Spanish Scenario Succession Game!!!!

[ravensfire]

Pre-game
-- The pirate Ravensfire storms into Madrid, declaring "I'm the man in charge now - anyone who argues can walk me plank!" The people agree, but are left wondering, what's a pirate, and what does walking the plank mean anyway?
-- Survey what's out there, very interesting.
-- Looks like we'll be a bit spread out - not bad, will need to strongly consider either the FP or move the palace to middle
-- I like the luxuries we have available - wine and spice hooked up, gem and incense available.
-- Neighbors to the south - I'm going to build down towards there, and ignore the north for right now. Need to claim that land fast!
-- I like the change to the sea - 2 gold AND 2 food for shoreline - VERY important to build near the sea now.

Okay, the turns!

Turn 1 (1475 BC)
-- Elite Archer defeats barbarian horseman.

2 (1450)
-- Archer slays another horseman!
-- Barb Horsey attacks warrior, and dies!

3 (1425)
-- Uh oh - barb in the north near Bilbao, who just built settler. Archer from Madrid goes to help defect.
-- Settler is sent to south - ignore north until south is settled, or threat appears near the north.

4 (1400)
-- Madrid archer kills barb warrior
-- Settler continues the journey
-- Southern settler is sent slightly to the west to bring incense online

5 (1375)
-- With no enemies in sight, a calculated risk is taken, Madrid archer is sent to seek and destroy barb camp.

6 (1350)
-- We have discovered iron working! Next up - Writing. Strongly suggest push to Literacy and possibly GL
-- Iron deposits are found within boundaries of the kingdom - note is make of dearth of workers.
-- Andorra finishes temple, so former aethists are trained to be workers.

7 (1325)
-- Archer in south attacks Barb camp, earning 25 gold!
-- The town of X is founded (Argghh, X marks the spot was heard ...)

8 (1300)
-- Nothing

9 (1275)
-- Andorra finishes worker, starts work on another
-- New worker heads out to bring Iron online!
-- Salamanca finishes Settler, starts another. We need to expand in the south quickly!
-- CONTACT with the Romans
-- their culture sucks
-- their tech sucks
-- expand around, but don't worry about them for now.
-- Trade the Wheel, Mysticsm and 70 for Writing - saves us 8 turns, worth it this early.
-- Trade Masonry for 80 gold - hmmm, not too bad for that tech - Pyramids are 12 turns away ...
-- Map making started, still losing only 4 gold at 100% science - s'okay with me!

10 (1250)
-- Borders grow
-- Barcelona founded - hmmm, we're already getter fairly sprawled out - corruption hitting.
-- Settler built in Bilbao - sent again to the south - gotta keep the Romans out!

11 (1225)
-- Workers start to clear the jungle in the south - this will be a long term project, but we MUST do it early!
-- Settler sent south of Barcelona, searching for the City of Gold!

12 (1200)
-- Andorra builds another worker, set to build Granary to allow town to build up some
-- Madrid archers finally locate barb camp in the north!

13 (1175)
-- Archers disperse the barbarian camp after the leader develops a fatal brain annuerism (hmmm - not sure where that arrow came from ...)

14 (1150)
-- n/a

15 (1125)
-- n/a

16 (1100)
-- Iron south of Andorra is brought online!

17 (1075)
-- X builds a warrior, set to build a worker next. Corruption is killing production!
-- New barb camp spotted in south west - warriors sent to "pacify" region.
-- El Dorado founded, w/ three(!) gold resources in borders!

18 (1050)
-- Busy turn!
-- Meet the French, trade contact w/ Romans for Russians
-- Meet the Russians, they have nothing, so no trade for them!
-- Do NOT give the French a map - they have ships!
-- Pryamids are finished! Slap head when I remember what it does and change Andorra to Settler
-- Production set to get some workers (and allow next ruler to determine the next Wonder to create)
-- Salamanca create a settler, starts on Barracks - too many other cultures need the veteran troops.
-- Bilbao creates another settler, decide that since French have ships and a taste for Wine, grapes in the north must be in Spanish hands!

19 (1025)
-- Madrid builds a worker, starts on another!
-- Barb encampment in west "pacified"

20 (1000)
-- Norhtern settler ambushed by barb horsemen - what the?!?! - I just pacified that area. Grrrrrr
-- Barcelona trains Warriors, production set to Worker.
-- Andorra creates settler unit who decide they're rugged, and head towards hills north of andorra.
-- Andorra set to build another settler unit. Hmmm, what's going on in THAT town at night ...
-- Madrid archer stays in place to protect worker - we need more military - I got focused on workers.
-- Game saved!

-- Ravensfire ducks out of the palace, ahead of the officers trying to catch him. His last words haunt the people though - "I'll be returning!"

(Yeah - too tired for any real attempt at fiction, but tried (and failed) anyway.)

