The Gang of Four - FRFR Redux

[Sir Bugsy]

gorm, I trust your judgment.

 

[Bede]

Concur to all

 

[Stapel]

I agree !

Go ahead as you please!

 

[gormdragan]

Preturn:
Switched all un-harbored cities to wars (if there is no shield loss)
Switched all courthouse, library productions to rax, zerks, marketplaces.
Switched all corrupted 1-shield harbored cities to caravels. We don't have enough.
With our lack of roads, the caravels will have to be our units' "roads".

I will revolt once I get some warrior garrisons in place.

1480:
Landed 3 more zerks along Babylon capital.
Lots of movements.

1485:
Uruk has revolted against our rule, we lost 2 pikes, 1 zerk, 1 crusader and 1 caravels. Ouch!!!

Siege of Uruk
Our vet crusader kills reg spear, we burn Uruk to the ground. Going for conquest victory.

vet zerk kills baby vet longb.

Siege of Babylon
vet zerk dies to vet musk.
vet zerk kills vet musk.
vet zerk dies to vet musk. This is not good.

Landed 2 more zerks and 1 pike on Babylon.

1490:
A massive uprising at Zohak, one of the civs has reached the industrial age.

Rushed a pike at Zohak.

Siege of Babylon
Elite zerk dies to vet musk.
Elite zerk kills vet musk.
Vet zerk dies to vet musk.
Vet zerk kills vet musk.


1495:
Whipped a pike at Hamada (9 bar horsemen on their way).

Siege of Babylon
Vet zerk kills vet musk, promotes.
Vet zerk kills reg musk, we razed Babylon to the ground.

1500:
More bar horse appeared at Tyre, there is nothing much I can do about that.

1505:
Siege of Akkad
Vet zerg kills reg musk.
vet crus kills reg spear, raze to the ground.

Traded ivory+iron to Portugal for magnetism+37g+WM.
Traded WM+740g to Egypt for TOG.
Started 50 turn gambit for medicine.

We are going to lose our $$$ to bar horse next turn so I will use some of them.

We revolt now, get a 7 turn anarchy.

1510:
Our Tyre garrions got overrunned, but we lost only citizens no cash.

Egyptians made JS Bach in Thebes.

Dutch made Smith in Rotterdam.

1515:
We lost 26g and more citizens at Tyre.

Portugese made Newton at Lisbon.

1520:
Siege of Samarra
Elite zerk kills vet musk.
Elite zerk kills vet musk.

1525:
Siege of Iziba
Elite zerk kills vet musk.
Vet zerk kills reg spear, promotes, we razed Iziba.

Siege of Samarra
Elite zerk kills vet musk, we razed Samarra.

Summary
(1) We are in anarchy, with 3 turns to go, I believe everyone is rooting for monarchy.

(2) We are behind in tech only by democracy, which I don't think we care.

(3) We have most of our good troops on caravels (zerks, MI, crusaders, Trabuchets, ani cavs), with some caravels roaming around to pick up the remainin good troops.

(4) We should use our caravels as roads, as they can travel 6 squares per turn, very speedy.

(5) Most of our offensive force are enroute, counter-clockwise, razing babylonian cities in its path.

(6) We need to rush the settler at Ellipi, maybe even 2, to grab the 2 dye sites I have razed. We need to hurry with that as I believe other AIs will be rushing to get there. As of now, 1 have 3 workers (babylon) and 1 pike enroute to sit on those 4 dye squares to prevent other AI from settling.

(7) We have a 20-turn deal with Portugal so after Babylon I suggest going after Egypt.

Next better player.


The save

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Good job gorm! When Uruk flipped the second time I was thinking RAZE THE #%$@& PLACE!!! :saiyan: Then of course you did exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Roster Check:

Gengis - Up
Stapel - On Deck
Bede
Strider - On 15 day DL with lots of prayers
Bugs
gorm - Just played

 

[Gengis Khan]

Got it.

 

[Gengis Khan]

Uh oh, I got a loading error. You happen to play on 1.22 gorm?

 

[gormdragan]

Oh...no....You are right!!!! Crap!!! Err go ahead and play the previous save.

One question, why are we staying at 1.15? I have been playing with 1.22 and did not experience any problem whatsoever. Just curious.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Can you look at the industrial age tech tree and see if it still has Radio. That was supposedly taken out.

So far the general consensus has been to stay with 1.15 until firaxis has settled on a final patch.

 

[gormdragan]

Thanks Bugs....My Bad.

I checked; Radio is there.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Just pass it off as too much time in Africa...yeah! That's the ticket! Africa!

If radio is there maybe we should have the team weigh in on switching to 1.22.

 

[Bede]

On 1.22 switch,
Still have too much going on in 1.15, so would be relunctant to switch.

 

[Gengis Khan]

I'm in the same boat as Bede since the patches aren't compatible, with how many other 1.15 SGs I'm in switching would be a problem.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

I agree. Gorm would it be possible to replay your turns in 1.15?

 

[gormdragan]

i could replay them but only during the weekend. Need time to reinstall the game.

 

[gormdragan]

On second thoughts, GK, why don't you take your turns and I play again through the next cycle of the roster.

 

[Gengis Khan]

Alrighty, but that's gonna be a tough turn to duplicate.

Lemme get this straight. You want me to revolt to monarchy, swap out all our strong garisons, build the FP in ?????, and abandon a few non important cities to save on troops?

 

[gormdragan]

I think the best is not to follow what I did. I have confident you will out perform me, so do as you see fit.

 

[Gengis Khan]

I'm going to either have to put in for a skip or you guys to allow me to push off playing for a day or so. I'm up in a couple other SGs I can rush through, but I want to be able to put like 6 hours into this one which I won't have time for today.

Up to you guys, I have no objection if you want to skip me to get the pace moving again.