TR04 - Losers vs 5CC deity

[Tubby Rower]

Eldar is slacking off....again. Not like I can say anything. I appreciate the effort to keep this one, but it might need to die peacefully. :suicide:

It might also have something to do with the sponsor having to give up civ for a while....dman, are you going to sign up for team wooden spoon in SGOTM8???

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Actually, think it was me slacking. I got it will get a save up asap, no later than sunday.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

1000 apologies. I thought I posted this save 2 days ago. In the interim, not much has changed. IIRC, i built some more artillery.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/Theodora_of_the_Byzantines,_1650_AD.SAV

 

[eldar]

Okay. Well I am out tomorrow night but Thrusday I should be able to unclog

 

[Tubby Rower]

Should I get inserted back into the fray? My little woman said it would be okay to play occassionally but not obsessively. both start with 'O' so I see where I got confused before.....

 

[eldar]

Well it's your game - so I guess it's up to you...

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

let tubby play let tubby play

 

[Tubby Rower]

I started a game of Ryhe's World map. The unmodded one from the igor games..... I lost the first two games within 20 turns. Some of the orginal starting locations are extremely close!!! I finally reduced the number of opponents and got a random start as Spain. I'm doing ok at it so far.

eldar, are you going to be able to play tonight?? If not I could grab it.

 

[eldar]

I can play it tonight but I'll happily let you squeeze in if you like.

(read: I still haven't started COTM13 despite having finished GOTM44, and there's another solo game going I want to finish off but that's late-Industrial so the turns are quite long.)

Oh, and Welcome Back (even though you've not really been away).

 

[Tubby Rower]

Well you "night" starts before my "night" by 5 hours, so I should still be able to play after you. No off to refresh myself on the status of the game and where it is headed.

Oh, and Welcome Back

It's nice to be back in the saddle. Now that I know where my wife's hiding spot is she said that she would have to hide it better next time.....I hope that time doesn't come until right before CivIV.

 

[eldar]

What I suggest is, you put the CD back in that "hiding spot" after finishing each session!

I'll see what I can do with the game tonight - I have a feeling it's not going to end up too well given to prevent a Spanish 20K win, we're going to have to raze Madrid.

Of course, if we're lucky enough to have Aluminium and Uranium, we might still pull of a SS victory.

 

[eldar]

That was a little tedious.

Cleared up pollution, renewed a deal for Gems, cancelled the MPP with Hiawatha, oh and stole something called "Atomic Theory" from the Spanish Dunno what use it is, but the Arabs gave us knowledge of "Combustion" in exchange, far more useful as we can now upgrade all those wonky Ironclads, and build Transports.

Why are we building Transports? Well, funny you should ask....

We got Oil, now we get to use it

Neil.

 

[Tubby Rower]

Well a machine at work crapped out on us and they have deemed me idiot in charge....Why oh why do people always blame electrical stuff for mechanical problems??? Oh well such is my lot in life. I won't get to it 'til tomorrow at least.


Roster:
eldar -- jus' played
Tubby Rower - got the CD back... will butt in tomorrow
Mach -- on deck - go ahead and play if you can
dman
Minute Man
Bede
A-K

 

[Mach]

I'm up in three others, which'll probably take me today and tomorrow (one is the SGOTM), so you can go ahead, Tubs.

...and welcome back.

 

[Tubby Rower]

Should Caesarea be switched to a Hoover Dam Pre-build? Two civs have Electronics now and Caesarea has the 2nd biggest shield count behind Connie. 767G + 364gpt should get us a good steal just before the pre-build is done.

Eldar, was anyone else building it already? How much did the steal for AT cost??

 

[eldar]

I don't know if anyone else was building it - it may already have been done, of course (only Iros and Spain can build it, though).

Palace is only 300 shields. Not much of a pre-build.

Safe steal is ~3.6k.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Glad to know someone has the touch for stealing. I couldn't even get a spy planted IIRC.

 

[Tubby Rower]

First...the save. The Spanish ville in eldar's strategy is gone. An Arab town was placed on that island 2 turns after it was defeated. All but 2 or 3 arties are on the coast of the Spanish mainland (see below). The stack has 22 arties, 4 inf, 3 ironclads, & a destroyer 2 cruisers are at Caesarea healing.

We are going to win the race to Hoover's!! When this screen was taken we only had 8 turns left...

Spoiler turnlog :

Pre-flight nada

t1 - Connie trans -> trans
Varna trans -> trans
Spain building SETI

t2 - adrian arty -> arty
caesar arty -> arty
Nicaea transport -> cruiser
Iroquois building Hoover's in Memphis....upon closer inspection of the map, that is one of the few rivers...
shelled a couple of tiles of lone spanish town
load up 4 infantry & 20 arties

t3 - arabia & Iroquis sign MPP
Connie transport -> cruiser
Varna transport -> cruiser
drop off load of troops & arty at Spain's town (see Arabs in the area)

t4 - Hittites declare war on Iroquois
caearea arty -> arty
bomb Spainiards down to 1 hp each and 4 pop. take the town & raze for 15 G

t5 - Connie cruiser -> cruiser
steal (careful) Electronics
add a couple of workers to ADrian to get up to 20 pop

t6 - see spainish armada headed towards home
caesarea arty -> arty
Varna cruiser -> cruiser
Inca declare on Hittites
Arabia declare on Hittites
investigate Memphis for 276g Hoover's complete in 65 turns (we are 8 turns away)

t7 - took out the cruiser & a destroyer but left a transport & wounded destroyer to finish off next turn.
Arty is at Spanish mainland....waiting on re-inforcements

t8 - Arabs drop off a load of units by pamplona to run with the bulls
Inca ask to exchange territory maps and us give them combustion...nope
Take out transport

 

[eldar]

Is that their only Rubber? If it isn't - forget about taking it out. Just whack Madrid, and let the place burn.

 

[Tubby Rower]

Nope they have 3 sources.

BTW, on Hoover's we were lucky to get a river at Adrian. It turns out that there are only like 2 or 3 rivers on the whole map. Spain doesn't have any rivers on their home continent. The Iroquois are having to build Hoover's in the old Egyptian land which is corrupt.