LK164 - CCM, AWM, Korea

[LKendter]

1963 AD (5)
The assault on Fes begins. There are no units in it.
Maghreb has finally left the game.

The assault on Walvis Bay begins. I kill 2 rifles and 1 Nubian Mercenaries. (94-8)
It comes with 2 workers.

You must Whippet arrives. Goteborg gets a rushed power plant.
Whippet again arrives. Bombay gets a rushed factory.

The assault on Johannesburg begins. I kill 3 rifles. I lost 1 whippet. (97-9)

I kill Maghreb: 1 merchantman (with settler). (99-9)
I kill Persia: 2 adventurers and 1 artillery pieces. (102-9)
I kill Austria: 1 heavy artillery piece, 2 infantry and 1 dragoon. (104-9)
I kill unknown: 1 partisan. (105-9)
I kill Indo-China: 1 cavalry, 1 musket, 1 horse artillery and 1 grenadier. (109-9)
I kill Japan: 3 adventurers. (112-9)
I kill Aztec: 1 infantry. (113-9)
I kill Germany: 1 adventurer and 1 Ehrhardt. (115-9)
I kill South Africa: 3 adventurers. (118-9)
I lost: 1 early armored car and 1 whippet. (118-11)
(IT) One again our tech choice is forced. Research begins on Great War experience. It doesn’t matter much, but this is 5-turn research.

I killed Canada: 1 monk and 1 enslaver. (120-11)
I lost 1 infantry. (120-12)

 

[LKendter]

1964 AD (6)
The assault on Zimbabwe begins. I kill 4 rifles and 1 artillery pieces. I lost 1 whippet. (125-13)
I gain the very obsolete Stonehenge.

The assault on Bloemfontein begins. I kill 2 pikes. (127-13)
I gain nothing of value.

I steal South Africa’s map. They have one city somewhere far away. I spot 4 cities. I can’t find the 5th. One of them is on an island.

The assault on Cape Town begins. I kill 1 Numidian Mercenary and 1 Impi. (129-13)
I gain nothing of value.

I kill Canada: 1 chariot, 1 medieval explorer and 1 galleass. (132-13)
I kill Germany: 1 bucket. (133-13)
I kill South Africa: 1 rifle. (134-13)
I kill Arabia: 1 super tanks and 1 Hotchkiss. (136-13)
I kill Japan: 1 adventurer. (137-13)
[End of session 2]


(IT) I kill Germany: 2 Ehrhardt. (139-13)
I kill Japan: 1 ship. (140-13)
I lost: 2 armored cars, 1 whippet and 1 cruiser. (144-13)
Jerusalem has its production sabotaged.

 

[LKendter]

1965 AD (7)
The assault on Regensburg begins. I kill: 2 rifles. I lost 1 whippet. (146-14)
I gain $2.

The assault on Xochicalo begins. I kill: 2 infantry. I lost 1 whippet. (148-15)
I gain $136 and 1 zeppelin.

I kill the Aztec settler. They can now be wiped out.

The assault on Calixlahuaca begins. I kill 3 infantry. I lost 5 whippets. (151-20)
I gained $255 and 7 workers.

Temp is founded. The assault on Tlatmanalco begins. I kill 2 infantry. (153-20)
I gained $426. The Aztecs have left the game.

It has hit the point where combat settlers will have to be used a lot more. There are too many mountains and hills in the way.

Temp is founded again. The assault on Salzburg begins. I kill 4 infantry. I lost 3 whippets. (157-23)
I gained $678.

Temp is founded again. The assault on Prague begins. I kill 4 infantry. I lost 4 whippets. (161-27)
I gained $689. I snagged 2 workers by the city.


