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[Michelangelo]

It's been a while since the last action on this game-thread. I think the last one to finish is Geonnyboy. Have you done so allready, or given up on it?? I'll post my log later this week.

Greetz,

 

[Michelangelo]

It's been a while, but I thought i'll post the log anyway as it's still roaming on my disc, and it would be a waste of all the work.

Status at check 1500 AD

See a nice big army as promised waiting near Washington and some transports of the coast to transport the first wave.

They can all move, but I wait for a turn as we want to start the war with F16’s

IBT: Our 7th army is ready, build a new one in 4, Build a lot of workers and some tanks.

Turn 1: 1505 AD
Fill up the armies with the same units as already in it. Exept the MDI army, it get’s reinforcement from a infantry, for defense. Move fighters to carriers

IBT: Build tanks, bombers, carrier, destroyer

Turn2: 1510 AD
The plan will be to land the major forcebetween Ollantayytambo and Vilcas and build a city here, and an airport immeadeately. When the major retailliation force of the Inca is exhausted, some will airlift to the sounthern area’s of the incan territory. After the Incan are destroyed the major force will continue to the Zulu.
Start loading the transports
Build city albaquerque on westcoast to use more tiles (for growth)

IBT: Build stuff

Turn3: 1515 AD
Build Portland on coastal hill in the west, reduce the science slider by 10%. Move ships into position

IBT: Research Rocketry. We immediately order our first F16’s. Reduce science to 0%. Won’t need new techs, do need cash though.

Turn 4: 1520 AD
Zzz.

IBT: We get our first F16, more tanks, order a couple of new settlers

Turn 5: 1525 AD
Rebase F16 to Baltimore, to officially start the attack next turn.

IBT: Building more F16’s and 4 settlers

Turn 6 1530 AD
Start the war for domination. Fly a bombing run on Vilcas which fails .
Landing troops (6 armies and settler and two workers) on coast and start Bombing run. Nice to destroy barracks in Vilcas
Found Minneapolis near Byzantium, Build Pittsburg on south coast
4/4 Destroyer kills 4/4 Galleon flawlessly

IBT Some movement of the Inca’s, no attack though.

Turn 7 1535 AD
Build Oakland in Incan territory and rush Temple
Worker builds Airfield next to Oakland
Build Orlando
4/4 Destroyer kills 4/4 Galleon flawlessly
4/4 Destroyer kills 4/4 Galleon flawlessly
Bombing Vilcas, looks like 4 units are defending it.
17/17 Cavary army kills 1/4 infantry, losing 2 hp – kills 1/4 infantry (8hp) - kills 1/4 infantry flawlessly, Vilcas is ours
17/17 MDI army kills 2/4 MDI in the field flawless
Battle for Ollantaytambo
18/18 Tank army kills 4/4 Infantry (1hp)
18/18 Tank army kills 4/4 Infantry (0hp)
17/17 Cav army kills 4/4 Infantry (3hp), Ollantaytambo is ours
Build Tacoma on northern island
Made a couple of small mistakes, that left my newly conquered cities badly defended, with great military forces just camping outside of them. Hope the Inca won’t punish me for that.

IBT: Some inca movement, but no attacks. Resistance in Ollatown has ended, but is in riot. 5 resistors quelled in Vilcas, two remaining

Turn 8: 1540 AD
Rebase all bombers to Oakland
Siege of Machu Pichu
18/18 Cav army kills 2 infantry losing 11 hp.
4/4 Cav killed by 3/4 infantry
18/18 Tank army kills 3/4 infantry, Machu Pichu falls, We have the Great Library. Yeah.
14/17 cav army kills 4/4 Infantry 4/4 Knight and 4/4Archer around Ollancity losing 1 hp
MDI army captures 3 workers and build airfield
Army of Cavs in place on hill to attack Cuzco next turn
Fill new army with tanks

IBT: An lone and brave inca knight attacked a stack of cavalry….. and lost, but redlining cavalry. Washington builds new army. Quelled 4 citizens in Machu Picchu (still 4 resisting), Order restored in Ollantown, Resistance ended in Vilcas, Oackland builds barracks->Harbor to bring in those luxuries

