matthewthegreat
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Role Play Challenge: Paranoia!
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madscientist
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OK, Can someone confirm that post #143 has the final save to use?
Joshua368
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Nope, hang on a second.
These people were all to nice. I mean your empire is running lush for floodplains over non-desert tiles and tons of gems and gold and you got Astronomy for free while Napoleon's lands have been all but flooded. I'll post a "ballanced" save for you in a minute.
Edit: THIS is the save for you to use. (write-up/backstory coming soon)
These people were all to nice. I mean your empire is running lush for floodplains over non-desert tiles and tons of gems and gold and you got Astronomy for free while Napoleon's lands have been all but flooded. I'll post a "ballanced" save for you in a minute.
Edit: THIS is the save for you to use. (write-up/backstory coming soon)
madscientist
RPC Supergenius
Nope, hang on a second.
These people were all to nice. I mean your empire is running lush for floodplains over non-desert tiles and tons of gems and gold and you got Astronomy for free while Napoleon's lands have been all but flooded. I'll post a "ballanced" save for you in a minute.
Edit: THIS is the save for you to use. (write-up/backstory coming soon)
Gotcha!
But just remember, if I lose the RPC fails and the gods have nothing to do!
One last piece of blackmail from the noble Ethiopians! Zara is NOT above trying to manipulate the gods
Joshua368
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On the offshore island of Cristo, the inhabitants lived lives separate and cut off from the civilized folk on the continents. However they were not separated from the worldly concepts of greed and power, and their leader, a dark shaman who does not go by a name, had heard from the oceans and stars that a great power laid sleeping inside the statue that decorated his island.
Hoping to control this power for himself, he ordered his citizens to begin hammering apart the statue to unleash its potential. But they had barely broke the surface when suddenly a massive blast of cold and ice exploded from the statue and froze all nearby. The survivors of the barbaric island huddled away in fear as the ice spread throughout all the nearby seas and oceans, surrounding the entire continent with ice. The lives of the Ethiopian fishermen, the foreigners trading goods from overseas, the retreat of ships from Napoleon's fleet, all frozen to an icy halt from which there is no escape.
Hoping to control this power for himself, he ordered his citizens to begin hammering apart the statue to unleash its potential. But they had barely broke the surface when suddenly a massive blast of cold and ice exploded from the statue and froze all nearby. The survivors of the barbaric island huddled away in fear as the ice spread throughout all the nearby seas and oceans, surrounding the entire continent with ice. The lives of the Ethiopian fishermen, the foreigners trading goods from overseas, the retreat of ships from Napoleon's fleet, all frozen to an icy halt from which there is no escape.
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matthewthegreat
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On the offshore island of Cristo, the inhabitants lived lives separate and cut off from the civilized folk on the continents. However they were not separated from the worldly concepts of greed and power, and their leader, a dark shaman who does not go by a name, had heard from the oceans and stars that a great power laid sleeping inside the statue that decorated his island.
Hoping to control this power for himself, he ordered his citizens to begin hammering apart the statue to unleash its potential. But they had barely broke the surface when suddenly a massive blast of cold and ice exploded from the statue and froze all nearby. The survivors of the barbaric island huddled away in fear as the ice spread throughout all the nearby seas and oceans, surrounding the entire continent with ice. The lives of the Ethiopian fishermen, the foreigners trading goods from overseas, the retreat of ships from Napoleon's fleet, all frozen to an icy halt from which there is no escape.
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Matthew5117
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madscientist
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I just downloaded the save in post 145. Looking forward to it.
Joshua368
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madscientist
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OMG!!! I just looked at the map!!
What the hell are the gods doing! No wonder why Zara is Paranoid!
Gotta love it!
What the hell are the gods doing! No wonder why Zara is Paranoid!
Gotta love it!
OMG!!! I just looked at the map!!
What the hell are the gods doing! No wonder why Zara is Paranoid!
Gotta love it!
haha this is great fun just lurking
Joshua368
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OMG!!! I just looked at the map!!
What the hell are the gods doing! No wonder why Zara is Paranoid!
Gotta love it!
