Rod1- Something Enjoyable

[Rodent]

Turn 0- IW in 3 turns

Change Twofer Town to Barracks.

Turn 1- Spot a Goody Hut. At Regent, a good chance for Goodies

Spot Coastal Waters with the Curragh. Another Continent Perhaps?

Sam Runs away from Borders. We are not Ready yet.

Turn 2- Trondheim Makes Warrior. Cant make Granary because we dont have Pottery .

Spot Grey Borders with Curragh. Indians, anyone?

Turn 3- Discover Iron Working. Start Pottery, Due in 4 turns.

Pop a Hut. Get Wheel.

Try to make Contacts with Indians. No Luck

Opt for the River over the wheat for settling.

Turn 4- Meet Indians.

Trade Writing for Masonry and Pottery

Trade Philosophy for Mysticism

then DoW him. he Was Smiling when i did that

Found nice Brown City. its currently terrible in food but i will run some workers there.

Researching Map Making now. Due in 17.


turn 5- Champion city makes worker. starts another.

Trondheim switches to Granary. Due in 9.

Turn 6-Nothing Special

Turn 7-Meet the Babylonians. They are VERY behind. trade them alphabet for 35 gold. then DOW them.

Turn 8- Nothing Special

Turn 9- Bergen- Archer , starts Archer

Nice Brown City- Warrior- Starts Spear

Turn 10- Nothing Special.

With Carthage on our Continent and their Mercs , we should look at another Potential Target, India. I am researching Map making for Transport

 

[TheOverseer714]

I think I'll treat this as a swap, I can take the save after I do Hawk03, unless CBob wants it first.

 

[CommandoBob]

I've downloaded the save just now; I won't get a chance to look at it until Thursday evening.

 

[darski]

We now have two wars started...

Are we going to actively engage those enemies? I've just been wondering about this and wondered what others had planned to do.

I have played AW but it was as Warlord (I lost) and it was a solo game so I feel like I am staring on my left foot here.

 

[CommandoBob]

We now have two wars started...

Are we going to actively engage those enemies? I've just been wondering about this and wondered what others had planned to do.

I have played AW but it was as Warlord (I lost) and it was a solo game so I feel like I am staring on my left foot here.

Just my view point, but I wouldn't make plans for a big war at this point. Be ready to fight, yes. Look for chances to pick off isolated units, you bet. Have a small, mixed stack of units, say 6 to 8, to beat up on the AI's small stacks; of course.

Let them walk to us while we expand out to them. They can only move one tile at a time and we will be able to move three with roads.

Skip
I won't be able to get to this game until some next week. Tomorrow (Saturday) I serve as Election Judge for some local run-off races. I'll be at the polls all day, so no Civ time for me.

I need to be skipped this round.

 

[TheOverseer714]

I have some free time, finally. If no one objects, I can take this for a spin. Should be easy right now.

 

[darski]

I have some free time, finally. If no one objects, I can take this for a spin. Should be easy right now.

Go for it!!!

I can't wait to see where we are when you are done. it is getting more exciting now fer shure.

@ CBob - I was thinking that as well. We don't want to stir up the Num Mercs if we can avoid it- we have not yet *met* them and we need MM to get to India and Babylon.

 

[CommandoBob]

I have some free time, finally. If no one objects, I can take this for a spin. Should be easy right now.

Don't have too much fun.

@ CBob - I was thinking that as well. We don't want to stir up the Num Mercs if we can avoid it- we have not yet *met* them and we need MM to get to India and Babylon.

I have this mental picture of an AW game. Meeting a new civ is like kicking an anthill. Lots of things to kill early and once that slows down it is time to dig out the queen.

 

[darski]

I should mention a concern that I have about my game... We noticed that there was only one iron source in all those hills and mountains but it just seemed like one of those "luck of the draw" thingys.

Well I have started several games recently and ditched them all when I got to IW because I discovered that there was only one iron resource on every Pangaea that I built. (Now would I have cared if it was in my land... ?)

I have asked in general discussions and now in tech support but it could be a bug in my games and I generated this map so who knows?

