The Most Dangerous Game - Small Pangaea FFA

[rd13]

sent..

 

[Mîtiu Ioan]

Happy Easter to all Catholic players !

 

[Mîtiu Ioan]

You all found cities too fast. I can barely keep up. gps

Not too fast ... as long as I'm the last in score in this moment.

Sent to Ardi again.

 

[rd13]

Egyptian war chariots and axemen are carving a path of destruction through the jungles. Another foe is about to fall.

Sent.

 

[Espírito]

Egypt marauding through Sumeria but I'm still #1 in power... maybe I should be sending my units out to attack?

What's the view from Sumeria? Still a considerable score advantage, is that technologies?

Gps

 

[Tankra]

The hierarchs do not wish to disclose such information at this time. Let it be known that we neither confirm nor deny the claims made by the Egyptians.

 

[rd13]

Sent this morning.

The conflict has escalated from menacing diplomacy to outright killing. More Egyptian troops are piling into the area.

 

[Espírito]

Sent.

 

[Tankra]

The plot thickens.

 

[Mîtiu Ioan]

Seems that while my workers are ( slowly and )peacefully improving the land of our beautiful country some big events are unfolding elsewhere ...

Sent to Ardi.

 

[Espírito]

Looks like Etienne has lost a city... barbarians, or marauding Egyptians?

gps

 

[Mîtiu Ioan]

Wow ... this game became more and more interesting - almost to dependency-point ...

Nice to see that Ardi managed to play his morning-turn in time !

 

[Tankra]

Sent. My score is alarmingly high right now.

 

[Mîtiu Ioan]

Sent to Ardi.

 

[rd13]

Sent.

A barbarian spearman? Never seen that before.

 

[Espírito]

Yes it is Alexi... how? Did you build the Oracle while the Sumerians were destroying your cities?

And barb spears? Yep, I hate them. Too tough for warriors and they walk past archers on hills. Good against Chariots so you need to link up copper to counter them. Infuriating if you've not got copper linked up yet (and I normally don't by the time they appear).

gps

 

[rd13]

Coming back to the discussion about score and how its calculated - i got a massive (70+ points) score boost last turn, and it was all from Land (ie. the "land" subscore in the score breakdown was the only one that grew that turn). Now i know that i gained no new land that turn, nor the previous turn.

Maybe the land points are not given linearry (that is, for every bit of land you get a fixed sum of points), but relatively to what the turn is, how much land others got etc. There must be a forum post that explains it all, but its more interesting to speculate than to go and actually read it

 

[Tankra]

Seeing as there's no real way you can use this information, I'll explain to you what happened:

A few turns ago, I spotted the pretty faces of two War Chariots coming towards my newly built city. It only had 1 Archer in it, with one more coming over in 3 turns, but not quickly enough to come before the Chariots. Running the odds, I knew that the city would be destroyed. And destroyed is what it would be, due to its 1 population.

So I contacted the Egyptians and averted war by giving them the city. Their anger has since been deflected towards the Maya. Oh, and I got the Oracle.

 

[Mîtiu Ioan]

Interesting ... Egyptian raiding-party rages around - that's a pretty unusual but let's see how it will ends.

Sent to Ardi again.

 

[rd13]

Anger, theres no anger Just a strategic need to make use of the early-gained UU.

But a fine piece of diplomacy from Alexi nevertheless.

Sent.