RBD SG3 - The Builders

[Arathorn]

Awesome game, guys. Foregone victory, of course, from pretty early. But 6700 points? That's insane.

Lessons learned?

- the power of dots and city placement
- an early, well-positioned FP is *HUGE*
- builder -> war-mongerer conversion can take place in a hurry when pressed
- 8 luxuries rule (I already knew this one, actually)

Others?

Arathorn

 

[Charis]

Previous reports left out KEY info...

Top Five Cities...
1. Washington
2. Boston
3. Athens
4. Atlanta
5. New York

Oh Chicago!! We have failed you!!! Deacon weeps for
joy for Boston, New York and our dark horse, Atlanta, and
weeps in pain for Chicago and Baltimore.

I watched the replay... holy cow was 1794 a bad, bad, bad
year for the French! Did they choose unwisely or WHAT?!
Also, I blinked, and missed the poofing of India

Great job all!!!

Charis

PS Deacon did take the 'final' save file and crushed Apolyton, and the Greek colonies, and about 4 other 'surrounded' Greek cities in our territory. 6688 final. If the 'real' score was literally 6700, that dropped it?! (Maybe a roundoff number was given?) Well that's my high score game, trouncing rbd2 which was my previous high by a good margin over rbd3 (in order those three and the next one, cubans, were victories by Domination, Conquest, Space Race and Diplo.)

 

[Carbon_Copy]

Actually, the first time I did it, it was 6699. But I actually hadn't counted on getting a Domination victory BETWEEN turns (or does it ONLY happen between turns? This is only my second Domination victory) so my earliest save was the auto-save from the beginning of 1824. So I had to do it over again for the official one that I posted. Possibly staying in a state of war over the end of the turn lowered happiness by a fair margin (as we did a LOT of offensive action in 1824, but it didn't affect our happiness because we weren't at war at the end of the turn).

Also, you probably didn't notice if you didn't go from the auto-save, but one of the reasons why I was able to seize all of Japan in one turn was because Japan had loosed most of its offensive troops to fight the English (Remember they declared war in 1812?), and were stranded somewhere in the middle of Greece when I attacked, so I had just enough modern armor laying around from defeating France to account for all their homeland defenders that they had left. I actually ignored any units that weren't defending cities...my workers built rails around Japanese riflemen and workers moving from city to city and the modern armor just blew by them while they were frozen in place.

 

[Sirian]

ALL victories come between turns. Even conquest. After you wipe everybody out, you have to click Next Turn for the win to come in. Defeats come between turns as well, except for choosing to retire.