pholkhero
Deviant Mind
soooo....maybe we can get a swap w/ruff ~ or is Imhotep actually playing until thursday, and that's not a mistake??
ROTQM7: Really?! Okay . . . Thanks for the "Memories"
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·Imhotep·
Legendary Builder
Okay, I'm sceptical about the culture variant, but we made some progress. First of all we got a useful event. I decided to gamble, and it paid:
No religious diplo victory yet...
Welcome to the revolutionary concept of Confucian Defense
:
We've proven that the world is round indeed...
Now Freddy is what I'd call cruel - workers for breakfast. Okay, I lost two workers to the barb on our island too
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Well, the people at our cap are somewhat stubborn, aren't they?
When our Macemen support arrived the days of Cuzco wre doomed. It really hurt to hit that "BURN" button. It really did...
Cyrus has resettled in former Viking lands...
We have a GS in the capital. I suggest going for an Academy for +4 Culture and the science boost...or maybe bulbing part of Liberalism...
Imhotep
No religious diplo victory yet...
Welcome to the revolutionary concept of Confucian Defense
:
We've proven that the world is round indeed...
Now Freddy is what I'd call cruel - workers for breakfast. Okay, I lost two workers to the barb on our island too
.
Well, the people at our cap are somewhat stubborn, aren't they?
When our Macemen support arrived the days of Cuzco wre doomed. It really hurt to hit that "BURN" button. It really did...
Cyrus has resettled in former Viking lands...
We have a GS in the capital. I suggest going for an Academy for +4 Culture and the science boost...or maybe bulbing part of Liberalism...
Imhotep
Spoiler The Log :
ruff_hi
Live 4ever! Or die trying
maybe we could become 'removalists' and if we find a nice building in a city that we capture, we can take it apart - ship it home bit by bit and then put it back together.
ruff_hi
Live 4ever! Or die trying
got it - any suggestions?
·Imhotep·
Legendary Builder
How I love that. First bickering about "oh, is he going to play until Thursday or was that a mistake" and then delivering no comments... 
GreyFox
Make it so ...
Looking well, we are heading for Liberalism, should be the first there. Question is Nationalism or Astronomy. Nationalism is needed for Hermitage. Astronomy is to ensure we do not lose to a conquest.
The remaining take to build the temples, and cathedrals, and confused the capitol.
As for military, we probably will be clearing up those new settlements. Build more ships, we need them soon.
The remaining take to build the temples, and cathedrals, and confused the capitol.
As for military, we probably will be clearing up those new settlements. Build more ships, we need them soon.
ruff_hi
Live 4ever! Or die trying
You know how we think that various groups on the internet steal our great ideas? Well, it has even spread to the GOTM! Look at the latest GOTM. You are playing as Isabella but with a twist: This game is a 3-city challenge. Instead of a settler, you start with 3 newly founded cities, and play with the OCC flag set (obviously, the start is WB'd and you are given your 2nd and 3rd city) but it is taylor made for a cultural victory.
Anyway, played through to the discovery of Liberalism ... and I took ? as our free technology (got to preserve a little bit of mystery!
I killed 2 small cities (oops - forgot to pillage so I just left that money on the ground for Fox). Also found some my Cyrus cities that we can reach with our galleys (soo slow). Unfortunately, the big cities he has there are just too big for us at the moment - 100% defenses, with longbows, pikes, etc. I'm loaded our units back onto our galleys and started looking for a softer target.
I built 3 friggn conf missionaries for our capital. Two failures! One is currently on his way to catch a galley / ferry ride to the capital. Third time is the charm?
I small prize to whomever gets our Capital confused (no using WB!).
Education came in and I dialed down research to 0% while we built some universities. Our Great Scientist was converted into an academy (sort of like killing him and putting him in the foundations - guess that increases people's desire for knowledge so that they can become also found a building.
Research power before University in Capital ...
100% Research: 232 per turn
Research power after University in Capital ...
100% Research: 248 per turn
Hmmn - doesn't seem like much of an improvement. I might have mistakenly left our capital in 'max hammer' mode (swapped to that while biulding the Uni. Checking the last turn ...
