Rat26 - Random AWE

[Elear]

As much as I'd like to play this, it would be inconsiderate to continue saying I've got it. Just take the set and have fun with it. If we are still going by next time it gets around to me, hopefully things will be calmer for me and I can play it.

 

[el_filet]

i got it, will probably play tomorrow.

 

[el_filet]

couldn't get to it yesterday, playing now. not sure i'm able to play all 10 turns though.

 

[ThERat]

take your time, if you finish by tomorrow, that's fine or post whatever was possible

 

[el_filet]

could only finish 7 yesterday, but had time for the rest today.

Turn 0:
with RP in 7+4 for clads, i'll just defend during my turnset.
like to build some units, but with support cost of 4 gpt now, i want to avoid further costs for units, slowing down reserach. maybe some cities can increase unit support by growth.
lands are filled, with settlers ready or in line for the last open spots.
delay some settler builds, to keep upkeep costs small
minor mm for food (upkeep) or production (when i switcht builds).
railnet seems to be complete, will concentrate workers on cities.
rally forces, minimizing mp.

IBT:
some ships move, 2 bombard centralia

Turn 1:
found new kadesh
move other settler one square to close cultural gap
found new adana
found new hubisha
rails

IBT:
cleo lands some units
centralia bombarded

Turn 2:
bombard and sink frigate (1-0)
found New Alaca Huyuk
found new emar
bombard and kill landing party with elites
bombard cleos ship stack
rails off course...

IBT:
england starts US

Turn 3:
found New Alalah
found New Ivriz

IBT:
england lands on incan island

Turn 4:
found New Kanesh
destroy english units

IBT:
bombardment

Turn 5:
found New Karhuyuk
reduce science (still in 2)

IBT:
bombardment, as usual

Turn 6:
found New Karatepe
science to 40%, fire scientists for taxmen

IBT:
cleo lands spears
ship stack defends against egyptian frigate
bombardment
english land cavs on inca island
RP->clads (in 8, -67 gpt)

Turn 7:
we have rubber
scientists bring clads down to 7

IBT:
ship stack sinks another egyptian frigate, but lose 2 ships to mow's
cleo lands some units

Turn 8:
found new city
bombard some ships

IBT:
cleo lands more units
babs land units on inca island
english too

Turn 9:
up taxes, clads in 5@-19gpt
get leader, build small army
found New Samuha
found New Yalburt

IBT:
cleo lands more units
deny audience to england

Turn 10:
up taxes. hiring taxmen might avoid that, but i prefer scientist as specialists


Notes to next player:
most of our artillery is located on former iro land. the stack near tonawande is enough to hande the landings.
most armies are there as well.
one settler ready in centralia, might be better used to save upkeep costs.
with railnet complete and most tiles railed in core, we might soon get rid of some workers.
new cities are mostly on worker duty, some artillery. maybe wealth is better there.
my factory prebuilds are way off, due to the much longer research time.
hired some scientists in corrupt cities, but could be more.

 

[ThERat]

sounds like a good preparation for the onslaught. Let th fun begin. I got it

Roster
El Filet
ThERat - up
TheOverseer714
Greebley
Elephantium
Elear

 

[ThERat]

save

Pre-Turn
well, we should be able to get ironclads faster I hope. increase from 19 to scientists 70 without sacrificing much
It's all about grooming the science farms working high food and using the surplus for scientists.
Ironclads in 4 now, possible 3

I do note hat we have no artillery and infantry. We also build too many workers IHMO. Switch more to settlers and other stuff

errr, there are still 2 Mongol units on our shores. deal with them

IT Mongols and Egyptians lands some units in the west

1.1355AD
Increase science a notch and ironclads in 2
MM again after worker actions and science back to 60%, ironclads still in 2

2.1360AD
no landings, thus worker actions only
get our capital to 28spt, 3 turn cavalry

IT we get ironclads, industrialization in 5 next, run at positive cash to rush clads

3.1365AD
disband obsolete trebs and other stuff and we are able to cash rush 2 clads
found another town overseas

IT we get 4 clads all together

4. 1370AD
send out a convoy of 3 galleons with 2 covers, clads are slow...

