gmaharriet01

[Bede]

Hey now - I like the occasional sphear... they can come in handy. We don't need a heckuva lot of 'em... but like a good merlot... they're just fine in moderation.

As for Temples... why not? What should we build for a little culture, Libraries?

Ah libraries... pooh, feh. Mongolian Librarians are Persnickety Parasites who pillage the body politic. Go ahead and give me a lousy additional content citizen in this no-research variant. You want knowledge? Buy it. An unused library is a waste of shields, a drain on the treasury, and a mini-monument to formulaic play.

lurker's comment:


I resemble those remarks....

Skip the temples and build granaries. Buy the Wheel and find the horses. Get ready to play Ceremonial Ball with the Maya. Train a horde of horsemen and rule the continent. You will want libraries, though, same culture as a cathedral and cost less to maintain and come earlier. So what if the proles only use them for reading the latest issues of "Mounted Warfare" and "Horde" and "Popular Pillaging".

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

checking in. nicely done fe.

me and igor have returned.

 

[Whomp]

Missed ya AK. We love you, man.
OK on that note I got the discs so I got it.

 

[gmaharriet]

Missed ya AK. We love you, man.
OK on that note I got the discs so I got it.

I missed ya and love you too, man!

Yayyy!!! Whomp's got discs and the game.

Everything is good now.

 

[Whomp]

Well Fe's story goes down in the annals of the best story by a first timer. Tough act to follow.
Back to Khhhhaaaannn!!!
First things first. The poor folks in Irongold need some love. Give them some entertainment for 2g and Irongold adds a citizen. Next turn Felix the Spear will be in town so life's good.

2150 Lil' Lou Reed is cornered.

Hopefully someone will come to his rescue.
Gold goes from 8gpt to 13gpt. Nice job Felix. Pretty Boy spies a village and sends a smoke signal to Scout's Scout to investigate.

2110 Nada mucho happens

IT Capital Crone get a settler and starts a archer. Kazan get a warrior and starts a temple. Irongold trains Billy Tell and starts a worker.
2070 Lulu finishes her road and moves to chop some trees outside of Kazan's borders. Alice starts a mine at Irongold and Zelda moves to a place where she can mine a bg. Gpt +13 with the lux down to 10%.

2030 Hey buddy. Whatcha doin?

IT Teddy Rumble trains archer Eagle Eye and starts a temple
1990 New city Fumbahlieyah! is established on another Scout dot west of Capital Crone. Scout's Scout grabs 25g from the Sakae tribe. They were very generous considering Smoke had a deal. We have mysticism and he has iron working. He wants another 168g and it leaves us the Sakae tribes booty in the kitty.

IT Whomplai Kahn the archer finishes in Capital Crone and a settler starts.
1950 moving around

IT snoozer
1910 Good year for more sleep.

IT Forest chop finishes in Kazan. Glenda is trained in Irongold who starts a archer.
1870

IT Aspirin has a barb appear near Kazan. Capital Crone finishes a settler and starts a archer.
1830 Aspirin takes a little damage but kills the silly barb.

IT Banana Rama finishes a worker named Dot and starts another.
1790 Oh boy Lou Reed gets to move and sees this!!

IT oh boy! Whomplai Kahn gets some action.
1750 Whomplai is flawless.

Summary
Here's the cities. There's a 2nd chop at Kazan and it may be worthwhile rushing a citizen once the city has 20s left. Things are moving along pretty well but the other continent is cranking research since map making is known. I think we should try to keep the Mayans alive until we meet some new folks since they are our sole research option. There's lots of combinations of tiles to use with Capital Crone and Rumble Teddy.

 

[gmaharriet]

Doing great, Whomp! I agree with letting the Maya live to do our research for us.

Where do you guys come up with such great names for towns and units? I can never thing of anything and settle for the defaults.

Regular roster update:
AK - up
Lurker - on deck (first lurker to post a got it)
Scout - got us started
Gram H. - scouted some more
Fe - got BW, a spear and a good meal (swapped with Whomp)
Whomp - got us another town, IW and freed our endangered scout

Lurkers:
zerksees
Own
madviking
Ansar the King
IroquoisPlisken
Mistfit
Smart
Tim Bentley
Bede

 

[fe3333au]

and the story continues ... excellent ... watch out for them floaty things

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

I have "it".

