SGOTM7 - Team Bede

[MeteorPunch]

you could release it so idiots could DL it...

I'll post it sometime this week.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Originally posted by H.W.O. Kinnard: Surrender
Transcript: My recollection of the German surrender ultimatum, and the "Nuts" reply by McAuliffe goes like this. On the 22nd of December, when the division was and had been totally surrounded by the Germans, the intelligence officer and I decided that we had to take this to General McAuliffe. We first took it to the chief of staff, and the three of us, and Colonel Harper then went in, woke up General McAuliffe who was taking a bit of a nap, and told him that we had a surrender ultimatum. And that Tony McAuliffe had first thought that the Germans were trying to surrender to us. But, we told him no, not so. That they want us to surrender to them, and they go on to say all the bad things that they're going to do if we don't do this. And he said, Tony McAuliffe then said, "I surrender, ah nuts!" And then he sort of pondered about whether he should answer or should it be in writing, and so forth. And everybody agreed that there should be a written answer. And Tony McAuliffe then said, "Well, I don't know what to tell them." And I spoke up and said, "Well, what you first said would be hard to beat." And Tony said, "What do you mean?" And I said, "You said nuts!" And all of us in the room sort of thought that was a good answer. So Tony sat down and wrote out with a pencil, "To the German Commander, Nuts! A.C. McAuliffe, Commanding." Had his secretary type it out. Gave the message to Colonel Harper, who took it back to his headquarters and gave it to the German Armistice party. The Germans were allowed to take off their blindfold and read the message, and they were puzzled by it. And they were trying to translate nuts. And they said, "Nuets, Nuets, Nuts... Vas Is Das?" They didn't get it at all. And Colonel Harper said, "If you don't understand it, it means go to hell!"

here's where I get my inspiration.

 

[soul_warrior]

here hear! AK, here hear!

oh, and MP, just not commenting on the graphics doesnt mean we havent noticed your post it asap.

 

[Bede]

I don't like the looks of this at all, at all. No walls in a couple of places, one of them being the capitol and no cattypults for hurling philospher's stones....yet we have a barracks in our jungly spices town.

So order up a couple of each.

And the newly built cat at Istanbul proves its worth and wounds a Viking archer which is then killed by an archer from Istanbul.

The cat whipped out of Isznik however does no damage to an Impi on the mountain.

Impi attacks at Iznik and is crippled and retreated but the Vikings drop off a sword in the east.

The elite sword from Erdrine kills the crippled Imp but but no leader.

We now have two Vikings (sword and archer) and two Persians (horseman and archer) coming from the east.

Pumop another worker into Erdrine and shift some citizens around.

In 670BC Iznik faces four attackers with two cats and four defenders.

The Vikings kill the elite sword and a spear, and a remaining spear wounds a Persian horse. We kill a single Viking sword.

The Zulu land two Imps at Istanbul and the Americans land a warrior and spear.

An Imp dies at Istanbul and the second captures a stray worker.

The cats at Iznik wound a couple more Persian horse but the archer at Istanbul fails to kill the Impi.

Gandhi seeks peace talks and wants 20g and Literature.

The Americans attack Iznik with warriors - stoned, then impaled.

Now the Zulu come seeking peace and they want Literature. And their freaking Impi grabs the last worker...

The Americans start SunT and the Vikings the Library in 570.

And the biggest threat to Iznik appears in the form of two Persian horses and two Persian archers.

We lose an elite spear to the Persian onslaught but Iznik holds. And the Zulu build Mpondo on the eastern horses.

It is now 550BC and we are still alive. The Great Library will finish in 4 if our luck holds.

Things are looking better. Get some more enemies into the killing zone and with walls and catapult support we ought to start generating leaders. Then it will be time to pick up the offensive against the trespassers, get back our iron, or claim it in the mountain west of the barbie camp with a settlement or some culture expansion...anyway you get the idea.

On second thought I am going to exercise the leader's prerogative here and finish the Library.

Stay tuned.

 

[Bede]

Got the Library, but....
lost the realm.

