Sana05 - Return to RAR

[sanabas]

Time to start SGing again.

Version: RAR 1.04 prebeta
Settings: random, open to discussion
Difficulty: Emperor or Demigod, also open to discussion.
Variant: None at all, this is for scrubbing off the RaR rust, or learning about RaR, depending what you've done before.
VCs: All enabled, all allowed.
Rules: I'm sure these have been formalised somewhere, but meh. Summary is exploits bad, reputation good. 24 hr got it, 48 to play.

Roster:

Sanabas
Despair888
Classical Hero
Azzaman333
Beorn-el-Feared
Ansar?

 

[sanabas]

OK, this one is set to go too. Emperor or Demigod? What sort of level are you guys comfortable playing? I'll make this continents, random civ I haven't played for a while, and simply take the first non-ugly start I roll.

 

[Despair888]

The difficulty doesn't matter to me. Whatever you guys are comfortable with works.

If I had to choose one though, I'd say Emperor because I haven't played RaR in a while. Either one is fine though.

 

[sanabas]

Oh yeah, I forgot: Everybody has RaR 1.04 prebeta installed, don't they?

 

[Despair888]

EDIT: Nevermind, Found it.

 

[azzaman333]

Yea i have 1.04 prebeta.

I'd prefer it to be Emperor, since i dont really know a thing about RAR, except that there is a lot of different techs, units, buildings.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Haven't played RaR for almost a year myself .
Open spot for me?

 

[goodsmell]

Doc Tsiolkovski , if you don't mind then please check your Private Inbox .

Actually I asked for a link to RaR 1.02 or whatever it is .

EDIT : nevermind I found it , thanks anyway !

 

[sanabas]

Haven't played RaR for almost a year myself .
Open spot for me?

Absolutely, happy to have you. You sound in the same boat as I am.

Level has been unilaterally decided as Demigod, since I know the sort of level both DocT and myself are at.

Roster:

Sanabas
Despair888
DocT
Classical Hero
Azzaman
Beorn-el-Feared

I'll roll a start and play soon.

 

[Despair888]

Absolutely, happy to have you. You sound in the same boat as I am.

Level has been unilaterally decided as Demigod, since I know the sort of level both DocT and myself are at.

Roster:

Sanabas
Despair888
DocT
Classical Hero
Azzaman
Beorn-el-Feared

I'll roll a start and play soon.

Looking forward to this one also. It's been a while since I've played RaR.

 

[sanabas]

This one is underway too. We are Russia, EXP & SCI, random opponents, continents map, roaming barbarians. Our UU is the Cossack, a 5/3/2 with blitz & extra hp version of the 6/3/2 dragoon.

Roll a start, see 2 huts, hill to found on, but no food bonus. It's not great, but certainly not too ugly.

Ranger pops the western hut, gets pottery
Tribe moves 1N and founds Moscow on a coastal hill with fresh water.
Moscow starts a ranger, research started on Ritualism. I want to get to Dynasticism ASAP, I want to get to second tier techs quickly as well, as first tier can usually be popped or traded. Ritualism lets us go straight to writing.

3800BC: Moscow builds Ranger-->Granary. In chiefdom, our food situation is very ugly. Granary will finish 2 turns before moscow grows.

3750BC: Pop hut, get Boat Building

3550BC: Pop hut, get a village. St Petersburg starts a wiseman.

3500BC: Pop a hut, get Sailing
Meet China. Domestication & Boat Building get us Masonry and 20 gold
Pottery & Sailing get us Warfare

3400BC: Research Ritualism, start Writing

3200BC: Meet Siam. Masonry and Domestication get us Cultivation and 65 gold.
Cultivation and Ritualism to China get us Scrape Mining

3100BC: Moscow builds Granary -->Starts Tribal Guard. I'm nervous about China, I want at least a vet T.G. in both cities.

3000BC: St Pete's finishes wiseman, starts Harbour. I should have switched the wiseman to a harbour, but I thought about it too late. Until we reach Dynasticism, our only 3 food square is St Pete's pearls using a harbour.
Pop a hut, get a tribe.
For those who have forgotten/don't know, tribes treat all terrain as roads, and see 2 squares. This tribe can help us explore until we find a good city location with it.

The Save

The roster:

Sanabas - just played
Despair888 - up
Classical Hero - on deck
DocT
Azzaman
Beorn-el-Feared

 

[Despair888]

Got it. Will play within an hour.

EDIT: May take me till morning. Missing a few files for RaR, need to reinstall and try again.

 

[Despair888]

2950 BC - Move Worker to St. Petersburg. Move Scouts
IBT - Nothing
2900 BC - Nothing. Move Rangers around. Found Kiev
IBT - Nothing
2850 BC - Nothing
IBT - Nothing
2800 BC - Moscow Finishes TG. Starts Clan
IBT - Nothing
2750 BC - Meet Vikings, trade them Pottery for 100 gold.
IBT - Nothing
2710 BC - Move Rangers around...
IBT - Nothing

2670 BC - Move Scouts around. Waiting for Writing to trade for Slavery and Caste System.
IBT - Barbarians approach St. Petersburg.

2630 BC - Production from St. Petersburg is switched from Harbor to TG.
IBT - Nothing

2590 BC - Trade Writing + 105 Gold for Caste System (Chinese). Researching Urbanization. Also trade Writing + 5 Gold to Siam for Slavery. Move Worker so it doesn't die to Barbs. Set Lux Slider to 30%
IBT - Siam sends spearman one space away from St. Petersburg

2550 BC - TG is finished. Production at St. Petersburg set back to Harbor.

Overall Thoughts: I didn't really know exactly what to do with the tribe. I did see it could make a city, and Kiev is a pretty good spot. Sorry if I maybe messed that up a bit, I think I did everything else decent, considering it's been a year or two. I did get Caste System from the Chinese, along with Slavery from Siam. We need Urbanization, then we will be able to get Dynasticism.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Some comments:
Russia - glad about this. haven't played them since ages, IIRC I *never* played them in 1.04.
Opening turns: Nothing to add. Capital location is a superb choice, research/trade choices were fine. No food bonus? Ugly...
Second set: Moscow cannot finish a Clan under Despotism. Needs to be switched...
The Tribe: Extremely handy for Scouting, and, it would have worked as MP . Guess I had waited to use it for a resource spot, Iron/Gold or something else comparably valuable.
Despair, could we get a screenie, to discuss the resource situation, and city spots?

Bet Moscow sits on Grapes or Coffee... .

 

[Despair888]

Yeah, we can. My bad on the tribe thing, I haven't played RaR in so long. Also, the Clan still had a couple turns left, so production can be switched.

Image coming, one min.

 

[Despair888]

Here it is.

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Sorry, no idea how to make it bigger. Just click on it. It's an over-view so I didn't have to post 5 pics.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Interesting spot for Kiev...not necessarily a bad choice, but maybe we should settle 2 cities (one NNW, the other WW) later in the game and abandon it? For now, it serves a great purpose in preventing the AI from settling all those resource spots.
Gold for the capital, great.

 

[Despair888]

That would work. That was one of the main reasons I put it there for now.

There would've probably been other good spots, but that one was near a few resources. I was hoping we could build a couple culture buildings and build one or two more cities in that area to cover them all. Either way, doesn't matter to me.

 

[Ansar]

lurker's comment: Sorry sanabas, I'll be lurking. My time is very limited nowadays and school is soon starting.

 

[goodsmell]

Great RaR SG started , I'll be watching around and earn some skills playing RaR .
Today I played my first one , I'm still allive there but I let other Empires be stronger , what I never do .