PH15: Every One is Special
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r_rolo1
King of myself
I wasn't awre it was me...
Got it
Got it
pigswill
fly (one day)
We have a bit of a dilemna (almost a catch 44). We need to build parthenon as per variant but we don't have a city to build it in (nor aesthetics for that matter). Few solutions:
i) Decide that the AI don't build parthenon that early and go HBR, whip/build a cataphant army and wipe out Pacal while teching towards aesthetics.
ii) Settle the not-very-good-long-term horseclam site while researching aesthetics and build parthenon there thinking that Pacal's not going anywhere and cataphants will still be powerful after a couple more sets.
iii) Re-classify an existing city an 'Artist City' and then as for option ii).
iv) The clever one I didn't think of.
i) Decide that the AI don't build parthenon that early and go HBR, whip/build a cataphant army and wipe out Pacal while teching towards aesthetics.
ii) Settle the not-very-good-long-term horseclam site while researching aesthetics and build parthenon there thinking that Pacal's not going anywhere and cataphants will still be powerful after a couple more sets.
iii) Re-classify an existing city an 'Artist City' and then as for option ii).
iv) The clever one I didn't think of.
Thy_Spellcraft
King
And so do I!
r_rolo1
King of myself
So , are we agreed in Horse clam ? if so, i'll play ASAP...
pigswill
fly (one day)
I guess we could for aesthetics straight away, other cities can build cats while waiting for heavy-lumps.
r_rolo1
King of myself
So:
-Settle horse clam ( or it is horse crabs ?
).... faster settler is in 9 turns in cap
-Switch to aesthetics ASAP ( we are in HBR in 9 ) ?
If no one disagrees, I'll play today ( finally... sorry, but yesterday I both was involved in my SGOTM team play and was testing ETW..... for the record, if you are thinking on buying it, WAIT . The thing is completely borked as it comes of the box )
-Settle horse clam ( or it is horse crabs ?
).... faster settler is in 9 turns in cap-Switch to aesthetics ASAP ( we are in HBR in 9 ) ?
If no one disagrees, I'll play today ( finally... sorry, but yesterday I both was involved in my SGOTM team play and was testing ETW..... for the record, if you are thinking on buying it, WAIT . The thing is completely borked as it comes of the box )
Actually, ETW is quite good if you install the latest DarthMod. That guy seems to know what he's doing
r_rolo1
King of myself
I said FROM THE BOX Darth looks OK, but the devs choice of Steam delivered mini-patches will surely make the modders work a complete nightmare..... and Darth does not solve the CTDs 
[/ETW talk]
Darth looks OK, but the devs choice of Steam delivered mini-patches will surely make the modders work a complete nightmare..... and Darth does not solve the CTDs [/ETW talk]
r_rolo1
King of myself
Ok, this set was a simple one.....
Get a settler yesterday and settle the horse clam spot
Get Aesthetics to make Parthenon
Get HBR for phant fest
Fulfilling the god-forsaken variant
Now the unexpected part ( besides Mrs "I'm a celt leader of the Roman days with a Scotish medieval castle behind me" being with hands full ).....
Oh and a tech trade screen ( I haven't tech traded, because I feel we don't need Monarchy or any other of the techs that they are willing to trade for now):
So , build phants + cats and say hi to Pacal
Get a settler yesterday and settle the horse clam spot
Spoiler :
Get Aesthetics to make Parthenon
Spoiler :
Get HBR for phant fest
Spoiler :
Fulfilling the god-forsaken variant
Spoiler :
Now the unexpected part ( besides Mrs "I'm a celt leader of the Roman days with a Scotish medieval castle behind me" being with hands full ).....
Spoiler :
Oh and a tech trade screen ( I haven't tech traded, because I feel we don't need Monarchy or any other of the techs that they are willing to trade for now):
Spoiler :
So , build phants + cats and say hi to Pacal
Thy_Spellcraft
King
so who's up??
pigswill
fly (one day)
According to the latest rota (post 161) its yourself (Thy Specllcraft).
Thy_Spellcraft
King
OK.. I got it.
So this seems to become a military build up set.. But I'd rather go for Lit to start the GLib in our science city and afterwards finishing CoL..
So this seems to become a military build up set.. But I'd rather go for Lit to start the GLib in our science city and afterwards finishing CoL..
Thy_Spellcraft
King
Here we go.. At least this was some kind of truly interesting set.. Not my best one at all but a challenging one:
IT:
As noone complained I changed tech to Lib..
85 AD:
Pacal came to ask for this deal:
As he's got neither horses nor phants I gave it to him 'cause monarchy is of bigger breaker value than HBR..
And that's when my "calm military build up" ended:
I'm pretty sure I don't need to commend this screenie anymore..
100 AD:
We all knew it:
And just to trouble us bit more, a barb galley got in sight next to Athens..
115 AD:
Engeneer city hold.. We lost two archers but we took revenge!!!!!!!
That's about the first stack!!!!!!
But just take a look at this one:
We've got ONE warrior inside!!
Long live the
145 AD:
We finished Lit and started GLib in science city. We went on with CoL..
160 AD:
Mil City hold against the gallic warrior thx to the But one backlash is needed: our 2 poped galley lost to the barb one at 67% odds.. 
I'm sorry guys but didn't I tell you my second name is "bad luck"??
250 AD:
Another GS was born and once again got settled..
265 AD:
CoL finished. As some kind of space holder I selected Calendar..
