SGOTM8 - Xteam

[WillowBrook]

Well, I unexpectedly have time to play right now, so I'll play for an hour or so and post.

 

[leif erikson]

Go Willow!!

Roster:
Willow - UP
On Deck? - Any volunteers?
Capt.
Leif
Bluebox - Just played
Gator - rubbing elbows with the muckitty-mucks.
Nemesis - ?

Good luck Willow. Please feel free to use some of that time you had planned for Wednesday as well, unless you want me to play some tomorrow and then you can have it back for Wednesday?

 

[WillowBrook]

Summary: I rushed the ROP-rape on Rome, and didn't gain anything except resourse dis-connection from it. But we have a ROP with Japan and they're at war with Rome; once they spend themselves on each other, we can try it again. We now have enough troops we should be able to soon make major progress on Rome. Get that island town!!!

Preturn
not sure why we're building workers in our foothold - switch to cavs and rush. Note that we were right about resource on that tundra island.
Identify key Roman resources - rubber under Cumae and salt next to Veii.
I think it better to build up quickly and attack Rome rather than spending gold on research, so I lower research temporarily.

IBT
Roman settler moves to were we wanted to build. Well, we'll build nextdoor.
Cavs in Edo, Victory, and Toyama, barracks in Fukushima, settler in D-day.
Lots of people celebrate.

1675
Found Frontline one SW of where I intended to - hit wrong direction key, but couldn't wait or Rome would have build a town.
Rush a bunch of things (see IBT)

IBT
Beijing complete SE
Edo, Fukishima, Victory, and D-Day complete artillery
Frontline completes barracks
Toyama completes infantry

1680
rush infantry in frontline, Victory, and D-Day
rush artillery in Edo and Fukushima

IBT
above rushes complete

1685
rush cavs in Toyama, D-Day, Fukushima, Frontline, and Victory
Edo starts settler

WAIT!? When did Kagoshima (SW of Atlanta) show up!?!? Well, I'm sure I've missed it in the turnlog somewhere. But that's one more island we need to get.

decide to establish ROP with Japan before breaking ours with Rome. Maybe Japan will join us against Rome when I attack in a few turns. And maybe we'll get to abuse that ROP too.

IBT
Washington completes SE
above rushes complete

1690
rush settler in Edo
rush infantry in Victory, D-Day, and Frontline, cav in Fukushima
found Houston2 in Old England (just discovered the settlers there)

IBT
above builds complete

1695
Found Normandy (okay, okay, so we've already landed :rolleye: ), start barracks
Found Buffalo2

time to take Caesar by surprise!
After leaving two infantry and an artillary in each of the two soon-to-be frontline cities, and one infantry in the rest, I have
6 infantry, 11 artillery, and 17 cavs

Hmm - on second thought, I'm going to wait one more turn
rush 3 arties and 3 more infantry
and a cav in Toyama. almost out of gold

IBT
above builds complete

1700
move troops:
2 inf, 5 arty, 7 cav on salt next to Veii
2 inf, 9 arty, 10 cavs on coal (to be able to reach both Cumae and Byzantium)
6 cavs next to Syracuse (yay! only a reg rifle!)
1 inf on the horses, 1 on the iron, 2 ready to take out cavs

I build the military academy in New Portland with Jackson, since there's really nothing else to do with him and we want a chance at more leaders.

hmm - I hope we're ready, because here goes....
I check on Caesar's troops: 44 inf, 16 cavs, 2 rifles, assorted strange-looking things. Hmm - his settler disappeared (to where!?! )
I dial up Caesar and deliver the bad news.
Japan joins for Sci Meth

Battle for Syracuse
4/4 cav v. 4/4 cav outside town => 2/4 cav, worker captured
4/4 cav v. 3/3 rifle => 3/5 cav, strange-looking object disappears, town captured
3 resistors. decide to keep for the moment.

General destruction:
all resources pillaged (except oil), 2 cavs taken out

Battle for Veii
5 arty bombards: lose barracks, citizen, and a few HP. there are 2 vet and 1 reg inf in there. going to wait.

