LK21 - Japan, always War.

[LKendter]

Originally posted by Rowain deWolf
Just one Question: Why are we rushing Temples with Leaders instead of Librarys? (more Shields, more Culture and better for research)

Rowain

Actually - these are 1/1 cities, the Library would not help with research at all.

 

[Readylander]

Another status update:

Turns are taking forever. There are a million workers and tons of military units.

(3) 1830AD - Two tanks are lost to counterattacks by the English. The Russians move a stack of 7 modern armor into our territory. The Chinese unload two infantry onto our mainland. Science rate dropped another 10% without changing research time. A Russian battleship and carrier are sunk. Newcastle razed, no losses, 4 workers gained. Bengal razed, no losses, no gains. Hastings, which had Newton's, was razed, lost one tank, gained 6 workers and 1 artillery. While eliminating the stack of modern armor Hirohito appeared. Edo 2 founded and Hirohito rushes a temple there. Satsuma 2 founded. Kagoshima 2 founded. Nara 2 founded. Munich razed, no loses, gained 55 gold, 1 worker and the GL Fujiwara. Nagoya 2 founded. Izumo 2 founded and Fujiwara rushes a temple there. Nagasaki founded.

(4) 1832AD - Ecology discovered, Synthetic Fibers research started. York razed, no losses, 3 workers and 1 artillery gained. Nottingham razed, no losses, gained 6 workers and 2 artillery. Another GL appears and a temple is rushed. The English cultural borders create a big buffer against us, troops are moved to take at least two more cities next turn.

(5) 1834AD - Coventry razed, no losses, 3 workers gained. Warwick razed, lost one vet tank, gained 4 workers. Yokohama 2 founded. Shimonoseki 2 founded. Matsuyama 2 founded, this brings us our 7th luxury, spices. Sapporo 2 founded. Hakodate 2 founded. Ise 2 founded.

(6) 1836AD - Brighton razed, one vet tank lost, 2 workers gained. Dover razed, no losses, 1 worker gained. London razed, no losses, 17 workers gained. Oxford razed, cav army lost, 2 workers gained. That is the last of the English cities on the NE end of the war continent. Lost 2 tanks eliminating the Russian modern armor stacks. Toyama 2 founded. Fukushima 2 founded. Suo 2 founded. Bizen 2 founded. Echizen 2 founded. Izumi 2 founded. Omi 2 founded. Echigo 2 founded. Kaifeng razed, one tank lost, 1 worker gained. New Shanghai razed, no losses, 3 workers and 1 artillery gained. Kozuke 2 founded. Punjab razed, lost one vet tank, gained 5 workers. Sado 2 founded.

I am going to play one or two more turns and then will post my results, expect them within the next couple hours.


To be continued...

 

[LKendter]

Originally posted by Readylander
Another status update:

Turns are taking forever. There are a million workers and tons of military units.

(3) 1830AD Munich razed, no loses, gained 55 gold, 1 worker and the GL Fujiwara.

(4) 1832AD - Ecology discovered, Synthetic Fibers research started.

I know the turns are gettting brutal in length. My 1 + 1/2 hour airport delayed completed just 2 turns - and I had to finish up #2 at the hotel.

Munich falls - I am glad to see Germany took some damage.

Don't forget - We can't have modern armor until we see aluminum - that requires rocketry.


I suspect just a handfull more rounds to wrap. Just reading your descriptions tells me that a lot more new squares were claimed, and many more temples to claim even more.

 

[Readylander]

Well I only played one more turn. This should be finished up in the next few turns.

(7) 1838AD - Exeter razed, no losses, 1 worker gained. New Kyoto 2 founded. New Osaka 2 founded. Cologne razed, lost two tanks, gained 126 gold and 3 workers.

We need 101 more tiles for domination. There are quite a few cities that will have cultural border expansion in the next couple turns so it shouldn't take too many new cities to win.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads/LK21-1838AD.zip

Good luck Rowain. The Russian modern armor and German Panzers have been slowing things down the last couple turns.

 

[Rowain deWolf]

Originally posted by Dark Sheer


Well, if we are going to halt research after Modern Armor, then Temple is better than Library as it helps to keep the people content.

We have 5 Luxuries and can use Military Police i doubt that any of our newly acquired cities will reach a size where they need a temple for happyness

Originally posted by LKendter

Actually - these are 1/1 cities, the Library would not help with research at all.

Granted this is true but Libs still give 3 Cp instead of 2 from temples so borderexpansion would be sooner.

Anyway Got it and it looks very good but don't expect a report before weekend. we should be able to get Domination before our culture reaches 100k

Rowain

 

[LKendter]

OK - just do like readylander and keep us posted what is going on.

