SGOTM 07 - Fifth Element

[BLubmuz]

Alright, well done, Balth!!!
C'mon WT, bring us to Alpha Centauri, no need to post anything, the strategy is decided!

 

[WastinTime]

Great work. I didn't really expect you to find a fish deal, good shopping. I guess we shoulda thought of that a long time ago. Something else learned.

Fantastic lining up LifeSupport and Robotics! That should force her to do the dockingbay as planned. Maybe even a little hammer overflow...nice.

I know y'all are dying to get this over with and explore the other threads, so I'll play later tonight. It's 4:30pm now.

 

[WastinTime]

Wow, I just checked the save. McBalth, you did a perfect job on the hammer overflow. Better than I would have done. After this turn Life Support will have only 2 hammers left, so there will be a huge overflow, essentially shaving a full turn off our launch date.

 

[WastinTime]

So I'm told you guys want a save 1 turn before launch.
But I submit the save after launch, just like HoF submission, right?

 

[Merum]

Yes. Submit the save 1 after the win.

 

[MacBalt]

Wow, I just checked the save. McBalth, you did a perfect job on the hammer overflow. Better than I would have done.

Ha! That is great! I wish I could take credit for it! Alas, hammer overflow is one of those civ mysteries I'm just now getting a grip on... and even then I could only be called half-way competent with it -- in the early game with good visibility and few modifier complications. Which isn't to say I'm not ecstatic that it worked out so perfectly right now. (At least I didn't screw it up like I could have!)

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I'm sure it was tag-teaming the marble quarry/mine with Liz' workers that set up the overflow. The last time the mine got changed back to a quarry it bumped the Life support up a turn, which put it in sync with Robotics finishing so I left it alone. It must have been the production difference between the mine and the quarry that set up the big overflow.

 

[WastinTime]

10...9...8...7...6...5..4..3..2..1...BLASTOFF!

1755 AD ! save

We did shave a turn off. It was only 12 turns from when we got plastics.

Liz was able to build the DockingBay in 3 turns. The DB is only 900 hammers for her!?! I didn't realize the AI gets a 55% discount.

I built 1 more worker since switching off research didn't delay robotics. That way I had 4 workers and 4 forests.

After LifeSupport got to 1 turn left:
I gave Liz our deer, and cancelled her gift of sheep to us. She immediately took a citizen out of the ocean and made another engineer...nice.

I did that mine one more time and Liz didn't change it back to a quarry...hmm nice too.

My workers did nothing for 2 turns while the DB was being worked on. On the 3rd turn, I chopped all the forests (Liz gets -5 food for that), so her city starved on the final turn.

That was the smoothest finish I could imagine and I don't mean my last few turns. More like the last 100 turns were textbook space race. After that nasty GW attacked us ages ago (seems like that in real time too) everything seemed to happen the way we planned/hoped...maybe even a bit better than we hoped. Great work guys. I had so much fun!

Log:

Spoiler :

Turn 256, 1730 AD: Asoka has 4 gold per turn available for trade
Turn 256, 1730 AD: You have trained a Worker in Beijing. Work has now begun on a Research.
Turn 256, 1730 AD: Great Scientist has been born in Nottingham!
Turn 256, 1730 AD: Cyrus has completed SS Thrusters!
Turn 256, 1730 AD: Saladin has completed SS Casing!

Turn 257, 1735 AD: You have discovered Robotics!
Turn 257, 1735 AD: SGOTM07/Elizabeth has completed SS Life Support!
Turn 257, 1735 AD: Nain Singh has been born in Pasargadae!
Turn 257, 1735 AD: Cyrus has completed SS Thrusters!

Turn 258, 1740 AD: Julius Caesar's Golden Age has ended...
Turn 258, 1740 AD: SGOTM07/Elizabeth has completed SS Stasis Chamber!

Turn 260, 1750 AD: Catherine has 100 gold available for trade
Turn 260, 1750 AD: SGOTM07/Elizabeth has completed SS Docking Bay!

 

[MacBalt]

Wooohooo! Very nicely done. Great job team! WastinTime gets the MVP trophy imho, but I think I learned a lot from just about everyone on the team. Thanks again for the opportunity BLubmuz (& everyone). I hope I'll get invited back next time too.

So, what happens now? Are we free to check out the other threads yet?

 

[WastinTime]

1750 AD pre-launch save file...

 

[Merum]

Now that the final save is uploaded, you can look, McBalth. You might start here.

 

[MacBalt]

Now that the final save is uploaded, you can look, McBalth. You might start here.

Fantastic summary. Thanks for pointing it out Merum. Time to dive back in for more. Murky always makes it sound so easy... (Bloody warmongers.)

My pud'nhead Wilson quote seems an appropriate insert for right about here. *sigh*

 

[LowtherCastle]

Congratulations on an excellent Space Victory, Fifth Element!!!

It's been fun following your finish the last few days. Sounds like you all had a lot of fun.

 

[AlanH]

Well done, Fifth Element

You can go and look at the other team threads now, but please don't post in the ones that are still playing.

 

[FiveAces]

Congrats on your win Fifth Element! Very fast space race for this setup, especially considering your unplanned war against George. Good job managing that one.

One thing that puzzled me was your posts stating that the continent was not big enough for domination when it was IIRC 9 tiles over the limit - were you not counting peaks?

 

[Sweetacshon]

Zoooooooom!! Nice one, team, that was an excellent launch. I wish I could've been more help in the second half. So we could've dominated this continent for the win... I don't even recall getting the map for the rest of the south for a long time. We were too scared of the diplo situation, and had pretty much decided on SR by that time. We may have been inflexible in that sense, but it was a good plan and well played, and any win on deity is impressive.

 

[Erkon]

Congratulations to the win The quick build of the two final components is impressive.

... (Bloody warmongers.)

What, us? Our biggest achivement was to get jesusin-the-peacemonger to DoW two AIs with only two warriors garrisoned in Murkyopolis

You can find a summary of our game in post #3 in our thread.

 

[JerichoHill]

Hey nice space race victory you guys! Way to hang in there...WastinTime, you management was supurb.

 

[BLubmuz]

Great job, everyone.
Pity we can't have a laurel, despite a good victory.

A good reason to team-up again and try a laurel in next SG!
Useless to say, i hope we'll be together for next one too.
More comments will follow.

Dammit, the laurels will go to 3 dominations, unless CRC manages to achieve their diplo win.
Poor us peacemongers.

 

[JerichoHill]

 

[culdeus]

Congrats on your win Fifth Element! Very fast space race for this setup, especially considering your unplanned war against George. Good job managing that one.

One thing that puzzled me was your posts stating that the continent was not big enough for domination when it was IIRC 9 tiles over the limit - were you not counting peaks?

Nope but this was well after when we were dead set against domination and realized what you all were up to, plus if you look back we guessed that the map setup would require a departure from the continent to make it which was one justification for a SR attempt.