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

On an island with Smoke, no boats, doing 100k, rusty on 3, with a lurker coming up to make fun of me. Hmmm. Oh yeah, no research. Temples v. libraries? Won't we need both? And, of course, Smoke has iron. And the lux, did I mention the lux? Where are all the lux? Settler pump? Worker pump? Look at all the barb camps!

1750 Crone finished archer. Starts a settler. What's up with the unworked BG by the capital?

1725 Move units in random patterns. Not sure what Dot the worker is up to, so leave her alone.

1700 Igor redlines taking out a barb warrior. Billy Tell falls to a barb warrior. Pretty Boy finds a new barb camp. Buy Wheel from Smoke for 16gpt and 50 gold. Now we can make donuts. Hmmm donuts.

1675 Pretty Boy becomes regular with fiber and by taking out a Kushans camp. Academy Idiotechnica founded.

1650 Lou Reed takes a walk on the wild side. Smoke gets the munchies.

1625 more random movements of units

IT - Smoke declares and flawlessly loses 2 warriors to archers. Thanks. That 16gpt will come in handy (sorry having a flashback; deja vu all over again). The peeps love us (must be the cask races at the academy) Harriet decides we're not cave dwellers anymore

1600 Igor kills a barb without redlining

1575 Igor kills another barb. Disband Scouts Scout in Rumble Teddy and shave a turn off the temple.

Crone finishes archer. Starts another settler. I'll let someone else decide where to build the pump once the tiles are worked.

1550 Igor finally finishes taking out the barb camp. The Aryans go out with a legacy of 25g. Jello gets disbanded.

1525 Animal Farm is founded, right on the ponies
Smoke finishes the Colossus in CI

1500 Panda Boy starts chopping the bananas.

Smoke is, as yet, unwilling to smoke the pipe of peace. There's an archer pair moving south. The builds are pretty flexible. We should decide on where the settler pump goes in the next 10-20 turns. I'm pretty rusty, so I know there's something I've forgotten; the lurker can fix.

Can't seem to upload now. Will try later.

 

[fe3333au]

Damn we are at war ... so we need to bolster the souther front

Building the UU now?

But that will probably mean Golden Age ... but then again there may never be another trigger opportunity if Maya wiped out

 

[gmaharriet]

Pretty Boy becomes regular with fiber and by taking out a Kushans camp.

A new technique for regulars, AK? Looking good with ponies available now.

Regular roster update:
Lurker turn - up (first lurker to post a got it)
Scout - on deck
Gram H. - scouted some more
Fe - got BW, a spear and a good meal (swapped with Whomp)
Whomp - got us another town, IW and freed our endangered scout
AK - got 2 more towns and ponies hooked up.

Lurkers:
zerksees
Own
madviking
Ansar the King
IroquoisPlisken
Mistfit
Smart
Tim Bentley
Bede

 

[Bede]

lurker's comment:

No UU until Feudalism.

The Jaguar is feeling the pressure. That's good. If he has iron, not so good. Time for a little skirmishing action with archers and (c)harriets, since you have both wheels and arrows.

Leave lots of open land and farm it for cash from barbarians until a neighbor from across the seas appears. Then you will have something to work with if you have lots of cash.

 

[Whomp]

Nice AK. Just so you know I was switching to commerce tiles where we didn't need the overrun of a BG.

What a nut that Smoke is. By the time he reaches our borders he'll be begging for "lurker" peace.

I'm not sure we have a city that has bonus food to pump settlers so the Capital Crone seems to be our best bet for archer/settler. If Academy Idiotechnica was placed between the oasis and tobacco I think that could have the potential for a decent worker pump. We'll need lots of them with all the jungles and marshes.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

save is now up in the prior post. I'm having issues getting the images to work.

 

[madviking]

AdmiralK- the upload server is down.

 

[Whomp]

save is now up in the prior post. I'm having issues getting the images to work.

Can I teach you something new?
If you click the upload server thingy...it has this link to "imageshack"
....click that
....hit browse
....pick up your picture (800x600)
....upload it
....copy the last link
....rinse and repeat.

 

[Ansar]

lurker's comment: Im not playing, but i recommend, if the maya bring Stacks of Jav's and swords, then just send a chariot and pillage the iron.

EDIT:2000 post!

 

[gmaharriet]

EDIT:2000 post!

Hey! Congratulations!!! I remember when you first joined.

 

[Whomp]

Here's the picture AK couldn't post...

Congrats Ansar!

 

[madviking]

lurker's comment: Not gonna play, but a request. Name a city after me.