IT 3 Civs land units on our shores this time

5.1375AD/B]
deal with landings easily, ge some more elite promotions, no leaders

6.1380AD
more landings to deal with, my laeder luck is lousy, lose an elite mace against red pike and again create
no leaders taking out the enemy
land 3 armies next to an English city on the smaller Island, they have a lot of cash which I want

IT well, I was too impatient as the 3 galleons that dropped the armies were exposed and sunk by English MoW
Well, need to rush more galleons.
7 of the English navy units hide in Newcastle now, thy will get revenge properly

7.1385AD
take out 3 rifles, 1 cavalry and take Newcastle for 842gold, all their units are sunk as well
clear some landings, no leader
send a clad with galleon westwards to capture that mini Island
science down to 30%, rush 2 galleons

IT industrialization is in, going for corporation in 5

8.1390AD
send some units over to help as we lack cav armies to be sent
MM and corporation is down to 4 turns at surplus (123 scientists)

IT elite archer kills our ironhill covering sword (there is another archer underneath)

9.1395AD
we have another army, I leave it empty as we can choose and inf or cav army.
Raze Lisht, redline armies in the process, cover with healthy army, bu leave Newcastle alone as it has flip risk

IT enemy lands units next to Ugarit on the other Island

10. 1400AD
rest armies, a load of cavs and inf is nearby and ready to be dropped next turn

as we have some cash, rush factory in our capital for 500gold

I would try and take out all cities on that small Island and then proceed to the main continent

It would be good to have flight for airfields. I would continue to research, with the many scientists we have, its easy

I dropped an army onto the tiny Island, I would ake the city, but raze it and occupy the Island so nobody can resettle
Don't forget that we have an empty army. So far, nobody attacked our clads, thus we should be able to ship ore units overseas

Btw, land improvements almost complete, I already merged some workers into our cities.

 

[Greebley]

I think I would go with an Infantry Army and build a city on the hill. A good way to kill enemy units (rush walls first turn).

 

[TheOverseer714]

I think I would go with an Infantry Army and build a city on the hill. A good way to kill enemy units (rush walls first turn).

On the main enemy continent, I assume? Kind of like Omaha Beach? This one I'll call Juno Beach I have downloaded the save and am preparing to play, so now is the time for suggestions.

 

[ThERat]

An infantry army on the main continent sounds good. On hills behind walls with a barracks. So first rush the walls and then barracks. It will help to have some minor units to disband so that rushing the walls will be much cheaper.

 

[Greebley]

Agree with TheRat's post.

Bring and merge in a 4th infantry after the landing. No need to move the army elsewhere.

 

[Elephantium]

Which hill are we talking about as a city-building site?

 

[TheOverseer714]

I'm looking at the save, and I only see 2 decent sites with hills that are near England and one is on the wrong side. The other is completely undeveloped. Both are adjacent to at least one mountain, giving the enemy cover. I like the one on the east coast in Babylonian territory. Neither one is perfect, but the one I chose will do fine.

 

[TheOverseer714]

I am done, and I got a nice birthday gift from the RNG, I only lost 2 battles out of 55 I got a hill town built on my last turn with a 4 unit infantry army and walls rushed next turn. Here is the turn-log:

Spoiler :

Pre-flight check: CivAssist 2, Word program up and running. Load the save.
Non combat:
Settlers 2
Workers 69, Slaves 94
Military:
Warriors 2
Archers 1
Spearmen 1
Pikemen 14
Longbow 1
Muskets 13
Knights 11
Cavalry 54
Infantry 4
Catapult 1 captured
Cannons 24, 3 captured
Artillery 3
Armies 11, 1 MDI, 3 Knight, 6 Cavalry
Frigates 3
Galleons 7
Ironclads 5
MDI’s 12
3MC’s 1
Trebuchets 1

Press enter=>

IBT: Egyptians land 3 cavalry at their normal spot.
Babylon lands a rifle off at Newcastle.
Rat26 Factory=>infantry.
Hattusha ironclad=>ironclad.
Hubishna University=>Factory.
Gandestaigon Aqueduct=>Marketplace.