Turn 9 1545 AD
I declared the following policy for rushing stuff. On main continent, Units req 1 or 2 turns: no rush. Units req 3-5 turns: rush after 1 turn. On other continent, rush immeadeatly a temple and barracks, other stuff(not much anyway) rush after 1 turn
Rush temple in Ollantown.
Siege of Cuzco, bombing with artillery reveals 8 infantry
16/17 Cav army kills 2/4 infantry
15/17 cav army kills 3/5 infanry (3hp)
4/4 cav defeated by 2/4 infantry (get promotion but still 2hp)
4/4 cav defeated by 2/5 infantry
4/4 cav kills 2/5 infantry (3hp)
4/4 cav kills 1/3 infantry (2hp)
4/4 cav kills 1/4 infantry (0hp)
4/4 cav defeated by 1/4 infantry (get promotion 2hp)
4/4 cav defeated by 2/5 infantry (1hp)
4/4 cav kills 1/4 infantry (1hp)
4/4 cav kills 1/4 infantry (1hp)
4/4 cav kills 1/5 infantry (2hp)
Cuzco is ours, and we get the temple of artemis, Leo’s and Bachs, We have 5 resistors. Let all the wounded cavs rest. Sell the coal plant

Siege of Huamanga, Bomber runs reveal 4 infantry
16/16 tank army kills 3/4 infantry (0hp)
16/16 tank army kills 2/4 infantry (2hp, but gets promoted)
15/17 tank army kills 2/4 infantry (2hp)
4/4 tank retreats 2/4 infantry (0hp)
4/4 tank kills 2/4 infantry (0hp)
Huamanga is ours, 5 resistors
Upgrade 3 captured trebs to artillery
Setup forces for attacks on Tivanaku, Villacamba and Corihuayrachina

IBT: Resistance ended in Cuzco -> all taxmen for this turn; 2 quelled in Huamanga, order restored in Vilcas

Turn 10 1550 AD

Our ancient cav kills 4/4 MDI(1hp) in the field
Bombing run on Villacamba shows 3 infantry
Tank army kills 2 infantry in Villacamba losing 2hp but get promotion
17/17 tank army kills 3 infantry in Corihuayrachina (10hp)
5/5 cav kills 3/5 infantry, Corihuayrachina is ours

Siege of Tivanaku
Bomb it with fighters, kills a galleon
4/4 tank defeated by 4/4 infantry (3hp)
17/17 cav army kills 4/4 infantry
4/4 tank kills 3/3 infantry
4/4 tank defeated by 3/3 infantry (1hp)
4/4 tank kills 2/3 infantry
cav army kills 2/4 infantry (10hp)
4/4 cav defeated by 2/2 infantry (1hp)
4/4 cav kills 1/2 infantry (2hp+promotion)
Tivanaku is ours
Build Santa Fe near Cuzco on coast to fill up gap
We are now 55%land and 62 pop

IBT: order restored in Cuzco, resistance in MachuPichu ended, Corry 2 quelled

Turn 11 1555 AD
Tank army kills 3/4 infantry Villacamba is ours
Found Olympia to push back Zulu borders
Position troops for continuing attack on the zulu. Stack bombers in Olympia
Land troops on Inca’s southern territories

IBT build a lot of stuff, quelled some citizens, Villacamba is now happy

Siege of Andanuascas
Bombing by destroyers hurt 2 troops
16/16 Tank army kills 2 infantry (5hp)
4/4 Tank retreats vs 2/2 infantry(0hp)
4/4 Tank kills 2/2 infantry(0hp)
4/4 Cav kills 2/2 infantry(2hp)
4/4 Cav kills 1/2 infantry(2hp) Andahuaylas is ours 5 resistors

Siege of Vitcos
16/16 cav army kills 2vet + 1 reg infantry with only 3 hp remaining
4/4 cav kills 2/2 infantry (2hp) Vitcos is ours

Siege of Tugela(Northern Island)
Attack with artillery
3 Cavs take 1 rifleman + 2 impi, losing only a few hp. Tugela is ours

Siege of Ngome,
2 bomber runs redlines rifleman and kills impi
1 attack with tank army and Ngome is ours

Siege of Mpondo
Bombers kill rifleman and impi and redlining a impi.
Cav army kills redlined impi and Mpondo is ours

Siege of Hlobane
Sea bombardment + fighter bombing hurts rifleman down to 2 hp
Cav army kills 2/4 rifleman + 3/3 impi
Cav takes 3/3 impi, Hlobane is ours

Hmm not bad 6 cities in one turn

IBT
Two tanks are killed by two zulu cavs
Resistance in Tiwanku, Cori and Tugela has ended

Turn 12 1560 AD
Found Springfield to fill gap
Found Palo Alto to push back Zulu border, hurry temple

