GK1- The Wrath of Khan!!

[Stapel]

Something to discuss:

Make peace with the Russians and go eat some camembert?

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Camembert is tres bon. But don't you think it would go well with some Russian black bread and English fish 'n' chips?

 

[Stapel]

Originally posted by Sir Bugsy
Camembert is tres bon. But don't you think it would go well with some Russian black bread and English fish 'n' chips?

Je prefere la cuisine Francaise!

But, regarding this game: We still need our 5th city. I still think 'France' is the best place to build. We also can hook up horsies then.

A 5cc is hard enough! We really need to abandon that corruption increasing village and build a decent city.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Oui, Monsieur. C'est une tres bonne idea. Une petit guerre avec la jolie Jeanne D'Arc est une tres bonne idea.

Please forgive my spelling.

 

[Stapel]

Originally posted by Gengis Khan
Gengis Khan- UP!
Our Resident Flyboy- on deck
An Irish Monk- on the bench
A past & future HOFer
A man inlove with his car- just played

Got it, I'll try to play tonight after work.

Any progress?

 

[Gengis Khan]

Finished with the turns, but I don't have time to post them before work, will post them as soon as I get home.

 

[Gengis Khan]

Pre-Turn:
Military Report- 11 workers(7slaves), 1 warrior, 3 archers, 3 spears, 9 swords, 2 pikes, & 5 cats. Not too shabby.
Diplo Relations- Russia(War)- outnumber us in units, up Engineering, & have iron & horses. India- outnumber us in units, up Engineering, horses but no iron. Babylon- outnumber us, up Eng, horses & iron. Zulu- outnumber us, horses & iron, up Eng. Persians(War) won’t answer us, & the English(War) are worthless.

France- average military compared to us, but more importantly our treaty is over this turn. So we either go to war now, or have to wait another 20 turns. That won’t work at all, we’re gonna have to put Russia on the back burner for a little bit. Also unfortunately France has 2 swords & some horses running around Ivoryopolis.

Accept peace with Russia for 7gpt & 1g.

Rush a pike in Ivoryopolis for 100g.

IT- France wants to renew our peace. Nope!
France completes Sun’s in Paris.

1- Move troops up towards border. A couple French units milling about turned into like 6.

IT- French units go after Leipzig.

2- Rush a pike in Leipzig.

IT- Attack on Leipzig: Elite Sw killed by horse, without scratching it.
Vet Sw kills attacking Sw, -3hp & promotes.
Vet Sw killed by horse, -1hp.
Berlin: Sw>Sw
Dyeburg: pike>aque
Leipzig: pike>sword

3- Take out 2 swords. Now the threat to Leipzig has been reduced to 6 units & is no longer a threat.

IT- Vet pike fends off attack from horse & promotes.

4- Kill French spear headed towards Berlin.
Kill off 2 swords outside Leipzig, threat to our interior is no more & I can start moving troops on France.

IT- Hammi wants our TM & 22 gold, reluctantly I cave.
Berlin: Sw>Sw

5- Kills 2 horses in our interior, leaving France with only 1. More good new, the units they had there was their primary attack force, compared to us their military is WEAK. HA!! France will burn, baby burn!

IT- Reg Sw fends off attack from horse, -1hp & promotes.
Ivoryopolis: sw>sw

6- Sw killed attacking spear, -3hp.
Sw kills spear & promotes to elite.

IT- Noo!! The French set up a small town right next to our units, I really wanted those 2 slaves.
Persia lands a galley & unloads a archer next to Coastville.

7- Vet sw killed attacking new city.
Elite Sw kills pike & burns Tours.

IT- Persian kills one of our spears at Coastville.

8- Spear attacks & kills wounded Persian archer.

IT-

9- Position troops outside Lyon.

IT- Coastville: aque>Sw

10- Watch 7 cats fail to take a single hp off defending pike

Good luck with the war!!