Battle for Cumae
arty: 1 hp, 1hp, 1 citizen, f, uni dest., 2 hp (3/4 inf to top), cit, f
ooh - I forgot how hard inf are. but that's why we have to take out Cumae (on rubber)
4/4 cav v. 3/4 inf => 3/4 inf, retreat
4/4 cav v. 3/4 inf => 3/5 inf
4/4 cav v. 3/4 inf => 3/4 inf, retreat
4/4 cav v. 3/4 inf => 4/5 inf.
4/4 cav v. 4/5 inf => 4/5 inf, retreat
repeat 2 more times.
okay. need lots and lots more artillery

rush 4 arties
take out two more cavs, losing 1 in the process

well, I'm rather embarrassed at my under-estimate of what infantry require. I should have known better. Let's see if we can survive the IBT...

IBT
we get failed frigate bombard, defeat a cav, lose a cav and two lone inf, one to a cav army. several cavs enter our territory but don't attack. a few J troops head north.

Area 51 completes SE, and New Portland the academy.
4 arties complete

1705
take out 3 cavs in our territory

bombard Byz: cit, temple, cit, f, 2 hp, f, cit, 2hp, 2hp (3 inf in city)
bombard Veii: 1 hp, 2hp, temple, 2 hp, ?
rush 2 inf, 2 arty, 1 cav

IBT
Japan takes out red-line inf, then another inf on defense, Roman cav in territory, one successful frigate pillage
rushed builds complete
Boston finishes SE

1710
lose inf trying to take out cav; a cav takes care of offending cav

bombarb Byz: f, c, 2hp, f, f, c, 1hp, f, 1hp, f, uni, 1 hp, c, lib
nuisence bombarding of Veii

rush 2 arty, 2 cavs, and in Toyama artillery

IBT
Japanese moving in troops, cav fails against our walled inf, cav army defeated by inf by Veii!!!

1715
time to take out Byzantium!
bombard: 1 hp, f, c, f, f, 1hp, 2hp (they have 4 inf in there now!), f, c, f, 1hp, f, 2hp, 2hp, c, 2hp
4/4 cav v. 2/4 inf => 1/4 inf
4/4 cav v. 1/4 inf => 1/4 inf
4/4 inf v. 1/4 inf => 2/4 inf (ours)
4/4 cav v. 1/4 inf => 4/4 cav

hmm - not enough troops. I'll see what the Japanese do.

rush 3 cavs, 2 arties

Okay - I have played *much* longer than I should have. Time to upload the save.

 

[WillowBrook]

Here's the save

Leif, feel free to play tomorrow (well, today); if no one else wants it Wednesday, I can play a bit more.

Some tips for whoever plays:
1. Don't forget to buy more troops each turn!
2. Don't forget about Toyama - I've been rushing something every other turn (no need to spend the extra 80g there) so we have plenty of troops there when the time comes.
3. Having a spy to see all the troops is really nice
4. Don't give Japan any resources, or we'll have to contend with what they do with them.
5. I've turned off research, thinking tons of artillary, while tedious, will be quicker than getting to tanks, and we can buy an extra 1-2 units per turn with research off. But if the team wants to overrule, that's okay with me.
6. We can sqeeze in another town or two in our foothold if we want. It would reduce the need to spend teh 80g start cost when rushing troops. And less harm if/when one of them flips.

Hmm - now I need to get some sleep...

 

[bluebox]

Thrilling turnlog . Your attack was surely a gamble but a brave one. Good to see you made some key decisions. Good you played such a long turn set. The MA with JPN might have 2 positive outcomes: They are helping us vs. the Romans before we can backstab them.

It's perfect you attacked Rome - they would have been getting even stronger.

not sure why we're building workers in our foothold - switch to cavs and rush.

We weren't *building* workers - I just rushed the initial 10s.

 

[WillowBrook]

We weren't *building* workers - I just rushed the initial 10s.

Thought that might be the case.

Go, Leif!

And if anyone else wants to play Wednesday instead of me, that's fine - I don't want to hog that game. But I won't be able to play again after tomorrow until Sunday or Monday.

Edit: on a completely different topic, I wonder if we'll end up needing a special dispensation to go over the 1000 post limit on this thread... Go spam!

 

[leif erikson]

Nice work Willow.

Those darn Infantry sure can be stubborn but we have to go and get them sometime. The key issue will be our ability to replacing our losses.

Should we get a leader, do we build an army to protect our artillery or jump the palace?

I will try to knock out some turns today, unless someone else can grab it for a few. If you wish to continue the struggle, please post the times you are available to play so we can get the game turned around for the next player.

