Rome runs like hell

Bobv2

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PROLOGUE ----

In what year now known as 5000BC, A distant planet is doomed. It has finally fallen out of an orbit around it's star that will suit life. Soon, the planet will drift too far from the star, and become too cold to support life. So Rome quickly throws together a spacecraft and RUNS LIKE HELL. The other nations decide to copy Rome's idea and make a spacecrafts of their own. Rome's citizens follow up by saying "Biters!". So, Rome an the other nations reach this new planet some odd light years away. Unfortunately all the nations forgot to bring their tech, except one, which was quickly dogpiled by all the other nations. This consumed all the other nation's forces, so now they are left with a settler and a worker.

MUMBLE MUMBLE TECHNICALITIES MUMBLE MUMBLE ----
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Normal setup:

CHAPTER I ----
After all the chaos, this is what Ceaser had saw.
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"Perfect!" Ceaser said, remembering his starting location on the other planet.
*FLASHBACK*
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Ceaser suddenly started shouting "CURSES! CURSES! CURSES TEH RNG!!!!!!"
Everyone thought he was insane, until he explained he had a flashback.
"Ah" everyone said.
Ceaser soon ordered his people to settle down into a city. Workers soon mined the grassland that his people were working. His "mystics" soon worken on this "Bronze working". It allowed to make weapons out of this "metal" called "bronze". Ceaser stopped ""ing his fingers after everything he said soon after, as his citizens were looking at him strangely again. He remembered that he once knew this technology.

3650 BC - the worker has finished the mine. It now sets to mine the other grasslands with the strange rocks in them.
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Soon after, archers have been trained in Rome. Ceaser now needed the basement of his house, so he decided to build a barracks, it would be complete in 7 turns. His archers soon set off to explore. 2 great things happened then. 1, his borders expanded, and 2, when the poeple rushed to the end of the borders they saw this:
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3300 BC - Barracks finished. More archers on the way.

3250 BC - Mine completed. Mining the other tile. His archers reported back and this is what he saw:
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Ceaser was not happy. This means that he will have to expand into the tropical wasteland. He made a decision. Once a new city was built, Rome would be his settler factory. The new city would bve a military base. The third city will be a worker factory. If only he could find a source of fresh water.

3100 BC - Archers finished. They moaned and shouted when they got their task. Into the tropical wasteland. More mosqiuito bites than... well... anything. It will redefine what they think of the word "itchy".

Whoa. This is big. I just got a settler from an ARCHER going into a hut and im NOT EXPANSIONIST. This is like, the first time this has happened to me.

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And with that, Ceaser finally notices that river, right under his nose. The settlers are to build the city in the jungle next to the mountain. Ceaser will make sure he researches "Map making" soon, so he can build harbors so his jungle cities will be able to grow.

Veii founded in 3000 BC.

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This city is industrious, so it will make a good military base.

3 interesting things happened.
In order from least to most important:

1: the archers moaned as they went into the jungle.
2: palace expansion :)
3: riot in rome :(

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the archers sighed with relief as they came back into the city. Ceaser also notices that the tropical wasteland ends very soon. He too sighed with relief.

2710 BC - Ceaser has made a settler but does not know what to do with it. He decides that he will let the archers continue explore before sending it out.

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Archers then walk into a hut, but find that the barbarians inside don't like their presence. Archers are able to kill the first one but are cocky and lose miserably to the next. The third one starts to Rome.

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Good thing Ceaser kept the settlers there, eh? Ceaser was meanwhile laughing at the fact that they thought that they could beat us. he ordered them exterminated.

2550 BC - Archers completed. Ceaser wanted his vacation house basement too, so Barracks are constructed there.

2470 BC -
"Hello"
"Who is there" Ceaser said
"Your mystics"
"Its been a long time" Ceaser said
The mystics laugh nervously
"This will allow for the construction of spearmen" they say.
"Good. But they are defensive. Put one in each city" he says.
And they were off.

No screenie :mad:

Ceaser now instructed the workers to build roads around Rome. The barbarians are wiped out now. Archers continue to explore.

2430 - Archers completed.

2230 - Archers report back.
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There is no explaining Ceaser's rampage after seeing that map. He can't stand this tropical wasteland.

2190 - Hut filled with angry warriors again
"I think I'm getting paid back for those settlers now" Ceaser thinks.

Archers report back again.

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Wow guys. This is bad. Real bad. Suggestions? Should I just restart?
 
ya not good. It's up to you if you want to restart. I'll be following though.
 
I don't think you should restart, it'll make it all the more interesting if you manage to win.

(And you should really get C3C!)
 
I think I'll make researching map making my top priority, and build coastal cities in the jungle.
 
