SGOTM 04 - Team VQ

GreyFox · Jun 9, 2007

Continues the build up, and decides that we should hit on Hannibal first (he is the easier target).

Found a warlord ... we should upgrade him ... it's free and no exp reset.

We learnt plastics, someone set research all the way to satellites ... might as well, less thinking on my part

Meanwhile, Gandhi keep sending his ships.

More ships.

Even more ships

This time, he managed to land ...

Phants and trebs? Pbffffftttt!!!! That was wiped out immediately.

I have troops deployed to take on Hannibal -- a navy stack is with goto, currently at Mehmed's territory, 2 more turns to reach Hannibal's border. When it arrives, it's time to whack on Hannibal.

But, don't expect an easy fight:

Fortunately, while he excels in quality, I think we more than make it up in terms of quantity.

Good luck!

>>> The Save 1848AD <<<

Spoiler :

frankcor · Jun 10, 2007

Fortunately, while (Carthage) excels in quality, I think we more than make it up in terms of quantity.

Sometimes, you gotta play 'em they way they're dealt to you.

ccccc · Jun 14, 2007

Get em!

GreyFox · Jun 14, 2007

I will play another 10~20 turns tomorrow if there is no got it from the other player (singular, no 's', as it is obvious there is only 2 players left).

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bobrath · Jun 15, 2007

then there's us "others" that wish to dear god we could scrape enough time up to play!

GreyFox · Jun 16, 2007

Anybody knows if there is a deadline is for this SGOTM4? At this rate, we may play til 2008.

Gandhi keep sending ships for our destroyers to gain experience, and he managed to land 6 troops.

Ha, who had ever seen trebs, cannons, and artillery on the same stack! What's missing is a cat .... wait, artillery? Gandhi has artillery!

The stack was easy target for our defenders ... although we had only a couple in most cities, but the railroads made it easy for them to repel any stack Gandhi might bring.

All those ships sinking and siege killing gave us a GG ... hmm it appears in the other continent. Alrighty, warlord it is.

Our main navy stack arrives, and I promptly declared

Hello Hannibal, Remember a few hundred of years ago? You've chosen unwisely then, and now is time for pay back! :hammer:

Boy, don't you love to attack with a CR3 warlord infrantry

... and San Francisco falls ...

Hmm ... but I see no Golden Gate :hmm:

RNGod is pleased with our bold and swift actions, and rewarded us thus:

Encouraged, our troops on the eastern front takes Hadrumetum:

Meanwhile, Hannibal attempts to sneak some troops into the former American cities ...

I laughed at him, and bombed a pile load of sh!ts on them. Stink, they tuck tails and went back.

Hannibal seems to want to make Ultica his final stand ... probably because of the shrine there.

Nope, that's not enough my dear.

Our next target will be the capitol city which houses the Pentagon (well, at least according to a sign someone planted there). And for that we are given an artist.

Just in time for an airlift to bring the Pentagon off revolt, me think.

>>> The Save (1855 AD) <<<

I played only 8 turns, as things are getting interesting. I hope this will entice players to pick up the save. If there is no Got-It post for the next 30 hours, I will play another 5 turns.

I have wasted quite some artilleries, so next player (well, probably myself :crazyeye:

) most likely will have to change some builds to artilleries to replenish.

Spoiler :

GreyFox · Jun 17, 2007

Played another 5 turns as promise ....

captured Carthage:

It indeed houses the Pentagon ... and more:

2 turns later, one more city:

This completes the southern coast, forces are now moving north via land.

However, bad news is: Mehmed declared on us. Most likely bought by Hannibal, the initial forces are minimal, but we have to reinforce the former American cities. Most probably, though, we have to give up the lone city that is cut off by Ottoman borders.

>>> The Save (1860 AD) <<<

Spoiler :

Scowler · Jun 17, 2007

Looks like things have been going pretty well.

A pox on Mehmed.

I'll play a set when I've bought some more alcohol.

Oh, and what's all this "the other player" nonsense??? :gripe:

frankcor · Jun 18, 2007

Well, despite the lack of players, your lurker is enjoying this mightly. Nice job of : :hammer:

, Grey Fox. The timing for the Silver and Great Artist is a little bit scary, I must admit.

Scowler · Jun 19, 2007

I'm a bit pushed for time so I'll just give you the essentials.