Right now I know I can do some today and Willow on Wednesday. Gator is out until the weekend, playing golf and eating fancy foods with the

Capt. or Bluebox, any more time this week?

 

[leif erikson]

Edit: on a completely different topic, I wonder if we'll end up needing a special dispensation to go over the 1000 post limit on this thread... Go spam!

No problem!! We went way over 1000 in SGOTM07, iirc.

And a nice double post too!!

 

[Capt Buttkick]

I may have time Thursday.
Until that I won't even have time to play the COTM, on which I'm off to a terrific start, so I really want to finish what might be my first deity win apart from tiny maps...

 

[leif erikson]

I may have time Thursday.
Until that I won't even have time to play the COTM, on which I'm off to a terrific start, so I really want to finish what might be my first deity win apart from tiny maps...

If you have time, that would be great. If not, that's OK too. I don't want to deny anyone the glory of kicking the hell out of the Romans and Japanese.


Good luck with your COTM game. I haven't started yet and am not sure I'll get to it this month.

 

[WillowBrook]

Oh, two more thing that could be relevant to the next player: (assuming some, like Leif, gets to play before I do again tomorrow)
- the wounded cavs in Victory only got there this turn, so they need another turn to heal (they were north of Byzantium and I didn't immediately have cover for them)
- Normandy doesn't have a barracks, so only use it for artillery. I figured we'd want lots of that anyway, so didn't need to buy a barracks in every town.

 

[leif erikson]

Thanks Willow...

 

[WillowBrook]

Hmm - couple more thoughts. (Can't figure out if I'm thinking too much about this game - or if I should think more and get all these thoughts out at once. )
- Once Syracuse is out of resistance, we may want to rush just enough units (could be cheap ones) to cover the island and abandon the city. As long as marines don't arrive, there would be no way for anyone else to land.
- I didn't go through towns to MM for taxpayers and gold. It might be a good thing to do in the next few turns. If someone has time.

 

[leif erikson]

OK, Thanks Willow. I'm on the job!!

 

[leif erikson]

Played some and the good news is that Rome is finally on the run. They are down to 8 cities and still are not talking, although we are threatening Rome.

Kagoshima flipped to us, so that is one island city that is ours. Jerusalem is still out there however.

The bad news is that it is a slog against Infantry, thank God for Artillery!!

<< THE SAVE >>

The turn log follows:

Turn 333 – 1715 AD Pre-flight
Go through cities and check for gold production and there aren’t very many adjustments to make. Things are pretty tight and when I tried to make an adjustment, it effected so many other things that it is nearly futile! I made 2 or 3adjustments and added only 1 Gold gain.
You did a good job of wearing down Rome as they have only 3 Cavs and 48 Infantry. That is going to be a tough number to reduce.
Ok, so I press enter to start us on our way!

IBT
The Japanese come knocking on the door and want to trade World Maps. I trade them our World map for theirs plus 13 Gold.
Japanese Rifles move up.
Rome attacks the Japanese stack and loses 3 Infantry, one in Byzantium, while Japan loses one Rifle and one Guerilla.
Edo Cav => Worker.
D-Day Cav => Worker.
Victory Artillery => Worker.
Frontline Cav => Worker.
Normandy Artillery => Worker.
“We love the President Day” ends in many cities.

Turn 334 – 1720 AD
Battle for Byzantium.
Artillery Prep. – kill a pop point, f, f, -1 HP, f, -1 HP, -1 HP.
4/4 Cav attacks redlined Infantry and kills him, redlining but we capture Byzantium and 1 Gold. I install a Governor as the pop is 1 and all it has is an Aqueduct.

With the Artillery in D-Day bombard a Roman Infantry that moved to D-Day and fail, -1 HP, f, -1 HP, -1 HP. We attack the redlined Infantry with a Vet Cav and he kills him, losing 1 HP.

With Artillery stack north of Byzantium, bombard Cumae; f, -1 Pop, doesn’t say, f, f, doesn’t say, f, doesn’t say (I am not observing Cumae, so I must have hit something but I don’t know what it is).

With Artillery stack near Veii; f, f, f, destroy Marketplace, destroy Library.

4/4 Cav dies against a redlined Roman Infantry, who promotes to Elite?
4/4 Cav dies against the 2/5 Inf, now 1/5.
4/4 Cav kills a 1/5 Inf, redlining.

