Tupac03 - Aztecs in Space

[The 777 Hoax]

Okay, I'll try it! But as Yoda says, "Do, or do not. There is no try."

I'll let you guys do a couple more turns first though, so I can see what I'm dealing with here.

 

[tupaclives]

I am having to be placed on indefinate skip. My civ computer wont even start up let alone play civ. Could be a false alarm... but then maybe not, we'll have to wait and see. For now place me on skip.

 

[Merlin]

Sorry to hear that tupac.

I couldn't play yesterday. Will play today. But I'm now at work and will play squash after work, so it will take some time...

 

[Merlin]

Pre-flight check: Wake an elite sword and attack redlined horse. Win, but no leader. Wake archers to attack the german archers. Lose one, kill three. Change Perth from Walls to settler. Some MM. (4-1)

IBT: lose one archer to horse. Kill one archer defending (5-2).

Turn 1 (1225BC): Kill horse with eArcher, no leader. Lose sword attacking regular archer on grassland. (6-3)

IBT: zzz

Turn 2 (1200BC): Canberra sword->settler, Thats-A-Knife barracks->spear, AGAIN LOSE A SWORD ATTACKING ARCHER ON GRASS!! another sword kills it. Started to chop some forests. (7-4)

IBT: kill one archer defending (8-4)

Turn 3 (1175BC): Collect our attack force to Brisbane.

IBT: german horse kills our fortified spear behind Brisbane walls! Another horse kills an elite sword. Not nice rng (8-6)

Turn 4 (1150BC): Perth settler->spear, Kill the two horses of doom with eArcher and eSword, no leaders. Road to Tarzana finished, one worker to clear jungle. Math next turn, cannot lower science. (10-6)

IBT: zzzz

Turn 5 (1125BC): Math->Currency, Canberra settler->sword, Brisbane sword->spear, Melbourne sword->cat. Sell math to Americans for Mysticism and 148 gold.

IBT: zzzz

Turn 6 (1100BC): Adelaide sword->worker, troops healed at Brisbane, next turn start journey to New York.

IBT: zzz

Turn 7 (1075BC): three swords and archer to mountain near NY

IBT: lot of germans closing Brisbane...

Turn 8 (1050BC): Canberra sword->sword, Brisbane spear->spear, Adelaide worker->cat. Attackers now next to NY, will attack next turn.

IBT: retreat horse attacking Brisbane, GOLDEN AGE ENDS

Turn 9 (1025BC): attack of NY, vSword kills spear, eSword kills spear, NY autorazed. Kill redlined horse. Kill archer*3, settler ready to settle. Peace with Germany, get Writing for math, WM and 86 gold. They have Philo, CoL and MM. (16-6)

IBT: Germans turn to Boston, Americans won't last long.

Turn 10(1000BC): Melbourne cat->temple, Egyptians finished the great lighthouse. Settle Cairns -> walls. Lux to 20%.

IBT: Forest chops finish

Turn 11 (975BC): Canberra sword->temple, forest chop will help, Perth spear->worker. Sell writing to Abe for 16 gold. Get the FP message.

IBT: zzzz

Turn 12 (950BC): Settle Katherine->worker.

IBT: zzzz

Turn 13 (925BC): Canberra temple->worker, Brisbane spear->spear, Adelaide cat->cat. Germans on our territory, so buy Philo for 19gpt, WM and 53 gold. Ask them to leave->they declare. Capture three german workers.

IBT: Lose archer to horse. Germans turn to Katherine (16-7)

Turn 14 (900BC): Kill one archer (17-7)

IBT: lose one captured worker. Lose a fortified sword in forest to archer attacking over river!! Kill five troops defending, lose sword in Katherine. (22-9)

Turn 15 (875BC): Perth worker->spear, Melbourne temple->spear. OUR IRON DISAPPEARS!! Kill a horse. (23-9)

IBT: Kill three, lose a sword. (26-9)

Turn 16 (850BC): Thats-A-Knife spear->jag. Kill archer with eSword, no leader.

IBT: Kill two archers defending. (28-9)

Turn 17 (825BC): Canberra sword->spear, Tarzana barracks->jag. Kill an archer. (29-9)

IBT: zzz

turn 18 (800BC): Brisbane spear->jag, Adelaide cat->cat. Kill a horse (30-9)

IBT: Elite spear in Katherine loses to horse without making a scratch, elite sword loses too, we lose Katherine...

Turn 19 (775BC): Canberra to settler.

IBT: zzzz

Turn 20 (750BC): Cairns walls->barracks. See a French city at the end of German lands.


These were really lousy 20 turns. I had bad rng and lost a lot of fights that I should have won. It's going to be quite a struggle from now on. Losing our iron really doesn't help.

 

[tupaclives]

We are having my comuter repaird asap and should be ready today later, unless i post otherwise consider me UP.

Lets see what I can do.

 

[CommandoBob]

IBT: lose one archer to horse. Kill one archer defending (5-2).

I'm not sure how to read this number. 5 fights and 2 losses or 5 wins and 2 losses? (I can guess, but I would rather be told.)

 

[The 777 Hoax]

I'll be in Chicago until Sunday... I'll talk to you guys later though

 

[Andronicus]

These were really lousy 20 turns. I had bad rng and lost a lot of fights that I should have won. It's going to be quite a struggle from now on. Losing our iron really doesn't help.