1405 AD: At Newcastle, 4th Cavalry wins vs Babylonian vRifle, -3hp.
Battle of Oxford: 3rd Cavalry wins vs vRifle, -2hp.
3rd Cavalry wins vs rRifle, -2hp.
3rd Cavalry wins vs rRifle, -3hp.
3rd Cavalry wins vs vCavalry, -2hp, and Oxford taken.
Raze nets 978 gold and 4 slaves.
At New Tarsus: eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCavalry clean.
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCavalry clean.
vCavalry loses vs red-lined Egyptian vCavalry.
vCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCavalry clean, promotes.(9-1)

Do a ton of renaming while MM’ing to squeeze maximum cash out of our farms. Basically, ^ in front of the normal name indicates a specialist farm with a max population of 6. ^^ means a population max of 12. When logging, ignore that part of the name, it’s there to make the MM’ing easier.
Also begin organizing workers and slaves into fast teams, this one at a time stuff takes too long.

IBT: An English cavalry darts out of the fog, capturing empty Newcastle.
English land a rifle and 2 cavalry beside Omaha Beach.
Kummanni Library=>ironclad.
Yamama settler=>settler.
Oka Harbor=>artillery.
Kadesh infantry=>infantry.
New Alaca Huyuk settler=>artillery.

1410 AD: Somehow, I screwed up, Corporation will now be next turn
At Omaha Beach: 1st Cavalry wins vs English vRifle, -2hp.
1st Cavalry wins vs English vCavalry clean.
1st Cavalry wins vs English vCavalry, -1hp.
Settle Kultepe between Vilcas and Vitcos=>artillery.
At Newcastle: 6th Cavalry wins vs rRifle, -6 hp
5th Cavalry wins vs vCavalry, -4hp, and Newcastle is ours again.
Re-capture nets 603 gold.
Battle of Zarquim: vCavalry retreats vs rRifle, taking 1 hp off.
vCavalry wins vs rRifle, -2hp.
vCavalry wins vs 2hp rRifle, -2hp, and Zarquim is ours.
Capture 1 slave.(16-1)

IBT: The Corporation arrives, next is Steel.
Egypt land 2 cavalry at their favored landing zone.
Horsietown ironclad=>ironclad.
Segras ironclad=>ironclad.
Incense artillery=>Factory.
Ankuwa infantry=>infantry.
Adana cavalry=>cavalry.
Mansura ironclad=>Factory.
NW Front artillery=>artillery.

1415 AD: eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCavalry, -1hp.
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCavalry, -1hp.(18-1)

IBT: Newcastle taken again, same as before, Re-capturing will give us money and reduce the population, so it’s win-win.
Mecca infantry=>infantry.
Rat26 infantry=>infantry.
GLib ironclad=>ironclad.
Fustat cavalry=>cavalry.

1420 AD: At Newcastle: 4th Cavalry wins vs rRifle, -3 hp.
4th Cavalry wins vs vCavalry, -1hp, and Newcastle is ours again.
Re-capture nets 588 gold.
Battle or Warwick: vCavalry wins vs vRifle, -3hp, promotes.
vCavalry wins vs rRifle, -3hp.
vCavalry wins vs vRifle, -1hp, promotes, and Warwick is ours. Raze nets 945 gold, 7 slaves taken.(23-1)

IBT: English land 2 cavalry near Newcastle.
Aleppo Aqueduct=>artillery.
Hattusas Temple=>Courthouse. 2 questionable builds I didn’t catch….

1425 AD: At Newcastle: 5th Cavalry wins vs vCavalry, -6hp. Ouch!
6th Cavalry wins vs vCavalry, -2hp.(25-1)
2 Galleons with infantry, settler and empty army set sail for other continent.

IBT: Mongols want to talk…no.
Egypt lands a musket and MDI at New Tarsus.
Hattusha ironclad=>ironclad.
Aden ironclad=>ironclad.