Let's summarize this turn so I can remember:
UWHabs: Made a barbarian cove captured by Ramesses very fertile, replaced the mountains in Egyptian land to hills with gold; replaced various mountain ranges he placed earlier with hills and lakes; created a peninsula for the threatened city, gave it a wall and horse archer defense; added more seafood
BakingTheArt: Made threatened city size 7 and gave Napoleon an army of ten swordsman right next to it
Sian: Broke out global war between Judaist, Buddhist and Hindu factions
apenpaap: Removed the jungle hiding the French stack, removing forests and spreading drought to French lands
Fetch: For successful hut quest, free Optics tech, free Astronomy tech, free harbors everywhere, given third seafood resource; gave three super-pillagers to mad in French lands, who must be used to pillage only
DiamondEye: Spread buddhism to all ethiopian and egyption cities, gave a few powerful units to Egypt, Ethiopia, and France
matthewthegreat: Gave all mad's cities without courthouses one for free, gave cities with courthouses already +1 pop; free observatory in Yeha
Paulus III: Removed all religions from Netherlands; gave Justinian better land and free cataphracts, gave Ethiopia a free cataphract
NoDot: For successful metal quest, metals appeared in several hills throughout mad's empire (copper, iron, gold, silver, gems, etc), changed some plains to grasslands deserts to plains (including desert under floodplains)
Tank151: Froze the waters around French harbors
BakingTheArt: Gave two corn resources to every French city
asder2: Severe flooding and rising sea levels in French territory
Joshua368: Encased Mad's freakin' continent in ice.
No no, the gods aren't insane. They just work in mysterious ways.
madscientist
RPC Supergenius
Paranoia!: PArt V
As Zara looks in horror at what has happened, his heart hardens! "We shall prove of worth and show how powerful the ethiopian people are!"
The Imediate thing Zara finds is
Well our new city has grown greatly in population! I guess all that added heat came directly from the ocean causing it to freeze over. Zara also notices that the French foes has magincally increased although there are additional troops arround, but not in the city beseiged! Oh sure we have a great navy now that can be immediately upgraded to Galleons, but that does not help with the city defesne. Well, Zara sends the fleet off to protect the seafood (Zara certainly does NOT remember all that seafood, guess it came with the ice.)
Speaking of ice
Zara laughed at the god's foolishness gifting him optics and astronomy. Until he realizes that all this ice has effectively BLOCKED HIM OFF FROM THE DAMNED WORLD!
Cannot trade resoruces or get trade routes. Note to oneself, target banking.
Speaking of which, our techpath: education/banking.economics.
Also Zara finds some super pillagers Just outside of French lands.
Zara was so happy he immediately send them into French lands to get to work and lost 2 right away!!! The last longbow did wipe out alot of French mines though before he me his ultimate fate. The Galleon helped in blockading a French city.
Zara also found the world
At each other's throats!!!! Sure he's got a war with Abe and Joao going, but can you say ICE-BLOCKADE!!!!
Also techs are looking a little better here.
Still some work to. Also by thet way, I don't remember building all those harbors, but I am getting a little older!
We took peace with Honest Abe first, and pulled off this trade
Gotta love Abe, always good for a fair trade!
So what happened with the French troops??? I basically suicided my 2 horase archers against the stack to weaken the catapults. I also used the Cataphract, and dragged those war-chariots over. As soon as the chariots came, Napolean attacked killing one of our longbows, 1 chariots, and the Cataphact. All worth it as the Stack dies, and with limited French reinforcements...
I also upped 2 Galleys to Galleons and wipred out the French fleet.
We then popped
Which we sued to bulb most of eduation for trade fodder (liberalism is too far away and Pacap had education).
After education
So we have a little leverage here now. So we pulled off a few trades
Before finally making peace with Napolean and Joaoa! The rest of world seams content in further warring, but being Isolated we are sort of limited in what we can do.
Of course we did get a map of the world, or specifically the other side of the world.
Another helpful trade with our fine Egyptian friends
Joao was also willing to make some trades
And Justinian
And hell, even tech leader Pacal was lloking for some
At this point Zara decided to settle what land was left before the gods decide to put some nuclear fallout there or something.
