RB1 - Cuban Isolationists

[Own]

I love hockey too! My team is the hurricanes, who actually are good this year. They've sucked for so long, when they were actually good, my mind couldn't process the information, it was so unusual to me.

 

[AciDemon]

hej thank you guys for sharing this wonderful story with us!
it was a bloody pleasure to read through it!

hope to read some new great stories of you two freaks.

thank you guys. it was a pleasure!

 

[KingG]

Awesome thread.

 

[Thefigman]

A big thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread. I've learned a ton reading through this post, and just about Civ IV

 

[madviking]

I love hockey too! My team is the hurricanes, who actually are good this year. They've sucked for so long, when they were actually good, my mind couldn't process the information, it was so unusual to me.

Go Ovechkin!

 

[LKendter]

Cold and misty morning, I heard a warning borne in the air.
About an age of power where no one had an hour to spare.
Where the civs have withered, silent leaders shivered, in the cold.
Now their faces captured in the lenses of the jackals for gold.
I’ll be there
I’ll be there
I will be there.

Suffering in silence, they’ve all been betrayed.
The hydra hurt them and they beat them, in a terrible way,
Praying for survival at the end of the day.
There is no compassion for those who stay.
I’ll be there
I’ll be there
I will be there.

There must be someone who can set them free.
To take their sorrow from this odyssey.
To help the helpless and the refugee.
To protect what’s left of humanity.
Can’t you read.
Can’t you read.
Can’t you read.

I’ll be there
I’ll be there
I will be there;
To heal their sorrow
To beg and borrow
Fight tomorrow.

Step inside! Hello! We’ve the most amazing thread
All of you have it read
Step inside! Step inside!


We’ve religion to get, supersonic fighting jet.
See the hammers the civs met.
Come inside! Come inside!
Read up! Read up! Read up!
Read the thread!

Left behind the bars, rows of leader’ heads in jars
And you see plenty of wars
Spectacular! Spectacular!

If you follow me there’s a specialty.
Some tears for you to see
Misery, misery,
Read up! Read up! Read up!
Read the thread!


Welcome back my friends to the thread that never ends.
We’re so glad you could attend
Come inside! Come inside!
There behind a glass is a real blade of grass.
Be careful as you pass.
Move along! Move along!

Come inside, the thread's about to start
Guaranteed to blow your head apart
Rest assured you’ll get your money’s worth
The greatest show in heaven, hell or earth.
You’ve got to read the thread; it’s a dynamo.
You’ve got to read the thread; it’s rock and roll.

532 Fahrenheit makes you drool, the others civs a fool.
Burning cities down to just a stool.
Can't keep cool. Can't keep cool.
We would like it to be known the exhibits that were shown.
Were exclusively our own,
All our own. All our own.
Come and read the thread! Come and read the thread! Come and read the thread!
Read the thread!

 

[Thormodr]

Ovechkin with his own hydra. "3 for the win".

Washington Ovechkins 3 Ducks 2

 

[EricTred]

Emancipation would be good to grab not just for the cottages (and we DO have a fair amount of them maturing in our inner cities), but also because it's "No" upkeep cost and would save us a ton of money. With our cheap temples, even our fishing colonies should be able to run some Priest specialists if we work at it. Maybe we wouldn't want to swap right away, but I still think Emancipation would be better. And have you seen our civ? We're like the DEFINITION of a civ that should be running Free Religion! Once we do a little scouting first, of course.

Anyway, as far as my report here goes, I tried playing in Windowed mode today, which was great - except that the screenshots in windowed mode for no apparent reason were back to doing that idiotic "no interface" thing that we experienced during testing. Argh! I thought this was dead and buried when we shipped, and now here's it's back again. As a result, any screenshot involving anything on the interface is ruined, and some of the screenshots simply refuse to take AT ALL for no apparent reason. If I run the game in Windowed mode again, guess I have to manually cut and paste every screenshot by hand...