Man those rng rolls really suck.
There is always going to be run of bad luck with battle outcomes, but to lose our iron source as well

A few questions
I cant see from map where Katherine was - was it grabbing gems?
Are Germans still at war with America?
Do we have ongoing deals with Americans - if so how long for?
How many cats do we have?

We need to regain iron and only source appears to be Boston.

 

[Andronicus]

I'm not sure how to read this number. 5 fights and 2 losses or 5 wins and 2 losses? (I can guess, but I would rather be told.)

5-2 would usually relect battle count of 5 wins, 2 losses
I note you expressed yours differently - I hadnt seen it the way you did before

 

[CommandoBob]

5-2 would usually relect battle count of 5 wins, 2 losses
I note you expressed yours differently - I hadnt seen it the way you did before

I show mine as 'x of y' so that I don't get confused. If it is spelled out like that then I do not have to mentally decode it. Plus, no addition required.

(And, yes, I am over 30.)

 

[Andronicus]

.

(And, yes, I am over 30.)

Ah to be that young
I hadnt used a computer age 30

 

[Andronicus]

Roster
tupaclives - UP
Andronicus - ON DECK
CommandoBob - saw us into first German war
Merlin - battled Germans and rng
cody_the_genius - ? joining at end of second round

 

[Merlin]

I'm at work, so I dont have the game at hand, but I'll try to answer your questions.

I cant see from map where Katherine was - was it grabbing gems?

No, I had Katherine on the river south of the game. Not a good place. The obvious city place is on the hill on the river south of gems. Next city should be there. If I had Katherine there, the extra defence from the hill, might have saved it... This really was bad city placement from me...

Are Germans still at war with America?

Not sure without an embassy, but think so...

Do we have ongoing deals with Americans - if so how long for?

I'd say no. They paid math in cash

How many cats do we have?

3 I'd say.. Not sure.

I made the second war to get philo cheap. We have enough troops in Cairns to feel safe. We should make peace ASAP, contact the French, build the city I mentioned above, get MM and iron.

 

[tupaclives]

I'll probably have to be skipped sorry, they wont be able to get the computer fixed for at least a week, luckily they were able to retrieve my assignments that are due so at least i wont fail anything. Give me a day tops to see if i can get civ onto another computer and patched up, i might be able to play then but thats a definate 'wait and see' I'm not sure if any of the other computers in the hosue are up to handling civ.

 

[tupaclives]

Nope, dads laptop can handle it after all.

Got it!

 

[tupaclives]

Pre-Turn:

Swap Melbourne to Archer (was spear). Move one of the two spears guarding workers into

IBT - Our spear covering a worker succesfully retreats a German horse. German archers move into the vicinity of Cairns.

Turn 1 - France has a city on our continent! Way over in German held territory though, very difficult to get to and make contact. Its worth a try though... Pick off the redlined horse, yellowline a spear with cats. (1-0)

IBT - kill a horse on defence with a spear (2-0).

Turn 2 - Kill 2 archers with swords (4-0) things are looking bad, Germany wont talk.

IBT - foolishly left two workers exposed but rather than attacking them the horse opts to attack the spear, which it kills (4-1).

Turn 3 - pick off 3 archers for no loss (7-1) and Germany will talk! Not only that they will take straight up peace! Make peace collecting 20 gold. Now we need to think about a new source of iron. And grabbign those gems. We have a settler ready to head up there, I'll cover him with 2 spears and a jag. Then we may have to wipe out America. We need iron more than they do.

IBT - Germans move away, I think they must be at peace with America.

Turn 4 - just moving guys around. Nothing major.

IBT - America demands 20 gold, i tell them to shove it. They comply.

Turn 5 - zzzz

IBT - zzzz

Turn 6 - We are losing a lot of money, have to drop science to 40%

IBT - zzzz

Turn 7 - even with 40% sci we are still at -3gpt.

IBT - zzzz

Turn 8 - arrive at settling destination.

IBT - Egyptians complete Hanging Gardens.

Turn 9 - Found Rubyvale on the hill by the river that takes in the gems. On culture expansion it can claim the fish as well.

IBT - zzz

Turn 10 - Found Townsville, the two new towns have dropped our support costs enough to up the science for a while. OUr swords arrive in Perth ready to take on america, backed up by 3 cats and 3 archers. Hopefully that will be enough to take Boston. OUr jag is 1 turn from making contact with France. Once we get our hands on iron we need to build as many swords as we can and then try and seize control of all the land west of Cairns and Rubyvale. Those two cities provide a nice little two-city choke and once Rubyvale has walls and a few archers and cats we should be able to hold the line at those two cities.

Good luck Andronicus!

Remember 10 turns from here on in.

Roster

tupaclives - just played
Andronicus - Up
CommandoBob - On deck
Merlin
CodytheGenius

 

[Andronicus]

I dont see the save

 

[tupaclives]

Problem solved

 

[Andronicus]

Got it

edit - a bit premature
I got the save but it will not load in vanilla - says not a valid save - all previous saves open OK

 

[CommandoBob]

I tried to examine this save with CivAssisst II, which caused CivAssisst II to blow up. I have saved the error message data dump, but it may not be needed.

Tried MapStat, but it just showed blanks, no date or file name displayed.

Best guess: somehow the save file got corrupted.

@tupaclives: can you open the save file on your machine?