Homage to the RNG gods!

 

[Stapel]

Wow, you got your share of action here !

 

[Sir Bugsy]

I've been wondering why the schmuck who is up next hasn't given us the common courtesy of an "I got it." I've been getting really ticked off at him.

Then on closer inspection, I realized I was the schmuck.

Consider this a "Got it"

 

[Gengis Khan]

 

[Stapel]

This brings back memories to the old days, living in a student house. One of my mates had opened the hot water in the shower, to 'pre-heat' it a bit. He forgot......
Later that day he wrote a brilliant piece of proza on our message blackboard, accusing the rest of us......

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Pre-flight – 560 AD – We’re at war with France, Persia, and England. We have to be at war with England until she is dead. Persia wants Math for Peace. With his 4CC, X-man is in worse shape than us. You may have Math when you pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.

Joanie will actually give us Engineering and Education for peace, but when I ask for something more, she slaps me with those iron gloves of hers. It was only a city! Really!!

Education and Engineering are both pretty dear right now. Gandhi is the cheapest, but I’m not willing to go in hock that deep.

MMing only gains an extra 2gpt, Gengis

We need horses. A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. How about Joanie’s kingdom for a horse.

IBT – A French knight kills our vet sword near Lyons.
Berlin: Temple=> Sword
Leipzig: Sword=> Sword

1. 570 AD – Siege of Lyons: Cats go 1 for 5.
4/4 sword killed by 3/3 pike (redlined)
4/4 sword killed by 3/4 pike (-1hp)
5/5 Sword kills 2/4 pike (no loss)
5/5 Archer kills 1/3 Pike (-1hp)
Lyons is razed. 2 slaves captured.

5/5 Sword kills 3/4 Knight (-2hp)

If I can raze Paris, I can settle our real fifth city. I therefore swap Leipzig over to a settler.

IBT – Joanie drops off a settler pair right next to our SOD that just razed Lyons. X-man is sending over a huge armada of one galley. Cathy is sending a settler pair towards her last spot.
Ivory: Sword=> Sword

2. 580 AD – 4/5 Archer kills 3/3 spear and two more slaves join our slave club.
Rush the settler for 100G.
Rush a sword in Coastville to deal with the Persian landings that will probably happen next turn.
Start the march on Paris.

IBT – Coast: Sword=> Sword
Leipzig: Settler=> Worker

3. 590 AD – Marching.

IBT – An English warrior shows up.
Berlin: Sword=> Sword

4. 600 AD – Rush the worker in Leipzig for 28G. Next turn it will be down to pop 1.
Notice that Paris is built on the East side of the Seine River. One more turn to get the invasion force in place.

IBT – Leipzig: Worker=>Worker

5. 610 AD – 4/4 Sword kills 3/3 English warrior.
TFF in place for siege of Paris.

IBT – Cathy plants her settler pair down right next to our iron. This means war!

6. 620 AD – Siege of Paris: Cats go 0 for 5. I hate catapults.
Since the city is pop 7, this may be a tough nut to crack. I have a force of four sword heading to join up. I will wait until I have overwhelming force.

Move our sword out of Russian territory. And move a sword out of Dyes to attack.

Leipzig’s Barracks is sold for a whopping 2G, then the city is abandoned. New city coming up.

IBT – Shaka demands TM & 53G. Since I’m just about to start kicking Cathy’s butt from here to Timbuktu, I give in. Shaka, your time will come…soon.
Berlin: Sword=>Warrior (more sword upgrades when we get iron back)
Coast: Sword=> Warrior

7. 630 AD – Ahhhh! I check our active deals with Cathy and we have two turns left on a peace treaty with cash deal. I will position troops for the Russian war.
Siege of Paris: cats go 1 for 5.

IBT – Our top pike retreats a French knight without loss.
Berlin: Warrior=> Warrior
Dyes: Aqueduct=>Warrior

8. 640 AD – Found Vineland at 10.5 tiles from Berlin. I think it is on a river, but it does grab the wines. Start Barracks.
Siege of Paris: cats go 1 for 5.