In 530 the Zulu drop a horseman and an Impi at the gates of Istanbul and there is only one defender at home....

Istanbul survives, The Great Library is built and the Barbarian uprising begins.

The barbarians destroy the garrison at Bursa, leaving it open for the Americans, but the GL produces:

Philosophy
Code of Laws
Map Making
Construction
Currency
Republic
Monarchy
Engineering

but the invaders have cut the roads and killed a garrison spear so Istanbul riots.

So now we have the Library but I don't think we will get to keep the capitol or Bursa.

Bursa is gone in 470.

And in 390 Istanbul falls to the Zulu.

We are now a 2CC with no horses and no iron.

But at least we don't have to deal with landings from the sea

 

[MeteorPunch]

My feeling about this game, perfomed by the smily ensemble:
:suicide: :shakehead

c'mon AK, we need a miracle .

I assume we can view the other threads after we croak?

 

[killercane]

I think the barbs said to hell with just invading Bursa and invaded my hard drive since my computer blew up today. Reinstalled windows, fixed assorted other things, and now this. What a bummer of an evening.

Whip our worthless people into something productive AK. TO THE BITTER END.

 

[Bede]

It is not game over yet.

We just didn't get enough cats and spears built. We can still fix it.

 

[soul_warrior]

YEAH, fix us up AK
wondering if i'll play another set
should i?

 

[Tubby Rower]

Wow Bede. You did a better job than I could have done. I might have been reporting a completed game if I were in the rotation. At least this game won't be the marathon that SGOTM6 was....

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Tonight was middle school orientation(not for me, for the offspring, don't go there) i won't get to this until tomorrow. Nuts.

 

[MeteorPunch]

Tonight was middle school orientation(not for me, for the offspring, don't go there) i won't get to this until tomorrow. Nuts.

Skipping middle school increases the likelyhood of idiocy. You should reconsider.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

@ MP - I'm already an idiot

Whoo hoo! I am fired up ladies and germs. Why? Admiral Idiocy. No complex MM, no pre-builds, no strategic disaster consequences (that SG is #2 on the list). This is a straight forward tactical fight. Refer to the inspirational invocation above.

The bad news first me thinks (As Woody the world's best bartender once said, "Shouldn't it be I thinks?")

It is 210BC; the status quo remains. We have 2 cities.

Now for the good news. We have a GL.

Igor was taking the notes. I forgot to monitor him and he was writing with his toes again. Thus the notes are illegible for the most part. IIRC the score is about 15-1 in our favor (we lost an archer at Iznik). The AI can't seem to figure out it should cut the road between our cities. The vast majority of action is at Iznik (see pix below)

I've got 3 turns to go. I wasn't sure if protocol allows DL the save, so I didn't. What do I do with the GL? Spear army. IIRC, there are 2 5/5 spears in Iznik along with a 5/5* spear an archer and a cat. we need kulture to flip some AI cities.

The admiral is loopy (scratch that, looping for responses)

 

[soul_warrior]

all hail the Admiral!!
a spear army... hmmmm.....
i say go for it.
and now your sig is REALLY appropriate.
NUTS to shaka and the rest of the gangers. NUTS!!!!

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Ground Control to Venerable Monk
Your circuit's dead,
there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Tubby Rower?
Can you hear me, Killercane?
Can you hear me, Meteor Punch?
Can you....

Here am I floating
round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do...

 

[MeteorPunch]

Amazing AK, That spear army will make us invinsible for awhile. If worse comes to worse, we'll go OCC for a while before our eventual "greatest comeback in Civ III history!"

 

[eldar]

Right. I've just witnessed the greatest comeback in the history of European Football.

Winning this game should be a doddle, non?

 

[Bede]

Spear army, spear army, cattypults, walls, more spears. If we have to we'll do this as a 2CC.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

one chicken fried spear army coming up. tomorrow. way past igor's bedtime.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

still alive. The road was finally cut. GL in Iznik. American MDI just wandered out of the fog. http://gotm.civfanatics.net/saves/sgotm7/Bede_SG007_BC0150_01.SAV