Summary:
The Realm was expanded a fair amount - 3 new cities, plus 3 settlers moving. Two are close to final destination (see screen shot).
Our neighbors have made an appearance. The French are the ones to worry about for now - ignore the Russians. Do NOT give out our maps for now, keep all of this to ourselves.
We are two turns away from map making - immediately start the ship brigade, and continue to expand quickly!
Based on those explorations, I would suggest moving the palace quickly - very important to reduce corruption.
I've marked what I think are the best area in pink - remember that coastal waters are 2 food, 2 shield and should be used!

Good luck!

 

[ravensfire]

And the save file ...

 

[Civanator]

I got the game and i'll try to play. if it dorsn't work i'll watch the game instead.

 

[Civanator]

I wont b able to play this week cause im goin on vacation from sunday to friday, so just past me and i'll catch up wen i get back from my vacation but my game is working again

 

[Sullla]

Ok, if Civanator is out for the weekend, then I suppose I am up next. I have the game and I'll try to post tonight. I'm still running the 1.16f version, if we want to patch over to 1.17 soon just tell me before I take my next turn.

 

[Sullla]

I seem to be having problems with this save as well; I can load any other game I might have, but Windows gives me an error message whenever I try the last (1000BC) save that ravensfire posted. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Maybe someone else should try to play next....

 

[ravensfire]

Maybe it's corrupted on my end. If I don't see any success by tonight, I'll replay my turns from the 1500 save game.

Grrrrr

 

[Sullla]

Hmmm.... I've tried loading that 1000BC save file several times and it just doesn't open without causing an error. Looks like we will have to play over the turns unless ravensfire has an autosave from that turn.... Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that save just won't open.

 

[ravensfire]

Bad news first - system crashed and died.

Good news - I've finished the rebuild (God I hate doing those - next weekend will be another rebuild, with a Ghost backup after the OS, important utilities and patches are installed.)

I'm going to replay the turns, going from my notes to try to match the events. Sorry 'bout that all.

-- Ravensfire

 

[ravensfire]

Finally!

Okay, the turns were basically the same, except I didn't meet any other civilizations. Pyramids will complete in 1 turn(!) so that will help a lot!

The southern-most settler is almost at the city location - get him there and settle! The one on the way should go to the site just east of that city. You can get two cities up north if you place them on the west and east side of the northern end - please try to do that. They are close to the capitol, and will be good producers.

Also, I've built up the worker core, but we'll need defenses. Badly. I skimped because it's at an easy difficulty, and we've not met anyone, but we need spearmen badly! And more workers, and, well, a lot.

Good luck, hopefully this one works!

 

[ravensfire]

Quick last second suggestion - the settler that is near the southern city location, don't go with the square with the pink dot (that's south of El Dorado), go one square directly EAST - this will bring the iron in the sphere of influence.

 

[Civanator]

I can't play any more for some reason. i tried loading, restarted my pc 3 times and it still doesn't work . i dunno wut to do. i'll try again tomorrow.

 

[Hammurabi II]

Where's Everyone? No posts for 4 days! If no one minds I'll go next, I guess. Civanator, Sullla? If no replies by tommorow, I'll go.

 

[Civanator]

Sorry. Anyway u can go next, i dont care much bcause my game doesn't work what so ever. I e-mailed Infogrames yester day and still got no reply yet.

Civanator out!

P.S. in case you didn't notice i'm mad!!!!!

 

[Sullla]

To be honest, I've lost interest in this succession game. I don't really like the changes made in the mod to workers/settlers and especially to the super productivity of sea tiles. I suggest opening up this game to new players if you want to continue it.

 

[Civanator]

I dont really care anymore. ravensfire or hammarubi II can take over if you want.

Civanator has Officially left the game

 

[Hammurabi II]

Oh well, I guess I'm out, too. I am thinking of starting a new succession game on a world map with correct starting locations. If any of you want to play, you can and/or give any suggestions. I'm debating on the civ to be. If you want to play, post here with ideas or suggestions and I'll start sometime in the next few days.

 

[Civanator]

Dang

This was first a hot game at the beginning when sulla first joined. Then ravensfire and Hammurabi II joined. we played not even untill the A.D.s when we stopped.

The reason it stopped, I think, was when i started getting problems and coudn't play.

I guess this is the end of the Spanish Empire, unless ravensfire completes the game by himself.

 

[Hammurabi II]

Hey, I quit because the first two people left, I'll stay if Ravensfire reeeaallllyyy wants to play. We'd have to get more people. Also, that would be the end of my world map idea

 

[Dominator]

I think you should go on with your idea.

IMO you should be a Northern American Civ so you can be alone. If you want a real challenge be France, Germany, Rome, Greece, Spain(if you include them), or the Russians or the Egyptains. Maybe the British. If you want a moderate challenge, then use the chinese, japanese, indians, or zulus.

P.S. Take a guess at who I am.