100% Research: 275 per turn
Yeah - that's better.
Ok, I will tell you the tech we got with Liberalism ...
Tech research finished: Liberalism
Tech acquired (trade, lightbulb, hut, espionage): Astronomy
Fox also mentioned Nationalism for the Hermatage but ... really ... this game is about smashing things up (isn't it?) ... and what is better than privateers, frigates and heavily laden galleons for that!
Sorry - no pictures - I am sure that everyone is sick of seeing little red writing saying "Conf failed to spread".
Oh: Thought of a nice way to finish this off - tech to frigates, galleons then turn off tech and go culture while your armada sails the 7 seas killing all coastal cities. They AI cannot hit you if it cannot build boats.
Anyway, played through to the discovery of Liberalism ... and I took ? as our free technology (got to preserve a little bit of mystery!
I killed 2 small cities (oops - forgot to pillage so I just left that money on the ground for Fox
). Also found some my Cyrus cities that we can reach with our galleys (soo slow). Unfortunately, the big cities he has there are just too big for us at the moment - 100% defenses, with longbows, pikes, etc. I'm loaded our units back onto our galleys and started looking for a softer target.I built 3 friggn conf missionaries for our capital. Two failures! One is currently on his way to catch a galley / ferry ride to the capital. Third time is the charm?
I small prize to whomever gets our Capital confused (no using WB!).
Education came in and I dialed down research to 0% while we built some universities. Our Great Scientist was converted into an academy (sort of like killing him and putting him in the foundations - guess that increases people's desire for knowledge so that they can become also found a building.
Research power before University in Capital ...
100% Research: 232 per turn
Research power after University in Capital ...
100% Research: 248 per turn
Hmmn - doesn't seem like much of an improvement. I might have mistakenly left our capital in 'max hammer' mode (swapped to that while biulding the Uni. Checking the last turn ...
100% Research: 275 per turn
Yeah - that's better.
Spoiler log :
Ok, I will tell you the tech we got with Liberalism ...
Tech research finished: Liberalism
Tech acquired (trade, lightbulb, hut, espionage): Astronomy
Fox also mentioned Nationalism for the Hermatage but ... really ... this game is about smashing things up (isn't it?) ... and what is better than privateers, frigates and heavily laden galleons for that!
Sorry - no pictures - I am sure that everyone is sick of seeing little red writing saying "Conf failed to spread".
Oh: Thought of a nice way to finish this off - tech to frigates, galleons then turn off tech and go culture while your armada sails the 7 seas killing all coastal cities. They AI cannot hit you if it cannot build boats
.
GreyFox
Make it so ...
Obviously, teching to steel is the plan, I am not sure abt killing all coastal cities will work ... that will win us a conquest victory 
PP and Nationalism is still needed before we turned off research. In fact, I suggest taking at least Nationalism first, Hermitage is not easy to build, and we are building it in the hammer-poorest Aksum.
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PP and Nationalism is still needed before we turned off research. In fact, I suggest taking at least Nationalism first, Hermitage is not easy to build, and we are building it in the hammer-poorest Aksum.
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pholkhero
Deviant Mind
·Imhotep·;8019853 said:How I love that. First bickering about "oh, is he going to play until Thursday or was that a mistake" and then delivering no comments...
oh, easy there fella ~ i wasn't bickering ~ just honestly confused
but really, your set was the most FANTASTIC SET I'VE EVER SEEN IN THESE BOARDS IN, LO, TEN YEARS!
but seriously, good sets guys ~ maybe it's my ignorant optimism, but i think we have this thing in the bag, culture victory and all. course, you never know . . . I AM involved in the game, so . . .
i've got it. will work on the 3 C's: confusion, culture and conquests ~
and of course ~ everyone steals our ideas ~ they're, uhm, what's teh word...oh yeah, awesome
·Imhotep·
Legendary Builder
Sweet revenge 
You were 21 minutres too early Immy.
pholkhero
Deviant Mind
oh c'mon! coach pholkhero gets in late during the week...cut him some slack.
it's coming tonight.
it's coming tonight.
pholkhero
Deviant Mind
[slinks in]
ahem ~
Yes. It is lame.
ahem ~
Yes. It is lame.
pholkhero
Deviant Mind
sorry guys, but i was just hammered this week expectantly. i told you i coach fox's relatives on the badminton team, but I just got handed after-school tutoring this week, too.
