PH19: The RNGod Must Be Crazy

[LKendter]

625BC
Get city with new resource by turn T116, and it is turn 90. 26 turns to build an army, and get a new resource. This feels all but impossible.

The dice is rolled, and the personal objective is 4 - spread a religion. Now Mecca is more important than ever.

I put a total pole before barracks in Mound city. Every turn I can save is worth it.


600BC
11 turns to border expansion.


575 BC
Totem pole only cut 2 turns.


500 BC
The next tech is archery, with war coming up.


425 BC
I spread Taoism to Mecca - the personal objective is completed.
I queue up priesthood next heading to monarchy.


Summary:

Get city with new resource by turn T116.
I don't see how we will do this. I have three dog soldiers at the border now. Medina has 2 archers defending. There is 1 archer and 1 ds heading to the border. Three swords are in progress.


Roster
pholkhero
rolo
LKendter >> just played
pigswill >> UP NOW
imhotep >> on deck
ozbenno

 

[ruff_hi]

I spread Taoism to Mecca

What is this 'Taoism' you mention? I thought your religion was Randomism?

the personal objective is completed

Well done.

 

[pigswill]

Skipping coz I ain't got a civ compatible computer. Good luck!

 

[LKendter]

Roster
pholkhero
rolo
LKendter >> just played
pigswill >> skipped
imhotep >> UP NOW
ozbenno >> on deck

 

[pholkhero]

nice turns, lk, but i think you may be right to fear the wrath of the RNGod ~ doesn't look good for us Randomites....

i hate to do it, but we may have to whip Cahokia again...just deal with the 36 turns of whip anger for now. we *may* just have a shot at succeeding but everything will probably have to fall just right.

Imhotep, i would play up until t116, just to see if we make it or not. also, don't forget teh personal objective.

Global Objective:
01) Found Religion
02) Spread our religion to three cities: Completed, t081
03) t081: Capture a City with new resources-In Progress until t116

 

[·Imhotep·]

I see it. Will play tonight or tomorrow most probably.

 

[·Imhotep·]

Sorry guys, I'm drowning in work. I can get to this Thursday evening at the earliest.

 

[Ozbenno]

That works for me as I'm after you and currently don't have a working civ computer (will be fixing on the weekend).

 

[pholkhero]

yeah, its no problem. got my car window smashed and they grabbed my laptop and cell phone so civ has fallen down on the list of priorities of late.

 

[Ozbenno]

yeah, its no problem. got my car window smashed and they grabbed my laptop and cell phone so civ has fallen down on the list of priorities of late.

Bummer dude!

 

[pigswill]

It really must be time for your luck to change. Nil carborundum .

 

[pholkhero]

it was 3 days after i got the car back after the mechanic had it for 3 weeks.

worse still, it ain't the sh!tiest thing i've got going on now, too...2012 has sucked a fat one so far

 

[Ozbenno]

worse still, it ain't the sh!tiest thing i've got going on now, too...2012 has sucked a fat one so far

It's just getting all the bad stuff out early, going to shine for the rest of the year for sure

 

[·Imhotep·]

yeah, its no problem. got my car window smashed and they grabbed my laptop and cell phone so civ has fallen down on the list of priorities of late.

And I thought I had bad luck...

 

[r_rolo1]

Yup, pholk has been in though luck stream since the hurricane

Hopefully you're spending all of your bad luck in one shot ...

 

[LKendter]

Who is playing this at the moment?

 

[pigswill]

Imhotep is UP but has already posted that RL is getting in the way and Ozbenno was having computer problems.

 

[LKendter]

Imhotep is UP but has already posted that RL is getting in the way and Ozbenno was having computer problems.

So who is to be playing? I know I just played...

 

[pholkhero]

bah. if no one plays this by the time i'm done my other SGs, I will pick it up.

 

[·Imhotep·]

Okay, first of all the personal objective. I rolled a 5, so it is...

5 Get an AI Civ to improve attitude towards us [2]
OR Get a cultural pop

Now the first one is quite impossible, but the 2nd one is only hopeless, seeing we have 3 cities and the next pop is in 98 turns...

We discover Priesthood...

And I select Monarchy...we'll need HR. Not that it matters...

We meet this guy and gift him our sheep in a desperate attempt to improve attitude...

Mecca. Not too scary yet. But he'll add once we declare...

I declared on turn 109 with 4 Swords and 4 Dogs + 1 Archer. As I needed 5 turns of travel it left me two turns for attacking...

Odds are lousy though. And if I learned anything in 2 years of competitive Civ MP it is that you don't get that city.

I hate to be correct sometimes. Wasn't even close, as expected.

So, I blew the game. I played all in and bypassed the first city to get Mecca in time with more troops. I failed both the personal and global objectives. Our economy sucks, we're stuck in a corner with a pissed off neighbor, and have no army any more. Restart...?

Imhotep