SGOTM6 - Team Smackster

[grahamiam]

imho, all we need is steam. then shut if off like you suggest. hopefully, we can keep improving the cpt and get this done in 30 turns. at the end of my set, we were at ~83 turns, now we're at 57, a 16 turn improvement

 

[dmanakho]

i gained much of culture by rushing caphedrals and libraries in all cities that reach pop 4.
I would start building settler the natural way, then check each city that grows to pop 4.
I would switch to musket and if it is less or equal than 40 turns left i can rush it for the price of 2 citizen, then i would switch to library/caphedral and rush it for the price of 1 citizen.
That trick alone brought almost entire amount of extra CPT i've gained during my turns.

 

[grahamiam]

i gained much of culture by rushing caphedrals and libraries in all cities that reach pop 4.
I would start building settler the natural way, then check each city that grows to pop 4.
I would switch to musket and if it is less or equal than 40 turns left i can rush it for the price of 2 citizen, then i would switch to library/caphedral and rush it for the price of 1 citizen.
That trick alone brought almost entire amount of extra CPT i've gained during my turns.

nice! (inserts in back pocket)

 

[dmanakho]

Since we have not heard from Smackster and he hasn't been online since March 16 I think we can skip him again.

Wotan is up!!!!

smackster - skipped (RL takes over our captain's time)
Wotan - up
Grahamiam - on deck
Tarkeel - MIA (auto-skip unless shows up)
Dmanakho - just played

 

[Wotan]

OK, I got it. Will probably play tonight.

EDIT: Mar 31, have played about half my turns. It is a time consuming game... Unfortunately with 95% "going through the motions" and 5% real gaming.

 

[grahamiam]

I hear that Woton take your time, as I will be out of town tonight and Saturday. I will not be able to play any civ till Sunday night. Seems family life is a bit busy lately.

 

[Wotan]

OK, will finish my turns tomorrow and post in time for you to pick it up on sunday.

 

[Wotan]

Finally!!! This game is not a game one enjoys but rather something one regards as a punishment... I am sorry but I just could not find the time to finish the last turn in my set of turns. Nothing is moved in the 1250AD turn. Sorry Grahamiam...

Turn log

0 – 1150AD Pre-flight
Moved a few Cavalry towards Babylon.

1 – 1160AD
Nimrud captured.

IBT: Renegotiate peace with Scandinavia.

2 – 1170AD
Nada

IBT: America and Babylon sign trade embargo vs. us.

3 – 1180AD
Nada

4 – 1190AD
Samarra captured. France joins us vs. Babylon for 110 gpt and America joins for 83 gpt.

5 – 1200AD
Mari captured.

IBT: Renegotiate Ivory deal with France for 48 gpt. Add fur for another 48 gpt.

6 – 1210AD
Ellipi captured.

7 – 1220AD
Nada.

IBT: The first cultural flip in our favour? Los Angeles pledges allegiance.

8 – 1230AD
Denver captured.

9 – 1240AD
Started attack on Babylon.

IBT: Babylon mobilize units in Babylon. Plus two more Riflemen enter. And a Cavalry…

10 – 1250AD
Consider reinforcing units outside Babylon with a couple of new Armies from Denver before attacking. But that is something for Grahamiam to decide. I need to go to bed now and this game is beginning (have been for a while)to be a bit sluggish and uneventful. But oh so time consuming.


After action report:
Have not moved anything on the 1250AD turn. Several units are on goto orders that expire this turn. Sorry but I originally believed I would have time to finish all my turns. Rushing Temples begun in 1150AD also left to do…

Firaxis: 5600
Culture: 54382(1088/turn)

 

[grahamiam]

yikes, the dreaded half-turn! no problem woton , i'll get this pig done before Wednesday (hopefully).

looks like we're down to ~42turns, a 5 turn improvement. hopefully, i can keep it up and we finish this with only 1 more cycle thru the short roster.

 

[dmanakho]

Oh well....
100K game is the most exhausting and after this is over i am going to study Offa's team thread (Have i mentioned their name again??? Sorry Grahamiam ).

From what i've read in the spoiler looks like we are the only team who went after ToA and loss of it certainly hurt us a lot.

Oh well... we shall score better in AWD game...

We need to start talking about it if we want to play together next time around and whether we will need team name change if Smackster can't join...

 

[grahamiam]

Oh well... we shall score better in AWD game...

