Kraz01- The Totally Mad Scientists

[Kraznaya]

Hit space...

IBT:
Horses are linked up.
Overseerpolis Granary -> Spear
Trunk Beach Worker -> Rax
Wheel -> C Burial

Turn 1:

Scout spots barb galley. Somebody out there has at least maps.

IBT:

K-grad produces first A-Cav.

Turn 2:

Move Overseeropolis spear toward T-Town to defend against Byz archer

IBT:

K-grad Settler -> Archer
C-ville Cat-> Cat
Byz Warrior advances on C-ville
Byz Archer advances on T-town

Turn 3:
A-Cav kills Byz Warrior (1-0)
Kraz is an idiot with his scout, spots damaged Indian warrior and declares.

IBT:

vSpear is killed by rArcher (1-1)
Smyrna appears in the fog in the grass east of T-town

Turn 4:
MM O-polis to increase food with same production
North Kraznayagrad is founded on the Black Spot hill
Increase lux to 20%
Scout runs into France as well trying to run back to Portugal Declare.

IBT:
Scout is killed (1-2)
C Burial -> Myst
K-grad Archer -> Archer
O-polis Spear -> Settler

Turn 5:
MM lux back down to 10%

IBT:

Byz Warrior fortifies outside of T-Town

Turn 6:

Advance vArcher, A-Cav

IBT:
K-Grad produces another A-Cav
K-Grad Archer->Worker
T-burg Settler->Archer

Turn 7:
vArcher attacks rArcher, wins but r-lined (2-2)

IBT:

K-grad Worker -> Archer
N K-grad Warrior -> Walls

Turn 8
vA-Cav attacks Smyrna rSpear, promotes (3-2)
vArcher kills fortifed rWarrior (4-2)
MM cities

IBT:
eA-Cav is attacked by vArch (5-2)
O-Polis riots >_<

Turn 9:
vA-Cav attacks rSpear, retreats
Ferrum is founded on the Iron Hill

IBT:
K-grad Archer -> Sword

Turn 10:

Move units around, basically


I'm sorry about not being able to do any real damage or burning of Byzantine cities, 2 A-Cavs and some random archers here and there didn't cut it. We do have the ability to build swords

We do have a lot of fertile lands, and a massive expanse to the north, however the initial contact with both India and France were in border of the north jungle/grassland.



And the Save:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/62725/Kraz01_Kraz_1000BC.SAV

Roster:
Kraz Just Played
Tasslehoff UP
Overseer On Deck
Tusker Is still in?
?

 

[TheOverseer714]

Horses, Iron, Ivory, nice location. We are in AW heaven! We should begin getting some veteran AC's out of the SoZ soon. I think it is getting nearly time to trash sweet snobby Theodora.

 

[Tasslehoff]

Alright, got it. Will build up a stack or two to trash Theodora, try to expand a bit to the North.

 

[Elephantium]

I'm still in for now

 

[Kraznaya]

Somethings to consider:

Changing the North Kraznayagrad and Ferrum builds to walls.

Changing the Archer build in Tassleburg.


I was kind of distracted when I played this.

And Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone playing and lurking!

 

[Tasslehoff]

Well, I've already finished, but I didn't do any of those changes. Razed two Byz cities, lost a settler to some nasty Indians (they're dead now), and got an MGL (!), and built the first Mounted Hoopak Army.

Spoiler Turnset :

Turn 0- 1000BC- hit space
IBT- Two Byz archers come at the stack, a French Warrior comes towards Ferrum. Overseerpolis Settler->Sword C-ville Catapult->Spear. Vikings have finished Colossus.

Game crashes >.<.

Delete 800 MB autosave. Search for Filevalet. Wonder why it disappeared- again. Download FileValet. Open FileValet. Sanitize save file. Watch my available disk space jump 400 MB. Open save file. Turn off autosave.

Spoiler Turnset, take two :

