NCSG1-Suryavarman II!

[Bleys]

Sounds perfect Krick. I absolutely want to highlight our UU, its one reason we chose this dude, right?

One request, make a Settler somewhere, maybe in the Cap since its pretty far from the border, and run it up to Amsterdam. When we take that city that is to the west of Amsterdam (if not you Krick, maybe one of the next 3 players will) raze it, and re-start it one tile south, on the coast. Stick a note up for us actually, Krick. Stupid AI and its lame 1-off cities, they suck so bad. No harbor, no Custom House, no Drydock, no Lighthouse.

 

[schwartz]

I'm looking forward to the UU in action, hopefully we can see its unique trait soon.

 

[Groogaroo]

Sounds like a plan Krick, just make sure you leave me a nice easy clean up job as you did with willem

 

[Roxlimn]

You don't need Swords at all. Don't make any. If your Elephants can't handle it, your Axes will. Make more Cats instead of Swords. I'd like something like a 7 Cat stack for sieging here.

 

[grandad1982]

yer cats instead of swords

 

[Bleys]

I am pretty much anti-sword at levels below Monarch anyway, the jump to Maces is just too close, and Axes make better offense/defense units.

 

[Krick19]

Sorry I'm so late, I can play right now, and will.

 

[Krick19]

Inherited turn, did nothing, put up a sign for movement of Neapolis.

231: Began Axe in NJ.
Spread Juda in Yasod.

232: Just moved troops around.

233: Eh, took out much of JC's stack when he got to the flat, but had to sacrifice an axe or two to get his xbow.
(story time)
The epic battle of Angkor Thom began, and the aftermath was this:

Our victory recognized a great general:

234: Kay, JC tried to attack with his Prae, and lost. The appearance of a large gray animal promptly scared the others away:

Meanwhile, by Neapolis, we can't do anything because we're too weak to take it.

235: Qin asks for MC, and I give it to him, cuz I want him to be our friend. I was stupid not to take Neapolis in the beginning guys sorry. They now have an xbow and like a castle.

236/237: JC stupidly attacks our stack with an xbow after I retreat to our territory, meaning Neapolis has only an archer and an HA

239: RAZED.

Most of our guys died, but it was way better than it could have been.

240: Whooooo Groo you should have some fun. Once all our troops get to Thom, it'll be huge.
And we get:

I don't switch to Bur yet, I wanna see what you say, and Cao Cao is still in our city. I didn't know how i should have used him.
Suleiman is also building up a stack, he might take a few cities.

 

[Krick19]

Okay put the save up and stuff. Now I'm done.
EDIT: Sorry Bleys, completely forgot about the settler.

 

[Rub'Rum]

Uh oh, Romans are researching Feudalism... Longbows X(

 

[Krick19]

Yeah, we'll take Ravenna and see what happens.

 

[Groogaroo]

Okay, got it! Will play tommorrow morning, as its night here and want to give you guys a chance to chip in on the plan for next round.

Do we have any targets techwise, I havn't opened the save yet.

 

[schwartz]

IMO we should tech/trade for machinery ASAP. Maces-Jumbos.
If not that then go Philosophy or Paper (good trade bait if we need anything. I'm not too worried about liberalism, it'll go 1400~ on noble I think.)
Good set Krick, I'll take a look around the save and see if I come up with a different plan. Good luck with your set Groo.

 

[grandad1982]

GG for MASH unit and to open up future westpoint - very future!

If JC gets longbows we need maces, though the jumbos take the slack nicely till then!

I'd like to throw the idea of the AP out there too. Trade for Mach and tech to Theo? With the Jewish and Buddist blocks emerging being in the AP camp is distict benifit, and the best way to garentee that with out the annoying anarchy for a conversion is to build the AP. Building it also gives us a pretty good chance of controling it.

 

[Krick19]

Oh god I'm still thinking about how Neapolis had 100% defense. I'm so thankful I took it over.

Yeah a medic will help a lot. Maces are a must, though I think we can cut down his science by taking Ravenna.

 

[Bleys]

JC has machinery, he may give it up for peace if we can take a city or two. If not, I agree we should tech it ourselves ASAP, as well as Feudalism, to be honest, because we need that to make Vassals eventually, something I was thinking we could do to Qin. Sulieman may also trade it to us, I think he was teching it when I turned it over, had over 20 turns IIRC, not postitive.

Really though, we are in awesome shape. Once we have adequate troops, get those specialists back working for techs.

 

[schwartz]

Don't forget that we could always tech 2-3 turns into machinery and take it for peace if he's not willing to give it at full value.

 

[Groogaroo]

And so Sury's story continues,

Inherited turn... checked the cities not much to change, A.Thom as running a spy, darn auto specialists, switched him to a scientist. Adjusted the slider as were gonna run outta money soonish!

Checked the tech screen and it appears Julius may be up for giving us machinery once we get him out of 'refuses to talk'

Okay so I'm going to take ravenna and see what the situation is. but first I couldn't resist nicking a couple of JC's workers,

Okay following turn? JC's workers must just not like him they are lining up to join the great Khmer empire!!! That 5 workers we just nabbed

Next turn or so I was waiting for our troops to gather, notice krick was right on the money Suli stack advances on antium, if he takes antium this will help relieve pressure on ravenna.

I sent our spy to check out defense at Rome, 1 axe, 2 archers and 60% def.

and check out the wonders!

Finally troops arrive at ravenna, an xbow pops up but shouldn't cause too much of a problem.

suicided a cat, then just cleaned up with ellies and axes. Arrgghhh an Axe loses with 87% odds on to win how annoying . We take Ravenna which e kept? Hope that as the plan. JC gets a GG at this point.

Eh? Wheres suli going? Antiums that way mate?

Also JC ain't having peace for Machinery, he has no gold either!

Okay so basically its come to end of my turnset, JC has just got fuedalism, and so have we, our stack is based in Ravenna, JC won't give us anything for peace, Suli is acting like a wimp! we have a settler and an axe to re-found the city that we razed.

I think I panicked a bit this round with our economy, and started building markets in a few cities? so feel free to change that in the next round, I've put a few scientists on in a few cities.

Even tho you said it wasn't a good idea to tecjh machinery with JC not offering it up and him having longbows I think we'd better get it. Possibly get peace tech machinery(9), upgrade our axes then finish JC? there is a spy waiting in Rome and I havn't created a mash unit yet, couldn't see any suitable applicants? so the GG we got is still waiting in Hari.

So... Peace or War?

Here's the Roster

1. Krick19
2. Groogaroo > Just Played
3. Schwartz > UP
4. S.ilver > On Deck
5. Rex rgis of Ter
6. Grandad
7. Bleys


And the save,

EDIT - forgot the save!

 

[schwartz]

Got it.
Going to wait until tomorrow to play, lets get everyone's thoughts!
Groo:
I can't access the save right now, what's in our stack?

 

[Groogaroo]

we have 3x ellies 1x sword about 4 or 5 axes 1x cat but more on the way. This is off the top of my head but its something like that, I'm away from my computer at the moment so I can't check for sure.