SGOTM 07 - Unusual Suspects

[Mastiff_of_Ar]

Congrats, US! A deity win is a good win!

MF

 

[Yamps]

Great finish Melior!

Well gents, it's been a privilege teaming with you all. I'm looking forward to SGOTM08.

Hear, hear! Nice work, gentlemen!

A damn fine job, team! Some of those other teams have near legendary players, but we adhoc Unusual Suspects made a fine showing nonetheless. Special thanks to Yamps for keeping things moving (so that I got to see the end before I start travelling). And for everyone else who made it happen, thanks a lot for a truly great learning experience. I'm a better player already because of what I've learned here. Thanks everyone!

Yes, great game! This was a great learning experience for me too, I really enjoyed this. Yeah, my vacation will start soon too.

Well, we were nowhere close to finishing in the top three. But we can at least take comfort that there's no way we will be finishing dead last either.

It'll take a while to read through the other teams' threads, but Murky Waters pulled off some masterful diplomatic manipulations with war bribes. What is possibly even more impressive is that some of the teams yet to finish might actually beat Murky Waters' finish.

Maybe they did conquest first, PA second? Well, no more guessing, let's see what they did!

Congrats, US! A deity win is a good win!

MF

Thanks! I'm excited to read what you did, impressive finish Misfits!

 

[JerichoHill]

I dont think any of the remaining teams are going to beat Murky's time...they may be us or Xteam

 

[Erkon]

Congratulations to your win!

I have written a short summary (post #3 in the Murky Waters' thread) if you don't fancy reading the ~4000 posts of drivel

 

[Yamps]

I've started reading other threads, interesting stuff. Basically, our strategy was wrong. We waited too long, should've started wars much earlier.

Smurkz are going for Diplo, that looks interesting. CRC too, but I don't plan to learn Russian just yet.

@Erkon

Thanks! Looking forward to all those posts.

 

[vra379971]

Well done all. Next time will try more than one turn set

 

[Yamps]

Well done all. Next time will try more than one turn set

At least you have BtS now for the next SGOTM!

 

[marconos]

I thought we were waiting too long on the wars.

Still though, I'm VERY pleased with our outcome. I'll be back for the next SGOTM as an Unusual Suspects member if you guys will have me back. Was great fun and enjoyed talking strats with everyone!!!


Edit: Holy . .. .. .. ., I just read Murky Waters thread ... have everyone in the world fighting all the time, wow impressive.

 

[vra379971]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=284712

If any of you are up for a succession game not in the heat of battle, would be honored to have you folks with me. Will be a fun game.

 

[Yamps]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=284712

If any of you are up for a succession game not in the heat of battle, would be honored to have you folks with me. Will be a fun game.

That's one crazy setup! I think I need some break from civ, but I'll lurk this. Immortal level requires focused play, I can't imagine a win with 3 different factions pulling in 3 different directions.

 

[Jimmy Thunder]

Well done Unusual Suspects.

Like Mastiff of Ar said, a deity win is a good win, especially for your team's first game.

 

[classical_hero]

Well, we were nowhere close to finishing in the top three. But we can at least take comfort that there's no way we will be finishing dead last either.

I will call this an impressive first up game for this team. I don't think that we have the experience of the other teams on how to properly play so it is interesting how they fought wars. I was surprised at how early you can confuse the AI with wars, which sounds like a very interesting tactic.

 

[Yamps]

Well done Unusual Suspects.

Like Mastiff of Ar said, a deity win is a good win, especially for your team's first game.

Thanks! Yes, a solid first game.

I will call this an impressive first up game for this team. I don't think that we have the experience of the other teams on how to properly play so it is interesting how they fought wars. I was surprised at how early you can confuse the AI with wars, which sounds like a very interesting tactic.

We had a conventional strategy: avoiding wars, going for DP and waiting 40 turns for the PA, we started wars after that. By the time we signed the PA, Murky Waters had already finished! However, I think we executed our strategy rather well. Great work team!

I'll write a full summary, probably when I get back home around August 15th. Some log files are missing in our thread; Melior, please attach the replay file in our team thread to extract some numbers. The file is located in your My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Replays folder.

 

[Melior Traiano]

It's true that we were influenced too much by the OCC walkthrough & did not think enough (or at all) outside the box.

Here's the replay. Parse away!

 

[Yamps]

It's true that we were influenced too much by the OCC walkthrough & did not think enough (or at all) outside the box.

Here's the replay. Parse away!

Yeah, our pre-game strategy was bad! Still, we learned a lot from this game and we can learn a lot more from other teams' threads.

Thanks for the replay!

 

[classical_hero]

We had a conventional strategy: avoiding wars, going for DP and waiting 40 turns for the PA, we started wars after that. By the time we signed the PA, Murky Waters had already finished! However, I think we executed our strategy rather well. Great work team! .

We can be proud that we have stuck well to our strategy and not deviate from it when thing could have gone wrong. that is essence of good team work, so now we need to take the next step and make he path better, which the more we play with each other the better we can get. I must say that is was great fun being in this team. Often I was nervous playing y turns, since i did not want to screw up.

 

[Yamps]

We had a conventional strategy: avoiding wars, going for DP and waiting 40 turns for the PA, we started wars after that. By the time we signed the PA, Murky Waters had already finished! However, I think we executed our strategy rather well. Great work team!

We can be proud that we have stuck well to our strategy and not deviate from it when thing could have gone wrong. that is essence of good team work, so now we need to take the next step and make he path better, which the more we play with each other the better we can get. I must say that is was great fun being in this team. Often I was nervous playing y turns, since i did not want to screw up.

Yeah, I was nervous sometimes too when playing. It's a big responsibility to play for the team! Of course, there is a lot of satisfaction when you do well! This was a great experience, we learned a lot. We had many questions about game mechanics while playing, the "Klarius korner" in Murky Waters offers the answers. I'm reading other threads too, a lot to learn. Like you said, we can be proud about good team work and we'll certainly improve for the next game. Looking forward to SGOTM 8!

 

[vra379971]

Looking for one more folks..

We're only playing Emperor anyway

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=284712

 

[AlanH]

You guys only have two players signed up for SGOTM 8. Did you miss it, or are you not playing this one?

 

[Yamps]

You guys only have two players signed up for SGOTM 8. Did you miss it, or are you not playing this one?

My schedule is rather filled these days so I was planning to skip this. But I've just changed my mind. There should be some time for this, SGOTM is a lot of fun!