Turn 0- 1000BC- Turn off autosave, hit enter.
IBT- Two Byz archers come at the stack, a French Warrior comes towards Ferrum. Overseerpolis Settler->Sword C-ville Catapult->Spear. Vikings have finished Colossus.
Turn 1- Byz rArch redlines a vArch, then dies.
IBT- Warrior dies on our spear, get another AC. Byz archer runs, the coward.
Turn 2- ZZZ
IBT- K-Grad Sword-Sword
Turn 3- ZZZ
IBT- Barb Horse by Ferrum, Byz archer appears. K-grad revolts. Make a taxman. Trunk Beach Rax->Sword. Tassleburg Archer->spear.
Turn 4- vAC kills Byz archer
IBT- Tuskertown Settler->Spear. Trunk Beach revolts- get a beakerhead. More Barb horses, and a Byz archer by Ferrum. O-polis Sword->Sword.
Turn 5- Stack heads to Smyrna.
IBT- Byz archer by Smyrna.
Turn 6- vWarrior kills rArcher. vArcher kills rArcher. Battle for smyrna- 3 Cats do nothing. First Kraznayagrad Mounted Division becomes the First Kraznayagrad Mounted Hoopakers, killing an rSpear and generating an MGL! vAC kills rSpear, autorazes Smyrna. Science to 70%
IBT- Kgrad Sword->Settler. Commandoville Spear->Sword
Turn 7- Our settler runs right into two Indian warriors, one Elite. Fortunately, they're across a river. RNG, don't fail us now.
IBT- RNG fails us. Barb warrior dies invading Byz spear, after they pillage some horses. O-polis Settler->Spear
Turn 8-I found Burfoot-on-Smyrna, appropriately, on the ruins of smyrna. There, I create the first AC army with our MGL.
IBT- Byz spear goes deeper into our territory. vSword is redlines by a wounded Indian eWarrior, but wins, revealing a small french invasion of rWarriors. Our vAC kills one.
Turn 9-Army kills an rSpear
IBT- Get Polytheism, start Monarchy, in 19. K-Grad settler->Spear. Tuskertown Spear->Sword
Turn 10-1st Mounted Hoopak Army kills rSpear, razes Adrianople. Then, they misclick and don't kill an rArcher. vAC kills French rWarrior. Sword kills rWarrior.

Notes: There's an undefended settler North of N. K-grad. Move it 1N, move the AC and the Sword on it, and build the turn after. Watch out for Barbs, there are also two workers underneath it. There's a marauding Byz spear in the middle of our territory, but all our troops had been occupied, so I didn't kill it.

Spoiler Pic :

Save:http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/117283/Kraz-01-750BC.SAV

 

[Kraznaya]

A-Cav army pretty much screws the Byz's.

Where is the save?

My civ's been having problems. When I got the Tusker's save, there was a BG graphic on every tile! I reinstalled C3C and it was fine, but it was very strange.

EDIT: We also want Heroic Epic up ASAP.

 

[Tasslehoff]

The save's there, right at the bottom of the post .

 

[Kraznaya]

Ah, I've done that before; make a quick post getting the info out ASAP and then making edits later.

In any case, the roster:

Roster-
Kraznaya
Tasslehoff Just played
TheOverseer714 UP
Elephantium On deck
?

C'mon guys, we're burning through this fast, it may be the holidays, but we could use one more on the rotation.

 

[TheOverseer714]

I have downloaded the save, I will play this afternoon/evening. I will continue the offensive in Byzantine territory while continuing our growth and defensive preparations. We are probably due for a few stacks soon from our new and old enemies, so I won't over-commit our troops and leave the heartland exposed. Any comments, suggestions, advice or just plain cheer-leading is welcome

 

[TheOverseer714]

I should have checked the save sooner, I'm getting an invalid save message. Can someone load Tassle's last save, re-save it under a new name, and send it to me? I'd really like to play soon.

 

[Kraznaya]

Thats weird, it works fine for me... Tassle has his fancy shmancy FileValet thing so he could probably clean it up for you...

 

[Tasslehoff]

FileValet only helps make windows saves work for macs. Kraz, why don't you load my save, re-save it with a new name, and upload it? That worked in Hawk01.

EDIT: I tried FileValeting it, but I doubt it works... here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/117283/Kraz-01-750BC.SAV

Kraz, you probably should still try to re-save it if possible.

 

[Elephantium]

Here, try this one:

Edit: And for pity's sake, start building more settlers! I feel like we're doing a 10CC here.

Remember, we need lots of cities to power our !

 

[Kraznaya]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/62725/Kraz_01_ForWindows_750BC.SAV

Here you go.

EDIT: lol crosspost

 

[TheOverseer714]

I think I may have identified the problem. My multi-tasking may be the root cause. When I re-downloaded the DOSS-1 file, it had a different file size and it worked. My running Civ3 Complete and CivAssist 2 while downloading the first time seems to have caused a problem. I will try the saves you guys sent until one works, though I bet they all do. Thanks, I really appreciate the help

 

[Kraznaya]

So, does it work now?

 

[TheOverseer714]

Playing, will update soon.

