SpriteSODA
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Not yet, but i've already asked for skip i think=]
JJ02-The Mystery Variants
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jeejeep
qwertyuiop
Sorry, missed that somehow. Blastoidstalker, you're up!
blastoidstalker
The Geographer
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I am going to be away this weekend, and can't play until tuesday
jeejeep
qwertyuiop
Play now if you can. Blastoidstalker can play when he comes back.
jeejeep
qwertyuiop
ngraner, if you want to play before tuesday you can. Otherwise, we can wait for blastoidstalker.
ngraner42
Ultrarunner
Actually, I think I played last. You had skipped, so it looks like your turn.
jeejeep
qwertyuiop
You're right. All these skips have confused me. I can play today, so I guess I will. To be clear:
Roster:
Jeejeep-skipped, but now playing
spriteSODA-skip
blastoidstalker-skip
sand-skip
ngraner42-actually played
EDIT: will play after I watch Brazil-Australia
Roster:
Jeejeep-skipped, but now playing
spriteSODA-skip
blastoidstalker-skip
sand-skip
ngraner42-actually played
EDIT: will play after I watch Brazil-Australia
jeejeep
qwertyuiop
Civ froze up my computer after I played about five turns. I can play them over again, but I would have spoiler information. Should I?
SpriteSODA
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Yes, you should=]
jeejeep
qwertyuiop
I did. I have no idea how many turns I played, I completely lost track because of playing the same turns twice. I tried to play the second turns the same as the first ones as much as possible.
As soon as I opened the save I noticed our research. We were running 90% with -50gpt! I put it back to 70% with -24, slightly more manageable. The highwest we can go without losing money is 50%
Asoka also immediatly pillaged our rice.
Looking at our stack, I realized we had no axemen, leaving us vulnerable to Asoka's axeman attacks. I also noticed Asoka had just got longbowmen.
This could be a long war.
All Asoka had defending Saxon was a longbowman and a spear. Still it took three turns bombarding defenses, a suicide cat, and the loss of a sword to take the city. Units are currently in it healing. I razed Jaipur, a newly built Indian city.
However, we are in trouble. Asoka is continually sending out axemen in pairs, intercepting our forces on the way to the front. It is hard to combat this, because we have too many swords, which are vulnerable to axes. I suggest building horse archers. We also don't have anywhere near enough catapults, especially since I suicided one. If we want to take another city, we need suicide cats to have any chance with swords against longbows. I suggest we make peace and regroup until we get macemen, then resume the war.
Other notes: Research was Drama-Civil Service. Qin Shi Huang demanded construction, and since we need some friends I gave in. The GP farm is almost ready. I think we should revolt to slavery, if only to whip in the GP farm.
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As soon as I opened the save I noticed our research. We were running 90% with -50gpt! I put it back to 70% with -24, slightly more manageable. The highwest we can go without losing money is 50%
Asoka also immediatly pillaged our rice.Looking at our stack, I realized we had no axemen, leaving us vulnerable to Asoka's axeman attacks. I also noticed Asoka had just got longbowmen.
This could be a long war.All Asoka had defending Saxon was a longbowman and a spear. Still it took three turns bombarding defenses, a suicide cat, and the loss of a sword to take the city. Units are currently in it healing. I razed Jaipur, a newly built Indian city.
However, we are in trouble. Asoka is continually sending out axemen in pairs, intercepting our forces on the way to the front. It is hard to combat this, because we have too many swords, which are vulnerable to axes. I suggest building horse archers. We also don't have anywhere near enough catapults, especially since I suicided one. If we want to take another city, we need suicide cats to have any chance with swords against longbows. I suggest we make peace and regroup until we get macemen, then resume the war.
Other notes: Research was Drama-Civil Service. Qin Shi Huang demanded construction, and since we need some friends I gave in. The GP farm is almost ready. I think we should revolt to slavery, if only to whip in the GP farm.
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ngraner42
Ultrarunner
I can play tomorrow as it is getting a late tonight.
ngraner42
Ultrarunner
Our forces in Saxon got decimated by Asoka's counter attack, but we stand poised to retake the city. Pulled Qin into the war so I don't fear for much of another counter attack.
Switched over to some infrastructure work on the west side of the empire. The GP farm looks like it will be huge once it gets going. I have never tried so exclusively to work this angle in a city, so I am curious how it will work out.
T0. Drama to Alexander for 160gp. Drama to Peter for 130gp. Adopted Slavery.
T1. Paid Qin 530gp to declare war on Asoka. I was planning to get the money back for Drama, but it disappeared. It looks like the AI can upgrade troops, when it is not their turn.
T2. IBT Lost a couple swordsman in Saxon to Axeman attacks. Beshbalik: Granary>Theater. Karakorum: Granary>Theater. Take a gamble attacking Asoka Longbowman and Axeman outside Saxon with a suicide (20%) Catapult to get the collateral damage. The die roll was not very good, we will see next turn.
T3. Saxon is recaptured by Asoka. Rush built Granary in Turfan, Theater in Beshbalik and Karakorum.
T4. London: Catapult>Catapult. Nottingham: Catapult>Horse Archer. Beshbalik: Theater>Lighthouse. Turfan: Granary>Lighthouse. Karakorum: Theater>Courthouse
T5. Ho-hum.
T6. Hinduism spread to our lands. Traded Saladin Drama for Literature.
T7. Khan found a city in the desert next to Karakorum.
T8. Canterbury: Catapult>Theater.
T9. Ho-hum.
T10. Nottingham Horse Archer>Horse Archer. Rush built Lighthouse in Turfan.
Deja-vu. This looks like the screen print from my last post.