1430 AD: At New Tarsus:
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vMusket clean.
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vMDI clean.(27-1)

IBT: Egypt lands 2 Rifles and 2 Crusaders at New Tarsus.
Rat 26 infantry=>infantry.
Horsietown ironclad=>Bank.
Segras galleon=>ironclad.
Ironmine Factory=>artillery.
Kadesh infantry=>Factory.

1435 AD: At New Tarsus:
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian rRifle clean.
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vRifle clean, and we get a leader!

vCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCrusader clean.
vCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCrusader clean.(31-1)

IBT: The English land 2 cavalry near Omaha Beach, 2 cavalry and a settler near where Warwick was,
Babylon lands a rifle near Newcastle.
Silk City infantry=>Factory.
GLib ironclad=>Factory.
Najran Factory=>infantry.
South’s End ironclad=>ironclad.
Adana cavalry=>cavalry.
Kanesh Courthouse=>Marketplace.

1440 AD: Frigate wins vs 2hp English galleon clean, promotes.
At Omaha Beach: vCavalry wins vs red-lined English vCavalry clean.
vCavalry wins vs red-lined English vCavalry clean, promotes.
Mulberry Harbor settled near Newcastle=>Harbor.
Near Mulberry Harbor: eCavalry wins vs red-lined English vCavalry clean.
eCavalry wins vs red-lined English vCavalry, -3hp.(36-1)
Rush Factory in Incense. MM for maximum cash for last turn before Steel.

IBT: Egyptians land 4 cavalry, a musket, an LB, a Crusader, and an MDI at New Tarsus.
Steel arrives, next is Refining.
Mecca infantry=>Factory.
Karatepe settler=>settler.
Incense Factory=>artillery.
Fustat cavalry=>cavalry.
Ironmine arillery=>artillery.
Andahuaylas settler=>artillery.

1445 AD: At Newcastle: vCavalry wins vs red-lined Babylonian vRifle
clean.
Land 5 Infantry, settler and army in Babylonian territory on hill.
At New Tarsus: eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian rMusket clean.
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCrusader clean.
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCavalry clean.
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCavalry clean.
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCavalry clean.
vCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCavalry, -1hp.
vCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian rMDI, -2hp, promotes.
vCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian rLB, -1hp, promotes.
Tarsals founded at Vilcas’ feet.
Battle of Shuruppak: 6th Cavalry wins vs rRifle, -9hp!
4th Cavalry wins vs rRifle, -1hp.
4th Cavalry wins vs cRifle, -1hp, and Shuruppak is ours, For some reason, raze nets no slaves (48-1)

IBT: Babylonians kill 1 Infantry that was landed on a plains tile accidentally. Otherwise, no attacks on our landing party.
Babylonians land 1 cavalry near Newcastle.
Egyptians land a cavalry, 2 LB’s and a spear on a different spot 1 tile NW of their usual landing zone.
Rat 26 infantry=>cavalry.
Ankuwa infantry=>cavalry.
NE Iron settler=>artillery.

1450 AD: Sword Beach settled in Babylonian territory.
Add 4 vInfantry to empty army to form 1st Infantry.
At Newcastle: eCavalry wins vs red-lined Babylonian vRifle, -3hp.
At New Tarsus: eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vCavalry clean.
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian eSpear, -1hp.
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian rLB clean.
eCavalry wins vs red-lined Egyptian vLB, -1hp.(53-2)

I had outstanding RNG results in ever way but leaders, I only got 1 out of
20+ elite combats. There were a couple scares with army battles where an army red-lined on seemingly easy combats, but I didn’t lose any. Only 2 silly losses, a healthy vCav vs a redlined vCav and a healhy vInfantry to a vCav. Not bad for Civ3.