Siege of Bapedi
Sea bombardement hurts 2 units, I don’t expect many units
16/16 cav army kills 2/4 cav (2hp)
4/4 tank kills 4/4 impi (1hp)
4/4 cav kills 4/4 impi (1hp)
4/4 cav kills 3/4 impi (3hp) Bapedi is ours

Siege of Arequipa
14/16 Tank army kills two 3/3 infantry (10 hp)
4/4 tank kills 3/4 infantry (0hp)

Field battles against Zulu
MDI army kills vet infantry + impi
4/4 Tank kills 2/4 cav (0hp)
Cav army kills impi + 2 archers
Cav army kills 4/4 horseman
Siege of Umtata Northern island
Artillery hurts 2 units, but also reduces size to 1. Will be razed. Need a settler there

IBT
Zulu cav kills tank
Resistance in Vitcos has ended, Build a lot of settlers

Turn 13 1565AD
Siege of Ica
4 tanks killed by 4 infantry
4 other tank killed them in the end, Ica is ours, Inca down to 1 city

Siege of Intombe
Bomber runs redline to rifleman
Tank Army kills 2 2/2 rifleman
Cav kills 1/4 rifleman
Tank kills archer Intombe is ours

Build Dallas to push back Dutch borders

Siege of Ulundi
Bomber runs redline all 3 units, two tanks and 1 cav kill them all. Ulundi is ours

IBT Resistance in Hlobane and Vitcos Arequipa and Andahuaylas ended

Turn 14 1570AD
Build New Washington,
Bomb Zimbabwe to 4 redlined units.
One cav army takes them all, Zimbabwe and the Colossus are ours

Siege of Isandhlawana
Bombers can’t reach it
Tank army takes 3 units (2 Rifleman + 1 impi) and additional tank takes the last,archer. Isandhlawana is ours

Build New Philadelphia
Siege of last city of the Zulu: Swazi
It takes 1 attack with cav army, which takes heavy losses, but wins against rifleman. Vet Cav takes of 1 hp from impi, Bomber takes the impi out. The city is now empty for a cav to walk in.

Still need 3 tiles for domination, lets look around how to achief this.

I have some settlers on the transport. And they can build in a 4 tile gap this turn.

Build the town and call it Victoria.

Victory condition doesn’t kick in right away, so build two more towns just to be sure.

Hit the shiny button, and

YOU WIN!!

It took me 14 turns. 4973 points. I had to move very carefully, but I made it.

Here’s my save

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Crap. I lost my entire notes, and screenshots .

However, I did pretty much the same as Michelangelo.
Founded beachhead cities in between the Incan core, and concentrated on Incans first (starting the war with a F-15, of course).
Why Incans?
1) They had the most culture, so resistance there would take longer to quell.
2) They had 2 Luxuries; especially their Silks would be immediately connect via the Zulu Harbors.
3) They had Bach's and Leo's. The first will help with Happiness in the conquered cities, the later allows to upgrade all our MDI to TOWs cheap enough to be worth it.

My focus in the wars was ruleplay, so I didn't press too fast, but wanted to almost entirely avoid casualties. Lost a Tank and a Cav to Incans, and a Cav to Zulu (to an Impi, triggering their GA when Shaka had only Zimbabwe left ). Also, I tried to abstain from overusing Bombers; this is close to an exploit IMHO. Because of that, I mainly used Cav Armies, and Artillery.
Signed a RoP and MA with Mayans and Netherlands; the one with the Dutch was a good move, allowing me to use their Rail net. Mayans were a mistake; they blocked me from reaching the Southern Incans cities for 2 turns.
When I was almost done (except the S) with Incans, I ran over the Zulu in exactly 2 turns (only Zimbabawe itself didn't fall in the first turn).
Also, I founded several more cities on our continent for some more tiles.
Always rushed a Library first in any new city (disbanded a unit there in turn 0), then one turn of production, then a Temple to get a border expansion within 3 turns.

This was a nice SG, good discussion team .

Of course, the great start made a victory almost inevitable. Note I wouldn't use such a wide-spread core with worse terrain, but here it was the correct choice for me. Our insanely strong core was what won us the game so easily later.

 

[Michelangelo]

This was a nice SG, good discussion team

Have to agree to that.

Allthough it was my first SG and can't compare it to others I also found it mostly a fun experience. It's completely different for me to play alone or in a SG-team. When RL permits it again, i'll join (or start) another game.

Thank you all for playing, and a special thanx to DocT for the teaching.