Because this is a larger map and an AW SG , I obviously have not searched the whole map this time- this may be fine.

 

[TheOverseer714]

Fortunately, our UU does not require Iron. And only one of the 1 move defenders requires it. We will need it for swords, pikes, and MDIs and later for rails, but if it depletes, it won't kill us. Besides that, it should reapper somewher else on our continent, if I understand resource depletion properly.

 

[Rodent]

If memory serves me right, Berserks do Require Iron

 

[darski]

I got into the Civilopedia in a game and there is no need for iron for Berserkers. I had to start a game to find that info as there is no place I could find that info here or in my game *manual*. what's up with that?

 

[vmxa]

Lurker:

darski, if you have here is a PDF that you can find all that stuff:

 

[TheOverseer714]

The Berserker is second only to the war elephant, and some might say second to none, as the most powerful UU that does not require any resurces to build. It is also available from a necesssary tech, rather than an optional. If you want a game where resources aren't the end-all and the be-all, the Vikings are your tribe.

 

[Bucephalus]

Besides that, it should reapper somewher else on our continent, if I understand resource depletion properly.

It can reappear anywhere.

 

[darski]

If we have the only one on our continent, are the Carthaginians likely to come looking for it.

And if it depletes and reappears in someone else's territory...

I don't have Excell but I think I have an excell viewer - or I can install the open office stuff again.

 

[vmxa]

I don't have Excell but I think I have an excell viewer - or I can install the open office stuff again.

You don't need it, I did not put up the Spreadsheet. I put up a PDF instead. I thought I changed that note, but I see I missed it.

 

[darski]

You don't need it, I did not put up the Spreadsheet. I put up a PDF instead. I thought I changed that note, but I see I missed it.

This is funny... I saw the PDF designation and I thought, "Wow they put excell into PDF's what will they be doing next?"

 

[TheOverseer714]

I finished a truly riveting turn-set. Basically, nothing of consequence occurred. It almost made me long for an SOD to show up. Almost... Anyway, here is my turn-log:

Spoiler :

Pre-Flight: CivAssist 2, Word running. Open the save, look things over. 1 Iron, not so good. Plenty of room to grow, good.

Civilian units:
Workers 4

Military units:
Warriors 5
Archers 5
Curragh 1

Press enter=>

IBT: zilch happens.

Turn 1, 1225 BC: Build road toward NBC. Move Sam away from brown border.

IBT: Trondheim Granary=>Settler.
Twofer Barracks=>Archer.

Turn 2, 1200 BC: Struggling to find something worthy of note. I fail and hit enter.

IBT: Champion City worker=>worker.

Turn 3, 1175 BC: Move new worker to irrigate Wheat. Find a barb camp with Sam near Carthage.

IBT:

Turn 4, 1150 BC: Another nothing turn. Wait, I did raise the lux slider so Trondheim can grow without rioting.

IBT:

Turn 5, 1125 BC: Sam kills barb guarding camp, losing 2 hp, gains 25 gold.

IBT: Trondheim Settler=>Warrior.
Bergen Archer=>Archer.

Turn 6, 1100 BC: Move settler east of Trondheim. New Archer goes north, I’m betting barbs are there.

IBT: NBC finally hooked up, now on to the iron.

Turn 7, 1075 BC: Move new settler into

IBT: Ottoman warrior shows up near curragh exploring in Babylonian territory.

Turn 8, 1050 BC: Contact Osman, they are up Polytheism, no trade possible, declare war.
Sugar Hill founded near Trondheim. =>warrior.

IBT: Map-Making finishes researching, next is Mathematics in 8 turns.
NBC spear=>Archer.

Turn 9, 1025 BC:

IBT: Champion City Worker=>Worker.

Turn 10, 1000 BC: We wait for war to actually happen. We build until then.

Civilian units:
Workers 6

Military units:
Warriors 6
Archers 6
Spearman 1
Curragh 1

No pictures, since very little has changed. Sugar Hill could be changed to a harbor to start building galleys to start attacking overseas. Oh, and we met the Ottomans, but no trades were available, and I declared war.

The save:

 

[Rodent]

Darski is UP!

should probably prepare for killing India off