GA II - Straight-Up DemiGod

[ThERat]

I think Romans will run away, UN victory seems unlikely, cos they all fight each other, but the will get the spaceship soon, we either have to destroy their capital before its too late or game is gone

btw, here at the equator, it is hot day in day out...but not 37deg, more like 33

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Turn 0 - 1525 AD
Wow, our happiness is terrible, to be frank. We have to crank luxury up to 30% to make up for it. There goes 100+ gpt we could've saved...
We renegotiate a Silks for 20 gpt deal with Greece so it is Silks for Dyes and 5 gpt. Not bad.

Turn 1 - 1530 AD
Cool, we have a galleon with settlers and workers to get the Rubber island. Smart.
We lose one cavalry attacking infantry. Still can't get peace.

IBT: We lose Strasbourg to the Portugese.
Rome is building the UN.

Turn 2 - 1535 AD
We recapture Strasbourg.
Still no peace talks...

Turn 3 - 1540 AD
We unload our settler, workers, and musketeer on the rubber island.

Turn 4 - 1545 AD
Still no peace talks.
A 4/4 Cavalry retreats 1/4 after making a 3/3 Spear 2/3.
We try an immediate steal with Rome and... we're at war. At least I tried.

Turn 5 - 1550 AD
Capture 1 Artillery.

Turn 6 - 1555 AD
Move troops (5 cavs) within distance of guimaraes. They might just pillage, depending on the defenders.

IBT: Roman bombers bomb our cities.
We lose our galleon and submarine.

Turn 7 - 1560 AD
We settle the rubber colony. Production on harbor is set.
Capture three slaves.

IBT: Rome is building the Manhattan Project.

Turn 8 - 1565 AD
IBT: Rome drops off Tanks on our mainland!

Turn 9 - 1570 AD
I decided to stop here - where do we want to go with this game? We need peace asap, so we have better happiness = more gold. Feel free to

discuss...I doubt we will win this game, however...

 

[ThERat]

7. this is DG, if we aren't fast, the AI will beat us to whatever other victory condition there is

I stated that some time ago and I think it still holds, except maybe for UN since everyone is fighting each other.
Cav vs tanks?
I hope we do have plenty of artys by now to at least redline them
Rome will beat us on the spaceship, I guess. nothing much we can do.

We started on an island with 5 opponents without ANY resource. I trashed the reputation (something is really broken in Civ3 and reputation), Viper vaporized our SOD twice...I guess there isn't much we can do to salvage, but as Bede said

Game ain't gone 'til they carry me out on stretcher.

 

[Bede]

Artillery, cavalry and some infantry can deal with tanks, and you don't even need the infantry.

Remember, the AI is not very creative. Once they find a landing spot they will use it forever. Properly positioned artillery with cav's behind can deal with a transporter load of tanks, heal up and deal with the next one. Just need lots of each.

 

[gozpel]

What Bede said, artillery will be our best friend.

I'm not sure how to handle the Romans though. And I have no time for further analysesis?

I think we need to dogpile Caesar.

 

[ThERat]

since I see Bede online once in a while, do you know you're up in this one? Good luck though, you will need it...a dogpile might be the only chance

Ginger_Ale
Bede - up
gozpel
ThERat
viper275

 

[Bede]

Oops, missed it.

Got it, playing on.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Sorry Bede, that was partly my fault - forgot to post the roster here.

I'm leaving now for my vacation until the 30th, so until then, good luck.

 

[Bede]

Well, I had just started the game when the power went. Snowstorm dropping what looks to be about 12 inches....

Will get it tonight, unless Antipodean goz wants to swap? I have no idea what time it is down there.

 

[ThERat]

it's almost midnight in down under, i doubt he would play tonight...never mind take your time...tomorrow night is ok
snowstorm? sounds good to me, here there is hardly a chance to see any snow ever...what a christmas

 

[Bede]

Artillery, cavalry and some infantry can deal with tanks, and you don't even need the infantry.

Remember, the AI is not very creative. Once they find a landing spot they will use it forever. Properly positioned artillery with cav's behind can deal with a transporter load of tanks, heal up and deal with the next one. Just need lots of each.

Well I was right and I was wrong....

