HNDY16 Open SG - Byz Always War Sid Tiny Island Map

[ThERat]

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Pre-Turn
change Caesarea to a settler since it is at pop 6 and can't grow

1. 630AD
sink a galleon in harbor, block sea tiles and start shifting units towards Arabia

2. 640AD
Monarchy drops to 1 turn since someone else got it
another galleons is sunk in Moskow

IT Monarchy is in

3. 650AD
Amorium near Russia is founded
wait a turn for revolting since we get another settler out

4. 660AD
sink a galleon but can only wound the galleon in Novogorod
catch another 2 workers
revolt and we get 7 turns of anarchy
adrianople needs to alternate between rioting to prevent it from starving

IT galleon leaves harbor at Novogorod

5. 670AD
defeat galleon

6. 680AD
another galleon is defeated, start bombing units on planned Arab landing zone

IT it worked for 1 tile since the 1hp units left

7. 690AD
disconnect tile 1

8. 700AD
bomb stack at next tile

9. 710AD
4 units leave tile, 2 left bomb then to 1hp and disconnect tile, only one left for the plan to carry out
sink one galleon in Pete

10. 720AD
found Ankyria in the south

play turns to even out to 190
IT we are a monarchy

11. 730AD
wow, after becoming a monarchy, we are at -7gpt with 0% science

12. 740AD
bomb the stack to 1hp each
join 1 native worker to decrease unit cost

13. 750AD
defeat another galleon in Moskow
land 9 AC in Arabia after disconneting tiles
let's see what will happen
if it gets too heated, we can always load them on ships again

literature is due in 5, we need currency to avoid bankrupcy

 

[LKendter]

11. 730AD
wow, after becoming a monarchy, we are at -7gpt with 0% science

Welcome to a lot of size 6 and under cities. We lost a ton of unit support vs. despotism. We need to either build more cities, build markets, or get some cities to size 7.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Yeah, believe it or not, but despotism is often the best government for AW.

I have it. I'll try and get it up in the next six hours or so.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Pre-flight – 750 AD – We need some cities, aqueducts; we need a lot of stuff. We certainly need more than nine units in an invasion force.

IBT – Every Arab on that island heads our way. 26 archers and about that many spears.
760 – Play hit and run. Bombard then kill nine spears, then retreat to our ships. Sink a Russian galleon. Move our ships somewhere so our troops can heal. Our budget is a wreck.

Not much happens for a while then…

Literature=>Currency
Sink several galleons as they pop up.
Found Raticonium.

830 - Steal two Russian slaves off the beach. And make a landing next to Kufah.

12 ACavs are in the force. Add a few more scientists now that we have positive cash flow.

FP is built. I think the Russians and the Aztecs just went to war. Monty will be toast.

840 – Found Leeidin. Amazingly, our warrior in Russian lands was not attacked.

@ Kufah – We win 10, retreat one, then with our last AC…

If I didn’t get it this turn we’d have had to draw the Arabs off again. There are 12, 12 and 16 archers in each of those stacks respectively. We run away to the sea. Hire a few more scientists and we’re down to 15 turns on currency

Capture another Russian slave with an amphibious landing and here’s what we get to see.

We may want to consider an invasion of Azteca while the two are fighting. We could land a force on red dot and take Tlateloco. The force would probably need to be 15 ACavs. Our Arab invasion force has 12 units in it.

Here is the Arabian situation:

A landing next to Damascus would face a counter attack. I’m not sure how we’re going to make a further dent in the Arabs. We’re at 29% of land and 32% of pop. Keep settling and watch our economy very closely.

Here is the power graph. I think it shows the Ruso-Azteca war impact.

Save: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads10/Handy16,_850_AD.SAV

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Played so far:
ThERat (aka Rat)
Sir Bugsy (aka Bugs)
DJMGator13 (aka gator)
Handy
Bugs
Rat
Gator
Handy
Gyathaar
Rat
LKendter
Mark 1031
Gator
Rat
Bugs
vmxa
sanabas
LKendter
Rat
Bugs

Who's next?

