greeks, and slowly, but surely eradicate their presnc ein the main continent one by one ...

Bombay was first ...

Next is Delphi ...

It seems like the Indians wasn't doing much at occupying Alex's attention. Look at the forces he pulled off the Indian front to attempt to re-take Bombay.

However, with a bit of drafting and shifting forces, Bombay remains firmly eld in German's hand.

Welcome to the Modern Era, ladies ad gentleman. This is the year the Wright Borthers demonstrated a flying machine.

And what's Alex thinking? Still trying to settle while the world is at war with him?

Ironically, he was saved by Asoka ... temporarily ...

Ever heard of "You can run, but you can't hide?"

In your case, my dear alex, it will be "You can't run, but you can hide .... at the bottom of the sea!" :lol:

We soon razed Pharsalos,

and added 3 more cities to the German Empire ... Themopylae

Tianjin, ...

and Sparta

Spoiler :

In all my excitement, I hit enter one too fast, and lead us to 1921AD.

GreyFox · May 20, 2006

Why did I press enter one more time? Why did I forget to post the save? Why did I not post the roster?

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Answer:

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Replay

In the begining ...

Then the Mongolian declared war ...

And their cities were quickly assmilated into German Empire ...

Then the Chinese and Roman made the same mistake ...

and they were promptly erased from the face of Earth as well.

Soon it was Louis' turn ...

With no more frog legs, the German Empire started to advance on the Greeks ...

And finally,

the Glorious German Empire reaches domination in Triumph.

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GreyFox · May 20, 2006

Some Statistics

Our Score:

Our GNP, which was a catching up all the way until Qin was eliminated ...

Our Production:

Food Yield:

Power:

And finally, culture:

The above in table format at the end of the game:

Top 5 cities:

The units built and killed:

And finally, our score:

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Well done, guys! It has been a pleasure. Although the city designations did seems a bit messy at times, but I think it was evident that the power of specialization is not to be under-estimated. The thing is, leverage on each city's strongest traits. Obviously there are different ways of doing things, but it just go to show how balanced Civ4 is. Every approach ismore or less equally viable.

I was a bit disappointed that we have to resort to war ... but guess we were pulled into it earlier on, and we did a fabulous job of turning it into an advantage. We had also made good use of "friends" such as Alex.

In all, an extremely well-played game. Fun, entertaining, and educational.

Regretably, due to my graphics card issues, I can no longer play Civ4 on my home computer, so I am forced to cut back on the number of SG I can participate in the short term. Hence, I don't think you guys would see a Fox-04 soon. But stay around, guys, And I am sure we will play a game or two again in the future.

Once again, its an honor "trying to be special" alongside such a fine, special, group of players.

Rex Tyrannus · May 20, 2006

Well done, all. Though a bit of me would like to grab the last save and take it to conquest. THat power graph, btw, is telling. According to it, Alex was our equal when Blitzkrieg Bede declared on him. Clearly, Alex was a paper tiger and the power graph must always be taken with a grain of salt.

(apologies to the non-english native speakers for the above coloquilisms. Google 'em if you need to

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blid · May 20, 2006

oh finished alreday :sad:

t'was an educational game and funny read

@cook : better get a new graphic card and launch Fox-04. You don't want to stop the fox series now, don't you ?

@Rex : those "coloquilisms" were quite clear though I didn't hear them before. That's one other thing I like about SGs. I'm improving my english every day. "coloquilisms" itself is another matter

Anyway, just to be sure I was getting them right, I "googlised" a bit :

- paper tiger : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_tiger
- with a grain of salt : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt. Same stands for the GNP here. You just play with your slider and your position changes. It does'nt tell you a thing about research speed, the most important thing
- Blitzkrieg Bede : not found in wikipedia. Maybe ask Bede himself :lol:

@all : see you in other SGs

namliaM · May 20, 2006

Was a good thing I was skipped, cause I wouldnt have gotten us as far as bede did... I would have bodged it....

Nice going, particular the end is quite quick... getting a lot of cities....

Nice playing with you folks (again) thanks for the fun and lessons learned... and my first monarch game...

Bede · May 20, 2006

Nice finish Fox.

@namliaM, I don't think you would have bodged it.

Well played all. I will confess to a little internal grumbling at the city specialization thing as I think it may have hampered rather than helped, but as a learning tool it was unparalleled.

And whisky for the men and :beer:

for the horses!

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