I kill Persia: 1 torpedo boat and 1 war galleon. (163-27)
I kill Canada: 1 MDI and 1 chariot. (165-27)
I kill German: 4 infantry. (169-27)
I kill Arabia: 1 infantry and 1 Nizam. (171-27)
I kill Aztec: 1 infantry. (172-27)
I kill Indo-China: 3 cavalry. (175-27)
I kill Persia: 1 heavy artillery piece. (176-27)
I kill Austria: 1 infantry and 1 early tank. (178-27)
I kill Brazil: 2 cannon. (180-27)
(IT) Italy declares war on China and Britain.
Japan is arriving in force near Regensburg.
I kill Austria: 2 early tanks, 1 artillery piece and 1 camel. (184-27)
I lost: 1 infantry. (185-27)

 

[LKendter]

1966 AD (8)
The assault on Durban begins. I kill 2 pikes. (187-27)
I gain nothing from the city.

Airport is founded. It will get that rushed with the next leader. I need a location to upgrade zeppelins. In addition, the WWI bombers will upgrade soon.

Flying Camel Corps arrives. I’ve got the airport I wanted.

Temp is founded again. The assault on Vienna begins. I kill 4 infantry, 1 enslaver and 1 dragoon. (193-27)
I gain $859 and 3 workers.

Temp is founded again. The assault on Budapest begins. I kill 2 infantry and 1 HMG. I lost 2 whippets. (196-29)
I gained $876.
The assault on Belgrade begins. I kill 2 infantry. I lost 3 whippets. (198-31)
I gained $596.

I gained 1 artist.
I grabbed 2 Austrian workers.

I kill Canada: 1 crossbow, 2 galleasses, 1 medieval explorer and 1 bucket. (200-29)
I kill Persia: 2 adventurers, 1 ironclad and 1 war galleon. (205-29)
I kill Arabia: 3 camels. (208-29)
I kill unknown: 1 partisan. (209-29)
I kill Japan: 8 camels and 2 early super tanks. (219-29)
I kill Austria: 1 infantry and 1 spear. (221-29)
I lost 1 whippet. (221-31)
(IT) Italy is nuts. Now they declare war on the Dutch.
China and USA sign an MPP.

I kill Canada: 1 enslaver. (222-31)

 

[LKendter]

1967 AD (9)
The assault on Kimberly begins. I kill 1 Numidian Mercenaries and 1 Impi. (224-31)
I destroy ships in port.
[End of session 3]

The assault of Innsbruck begins. I kill 3 infantry and 1 artillery piece. I lost 1 whippet. (228-32)
I gained $1,668 gold and 3 zeppelins.

Temp is founded again. The assault of Pressburg begins. I kill 3 infantry. I lost 1 whippet. (231-33)
I gained $1,707 and 3 zeppelins.

I rush several more steamrollers to keep the momentum going. All of the Austrian cash is appreciated. After this I still have over 16K in cash.

The assault on Aussig begins. I kill 3 infantry. (234-33)
I gain $1,749 and 2 workers.
I gain a supply shipment next to the city.

Temp is founded again. The assault on Gratz begins. I kill 4 infantry. I lost 1 whippet. (238-37)
I gain $1,798 and 2 zeppelins.

Temp is founded again. The assault on Linz begins. I kill 2 infantry. I lost 2 whippets. (240-39)
I gain $1,854.

The next cities are a jungle infected mess. Aussig gets a culture bomb hoping to let me get close to the next two.

Whip the Adventurer arrives. Madras gets a rushed factory.

Temp is founded again. The assault on Pula begins. I kill 2 infantry. I lost 1 whippet. (242-40)
I gained $1,280.

Temp is founded again. However, the jungle stops the assault on Lienz. I pile up whippets next to the city.

Temp2 is founded. I pile up whippets by Chalco.

I’ve used up steamrollers so heavily, that I review out cities for more potential rushes.

I kill Dutch: 1 war galleon. (243-40)
I kill Canada: 1 chariot, 1 galleass and 1 medieval explorer. (246-40)
I kill Indo-China: 1 protected cruiser. (247-40)
I kill Japan: 2 adventurers. (249-40)
I kill Austria: 4 infantry and 1 adventurer. (254-40)
I kill Brazil: 1 meso-mortar. (255-40)
I kill Persia: 1 adventurers and 1 cavalry. (257-40)
I kill Arabia: 1 Hotchkiss. (258-40)
I kill Germany: 2 Ehrhardt. (260-40)
I lost: 2 whippets. (260-42)
(IT) I lost 5 infantry. (260-47)

 

[LKendter]

I'm working on finishing up turn 10 now. I hope to publish it tonight.