Rush Workers and then Cavs in Edo, D-Day and Victory.
Rush Worker and then Artillery in Normandy. Then run out of Gold.

IBT
Japanese stacks march north.
Rome makes 5 ship bombardments, no damage.
A Roman Infantry move next to Byzantium.
Edo Cav => Worker.
Philadelphia Stock Exchange => Wealth.
Resistance ends in Byzantium.
Bjoergvin Aqueduct => Marketplace.
D-Day Cav => Worker.
Victory Cav => Worker.
Normandy Artillery => Worker.

Turn 335 – 1725 AD
Move Artillery stack near Edo north to threaten Cumae and Lutetia.

Redline a Roman Infantry near Byzantium with 3 Artillery shots.

Bombard Cumae; f, f, hit something unknown, again, -1 Pop, f, f, something, -1 Pop,

Bombard Veii; f, destroy Bank, destroy Cathedral, f, -1 Pop.

Move Cavs from Victory to threaten Cumae.

Rush Workers and then Cavs in Edo, D-Day, Victory, Frontline and Fukushima, run out of Gold.

Change Washington from Wealth to Wall Street, due in 10 turns.

IBT
Japanese Guerilla kills a redlined Roman Infantry.
Roman Cav kills a Japanese rifle, now 2/4.
Rome lands 2 Cavs near Oslo and 1 Infantry near New Tampa Bay.
We are bombarded 4 times by Roman naval units and 2 improvements are destroyed.
Edo Cav => Worker.
Fukushima Cav => Worker.
D-Day Cav => Worker.
Victory Cav => Worker.
Frontline Cav => Worker.
The Japanese island city of Kagoshima has pledged loyalty to US!!! We install a new governor and it has a Harbor. Set production to Worker.

Turn 336 – 1730 AD
Near New Tampa Bay we have a Vet Roman Infantry in the forest, that’s a healthy defensive bonus.
Rush Artillery in New Tampa Bay by the usual method. Move a Worker stack into Macao. Find some Cannons near Viroconium and move them to New Tampa Bay and fire up the Roman Infantry; failed three times. Move 2 Cavs into New Tampa bay, one into Macao.
Redline a Roman Ironclad using 3 Artillery units.

Battle of Cumae.
Move a Cav forward to observe Cumae and it has a 5/5 Infantry on top.
Bombardment.
-2 HP, another 5/5 Infantry shows, f, -1 HP, f, destroy Coloseum, destroy Library, f, -2 HP, f, f, f, -1 HP, -1 HP (now redlined), -1 HP, both Infantry redlined, f, f, f.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/5 Infantry and dies.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/5 Infantry and dies.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/5 infantry and kills him flawlessly.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/5 Infantry and kills him, now 2/4. We capture Cumae and 2 gold.
There are 3 resisters, no improvements so I decide to abandon the city after moving the wounded Cav back to heal.

Bombardment of Veii.
Destroy University, -1 HP, -1 HP, f, -1 HP. 3 Vet Infantry showed.

Battle of Oslo.
5/5 Cav attacks 4/4 Roman Cav and kills him, now 3/5.
5/5 Cav attacks 4/4 Roman Cav and kills him, now 3/5.

Move 5 Cavalry up to prepare for the battle of Lutetia.

Rush Cavs in Edo, D-Day, Victory and Frontline in the usual way.

Getting concerned about Syracuse and Fukushima flipping as their percentages are almost 5% each.

Just remembered the stack of Cannons we had in old England. Found them in Kalmar but it costs 80 Gold each to upgrade to Artillery. Thought I might bombard Lugdunum but that cost is excessive.

IBT
Roman Infantry attacks New Tampa Bay and defeats a 4/4 Cav, losing 1 HP and then promotes to Elite.
Roman Infantry attacks a Japanese stack in a jungle and kills a Japanese Rifle, redlining.
We suffer 2 bombardment attacks by Roman naval units with no losses.
New Tampa Bay Artillery => Worker.
Edo Cav => Worker.
D-Day Cav => Worker.
Victory Cav => Worker.
Frontline Cav => Worker.
The Romans move a 4/4 Infantry to cover their redlined Infantry near Lutetia. They are right in the way of my planed attack.