 

[ThERat]

really nice turns, Bugs!

What I fear is that Aztecs lose the war and the Russians can found more cities, thats what we do not need at all.

Also, watch out for Arab ships since we burned some of their units. I would keep on pounding Arabia, until we have an army to attack the other 2

 

[LKendter]

Literature=>Currency

Now that we have literature please swap some of the remote cities to libraries. To pull of domination the one-shield cities will need to build some libraries.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

I already swapped most of the remote builds to libraries. There may be one or two more that I missed. I was thinking more for cultural expansion rather than science.

Edit - after sleeping on it, I think the Azteca invasion makes a lot of sense. Monty won't be able to handle a two front war and we can have a grind it out war with Cathy once Monty is gone.

 

[LKendter]

I already swapped most of the remote builds to libraries. There may be one or two more that I missed. I was thinking more for cultural expansion rather than science.

That is exactly why I mentioned it. It was agreed that the goal was domination, and this is the key.


So who is playing next? I am not eligible yet.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

According to the rules on the first page, LK, you can.

You can grab the game more than once, but please let three two other people play between your grabs.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

GA - you should grab it. Come on! You can do it!

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Not on Independence Day Eve! I will leave the house in a couple hours for fireworks - not enough time for this SG tonight. I will play hopefully tomorrow. (Hooray for first Sid game!)

 

[ThERat]

for all you guys out there, have a joyous independence day I don't even know how you people celebrate this occasion.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

We celebrate the same way you throw any birthday party. This one just happens to be for our country.

 

[ThERat]

that sounds like fun

being from a certain country with a past, we never celebrated such things...didn't seem right after all that happened before

 

[LKendter]

I will play hopefully tomorrow. (Hooray for first Sid game!)

Any news on the game? Do you offically have it?

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Sorry, no. You are free to got it as is. I never officially made a got it.

 

[romeothemonk]

I will take the mighty Byz out for a spin.
Will not try and attack Russian Island now, but will use dromons to hurt the Russians, cause if the Aztecs can take even 1 of their cities, that would be awesome.

 

[romeothemonk]

IHT: Not much
IBT: lose our warrior to the Aztecs.
Turn 1: Burn a galleon at Novograd, disconnect a new road at St Pete's. Bombard many roads in Arab lands.
Turn 2: Sink Galleon in Moscow promoting a dromon. Take down some more roads for the heck of it.
IBT: Russians start US. I lose a dromon as we can't cover whales like I thought. Whoops.
turn 3: Uneventful. Starting the starving process on Arabia. Will land next turn.

Just because I have never seen something like this before.
Turn 4: Land some troops in Arabia, hope to kill 12 units or so. Kill galleon in Moscow.
Turn 5 Ridiculus luck. Kill 4 spears, 6 retreats and 2 losses in Arabia. The ridiculus part. This will be the blow that levels the arabs. Sink a galleon in Novograd.

Turn 6: Build Samasota. Warrior steal a russian worker.
IBT: Lose warrior to aztecs. Aztecs and Russia have peace.
Turn 7: Make AC army taking to Arabia. All of arabia's archers are on one side of their empire, we shall out flank them. Sink russian galleon.
Turn 8: Moving and sinking a russian galleon.
Turn 9: Build stopoverville by Arabs to prevent budget hemmorage. Location is sup-par but better than being broke.
Turn 10: Land the army and the rest of the troops. I reallize not everyone is healed all the way, but this is the bset way to get troops on the ground. Sink another Galleon.
My crowning achievement

My turn summary:
The good:
ARMY
More new towns founded.
More troops produced than lost
We are at 32.6% land.
The Bad:
We are hemmoraging cash
Our 1st army will be limited to Arabia
Russia has techs galore and gold to match.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads10/Handy16_950_AD.SAV

 

[LKendter]

I will give this another go...