IO7 - Jihad!!

[pigswill]

Maybe third time lucky (first time photobucket froze, second time the forum crashed).

190. Trade med to Sury fr 90g, med to HC for 80g.

205. HC demands currency, declined. Trade CoL to Pacal for HBR, 10g.

220 Slave revolt in Baghdad.

235. Prophet part bulbs DR.

250 Trade HBR, currency to Pericles for MC, 140g.

295. Trade MC, tho, 140g to Pacal for feudalism.

310. Basra founded.

325. End of set. DR in 5.

Looking for a new home.

Sending in the bailiffs.

Messing up the dotmap.

Heading for guilds to unlock our awesome UU.

 

[strijder20]

Sorry for delay, going to write the write-up now.
Here's the save.

Why isn't this city founded one south? Anyway, I sent the axemen west, only to find we couldn't win the battle at the moment. They are on standby.

And I hereby declare myself as the Most Valuable Player in this thread! I founded Islam!

And it gets founded in Basra, where it can nicely help to push back the Ethiopian borders.

Pacal had a settler going to our elly-claim spot, and as we founded it first, he decided to found this disaster of a city

Apparently we aren't that poor. Although our wealth is going into paper research at the moment. I suggest we tech paper for the UoS and build a lot of state religion buildings and build the SM?

HC can get useless Theo for calendar and a bunch of gold.

I refused. He'll get angry anyway with us being muslims and him not.

HC keeps being lucrative deal-maker number one. Machinery will help us to defend our cities, and windmills might be something we actually want to build in our food-low land.

And the round is ended with a BANG. Always great to get an event with three negative outcomes

 

[woopdeedoo]

Hey Guys. I hope everyone had a nice break. I am back and ready to rock!

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

Kaboom! College rock is in the house!

I'm back too. And by the way, I guess this may as well count as a got it.

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

...gah. I'm having trouble finding good playing time, what with school and work and all that. I should be free tomorrow, though. So I'll play, don't worry. Anything in particular my wise companions would like me to do?

 

[woopdeedoo]

IO, you gonna post a PPP?

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

Working on it! I've been unexpectedly busy of late. I literally didn't get home yesterday until midnight.

 

[woopdeedoo]

IO, since you are skipping your turn in the "Randomness" SG, is it safe to assume we can skip you here as well? It's been over a week...

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

Er, yeah. Two tests sneaking up on me... damn it, why does electricity have to be so hard!

 

[woopdeedoo]

In that case, I guess I'm up. This is a "got it". Will post a PPP today.

 

[woopdeedoo]

I had a look at the save. I have to admit I'm not very impressed with the city we dumped on our cap's doorstep. Also, why are we building markets etc instead of missionaries and military? I want to get a few axes to that little barb city and settle 1SW from there so a settler is also required. I'm also not too sure if the ellie claim city was the best idea...

We are WE's of two civs (Ethiopia and Inca) so it's important, I think, to beef up our army ASAP. A missionary pump to send mishes into neighbouring lands will help rescue our economy...

 

[woopdeedoo]

No comments? I will play today...

 

[pigswill]

What's wrong with Basra (doorstep city), with wheat and fish it can run 4 specialists at pop 6 and its the only location that can use the fish (every city has a food source, every food source has a city).

 

[strijder20]

I'm also not too sure if the ellie claim city was the best idea...

Well, it did claim the ellies. Feel free to stomp our neighbours at leisure.
EDIT: Pacal, for example, is asking for it. We are his only neighbour (which means we won't get border pressure) , he is reasonably close and only two AIs are pleased with him. He can tech Engineering, though, and has Ellies himself. However, he is a peacemonger and thus he won't cause that much trouble.
So, will we attack Pacal or not?

 

[woopdeedoo]

Ok guys. I'm afraid RL has kinda gotten in the way. I can play this set tomorrow and post a report in the afternoon, Sunday at the latest. If you happy waiting, great. If not, please skip.

 

[woopdeedoo]

Please skip me. RL is just choking off my civ time. So sorry!

 

[pigswill]

Got it and played a few turns up to 610ad.

Changed civics so we´re running HR, slavery, vassalage and OR (for missionaries). Mecca has been converted, couple more missionaries building. Whipped a few buildings, built a couple of longbows.

Captured and kept Zhou in the south west for the loss of 3 Lv1 axes.

Zara has enough on his hands. Got OB with Darius.

At some point I may add pictures (though didn´t take any during the set).

Here´s a save:

 

[strijder20]

Am I up now? If I don't play tomorrow, consider me skipped

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

I guess it's back to me then. What fun!

 

[strijder20]

It's still tomorrow on my calendar
I'll see if I can play. Depends on how quickly I finish my homework.