Mic5 - The Butt Kisser

[grahamiam]

haha, nice concept microbe looks like i'm a little late to add my butt kissing skills good luck

 

[Aggie]

lurker's comment: He He, reminds me a bit of my SG 'Democracy rules the world'. Great idea!

 

[Gyathaar]

Perhaps add a rule about if you ever capture a city that at one point belonged to america, you have to gift it back to them at first oppurtunity (same turn unless you are at war with america, as part of peace deal if at war).

 

[microbe]

We have 5 players and I'll hopefully start this tonight.

@grahamiam: if you want you can take a 6th slot, please let me know. It would be good to have you!

@Aggie: what, even this variant isn't enough to make you SG again?

 

[microbe]

Perhaps add a rule about if you ever capture a city that at one point belonged to america, you have to gift it back to them at first oppurtunity (same turn unless you are at war with america, as part of peace deal if at war).

Great idea. I'll add it.

Everyone please read the rules again.

 

[grahamiam]

@grahamiam: if you want you can take a 6th slot, please let me know. It would be good to have you!

ok, i'll take the 6th spot seeing that King A is having problems thanks.

 

[danz]

Perhaps add a rule about if you ever capture a city that at one point belonged to america, you have to gift it back to them at first oppurtunity (same turn unless you are at war with america, as part of peace deal if at war).

Brilliant!

But can we hold it for them for a while, if for example there is an enemy SOD at the gates and we have an army that can defeat it, it wouldn't be nice for us to gift the city and watch it get burned down one turn later...

 

[microbe]

4000BC: settle on the spot and reveal ivory in the north and two more BGs. Min on Writing.

3250BC: We meet German spearman. It's up Bronze Working, Warrior Code, Wheel and Masonry but lacks Alphabet and Pottery. Both techs plus all our gold cannot get two techs. I decide to delay trading for a while as our curragh can meet anyone at anytime.

3200BC: We meet a KGB agent, who is up Bronze Working and Warrior Code. I get Wheel from Germany by Alphabet+Pottery. Wheel gets us Warrior Code + Bronze Working + 10g from Russia.

We have horses to our north.

We have two curraghs scouting at both directions. We have some nice land to settle.

By the way I disabled barbs in this variant, then I realized expansionist civs are totally useless? If so, we screwed up our best friend President Bush.

EDIT: I played 20 turns. Next 10 turns each.

Roster:
microbe
Kaiser_Berger - up
gozpel - on deck
danz
Gyathaar
grahamiam

 

[microbe]

Dot map someone please?

 

[grahamiam]

looks good were did we meet russia?

imho, 1st settler should go for the river wheat to the NW. 1T E of the wheat preferred. 1T E or NE of the horsey looks good too. it would be interesting to see what's along those rivers.

 

[Gyathaar]

heh. is that 3 flood plains wheat on the northen river..? if I am not wrong a town with granary next to those 3 would be able to poprush a worker every 2 turns at size 3-4 ...

 

[Kaiser_Berger]

Looks like we have a nice amount of land to work with. Got it.

 

[microbe]

Russia is in the west where our curragh currently is. Pretty far away too. But I cannot say there isn't another one in the fog.

I think our scouting warrior should turn west or NW.

 

[danz]

Nice start. I hope W is nice to his neighbors. We have a lot of settling to do, it would be a shame if we had to g to war early!

 

[microbe]

Germany tends to be very aggressive. The only advice I have is to not leave any town empty.

 

[danz]

I'm worried about W declaring everyone around him the Axis of Evil and getting his ass plowed before we can sail in and rescue him!

 

[Kaiser_Berger]

Preturn- We look alright

IT- zzz

T1 2950

Exploration. Nothing else.

IT- zzz

T2 2900

More exploring.

IT- zzz

T3 2850

More of nothing.

IT- zzz

T4 2800

London gets the lux tax increased.

IT- zzz

T5 2750

Nothing new.

IT- zzz

T6 2710

Nothing new

IT- zzz

T7 2670

Not much.

IT- London's granary completes. I start on a settler, though this can be vetoed.

T8 2630

Nothing new.

IT- zzz

T9 2590

Nothing

IT- zzz

T10 2550

Nothing new.


Summary

Our curraghs have found nothing new. Our eastern one has gotten sidetracked by some southern islands. It can head east towards more apparent land, as it's more likely to have other civs. I micro managed London to time up settler production with growth.


Our new explorations

 

[microbe]

I would like an escort to be ready with the settler, so I would have built a warrior or spear first, and maybe a rax at some point, since we'll mix unit with settler in London anyway. I just don't like leaving towns empty, consider Germany has a high aggressiveness.

Roster:
microbe
Kaiser_Berger
gozpel - up
danz - on deck
Gyathaar
grahamiam

 

[gozpel]

I've got it.

Before I play I want to know where to place next city.

Made a quick dotmap, is this too tight? The towns will get up to 12 pop later on I think and 3 of them for sure, if one town is kept back in pop.

 

[microbe]

I think it's a bit tight (especially the two right dots). Given we have pretty big land to settle, we'd better keep our core cities a bit apart.. I'd keep the distance at 4 and maybe sometimes 3.