See you

M.

 

[geonnyboy]

It's been a while since the last action on this game-thread. I think the last one to finish is Geonnyboy. Have you done so allready, or given up on it?? I'll post my log later this week.

Oh crap! I forgot to finish this one didn't I? I'll try and get it done this weekend.

Friggin ADD.

 

[geonnyboy]

Yay I’m last!

Sorry this took so long. I got distracted by a little thing called Halo 2 and musta forgot that I never finished this game. Totally my bad.

Better late than never though.

Pre turn

Let’s get this party started. This game really hasn’t seen enough world wars. Maybe we need one . Load up my settlers and some infantry escorts and my cav armies into our transports (the other two useless armies are left on home defense) and head out.

1505 – Air life a bunch of cavs to our lonely island up north. Load up a bunch of cavs and artillery. Gear up for world war!

In Mid – Nutin

1510 – More unit movement. War is imminent!

In Mid – Mayans offer me 21 gpt for gems. Nice, but no thanks.

1515 – Declaire on Inca and Zulu, sign MA with Dutch (for rubber) and Mayans (for Gems) against them. Land all units on a mountain near an Incan cities.

In Mid – Nuttin.

1520 - Take Two Zulu Cities on Island and (surprise surprise) get a great Leader! (Yay) Attack Incan City and Raze it (can’t settle due to borders, boo!) Hit enter.

In Mid – Swat some Incan flies.

1525 – We now know rocketry!! Yay! Set research to zero, learn fission in 50. Upgrade flying thingies. Move mo Troops, lot’sa tanks on Incan soil. Hit enter.

In Mid – William offers me spices for fur gems Ivory and Dyes. A bit steep but hey the game’s almost done so what do I care. Sure.

1530 – Attack and raze a second Incan City. Gah! The borders are still covering the entire area! Can’t settle, booooooo!

In Mid – Swatted more flies, lose two cavs (booooooo!)

1535 – Attack and take Machu Pichu which has the Great Library. How nice. Raze it!

In Mid – Watched an Incan Guerrilla duke it out with a Swiss Mercenary.

1540 Founded Minneapolis and Pittsburg . Take Huamanga and it’s two Trebs and Raze!

In Mid – Incas want peace, nope!

1545 – Start siege on Cuzco, I think I wanna keep this one. Get artillery within range. And Cuzco falls at size 4.

In Tween – Nuttin

1550 – The new incense causes mass WLTP days. Woo!

In tween – Nada.

1555 - Take Corihuayrachin and raze it just so I never have to type that name again!

1560 – Take a size 2 Twanaku. Take a size 5 Ngome.

1565 – Take Hloban, Raze it.

1570 – Take another Zulu City (forgot to catch the name.) Raze it. Found Orlando and Tacoma.

IBT – watch massive Mayan troop movements.

1575 – Found Santa Fe.

IBT – More Mayan Troop Movements.

1580 – Found Olympia. Take Andahuaylas and Arequipa.

IBT – Watch the Mayans take out the Zulu right in front of my armies.

1585 – Only 6 more area % points to go. Move a bunch of Troops. Incas are down to once City. Once they go down might think about declaring on the Mayans.

IBT – Lotta Mayan movements.

1590 – Take Ica and Nasca. Incas are out. War’s over, now everyone’s annoyed with me. Sign MPP with Dutch add incense to sweeten the deal. Demand Mayans leave my territory or declare war, Mayan are now furious. Dang only 4% more to go. Maybe I’ll get it during border expansion next turn.

IBT – Mayans pull our wine.

1595 – Found Hunt Valley.

IBT – Nuthin.

1600 – Found Springfield. Oy, only 2 more percent to go.

IBT – Dutch as for world map. Nah.

1605 – Cleaned a lot of pollution.

IBT – nothing

1610 – Rush a ton of cultural buildings to widen borders, maybe get a cultural flip. Trade sanitation for espionage with the Dutch. Set Washington to build intelligence agency, done in 3. Found Palo Alto in the middle of a swamp. 65% Only one more point to go. Ugh!

1615 – Win! (about time)

Well those are my turns. If I may say so, I quite possibly did the worst job out of all of us. Those Military alliances really hurt me as the Mayans gobbled up a lot of territory that should have been mine.

I have to say it has truly been fun guys. I know I’m majorly late on my side, but it’s been a pleasure playing with you guys. I learned a lot.

Oh and sorry again about my tardiness.

Peace ya’ll.