TR04 - Losers vs 5CC deity

[eldar]

Hmm... I did peek at their military though.

Only 9 Galleons, half a dozen Conquistadors (thankfully not a threat on a 'pelago), a handful of Cavalry, and the small matter of 116 Infantry!! We have more than enough to repel borders, especially as she's at war with the Iros.

 

[eldar]

Here we are then.

1405AD, and I blew our stash trying to steal from Spain (would've been Sci Meth - I could've traded it for Corporation). Spain declared.

14xxAD, Spain signed Arabia in with us.

14yyAD, the Hittites demanded Espionage. I'd just bought some luxes from them so caved, not like that's a big deal.

14zzAD, catch naughty neighbour Hiawatha trying to spy on us!

1450AD, plant spies with Spain (again), and Arabia. Arabia have nothing to worry us. Spain's tech lead bothers me a bit, though:

Combustion they have! So Refining, Steel, also, must they have. We're hiking 177gpt to the Iros though and that will run out soon, which will give us enough for a careful steal every 10 turns or so - acceptable enough, especially if we make back with canny trades.

Good news, in that our Coal deal has been renewed in perpetuity. Keep it going. Don't get Hiawatha angry. He's also our insurance policy against a Spanish 100K.

Neil.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Igor and I debated for what seemed an eternity on that deal for Electricity. We decided we like chocolate torte with chocolate glaze. Probably time to turn off the research and start building ICBM prebuilds. Only 119 inf? Slacker!

 

[dmanakho]

I have it. Will play tomorrow

 

[Mach]

Ack, just realized I'm up, and I'm 10 minutes too late. Heh. Go ahead dman, I'll take it after.

Edit: Dug this up...

Roster:
eldar -- jus' played
Mach -- on deck
dman -- gots it
Minute Man
Bede
Tubby Rower - still "testing" the waters to get CD back?
A-K

 

[dmanakho]

Actually Mach - please do go ahead and play it.
I looked at the first pages of this thread and it has an old wrong roster and i thought i was up... I definetely need to be a full member in A-K club
So go ahead and play now and i will follow...

 

[Mach]

Sure, then I'll try to get it in tonight sos you can still play tomorrow.

 

[Mach]

Quiet turns. No landings. Both Spain and Arabia will make peace, but they want money for it, and since they ain't landing anything I didn't bite.

In 1465 I sent Electricity to the Hittites for Corporation and some change, and started on Stock Exchanges. The one in Nicaea was sabatoged just before it was done, and of course that was the slowest building one so it delayed Wall Street as much as it could.

Spain kept messing with us spy-wise (sabatoge, propaganda...), and I got annoyed so I exposed their spy in 1490.

And those were the highlights.

We're at over 400gpt, and once that final stock exchange (in Nicaea) and Wall Street (in Caesarea) are done, we should be over 500gpt, enough for a safe steal every 6-7 turns.

As far as we can see, the Iroquois are almost caught up with Spain tech-wise, which sucks for us.

Take it away, dman!

save

 

[dmanakho]

I have it... will play tonight or tomorrow

 

[dmanakho]

pre-turn:Made peace with arabs for 120 gold
and immediately sold them iron for spices 206 gold + 6gpt.
made peace with spain for 50gold and sold them horses for wines and 450Gold

T1. Nothing

IBT. Hittites and arabia signed peace.

T2. 1510AD. Last stock is built. Wall street will be ready next turn. Irrigated couple of mined tiles near Varna

IBT Wall street is built.

T3. 1515. We are making 574gpt. Dare to steal tech from Spain and got us Refining. I wanted to know if we have oil.
We do have oil but it is not connected. Located on the northern tip of our island in marsh field.
Well, at least i will have something to do during my turns. Planted a spy with Iro's

IBT. Silks deal with Hittites ended... But i managed to sell them Refining and got back silks + some gold + 13gpt
Pollution strikes Constantinople and all our workers are stuck in marsh field.

T4-T5 nothin'
IBT. Pollution strikes adrianople.
T6. 1530AD I am lucky today - stole Replaceble parts from Spain. We don't have rubber on our island... that's bad.