Don't restart. Just build a lot of workers to clear those jungles. Mine the grassland underneath and no AI is safe!
(Btw, what's "Purple Tundra", in your the screenie where you choose your civ? That civ that brought their tech and got dogpiled?:mischief: )
 
keep it going, build many workers to move the jungle and then return them to their cities if they are not needed.

What difficulty are you playing on?
 
Nope, this is vanilla. That's why I want map making so bad.

(Btw, what's "Purple Tundra", in your the screenie where you choose your civ? That civ that brought their tech and got dogpiled? )

It's a custom civ I made oh so long ago. If I'm lucky maybe I'll be able to meet them in this game. Im going to take a shower, and I'll get on that second chapter. I have an Idea where to plant a worker factory.

Question: Should I put all the workers on one jungle or spread them out?
 
I say put about Half to two-thirds on Jungle, and split the others up between improving your two most productive cities (Rome and Veii), and building roads/improving the other cities.

...Thankfully, such a start isn't so bad in the Tweaked Out or Final Fantasy mod: in those mods, Jungle has been changed to "Tropical Rainforest" and "Ancient Forest", respectively, and they generate 1 food, 1 shield and 1 commerce to reflect the fact that such forest have tropical hardwood (the shield) and offer all kinds of scientific research data/magical stuff (the commerce) to offer, and in addition, they can be mined, to symbolize controlled tree-farming (I also made it possible to mine regular forests in the FF mod, which has the result of not so much of the map looking like a clear-cut wasteland... Interesting note is that you can't build a mine on a grasslands or plains tile, then plant a forest and still have the mine... You have to plant the forest first, then mine it, which makes sense that one needs a forest before one can institute a controlled-logging plan).
 
CHAPTER II ----

Perfect. Ceaser has eaten those words a million times over. But he has an idea. He will explore the empty region in the south to see for a worker factory.

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Just to keep you caught up, heres a screenie
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He will plant a worker factory here.

Of the two workers, one is sent to irrigate Veii, and Veii is set to worker, since it's not growing anyway. An archer also defeats a barbarian warrior, with 1 hp gone. Then, another archer is complete in Rome. Ceaser has a pretty decent military. He will need to as he will need a first strike and kill any nation he might encounter. He can't afford to let any nabouring nations grow.

Some interesting events happened then:

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And the barbarians were not ph33r3d as they were wiped out without a scratch. The goody hut gave us a skilled warrior.

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Anyway, the warrior and the archer go their separate, and rather itchy ways, and... on no.

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Damn. Oh well. Time to meet them. It turns out I'm not THAT behind. This deal is arranged. I can't be behind in military tech.

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So Ceaser's behind one tech, and one city. But that won't be for long. Not long at all. The Egyptians where wrong to guard their city with only a warrior, and soon it will be mine.

I will gather more archers before attacking.

I'm going to settle that settler in the open region. It's going to be escorted by a spearman. BTW, there is a source of iron in my control. Time for legionaries.

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And with stunted growth, an enemy nearby, and economy problems (um getting -1 at 100% tax) I'm ending this chapter.

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I actually like that spot - you might get hemmed in, but you won't be surrounded! Maybe you should build a city on the Hills west of the southern Spice Forest and another on the hills further southwest somewhere, and also on the east coast NE of the Iron hill? I'd also recommend building cities in what is now jungle, just so the other civs won't send their settlers in and claim it first. More cities will also help your tax problem.
 
That picture of the palace expansion screen with Rome rioting in the background is hilarious. :lol:

I have seen a screenie of a palace expansion offered while an entire empire is going into civil disorder. I have also had the palace expansion after one of my cities was pillaged by barbarians.

Edit: Also, why don't you build any roads?
 
I have seen a screenie of a palace expansion offered while an entire empire is going into civil disorder. I have also had the palace expansion after one of my cities was pillaged by barbarians.

I know, that's so funny.

And he has built some roads in the tiles around Rome- just look at that last pic!

Nice story. Caeser's first starting location is even worse than the one he had in my story (Mostly desert, the only good thing was FP's and Hills)! :lol:
 
And he has built some roads in the tiles around Rome- just look at that last pic!

I didn't notice the roads in the last pic. :p But why did you build the mines before the roads? You use less worker turns if you mine and road a tile first before working another tile rather than building a mine and coming back later to build a road.
 
Warning: Spam is imminent unless update is posted soon. Spam Threat Level: 8.

Time since last Update: 88 days
 
This is not spam. I buld lots of cities in jungles.. if that is what I am dealt. It's one more square you don't have to clear and the AI will sure do it before you can say Busman's holiday.

You get some great land from cleared jungle.
 
Spam shall now commence.

SPAM!!!

Update soon, it's been 6 months!
 
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