Turn 337 – 1735 AD
Artillery bombardment of the Infantry stack near Lutetia; -1 HP, -2 HP, now redlined.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/4 Roman Infantry and kills him flawlessly.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/4 Roman Infantry and kills him, now 2/4.

Battle for Lutetia.
Artillery prep. –1 HP, -1 HP, f, -1 HP, -2 HP, f, -1 Pop, -1 Pop, f, -1 HP (both 4/4 infantry are redlined), destroy Library, f, f, -1 Pop, f, f, -1 Pop,.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/4 Roman Inf and kills him, now 2/4.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/4 Roman Inf and kills him, capturing Lutetia and 3 Gold. Install a governor and find 1 resister and no improvements. Decide to abandon the city.
Move wounded Cavs back to Edo to heal.

Bombardment of Veii.
-1 HP, -1 HP, f, f, f. Interesting, this time there were 2 4/4 Infantries and one 3/3 Infantry showing.

Bombardment of Infantry unit near New Tampa Bay; f, f, f, f. Move in another Cav unit to protect the city.
Rush a Cav unit in Macao as it has a Rax. Change New Tampa Bay to Wealth.

Rush Cavs in Edo, D-Day, Victory and Frontline in the usual way.

IBT
Roman Infantry attacks New Tampa bay and kills a 4/4 Cav without loss.
Oman Cav kills a Japanese Samurai near Byzantium.
Edo Cav => Worker.
Macao Cav => Worker.
D-Day Cav => Worker.
Victory Cav => Worker.
Frontline Cav => Worker.

Turn 338 – 1740 AD
Bombardment of Veii.
f, f, -1 HP, -1 HP, destroyed Colosseum.

Bombard Infantry unit near New Tampa Bay; -2 HP, f, f, -1 HP and redlined.
3/3 Cav attacks 1/5 Roman Inf and kills him flawlessly.

Send Cavs and Artillery to prepare for assault on Pisae.
Send new Cavs towards Pompeii.

Rush Artillery in Toyama for 300 Gold.
Rush Cavalry in Edo, D-Day and Victory in the usual way.
Run out of Gold.

Visit our new friends, the Japanese and consider trading them Atomic Theory for Sanitation, Ivory, World Map and 133 Gold (all they had). Decide against it because that would put them one tech closer to Tanks!

IBT
Japanese troops unhook one of Rome’s oil resources.
We lose an Elite and a Vet Cav to 2 roman Militias and a Roman Cav. All were injured.
There were 2 naval Bombardments and we lost 1 imporvement.
Edo Cav => Worker.
Las Vegas Temple => Wealth.
Toyama Artillery => Worker.
D-Day Cav => Worker.
Victory Cav => Worker.

Turn 339 – 1745 AD
Move Artillery to start the attack on Pompeii and Lugdunum.
4/4 Cav attacks 3/4 Militia and retreats, no damage to Militia.
4/4 Cav attacks 3/4 Militia and kills him flawlessly.
4/4 Cav attacks 2/4 Militia and kills him, now 2/4.

Battle of Pisae.
Bombardment. –1 Pop, f, -2 HP off a 4/4 Inf and a 3/3 Inf pops up, -2 HP, f, f, -1 HP, destroy Library, -1 Pop, f.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/3 Inf and kills him flawlessly.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/4 Inf and kills him flawlessly. We capture Pisae and install a governor. There are no improvements and 2 resisters. Keep the city for the moment.

Battle of Veii.
Bombardment. F, f, -1 Pop, -1 HP, f.

Rush Cavs in Edo, D-Day, Victory and Frontline.
Rush Artillery in Normandy.
Rush Worker in Byzantium and change to Library. (for cultural expansion)
Abandon Pisae.
Hire Taxmen in Bjoergvin and Uppsala.
Hire a Clown in New Cincinnati, Oslo, Viroconium and Warwick.
Change Kalmar from Wealth to Library.

IBT
Japanese troops kill a wounded Roman Infantry near Byzantium, losing 1 Militia and winning with an elite.
3 Naval Bombardments resulted in 2 destroyed improvements.
Edo Cav => Worker.
Warwick Settler => Settler.
A lot of “We Love the President Day celebration has ended” messages.
Syracuse Worker => Worker.
D-Day Cav => Worker.
Victory Cav => Worker.
Frontline Cav => Worker.
Normandy Artillery => Worker.

