Igor1, Team I.A.A.

[romeothemonk]

Due to circumstances, I will not be able to play until Fridayish.
My Brother is moving this week, and I am needed to move heavy objects for him as soon as I get off of work everyday. He leaves on Friday, so I can probably play Friday afternoon.

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

So that makes
M60 - UP
BeF - On Deck
Soul -
romeo - Swap pending
AK-

 

[M60A3TTS]

OK, I got it.

 

[M60A3TTS]

The save at 1375AD

2 cav armies attack and raze Punjab.

IBT- RP in, corporation next, science to zero. Lose Oxford and 2 gold to America during IBT

(1) 1335AD- Upgrade 12 vet rifles to infantry. Elite MI kills Indian cav after cannons redline it. Destroy Calcutta, pop 1. Found Karakorum.

IBT- Quiet

(2) 1340AD- Capture Jaipur.

IBT- England starts a couple brushfire wars.

(3) 1345AD- Rail actions for the most part.

IBT- Lost Jaipur and 3 gold to India. Zulu captured Madras from India.

(4) 1350AD- Capture Jaipur back. Capture Bengal.

IBT- Lose some workers to Indian cav raids.

(5) 1355AD- Retaliate by burning Bombay to the ground with Bach’s. I can’t remember if we could keep captured GWs. Ta-Tu founded. Run the rail line all the way to Suez.

IBT- America captures Istakhr from us. Another island wasteland.

(6) 1360AD- Raze Niagara Falls and Allegheny. Capture Cattaraugus.

IBT- Bengal riots

(7) 1365AD- Capture Bangalore. Lose an infantry clean against an Indian musket. Ouch. Capture Lahore. Destroy Chondote. Capture Tonawanda.

(8) 1370AD- Destroy Punjab. Capture Tyendenaga. Capture Salamanca with Leo’s. I’ll keep that one unless AK says it has to go. Capture St Regis and Khanawake. And Halicarnasus. Lose 2 cav and destroy Gandasetaigon.

IBT- Babylon allies with Persia against us. Saltlakezdgad flips to Aztecs.

(9) 1375AD- Lose an infantry but destroy Centralia. Declare on Rome. Lose a cav, but capture Arbela and the Colossus. Lose an infantry to a redlined rifle. Cav army burns Miletos.

Leave it at that. Now turn 265. The Indians are a shell of their former self. Trades can be made, and we can look at Commie any time. I focused on infantry and settlers. Just not enough to go around.

 

[M60A3TTS]

 

[soul_warrior]

africa seems abit thin, no?
i would also finish off the east asian nations

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

The admiral still hasn't had it right? I'll wait to see if he or romeo can grab their turns before getting it.

 

[romeothemonk]

we only get 1 more war this age, so we must be careful with it. I will probably pursue the wars that we currently have going, and will try to stick it the Aztecs, Indians and Zulu. If we aren't at war with them yet, we can soon make it so.
I will also ponder a revolution, but we might need more military might first.

 

[M60A3TTS]

Have at the Aztecs. Their cheap culture and our lack of it makes for substantial flip risk.

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

The aztecs are AGR/MIL, no cheap culture, but nonetheless they have caused several flips to our expense. Perhaps they have just focused on culture ... it seems odd, but maybe they could be on an AI-lousy path to cultural 100k.

Or would you mean India? From the map they seem to have around only 4 or 5 cities left - so I guess not. Aztecs are indeed the immediate threat that I see.

 

[Whomp]

lurker's comment: Sorry to interrupt but what is the variant rule about wars again?
BTW nice game folks.

 

[M60A3TTS]

The aztecs are AGR/MIL, no cheap culture, but nonetheless they have caused several flips to our expense. Perhaps they have just focused on culture ... it seems odd, but maybe they could be on an AI-lousy path to cultural 100k.

Or would you mean India? From the map they seem to have around only 4 or 5 cities left - so I guess not. Aztecs are indeed the immediate threat that I see.

My bad, you're right. They're religious in vanilla. Since we had one of our cities just flip to them, I was thinking that was the deal. Regardless, Monty should get whacked next.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Nice job M60 Glad you were able to concentrate the forces.

I had a set. Romeo is up if he can take it.

need more military prior to revolution. An immediate steal from monte would push him into war. We could then bring in Shaka and have them go at it. to do that we need to beef up the border towns.

keeping captured GW is ok, they don't generate kulture. Only thing we can build that generates culture is small wonders.

