The Gang of Four - FRFR Redux

[Gengis Khan]

Got it.

Woo HOO, war turns!! I've met my quota of builder turns for the week after DI1.

 

[Stapel]

Any results GK?

 

[Gengis Khan]

Yea, almost finished. I'll post the results mid-afternoon/tonight. Sorry, it's hard for me to do anything this weekend except scream at the TV, brackets in hand.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

I spent all day screaming at the TV.

 

[Gengis Khan]

PT- Flight Check: 1 settler, 2 workers, 6 warriors, 1 spear, 1 sword, 12 pikes, 3 cats, 1 army, 11 zerks, 3 med infs, 2 trebs, & 1 crusader.

But Chemistry off Cleo for 20gpt & 531g.
Tell William of my intentions to wipe him out.
Sell Chemistry, 3gpt & 1g to Hammi for Astronomy & a MA against the Dutch.

Switch Odense from walls to Caravel.
Switch Trondhiem from Zerk to Copernicus(I’ll take it if we get it, which we never will. It’s more of a pre-build for Magellan’s’. We also have Smith’s coming up which would be very nice, worse case senario we don’t get any of them & fall back on the Hero Epic.)

Upgrade 2 galleys for 60g.
Whip temple in Chengdu, Hangchow, Nanking.
Whip harbor in Gemfjord & Fauske.

Put scientist in Stockholm.
MM all our cities.


IT- Bodo: Pike>worker
Gemfjord: harbor>temple
Tromso: harbor>temple
Nanking: temple>worker (help the southern cities get rid of those jungles/marshes. Nanking is also the prime city for our FP when we get our next Leader.)
Vadso: harbor>temple
Chengdu: temple>treb
Hangchow: temple>treb
Birka: Zerk>Zerk

As you can probably tell I’m thinking a Domination victory will be what we end up going for, so I’m making sure the bottom part of our continent is fully expanded.

Sidon CFs back to the Persians, taking a Zerk with it.

And no more listing cities production, there’s more stuff build & Zerks ordered up.

People expand our palace. What, no trees??

1- Upgrade a bunch more gallys.
Whip market in Copenhagen.

2- Zerks on their way, load up a few pikes as well.

IT- Kill off an attacking Kn, -1hp to our Zerk.

3- Zerk hops off a galley attacking a Knight, -2hp & retreats him. Second Zerk joins him on the Iron.
Nothing new on the Diplo front, except for some lux/resources we don’t need.
Whip harbor in Arbella(SoZ city).
Zerk kills a Lb next to our city, -1hp but is out in the open(at least it’s a forest tile). I hate to do it, but the city was defended with only a Zerk.

IT- Knight kills our wounded Zerk.
Immortal redlines Zerk on Iron, but he dies.
Dutch complete Sisteen
Arbella: harbor>temple
Persian city of Tier completes Copernicus(new FP location maybe??)

4- With the Wonder cascade broken, I switch to HE in Trondheim as a Magellan’s’ pre-build.
El Zerk kills spear.
Vt Zerk kills spear, retakes Siden. Siden starts on a temple.
Sell Henry our extra horses & gems for 25gpt & 40g.

IT- Immortal kills a Zerk, -2hp.
Xinjain: Pike>Temple

5- Kill a few units, nothing major. More reinforcements.
Break out my dictator whip & rush Zerks in like 6 cities.

IT- Lose our Zerk & Pike that were trying to hold down the mtn, kill 3 Kn & retreat another though.

6- El Zerk gets revenge on the Immortal, takes back the mtn & is reinforced by 3 more Zerks.
Found Batsfjord.

IT- Our Mtn Zerk kills in Immortal, -1hp.
Another retreats a Kn.

7- I just realized that since our SoZ doesn’t have Ivory hooked up to it, we aren’t getting ACs.
Whip harbor in Ivoristad.
Seige of Parsarguare:
Vt Zerk killed by Pike, -3hp.
Vt Zerk killed by Pike, -2hp.
-1 El kills Pike, -2hp.
-1 El kills Pike, -3hp.
They’re down to their last wounded defender, but I’m out of attackers.

Kill a LB.

8- Dutch drop off an Med Inf & Sw next to Fauske, oops forgot about that city. I rush a wall & pray it will survive.
Wounded El Zerk killed by Pike, but redlines it.
Wounded El Zerk kills Pike, burns Parsarguard to the ground.