I knew it was going to be rough, and wanted to squeeze it in sunday, but . . . and then i've just been dead tired every night. see my kids for 10 minutes before they go to bed ~ all that crap.
boo hoo
poor me.
in any case, though, i DO need a skip this time 'round. Or even a swap. Once the weekend hits, I'm kid-and-wife-free!
edit: and of course, i stand bravely before your satirical, forthcoming comments
I knew it was going to be rough, and wanted to squeeze it in sunday, but . . . and then i've just been dead tired every night. see my kids for 10 minutes before they go to bed ~ all that crap.
boo hoo
poor me.
in any case, though, i DO need a skip this time 'round. Or even a swap. Once the weekend hits, I'm kid-and-wife-free!
edit: and of course, i stand bravely before your satirical, forthcoming comments
Think that makes it your GF!
GreyFox
Make it so ...
I think you mean "that makes it yours, GF!" ... totally different meaning
As a punishment, we shall skip pholky this round so that he won't get to play this weekend even when he has the time to play
Got it.
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Hmmm, depends on what you think I meant by GF I suppose.
GreyFox
Make it so ...
Start of the game, saw this:
Think for a while, I decided we still need Bureaucracy for a while ... plus I am going gamble on Taj Mahal -- if we get a golden age, we can then switch away from Bureaucracy and Slavery,
Having said that, I switched to Nationalism. While warring is fun, our objective is still to win culturally. We need to get Hermitage up ASAP. I presume we are in 0% research for the money to upgrade our galleys, but really, it is far easier to build more galleons and retire those galleys. Also, I focuses our pop on those hamlets. We need them to be full town by the time we switch to 100% culture, so please don't get diverted from what is really needed.
good news:
Third time the charm, huh? So, what did I win? Never feel better getting confused.
bad news:
Well, I was half-hearted to begin with ... so no big deal there.
Although I have been ranting abt focusing on culture, I doesn't mean I ignore military totally.
I got us Nationalism, and we have a scientist pop. Not sure if academy is worth it at this stage, or should we bulb part of PP?
We should build the Hermitage in Gondor, and may be the cheapest cathedral as well. In retrospect, we should have settled the great artist from Music (would have served us better than saving him for bulb) ... but what's done is done. Now is too late.
Good luck.
Think for a while, I decided we still need Bureaucracy for a while ... plus I am going gamble on Taj Mahal -- if we get a golden age, we can then switch away from Bureaucracy and Slavery,
Having said that, I switched to Nationalism. While warring is fun, our objective is still to win culturally. We need to get Hermitage up ASAP. I presume we are in 0% research for the money to upgrade our galleys, but really, it is far easier to build more galleons and retire those galleys. Also, I focuses our pop on those hamlets. We need them to be full town by the time we switch to 100% culture, so please don't get diverted from what is really needed.
good news:
Third time the charm, huh? So, what did I win? Never feel better getting confused.
bad news:
Well, I was half-hearted to begin with ... so no big deal there.
Although I have been ranting abt focusing on culture, I doesn't mean I ignore military totally.
I got us Nationalism, and we have a scientist pop. Not sure if academy is worth it at this stage, or should we bulb part of PP?
We should build the Hermitage in Gondor, and may be the cheapest cathedral as well. In retrospect, we should have settled the great artist from Music (would have served us better than saving him for bulb) ... but what's done is done. Now is too late.
Good luck.
I think the +4 culture is better than a part bulb of PP.
Do you want it pholk? I can play tomorrow night if you don't.
Do you want it pholk? I can play tomorrow night if you don't.
In the lack o anything from pholk, I'm going to play tonight (about 8 hours from now).