Non combat:
Settlers 3
Workers 69, Slaves 108
Military:
Archers 1
Spearmen 2
Pikemen 14
Muskets 12
Knights 11
Cavalry 57
Infantry 14
Cannons 14
Artillery 14, 4 captured
Armies 12, 1 MDI, 3 Knight, 6 Cavalry, 1 Infantry, 1 empty
Frigates 3
Galleons 8
Ironclads 15
MDI’s 12
3MC’s 1

Hand-off notes: I have settled Sword Beach on a hill near Uruk. It has a 4 infantry army in it and I rushed walls. It is now ready to take lots of troops.
If it survives, that is. There is one 3 unit Cavalry army nearby on the small island. Sword Beach will be culturally vulnerable until we clear some nearby cities out. It is a long way for reinforcements, even if the galleons shuttle between fortified ironclads. That will get better when we get Combustion and can get them upgraded. That’s why I don’t recommend burning our cash for rushing, we’ll want to upgrade all of our galleons and some of our ironclads. The small English/Babylonian island is ours and ready to be railed and used to transfer troops for a second front, if one is needed. Right now, Egypt seems to be producing the most troops, going by their landings.

Here are a couple pictures of our 2 best troop crossing routes:

And last but not least, the save:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/110452/Rat26_Overseer__1450_AD.SAV

 

[Greebley]

Ok I got it.

 

[ThERat]

great progress

I hope the town will hold, at the very least it will make sure lots of enemy troops diminish.

 

[Greebley]

Preturn:
We have valuable space in our Galleon filled with an Archer, 2 MDI, and a Pike? At this point in the game I only use those units as MP. I am not at all sure why we have them heading across. They are not even elite. I would have kept those units back and send the Cavalry or Army across instead.

If this game was going to last longer, I would consider a civil engineer to speed Aquaducts, But now it is late enough to not be worthwhile.

There was a boat next to our shores. Used cannon to bring them to 1 hp.

Build choices look good to me.

IBT: Only 2 Cav Attack us.

1455 AD: Setting things up. We don't have enough Galleons so rush some - switch over Ironclads.

IBT: Two English Rifles on first island. Another cav Spotted and some Rifles near Sword Beach.

1460 AD: Bombard and kill Rifles.
Cav army on small island dropped off on mainland.
Galleon with Pike?? and Infantry drops off Pike and loads some Cav, Another ship of Cav and use the free Army to build a cav army.

IBT: No landings. Assume we are attacked every round at Sword Beach. We never lose even 1/2 our HP though.

1465 AD: Attack Hastings. Built city closer to Babylon in Overseer's pic

IBT: Just Bombardment.

1470 AD: Healing Army. Troops are heading across.

IBT: Get Refining and Start Combustion. At 90% science we get it in 5.


1475 AD: Attack Hastings again. Take alot a damage and run to the mountains.

IBT: Newcastle deposes us.

1480 AD: We take back the city for 748 gold.
Build Marshville - the closer city in Overseer's pic - took a bit to clear as I roaded first.
Drop off our first big load of regular troops - Cav and Infantry.
Two Cav Armies were dropped off on other coast near Overseer's road picture.
Rush last round of Galleon to take troops over.

IBT: Oka loses its Harbor to Bombardment and Riots.

1485 AD: Lose and Ironclad to a 2 hp Frigate. Second Ironclad in area goes to 1 HP killing a 2 hp Frigate.
Second Army landed near Hastings to help out. Move a Cav on top of injured Army to join.
Attack Nippur on the other side of the continent. 2 more cav dropped on Armies to get to 5 units.
Having a hard time finding enough MP. Going to ship back that shipment of 2 MDI, Archer, Pike at the start. I should have just send that Galleon back right at the start without unloading them.

IBT: Another English landing.

1490 AD: Get a leader and form another Cav army in Sword Beach.
Babylon city of Nippur is Razed.
English city of Hastings finally falls (razed). We have 3 armies in the area now including the new one.

IBT: Get Combustion and start Flight. Landing on Island near Babylon.

1495 AD: Rush some destroyers near where all the Ships are. Kill landing but lose a Cav doing so.

IBT: Many bombarded Egyptian ships don't land, but head home.

1500 AD: In a blaze of Glory our first Destroyer attacks a Galley and sinks. Probably the crew were all running around looking for the ship's oars while the Galley was attacking. Our second destroyer the crew figured out and took no damage. And there was much Rejoicing. Our third (I rushed 3 up north) kills a Galleon after bombardment brings it to the top. Bombard and attack Uruk. Uruk has nearly fallen.