Turn 340 – 1750 AD
Move Artillery and Infantry to firing spot between Lugdunum and Pompeii.
Move Artillery and Infantry stack towards Veii for final assault next turn.
Move Cavs near Pompeii for assault next turn.

Bombardment of Veii; -1 pop, f, -2 HP, -2 HP, -1 HP.
Attack on Veii
4/4 Cav attacks 2/3 Inf and retreats, no additional damage to the Inf.
4/4 Cav attacks 2/3 Inf and dies, Inf promotes to 3/4.
This is not going well, so I’ll wait a turn.

Found the town of St. Louis 2 and rush a Worker and then a Library.
Change Qitaimjorg to Library and rush it.

Rush Cavalry in Edo, D-Day and Victory.

IBT
2 Naval Bombardments result in no damage.
A 4/4 Roman Cav kills one of ours near Pompeii.
A 4/4 Roman Militia kills a 3/4 Cav in the open north of Byzantium.
Edo Cav => Worker.
New Chicago Settler => Settler
Qitaimjorg Library => Courthouse.
St. Louis 2 Library => Wealth.
Syracuse flips to the Romans.
D-Day Cav => Worker.
Victory Cav => Worker.

Turn 341 – 1752 AD
5/5 Cav tracks down a 1/5 Roman Militia and kills him and we have a great leader, Grant.

Battle of Pompeii.
Bombardment.
F, -1 HP, -1 HP, f, f, destroy Library, f, -1 HP, -1 Pop. There are 3 Inf, one Vet and two Reg.

Battle for Veii.
Bombardment.
F, f, f, f, f, -1 HP, -2 HP, -1 HP, f, f, f, f, -1 Pop, f, -1 HP. There are 3 Inf, all Vets.

The bombardments were not sufficient, so we’ll wait a turn to attack.

Attack on Syracuse.
4/4 Cav attacks 3/3 Rifle and retreats, no damage.
4/4 Cav attacks 3/3 Rifle and dies, redlining the Rifle, promotes.
4/4 Cav attacks 2/4 Rifle and retreats, no damage to the Rifle.
5/5 Cav attacks 2/4 rifle and kills him. We capture Syracuse and 1 Gold, install a Governor and find 2 resisters. Harbor is intact so we keep it for now.

Half of our empire is about to riot. Increase lux slider to 10%.
Rush Cavs in Edo, D-Day, Victory and Frontline.
Rush Artillery in Normandy.

IBT
There were 4 Naval bombardments and 2 were successful.
Edo Cav => Worker.
Civil disorder in Oslo.
Norwich Marketplace => Bank.
D-Day Cav => Worker.
Victory Cav => Worker.
Frontline Cav => Worker.
Normandy Artillery => Worker.

Turn 342 – 1754 AD
A Roman 4/4 Militia moved next to Byzantium, so we bombard him; f, -2 HP, -1 HP, redlined. 4/4 Cav attacks 1/4 Militia and kills him, redlining.

I decide to use Grant to build an Army.

Battle for Pompeii.
Bombardment.
–1 HP, f, f, -1 HP, -1 HP, -1 HP, f, f, -1 Pop.
4/4 Cav attacks 2/3 Inf and dies, redlining the Inf.
4/4 Cav attacks 2/3 Inf and dies, redlining the Inf.
4/4 Cav attacks 2/4 Inf and kills him, now 2/4.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/3 Inf and kills him, redlining.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/3 Inf and kills him, losing 2 HP and promotes to Elite. We capture Pompeii and 3 Gold, install a governor. There are 4 resisters and a Rax and Aqueduct.
Move 7 Cavs to threaten Lugdunum.

Battle of Veii.
Bombardment.
F, f, -1 Pop, f, -2 HP, -1 HP, f, f, -1 HP, -1 HP, f, -1 HP, -1 HP, f, f.
4/4 Cav attacks 2/4 Inf and retreats, no damage to Inf.
4/4 Cav attacks 2/4 Inf and kills him flawlessly, promotes.
4/4 Cav attacks 2/4 Inf and dies, redlining the Inf.
4/4 Cav attacks redlined Inf and dies.
4/4 Cav attacks redlined Inf and dies, Inf promotes.
4/4 Cav attacks 2/5 Inf and kills him, now 3/4.
4/4 Cav attacks 1/4 Inf and kills him, now 2/4.
4/4 Cav attacks 3/4 Cav and kills him. We capture Veii and 3 Gold and install a governor. There are 5 resisters in Veii and no improvements. We’ll hold it for the moment.

