The Paladins

[cripp7]

are we going to rename this to The Bastards!

 

[Thy_Spellcraft]

I'd keep the name as this is the historical background of our game idea and there seems to no proper reason to rename it anyway..

 

[Ad Hoc]

I really can't see it mattering about the name

Turn 171

The chariot was finished in Prague this will be the Super-Medic, and we start a horse archer

Turn 172

Aachen finishes a chariot and starts a HA

as suspected though Alex decided to get in on the action,

His stack appeared,

Turn 173

We promote the chariot to a super medic

we lose a HA in the east attacking a Mongol Swordsman, which is itself then beaten by our chariot

Prague whips an Archer

In the west Alexs attack costs us an archer and chariot for two phalanxs and a spear

Turn 174

Aachen whips a HA while prague whips an archer

Oh look who's come to play

Turn 175

Augsberg finishes a chariot

We lose one archer for one Jag, one chariot and one spear at Prague


Turn 176

Our archer at Nuremberg defeats a lone Aztec axe, a mongol stack heads towards Vienna

Turn 177

Vienna whips an Archer, the mongol stack advances past vienna

Turn 178

Does anyone think Archers and HA's are going to stand against Elephants and the inevitable Cats

I stopped at this point for some discussion on wether it's worth going on. Lack of metals is going to kill us i think.

 

[Meatbuster]

Check if peace with Genghis is available. If not, I quit.

But if we go on, let's go Flanking to the max, let's see if we can soften up that elephant.

 

[Ad Hoc]

Peace isn't available, even if we kill one nellie it's only a matter of time i think

 

[Meatbuster]

By that time hopefully we have more well-promoted flanking HA

My vote is quit, still, as this is the point where I usually restart my single games. Let's check with the others.

 

[Ad Hoc]

i agree, i usually quit about this point as well but best wait for the others to make a final decision.

 

[cripp7]

I say do a reroll also, it's too bad that we got dog piled.

 

[Meatbuster]

Heh, so who's going to re-roll. I can do it now. Same map, same opponents. Hopefully different outcome, and I don't the second city.

Different thread? Here's a preview, who's playing first? Scout hasn't moved.

Settings
Difficulty: Emperor
Opponents: pre-selected warmongers again
Map: Lakes
Climate: Tropical
Sea Level: Normal
Speed: Normal
Resources: Balanced

 

[Sirloin]

Not a lot of (visible) resources. I'd move the scout NE, NE. We have two unrevealed coasts to the east, so there's only 3 unrevealed land tiles in the staring location BFC. We could also move the scout NW, NE if we wanted to consider moving west a bit. Hopefully we've got some hidden metal around.

 

[cripp7]

going NE,NE or NE then decide whether to go NE or N. Hope we do get metal close. Let's just keep this forum going instead of starting on a new one.

 

[Thy_Spellcraft]

Ok, cripp it's up to you!
Move the scout and then let's discuss where to settle!

 

[cripp7]

right will do

Spoiler :

after moving NE,NE looks like in place is best

 

[Thy_Spellcraft]

Settling in place seems to be obvious.. And I'd start worker first while researching AH to work the sheep and to reveal the horses..

General question: Do we want to go for the Wall once again??

 

[Meatbuster]

Well yeah, unless we want to work harder for our generals.

 

[cripp7]

Went a few turns over, played 22

Pre-Turn
Well without further ado..settle in place start worker, AH

Turn 1-4
zzz

Turn 5
Meet Alex

Turn 6-12
zzz

Turn 13
AH>Ag

Spoiler "For Horse" :

Turn 14-15
Aachen worker>warrior

Turn 17
Meet Genghis

Turn 18
Meet Rangar

Turn 20
Scout is mauled by a panther

Turn 22
AG > queued mining

Stopped here, scouted out a lot to the W where Alex is. Could've done better on scouting the east out.

Queued up mining

 

[Thy_Spellcraft]

Ok, got it.. Will post some ideas later on, but feel free to give some on your own! But as it seems there's no real other way than heading for BW, timing the second settler to finish the the same turn, and deciding where to build our second city afterwards.

 

[Thy_Spellcraft]

As noone responded I played as suggested:

3080BC:
Our scout survived another panther-attack, became WoodyI and needs two more turns to heal..

2960BC:
Khan adoped slavery!!

2800BC:
Our scout got eaten by the third panther but at least we finished Mining. 14 turns to go for BW.

2680BC:
Here we go:

In the end we got all three things..

2640BC:
We met Mounty.

2560BC:
Boudica showed herself.

2400BC
Alex went into slavery as well.

2320BC:
Our settler finished. One turn too early.. But nonetheless I changed to a barrack as we'll need it sooner or later.

2280BC:
Our second scout survived a panther attack and finally we got to BW. For now I switched to masonry to enable GW ones again.. So I finished here for some discussions on city placement.

So here's a short overview and an early dotmap:

For next city I'd purpose cyan dot.

 

[Ad Hoc]

i'd vote for Cyan as well, at least we can get somew axes and chariots out.

 

[Thy_Spellcraft]

So Meat as pigs' gone you're up!!