PHAW 1.5: Rise of the Queen Mother Reprise (WL)

pholkhero · Apr 30, 2007

There's some good news and some bad news.

First, the bad news: our southern army was virtually wiped out. I moved them into Viking territory, and Ragnar's knights ate up everybody but Barca, and had to defend against MULTIPLE landings, if you can imagine.

The good news is the northern army took York.

Turn 306/660 (1490 AD) [30-Apr-2007 20:47:32]
I MMed a little bit w/the gov's all around. all told, i knocked 6gpt off (i thnk) but ruff or ozzie should dbl check me. AFter Priesthood came in, I went for Gunpowder as we need better units.

Turn 307/660 (1496 AD) [30-Apr-2007 20:53:52]
I don't think we've got the stuff for taking any Viking cities right now, w/o losses. I'm going to heal a bit, wait for a treb to show up, and then move in. [ed. note: Hah!]
Ragnar also has Gunpowder b/c he's got Muskets gaurding uppsala; this'll get fun!

Turn 308/660 (1502 AD) [30-Apr-2007 21:00:50]
Ragnar sent out a settler pair, and we lost a mace stopping them

Turn 309/660 (1508 AD) [30-Apr-2007 21:05:10]
we lost 2 more units to viking knights on the interturn

Turn 310/660 (1514 AD) [30-Apr-2007 21:10:43]
Ragnar made short work of our small stack!
Okay, maybe I can tkae York and have SOMETHING to show for this set!
I sent in the 2 cats first; lost one.
one more treb to the mix, and I *think* we may get lucky
The last two trebs won at questionable odds, so in goes the rest!
Okay, Gen Beastovsky took the city,

I decided to keep it as it was the home of Judaism and most of the world is Jewish! Turns out it's only +10 gpt, but . . .

Turn 311/660 (1520 AD) [30-Apr-2007 21:19:13]

Turn 312/660 (1523 AD) [30-Apr-2007 21:22:34]

Turn 313/660 (1526 AD) [30-Apr-2007 21:24:08]

Turn 314/660 (1529 AD) [30-Apr-2007 21:26:14]
it's getting hairy at Antium, but it's not TOO much of a much ~ only about a handful of units total, but I moved some units out to try and help out our southern stack:

Turn 315/660 (1532 AD) [30-Apr-2007 21:29:30]

Turn 316/660 (1535 AD) [30-Apr-2007 21:31:57]
I finally rid Antium of enemies, but Shaka just landed two cats up north. We already lost one xbow to one!!

pholkhero · Apr 30, 2007

Phew ~ i've never been more relieved to hand off a game. My luck, it seems, is just SUCKING like rex on ecstasy. We've got a sizeable force in Antium for defense and the makings of a new army, but we've got a smaller force stuck out at York, w/a lot of fog btwn the two points.

Roster:
1. Pholkhero >> just played
2. Frankcor >> swapped
3. Ozbenno >> UP NOW
4. Ruff Hi >> on deck
5. Zophos
6. Cabledawg

Ozbenno · Apr 30, 2007

Got it. Will be able to play tomorrow.

We should still be fine with some knights of our own. Muskets are no great chop as defenders. The pesky Zulus and German have to go so we can concentrate on the big boys still out there.

frankcor · Apr 30, 2007

Perhaps pholkhero was being prophetic in saying "this is just a mop-up operation now." It seems Ragnar is going to mop us up!

pholkhero · May 1, 2007

that's sure the way it felt, Frank ~ if we could be sure that Ragnar would go after York and not Antium, I would say transfer most of the garrison there, and then send out a mid-sized stack to finish off Shaka, Biz, and Hannibal. If we could hold off the Vikings (and occasional English) attack and take care of this, we'd be a-okay, i think :goodjob:

Rex Tyrannus · May 1, 2007

pholkhero said:
My luck, it seems, is just SUCKING like rex on ecstasy.

I don't need drugs for that, just...wait, what's your daughter's name again?

frankcor · May 1, 2007

Hey, Rex. I like the new Jeter costume you're sporting. How 'bout dem Yanks?

Rex Tyrannus · May 1, 2007

frankcor said:
Hey, Rex. I like the new Jeter costume you're sporting. How 'bout dem Yanks?

Believe it or not, Frank, I've always been a Jeter fan. He's class, through and through. I'd just like him a lot better in Boston. (Still, I miss the old Yankees Suck avatar. Damn Fox.)

Ozbenno · May 2, 2007

Very quiet set of turns

Firstly, York is hugely unhappy and starving so the whip comes out.

We pop a GE first turn, he can build Hagia Sophia or buld Gunpowder (which is due in 1), lets see what he can bulb next.

Gunpowder in, I'm going to go with Alphabet to see what the AI have we don't.

And this is it.

GE will give about half of Chemistry, seems better than Hagia Sophia so pop.

Strike one against Ragnar.

[imagine if you will a picture of the Viking settlement of Jelling being razed to the ground]

Small force incoming. They are easily dealt with by a couple of knights.

