New Conquests PBEM

[Rubberjello]

Originally posted by ironduck
What are these spearmen of which you speak? They sound useless!

I think he was only refering to Persian Spearmen, whose skill at dropping shields and weapons is only rivaled by a few cultures who so quickly disappeared from world history that no one bothered recording their names.

Score? Bah! Simply a mechanism for the "leaders" to get a false since of security before they find a Stack of Doom in their backyards!

 

[Playboy]

The score IS an average score. Nice pace of game so far

 

[predesad]

he was refering to Persian Spearmen, whose skill at dropping shields and weapons is only rivaled by a few cultures

That is correct, the Persian Spearman are very well known for skillfully dropping their shields / weapons ... because all of our men, anxious for the taste of blood, enlist in our mighty armies of Immortals and head to the battlefield in times of war, leaving our cities to be defended by women & small children, King Predesad himself rides out in leadership. Our cities are secure from attack because nobody can get through the ravaging hordes of Immortals to attack them. There is an old saying, 'defense wins championships' but the Persian strategy of the best defense is a great offense will lead us to the pinnacle of all civilization!!!

 

[ironduck]

Our people are growing restless, perhaps contacts with friendly civilizations would appease them.. Also, several au pair offerings have been advertised.

 

[predesad]

11 turns in 3 days, really good start. Unfortunately for the game, but fortunately for my budget, my x-mas lay off is over & i return to work tomorrow. still shouldnt have any trouble getting at least 1 turn / day though.

 

[Rubberjello]

Bwuhahahahahahahahahah!!!! You sucker! You have to work for living?

*A giant bosses' hand reaches out and hauls RJ off to work*

Oh yeah....right.

 

[ironduck]

Has anyone met anyone yet? And who is sitting on the turn?

 

[Rubberjello]

Playboy and I have met...and have found that we are waaaaay to close together.
Last I heard, turn 11 sent to Playboy.

 

[ironduck]

Close together sounds like fun in the barn .. I sent the end of round 11 to predesad (his round 12) earlier today.. Haven't met a soul yet, which, given the increasing amount of au pair offerings, is causing stress in households with 2 or more children.

 

[predesad]

au pair offerings

At the risk of sounding stupid, what is an au pair offering?

Haven't met anyone, except three barbarians I managed to pop out of a hut. Previous turn I was like, 'Oh yeah, a goody hut.' Then this turn, 'Please not a map, please not a map.' Used to playing as an expansionist civ, my favorite, where you never get barbarians from goody huts.

 

[ironduck]

an au pair is when a young person travels to a different country to live with a family as their private help with kids, cleaning, cooking kind of thing.. it's usually for a year and quite a popular way to try living in a different country.. although I'm not so sure it's much fun when it comes down to it. Either way, it's hard to get all these au pairs coming in when we don't know any other civilizations yet.. heck, at this point I think my people would be happy with barbarian au pairs

 

[predesad]

an au pair is when a young person travels to a different country to live with a family as their private help with kids

at this point I think my people would be happy with barbarian au pairs

Only problem with this scenario ... you said help with the kids, not eat the kids.

 

[ironduck]

Yep, but I have a feeling some of these couples are happy either way, as long as they don't have to tend to them..


... I didn't say we were a civilization ourselves yet!

 

[Rubberjello]

Hmmm...perhaps we can make predasad get up 15 minutes earlier so that he can play a turn *before* going to work!


Oh. And Playboy and I are working out an an agreement so that we can coexist peacably for a couple thousand years. So don't you two get your hopes up that we would eliminate each other right away!

 

[Playboy]

Ironduck, I couldn't let your comment slide by unremarked.

Eleven turns in the first three days and you're asking who's sitting on the turn? Well, I got 12c at 9:44 and sent it out seven minutes later. I got up at 7 a.m. and there was still no turn in my mail. Do you realize Despot Ironduck that it means we've dropped from 6.54 hours per turn to 8 hours per turn and that it's been almost ELEVEN HOURS with no thirteenth turn here. I share your alarm and concern at this shocking turn of developments. We must find the source of this slackerist government and eradicate them immediately! (nudge, nudge) - I think it might be that Predesad character standing over there in the corner. He drew us in and now wants to torture us with this unbearably slow pace of game. Let's you and him fight it out before we find ourselves mired at the unbeleivably slow pace of (gasp!) a turn a day.

 

[ironduck]

 

[Playboy]

We wouldn't eliminate each other, RJ. I'd just drive to SoCal with my warriors, and unleash them upon your newly founded hamlet while your guys are stuck in the construction zones on the way to Vegas

 

[ironduck]

I wonder, am I the only non-warmonger here?

 

[Playboy]

Hmmm. Non-warmonger? I think they're over at SimCity

 

[Rubberjello]

...or Rollercoaster Tycoon?*
Actually, I like to be a builder in single play. But in multi-play your predictable AI opponent turns into a unpredictable human opponent, and certain assumptions you've had (such as a minimum military!) should be seriously re-examined.


* Unless you are like my kid who created a vast pit that all the rides exited to, and then filled it full of water and had 800+ guests drown!