SGOTM 06 - The Real Ms. Beyond

[TheArchduke]

Guys, as in the other thread, I will be very much away from the Internet as I am going sailing for some days, please put me on sleep in the roster, though this game is pretty much in the sack (with some difficulties against Cyrus.)

 

[Compromise]

Have fun Archduke; sailing sounds great!

Archduke and Swiss are OOP now. Kodii is going OOP over the weekend. Right now, it's pretty much just a matter of playing it out to see what our final date is.

I'm going to propose that we simply implement a post-n-go playing order from here on out. If you know you'll be able to play, let us know when. If you find yourself able to play, go ahead and do so.

Just post that you're playing (and check for crossposting), play, and report with the new save.

I hope to get some more time to play on Thu or Fri. Let's wrap this one up.

 

[sunrise089]

Not that I contribute much to this game, but I will be OOP from early Friday morning until Wednesday afternoon. Good luck!

 

[LKendter]

I will also be out of the loop Mar 14 to Mar 16.

 

[Swiss Pauli]

I'm back and with absences, that'll make me up. Will play and report tomorrow.

What's the finish date? I have end of March in mind which might be a bit of a struggle.

 

[Compromise]

Sounds good Swiss. I'll be trying to get some more turns done on Mon or Tue myself.

 

[Swiss Pauli]

I can't believe Compromise kept Birka when we were getting hammered, tying up umpteen units in that city. Roskilde was lost and Anjar will be taken next turn.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/saves/civ4sgotm6/The_Real_Ms_Beyond_SG006_AD1637_01.CivWarlordsSave

 

[Compromise]

I kept Birka because I couldn't see how that stack could proceed and take any more cities. With it--and its defensive hill and faster heal rate--I hoped that it could at least hold until we could get some grenadiers and push on.

I'm going to try to play some more turns now....

 

[Compromise]

Things certainly look bleak, but I played a few more turns. We're under assault especially from the north, and I'm not sure how much longer we can hold out against Saladin:

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/saves/civ4sgotm6/The_Real_Ms_Beyond_SG006_AD1652_01.CivWarlordsSave

I'll try to pick it up again on Monday or Tuesday.

 

[LKendter]

I still can't play today or tomorrow.

It looks like my fear of falling behind to far with technology turned true.

 

[Compromise]

You were right, Lee. I'm still surprised about that.

 

[Swiss Pauli]

The killer on tech rate was that the continent was dominated by one religion, and I think we can count ourselves unlucky in that (Ragnar founding Bhuddism, Sal not getting either of Hinduism, or Judaism).

 

[LKendter]

Ugg, I didn't even think about that. That meant no AI-AI wars despite us not finding them for awhile.

 

[LKendter]

What is the roster situation at this point? I know I can't play tonight as LK141, grocery shopping, and laundry will use up the whole night.

 

[Compromise]

What is the roster situation at this point? ...

We're on a "play when you can" rotation. Post when you start--so that we don't have people playing the same turns--and post when you finish.

I'm going to try to run a few more turns later today.

 

[LKendter]

Timetable
The game will start on December 14th, at midnight local server time. I recommend you plan for a 4 month deadline for completion.

The above is the answer on deadlines. Hopefully some of the other players get back soon. This one sounds to painful to be able to play a lot of turns.

 

[Compromise]

I'm playing some turns now.

The above is the answer on deadlines. Hopefully some of the other players get back soon. This one sounds to painful to be able to play a lot of turns.

Yes, it looks like mid-April is the deadline. I think we can make it.

 

[Compromise]

I snuck in another 70 minutes of playtime. I decided that Swiss was probably right about Birka...I should have just razed it and moved on. So, I took the stack down and destroyed the other city on the peninsula.

We're now under assault from Saladin up north (I've seen at least one of his rifles) and Cyrus in the south (lots of rifles coming our way).

We've got oodles of grenadiers being trained on the mainland, but the logistics make getting them to the AI island slow.

I'm not sure if we can hold our beachhead or not.

I did discover Banking and set us toward Nationalism. I didn't revolt to Mercantilism (2T) because I thought we could wait till Nationalism (3T for both). Plus, I wanted a number of units currently queued up to finish.

Cyrus has Astronomy (he may have chosen that with Liberalism). No AI has Chemistry yet.

The save.

 

[LKendter]

I will play a handful tonight. I have less than two hours for play time.

 

[LKendter]

1661 AD
We've inched up to 38.03% for domination, but we still have long time to go.

WW is brutal, and I can't wait to connect the silver. We may need the draft, so I start raise the science rate to let us get nationalism. We also need the happiness from barracks.

I start heroic epic in Hastings. I can't believe this wasn't built already.

(IT) As feared, our bombard stack is ripped apart. I don't understand why it was exposed with NO defensive units.
We can't afford losses outside of our border right now.


1667 AD
We will have some stock exchanges, simply because they let me whip the most angry people away.


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New Updates
I have a galleon shuttling troops off that final island of Hannibal. We can use the elephants up front, and the junk units for MP including a new city of two on our home island. I have one settler started to fill in another gap.


I played up to nationalism being discovered. IMHO we should switch to mercantilism, and nationalism. 2 extra happy from barracks is nice, some drafted units would help, and the specialists from mercantilism would help.

The front seems to be quite, but we aren't ready to advance IMHO. HE arrives in just 1 turn.


http://gotm.civfanatics.net/saves/civ4sgotm6/The_Real_Ms_Beyond_SG006_AD1694_01.CivWarlordsSave