OFW1 Science and Industry

[Northern Pike]

No need to hurry. Glad you're making progress. If anything, forty-minute war turns are quick in this situation.

We already have SETI. I assume you mean we can't get to SDI, because it's too many techs in the future?

 

[mad-bax]

Sorry, yes I did mead SDI. I'll finish ASAP

 

[mad-bax]

I apologise if this appears a little terse, it's just that it's late here and I want to get to bed.

1768AD: Pre-turn.
All I intend to do is take Babylon as per NP's post.
This is likely to be quicker and less well though out than it should be. But it's all I have time for.

Move a lot of MA to Miletos.

1770AD:
Declare war on Babylon.
Capture Samarra
Generate leader
Raze Telloh
Raze Ninah

IBT:
Nothing happened

1772AD:
Capture Shurrapak,
Capture Eridu
Found New Sidon
Capture Ashur
Capture Nineveh
Capture Babylon
Tiles to limit = 739

IBT:
Ottomans want ROP. Hmmm... no.

1774AD:
Liberate Larsa, Nippur, Ur, Ellipi (leader), Uruk, Kafa, Nimrud and Izibia.
Tiles to limit = 663

IBT:
War weariness hits.


1776AD:
Founded a couple of towns
Liberated Adab, Zamua, Akkad, Sippar, Lagash, Ereen, Khorsabad, Hindana, Tell Wilya, Umma and Phocaea.
Babylon is dead.
Tiles to limit = 492
Pasargadae culture = 17959

1778AD:
Tidy up a little.

IBT:
Catherine wants ROP. Again no in case OFW fancies a little war on his last turn.
Our modern armour is ambushed by barbarians

1780AD:
Tiles to limit = 443
Pasargadae culture = 18227

IBT:
UN vote prompt

1782AD:
Nothing to report
Tiles to limit = 421
Pasargadae culture = 18361

IBT:
Space flight completes.
Switch Pasargadae to Apollo (in 2)
turn off science.

1784AD:
Carthage land settler on northern Island. They will steal a source of Aluminium. I'm not going to start a war though.
Sold some libraries and unis.
Tiles to limit = 421
Pasargadae culture = 18495

1786AD:
Tiles to limit = 421
Pasargadae culture = 18629
total culture = 89849

1788AD:
Tiles to limit = 408
Pasargadae culture = 18763
Total culture = 90261

We have an enourmous army in Miletos which may aswell be disbanded (at least in part) as it can't get anywhere before the end of the game.

There are also some units in Turbat. Enough for a limited war against the Russians if you like.

I have put some libraries in new cities to fill cultural voids so the domination limit will come down a lot in 2 or three turns time. I would wait until that happens before going to war against Russia. You may have to abandon a few cities in the last couple of turns to avoid triggering domination. There are about 20 cities that will get their cultural expansion which will take us to within 50 of the domination limit. You will have to use mapstat.

Apollo completes when you press space and the 20K limit should be reached on your last turn.

Have fun OFW, and watch out for the domination limit. I know 400 tiles seems a lot, but it isn't.
I put a spy in Russia so that you could see this.

And here is my last contribution to this game.

 

[Northern Pike]

I haven't looked at the save, but good work, plainly. I'm glad we'll be finishing with all the Wonders.

 

[mad-bax]

Two things I said were plainly wrong.

1. The units in Miletos can be moved to Russia by using workers to build airfields. I am so used to the penalty for doing this in the GOTM series that I didn't consider it.

2. There are a total of around 25 - 30 towns that will undergo a cultural expansion, but that will only increase our tiles by around 200 - 250 tiles, not 400.

 

[Northern Pike]

Ah, the statement about Miletos seemed odd, although it didn't seem worth quibbling about it at this point.

OFW, you could obviously finish off the Russians and the Ottomans--if you feel like it, and keeping an eye on the tile count, of course.

 

[OneFastWarrior]

Okay, this may be qiuck, or more likely to be painfully slow, checking mapstat every turn or so. I probably will just go on the offensive for a few turns. anyway, I will get the save tonight and do my best(I may only get in 1 turn a night until saturday). but I will post a save before the turn before the win, and hopefully it will be for a couple different win options.

Nice job on babylon mad-bax. Thanks for the spy, that looks like a cake-walk

 

[Northern Pike]

Just a bump to keep this thread on the first page until OFW dazzles us with his final report. Out of sight, out of mind....

 

[OneFastWarrior]

I don't know if I downloaded the mapstat, right or if there is more than 1 of these files. It does not seem to work for me on any of my PTW games, any Ideas?

as it is, I could just have settlers in place to build a lot of cities and just go on a burning spree, then the final save I will load you could plant all the settlers or just hit the space bar for the 20K win.

I will get to this game on Friday and Saturday, again sorry for the delay.

 

[mad-bax]

Here is a link to the PTW version of Mapstat

You need to use it to ensure that you don't trip the domination limit before the 20K limit.

Just save the game and then load that save into mapstat. You should do it at the end of each turn, and it takes around 5 seconds on my computer.

 

[OneFastWarrior]

Thanks mad-bax, I will download it tonight.

 

[OneFastWarrior]

Just a note to let ya know I am going to play some turns tonight and I may give ya some info tonight also.

I am sorry its taken me so long to get to it, but I can't wait. I plan on having some fun :devil2: :rocket:

 

[Northern Pike]

No problem. Take your time and have as much fun as possible.

 

[OneFastWarrior]

okay, preturn, I reied to plant spies in Carthage(succesful) and Ottomans, they declared war on us.

I take Solonika, and then I declare war on Russia after some troop movements.

I then raze Smolnsk, Kuibyshev and Kiev, and take Batum

turn 1. Appolo program completes in Pasargadae, this is probably the last cultre it will receieve.

Raze Rostov, mugla, Odessa and take Tblisi, we get another leader and I name the victorious modern armor "Why bother"

we are now 367 tiles to domination limit and here is a pic of Pasargadae at the moment.

I only played this far and it took a while. Russia is down to 3 cities I think.

I will try to finish this over the weekend. I probably will finish off Russia and maybe Ottomans, then just try to get the game over with.

 

[Northern Pike]

Thanks for the interim report. Pasargadae is an impressive sight.

 

[OneFastWarrior]

I think I will (just for the sake of making it look even more impressive) Rush a few items in Pasargadae(non culture of course). Then give another pic at the end!

 

[OneFastWarrior]

Turn 2 1792AD Take Riga and

Take Utibesk, take Adana, build New Zohak

203 tiles to limit.

3. 1794AD Raze Sinop and Istanbul. Take Krasnoyarsk and

 

[OneFastWarrior]

I can only move 1 unit at a time through airports and airfield in old babylon so I start dismantling the Artillary to help complete a few projects in that land.

171 tiles to limit

 

[OneFastWarrior]

Turn 4 1796AD

Take Uskadar, Found OneMadPikesHideaway and 2 other towns.
Take Konya, Take Ankana

and

 

[OneFastWarrior]

We are now 102 tiles to limit and 20K in 5 turns.

We also have a ROP with Carthage for a couple more turns so, I will probably not get close to Conquest.

Also just for the hell of it I have been using the GL's to rush Spaceship parts even though we are not researching to build it.

Hope to get the rest done tonight.