We need to start talking about it if we want to play together next time around and whether we will need team name change if Smackster can't join...

i'm not exactly qualified for an AWD game. highest AW i've played is XAWM with handy. besides, this team isn't really together, as it's down to just 3 and that kinda sucks, especially with the time required per set. i'm obviously not complaining about the 2 of you. however, why did we have only 5 players (i believe another player was asking for a spot early on but didn't get one)? I have found during my 1+ yrs of sg'ing that 6 works better than 5 as it's more resilient against drops. just something to keep in mind for the next one.

dman is probably up to his ears in sg's, and probably saw my thread and passed, but woton, you don't frequent the sg forum much, so I thought i'd invite you to 6grams located here -> http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=115498&page=1&pp=20 we've only played 40 turns (1st 2 players) and we need a 6th (and another diety player). read the rules/changes and join us if it suits your fancy

 

[grahamiam]

Preflight check: Cycle thru everything, usings D-man’s pointer for poprushing cathedrals/Lib’s @ size 4. Now I want to kill myself.
Move up armies and cavs to take Babylon.
Frightening how many open cities we have on the American border.

IBT: Get about 21 Cathedrals, 2 Uni’s, and 5 temples on the Pop-builds. Cpt jumps to +1228.

T1: 1255AD Kill 6 rifles and take Bablyon. Armies are beat-up but no losses. Buy Navigation from America for WM and 937g
Sell Furs and Incense to America for 39gpt

IBT: Let the MPP with England expire; Get about 15 Cathedrals, 10 Temples, and 2 Libraries.

T2: 1260AD Pillaging Babylon

IBT: Lots of more builds, lose count. We’re up to +1303cpt according to MapStat (58114 total)
Stop here for the night as I'm tired (that took 3:30min )

 

[Wotan]

T2: 1260AD Pillaging Babylon

Bach's!!! Wasn't that in Babylon. That would have given content pop everywhere...

Stop here for the night as I'm tired (that took 3:30min )

Been there, done that. I really dislike this game. It is such a terrible time consuming monster without any real gaming going on. This game reminds me of never ever going after a "milking game"...

 

[grahamiam]

sorry, my notes stink. I captured the city of Babylon and held it (with Bach's ) and then pillaged tiles in the rest of the country of Babylon

edit: if it's ok with dman and woton, i'm going to play 6 grams and the 5 Samurai games tonight rather than this one. I'll get back to this monster on Thursday.

 

[Wotan]

Pheew, you got me worried for a moment. Great work on the pop rushing. My last turns was a "steep uphill crawl" so I guess I overlooked quite a few of them. I was much more alert in the first few turns... (I hope)

 

[dmanakho]

Do it when you like G-Man
We don't have that many turns left to play and it doesn't look we are falling behind compared to other teams.

 

[grahamiam]

Preflight check: Cycle thru everything, usings D-man’s pointer for poprushing cathedrals/Lib’s @ size 4. Now I want to kill myself.
Move up armies and cavs to take Babylon.
Frightening how many open cities we have on the American border.

IBT: Get about 21 Cathedrals, 2 Uni’s, and 5 temples on the Pop-builds. Cpt jumps to +1228.

T1: 1255AD Kill 6 rifles and take Bablyon. Armies are beat-up but no losses. Buy Navigation from America for WM and 937g
Sell Furs and Incense to America for 39gpt

IBT: Let the MPP with England expire; Get about 15 Cathedrals, 10 Temples, and 2 Libraries.

T2: 1260AD Pillaging Babylon

IBT: Lots of more builds, lose count. We’re up to +1303cpt according to MapStat (58114 total)
Stop here for the night.


T3: 1265AD Use 2 Armies to capture Nineveh

T4: 1270AD

T5: 1275AD Fail to take Ashur

IBT: Sell Dyes and Incense to France for 109gpt

T6: 1280AD Kill 1 rifle, 4 muskets, a spear and a LB, taking Trondheim with Leo’s

T7: 1285AD Ugly turn. Lose a 19hp Army to an elite rifle, redline another 19hp army on a reg rifle, lose about 6 cavs, but finally take Uruk.

T8: 1290AD

T9: 1295AD

T10: 1300AD gotta stop here. Too late. Dman, take it. Nothings moved or pop rushed.

Cpt = 1505
Total Culture = 68122
This better not come back to me or I’m going to shoot myself.

 

[Wotan]

Well done Grahamiam, it is a pain in the ***. But someone has to do it!

D-man, feel free to finish this off if you have the time. I cannot say I am looking forward to another set of turns.

 

[dmanakho]

I have it... i will try to finish it.

This was my first 100K game ever and I will never play another 100K game ever again.

 

[Wotan]

Well, it shouldn't be difficult, just boring... Rushing culture and making the odd attack.