Race Wars 1: Nordic Sagas

[alerum68]

I've been having this idea in my head to start a series of SGs that would allow us to compare which Civ is the best in the game. This is very hard to do because of starting locations and civ traits.... ie -China may have a great start on Pangea, but I wouldn't play them on archipeligo if my life depended on it. So, to help fix this I'm going to try and insure the best starting location I can for each civs traits. I have created 4 different start locations, screenshots to follow in next post.

My first Civ of choice is The Vikings. They are Militaristic and seafearing. They build the Berserks instead of Longbowmen, which means great timed GA, and a strong unit for early conquest if that's how we wish to play this. Because of this, I feel we should exploit their seafaring ability and want to have the a curragh out exploring before we build warriors.

Here are the Specs of the world I created
Version: C3C
Difficulty: Monarch
World Seed: viks
Size: Standard
Barbs: Roaming
Land/water: archipelago / 60 % water. Normal, Temperate, 4 billion years.
Rivals: Random
All Victory conditions are on, Respawn off. Rest defult.
Aggression: Normal


Roster:
Bede
Alerum <== Up
JB <== Getting Ready
SmellinCoffee
Sir Bugsy
--==Rosters Full==--


24/72 turn around, with no rule set in mind. Common exploits are forbidden, (Such as RoP Rape) but I'm willing to be more felxible with most things. You make a chain of 10 galleys then you deserve to use 'em to ferry troops across the world. Basically as long as we won't take a rep hit, or there's no one else who can find out about it, then it's all good.

I will be fairly strick about the 24/72 rule. If you need more time, just ask and you can get it. Just don't leave the team hanging.

Here's the save.

 

[alerum68]

 

[Bede]

alerum and gang,

After lurking your play in GK1 would really like to play Monarch game(s) with you guys, so sign me up.

Vikings are a great choice. I think I'd take start RW4 and plant right there or 1sw. I can't tell where the mineable grass is grom the picture

 

[alerum68]

Welcome aboard Bede. I've lurked your games too, so it'll be fun playing with you. And we have 1 vote for RW4.

I have food/shields shown on map turned on, so when you see a square with 2 green, and 1 silver, it's a bonus BG. If it has just 2 green then it's a regular grassland. So if we did vote on RW4 then settling where we stand would be the best option I think.

 

[Yom]

lurker's comment:

Start 4 can be turned into a 5-turn settler factory with some MMing .

 

[alerum68]

hehehehe... I've played a few turns of each game to make sure it wasn't really a dud of a game, so I'm not going to vote... interesting that the wines are more of a pull then the cows are...

 

[Bede]

Norsemen, not Swiss. Eat fish, not cheese. Harpoon whales, not shovel manure.

 

[SesnOfWthr]

Not a sign up. I'm already over my reasonable limit on SG's

Interesting Brother Bede is keen on playing another game as the Vikings though, with all the nordic action he's been seeing recently.

Best of luck to you all!

 

[alerum68]

Okay then we better change those grapes to some honey combs so we can make some mead! Going to see if I can find a fifth today, and hopefully can get started tommorow.

 

[-0blivion-]

You know i love playing SGs with you Alerum

Plus, every game i seem interested in it ends up being with you, SmellinCoffee or Solar. In this case all three.

So, i sign up

Start 4 please. I like wine

Im assuming this is patch v1.15

 

[alerum68]

Great to have you aboard Oblivion! Yep, patch v1.15. This will be my last one at 1.15 though... next one I'll move over to 1.22. Looks like it's going to be start 4.... (rolls eyes) Just because it's a 5 turn factory, with a chance of being a 6-turn settler/escort factory, y'all gotta have it huh? Alright, 4 it is... now that we got it settled, got figure out the turn order. Anyone prefer to go first/last, or anyhting like that? Will wait for 1 more player, and if we don't get it tommorow then we'll start.

 

[jb1964]

I would like to join up if you still have room. I have not participated in a SG before. I hope that's not a problem. I have played and won at monarch level but have not ventured further.

jb

 

[SolarKnight]

Checking in Alerum68.

Haven't played the vikings before, should be intresting

SolarKnight

 

[alerum68]

Welcome aboard JB! Could never say no to a 2001 fan... or wait... is that a BORG ship?! Forget all I just said Star Trek fan!! Just kidding... really, welcome aboard and welcome to the wonderful world of SGs.

That fills up the roster it looks like! Anyone want to go first? If not, I'll just keep the order how it is, and we'll start it off tommorow. Start 4 is the one we're going with?

 

[Bede]

Yopu might want to consider arranging the roster east to west...to take advantage of the time zone differences. The roster runs from the UK to California.

 

[alerum68]

Your right... thats something that's been a problem in the turn order for DGiT. So we can start it with Oblivion, then go to SK, and get the Isle Folk outta the way, then I'll go and if I can remember correctly it'd go SmellinCoffee, JB, and you'd end up the rotation Bede. Any problems with this? If Oblivion or SK doesn't want to start it off we can go in the same rotation, just start it off with someone else.

 

[Gengis Khan]

Good luck guys!

 

[alerum68]

Thanks Gangis... I have a good feeling about this game. And have a soild team to boot.

 

[Bede]

Your right... thats something that's been a problem in the turn order for DGiT. So we can start it with Oblivion, then go to SK, and get the Isle Folk outta the way, then I'll go and if I can remember correctly it'd go SmellinCoffee, JB, and you'd end up the rotation Bede. Any problems with this? If Oblivion or SK doesn't want to start it off we can go in the same rotation, just start it off with someone else.

Looking at it more closely I think the roster should run
Oblivion-UK
Bede or JB-both EDT
SmellinCoffee or alerum-CA, right
SK-UK
Bede or JB-both EDT
SmellinCoffee or alerum-CA, right?

That should keep things rolling nicely east to west.

 

[alerum68]

SCs in 'bama so that's EDT too. Or maybe it's Mountain Time.... care to let us know when you get back this weekend SC? Since SC has some RL issues going on, I'm going to slot him last.

Oblivion
Bede
alerum
SK
JB
SmellinCoffee

Here's the save.

Oblivion, kick it off whenever you want. I suggest building curraghs before a warrior. I've found it's a very powerful trading tool to get a early ship on an archiplego map. I'd suggest making it your first build even.