And here I finished..
We're still at war and our eastern front looks like this:
So I think we're save right now but we need to get rid of this war very soon..
So nocho have fun as well!
Roster:
pholkhero - on deck
meiz
pigswill
r_rolo Thy_Spellcraft - Just played
nocho - UP
IT:
As noone complained I changed tech to Lib..
85 AD:
Pacal came to ask for this deal:
Spoiler :
As he's got neither horses nor phants I gave it to him 'cause monarchy is of bigger breaker value than HBR..
And that's when my "calm military build up" ended:
Spoiler :
I'm pretty sure I don't need to commend this screenie anymore..
100 AD:
We all knew it:
Spoiler :
And just to trouble us bit more, a barb galley got in sight next to Athens..
115 AD:
Engeneer city hold.. We lost two archers but we took revenge!!!!!!!
That's about the first stack!!!!!!
But just take a look at this one:
Spoiler :
We've got ONE warrior inside!!
Long live the
145 AD:
We finished Lit and started GLib in science city. We went on with CoL..
160 AD:
Mil City hold against the gallic warrior thx to the
But one backlash is needed: our 2 poped galley lost to the barb one at 67% odds.. I'm sorry guys but didn't I tell you my second name is "bad luck"??
250 AD:
Another GS was born and once again got settled..
265 AD:
CoL finished. As some kind of space holder I selected Calendar..
And here I finished..
We're still at war and our eastern front looks like this:
Spoiler :
So I think we're save right now but we need to get rid of this war very soon..
So nocho have fun as well!
Roster:
pholkhero - on deck
meiz
pigswill
r_rolo Thy_Spellcraft - Just played
nocho - UP
See it and got it for somewhere during the weekend (god bless pholk for his 48/168 scheme ).
Some random thoughts while looking at the save with beer in my head:
- Make peace with Boudica asap. Should be able to maintain status quo especially with some phants coming online (whip). I guess going in a counterattack for one of her dwellings is asking for too much.
- Get calendar and currency, preferrably in trading. Maybe research some turns into it to make it happen. What after? Civil Service? Engineering? Would be inclined to go CS.
- I see that all (!!!) our cities have hinduism, but we're without religion. Have 3 buddhist cities as well. Diplo-wise going jewish if we would get a spread would be wisest obviously. But if we get monotheism in trade, gong hinduist and OR for a while to speed up our wonder (and infra) builds might be nice. Staying without religion obviously doesn't save us the hassle either. So maybe go hindu for a while to profit from OR bonus, keep Pacal happy (maybe good for trading with him as he's most advanced) build more phants for pro-active defence if need be and then switch back to no rel or buddhist (Bismarck) or judaism if possible and backstab Pacal?
- Finally scout NW. The barb city there may be nice with banana and cow. We have spy and merchant left to settle. I know we're eyeing Pacal's land, but maybe this barb town could be an option. Well, it should be resettled IIRC the rules we agreed on. Wouldn't probably happen in my set anyway.
- Build more military!
Comments welcome!
).Some random thoughts while looking at the save with beer in my head:
- Make peace with Boudica asap. Should be able to maintain status quo especially with some phants coming online (whip). I guess going in a counterattack for one of her dwellings is asking for too much.
- Get calendar and currency, preferrably in trading. Maybe research some turns into it to make it happen. What after? Civil Service? Engineering? Would be inclined to go CS.
- I see that all (!!!) our cities have hinduism, but we're without religion. Have 3 buddhist cities as well. Diplo-wise going jewish if we would get a spread would be wisest obviously. But if we get monotheism in trade, gong hinduist and OR for a while to speed up our wonder (and infra) builds might be nice. Staying without religion obviously doesn't save us the hassle either. So maybe go hindu for a while to profit from OR bonus, keep Pacal happy (maybe good for trading with him as he's most advanced) build more phants for pro-active defence if need be and then switch back to no rel or buddhist (Bismarck) or judaism if possible and backstab Pacal?
- Finally scout NW. The barb city there may be nice with banana and cow. We have spy and merchant left to settle. I know we're eyeing Pacal's land, but maybe this barb town could be an option. Well, it should be resettled IIRC the rules we agreed on. Wouldn't probably happen in my set anyway.
- Build more military!
Comments welcome!
Thy_Spellcraft
King
Even though all of our cities are hindu I won't change as this would decrease the relations even more. And for a fast peace with boud we need to avoid having another rel than she has. In case we get Jud I too would go for it.
About buildings: I think we need military more than anything else (except the two wonders..) So you should keep going for this..
Techwise we should try to trade at least for calendar. But the more important tech would be CS to get some farms around our priest city..
About buildings: I think we need military more than anything else (except the two wonders..) So you should keep going for this..
Techwise we should try to trade at least for calendar. But the more important tech would be CS to get some farms around our priest city..
r_rolo1
King of myself
That is exactly the reason I declined to go hindu, in spite of the hard work Pacal had in spreading the word to our cities ( most of them were converted via missionary in my shift ). We do not gain a dime in going hindu... in fact we gain a free "worst enemy of the world" card if we go that way.
Yeah, as mentioned I had beer in my head when I thought about going hindu.
I was just impressed that all cities had it, but indeed being Pacal's shield and the rest of the world's punchbag is not the way to go, apart from all the anarchy, switching in and out of religions.Maybe can play tonight, otherwise tomorrow.