 

[TheOverseer714]

Soon turned to later, as I had poker night last night and I got on the game today and found no save, not even an auto-save, so I had to play it all over again I am done, it was good. The Byzantines are down to 2 cities and those won't be long from destruction. Bad news, the French have swords. I think they are next on the hit-list. Here is my turn-log:

Spoiler :

Pre-flight: CivAssist 2, Word running. Get the save loaded. Look things over.

Non-Combat:
Workers 9 native, 2 slaves
Settler 2
Military:
Warriors 5
Archers 5
Spearman 8
Swordsman 3
Catapults 3
Armies 1, 3 unit Ancient Cavalry
Ancient Cavalry 4

Hit enter=>

IBT: Byzantines take our slaves.
Wandering spear threatens our workers.
Tassleburg Archer=>Archer.

730 BC: Take our slaves back.
Move AC army toward Constantinople. It has a population of 2, guarded by rSpears.
vSword wins vs rArcher, -1 hp.(1-0)

IBT: Byz spear continues wandering around scaring the workers.
SoZ produces AC.
O&#8217;opolis settler=>settler.
Trunk Beach sword=>sword.
North K&#8217;Grad Barracks=>spear.

710 BC: Overseer&#8217;s Grocery founded=>worker.
1st Battle of Constantinople:
AC Army wins vs rSpear, -1hp.
AC Army wins vs rSpear, -4hp.(3-0)

IBT: rSpear wins defending vs rArcher, -1hp, promotes.

690 BC: vAC wins vs Byz rSpear, -1hp.
2nd Battle of Constantinople:
AC Army wins vs rSpear, -1hp.
AC Army wins vs rSpear, -1hp, and I raze Constantinople!

Battle of Varna: cats go 2-3. vSword wins vs 2hp rSpear clean.
eArcher loses vs 2hp rSpear.
vArcher wins vs red-lined rSpear and Varna auto-razes. 1 slave taken(9-1)


IBT: Byz rArcher kills vs vArcher on Varna&#8217;s ashes.
K-Grad sword=>Heroic Epic.

670 BC: South Kraznayagrad founded=>worker.
Ping exposed rArcher. vArcher wins vs redlined rArcher clean.
AC Army wins vs exposed rArcher clean.
AC Army wins vs 2nd exposed rArcher clean.(12-2)

IBT: C&#8217;ville sword=>Barracks.
T&#8217;town sword=>Barracks.

650 BC: Faropolis founded=>Walls.

IBT: Ferrum Walls=>Barracks.

630 BC: near Faropolis vAC wins vs rSpear, -3hp, promotes.(13-2)

IBT: SoZ produces AC.
North K&#8217;Grad spear=>Walls.

610 BC: ping spears twice at Caesarea.

IBT: rSpear wins vs rArcher, -2hp.
O&#8217;opolis settler=>settler.
Trunk Beach sword=>sword.

590 BC: vSword wins vs rArcher -2hp.
1st Battle of Caesarea:
Ping spears three times
vSword wins vs rSpear -3hp.
vArcher loses vs 2hp rSpear, who promotes.
vArcher loses vs 2hp rSpear.
vArcher wins vs 2hp vSpear.(17-4)
France settles Chartres NW of Nicaea.
Byzantines have 3 towns left.

IBT: T&#8217;Burg archer=>sword.
Overseers Grocery worker=>Walls.

570 BC: Cats go 1-3 at Caesarea. I move swords to heal.
AC Army in position to take Nicaea. French have swords

IBT: Ouch! I missed a spear threatening 2 workers and have them captured. French archer loses to vSword, French vSword then kills vSword.

550 BC: vArcher loses to worker capturing rSpear, who promotes.
eAC wins vs same 2hp vSpear, -2hp.
Battle of Nicaea: AC Army wins vs rSpear, -2hp.
AC Army wins vs rSpear, -1hp, and Nicaea is auto-razed.

vAC wins vs French 3hp vSword. (22-6)

Non-Combat:
Workers 9 native, 3 slaves
Settlers 1
Military:
Warriors 5
Archers 2
Spearman 9
Swordsman 7
Catapults 3
Armies 1, 3 unit Ancient Cavalry
Ancient Cavalry 6

Here is the East with a dotmap, strrrrrrrictly cxxc:

There is a settler near red-spot. I have settlers n the pipe at O'opolis and T'town, we need to keep them flowing out to build towns, as towns create unit support. I think we could start settling cxc farther out, as corruption becomes crushing beyond 20 or so tiles from the capitol. Here is the save:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/110452/Kraz-01_Overseer__550_BC.SAV

 

[Elephantium]

We should settle CxC in the tundrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrra.

Other than that, VERY nice progress

Edit: Oh, I'm up. Got it, I'm playing right now.