Turns 123-140

[Admiral Kutzov]

have fun, Mr Rat. I've forgotten most of Civ3, but Ill still post inane comments from time to time.

think we sacrifice the units for the intelligence. bust the fog. worth 2 MWs

 

[gmaharriet]

Have a great holiday, ThERat!!! I'm here actively reading the thread every day, trying to learn something, but I don't often post. I wish you a safe journey.

 

[Wotan]

I have checked the save and I guess it is just a question of continuing to worry Council. Will move back ships near their resource island and disembark temportrily to allow us to attack their Galley. Playing in a few hours.


EDIT: I waited until this morning to play before going to work. Just a lot of shuffling goind on. sending ships to worry Council. 2 Turns to Gunpowder. Churning out Knights now at a good pace. I have sent the surplus ships back towards our waters to load up with knights and then return towards Council.

 

[Wotan]

Turn played. Unexciting to say the least. FREE obviously have astronomy now, two galleys in sea tiles. Gunpowder next turn.

 

[Whomp]

Ohoh. That's not good.

 

[ThERat]

we better make sure to block all tiles of our resource Islands before they come to attack

 

[Wotan]

Guys, turn is in but we cannot play it until an admin has had a look at it. Not a single unit that was moved last turn has had their movement allowances reset. So those with MPs remaining have just those MPs to use, anyone that moved fully is "red dotted".

Then we also need to discuss how to deal with education. FREE has gifted it to us. They sure want us and GONG to be stuck at Education so they can swap everything with Council. I would suggest we do not accept this generous gift.

Also JB played the turn for >GONG and did not think about the agrement for them to hold on to Education for a while to allow FREE/Council to trade and then lend us the use of the GLib for a few turns to get all the techs. So we decline their trade too, right? We do not accept his offer of Education

EDIT: got a reply re. the "bug" from Ginger Ale. Apparently jb did not end the turn correctly so he need to submit a new turn for us to play. Just delete the current turn we have recieved if you have downloaded it.

 

[Whomp]

Saber, Saber, Saber.... Out of curiousity what do we have on this island? I don't think they want anything to do with a war.

Well, as far as we are concerned allowing SABER into our midst was a huge mistake. They have landed a Warrior on one of our islands. Could you please deal with this and make them understand we are "connected at the hip" and thus this action is not acceptable.

Wotan, I Bcc'ed the Babe account my response to Saber. Here it is...

Hey gang,

I understand that you've put a warrior in the Babe's territory. Please don't start a war w/ them at this point or force them to divert resources. We like them as our tech partner and we're happy to work w/ you as a buyer of cheap techs. The techs you've purchased are not complete, I think Astro's missing... Sticking your finger in the Babe's collective eye (a lone warrior?) is just going to muck things up.

BWT, are you mulling over our peace proposal or are you not interested? Please let us know your thoughts.

Thanks,

jb

 

[Wotan]

I do not think the Saber landing is too important. I would really like it if theye werer to land a huge army there. Then we gift the closest location to GONG and voila! They will not have a target of ours to go after.

Our homeland is soon settled according to teh initial plan. A few locations along the cost still to be filled. And every minor, non-connected town is busy building Warriors so the coastline will also be covered in the not too distant future.

We have Gunpowder and have started on Chemistry.

 

[Wotan]

Could it be that our rejection of the education gift has put some confusion into their plans?

Team FREE will need some extra time to complete this turn. Another 24 hours should be enough.

 

[ThERat]

Not that I actually know much about the current status of the game, but it is not nice to stall the game. anyone taking the turn (where is Wotan btw???)

 

[Wotan]

I'm here, I PMed jb about the turn. Seems they sent the wrong turn by mistake.

 

[BCLG100]

So turns seem to have slowed a lot then?

 

[Wotan]

I have played the turn but for some bizzare reason i cannot send any "big" mails from my computer. Had a friend try to solve it for me tonight but no solution yet. Sorry.

 

[ThERat]

Updates on the turns played have been a little sparse and honestly, I have no clue what is going on at the moment. Are we shifting units for more fights?

In this case, we have to solely rely on Wotan to play the turns as nobody really knows what is going on, do we? I have to admit I am a little lost what is happening and it doesn't help my motivation for the game much.

 

[Wotan]

I think we all suffer from low motivation. The game died after the SABER incident I guess. The current situation is we produce two things, Warriors in unconnected towns for beach guard duties and Knights/Galleys in other towns. A few Libraries in core locations added to this. Not a lot to write home about so I guess reporting and discussions have been a bit sparse. Will probably catch up again when we get closer to the end of the GA and have Knights in numbers again.

 

[Wotan]

To allow for everyone to get back up to speed on the current situation. We have 16 Knights now, building about 2 each turn on average and plan to go on teh offensive again at the end of our GA. 30 Galleys should make it possibble to keep a constant flow of reinforcemts coming.

Almost finished settling the coastline. 6 locations left to fill and then we need about 25-30 additional Warriors to make the coastline safe. Should have that sorted at the end of GA too. Might be that we need to use a few Knight temporarily just to make it in time?

Council tried to get a peace agreement this turn, I of course turned them down. If soemone else feel like playing the turns just let me know.

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

I'd lean against the town NW of Resse: it needs every food tile it has to work mountains. rest looks good.

Did we start sending out knights once we had 10-12? They built Leo's, it's certain at this point that they are upping horses into knights.

 

[Wotan]

I'd lean against the town NW of Resse: it needs every food tile it has to work mountains. rest looks good.

I would probably agree with you on that location. I sort of put down dots on all vacant tiles without any raeal thought.

 

[ThERat]

Thanks Wotan for the detailed turn description. The question is whether we can actually use our knights or are all coastal tiles now occupied by units???