1570-1600

Early - Staved off the Portugese then made peace paying him a whole bundle of cash for Nationalism (170gpt). The peace dividend though was more than twice that. Swapped some luxuries to my buddies Ragnar and Alex, then allied them against Rome.

Middle - Rome landed at Grenoble with a transporter full of tanks. However he was stupid ; he landed on a mountain-top and had nowhere to go but into Grenoble or onto a railed hillside. Filled the town with muskets, then put muskets and artillery on the hillside and pounded his tanks into weakness. He attacked out to the hill and lost three tanks and three retreated. Lost the musket army finishing them off though.

Late - Julius now has at least one carrier off our east coast. Bombed Paris and Avignon then landed seven tanks right in the middle of the core. Whacked 'em with artillery, then took them apart with cavalry and infantry.

Shipped some more luxuries and saltpeter to Ragnar for Espionage so Paris is now building the Intelligence Agency.

There is not much left in the way of defenders in the south as most have been sent to the core to deal with Julius's little incursion. Henry decdied he didn't want any of our silks or other nice stuff and signed a trade embargo with the Roman. We owe him most of his income so I am not looking for a sneak attack, but I would rebuild the defence in the south. Alex has been hammering Henry pretty hard. I gave Alex an RoP so he could move his troops around a little better and it paid off when he hit the Roman tanks which landed in the core. Did some serious damage but it still took most of the cavalry and some infantry attacks to finish them.

Marseilles decided to riot when Rome landed at Paris. :shakehead: I founded Plainville and Eden Prairie in the south claiming some of those nice floodplains.

 

[ThERat]

later today I will have some time, I will swap with xmas busy gozpel, he indicated that swaps during this time are ok.

 

[gozpel]

Yes please swap with me, or I'll be in trouble here. Lots of relatives are visiting and the wife is getting annoyed with me

 

[ThERat]

1. 1605AD
lose 2 Cavs and 1 inf trying to reduce the stack of roman units, we do not have enough arty

IT 4 musketeer defend against 2 cavs and 2 tanks

2. 1610AD
some deal ends, get corporation from vikings for 102gpt, need to increase lux to 10%

IT
our rubber is history soon, Romans land 4 MA's there, then I think the sub bug strikes as Greece and Portugal sign peace and Greece immediately declares again

3. 1615 gift rubber town to Portugal since they are at peace with Romans, let's see what happens, well Rome doesn't attack

4. 1620AD Rome finishes UN
no landings from Rome for 3 turns already

IT Rome finshes Manhatten,

6. 1630AD
we finish Intelligence Agency, try to plant spy at Rome, fail
so I try Portugal, it does not matter anyway but I succeed
their army is not so great as well, 38 inf and 8 tanks

IT trouble, Romans land 2 MA, 2 tanks and 2 inf

8. 1640AD
our arty does well, even 2 treb hit tanks
kill 3 of them but lose 2 Cavs

10 1650AD
attempt steal with Vikings and succeed, take refining, a few more techs and we have at least tanks
oh, I should have known, of course we do NOT have oil as well

 

[Bede]

Ouch...and so it goes.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

I'm back all. Yes, Bede, that was quite a snowstorm...

gozpel is up if he can get it, viper is on deck!

 

[gozpel]

If I can't play during daytime today, I will be awfully drunk by night time and shouldn't play It's the last day of the year already, at least down under.

And tomorrow will be the day after.

But I check in later when I know the schedule for the day

 

[ThERat]

@gozpel
you are wrong, this game should be played only when drunk.

so how about you try while the party is in full swing. have a great new year, here ppl are a bit sober, s'pore was spared but you know what happened...but life, esp SG life goes on...good luck in this game

 

[Ginger_Ale]

I take it you cannont play gozpel? If so, it's no problem, we'll just swap/skip. Let us know of your situation, I see you have some other SGs as well.

 

[gozpel]

I started to play a couple of turns yesterday, but my computer can't take heat over 30C. And the weather will be about the same today (it's already 28C at 10 in the morning), so if you can take this now GA and I grab it after you.

I can't wait for those westerlies that is supposed to bring cooler weather tomorrow.

I'm posting as quick as I can in my threads before the comp decides to have a rest