Armies in Babylon Territory healing. Armies near Sword Beach are either healing or escorting units.

Notes:
I did most MM but not every town.

I suspect we are getting close to making good progress against the enemy. The Cav Armies are slightly fragile vs the Rifles, but will make steady progress. Keep them in groups of twos.

See pic we can connect Lux near sword beach. That would really help. We have temple already with border expansion in 4 turns. Defending with Infantry may be enough...

Archer, 2 MDI, and Pike were heading home... except they moved in the wrong direction once and since we will get a new Lux soon, are probably not needed as much home anymore.

For the other side we could build a town, but it might have problems surviving. I would keep the Infantry/settler/Artillery together. I don't think the AI will attack 2 Fortified infantry on a hill when it has a town to attack - or keep a Cav Army with it to be safe.

There is a cav army on the island. It could be shipped across, but we did get one landing there.

Hubishina needs Irrigated wheat to be mined.

 

[Elephantium]

Got it.

Edit: Turnlog:

Pre-turn: Things look good, I only find a couple of things to change, like Ankuwa building a Duct It doesn't have any room to grow!

IT:

Egyptian frigates sail around
Egyptian Cav dies vs. our Infantry Army at Sword Beach (1-0)
Lots of Egyptian Frigates sail towards our north shore
Babs march around, but they don't attack
Two MoWs die trying to sink a damaged Ironclad (and promote it to elite!), but the third attacker sends the heroes to a watery grave (3-1)
GLib: Infs
Horsietown: Infs
Najran: Arty
Incense: Arty
Vilcas: Settlers
Vitcos: Settlers
Sword Beach: Harbor->Coastal Fortress
Hubishna: Arty
The people love us and build us a hallway to the west wing of our palace.

Turn 1 (1505 AD):

Found Ivriz. Making arty.
Karhuyuk founded, making arty.
Sci slider to 60, Flight still due in 4.
Kill a Rifle and a Longbow in the Bab city N of Sword Beach and raze it (I didn't note the city name, sorry. 5-1)
Kill a redlined English Rifle with an eInf and produce a Leader! I make another Army and plan to fill it with the next shipment of Cavs from home.
Infantry out of Sword Beach kills an English Guerilla and a Bab Longbow (7-1).

IT:

Egypt continues its boat parade near our northern shore.
4 Egyptian cavs suicide vs. the Infantry army in Sword Beach (11-1).
Rat26: Cavs
Segras: Cavs
Hatthusha: Cavs
Aden: Arty
IronMine: Cavs
Kadesh: Infs
Zariqum: Worker->Arty
Hattusas: Duct->Courthouse

Turn 2 (1510 AD):

Lose an Ironclad attacking a MoW near Mulberry Harbor (11-2).
Kill a Longbow that the MoW stack near Mulberry Harbor just dropped off (12-2).
Kill an English Guerilla near Sword Beach (13-2).
Sink a Mongol ship near Sword Beach (14-2).
Sci slider to 50%, Flight still due in 3.

IT:

Eek! I clicked 'enter' too soon and lost a wounded Cav army to a Mongol cav! (14-3)
Mecca: Factory->Cav
Najran: Arty->Army
Adana: Infs

Turn 3 (1515 AD):

Knight Army kills two Bab Longbows N of Sword Beach (16-3).
Sink an Egyptian Frigate and an Egyptian Galleon near our north shore.
Move armies in position to assault Coventry.

