PH10: King Solomon's Marbles

[pholkhero]

good turns. let's start teh smashy-smashy, but still try to win via religious vcitory

roster:
pholkhero >> on deck
r_rolo
pawelo
pindicator
Cabledawg
ungy >> just played
Meiz >> UP NOW

 

[Meiz]

Finally I get to do some real warring!

Got it for later.

 

[Meiz]

I played couple of extra turns to even them up.

Research went Railroads -> Scientific Method -> Biology (8 turns remaining).

This turnset was mainly war so there might not been that much micro management. Killing your enemy really takes all your time

So... I started by upgrading units on first turn and declarin war against Qin and Genghis on second turn.

Soon we take capital's from both of them. Qin had Scotland Yard, Great Wall and Mauseloum in his capital.

In between, we are reminded again that this variant is not so easy to fullfill. We didn't get much positive modifiers for declaring everyones best friends

Here is the razing part. We are too close to domination limits so can't keep them.

This has earned us little more help on battlefield. Too bad we didn't have him before this war, would have helped a lot.

Qin became vassal of Genghis and neither of them have been willing to capitulate. Here are the remaining defenders that we can see.

We have enough troops to conquer these cities, but most of them are injured. Our war weariness is starting to become a real pain.

We got Great Prophet and he is waiting with GM in capital. We can start golden age and make necessary civic changes.

Good luck!

 

[pawelo]

Love those warring games (though it just eats an incredible amount of time) - too bad for the variant

 

[r_rolo1]

I already expected that JC would stop voting for us as son as we Dowed GK... I even considered posting to halt the war until the next AP vote and to let grow our cities a little more, until I saw the already done drafting spree.
Oh well ,we could already won the game

But I wanted to ask a question: liz isn't interested in GK cities? That would maitain ( roughly... we have the AP ownership bonus to votes ) our AP votes without compromissing the Dom limit.

If we have to finish one of the GK-QSH duo ,QSH would be better... then see if GK is willing to capitulate

 

[pholkhero]

great turns but too bad about the votes. i like rolos idea about gifting a few cities to liz, thoughafter how many would she break free i wonder?? well, i'll take a look at this tonight methinks, and look toward wrapping it up.

roster:
pholkhero >> UP NOW
r_rolo >> on deck
pawelo
pindicator
Cabledawg
ungy
Meiz >> just played

 

[pholkhero]

wow -- talk about anti-climatic! we won, there IS no friggen religious movie (they even still use the cheesy UN victory screen -- talk about crummy!!), and i my pics are lost i n my computer,so all i've got is the replyfile!

thanks to the great set-up, i wasx able to wipe out qin on my first turn, and ten Genghis capitulated. at that point, it was a race btwn the dom limit waiting for our new borders, and another vote. i sentried all ourunits and just kept pressing enter.

as i said, we won this game was great fun, despite the fact that we didn't win via true diplo. i also was a little disappointed that the game was only on prince, but i thought the priest economy worked out really well, and one day would like to try it again on a higher level.

thanks all for the great gaming experience and look for PH12: Men in Tights to open up in the next week or so. it'll be another 'great person' game, trying to get a culture win using only great spies and the espionage slider

 

[pawelo]

I'm going to load the save and see it by myself. Still, I was finding this curious that there was so much conspiracy about this no-movie

Great fun game, that allowed me to see how powerful a priest eco can be, providing the good leader traits and use of priests.

Thanks for setting this one up pholkhero!
Looking forward to the PH-12! I hope we can make it for the PH-11 - will be hard one too

 

[Meiz]

Thank you all for a great game! Prince was little too easy except the variant part (but that didn't come from difficulty level). Hopefully we can visit this concept again in the future.

 

[r_rolo1]

I would like a replay on higher levels as well ( but with a twist in the rules: AI -AI relations are always better than AI - Human relations in Prince+ unless some stir is done ... that only is sufficient to explain our demise on the variant objective in this one )

So when does PH-12 is out? ....

@pholk: Did you liked the UN spash screen in a AP victory ?

 

[pholkhero]

I SCREAMED when i saw that screen!!! ree-gol'dang-diculous!!

 

[Meatbuster]

Good job!
Thanks to your efforts to discover the truth, I definitely will not go for a religious victory in any of my offline single-player games due to movie (or lack of it).

 

[ungy]

Nice game all.

I think the variant rules on diplo may have been a little tight. The priest economy worked well tho.

SG format has advantages and disadvantages for diplo--the advantage is can get creative input from the team--the dis is that it is harder to maintain consistency.