HRY1 - Monarch SG

[Hooray]

Here it is.

Also, everyone, whenever you save this game please name it something other than the default. I don't want to mix it up with the saves from another England game that I'm currently playing. It would be appreciated.

 

[Brewster]

It looks like we have a solid team for this game. As a relative SG newbie, I would appreciate any and all comments on the various facets of my game. Looking forward to playing and I will try not to slow things down too much.

BTW: The colossus will trigger our golden age (happened in a recent SG with England). I really like the colossus, but would rather avoid the early GA associated with it.

 

[Bacon King]

got it, playing now.

 

[Hooray]

Ack, you're right, Brewster. It's Expansionist, Commercial, and Religious. Stupid Civ3 manual said it was only Exp and Rel.

It may not even be an issue. We don't start out on the coast, so building either the Colossus or Lighthouse or may not even be feasible.

 

[Bacon King]

- Turn 1- 4000 BC- Build Capitaltopia at starting location. Move worker to game.

IBT-begin reaserching Writing

Turn 2 - 3950 BC- Worker begins roading game. Pop a goody hut. Get a map.

Turn 3 - 3900 BC- scout movement

Turn 4 - 3850 BC- pop a hut. Another map. Capitaltopia Scout => Warrior

Turn 5 - 3800 BC- scout movement

Turn 6 - 3750 BC- pop another hut. Get a free Warrior.

Turn 7 - 3700 BC- not much

Turn 8 - 3650 BC- pop yet another hut. free warrior. (do you see a pattern with the goody huts? I?m hoping to pop another one in 2 turns ) Capitaltopia Warrior => Settler

Turn 9 - 3600 BC- nothing important

Turn 10 - 3550 BC- begin irrigating wheat. set sci funding to 20% (still 32 turns, +2 gpt) no goody hut

IBT- Cultural expansion!

Turn 11 - 3500 BC- nothin....

Turn 12 - 3450 BC- POP A GOODY HUT! [dance] get cerimonial burial.

Turn 13 - 3400 BC- goody hut, get Warrior

Turn 14 - 3350 BC- begin roading wheat. goody hut, GET MYSTICISM [dance] MONARCHY, HERE WE COME!

Turn 15 - 3300 BC- nothing much

Turn 16 - 3250 BC- nothin

Turn 17 - 3200 BC- pop hut, get warrior code. Capitaltopia Settler => Granary

Turn 18 - 3150 BC- see SE corner of a pink civ. possibly France. pop a hut, get Bronze Working

Turn 19 - 3100 BC- yawn....

Turn 20 - 3050 BC- Trade France Mysticism and 7g for masonry.

End notes- I really liked all the luck we had with goody hut location. Were up France a few techs thanks to them. The settler is on his way to a city as we speak. I'm not sure, but we might be on our own peninsula, with france at the base. If that is the case, we should built some citys near france as blockers so we can claim the rest of the peninsula as our own. By the way, good luck to who ever is next.

 

[Hooray]

Aww, I was hoping you would get the same Goody Hut luck that I did. I popped a free city only three or four spaces from the capitol. Still, those tech are nice. Isn't Expansionist great?

bacon king
Ville - UP NOW
Melifluous - NEXT
Yaype
Brewster
Hooray

 

[Ville]

I play tomorrow

 

[Bacon King]

yes, there was quite alot of goody huts.

The only time I've ever had the luck to get a city from a hut on anything above regent was when I was trying a OCC. And i got 2 free citys, I had to raze them both.

Talk about irony....

 

[Hooray]

Heh, the only other time I got a free city was in a game as the Arabs. It was really, really far from my capitol, though, and was never any use at all. Settlers from huts are better. I've only gotten those with non-Expansionist civs, somehow.

I think we should resolve this issue of building the Colossus or Lighthouse or not. Do we want either of these wonders, or should we wait until Man-'O-War to get our GA?

 

[Yaype]

Personally, I don't really like going for early wonders. I'd rather let the AI waste his time building them while I build up my civ. Not to mention, the Despotic GA just isn't as useful. If we do either of them, though, I would prefer the Colossus. It doesn't take as long to build as the Lighthouse, so wouldn't take away from expanding as much. That's my two cents.

 

[Bacon King]

the only ancient age Wonder I ever build is the great library.

Build it, put reseach to zero, build up army

 

[Hooray]

Oh, alright. I'll agree that building Colossus or Lighthouse isn't such a good idea.
We'll just have to pick a fight with someone and use our "mighty" Man-'O-Wars
(Men-'O-War?).

 

[Bacon King]

What about the Great Library, shall we build it?

 

[Yaype]

If we have a situation where building the GL is not only useful, but makes sense without having to change everything we are doing at the moment, then it is probably worth going after. I don't think we should draw up our strategy to build it, though, because with good trading, we can keep up in tech anyways.

 

[Hooray]

I almost always make at least some attempt to build the GL. If we're behind in tech, it'll be quite helpful. If we're not behind, at least we'd keep it out of our enemies' hands.
We don't need to make a big effort to get it, but if it's possible then we should at least try. We definitely shouldn't build it, or any other early wonders, in our capitol. I think we'll be needing it as a Settler factory for a while.

 

[Bacon King]

Ok, no wonder building in Settler factories.

just to see, what victory would everyone like?
I'd prefer Diplomatic or Spaceship.

<-------P.S. like my new "look"?

 

[Brewster]

I tend to avoid the diplomatic route (kinda like the easy way out) but would be down with the space race.

PS: bacon king - your new look is kinda grotesque (is that a hole in his head?). Congrats on your 300th post (I'm almost there).

 

[Bacon King]

no thats not a hole in his head, its a Pakled from Star Trek

edit: changed it, it's now its Mr. Rogers

 

[Yaype]

I agree that diplomatic is definitely the easy way out. Spaceship is better.

 

[Melifluous]

I feel that most ancient age wonders (apart from the Pyramids) are fairly pointless, I feel that with the Colossus being a no-no, then we should just go settler crazy to about 15 cities and then build every improvement in each city

If we time our research right then we should be easy tech leader by the Middle Ages...

I therefore suggest that we sell a tech as soon as we get one more clear tech ahead of it...

Also once you sell a tech like that to one civ you MUST sell it to all other civs, we want maximum profit and no a hand out to the AI...

The only reason that I would go for the GL in this game is a prebuild for Sun Tzu's or to stop the AI from hitching a lift...

Melifluous...

I will however bow to the wishes of our Venerable Leader King Hooray! And therefore would comply with his wishes completely...

Spaceship is the only way to really win btw, although conquest could be fun *No back foul warmonger, we shall build a better place*

The Angels have it, space race..