This one cost a mace at a terrible RNG roll (91%) and our last treb to a bad one (68%).

Haithabu should be ready to fall in a couple of turns.

Hopefully the northern forces can take down Shaka for good this time (and Bismark) (and Hannibal)

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/88650/Queen_Mother_AD-1565.CivWarlordsSave

There are a couple of barbs in old Germany and a pike from Ragnar has just shown up (well a pike and a treb but the treb is dead) near Antium.

pholkhero · May 2, 2007

nice ~ my set seemed like we'd never win, but I hope I set up a nice little army to make up for what I lost. It still seems a bit much (at least for me) to go to 15 turns yet; there's just too many units still, but if anybody feels like their set flies by, feel free to play 15 ~

Roster:
Frankcor >>
Ozbenno >> just played
Ruff Hi >> UP NOW
Zophos >> on deck
Cabledawg >>
Pholkhero >>

ruff_hi · May 2, 2007

All righto - I'm up in another SG but that is a vanilla game while this is warlords ... 1 sec while I check which disk I have with me at the moment ... click ... pull out drive tray ... :banana:

its warlords!

I *should* be able to play this on the train tonight. Expect lots of stupid suicide attacks as I mouse over to get the battle odds and the rough riding train causes my units to attack!

GOT IT!

ruff_hi · May 2, 2007

This game isn't totally in mop up status. The three little AIs up north are fairly hard to kill, but one properly equiped (ie cats!) army should be able to take out all three and then move onto Bismark (or is it England). I spent most of my time building cats but also built a few graniadiratriasr (how do you spell that word ... goes to log and ...) Grenadier! We also got a GG which was used to turn a CRIII Combat I, Anti-archer Sword (47/55) into a blah blah blah Grenadier!

General Mucky muck muck

1) Bismark has renouced the protection of Churchill and is once again a free state. I wonder how the logger handled that! Digs around and finds ...

Team 3 revolts and is no longer a Vassal State of Team 4

What a worthless comment that is! Who wrote this piece of shiit?

2) We also have some MACEMAN barb action, coming from that silly little barb nation state that has copper! Can someone please go and sit on them!

3) I had some (to my way of thinking) rotten luck with Mr RNG. However, an attack (pike v knight) at 74% was good and the pikeman came out without a scratch! Got to like that.

4) A small :gripe:

(nothing like the 'no cats' gripe from above), we had a stack of 5 workers just sitting next to some fog. What were they doing? Having a picnic and waiting to join the other side. I sent them chopping non-city wood.

5) Cope a load of this ... select a unit and then if you click and hold the little guy in the bottom left, you can spin him round, make him face backwards, lie down, zoom in, etc. There is a good 5 minutes entertainment in that alone!

In Game Junk
I took and raized Haithbul ... no more great lighthouse for this game.

Our Almost Ready Help (CATS!) is on the way Wipe out the Northern Silly AIs Army ...

Our Anti-Viking, Wish we had some CATs Too, and some heavy duty city crunchers ... but wait, some Grenadier help is on the WAY Army (hopefully sitting on the only source of Viking Horse

Spoiler log :

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/64034/Queen_Mother_AD-1595.CivWarlordsSave

Cabledawg · May 2, 2007

The sign that says city???....is a great location and fills in the gap between Antium and Jumbo. Itll have 2 pigs, gold, horse, incense, wheat, corn and 2 mineable hills not counting the gold......very nice.

The knight and maceman near shaka on the copper could go pillaging...theres alot of that to do.

ruff_hi · May 2, 2007

oh - forgot to mention that we finally teched lit and build the heroic epic. Does anyone want to work out how many units we could have build if we had done that earlier?

Or did I just break a variant?

ruff_hi · May 2, 2007

Cabledawg said:
The sign that says city???....is a great location and fills in the gap between Antium and Jumbo. Itll have 2 pigs, gold, horse, incense, wheat, corn and 2 mineable hills not counting the gold......very nice.

The knight and maceman near shaka on the copper could go pillaging...theres alot of that to do.

I think it lost some of its trees during my round. :heehee:

Cabledawg · May 3, 2007

we finally teched lit and build the heroic epic. Does anyone want to work out how many units we could have build if we had done that earlier?

This is like a jelly bean jar guess......ill guess 12. Its either 12 or 763 units.

Zophos · May 3, 2007

Guess that means I'm up. Got the save, will try to play tonight.

pholkhero · May 3, 2007

aieee, you built a Heroic Epic?!?! :run:

well, thanks for blowing it Ruff

nice playing, but I hope we don't lose our general to that Viking knight.

I *think* i threw in that city sign during my turns, and yes, it would make a GREAT city for us up at the front there.

ruff_hi · May 3, 2007

pholkhero said:
... I hope we don't lose our general to that Viking knight.

That sucker is half strength so if he beats a full str super hero, I vote we resign the game as it hates us.

frankcor · May 3, 2007

Ruff, mark me down in the same column as you.

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