SGOTM 11 - Godzilla is a monster

played until 1470, entered the MA, Ottomans are getting insanely rich, but we still have some war over at the other side with France/Germany and Vikings. The war went well so far. Took out some German cities (figured that would be the easiest spot for our transports). Took Berlin on the last turn. Settled 4 cities there as well in order to keep the AI from resettling. Germany is down to 4 cities and should be gone during the next turnset. Then I would go for France as they are big.

Ultimately need to go after Ottoman, though this will be brutal as we need to fight 4 Civs there at the same time
 
Hey I am just lurking around, but I am having fun watching this rag-tag group make it through this sgotm. All your leaders have gone MIA and you two are taking the whole thing on yourselves. I love it.
 
unfortunately it's now down to 1 person, not really what a SGOTM was supposed to be. I myself stopped playing GOTM's quite a while ago because I am not really suited for that.

I guess I won't finish this game until the deadline. In fact I played 2 nights ago and the game crashed after the first IT, lost patience and stopped...
 
Won't hold it against you; the 2-man deal is a shame, and if anything, I'll take the fall after that. Great go while it alsted :thumbsup: :hatsoff:
 
played another few turns, until 1500AD to be precise. need to make a decision now. I managed to take out Germany and France on this turn. I have not moved units much after that sicne I need a decision.

Shall I go for England/ America and then Vikings or our own continent.

The advantage of going after America and England would be the fact that they have been fighting and their troops should be depleted. I managed to take over France in a mere 3 turns completely, Having a few Cav armies and a tank army helps.

fighting our own continent would mean a real blood bath since we would have to fight all 4 in a go. Ottomans are very rich though (24k). Any advice?

The world map now


we have 44/46% and maybe the rest of that continent might just be enough
 
I highly doubt we can manage 75 with only the other continent, I actually believe that was part of the makers' plan. What are the forces around? Tanks, MI's, MA's ? Our continent needs to be hit before they get either one of the prior.

Will CA2 give us the % of occupied lands by the civs at hand? If we get confirmation that the civs on either continent sum up to 25% or less, we have a straight answer. If it happens on the other continent I'd hit England first, they're the weaker civ of the South and hitting scandinavia would result in a 2vs us afterwards.

Otherwise we need to scratch some tiles from someone at our place. If we declare, let them attack us first on our continent, and then go for the ottos, we could have a chance with the short-rush money. Razing a few arab cities would provide us with an easier, faster deal out of the war when we should need one.
 
I checked and the land England, America and Vikings own would be sufficient, thus will attack them
 
You said you were in the modern age - any chance you could get the internet? high pop full specialist town maybe? Or force a cascade? Trying to save you time there - though I would have some time this week-end for some (a lot *maybe*) of enter-hitting turns if it's no more brain intensive than slowly waging war and pumping settlers.
 
played until 1540 this time...
asked America to leave on turn 2 and they declared. Got the rest in and fought England and America. Took out England in 4 turns and then went after America. In 1540 there is only 1 city of them left that is engulfed by Vikings.

went for computers and got a monopoly using it to cash in. Got ecology for it and 7000gold at the same time. Traded it to Egypt for more cash. Now stopped to research, making money for culture.
Bought a ton of temples with our money to get boders expansions.

Next turn, it will be time to attack Vikings and get our domination
at the moment we need another 255 tiles to win
 
BoF, if you want to play another ten this weekend, let me know, otherwise 'll finish this tomorrow.
I am pretty certain this last war and some border expansion will be suffcient to get to domination
 
Whenever you feel like backup just post and upload, I'll be at my computer a lot.
 
I posted all those saves in between anyway, so go ahead and download the save and play some...maybe the last 10 turns and we could still beat at least 1 team :lol:
 
Hello. Is anyone out there...? Yes, I know, I wandered off and didn't really say I was doing so, terribly bad form :( You could say I kind of got lost in Oblivion :satan:

Oh, and my wife had a lovely baby daughter, Aliza, on January 5th, so she's been keeping me busy recently too!
 
Glad to hear it, eldar :D
 
Started playing and scratching our way through the required land requirement. Vikings flip a town from us (the island up north) and egypt ends up conquering the last american city, in the middle of viking territory. We need to attack fast - I gather they have nothing, basically, if they get stolen like that from a civ making oversea disembarqument.

Viks have 8%, we have 65% land, so we'll need to rush temples and get EVERY coast tile around. I started rushing more culture on our alpha-continent's borders, won a few tiles that way.

We only have 60% of world pop though, egypt has huuuuuuuuuuge cities on the FP river line. Thebes is size 35. I've started setting our cities to max food all around, hopefully it'll be enough by the time we get through scandinavia.
 
Uploaded save, we don't have a reputation to keep so I suggest we strike at the vikings now. Getting egypt in the ordeal could be beneficial as their mpp will probably drag more of their friends into the fold - there are 3 sipahis hanging around on the island to the north that would help.
 
played until 1595AD yesterday late night, then the programme crashed and I went bed.
By the way, war was easy to get by asking Vikings to leave the territory...

Vikings are no more...we're at 73/68 and will surely reach 75% land in 1-2 turns. However, even growing the cities with merging slaves etc won't give us 75%. We have to attack the rest.

I would send over all the armies and then try to take out big cities until we have enough pop. Arabs and Russia look weak enough to take. The rest is too strong I guess.

The are also building the UN and we don't want to lose that way.

BeF, do you want to play? (save is uploaded)
 
A few vodkas too many to play tonuight, might consider it tomorrow morning when I'm done writing up my assignments. Agreed with the pop issues, although I think taking out egypt's Thebes would be most efficient. UN is out of the question too.
 
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