LK145 - Lee, your a PITA

[NoChildren]

nice work killing of the archer with our warrior, i guess we'll just have to wait for our next orders before we determine what our next short-term goal should be...

i find it almost unbelievable how resource scarce the nearby lands are, but here's a quick dotmap just to get some discussion going:

i don't like founding cities with only one resource this early, but we seem to be left with little choice... at least they're all riverside.

maybe black dot should go 1N or 1 NE, if 1 NE it could work the corn without border pop, but wouldn't get the +1 hammer bonus and it will take quite some time until it can work all those plain hills.

 

[LKendter]

Conversation at the palace:
Izzy: It is about time we get serious about military. Hopefully bows and arrows do better then clubs.
Advisor: They certainly will.
Izzy: When are we going to get those dudes with axes?
Advisor: When we can find some metal.
Izzy: I am tired of hearing that. How about this iron you talk about?
Advisor: Yes your highness, we will try and locate iron.


Roster
Schwartz (currently playing)
LKendter (on deck)
Dazedroyalty
LKendter
NoChildren
LKendter
ZPVCSPLFUIFDPEF
LKendter
Refar
LKendter

Current PITA order:
Immediately change research iron working...
(You better work on getting Izzy happy about military)

Variant:
After each turn I will review the game and give a mandated order that can't be ignored. Many orders will be odd.
It expires at the end of your turn-set.


Remember about 15 peace (including phony wars) / about 10 heavy war turns per round. STRICT 24 hours got it, total 48 hours to complete.

Remember the use of the BUG mod is prohibited due to its destruction of the in game log. The use of BUG will result in your being ejected from the game.

 

[Refar]

(You better work on getting Izzy happy about military)

If we do that she will find something else to be upset about. And that "something else" might be even bigger trouble

 

[LKendter]

If we do that she will find something else to be upset about. And that "something else" might be even bigger trouble

Stupid 10 char rule

 

[schwartz]

Got it. I think NoChildren's dotmap looks okay, but black dot may be better off 1N depending on what's on that tile in the fog.

 

[NoChildren]

hmm, seems to me like LK really wants us to go war

whipping warriors, locating copper, researching archery, trying to find iron...

maybe we just should settle another good production city claiming iron and then churn out swords and start

 

[schwartz]

90:
Tech set to IW.

91:
"Barcelona wants to join the Indian Empire"


94:
Start mining the plains hill near Madrid.

96:
Madrid: Archer -> Archer. He goes north to fog bust for the cows city that we'll place there.

99:
Barcelona grows, whip monument.

100:
Start barracks at Barcelona.
+44 in IW. (11 turns -> 9 turns):

Spoiler :

101:
Tactitus says we're hopeless:

Spoiler :

And the hunters near Madrid are very successful:

Spoiler :

102:
Come across a bug while checking the diplo screen:

Spoiler :

We can see that Ragnar is Hammurabi's worst enemy, even though we don't know Hammurabi yet

104:
Madrid: Archer -> Settler (7 turns with 2 fish, crabs, wheat, mined plains hill)

I stopped there, it seemed right.
Very uneventful turnset, Izzy might be asleep or dead of boredom in the palace and unable to give us any orders! *crosses fingers*

Save:

 

[TheLastOne36]

lurker's comment: Report the bug pls.

i'll continue stalking lee's threads.

 

[LKendter]

Conversation at the palace:
Izzy: Why don't we have iron yet?
Advisor: It takes time to research these ideas.
Izzy: We need better scientists, but for now I will impatiently wait. I am getting bored to death. I need a bigger empire to rule (insane laughter...)


Roster
Schwartz
LKendter
Dazedroyalty (currently playing)
LKendter (on deck)
NoChildren
LKendter
ZPVCSPLFUIFDPEF
LKendter
Refar
LKendter

Current PITA order:
Must finish iron working research, and if we have iron inside our borders the worker must connect it.


Variant:
After each turn I will review the game and give a mandated order that can't be ignored. Many orders will be odd.
It expires at the end of your turn-set.


Remember about 15 peace (including phony wars) / about 10 heavy war turns per round. STRICT 24 hours got it, total 48 hours to complete.

Remember the use of the BUG mod is prohibited due to its destruction of the in game log. The use of BUG will result in your being ejected from the game.

 

[NoChildren]

7 turns for the settler and 5 for ironworking, that's good. then we'll be able to re-do the dotmap to fit in any possible iron

 

[dazedroyalty]

Perfect timing. I got it and will be able to play tonight. Unfortunately, then I go out of town for until July 10th. But most likely it won't come back to me before then anyways.

Hopefully we have iron. If we don't... well, Izzy may not be too happy. Her last two orders have been mild enough. That worries me though, as we all know there's a calm before a storm.

 

[NoChildren]

as we all know there's a calm before a storm.

this worries me as well... and i'm up after you...

 

[LKendter]

Roster
Schwartz
LKendter
Dazedroyalty (currently playing) (skip July 2 to July 10th)
LKendter (on deck)
NoChildren
LKendter
ZPVCSPLFUIFDPEF
LKendter
Refar
LKendter

Current PITA order:
Must finish iron working research, and if we have iron inside our borders the worker must connect it.

