Rat 09 - going for conquest

[ThERat]

Having played some games by now, I feel it's much tougher to win by conquest than before. Maybe I am wrong here and I want to test that out. A SG would be suited well since mid and late game wars can be time consuming.

So, I suggest this SG:

Level: Prince
Civilization: Romans
Map Type: Continents
Size: Standard
Others: all victory conditions enabled, but we need to win by conquest
In order to make it even more interesting, all conquered AI cities must be razed including barb cities. This will spam barbarians and keep us on our toes at all times.

Roster:
ThERat
Greebley
Thrar
Dimy
Xarathas


As for rules, the obvious exploits are not allowed (trade especially)

 

[Thrar]

I'd like to join!
I just started playing SGs (this'll be my third and probably last for now), and I haven't done much conquest in Civ4 yet, so I guess it's perfect.
Besides, I'm from the same city...

About the difficulty, I'd vote for Prince (that was the higher one of the two, right?)

 

[Greebley]

I will join

 

[ThERat]

Glad you both join, there is space for another 2/3 players.

So, while we wait for some more to join, maybe we can think about the Civ we want to play as. I don't know which Civ is particularly strong when it comes to military. Any suggestions?

As for the difficulty, I'd prefer prince as well.

 

[Xarathas]

I'd like to join Long time civ player, played some MPs, but never actually played a SG. Been wanting to get into one!

 

[Dimy]

that leaves one more spot...count me in
i suggest roman and hope to get some iron. should give us a good early start

 

[Xarathas]

My nominee would probably be the Mongols.. either leader traits (Agg/Exp or Agg/Cre) would be pretty good for conquest, Genghis(Agg/Exp) would probably be the better of the two, though.

Romans would be fine with me too, but I just don't really like to have to depend on iron I've been screwed out of iron way too many times, hehe. At least with horses I'll know right away instead of gambling by beelining for a tech when I don't have the required resources.

 

[ThERat]

ok, great to have you guys(??) playing as well.

While trying to set up a roster, it might be nice to know where you all are located for a good rotation.

so, we have
ThERat (S'pore)
Greebley (US)
Thrar (S'pore)
Dimy (Europe??)
Xarathas (???)

Playing Mongols in another SG I wouldn't mind Rome if that's fine with the rest. If we are having issues with iron, well, we simply need to grab it.
I will start tonight with 20 turns and suggest to go for 15 turns the first rotation since there tends to be less activity in Civ4 initially.

Difficulty setting would be prince to get some challenge and remember no taking of cities, all must be razed

 

[Xarathas]

Rome would be fine I never actually played Romans I just tend to be screwed out of iron early on, that's all

I'm on PST (West coast US)

 

[ThERat]

I'm on PST (West coast US)

just saw your location, how did I miss it the first time round?

Maybe Dimy is in the US as well, there might be a Dublin there, though I was thinking of Ireland

Anyway, I think the Roster looks fine that way.

 

[Xarathas]

I just edited it after you asked, which is probably why you never saw it in the first place

There is indeed a (actually, 2) Dublin in USA but the chances are he's from the real Dublin

 

[Greebley]

There are alot of Dublins other than Ireland IE almost certrainly is ireland though.

Went to a concert in Dublin once. Saw the Waterboys and the Bangles. That was a while ago.


Dublin is the capital city of Ireland located in County Dublin.

Dublin is also a name of some places in the United States:

Dublin, California
Dublin, Georgia
Dublin, Indiana
Dublin, New Hampshire
Dublin, North Carolina
Dublin, Ohio
Dublin, Pennsylvania
Dublin, Texas
Dublin, Virginia
Dublin Township, Pennsylvania
There is also Upper Dublin, Pennsylvania.

Dublin, South Australia is a small town in South Australia.

 

[Xarathas]

Damn.. there were that many? I only knew of the two I listed.

 

[ThERat]

well, the English weren't exactly creative with names. We have Somerset here for example...

Enough talking about places, I will roll a start with Rome tonight and see what's going on in terms of tech. I feel that getting 1 religion can be of good use, more than one isn't really necessary.

Official Roster:
ThERat
Greebley
Thrar
Dimy
Xarathas

 

[Greebley]

Agree on the Religion. Besides with Rome, I think going for Ironworking right off is a good idea.

 

[Dimy]

Nah I'm from the "real" Dubh Linn in Eire Didn't know there were so many either... Anyway... let's have this game started!

 

[Dimy]

Agree on the Religion. Besides with Rome, I think going for Ironworking right off is a good idea.

Maybe Archery 1st would be good plan, it's quicker to get and we can start building military right away... then beeline for iron working...or if we already have horses nearby, maybe go for horseriding first.

 

[ThERat]

save

Pre-Turn
set on continents random climate and sea level
standard map
Romans start with fishing and mining


get this 1st start that I am going to take, no rerolls here now

well, no hills for iron at Rome for sure
settle on the spot and spot cows in the 2nd ring in the south as well as the coast there
we get 46gold from that hut

after 20 turns:
we have 2 exploring warriors, a worker is ready in 5, warrior prebuild should be ready in 3 after that for MP duty
researched hunting and animal husbandry for the cows (by the way, there are plenty fo them around)
archery is due in 5, next should be bronze working and iron, with the hills in the north chances
are good for iron I hope


our land

 

[ThERat]

I can see that Greebley is up in a lot of games, maybe we change the Roster to this:

Official Roster:
ThERat - just played
Dimy - up
Greebley - on deck
Thrar
Xarathas

 

[Dimy]

I can see that Greebley is up in a lot of games, maybe we change the Roster to this:

Official Roster:
ThERat - just played
Dimy - up
Greebley - on deck
Thrar
Xarathas

Then I suppose I'm next, gonna download the save and do my turns in a short while.

Plenty of cows indeed... maybe we can train cow archers rather then horse archers I definitely hope we find some iron in the hills on the north.