Continued the push against Hannibal:

He is now down to his last city, but the berk positioned it 1 tile inland so I can't use the destroyers to break down his defenses - selfish sod. Now it will take longer to capture. Inconvenient.

Mehmed (who declared on us because Hannibal become his vassal a few turns ago) threatened Chicago and Atlanta as expected. He ended up wasting quite a few of his troops at Atlanta, meaning that his defenses at New York are now greatly reduced (if he needs encouragement to sign a peace treaty). I airlifted a couple of units to Chicago and he eventually gave up there as well - he may be back, though: the city is still very exposed.

More serious was the appearance of a transport off the coast of the homeland - but only one, fortunately (he basically scragged our destroyers with a set of battleships :sad:

):

I attacked with two tanks, but lost both (at 89% and 97.5% odds :mad:

). Fortunately, I'd given them barrage promotions, so the stack was exterminated without much more trouble. However, I'm very concerned about the incredibly feeble defenses on the homeland in case he sends more transports.

Composites is done; I set a beeline to Robotics (mechs), but turned down science to get more money for upgrades - I think that takes priority.

Current state of the doomsday clock:

The game sure is getting exciting now!

SAVE

Scowler · Jun 19, 2007

The HOF log is waaaaay to long to fit in a single post, so here is the autolog (for what it's worth):

Spoiler autolog :

GreyFox · Jun 19, 2007

Great job scowler, you managed to capture more cities than I imagined possible in 5 turns.

I didn't noticed Hannibal capitulating to Mehmed ... it should be illegal for Civ A to capitulate to Civ B while involved in a war which Civ B is not a party of :gripe:

You wanna play more turns before I give it another spin, say this weekend?

Scowler · Jun 20, 2007

Sure, I'll see if I can play a bit more in the next couple of days. (Cosmic, if you feel up to it, please don't hesitate to say if you want to grab the save before I do).

Hopefully by that time Mehmed will have lost his vassal and be willing to deal for peace. Then we really must concentrate on hamstringing Brennus and *his* vassal - somehow.

GreyFox · Jun 20, 2007

Scowler said:
(Cosmic, if you feel up to it, please don't hesitate to say if you want to grab the save before I do).

Did you know something that I don't? AFAICT, Cosmic is lost. No post from him since end of April.

Scowler · Jun 21, 2007

I chatted with him briefly on Skype a couple of days ago and got the impression that he was hoping to return in the near future. We'll see - I'll carry on as planned in the meantime.

Scowler · Jun 22, 2007

Okay, I've played another 5 turns. Report and the save will be up shortly...

Scowler · Jun 22, 2007

Turned science to 0% for a couple of turns: the war weariness meant that culture had to stay high so we weren't researching much anyway. Much better to have spare cash for emergency upgrades in case Mehmed decides to pay another visit.

Time to deal with the elephant-man:

...and with that, the Punic War came to an end. Hippo isn't sited well, but I didn't want to tempt Izzy or Brennus to send settlers down; also the city contains Notre Dame, which will provide some small relief from war weariness on this continent.

We also got another Great General from the battle: I haven't done anything with him yet, except to put him in Nidaros in case we want to airlift him somewhere.

In the previous set Mehmed threw away a stack of units against the walls of Atlanta, leaving New York only weakly defended. Now it is time for the counter-attack:

Another leader who has Chosen Unwisely.

By the end of the set Mehmed was still refusing to talk, but this victory, plus all the other units he has lost, should guarantee us favourable terms for peace. We could probably take out the Ottomans now without too many problems - the defences in the nearest three cities are similarly feeble, and we now have a pretty impressive stack lurking in New York - but we must start preparing for the more difficult war against Brennus.

With Hannibal gone I turned science back up and reduced culture to 0%. We are currently running deficit research (Computers due in 7) of around -120g (with about 4000 in the bank) - I assume some modern armor might be helpful? (esp. as Brennus doesn't have any yet)

Finally, no more spaceship parts have been built.

SAVE

Scowler · Jun 22, 2007

Spoiler HOF log :

GreyFox · Jun 22, 2007

Nice job finishing off Hannibal and turning the table around on Mehmed. :goodjob:

Will play on Sunday .... of-course others are more than welcome to play their long overdue turns if they manage to find some free time from RL issues.

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frankcor · Jun 22, 2007

Is it premature to say Team VQ may pull out a loss/victory here after all?

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