 

[dazedroyalty]

As Dazed stepped up to the reigns of leadership, he was more than a little worried what would happen if he failed to live up to his monarch's wishes. He knew that Queen Isabella wanted iron. However, he had a sinking feeling that perhaps this was one thing that he simply could not control.

(1) Word comes to Spain that the Great Wall was built far away. Clearly, the nation that build such a wall had no pride or confidence in their military's ability to defend them.

(4) Scholars tell that we have entered into a new age:

This age was sparked by our scientists discovering how to identify that strange looking hard rock as actually being iron. They have been working on this problem for hundreds of years. Dazed holds his breath to find out if the Queen will be happy.

Praises be! Iron within Spain's boundaries!

As soon as the team settlers is completed their preparations, they are sent to found on an area that has been dubbed "Blue Dot." This area now receives the official name of Seville.

Our scientists are told to find out how to manage herds of animals in order to get some benefit out of the strange white and brown creatures next door.

(15) Animal Husbandry is completed. What great scientists we have.

The iron if finally on line. Dazed takes a sigh of relief. Who knows what mad orders await for the future, but at least he accomplished what he was commanded.


I build another worker and have another one on the go. Madrid grew into unhappiness so I whipped it. We need to send one of the workers to Barcelona to speed that city up. We have an archer and warrior in Barcelona to defend against barbs, an archer is Seville, a warrior in Madrid, and an archer on the hills between Madrid and Seville to go where needed.

Here's the save:

 

[schwartz]

good turns dazed, way to keep our glorious leader happy

 

[LKendter]

Game comment (OOC) -
With two units next to Barcelona why isn't our archer promoted to CG1?
Don't forget random events are ON.


Conversation at the palace:
Izzy: I am really bored. I need new fashion accessories.
Advisor: We have nothing to make them out of.
Izzy: Why not, I want a golden ring and a silver bracelet.
Advisor: What about the military?
Izzy: Who cares, I want to look pretty.


Roster
Schwartz
LKendter
Dazedroyalty (skip July 2 to July 10th)
LKendter
NoChildren (currently playing)
LKendter (on deck)
ZPVCSPLFUIFDPEF
LKendter
Refar
LKendter

Current PITA order:
Worker priorities are to get silver and gold on-line. NO other work actions are allow until these two are completed.


Variant:
After each turn I will review the game and give a mandated order that can't be ignored. Many orders will be odd.
It expires at the end of your turn-set.


Remember about 15 peace (including phony wars) / about 10 heavy war turns per round. STRICT 24 hours got it, total 48 hours to complete.

Remember the use of the BUG mod is prohibited due to its destruction of the in game log. The use of BUG will result in your being ejected from the game.

 

[NoChildren]

after watching bbc prime all night i've come to the following conclusions:
1. i really have to go to bed
2. bbc prime isn't very good
3. i've got it
4. i will acquire shiny metals
5. i will try not to mess up

 

[NoChildren]

will play in a couple of hours.
team: anything i should know or do? (except obeying every ridiculous order given by LK)

 

[schwartz]

We just need to keep grabbing our planned cities at this point, before the AI does, since the other options aren't too good.. We can get our economy running smoothly after we've sealed as many of our spots as possible.

 

[NoChildren]

turn 120: inherited turn, promote archers who are about to excperience battle to CG1
turn 121: two barb archers killed IBT, our first metal comes online, not very shiny one though.

turn 122: two barb archers killed IBT, again. saladin wants open borders, granted.
turn 124: worker completes in madrid-->settler. let's expand our glorious nation!! the worker is sent to mine the silver, the other two workers are busy rounding up a bunch of cows
turn 125: granary completes in seville, a monumet was apparently queud up, i change this to an axemen, that city doesn't really need any of the tile in the second ring atm.
turn 127: ragnar comes asking for open borders, i guess that's fine. we want that diplo bonus that we'll get in a while... gandhi is still the only one with a religion, will we all be buddhist buddies here?
writing comes in and i select sailing, it would be nice to get trade going by those rivers that connect our land pretty good, it will be 15 turns, but i expect research rate to pick up soon. a nasty bar warrior near the gold forces me to round uo some cows until he decides to get pierced by arrows from the archers in barcelona.

urn 128: find a buddhist monk up in the north near black dot, why don't you send it south gandhi?

i decide to open borders with the old man to make it possible and i find this! it seems like we have a runaway techleader, maybe he could be pursuaded to share his technology at the point of a sword?

turn 129:the barb warrior is killed IBT, in two turns the two workers pasturising the cows ill be sent to build some mines...
turn 130: open borders with pericles, who now has converted to buddhism
turn 132: saladin thinks organized religion is the way of the future and gandhi completes the mabhabodhi, how nice of him to build it for us.
turn 133: silver is online, madrid finishes settler, which is sent to black dot, where an archer already is waiting. i set production on a library, we want to run some scientists there.

turn 134: seville finishes axeman, we need more of those so i build another one.
turn 135: barcelona finishes barracks, i set it on a settler since it will grow unhappy in 4 turns.

i failed in my mission, gold won't be online until next turn, but i hope earrings of silver will do until then...