Phaedo
Emperor
The Luddites were a social movement of English textile workers in the early 1800s who protested — often by destroying textile machines — against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt threatened their livelihood. The movement, which began in 1811, was named after a [possibly] mythical leader, Ned Ludd. For a short time the movement was so strong that it clashed in battles with the British Army. Measures taken by the government included a mass trial at York in 1813 that resulted in many death penalties and transportations (deportation to a penal colony).
The English historical movement has to be seen in its context of the harsh economic climate due to the Napoleonic Wars; but since then, the term Luddite has been used to describe anyone opposed to technological progress and technological change.(From Wikipedia)
"Rage Against the Machine" was a slogan of the Luddites (and is also the name of a cool band)
In this Luddite game we will be taking Japan. Japan has never been an inventive culture. Anything you look at in Japan (with the possible excpetion of their love of baths) has come from somewhere else. Tea is from China and developed into the tea ceremony; kimono was made with Chinese silk and developed from Chinese styles; the written language is borrowed from China, the medical terminology, political structure and educational system is borrowed from Germany; tempura was introduced by the Portugese and there is even strong evidence that the royal family is not decended form the Sun goddess but from Korean lineage. What Japan has been best at is taking technology and ideas from other civilization and adapting them to the Japanese environment and developing them into a truely unique cultural expression.
Our challenge is to continue this tradition and run a 0% science game with the Japanese and be the first to colonize space.
Crafty trading and pointy sticks are the only tools we will be allowed to work with. At no time may the science slider rise above 0%, nor a scientist ever be hired and if we ever cpture a city with the Great Library in it, it must be razed immediately.
The level will be Demi-god and Space will be the only victory condition.
Standard World and 8 civs
Barbs are roaming
So far, we have four players and are waiting on one more. I think there is room for one more player to sign on if someone is interested.
I've rolled four starts that we can choose from but I think #4 is a no brainer.
Start 1
Start 2
Start 3
Start 4
Sorry about the poor quality pics but I think you can make them out
The English historical movement has to be seen in its context of the harsh economic climate due to the Napoleonic Wars; but since then, the term Luddite has been used to describe anyone opposed to technological progress and technological change.(From Wikipedia)
"Rage Against the Machine" was a slogan of the Luddites (and is also the name of a cool band)
In this Luddite game we will be taking Japan. Japan has never been an inventive culture. Anything you look at in Japan (with the possible excpetion of their love of baths) has come from somewhere else. Tea is from China and developed into the tea ceremony; kimono was made with Chinese silk and developed from Chinese styles; the written language is borrowed from China, the medical terminology, political structure and educational system is borrowed from Germany; tempura was introduced by the Portugese and there is even strong evidence that the royal family is not decended form the Sun goddess but from Korean lineage. What Japan has been best at is taking technology and ideas from other civilization and adapting them to the Japanese environment and developing them into a truely unique cultural expression.
Our challenge is to continue this tradition and run a 0% science game with the Japanese and be the first to colonize space.
Crafty trading and pointy sticks are the only tools we will be allowed to work with. At no time may the science slider rise above 0%, nor a scientist ever be hired and if we ever cpture a city with the Great Library in it, it must be razed immediately.
The level will be Demi-god and Space will be the only victory condition.
Standard World and 8 civs
Barbs are roaming
So far, we have four players and are waiting on one more. I think there is room for one more player to sign on if someone is interested.
I've rolled four starts that we can choose from but I think #4 is a no brainer.
Start 1
Start 2
Start 3
Start 4
Sorry about the poor quality pics but I think you can make them out