Switched over to some infrastructure work on the west side of the empire. The GP farm looks like it will be huge once it gets going. I have never tried so exclusively to work this angle in a city, so I am curious how it will work out.
T0. Drama to Alexander for 160gp. Drama to Peter for 130gp. Adopted Slavery.
T1. Paid Qin 530gp to declare war on Asoka. I was planning to get the money back for Drama, but it disappeared. It looks like the AI can upgrade troops, when it is not their turn.
T2. IBT Lost a couple swordsman in Saxon to Axeman attacks. Beshbalik: Granary>Theater. Karakorum: Granary>Theater. Take a gamble attacking Asoka Longbowman and Axeman outside Saxon with a suicide (20%) Catapult to get the collateral damage. The die roll was not very good, we will see next turn.
T3. Saxon is recaptured by Asoka. Rush built Granary in Turfan, Theater in Beshbalik and Karakorum.
T4. London: Catapult>Catapult. Nottingham: Catapult>Horse Archer. Beshbalik: Theater>Lighthouse. Turfan: Granary>Lighthouse. Karakorum: Theater>Courthouse
T5. Ho-hum.
T6. Hinduism spread to our lands. Traded Saladin Drama for Literature.
T7. Khan found a city in the desert next to Karakorum.
T8. Canterbury: Catapult>Theater.
T9. Ho-hum.
T10. Nottingham Horse Archer>Horse Archer. Rush built Lighthouse in Turfan.
Deja-vu. This looks like the screen print from my last post.
SpriteSODA
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I think we should raze that damn city.
blastoidstalker
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I am back and can play tonight.
blastoidstalker
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We had just set fire to the gold mine when they came at us.
The archers and axes streamed out of the city, looking like a rants swarming from a disturbed nest. They must of feared for the lost of there gold for they came with a vengeance. But our men were smart and strong, we hid in the tunnels where the range of there arrows was useless and slaughtered them as they tried to flush them out.
Never try to hunt a snake when he is in his cave.
Now out in the bright sunlight again we can see the city of Saxon again. Its walls battered and its garrison cut in half on a stupid attack. We were going to let the city be, as we saw the new longbows and realized that taking on 4000 longbowmen was too much for our swords and axes, we planned to pillage the country side and isolate the cities from each other. But now only 2000 longbowman remain and we can smell there fear.
The siege engines are sent first bombarding the city is rocks. They burn them but they are weakened. Then the swords and axes come rushing in, overrunning the defenses. Saxon is ours now and Asoka sends a dove to us.
We take his peace and we take his city.
Now is time to develop the mace that we need to crack upon the heartland of India.
Turn summary
1130 AD Renegotiated Saladins deal marble silk + 5 gold
Pillaged mine near Saxony
IBT 1 longbowman and 1 axe a sword and axe that moved on top of another of Saxonys gold mine, our axe and sword defeat them! I love the AI
1136 Move all units near Saxony into place to possibly storm the city
Beshbalik starts forge
Turfan finishes lighthouse and starts library
1142 Asoka moves another longbow out of Saxony, only 2 longbows and 1 spear remain. I suicide the three catapults on it and take out the defenders with 2 swords and 1 axe. Settle for peace with Asoka
1148 move archer from capital to Saxony, move some units to just east of London in a position that can help defend both Saxony and out main lands. Hurry library in Turfan
1154 Karakoum finished courthouse starts library
York finished market starts forge
1160- finish Civil service start machinery , revolt to bureaucracy
1166 Pig to Quin for 4 gold, this is our only pig so if we start to go unhealthy, cancel this deal first.
1172 London starts forge.
Saxony comes out of revolt and starts on theatre. Great merchant found in Karakoum, send him up towards Saladin or farther for trade mission
1190 turns finish.
The archers and axes streamed out of the city, looking like a rants swarming from a disturbed nest. They must of feared for the lost of there gold for they came with a vengeance. But our men were smart and strong, we hid in the tunnels where the range of there arrows was useless and slaughtered them as they tried to flush them out.
Never try to hunt a snake when he is in his cave.
Now out in the bright sunlight again we can see the city of Saxon again. Its walls battered and its garrison cut in half on a stupid attack. We were going to let the city be, as we saw the new longbows and realized that taking on 4000 longbowmen was too much for our swords and axes, we planned to pillage the country side and isolate the cities from each other. But now only 2000 longbowman remain and we can smell there fear.
The siege engines are sent first bombarding the city is rocks. They burn them but they are weakened. Then the swords and axes come rushing in, overrunning the defenses. Saxon is ours now and Asoka sends a dove to us.
We take his peace and we take his city.
Now is time to develop the mace that we need to crack upon the heartland of India.
Turn summary
1130 AD Renegotiated Saladins deal marble silk + 5 gold
Pillaged mine near Saxony
IBT 1 longbowman and 1 axe a sword and axe that moved on top of another of Saxonys gold mine, our axe and sword defeat them! I love the AI
1136 Move all units near Saxony into place to possibly storm the city
Beshbalik starts forge
Turfan finishes lighthouse and starts library
1142 Asoka moves another longbow out of Saxony, only 2 longbows and 1 spear remain. I suicide the three catapults on it and take out the defenders with 2 swords and 1 axe. Settle for peace with Asoka
1148 move archer from capital to Saxony, move some units to just east of London in a position that can help defend both Saxony and out main lands. Hurry library in Turfan
1154 Karakoum finished courthouse starts library
York finished market starts forge
1160- finish Civil service start machinery , revolt to bureaucracy
1166 Pig to Quin for 4 gold, this is our only pig so if we start to go unhealthy, cancel this deal first.
1172 London starts forge.
Saxony comes out of revolt and starts on theatre. Great merchant found in Karakoum, send him up towards Saladin or farther for trade mission
1190 turns finish.
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