 

[romeothemonk]

Just trying out CA2 for the first time.
IHT: A bit of MM.
Turn 1: Trade embargo agasint us ends. Another city deposes to the aztecs. I am gonna break out the torches soon. Capture Oil springs. Sell espianage to japan for gold and a worker. Because I can I snag ironclads and Facism from Egypt for electrity and commie. Electricity gets us corp, gold and a WM from Greece.
IBT: India declares on Japan. Babs build U.S. Americans built the ToE.
Turn 2: I raze Delphi.
IBT: Greece and Persia sign peace.
Turn 3: Autoraze Mauch Chunk. Capture Dehli. Nice. More moving.
Turn 4: Germany and zulu sign peace. Germany and Japan sign peace. Tell Monty to move it or lose it and he wants to lose it. We autoraze saltlakegazad. Buy Zulu in for dyes. Kill tons of Aztec stuff
IBT: Zulu kill tons of Aztecs. Then the zulu and babylon sign an MA against us. Oh dang.
Turn 5: Peace with India, and they are now OCC'ing it. Capture Ravenna from the Aztecs. Capture Tula from the Zulu, they have a big stack coming our way now.
Ping a bunch of stuff, kill some. We are really short on troops. We really need some more infantry and cavs.
I popped an MGL and we have the IA built. I have not attempted to plant any spies yet. I have also upgraded almost all our troops.

I stopped after 5, as I was kind of lost.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads10/Igor1AA_1400_AD.SAV

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Then the zulu and babylon sign an MA against us

ouch

not sure where Hanni's getting the money for the alliances, but it can't be legal.

Alliances v. Abe should be over soon, when that happens, let's buy him in v. hanni and/or monte.

really need to take Monte out

 

[M60A3TTS]

Alliances v. Abe should be over soon, when that happens, let's buy him in v. hanni and/or monte.

An alliance with Abe won't help at the moment. He can't get over the land bridge because there's a town in the way. It would have to be razed, and then there's another semi-choke in the mountains farther along that would need railing.

The situation shouldn't be hard to stabilize. We need about 3 settlers to cover the gaps between our western towns. If we use our armies to clear out 2-3 small Zulu towns in Turkey, we can create blocking positions there.

Since we can't build culture, I wouldn't have a problem with mobilizing for a while to get the infantry count up faster.

BeF-up
Soul- on deck

 

[romeothemonk]

I can play another 5 turns this afternoon, but I could pass off now. I was just confused to our direction in the game.
We can easily burn out all of the zulu troops soon.

 

[romeothemonk]

I recall got it.
I will try and bomb out another 5 turns.
Should be posted in a few hours.

 

[romeothemonk]

IHT: MAn the guy that played the last turns really sucked.
Japan and England sign peace. Egypt and Zulu MA against America. Egypt and zulu ally against India. Lots more of stuff happens. Lahore deposes to the Indians.
Turn 6: Found 3 cities, abandon Tula. Kill all the zulu stuff that I can.
Turn 7: No captures, kill all the zulu I see. I see no zulu stacks anywhere.
Turn 8: We now have an agent in Washington. I spoke too soon. Another huge stack of zulu bite the bullet. Capture Xochitcholo from the Zulu, abandon and replace. Capture Swazi.
Turn 9: Capture Madras and Magellans. Keep for now, since I got it from the Zulu. Capture Karachi from the Zulu.
IBT: America and England go to war.
Turn 10: Bapedi gets a capture and abandon. Kill lots of aztecs and raze sansyshad. That will teach those clowns to flip on us. Raze an aztec city I can't even transcribe. Lose an army on an infantry leaving 1 RL infantry guarding Mpondo. We have an agent with the zulu.

Hmm. A little more focus now. We are pushing nicely into new territory. ~20 turns from now we should be able to control all of Europe. I am really not liking this game now. The only VC that is really availible to us is conquest, we can't research any new techs. There are several 1 city islands, and we can't get to Marines.
A new minimap

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads10/Igor1AA_1425_AD.SAV

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

An alliance with Abe won't help at the moment. He can't get over the land bridge because there's a town in the way. It would have to be razed, and then there's another semi-choke in the mountains farther along that would need railing.

the alliance w abe wasn't so much for military help as for diplomatic help. IIRC, we've got all the AI po'd at each other. I'd like to keep them that way. If we're the only ones with a sterling rep, we're golden when we go commie.

Egypt and Zulu MA against America.

strategically, i'd like to take africa and europe and then go for a space, diplo, dom trifecta. i recognize this may take more effort than the team wants to invest, so I'm also good to just go for dom or conquest. Still think we need to be commie when things calm down.

Abe is marching south to kill Cleo. he's going to roll through her like wet kleenex. If we bring him in against hanni, he's got something to do besides harass us.