Gotta wrap it up there, the next person can play 12 turns.

I’ve been whipping the hell outa our cities, which is why they’re small & MMed mostly for growth.
Everything else is looking good, when I get home tonight I’ll outline my supply lines & point of attack(I just picked up a new photoshop, so maaaaybe I can print screanshots[dance])
I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked, because we were hurting for troops. I think the next person will be pretty well set up.



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[Stapel]

Got it .

 

[Stapel]

How valuable is our rep? We have a MA vs the Dutch running . Since the Dutch have a stack near one of our cities....

 

[Bede]

IMHO, don't trash the rep. Commerce is our lifeblood.

Make like a Timex, take the beating and keep on ticking!

 

[Gengis Khan]

That was my , I completly forgot about that city down there or I would have sent some units down to protect it.

While I had good intention(slowing down the tech pace with Magnatism upcoming), leaving the city undefended was definatly a blunder. We'll get it back.

 

[Stapel]

Well, what was the reason to make an MA with the Babs in the first place?

 

[Gengis Khan]

Cause otherwise, declaring war on the Dutch would've been pointless.

 

[gormdragan]

I'm back!!! Please slot me back into rotation.

 

[Bede]

@Stapel
Any news?,
or do you want to slot gorm in here?

 

[Stapel]

I won't play. Slot in Gorm, please. PM-ed Bugs about it.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

gorm, jump right in.

 

[gormdragan]

Ok...this is a got it. I will play this game first and then jump back into DI1 (while GK plays his turns). Ready to rock and roll.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

*cough, cough*

 

[Strider]

Originally posted by Sir Bugsy
*cough, cough*

I've got some cough drops here if you want some.

 

[gormdragan]

Sorry, Singapore is too amazing...being out the entire weekend....will try to play tonight.

 

[gormdragan]

Preturn:
Cycled thru all the cities, meant some minor changes. Plan to rush our FP on Bodo if we get a MGL.

IBT:
Persian knight kills our exposed redlined Zerg.
Our pike kills dutch swords, but redlines.
Dutch MI kills our redlined pike, we lost Fauske.

1270:
Bergen makes zerg, starts temple.
Arbela makes an ancient cav.

Landed pike to enforce Arbela, mobilise ancient cav to clean out the persians.

Siege of Dariush Kabir
Our zerg kills a vet pike, no dmg.
Our zerg kills a reg spear, no dmg.
Our pike reinforces the city.

Our zerg kills vet knight, -2hp.

IBT:
yellowlined zerg killed by persian vet knight.
reg pike redlines persian vet knight.
elite zerg kills persian immo.

1275:
Landed our assault force against Antioch, and Tyre.

Vet crusader kills reg knight.

Zerg move up to strip persians of their iron source.

IBT:
vet zerg killed by vet knight.
Dutch wants peace, but we have alliance with Babylons, so no deal.

1280:
Nanking makes worker, starts rax.

Siege of Tyre
Vet zerg kills elite pike, redlines.
vet zerg kills elite spear, -2hp.
vet zerg kills vet pike, -2hp, promotes. Cop Ob is ours.

Siege of Antioch
Vet zerg kills vet pike, redlines.
vet zerg kills vet spear,-1hp.
vet zerg kills reg spear, promotes.

Vet crusader redlines vet knight.
vet zerg dies to vet knight.
reg ani cav kills vet knight, promotes.

IBT:
vet crusader dies to vet knight.
Portugese starts JS Bach.

1285:
Siege of Ghulaman
vet zerg kills vet pike.
vet zerg kills vet pike.

1290:
Traded fur+260g for egyptian incense.

Siege of Borazjan
Elite zerg kills reg pike, -2hp.
vet zerg killes reg spear.

Elite zerg kills vet knight.

IBT:
Elite crusader kills vet longb, which means persians are out of iron.
Elite zerg killed by vet knight.

1295:
Vet ani cav kills persian knight.

Siege of Samaria
vet zerg kills reg spear, promotes.
elite zerg kills reg spear.

1300:
Siege of Sardis
Elite zerg kills vet pike.
vet zerg kills reg spear.

Summary
(1) Persians are without iron and possibilly without horse as well. It is time to go for the kill.

(2) The destruction of the roads and improvements are still in progress.





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