I need regent training.

[Zavior]

That took a while..

Preturn: Press enter

650BC(1)-550BC(5) Moving & building units. Revolt to monarchy.
490BC: We are now in monarchy.
450BC: We are almost ready to strike.
That was painful set of turns to play. My computer just lagged and lagged again.

 

[Ankka]

Perhaps you should check for memory usage and stuff when playing civ?

Ready to strike...

Ok, I'll ask a few questions:

1) take a screenie

2) draw your attack routes into it and explain why so

3) post them here

After that we'll discuss on how to go forward and what would be the long-term strategy.

I think I'm next up?

 

[Zavior]

I dont think my machine is that ready yet ;P
Maybe later today.

 

[Zavior]

Here is da screenie.
It should be easy war.

 

[Ankka]

Ok... looks good. I just got home and am a bit tired... but I'll see when I can play.

 

[Zavior]

Just playin game on emperor, doing kinda "good" this far. Almost conquered my own island now and tech parity with everyone

 

[Ankka]

Does that mean you don't need this game anymore or that you have learned so much from this game?

I didn't get the turns played yesterday, trying today.

 

[Zavior]

Nah, I think I can learn much from this game
And we can of course finish it as SG(what are we doing now then? )

 

[Ankka]

450BC [preturn]: MM to let Hamburg grow too, as Berlin has such a huge surplus.

Declare war on the Iroquois, attack their warrior with an elite archer but no leader. Move troops into their borders.

IBT: Lose a worker because we're out of cash. Forgot to adjust tax rates.

430BC [1]: Vet swords slice through the 2 spears of Oil Springs with minor casualties. We take the place.

One note: it is more efficient to have several workers stacked and doing the same thing on one tile than many single workers on their own tiles.

Our main stack reaches Salamanca.

IBT: The Iroquois have mounted warriors and one attacks Konigsberg which is defended only by one warrior - but we survive. They also retreat a MW from our spear defending the swords.

410BC [2]: Kill the mounted warriors around.

There are 5 spears and a mounted warrior in Salamanca. Lose 2 swords killing those, get one promotion. We take the city and now control the Pyramids.

390BC [3]: Lose a sword taking Grand river.

370BC [4] - 350BC [5]: No actions taken. Healing time.

330BC [6]: Capture Niagara Falls losing a sword.

Kill a spear in Allegheny but lose an archer attacking it.

IBT: Research Maths, start on Construction.

310BC [7]: Kill a spear in Allegheny losing an archer. Still one archer there.

290BC [8]: Lose a 1-hp elite sword when killing the archer in Allegheny because of too heavy leader fishing.

IBT: Grand River flips back to the Iro. It was empty, so we lost no troops, though.

270BC [9]: Build Munich.

250BC [10]: Next turn we'll get Grand River back.


There is a sizeable stack of our swords going South.. Get them into one pile and then destroy what's left of the Iro. After that I'd regroup and mop the Babs away... in Vanilla civ the scientific civs aren't as much of use as in PTW or C3C as they'll almost always get the same techs.

 

[Zavior]

Tomoyo is up now. I think we should build few cats and begin leaderhunting with babs, what say you?

 

[Tomoyo]

You seem to be channelling my save positioning conventions, eh Ankka? Got it.

 

[Tomoyo]

Tomoyo’s assessment of the situation (good thing it’s not Ank11): We’re researching construction. I don’t like the choice, since we could have Literature (we’re Scientific) or something like CoL or Philo towards Republic. Whatever. Babylon’s eighth shield is being lost to corruption, so I move a guy from a desert tile to flood plains. Gains us a gold too. We’re in Monarchy. Monarchy is a good government, but to take full advantage of it, we need to war more. Not easy to war when everyone you know is dead, so I trade Mathematics to the Babylonians for Map Making and their World Map. The map shows that the Iroquois have an island city. That means we aren’t going to destroy them without ships. And where are our ports? On the other side of the continent.

Start the FP in Konigsburg, veto some temples, and bust out the and change research to Literature. Bump science up a notch.

Happiness issues are hurting our economy. Why are there only two luxes on our continent when four civs started on it?

230BC: Don’t attack; wait for reinforcements. We’re in Monarchy, taking my time. Lower lux.

IT: Berlin riots. Oops. Babs boot us out of their territory…

210BC: Lose two swords taking back Grand River. Hmm… keeping the sword in Berlin gains us a gpt.

IT: The babs boot us out again! That’s it! See that Stack of Swordsmen I was sending to Hiawatha? That’s going right down your throat!

190BC: On my turn, when our troops are out of their territory of course. We’re honorable. I also make peace with the Iroquois for all they had, including the island city.

170BC: Destroy the Babylonians. That’s what you get for not respecting my Deity ROP! (TM) Found Tomoyoton in a rather pretty site.

IT: Literature comes in, Berlin completes it’s Library, right on cue.

150BC: Start some Libraries.

130BC: There’s not much to report on a builder’s turn.

110BC: I didn’t even remember to take note of this turn!

90BC: Sakuraton has beautiful scenery. one look at the culture chart says that the Iros have thrice as much culture as us. The upcoming libraries should change that.

70BC: Berlin is building the Hanging Gardens for lack of a better thing to build.

50BC: Not much. Construction due next turn. Suicide galley success pending.

The save: The save

 

[Ankka]

Sorry about conrtruction, but I figured we'd do better with bigger cities than libraries... And someone had map making.

I'm actually quite bad at this part of the game, when you have control over your home continent and should decide what to research... On a pangaea it's a lot easier.