gmaharriet1.1

[Ansar]

No spots left open...so im lurking.

 

[Bede]

Harriet is ready for Deity!!!

Pre-turn Aztecs 1200ad - Move galleons toward our main continent to pick up cavs being built. Move a cav to Elephantine for MP and move the AC Army to Giza. MM a bit to get another 7gpt without slowing growth, builds or research. Move most of our military in Osaka to just outside the Arab borders of Najran. Hit <enter>

And I thought only goz could find the pennies rolling around on the floor.

 

[classical_hero]

So far the roster looks like this:
gmaharriet
Whomp
Bede <---in for a penny, or in for a pound?
SimpleMonkey
Admiral Kutzov
madviking
classical_hero
and... me!

According to this it should be Whomps turn, but Bede played the first turn so only Scout will know the actual order.

 

[Whomp]

Nice going Gram.
I hope to have my new hard drive installed this week sometime. I will post as soon as it's working. Grrr..

 

[gmaharriet]

And I thought only goz could find the pennies rolling around on the floor.

I had the very best teacher, didn't I? Still could use a few pointers on policemen and CE's (and, yes, I've read your War Academy article).

On the Roster:

I drew names from a hat, but made sure Whomp and Fe were at the end due to each of them having some temporary (I hope) problems. How does this sound? Scout can make changes later if he wishes.

Bede
gma
AK
Scout
Classical Hero
Simple Monkey
mad viking
Whomp
Fe

 

[TimBentley]

For the curious, with the current number of cities in communism, corruption would be 48%, 34% with a courthouse, 27% with a police station and courthouse, and I could figure it out with both and WLTKD but it's not worth the effort (and police stations are probably unlikely to be built anyways, so throw in WLTKD as you see fit). With the SPHQ, they would be 37%, 25%, and 18%. Considering the spt (and therefore how the decreased corruption would or wouldn't reduce the time to build units) would be interesting, but that would take actual work, so I won't do that at the moment.

Quite a massive roster (but apparently expansion is acceptable and forthcoming); some warmongering sounds enjoyable (ironically, I started to write this message about the time I got a PM from gmaharriet).

 

[Whomp]

Great stuff Tim!! From my perspective that makes a very strong case for putting in courts in the cities with the highest shield/commerce count (whether corrupt or uncorrupt).

 

[gmaharriet]

Welcome, TimBentley!!! Glad to have you on board with us.

How does this sound for a roster? I'm leaving Fe last as he seemed unsure of his health status last time he posted.

Bede
gma
AK
Scout
Classical Hero
Simple Monkey
mad viking
Whomp
Tim Bentley
Fe

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

got it. setting up Scout for continued attacks.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Turn Zero - 1250AD

The Demise of Damascus. Wake AC at Kagoshima and send him out as scout (pun intended). He finds this:

Demise of Damascus
5/5 AC flawless impales self on 3/3 spear.
4/4 cavalry flawlessly impales on 3/3 spear.
4/4 cavalry executes 2/4 spear
4/4 cavalry attacks 1/3 spear and great, we'll install a new governor named Tubby.

I wake a few units to set up for the Battle of Baghdad:

IT
Three Persian Cavalry on border patrol in France. Hmm. Igor can say "RoP, ugh". Industry finishes. Start Idiot Replacable Parts @ 90%, -35gpt, due in 6.

Turn One - 1255AD

Upgrade a treb to Magic Ironball Thingy.

Battle of Baghdad
5/5 cavalry flawlessly kills 3/3 LB. No citation for valor.
4/4 cavalry flawlessly kills 4/4 spear
5/5 cavalry flawlessly kills 3/3 spear
4/4 cavalry flawlessly kills 3/3 spear and great, we'll install a new governor named Irongold.

Attack of the Basra Neck

4/4 cav kills 3/3 LB
4/4 cav kills 3/3 spear, takes one damage is decorated
4/4 cav kills 3/3 LB and promotes
12/13 army kills 3/3 spear

Advance many units. Rail many tiles.

IT
Things get interesting. Persia attacks at Tlaxcala. Lose a MDI or something else meaningless. No cities lost. Landing by knight at Ziplaltepac. New tech to buy from France: commie.

15 Persian cav await the chance to attack:

Turn Two - 1260AD

First the easy front:

Basra Blown Up
4/5 cav retreats from 3/3 spear, RL
4/4 cav flawlessly kills 2/3 spear
4/4 cav kills 3/3 spear, promotes
4/4 cav kills 3/3 spear, no joy
4/4 cav kills 3/3 spear, promotes
5/5 cav kills 3/3 spear, no joy and great, we'll install a new governor, Mauer

Attack on Aden
4/4 cav attacks 4/4 spear, RL
4/4 cav kills 3/3 spear
4/4 cav kills 3/3 spear and great, we'll install a new governor

Annihlation of Anjar
14/17 army kills 5/5 spear
4/4 cav kills 3/3 spear
4/4 cav kills 3/3 spear and great, we'll install another new governor

Yamama. Oh yeah, them's fighting words. Ya mama
14/14 army kills 3/3 spear
12/13 army kills 3/3 spear

Attacks on the Arabian Front are now complete for Turn Two. Sorry for the slow progress.