(0) 1575AD OK, the news is that we're at war with Rome, and we're going to make Caesar pay by taking away his cities on Northwest Island. Here's a view of the battlefield at the start of my turn:



We've got a nice stack of units on hand there, and Sirian has even left some of the units unpromoted so that I can use them as I see fit! Also - note that El Rojo is one turn away from a castle. Ain't nobody going to be breaking in there now! At least not until they start bringing gunpowder weapons, that is. I think that the best time to attack will be in 2 turns, when our next set of reinforcements arrives outside Ravenna but before Caesar (hopefully) has time to build more units. One can hope, anyway! (Also note the silliness of our variant rules situation. Our boats CANNOT leave our cultural borders, so our units have to walk the long way up to Ravenna instead of being ferried there by ships. Gotta love those variants!)

OK, there *WOULD* have been a picture of our finances here, but it totally failed to take. Stupid game! (I swear, every game promises improved automation, and you always have to end up doing everything by hand or having to settle for subpar results. Why we could never get the screenshots right is just beyond me.)

(1) 1580AD Constitution finishes, start work on Paper. Depending on how far the AI civs are on the tree, I'll go for Printing Press or Education next. Santa Rosa finishes its temple, starts work on Forbidden Palace (that will help out a lot!) due in 10 turns. San Roberto finishes a missionary, Versailles ordered next! It's listed as 26 turns now, but that will drop if we can get some workers over there to finish improving it (god, I wish we had some marble right now!) Big civics swap to Representation, Bureaucracy, and Organized Religion, and here are our finances now:



Wow, that's not our fiancial screen there, is it? Thanks a lot, silly game. Here's what I typed when I assumed that I'd actually be taking a picture of what was on the screen!

Not a huge difference in the costs, but MUCH increased research output, not to mention the fact that Organized Religion cut several turns off our wonder builds in Havana (14 turns), Santa Rosa (8 turns), and San Roberto (21 turns)! Troops are moving into position for the big assault next turn outside Ravenna.

(2) 1585AD Get this - between turns, BOTH Roman knights attacked our forces, and BOTH of them lost!!!

(Too bad we lost the picture of this happening...)

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. But you can give luck a hand by sticking a Woodsman II Maceman in the forest too! By the way, our Woodsman Maceman is at 7.1 out of 8 health! Yeah, so promotions don't do anything, right? (as I've heard in the General Forum a couple of times)

We have 3 maces, 3 cats, and a longbow, crossbow, archer, and spear outside Ravenna. Inside the city are 2 longbows (one with City Garrison I, the other with nothing) and an unpromoted Maceman. I turn our unpromoted cat into a suicide bomber (Barrage I and II) and send him in first. Banzai! He dies of course, but that softens them up a bit for our newly promoted City Raider II maceman to attack... and also die. Hmpf. Well, Combat II Maceman is there to mop up, and with all the defenders now seriously injured, it's gravy from there. We take the city of Ravenna!



Those three defenders cost us two maces and a cat. If we hadn't had enough forces on hand, the defenders would have promoted and it would have been an utter disaster. Be VERY careful when attacking cities in Civ4! A failed attempt is worse than no attempt at all! I turn down the science rate so that we can upgrade some of our units (like the spears) now that we have a city on the Roman island.

(3) 1590AD Paper discovered, checking what other civs have... Vicky has Education, so it's almost a sure bet that she'll be the first one to Liberalism. We probably could have gotten there first, but we went after Nationalism and Constutition instead. Not that that was a bad decision - it wasn't - but just pointing out that there are multiple possible paths to take. With that in mind, I send us after Printing Press en route to Democracy. We will be the first ones to start the Statue of Liberty, and with copper on hand (popped another one!), NO ONE will beat us to it. And that wonder is a very big deal indeed.

Arretium only has two defenders. I expect that I'll be able to take it before more turn is up. Not going to rush anything though!

(4) 1595AD A surprisingly uneventful turn for a civ at war...