IT:

Mongol landing party appears off our East coast
Babs bombard us at Sword Beach
Babs land a Rifle on our Mulberry Harbor island.
Rat26: Cavs
GLib: Infs
Hillbound: Harbor->Destroyer
Incense: Arty->Cav
Fustat: Infs
IronMine: Cavs
Mansura: Cavs
Hubishna: Arty->Cav
New Yalburt: Arty
The people build us a second-story hallway between the central and west wings of our palace

Turn 4 (1520 AD):

Kill a redlined Bab Frigate near Sword Beach (17-3)
Kill an Egyptian Rifle in a huge stack near Sword Beach (18-3)
Kill the Bab invader near Mulberry Harbor (19-3)
Lose a Knight army trying to kill another Rifle near Sword Beach (19-4)
vCavs kill Bab Rifle and Longbow near Sword Beach (21-4).
Coventry:
Army kills two Rifles and ends up at 1hp! (23-4)
Second Army kills a Guerilla (24-4).
Army three kills another Guerilla, loots 807 gold, and razed Coventry! (25-4)
Destroyer sinks Mongol Galley off our far NE coast (26-4).
Kill two Bab Rifles in Eulbar and raze the city! (28-4)

IT:

Mongol cav suicides vs. Infantry army in Sword Beach (29-4)
5 Egyptian cavs suicide vs. the Infantry army in Sword Beach (34-4)

Flight->Mass Production
Horsietown: Infs
Ankuwa: Cavs
Kadesh: Infs

Turn 5 (1525 AD):

Kill a Rifle, a Guerilla, and a Crusader (all Egyptian) with eCavs. No leaders, though (37-4).
3 Destroyers and an Ironclad sink an English MoW-and-Galleon stack (41-4).
Army kills English Rifle and Guerilla (43-4).
Knight army kills Egyptian Rifle (44-4).
eCav kills Egyptian Rifle (45-4).
6 vCavs kill Egyptian Rifles with 1 loss (51-5).

Airlift a few units with the freshly-created airstrips.

IT:

3 Egyptian cavs retreat vs. one of our Infantry
3 egyptian MDIs suicide on our Infantry guarding the airfield by Sword Beach (54-5)
1 egyptian cav kills an infantry (54-6)
Parade of Egyptian ships up at our north shore
Bab cav dies on our infantry (55-6).
Mecca: Cavs
Rat26: Cavs
IronMine: Cavs
NW Front: Arty
New Harran: Destroyers

Turn 6 (1530 AD):

Kill four Egyptian Rifles near Sword Beach with an Army (59-6).
Destroy Izibia with an eCav (60-6).
Army kills English Settler pair near York (61-6).
Kill two Mongolian cavs (63-6).
Kill an Egyptian cav near Sword Beach (64-6).

IT:

Many more units approach Sword Beach
More Egyptian ships parade along our north shore
Kummanni: Transport->Bomber
GLib: Bombers
Segras: Cav->Bomber
Hattusha: Cav->Bomber
Incense: Cav->Bomber
South's End: Arty->Bomber
Hubishna: Bombers

Turn 7 (1535 AD):

Cav army kills a Bab settler pair near Sword Beach (65-6).
Ironclad kills Egyptian Frigate near our north shore (66-6).
Kill two Rifles and a Guerilla at York (69-6).
Cavs kill an Egyptian Cav plus four Mongol Muskets near Sword Beach (74-6).

IT:

Mongols enslave some workers I accidentally left uncovered too close to the front lines.
Mongol cavs suicide vs. our Infantry:
1 in Sword Beach
4 on mountains N of Sword Beach (79-6)
Rat26: Cav->Bomber
Aden: Bombers
IronMine: Cav->Bomber
Kadesh: Bombers
Adana: Bombers
Mansura: Cav->Bomber

Turn 8 (1540 AD):

Kill a Rifle in York by dropping bombs! (75-6).
Army kills cRifle in York (76-6).
Kill two Mongol cavs near Sword Beach (78-6).
Sink two Egyptian Frigates and one Mongol Frigate off our north coast.
Kill two Mongol Frigates near Sword Beach (80-6).
Kill a Mongol musket and spear west of Sword Beach (82-6).
Kill an English Rifle landed next to Ugarit (83-6).
Kill a Bab Rifle and raze Charmechish (84-6).
Sink a Mongol Galleon (85-6).
Kill another English Rifle and raze York (86-6).

