Suvival Games

[Bad Player]

Post your best survival games!


When can I win this game? Turn 1000?

Check out MVP - Gilden Silveric!




Sploitz list:
- I chose all the enemy civs and chose them as evil so I would be guaranteed of getting Runes or Order religion.
- The enemy civs are mostly magical (note no aggressive civs!) because I figure the AI uses magic less effectively
- I once wanted to see whether I would use up 2 movement points attacking a goblin on a hill/desert with my hunter - I did so I reloaded that (save just before testing this). This isn't really a sploit, just stating that I didn't save/reload.

 

[Chandrasekhar]

1011 is a big number.

 

[Bad Player]

1173 XP now.


Level 25 promotion he needs has a requirement of 500 and something XP (I can't see because there are not enough digits on the screen!). I NEED MORE PROMOTIONS!!!

 

[Bad Player]

noOOOOO I just lost my freshly built Bambur to a Clan Shadow!!!!


Gilden on 1364 XP.

 

[Sareln]

noOOOOO I just lost my freshly built Bambur to a Clan Shadow!!!!


Gilden on 1364 XP.

That sucks, were you attacking or defending? It feels like a low probability loss...

 

[Chandrasekhar]

Yeah, you ought to check the combat log.

 

[Bad Player]

I have a rather extensive combat log (1656 battles fought) so is there a way to search the combat log for Bambur (other than reading it all manually!)?


Also Gilden on 1792 XP (level 27).

 

[Bad Player]

I think I broke the game.

 

[Sureshot]

desert hills offer 0 defense and cost 3 movement not 2

 

[Jono]

You still get a bonus with hill defence.

 

[Sureshot]

ya, and if you have nomad promotion, or against melee units if you're defending against melee units.. but i was talking about the terrain itself, not possible benefits with certain promotions or units

 

[Sureshot]

the hardest survival game i tried was 17 ai's on a small map with always war on

 

[Teg_Navanis]

I have a rather extensive combat log (1656 battles fought) so is there a way to search the combat log for Bambur (other than reading it all manually!)?


Also Gilden on 1792 XP (level 27).

You can try the unit statistics (hall of fame), but I doubt he's in there if he was killed that early.

 

[Bad Player]

the hardest survival game i tried was 17 ai's on a small map with always war on

How long did you survive?

I doubt my computer can cope with that many civs...

 

[Sureshot]

just do small or tiny and it should manage, duel with 18 civs is fun too heh

i made it to around turn 500 i think, i cant remember.. they got me finally with drown and skull catapults (skull catapults have 6 strength, and the drown were able to pillage all my improvements)

 

[Bad Player]

They only had drown at turn 500????

What civ were you?

 

[Sureshot]

kurioates i think, and im not sure what game speed i had it on, i was able to hold out against their catapults for a while by using my own catapults, but they managed to take my second city and then hunting demons were coming for me (normally strength 7, but i upped them to 9 or higher and made them super easy for hyborem to build so that hed be tougher than normal)
they had other units, but drown were the only ones who could get to my second city, because it was blocked by my city and water, and a bunch of improvements (i had my capital city built on a hill bottleneck)

 

[Bad Player]

I'm suprised the ai didn't attack from ships like they did fairly early on when we played survival together (as Lanun). Is that an AI weakness maybe?

Wouldn't it have been easier to hold units in a city against invaders rather than on a hill against them?

 

[Sureshot]

on one side the water was lakes, so no boats, on the other side they did occasionally attack with boats, but i was able to deal with them quickly, but the drown just made it impossible to keep any improvements

 

[Grey Fox]

When I entered this thread I thought it was going to be about a Survival Game scenario (and it kinda is, but not what I'm acoustomed to). Similar to those found in RTS like StarCraft or WarCraft 3. I wonder if such a scenario would be fun in a turn based format. Tower Defense would be fun too, but kinda lame in turn based.