Load Army with Cavs and move to a hill to cover Cavs near Rome.
Abandon Pompeii.
Abandon Veii.

Hire a Taxman in Edo.

Found the town of Detroit 2 and start Wealth.

Rush Cavs in Edo, D-Day, Toyama, Fukushima and Victory.

IBT
4 naval Bombardments result in no damage.
We lose a redlined Cav to a Militia.
Edo Cav => Worker.
Fukushima Cav => Worker.
Toyama Cav => Worker.
D-Day Cav => Worker.
Victory Cav => Worker.

Turn 343 – 1756 AD
Hire a Clown in Oslo.

Battle for Lugdunum.
Bombardment.
F, f, -1 HP, destroy Harbor, f, -1 Pop, -2 HP, destroy Library, f.
Not enough damage done, wait.

Move cavs near Rome with Cav Army.
Start Artillery train for Rome.

Rush Cavs in Edo, D-Day and Victory.
Rush Artillery in Normandy.

Next turn our Peace Treaty with Japan expires.
Set Lux slider to 0%.

After Action Report.
Several Roman cities no longer exist. An soon, none will exist. There is a Roman Nilitia near our healing stack on the salt where Veii used to be but the Japanese have been killing them pretty effectively. I have been taking roman cities before the Japanese can get to them. The Japanese have a pretty good stack headed for Rome. You should be set up to take Rome in 2 turns but may want to consider slowing yourself down a little to allow the Japanese stack to waste themselves on the defenses of Rome?

Our Army now consists of 124 Cavs, 32 Cannon and 32 Artillery. The Roman Army is 28 Infantry, a small navy and not much else. Japan’s Army consists of 35 rifles and 14 Militias.

Rome is, somehow, still in Democracy while Japan has shifted to Communism. Rome has 8 cities remaining and Japan has 10. Jerusalem is now the only island city we can not reach. I am hoping Rome will change governments so we can try some propaganda again.

War weariness is a factor and I was just able to change the lux slider down this last turn. I’m not sure why but it spiked a couple of turns ago and required a lux slider shift to keep things in order. Need to keep an eye on it.

I rushed some Libraries near Jerusalem in the hopes that it might flip as Kagoshima did. Probably a waste but why not try?

Our Firaxis score is 5338.

Good luck Willow, I hope you can make the Romans history!!

 

[leif erikson]

Triple Post:

Roster:
Willow - UP
Capt - On Deck? - If you wish.
Bluebox - If he has time.
Gator - Returning from all the high living!
Leif - exhausted after just playing - old age you know??
Nemesis - ?

Good luck Willow, wipe 'em out!!

 

[Capt Buttkick]

We...
I mean you are doing great!

I'm worrying that I may have a touch of flu coming so I might not be able to duck in after all. I'll let you know tomorrow.

 

[leif erikson]

We...
I mean you are doing great!

I'm worrying that I may have a touch of flu coming so I might not be able to duck in after all. I'll let you know tomorrow.

Thanks. Take care of yourself!

Drink plenty of fluids, take your aspirin and get into bed like a good ...... Oooppps, I'm not your mother?

 

[WillowBrook]

Got it!

Great job, Leif! We're making progress!

I'll play some today - no guarantee of how much.

Now that they don't have rubber (it was under Cumae), they can't make more infantry.

And the culture flip! Remember SGOTM6 when we had many times the culture of everyone and we got, what, one flip? the Japanese have more than us!

I'll plan to keep taking out Rome at least until they are willing to give us Jerusalem for peace (there'd better not be uranium on that island!), and then until either WW or peace between Rome and Kyoto or too few Roman towns forces me to make peace. Then the Japanese will get it!

If there's anything else I should be thinking of, let me know. (I won't play until this afternoon at the earliest.)

 

[leif erikson]

The only other thing I was thinking about is whether Rome is worth keeping as there are a number of Great Wonders in it, but I can't remember which ones? If they provide us some worthwhile benefits, perhaps we should consider it.

It will be a PITA until we can finish the Romans...

Good luck and happy hunting.