These turns are getting brutal in length.

 

[LKendter]

1968 AD (10)
The assault on Halicarnassus begins. I kill 2 rifles, 1 early armored car and 1 infantry. (264-47)
I razed the city. Greece is out of the game.

Whippet out arrives. Pretoria gets a rushed factory.

The assault on Lienz begins. I kill 3 infantry. (267-47)
I gain $1,733.

The assault on Rijeka begins. I kill 3 infantry. I lost 1 whippet. (270-48)
I gain $1,907 and 1 zeppelin.

The assault on Chalco begins. I kill 3 rifles. I lost 1 whippet. (273-48)
I gain $7.

The assault on Istakhr begins. I kill 1 rifles and 1 Nizam. I lost 1 whippet. (275-49)
The city comes with nothing.

Temp is founded again. The assault on Jinjan begins. I kill 2 rifles. (277-49)
The city is auto-razed.

The assault on Antioch begins. I kill 1 rifles and 1 Nizam. (279-51)
The city comes with nothing.

Temp is founded again. The assault on Stuggart begins. I kill 4 rifles. I lost 2 whippets. (283-53)
I gain $12.

The assault on Konigsberg begins. I kill 4 rifles. (287-53)
I gain $12 and 3 workers.

Access is a pain is founded. A block of whippets appear next to Augsburg.

Temp is founded again. The assault on Macao begins. I kill 2 infantry. I lost 1 whippet. (285-54)
I gain $2,145.

Temp is founded again. The assault on Hamburg begins. I kill 1 rifle. (286-54)
I gain $12.

That was going to be the last city. However, with how weak it was, the assault on Cologne begins. I kill 1 rifle. (287-54)

That was another pathetic defense. The assault on Berlin begins. I kill 8 rifles and 1 adventurer. I lost 4 whippets. (296-58)
I run out of attackers, and the city holds.
Temp will survive until after this city falls.

I kill Greece: 1 ship. (297-58)
I kill Indo-China: 2 cavalry and 2 muskets. (303-58)
I kill Canada: 1 chariot. (304-58)
I kill Germany: 4 infantry, 1 rifle and 2 Ehrhardt. (311-58)
I kill Japan: 1 camel. (312-58)
I kill Persia: 2 rifles, 1 cavalry and 2 nizam. (317-58)
I kill Arabia: 3 heavy artillery pieces, 6 Hotchkiss, 4 infantry, 1 cannon and 2 super tanks. (333-58)
I kill Britain: 1 rifle. (334-58)
I kill unknown: 1 partisan. (335-58)
I lost: 2 whippets and 1 early armored car. (335-61)

[End of session 4]

 

[LKendter]

The southern conquests:

 

[LKendter]

The northern conquests:

 

[LKendter]

Summary:
JJ needs to plan for Hover. A pre-build is too quick as of the end of my set. I don’t know how many turns needed to research it. A free power plant in every city is worth a few less whippets from one city. I think the net should be more troops.

The transports by former Greece should start moving to the next island to officially put South Africa out of the game.

It is now a very simply game plan.
Low shield cities = settlers / steamrollers.
All other cities = collective farm, barracks, and then whippets.
Workers = connect new cities, and then optimize cities for faster whippets.
Please draft when possible to free up 4 HP infantry for the front.

It is up to 43.7% of land. Now that we can take multiple cities a turn, I expect that number to jump fast. If you look at Mapstat 10 cities expand borders next turn. 13 more expand in 2 turns. I am sure I’ve played my last turn.