I think you will wrap this game [dance]

 

[Rowain deWolf]

short notice from the battlefield:

3 turns played 4 german cities razed 22 russian MA killed by aloss of 5 tanks/mechInf 5 new cities founded

Rowain

 

[Rowain deWolf]

Another short message from the battlefield:

Stuttgard, Hamburg Frankfurt, Leipzig, Berlin, Nuremberg(all german), Birmingham, Norwich, Liverpool(l English) and the chinese city of Ganges are burned tothe ground. 1 Leader a lot of dead russian MA. and a whole chunk of new cities.

One Question are you sure Domination is enabled?. According to the tool we should have triggered victory on my 3rd turn. But perhaps the upgrading to 1.21 puzzles the calculator.

Next turn we have rocketry and that means Modern Armor

Rowain

 

[LKendter]

Well I hope domination is allowed...
I have no clue how to verify that.

It does look like you shredded Germany [dance]


We definetly better move toward the lone English city on the Island NOW! I don't want to have to play turns just because of that lone city.

 

[Rowain deWolf]

report continued:
1854 (8): Berlin razed (5 worker 1 Artillery); Liverpool (defended by an Antitank spear ) razed; Nuremberg razed(3 worker 1 Artillery); reduzed Science gives Rocketry still in 2 but 223 gold;

1856: Leeds razed; One Infantry in Brandenburg kills a tank force another to retreat and kills an Mech Inf. Nevertheless Brandenburg gets razed. England gone from the NW of the Continent. turning the Science wheel again gives Rocketry(= Modern Armor ) next turn and 574 gold

Inbetween: GACK! After sending (and loosing) 8 or 9 Modern Amor against us every turn Cathy gets real mad. 55(!!) russian Mech Infantry (and 5 Modern Armor) near New Osaka 2 . russia had at this time 73 Mech Inf so this stack is a all-or-nothing gambit by the AI

1858 gathering our forces in the endangered City and using our artillery and Bombers leaves 30 Russian without hp loss the other 25 loose between 1 and 3 hp

Inbetween: Russia moves the whole stack 2 fields back home (thanks to Culture exp still in our land

1860 (11): further pounding the stack leaves 19 with full health, 19 with 1 hp lost and the rest more injured. Our detracting force (1 tank 1Mech Inf) attacks Kuybishew and get repelled by a Cossack. We learn rocketry and start Stealth ( i want better bombers ). during the killing of the 5 Modern Armors i get a Leader who trushed a Library in the next uncultured city. We will reach 100k culture in 4 turns so i continued to play. Upgrading some tanks to MA.

Inbetween: Thats nice Russia splits its force the unhurt part (19 MI) moes 2 tiles to attack again New Osaka) the deeply hurt (1 or 2 hp left) run home and the 19 MI with just one hp lost stay where they are.

1862(12): The newly upgraded MA wipe out the serious injured Russian stack The remaining two stacks are now trapped in our land and get more damage by our Artillery and Bombers.

1864(13): Wiping out the remains of the Russian SoD is like clay-pigeon shooting. A stack of 15 units with just 1 hp left get killed by 6 Modern Armor(one lost). I love the new batch and the triple attack. Our surviving MA are all elite and 1 Leader(= 1 Library) emerged. Since this SoD is now gone I switch back to offense: Konigsbverg razed; and the first Russian city Hamadan is razed too. russias Army is now very poor:

1866 (14): with the Russian Backbone broken a round starts. Bonn(germany) and the Russian cities: Gordium, Magnitogorsk, Kuybishew, Arbela, Richmond and NewBerlin are razed and partly replaced by our own. Since i know that culture will kick in next turn i don't bother with pollution clearing and troop movement but hit enter.
To my great surprise i get following Message:

 

[Rowain deWolf]

continued:

Our Score:

Our Title:

and the saveGame

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads/LK21_1866AD.zip

The saveGame is just after the Military action. I didn't bother with Pollution clearing this turn. Just hit next turn. The pollution Clearingwas really tedious here. On one turn i got 10(!) polluted tiles. At least 10 tiles were converted by Global Warming during my watch.


[dance] We have Won [dance]


Now time for some
Thanks to all and happy civing

Rowain

 

[Dark Sheer]

Woohoo!! Another domination victory after the Chinese SG!

Job well done guys!! I love this Always War SG. To count back, we started without Iron then follow by without Saltpeter. I must say we have done remarkably well with this one.

 

[LKendter]

Don't forget another major hurdle -
Tech trailer when the other continent found us.

Fighting cavalry with offensive Samurai.
Cannons trying to drive off infantry.


Of course - it did take forever to get past the Jungle around Egypt.


Now can it happen again in the other Always War - LK22?