Now to the homeland. Joanie will join us against the Persians for furs and coals. If I throw in RoP, she'll go for it straight up (pun intended). I have an idea a la Scout. I wake almost all of the JW, warriors, LB and horsemen that scout has strategically positioned about the homeland. I make a mini-maginot:

3/3 JW kills a RL persian cav just for giggles.

Only city I'm worried about is Zitland.

Upgrade some units to rifles

IT
That was interesting. Persia managed to generate Daruis. As anticipated they killed most of the obsolete units.

Turn Three - 1265AD
Now I make the deal with Joanie. RoP + Alliance v. X straight up. Counterattack begins with movement of cannons to Tlaxcala outskirts for plinking duty.

Defense of Tlaxcala
cannon go 4 for 7
3/3 LB kills RL cav and promotes.
4/4 LB kills 2/4 cav, RL

Drop science to 60%, RP now in 6 at +108gpt

Back to Arabia

Killing of Khurasan
4/4 cav kills 3/3 spear
17/17 army kills 3/3 spear and great, we'll install a new governor

Battle of Bukhara
5/5 cav kills 3/3 spear
ditto
4/4 cav kills 3/3 spear and great, we'll install a new governor

Yamama. Oh yeah, them's fighting words. Ya mama (continued)
5/5 cav kills 3/3 spear and great, we'll install a new governor

Finale of Fustat
14/14 army kills 3/3 musket
14/14 army kills 3/3 spear and takes Fustat

Muscat Mummified
11/13 army kills two 3/3 spears and its ours

Mansura Meets Maker
4/4 cav kills 4/4 spear, taking 2 damage
4/4 cav kills 4/4 spear and its ours

Kanesh Krumbles
14/14 army attack 2 3/3 spears and its ours

Fez remains. Prepare to move some units back to the homeland.

This should be fun to watch. Center on Lyon where X has about 11 Cavs and hit enter.

IT
The invasion force is spent. The cavs that live run back into the french countryside. There are two live cavs in our territory.

Turn Four

Take Fez. The solid arabs have been destroyed. Will begin cleaning up for Scout. Note I've been at this for about 3.5 hours.

I'll finish cleaning up as best I can and then post the save.

 

[Whomp]

Yo Mama! Nice, nice.

Quick Whomper update...I learned even an idiot can install a hard drive. However, it takes a recovery disk (hopefully tomorrow) to actually do anything on a machine with a hard drive but without an operating system.

 

[scoutsout]

@Whomp: Many look forward to your actual return.

@Harriet: Nicely fought, on two fronts no less!

As a finer point... you could've signed a MPP w/ France...and then Persia would've been at war the moment the X-man whacked one of our obsoletes...no matter...

Game on!

Since Persia got froggy and jumped... I guess we should take him on... I wonder if we ought to actually use the RoP to take a task force through France... hmmmm....

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Uh, scout, I know that you're a second hand warhorse and all, but that was me and igor started the war and finished the arabs. have u been into the slinger juice again?

Reason i didn't sign the MPP, was I wanted to get a little juice taken off the persians and then let joanie have some success and damage while attacking.

How do you feel about selling/gifting coal to Joan so she can build us some rails?

anyway here's the save. I whacked a few persians in Joanie's territory, including Darius, and the troops are redeploying for operation olympic. I saved a couple of worker turns for you uh oh

glad we're not doing 10 turns each, it would take forever.

here's the savehttp://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/gmaonedotone_ak_275_AD.SAV

 

[gmaharriet]

Great job taking out the Arabs, AK! I didn't think it could be done so quickly.

As for France/Persia, I have no idea what I would have done. I'm not comfortable dealing with so many fronts. I'm glad it happened on your turnset and not on mine.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

almost feel like we should try to beat this before we get to commie, just for a challenge....

 

[SimpleMonkey]

Holy moly, save at least a few Persians for me to whack! Good warmongering, gma & AK!

 

[madviking]

Hey, I want to play too.

 

[gmaharriet]

Hey, I want to play too.

If you look up at post #48, you'll find you were already slotted into the roster right after SimpleMonkey.

 

[vmxa]

AK I would be careful about putting crap units out to be killed. The bad news is you give promotions and make their decent units that much harder to kill and could spawn leaders for them.

It has been reported and it looks reliable that the AI can use MGL's to rush great wonders. This may not be an issue in this game, but I have seen a few that I could only explain if that was happening.

If you have no choice or you are not concerned about the promotions, that is another story.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

AK I would be careful about putting crap units out to be killed. The bad news is you give promotions and make their decent units that much harder to kill and could spawn leaders for them.

In another game, I wouldn't have done it. I had ulterior motives:
1. those units weren't needed for MP and I wanted to get rid of their costs; sure i could have disbanded them in cities for shields, but,
2. I also wanted them to attack, possibly take damage and give me something to counter attack. i also didn't want them to go after joanie at full strength and organized;
3. they popped Darius, but he then has to travel thru french territory to be of use. I didn't detail it well but I pretty much mopped up the whole invasion force in a run through the french countryside.

here's a question: can i rail AI territory if I have a RoP?

yo scout

Quote:
Originally Posted by madviking
Hey, I want to play too.

If you look up at post #48, you'll find you were already slotted into the roster right after SimpleMonkey.

I think MV is worried we'll finish before his turn