(5) 1600AD More buildings complete. Bombarding of Arretium begins. We should be ready to attack there in another turn or two. Havana is pulling in well over 100 gold/turn even at only 30% wealth, which is nothing short of ridiculous. Once we get Wall Street in there too...

Just my 2 cents....
Everytime I rush for liberailism , I buy the tech nationalism with the free tech it gives. 1.) its the most costly tech I can buy which makes it the better choice in the long run, and 2.) gunpower is not so far away to research itself.

not saying this is the right way ....but I use this to great successs in my games.

good read , good job guys. Reading this has helped me understand my game better!

 

[Sirian]

Hey, Lee. That was very creative! And nicely done!

Welcome back to the thread that never ends.


- Sirian

 

[enitheneutral]

cheers for posting the thread guys, took me all day, at the expense of studying, but I finally read it all, well done! i'm in the mood for warmongering in my next game

oh and, I'm sure similar gags have been made before but How spearmen can kill tanks

 

[DarkFyre99]

I've been reading this terrific thread, and I learned something new: leave units unpromoted until the last minute... but don't forget to promote them when the time comes

Thanks for taking the time to show us this fascinating game!

 

[airline]

I have been reading this thread for 3 days (with no civ playing) and hoping to see another one from you two. Now just few more days until GOTM3 first screenshot to practice with the settings.Too much CIV...
(one... more... page...)

 

[ryansebiz]

Wow. Sullla and Sirian AWESOME thread. Thanks for all the hard work!

 

[Sirian]

Wow. Sullla and Sirian AWESOME thread. Thanks for all the hard work!

No sweat.

For more of our individual reports, you can follow the links in our sigs to our respective Civ4 sites. The "RBCiv Adventure Two" reports in particular are worth checking out.


- Sirian

 

[T_Raccoon]

um i don't see anything in your sig

EDIT: Nevermind

 

[AsH2]

This morning while going to class, I saw a guy walking down the street who looked suspiciously like U2's Edge and I did an awkward double-take. But seeing how I've never seen the Edge in real life before, I wouldn't know...



You asked for it man

By a coincident I was listening to U2 right now...'Sunday, Bloody Sunday'..
Relevant posting? Dunno...there's still about 10 pages for me to read before being up to date...Well, see you then...

 

[ryansebiz]

No sweat.

For more of our individual reports, you can follow the links in our sigs to our respective Civ4 sites. The "RBCiv Adventure Two" reports in particular are worth checking out.

- Sirian

Will do.

Can't wait to see what you put up in your Pink Dot (TM) section

 

[AsH2]

Phew! Finally got through all pages reading every post, and that without really playing a civ game in between. *
Stupid me, making up small stupid rules..

I've also read Sullla's walkthrough and are more than grateful for all hints I got from you guys!

I've played the most versions of civ (Civ1, Civ2, Civ2ToT, Civ3, Civ3PTW, Civ3Con and Civ4) and have learnt that you better adjust your strategy when changing version. Well, I should have learnt that, but somehow I always ended up in communism and no intends to make my puny army to a warmachine..
Thanx to your hints (and Soren's decision to change governments to civics) I think I will now manage to stop play "another casual game" and really "make sence" out of my playing.


* I did start a game on my workbuddy's comp, just to play along to get in contact with Russia and then keep the diplomatic screen open - while reading this thread I got struck of nostalgia and really wanted to hear that Russia civ music.
I did got a problem though. I had started a tilted axis map and did come up with a "One Per Team" continent map - couldn't get in touch with the Russians too early..


PS Hope you could get along with my "swenglish". It's quite late here now and my normally rather limited language skills ain't better under those circumstances..

 

[Clovis]

Wow! This thread kept going through February! Interesting! I wonder if anyone will ever reply to this, will people be reading this in a year?

Considering the magnitude of this game, I wouldn't be surprised if Civfanatics puts a link to it on their homepage, for peope who want to see what Civ4 is like.

This game is like a legend, already!

 

[MasterShake]

@ Clovis
Do you think you can really ever kill a hydra?