IT:

Mongol cav kills our cav (86-7).
Bob's Budget Furs: Duct->Bomber
Tiwanaku: Settlers
Horsietown: Infs
Fustat: Infs
Kanesh: Mkt->Bomber

Turn 9 (1545 AD):

Kill two MoWs (88-7).
Karatepe founded near Sword Beach. It will help speed progress towards the Babs.
NC Malatya founded near the ruins of York.
Kill two Egyptian Rifles with Bombers (90-7).
Kill a Bab Rifle with an army (91-7).
Kill another Egyptian Frigate with an Ironclad (92-7).
Kill a Rifle with an army and raze Mandalgovi (93-7)
...then kill a Cav (94-7).

There's a big Egyptian stack near Sword Beach:
eCav kills yellowlined Rifle and produces a Leader! (95-7)
our eCav kills cav (96-7).
We lose eCav to cav (96-8).
eCav kills cav (97-8).
eCav kills cav (98-8).
vCav kills Rifle (99-8).
vCav kills Rifle and promotes (100-8).
vCav kills Rifle (101-8).
vCav kills Rifle (102-8).
vCav kills Rifle and promotes (103-8).
vCav kills Rifle (104-8).
vCav kills Rifle (105-8).
vCav kills Rifle (106-8).
vCav kills Rifle and promotes (107-8).
vCav kills Rifle and promotes (108-8).
vCav kills Cav (109-8).

IT:

Three Mongol Cavs suicide vs. our Inf army in Karatepe. (112-8).
Two Egyptian cavs suicide vs. the Infantry army in Karatepe. (114-8)
Egyptian cav kills Infantry in Karatepe (114-9).
Egyptian cav suicides vs. army in Karatepe (115-9).
Mecca: Cavs
Silk City: Factory->Bomber
GLib: Bomber->Inf
Incense: Bombers
Hubishna: Bombers
Hattusas: Courthouse->Bomber

Turn 10 (1550 AD):

Kill two Egyptian Frigates. (117-9).
Hey, I just spotted an Egyptian Ironclad.
Destroyer kills MoW (118-9)

Battle of Nottingham:
Army kills three Rifles (121-9)
eCav kills Guerilla and razes the city (122-9).
Burned Notthingham founded. Making Arty
Kill an Egyptian Cav with an eCav (123-9)
Kill Bab Longbow with cav (124-9).
Sink two more Egyptian Frigates (126-9).

I spent a fair amount on upgrading Galleons to Transports and Ironclads to Destroyers; the sea lanes look a bit cleaner because of it.

I felt a bit thinly-stretched towards the end of the turnset; once the English are gone, we should be able to concentrate forces a bit more easily. In the meantime, it might be worth it to switch some builds back to Infantry in our core.

N.B. I built a bunch of airfields on our home continent; four near the capital on unused tiles, two on mountains in the far northeast, plus another two or three scattered across the northwest. Each island, save the one SE of our capital, has at least one airfield.

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[Greebley]

There are armies guarding Artillery and workers that have full movement. Use one to kill off the Rifle that will pillage one of the two Lux. It can move back to guard after that. I often use some of an armies movements to kill things and the last movement to go back to guard duty.

I would also keep the last two English towns. Remember full sized towns are big boosts to Science and worth keeping if a civ is near its end. I would have probably kept Nottingham too myself. Flips aren't bad if you are prepared for them.

I guess I would keep that last Army and fill it with tanks when we get the first 4. I might even prebuild 4 tanks just so I can fill it right away (switch to complete tanks by picking big pict give it the same time you get motorized transport. That turn you airlift them across and next turn you have the army. Probably worth waiting though you could also use the elite cav to fill now.

I think you might be able to risk building a town on the far side of the continent with the 2 Infantry, 2 Cav, and 2 Artillery. Bring across more of the of Artillery and it should be safe enough.

 

[TheOverseer714]

Wow, great progress guys. Sorry about transporting useless units, they were aimed at disbanding to rush infra at Sword Beach. I prefer short-rushing with obsolete units where possible to save cash. I just forgot to put that in the hand-off note I'd rather be shipping even useless units than have empty ships doing nothing. Anyway, looks like the stuff I did right is paying off. Greeb and Tusker really kicked butt in their turns.