ROSTER:


LKendter
Jersey Joe (up)
Elephantium (on deck)
Greebley

 

[Jersey Joe]

My quick plan without looking at the save is to go after Persia and to where ever else I can avoid mountains.
Hoover Dam has to be built in a city with a river. It most likely will be a 5 turn build in some city the can build a whippet in 1 turn.

I got it.

 

[Elephantium]

I glanced at the save.

Mountain River can make 1-turn Whippets if one of the citizens on the grassland works a forest instead. Easy win!
We have a lot of cities making 65-100 spt, but most of them are hopeless for hitting that 130-shield threshold.

Black dot is an exception, but it needs quite a few turns to grow. It might be worth joining some Settlers.
Hebron, Squawking Moose, and Jerusalem could add a lot of shields by joining some Settlers and fully improving all tiles. Hebron as an example can add 20 shields this way which adds ~60 to its total after the Factory effect is counted.

The next wave of cities is places like West Coast (58spt, a couple of rails and a new mined forest could easily kick it up over 65 = 2-turn Whippets). Kalisz, Tangier, Krakow, and maybe Goteborg (with a Police HQ) fit this bill.

Then cities like Bethlehem, Kadesh, Gniezno, etc. down to maybe Linkoping and Chonju can get 3-turn Whippet production with some modest efforts.

Edit: Axum can get 200spt with a couple of police = 4-turn build for Hoover.

Edit2: We have a lot of small gaps in our culture borders near Old Turkey and Old Scandinavia that will fill in by themselves in the next 5 turns.

 

[Greebley]

The small town size was due to the switch to Anarchy. Our main cities had been mostly shrunk to 20 and 21. When we got hit with 2 IBT of Anarchy we lost 2 size for each one so 4 total. Thus our core towns were down to 16 and 17 after Anarchy.

We should raise our town sizes before we do a communism switch. The civipedia says you lose 2 pop in cities, 1 in town, but that seems to be per turn so happens twice.

 

[Jersey Joe]

Elephantium, for the 80-100 shield cities, I have them building 1 turn WWII Infantry (short rushing using Korean flag). We no longer build Whippets, we build Asian T95s which are 130 shields but have 3 movement. so 65-70 shield cities are 2 turn T95's.
Axum with Heavy Tank factory gets an extra 25% shields so it will be generating 200+ shields next turn. However, Hoover Dam is an 800 shield build and I con only use Battlefield medicine (500 shield build) for 2 turns. So the best I can do is finish Hoover Dam the turn after Interwar Period is learned. Plus right now it looks like it might take 5 turns to learn. I need to go see if I can hire enough scientists to make it 4 turns.

I wonder if I can merge Partisans into a city to increase its population.

Greebley, I think we lose the extra citizens owing to starvation. Since, we lose the extra food from irrigation and and maybe rails.

 

[LKendter]

Don't avoid mountains to much. IIRC the last South African city is near mountains.

My last turn made the first nibble on Persia.

 

[LKendter]

I forgot to mention that all of our planes upgrade with the next tech.

I completed my #1 goal of the set, and borders are way shorter. I don't care where you attack next, as long as the border stay short.

I hope JJ is happy with how many tanks build a turn. That is why I was able to take so many cities near the end of my set despite losing a lot of Whippets.

 

[Elephantium]

We no longer build Whippets, we build Asian T95s which are 130 shields but have 3 movement

Ooh!

Axum could make 200 shields in the 1968 save by hiring a couple of cops. Heavy Tank Factory should bring it up above 210...


I wouldn't bother with merging Partisans. We have tons of Motorized Settlers hanging out and lots of cities building them.

 

[LKendter]

We have tons of Motorized Settlers hanging out and lots of cities building them.

I left JJ ~40 of them, plus plenty of cash to rush more.

 

[Jersey Joe]

Good news is that the upgrade from Whipple to Type 95 is free.

I am in the first turn yet and it is going to take 4 more turns just to get troops to the island were the S African capitol is. I should have the other S. African city captured next turn.

Here is a first turn tease:

 

[LKendter]

Didn't realize I was that close. Glad to see another civ dead.