SM1 - Sid challenge

[nerovats]

Pre-turn
change Kish to settler, Ur to archer
IBT
lose EW in Agade
Horse gets pillaged
Knight and LB are landed
300AD
Kill landings
IBT
red ship moves along
310AD
declare on Rome
IBT
Mayans start attack near Lagash
320ADnothing
IBT
Mayans advance near Lagash, land a pike and LB and finish Copernicus
330AD
Kish settler->archer
Found Erech, use leader
Take out troops near Bukhara
Use new army to take out landing
Will keep Erech for now as it solves our finacial problems a bit
IBT
Rome lands a legeon
Mayans keep advancing and on our roaded ivory now
340AD
Take out mayans on ivory (just 1HP left of second army)
IBT
Legion suisides on army in Bukhara
Arabia lands ansar and archer
Also Mayas land near Bukhara
Mayas retreat from Lagash
350AD
Bad-Tibara riots (sorry)
IBT
Arabs almost take Bukhara just 2HP left on army
360AD
have to lower science
IBT
Rome finishes Bach and land 2 MI
Arabs land ansar and crusadar
370AD
move second army towards Bukhara to help
IBT
arabs now land crusader, ansar and MI
380AD
can get my hands on some mayans, can't start campain tho just defend.
IBT
Rome lands several MI
390AD
Poly->Monarchy
Take out al landed units, move workers out of city to road horse again.
Still alive 2 armies now but no way to start crusade.

View attachment SM1, 390 AD.SAV

 

[Own]

It looks good. We're still surviving!

 

[Smart]

Good place for 8th city, ICS isn't bad there, because those cities will not grow to big size.
Also, zerksees asked this question, and I'm going to repeat it - did they attacked elite AC's? If no, we can remove all archers from Lagash and leave only one AC there.

I can play tomorrow, but if Own would like to take it before, I can swap again.

 

[Own]

I wouldn't do that, even if they weren't attacking ACs. They might have not been doing that because the AI knows where everyone of our units is and attacks weaker cities. Us being strong there may be the reason they weren't attacking.

 

[nerovats]

Agree with Own. I don't recall the AI attacking elite AC's but they did attack an AC army in city, more then once.

 

[Smart]

Skip me... Read my sig

 

[Smart]

 

[Whomp]

BTW the army was attacked by a sole LB for me as well. Weird.
Roster check...
Smart--no time
nerovats--survived
Own UP
zerksees - on deck
Whomp -

 

[Own]

Oh, got it. Won't have time tonight though.

 

[Own]

Skip me, I was banned from civ for a while and now I'm gone for the weekend.

 

[Ansar]

lurker's comment: Banned?! freaky.Gotta keep this game alive!

 

[Smart]

The last turnset was played one week ago... Own, you have done this few times before, please post a "got it" if you're sure that you can play. Yes, I had this problem too , but now I'm trying to post a got it and play immediatly, because nobody knows what can be happend tomorrow.
I'm back , and I played the next turnset.

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Pre-flight
Switched tax collector in Sumer to scientist, Monarchy now in 27 @ 0 gpt

Turn 1
Attacked MDI, AC retried.
Have to swith tax collector back because of two new units. Will do it with other scientist next turn too.

IBT
Omg!
First Mayan cavlary attacked Sumer. Another was moved to Lagash.
Romans completed Newtons. We will see riflemans soon.

Turn 2
Killed Cavalry and lose one archer. Whacked pikeman spearman and 3 LB's after redlining with cats [6-1]

IBT
1-hp cavalry attacked my elite archer on hill
I won [7-1]

Turn 3
Killed two pikes and one swordsman near Sumer. Lose archer [10-2]

IBT
Mayans dropped Cavalry near Kish.

Turn 4
I used two archers to kill it [11-3]
Moved few catapults to Lagash, they are usefull now, after Knights and Cavalry.

IBT
Cavalry attacked elite AC in lagash, and... LEADER!

I have very good luck in this game, it is my second leader

Turn 5
Ur riots, because I used MP archer to kill cav
Killed roman MDI from caravell with army [13-3]
5 LB's and Knight are ready to attack Lagash. I have only one AC and few archers there. Sent 3 AC's to Lagash.
Moved army from Lagade to cow near Ur, in case if they will take Lagash.

IBT
Mayans asked for peace again
That stack was moved to the hill, they want to pass to other lightly defended cities.
Killed one mayan cav [14-3]
They also droped cav and MDI near Kish, Rome landed one MDI.

Turn 6
Killed all landings [17-3]
Moved army to Ivory spot, but it have movement points left and can be moved to Lagash.

I'll stop here, somebody have played more or less then 10 turns, and it's 161th turn now. Zerksees may play 9 turns to restore normal turn count


Roster:
nerovats -
Own - skipped
Smart - Third leader?!
zerksees - UP
Whomp - on deck


~> SAVE <~

 

[Smart]

We have to do something NOW
Rome is in IA and Maya will enter into the new era soon. First of all we should take Mayan city in jungles to found 4 towns for an army. But I have no idea how we will take cities with defence of 12 when they will get riflemans. If we will not capture GL, we will lose this game, because we are behind by two eras

 

[zerksees]

We only have what- 3 or 4 Sid AI attacking us. No problem.
Got it.

 

[conquer_dude]

lurker's comment: This game is intense. GL would be a miracle to you guys right now. Will continue watching.

 

[zerksees]

Played 5. Not having any luck generating an offensive.

Took 13 units lost 3.

Need all our gold for unit support. Need more cities. Built one settler with another coming.

On the last IBT the Roman frigates are pillaging our tiles, and I have had enough tonight. 520 AD is the current turn and it needs to be played.

 

[Smart]

Good job with settlers, we need three more for the next Army. We need more catapults, because after bombardment, stack of offensive units covered by few defenders will withdrawn if you took at least one hp from each defender. 6-7 Catapults in Agade will allow us to use army for offence. Bad tibira, Erech and Bukhara haven't raxes and must build catapults instead of reg EW's.
We have no land to settle, but army with few archers and cats will do that job. I've made a dotmap:

Yellow dots are places for new towns, town with green dot in center must have walls and will absorb attacks like Sumer. In this case Agade don't need walls and can build cats too. Town on the blue dot can't be defended well and should be built only to make 3rd army, then we can abandon it.

 

[Whomp]

OK I got it. Will do the best I can.

 

[conquer_dude]

lurker's comment: Good luck.

 

[zerksees]

At the moment there are very few units west of Lagash, we could drop a town there. Furthermore we could drop a town in our own territory west of Kish as there is one spot available IIRC.

Also need to investigate whether they will attack fortified elite AC as that may simplify our defense in a few places.

Also interesting is the Roman border against the Mayan border at the edge of the fog to the east.