OB02 - Giving is Better than Receiving

[remconius]

Got it!

Let me review and play today or tomorrow

 

[remconius]

Hmm, last night I was too busy with other stuff.

I should be able to play tonight.

 

[remconius]

1000AD: SANTA TIME!

1010AD:
Berlin Spear > Sword
Munich Spear > Cat
Frankfurt Library > cat

1020AD:
Now that all our units have gathered I give us a gift : Delhi!

Which has Great Library, Hanging Gardens and Hindu Religious building (+6g).

1030AD:
IBT: Asoka counters with a few units, but we survive...

1040AD:
Frankfurt builds cat > Barracks (oops wrong order)

1050AD:
Civil Service Comes in > Machinery next.
Change civics to Bureaucracy and Hereditary Rule.
Munich Cat > Sword

1060AD: GIFT TIME!!!!

Damn Monty has quite an army ready to swipe Bombay, our units are turns away.

1070AD:
Munich Sword > Forge
Berlin Sword >Forge
Hamburg Spear > Forge
Frankfurt Barracks > Forge

1080AD:

1090AD:
Too bad, Monty swipes Bombay from under our nose...

1100AD:
Units are moving in on next Asoka city which has some nice resources....

We get a prophet in Berlin, he'll give part of Divine Right, or we could add him to a city.

Roster
Ozbenno
GreyFox
McArine
pigswill
remconius
Immaculate - UP
princecharles - on deck

The Save:
View attachment Santa Claus AD-1100.Civ4SavedGame

 

[Ozbenno]

Well done remconius, bad luck about Bombay as that looked a nice city but Delhi more than makes up!

We should get some christmas missionaries out as well.

 

[GreyFox]

they are not chirstmas missionary ... those are called Christmas Caroling Task Force.

Good job, Rem. Delhi is indeed a sweet city.

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[Ozbenno]

The dreaded Christmas Carollers, our UU .

 

[pigswill]

I'm amazed we managed to take Delhi. Good stuff Remconius.

What would Asoka give for peace? On the other hand 'Just.... one.... more... city.'

Is it worth keeping prophet in reserve in case we annexe another holy city (without a shrine)?

 

[Immaculate]

I'm amazed we managed to take Delhi. Good stuff Remconius.

What would Asoka give for peace? On the other hand 'Just.... one.... more... city.'

Is it worth keeping prophet in reserve in case we annexe another holy city (without a shrine)?

In my opinion, no it is not.
I think we should settle him in a city we want to put wall-street in later (Cologne? Delhi?). The immediate 5 is almost as good as the Hindu shrine and we get it now instead of later. The 2 are nothing to sneeze at either. Thats my 2

 

[Ozbenno]

I agree with Immac on this, merging the Prophet now is a much better use.

 

[Immaculate]

Oh shoot. I didn't realize i was up. So sorry. I will play and post tonight as soon as i get home. Totally my bad.

 

[Immaculate]

Got it. Playing.

 

[Immaculate]

Hoe Hoe Hoe. Santa's here and someones getting pimp-slapped. I'm looking at you long-hair, bead-around the neck hippie Asoka.

1100AD-1200AD

Builds

• Delhi built barracks (whipped) and a granary (whipped) and is currently building a longbowman.
• Hamburg built a settler (whipped) and is continuing its work on a forge.
• Cologne built a market and is now building a forge.
• Munich built a settler (whipped) and is now finishing its work on a forge.
• Frankfurt built a forge and is now building a catapult.

Techs

• We researched machinery in 1140AD
• We are currently on the way to guilds.

War

• We took two Indian cities (we lost two catapults in total) and we skirmished with some Indian troops outside of Delhi without losing any troops.
• Please note that there is currently a catapult outside of Delhi bombarding our defences.
• We captured three workers. Not so fast now are you?
• Monty and Asoka signed peace also.

Trades

• We initiated trade with Victoria (sugar for gold/turn)
• Mansu demanded that we adopt Buddhism. So we did. We should make it part of the rules that we can refuse to forget about Christmas (but still have to give in to all other demands).
• Monty offered feudalism for civil service and 80 gold. Cha-Ching!

Expansion
We got four cities this turn. We won two from the Indians and we settled two as well; I figured that we had to build them before Monty did so I whipped settlers (after building them for one turn).

Prophet

We settled our prophet in Cologne. It would be cool if we could settle three prophets there as the three wise men. Or maybe just three specialists period.

Ho Ho Ho! Santa's got something for you too.

Sorry I took so long to play everyone.

 

[Ozbenno]

Nice report Immac. Is that hippie still around for more slapping?

As for the religion swap, we did say we'll do everything for the AI, we're such tarts

That makes princecharles up.

 

[GreyFox]

Great turnset, Immaculate.

So, by our variant, if Asoka came asking peace, we will have to oblige, right?

 

[Ozbenno]

So, by our variant, if Asoka came asking peace, we will have to oblige, right?

Yep .

 

[princecharles]

Got it. Wonder what I can get for christmas?

 

[Ozbenno]

Got it. Wonder what I can get for christmas?

It's not what you can get but what you can give .

 

[Ozbenno]

princecharles, you there????

If we don't hear from princecharles today, I'll take over tonight.

 

[princecharles]

Sorry, got a bit too greedy, and got a sinus infection as a gift.

Bit of a boring turnset compared to others.

1: While redeploying troops to take Bombay, a stray cat on auto-move was cut down by an Indian swordsmen.

2: Sword was killed by one of our swordsmen, took no damage.

3: Hamburg increased its borders.

4: Finally, something interesting happened, though it could be thought of as bad...
http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=145987&stc=1&d=1168914567

5: Sadly, nothing exciting happened on this turn.

6: Got a deal we couldn't refuse from Mansa:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=145988&stc=1&d=1168914724

7: Asoka was Naughty,
http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=145989&stc=1&d=1168914775
China has Cho-ko-nu's,
http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=145990&stc=1&d=1168914832

8: nothing here

9: We got a great Scientist in Delhi:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=145991&stc=1&d=1168914901
saving him for next player as a present for posting late.

10: Oh, and we have a small announcement here, apparently Alex got mad when Asoka returned one of his gifts, and thus has declared war on Asoka.

 

[princecharles]

And the save, wrapped and everything: