Ruff06 - Testing / Illustrating BUG!

pholkhero · Dec 28, 2007

There isnt much to do, imo, but continue the fight against Saladin until hes whipped, so thats what I did. Techwise, we got Astro > Combustion > Physics (done in 5), and we took the fight to Arabia further.

First though, I saw this abomination:

I think by the original rules, I have to declare on FDR, but since Im not sure, I opt out of that rule.

Meanwhile, I took Fustat:

Germany got in on the act, too, and took another city up north. All this made Izzy see the light, and she renounced her vassalhood. That turn:

I took it because I think thats the only way were going to win, so . . .

The hydraulic press that is our army continued its inexorable advance:

We got a GM that I used for a GAge to help with the economy for now, and WW. Weve got 5 turns left on that, as well as 5 more for Physics and a Great Engineer

Heres the army we have left in Arabia:

Ive been adding canon to the mix, more, and now we need some cavalry. We could probably split the stack into two groups. Weve got plenty of ex-samurai, CR3 Infantry, and they work great as can-openers.

Heres a rough plan for the next couple of moves:

ruff_hi · Dec 28, 2007

Roster:

Greyfox (up)
negyvenketto (on deck)
Ruff
·Imhotep·
Pholkhero (nice turn set)

I really like seeing that Saladin power ratio go up and up. The rules do say that we have to declare on America - lets not until later. Give that city a chance to actually capture its city tiles.

pholkhero · Dec 29, 2007

oh, i forgot to mention ~ we've got the first 8 around the city now, so we may not need to.

GreyFox · Dec 30, 2007

Turns played. Report tomorrow. But let me just say I am somewhat surprised with the situation I was left with. An obscene amount of troops gathered around one enemy's city with just one caveat -- no siege (Should have split them into 2 or 3 for pillage and hasten sally's demise). And a handful of cannons are idling in the cities. Two more cannons are alone in separate tiles begging for an encounter with one of sally's numerous cavs. The super medic is laying behind in the comfort of our safe city doing nothing when some injured troops are up at the front.

Hmm ... been a while since we send players to the woodshed, huh?

Anyway, stay tune for the actual report (no rants, I promise, as I have already pointed out most of my gripes).

pholkhero · Dec 30, 2007

I will confess the troops were in ragged formation. however, they were not meeting with any resistance whatsoever. Except the cav pairs i had pillaging the area around Fustat, i believe. The were attacked by some nearby rifles and/or canon.

the medic i simply forgot that we had it.

·Imhotep· · Dec 30, 2007

The Medic was actually my fault, I left him in the city when the stack moved out as there were some units left that needed healing. Should've mentioned it in the report...

pholkhero · Dec 30, 2007

i thought someone did ~ someone said he was sleeping in the south ~ i actually think it was ruff who noticed it. ahh well ~ let foxie have his gripey ~

GreyFox · Dec 30, 2007

Here we go. I moved the injured forces out of Sitting Bull's city to protect the lone cannon ... they would be sitting duck otherwise. The super medic was ofcourse moved there to help the healing.

I also rallied another forces from the defenders of our northern cities to form a second stack.

Meanwhile, Roosey cancels deal.

Fine ... you will know the consequences of your action later :hammer:

I razed a city close by to make space for a new city:

Our main forces expectedly took Kurfah with ease once the sieges reached were in position:

The bloody BUG mod lied!!! It says "Great Engineer" in the Bizen screenshot, but we got a great spy instead. So, is he the Yahoo engineer or what? I suggest displaying a percentage as well for this display option of the GP bar.

The spy is still there, as I have no idea what to do with him. Founding the scotland yard seems fitting though, as incidentally, I did a research on him with wikipedia, and he was the "M"... somehow Hollywood or Ian Fleming think he is better portrayed as a "she".

That same year, I founded a 2nd city (forgot the name):

This leaves us with two more to complete the second ring I think.

Back to the war, the razing continued:

It was until the Apostolic voting took place that I realized we were at war with Mongolia as well :crazyeye:

Did he used to be a vassal of Sally?

Meanwhile, our troops encountered a strange beast. "What was that? Looks like a sitting iron bull ..."

I moved our forces in position for the next player to have some razing fun ...

and there are some forces 2 tiles away from another city further northeast (using Native America's rails).

However, I am afraid my generous efforts are in vain ... since:

Hmm ... maybe we can swap the city for Medicine.

>>> The Save @ 1920AD <<<

ruff_hi · Dec 30, 2007

actually - Ruff thought the super-medic was with the troops heading up the back passage. After the troops had arrived, Ruff found that he wasn't :mad:

. I thought about running him over but he wouldn't have survived the trip across the open Spanish country.

ruff_hi · Dec 30, 2007

Roster:

Greyfox
negyvenketto (up)
Ruff (on deck)
·Imhotep·
Pholkhero (nice turn set)

Fantastic set Fox. I really liked the peace deal. And this was the person that was just itching to get into a tangle with us 30-40 turns ago. What a LOSER!

negyvenketto · Dec 31, 2007

Got it for today.

negyvenketto · Dec 31, 2007

Took the peace as suggested, triggered this Isabella revolts and is no longer a Vassal State of Ruff06 [X-Tokugawa]

Nice, we have a new vassal and lost the old one :eek:

Next turn Isabella becomes a Vassal State of Roosevelt
:lol:

I feel they will be our next target, since both of them stealing tiles from our cities. See below.

Saladin don't want to give us Medicine for that city, we are his worst enemy. Nobody but Isabella would have accepted that city, I chose to gift it back to Saly.

Made a few trades.

Yes, the tank belongs to Sitting Bull, but FDR also knows Industrialism.

To take us closer, I traded this and started research Indu.

Actually SB also steals a tile from this new city (2nd ring completed).

We got another GProphet, together with the GSpy we can kick off a GAge if we want. We could switch to Emancipation without anarchy (the penalty is growing).

I 'asked' for Sally's only banana, we need it more than him :mischief:

I forgot to ask his clams, though

Tech learned: Industrialism, (we have Alu) and started Flight.

Results of the Recon missions made by our Airships:

Our armies are waiting for orders

I didn't switch off research to upgrade every cannon to arti, but it's still an option.

Good luck and :newyear:

Spoiler :

ruff_hi · Dec 31, 2007

Roster:

Greyfox
negyvenketto
Ruff (needs a skip)
·Imhotep· (up)
Pholkhero (on deck)

·Imhotep· · Dec 31, 2007

Will play today. Happy new year !

(We've crossed 00:00 in Germany already)

·Imhotep· · Jan 1, 2008

This game is insane - insane fun ! Look at the stats for my 10:

Battle Stats:
Units victorious while attacking : 68
Units victorious while defending : 14
Units defeated while attacking : 7
Units defeated while defending : 3

Kill ratio: 8.2:1 :goodjob:

But how did this happen ? First of all some dude told us we suck culturally. That may be, but who cares anyway ?

I dialed research to zero and used the cash for upgrading our remaining Cannons. That took some turns, but finally I thought we were ready:

His tech edge on us got bigger and bigger, so it's high time to trim him down !

Needless to say it wasn't even a fair fight. The poor guy didn't stand any chance whatsoever. negy had set up our troops perfectly, so it was like slicing through butter with a hot knife.

One reason for this is our insane amount of Elite Artillery. This guy comes from Satsuma, our HE+West point city. 19XP and thus CRIII+Barrage I is insane. Can you say city defense killer ?

Enjoy...

I think that Roosey and his slave Izzy can't stand that pace much longer, but we'll see. Meanwhile the Bizstacker walked in and wanted a freebie. No no. Although he is far away and thus considered a friend we#re not obliged to gift him 10000 beakers for free.

Our hardest contender for victory is Sitting Bull. He built the UN and won the SecGen voting.

That total of votes would suffice for a Diplo win actually, but I'm not concerned at all - by the time he puts up his vote there will be significantly less American and Spanish voters

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As is shown later...

As our health problems grew I decided to trade for Medicine.

Interesting vote from the AP. i voted no as it is Sally's city, and he#s our vassal.

Now we met Roosey's army in earnest. Will he be able to repel us ? Hang on for part II...

·Imhotep· · Jan 1, 2008

Now Roosey decided to put up some resistance. See this garrison:

That's the bulk of his army, and he's sporting Tanks too. Well, unfortunately for him I have a big stack outside this city. Full of Artillery...

Nice event, but I can't imagine we had any injured soldiers on the battlefield. The war goes so smoothly it would be sin to interrupt it now.

Izzy gets some pounding too...

We cut off Roosey's offshore oil...not that it matters much...

Roosey is willing to talk, but he won't capitulate yet. Let's see how he thinks about this after we've razed 2 or 3 of his core cities

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The tech situation:

BUG feature: the enhanced Glance screen (the original version from the core game was deleted with 3.13 because it was "too ugly")

Note we have an anstounding -65 with Izzy, which comes mainly from -42 for "You have razed one of our cities" :goodjob:

.

I revolted to Emancipation but did not trigger a GA - I actually settled the Priest in our shrine city and built Scotland Yard at Kyoto. I another settled a GSpy there later too. A GA would have been useless while in war as the financial boost would've been sucked up by the troop support costs, whereas we don't need the production boost. The 1 turn of anarchy basically saved us money

. All of our cities are on infra builds now as we don't need more troops ATM. Get those Hospitals and Shale Plants coming !

Imhotep

Spoiler The Log :

ruff_hi · Jan 1, 2008

Roster:

Greyfox (on deck)
negyvenketto
Ruff
·Imhotep· (what a nasty set of turns)
Pholkhero (up)

negyvenketto · Jan 1, 2008

I don't quite understand how an AP vote could happen after someone built the UN. Or was it before just the report mixed up in time? :dunno:

anyway

·Imhotep· · Jan 1, 2008

@negy:

The AP and the UN co-exist until the owner of the AP gets Mass Media. Same as with other obsoleting wonders like the Colossus or Chichen Itza.

Imhotep

ruff_hi · Jan 1, 2008

What a great idea for a SG - win by AP and by UN on the same turn.

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