T7. 1535AD Bought Communism from arabs using our suprlus technologies. Started building Police stations in 3 of our cities.
Bought cheap rubber from spain for 268Gold+WM.
Disbanded all our cannons to expedite Police Stations builds. It is too costly to upgrade them, it looks like it is cheaper for us to build artillery instead.

T8. 1540AD Iro's galleon with escort is approaching our shore... I wonder if they want to declare.

IBT. Iro's are simply passing by. But, we lost incense and our cities are in riot. Pollution hits Constantinople

T9. 1745AD Bought incense back from Inca for communism, but some people are still not happy... strange.... haven't had any other messages and can't buy no more luxes from AIs. Hiring a clown in Constantinople and Nicaea

IBT. Watching Iro's planes bomb Spain navy. Iro's and Spain signed peace. I'd rather them to fight though.

T10. 1750AD Sorry but couldn't resist and stole Steel from Spain. Immediately exchanged Steel for Sci. Method with arabs.
Nobody has atomic theory.... Long shot but we can have a Hoover built for ourselves if play our cards right.
Certainly trying to self-research now is a silly idea. It will take roughly 30+ turns just to research electronics, while i managed to get us whole bunch of techs during my 10 turns just by stealing them.
All our cities are producing wealth with the exception of Constantinople. I am making artillery there to replace all the cannons i disbanded. And we do need bunch of artillery to defend ourselves.
Oil should be hooked up next few turns.

EDIT: Main goal for the next player is to steal Atomic Theory as soon as someone gets it and if we lucky we will be able to swap it immediately with Combustion with another AI and then sell it around for profit.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

U R D man. Prebuild for Hoover? I'm not having another idiot moment and holding this up am I? If I'm posting like Yoda, please just shoot me as a mercy thingy.

 

[Minute Man]

No, I'm up next. But I've got a moderately nasty cold at the moment, so it'll probably be at least a couple of days before I'm up to the level of concentration needed to take on this game. So if Bede wants to jump in ahead of me, feel free.

 

[dmanakho]

No can't have a pre-build for Hoover.
Our towns can build palace in just 5turns and there is not way we can predict when AIs will get to electronics and whether we will be able to steal it in time. So I'd say whenever we get the tech lets start building hoover and hope for the best.

 

[Bede]

Got it. Will take a stab at it later today, Sunday.

BTW, what is our objective here, steal our way to Space?

 

[dmanakho]

BTW, what is our objective here, steal our way to Space?

Looks like it. Self-research is really out of the question.
And we really ought to watch AIs to make sure nobody gets domination, diplo or 100K victories before that.

 

[eldar]

I don't see anyone winning a diplo victory. Us aside, I think everyone's backstabbed everyone else.

100K - unless there's a dramatic Iro collapse, they're keeping Spain pegged.

20K - that's the one we have to watch. Can we get together what we need to wipe out Madrid?

Domination - tough call, again Spain and Iros might break out. I don't think they'll do it though.

 

[Bede]

Peaceful wealth accumulation. Sell some luxes and resources to Spain and the Inca for cash, and sell the Inca Corporation for gems. And at the very end it is war again and a potentially unpopular decision by the monk.

In 1560 India and Spain are at peace, again.

And in 1565 Atomic Theory comes up but we are one turn from a safe steal from Spain. In 1570 the attempt fails but Gweeto escaped.

In 1580 Hiawatha comes buy to borrow a cup of gold (83g). Pay the bum off.

In 1585 Hiawatha goes begin to the Indians and they tell him to bugger off so they are now at war.

In 1590 Inca join Hiawatha against the Indians. Hittites also join the fray.

And in 1595 the Iroquois show up on our shores.

After bery bery carefully checking the ongoing deals in 1600 I sign an MPP with Hiawatha after trading wines for horses with Isabella then try another safe steal of Atomic Theory and that one fails. We are at war with Spain, who is now wearing her Modern Era suit.

So when she drops a bomb on us Hiawatha and Isabella are back at war.

All cities shifted to Infantry prior to the steal so that if we lost the Rubber supply we at least had some defenders in the queue. The oil is now connected but I'm not sure what we can do with it

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Tanks, tanks and more tanks. When we can figure out out to make them.

 

[Bede]

Tanks need Rubber, too, and Izzy controls that one.

 

[dmanakho]

Is it just me or does it really feel like after so many fun games everybody is bored with this one?

Where are you people? Who's up?