Food does not really seam to be an issue, and I will not complain there.
To Be Continued
As Zara looks in horror at what has happened, his heart hardens! "We shall prove of worth and show how powerful the ethiopian people are!"
The Imediate thing Zara finds is
Well our new city has grown greatly in population! I guess all that added heat came directly from the ocean causing it to freeze over. Zara also notices that the French foes has magincally increased although there are additional troops arround, but not in the city beseiged! Oh sure we have a great navy now that can be immediately upgraded to Galleons, but that does not help with the city defesne. Well, Zara sends the fleet off to protect the seafood (Zara certainly does NOT remember all that seafood, guess it came with the ice.)
Speaking of ice
Zara laughed at the god's foolishness gifting him optics and astronomy. Until he realizes that all this ice has effectively BLOCKED HIM OFF FROM THE DAMNED WORLD!
Cannot trade resoruces or get trade routes. Note to oneself, target banking.
Speaking of which, our techpath: education/banking.economics.
Also Zara finds some super pillagers Just outside of French lands.
Zara was so happy he immediately send them into French lands to get to work and lost 2 right away!!! The last longbow did wipe out alot of French mines though before he me his ultimate fate. The Galleon helped in blockading a French city.
Zara also found the world
At each other's throats!!!! Sure he's got a war with Abe and Joao going, but can you say ICE-BLOCKADE!!!!
Also techs are looking a little better here.
Still some work to. Also by thet way, I don't remember building all those harbors, but I am getting a little older!
We took peace with Honest Abe first, and pulled off this trade
Gotta love Abe, always good for a fair trade!
So what happened with the French troops??? I basically suicided my 2 horase archers against the stack to weaken the catapults. I also used the Cataphract, and dragged those war-chariots over. As soon as the chariots came, Napolean attacked killing one of our longbows, 1 chariots, and the Cataphact. All worth it as the Stack dies, and with limited French reinforcements...
I also upped 2 Galleys to Galleons and wipred out the French fleet.
We then popped
Which we sued to bulb most of eduation for trade fodder (liberalism is too far away and Pacap had education).
After education
So we have a little leverage here now. So we pulled off a few trades
Before finally making peace with Napolean and Joaoa! The rest of world seams content in further warring, but being Isolated we are sort of limited in what we can do.
Of course we did get a map of the world, or specifically the other side of the world.
Another helpful trade with our fine Egyptian friends
Joao was also willing to make some trades
And Justinian
And hell, even tech leader Pacal was lloking for some
At this point Zara decided to settle what land was left before the gods decide to put some nuclear fallout there or something.
Food does not really seam to be an issue, and I will not complain there.
To Be Continued
madscientist
RPC Supergenius
Paranoia!: PArt V
FINALLY, with some Galeons we bring our well promoted melee units against the island nation with the tall God-Statue
Nabbing us
Freedom from Anarchy!!!!
So we changed civics
Dropped a few more cities
Finished teching economics and saved. Looking at the next tech to research
Zara ponders this. Do we look towards a better military, or more variable techs considering we are now a Spiritual leader!
A view of our iceBurg, I mean civilization
And techs
Zara remains content though, as he was able to turn alot of the god's wrath into uses for the Ethiopian people such as a protective wall of ice and the gift of Anarchy. Yet he still does not trust any of them and would be just as happy to see them disappear. "What more mush we endure".
FINALLY, with some Galeons we bring our well promoted melee units against the island nation with the tall God-Statue
Nabbing us
Freedom from Anarchy!!!!
So we changed civics
Dropped a few more cities
Finished teching economics and saved. Looking at the next tech to research
Zara ponders this. Do we look towards a better military, or more variable techs considering we are now a Spiritual leader!
A view of our iceBurg, I mean civilization
And techs
Zara remains content though, as he was able to turn alot of the god's wrath into uses for the Ethiopian people such as a protective wall of ice and the gift of Anarchy. Yet he still does not trust any of them and would be just as happy to see them disappear. "What more mush we endure".
BakingTheArt
His Evening Coat
So, what were you saying about ten swordsmen being overkill? Bah. Remind me next time to gift 20.