IBT – Berlin: warrior=> warrior
Ivory: sword=>warrior
Coast: Warrior=>warrior

9. 650 AD – Siege of Paris: cats strike out. The task force is now complete and should be ready for the assault next turn. There are 7 swords and an archer in the stack.

After Action Report: I’ll stop there since we should be stopping on the 50’s.

We also have four swords ready to sack Grozny. The peace treaty expires next turn. So time to get our iron back.

I started some workers out west of Ivory. The idea is to build a strategic road to take it to England.

X-man will now give us Peace straight up.

To the next player: :devil2: have fun

>>SAVE<<

Bugsy

 

[Gengis Khan]

Nice turn bugsy.

While fighting a 2 front war for a little while doesn't sound that great, I think we can manage until Joan is down to a city or two, & then extort her techs. Besides we only really need to be at war with Russia for 5 turns or so.

 

[Stapel]

A small note for the next player: I think you need to wait one more turn to declare, to avoid a rep hit.

 

[Stapel]

Hmmm,

Is TFF capable of razing Paris? I really doubt it!

If we succeed, all is well, but even then it will take some turns to hook up horsies. Just like our iron resource, it will be on easy to settle (French / Babs) grounds. So we might loose it soon!

If we do not succeed, (I think we won't) we will loose TFF. And Russia will strike with knights.

I think the best plan is to prevend a two front war.

-Make peace with Jeanne for two techs, and all she has on gold and all her workers.
-Move all troops to Russian Front asap
-raze Grozny
-Hold of Russian troops near Dyeburg (won't be easy....)

-Hook up the horsies near Indus? We already have some workers near...
-See if we can trade for horsies, by harbour? nah....

Doesn't sounds like a brilliant plan, but I can't find a better one

When doing some more thinking:
I think peace with France and hooking up horsies (with the help of the Berlin worker force) near Indus is the best plan. I realize we might loose these horsies soon. There is also iron, just north of the Indus horsies.

We will always have the possibility of war with the Indians..... Their core is further away...

My conclusion:
It even might be a good idea to keep peace with the Russians and forget about the old iron souce (for now....) . Our swords are obsolete anyway. So: make peace and keep peace, build libraries everywhere, build a harbour. Hook up horsies and iron west and northwest of Ivory City. Build up a knights force. Be prepared to do some Indian bashing (in case Mahatma builds culture or settler there), but focus on France and Russia.

 

[Bede]

So now that Our Errant Knight has had his fun, drinking wine and slapping women in iron suits around, the poor humble monk gets to clean up behind him.
And fight the fat woman in pearls!!!
And the cat in the hat from over the ocean!!!
Not to mention the WWW!!!
And I almost forgot about the Whore of Babylon.
What a catfight.

And none of the advisors agree on a plan of action.


Got it.

 

[Stapel]

I am ready for discussion!

No war with Jeanne now!

 

[gormdragan]

You can check if Cathy has more than 1 iron source, if "our" source is the only one, then once we retake gronzy, no knight threat.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

I think we should stay at war with France at least long enough to disconnect her iron and horses. Maybe we should consider the pillage all tiles around the capitol move and make her starve. It is much longer and harder, but it is effective.

Oh, Bede, she slapped me. Those iron gloves hurt!

 

[Stapel]

Originally posted by gormdragan
You can check if Cathy has more than 1 iron source, if "our" source is the only one, then once we retake gronzy, no knight threat.

North of Kiev

Sir Bugsy
I think we should stay at war with France at least long enough to disconnect her iron and horses. Maybe we should consider the pillage all tiles around the capitol move and make her starve. It is much longer and harder, but it is effective.

Seems fair. Just don't attack Paris with 7 swords vs 3, 4, 5, or 6 pikes.