Van01 - A Newbie Hope

[cabert]

nationalism in, rifling close, I guess it's time to check some of the following :

- how many size 6+ cities, with 10% of your culture do you have? Any russian city will be 10% of your culture once you have killed catherine .
- globe theater? is it ready, in a city that can grow from size 5 to size 6 every turn?

 

[dawn]

It's been a full week since I've been able to get online - wife was in the hospital Monday - Friday. Since Splime hasn't responded that would leave the turnset with me. As I finally got her home late last night there's no way I can play before Monday of next week so feel free to skip me this round.

 

[Vanor]

That means Glen should be up.

Dawn, hope everything goes well with your wife.

 

[glenmetz]

OK, got it, whats the plans on this for the next 10 turns or so? Are we on 10 or 15 turn sets?

 

[Vanor]

Push up the east coast of Russia and capture what ever towns you can over the next 10 turns. I have a stack just outside one town that's ready to start bombing it.

 

[pigswill]

Had a look at the save.

WW is very high. Worth building theatres and coliseums asap and pushing up the culture slider to 20%.

It looks like Pacal has nationalism so we need to get started on Taj (maybe in Carthage once its got theatre and coliseum so it can actually work its tiles).

Research wise I'd rather go RP and rifling so that we can make use of our (upgraded CR3) veterans rather than having to start a cavalry army virtually from scratch.

 

[stuge]

Agree with Pigs here.

 

[glenmetz]

Alright, will be able to get to this tomorrow while working on getting my new laptop setup. Is this plan:
-Capture 1 more Russian city with the stack Vanor has setup
-Start the Taj in Carthage (after Theatre/Colusseum)
-Build other happiness buildings to keep WW down
-Tech to RP/Rifling

We could most likely skip the happiness buildings if we finish off the next russian city and make peace for now? Whats everyones thoughts?

 

[stuge]

Keep romping in Russia for as long as you can. Don't make peace just for the sake of happiness if you've got the forces to keep going. Rather build theaters and up the culture slider a notch.

 

[glenmetz]

I will see what we have available militarily. Obviously, if we are down to 10 offensive units we'll want to hold on for a bit and rebuild.

 

[Vanor]

I will see what we have available militarily.

I don't remember exactly what we had, but it was quite a bit more then 10 Should be plenty to take at least one more city.

 

[pigswill]

Or just get theatres and crank up the culture slider while wiping out Russia completely. We can afford to get down to 0% research as long as we're breaking even then catch up once Cat is eliminated.

 

[glenmetz]

OK, going for it now

 

[glenmetz]

1650AD-The Battle for Rostov
-Bombard with all of the Trebuchets except for the 3 CR3 units, also upgraded any available units with CR1 and Accuracy1
-We loose 3 Trebuchets and 1 CAT injuring units
-Knight kills a LB (x3)
-We lose a Knight to a Knight
-Knight kills a Knight
-Musket takes out a Crossbow (x2)
-Sword takes out a Knight and Rostov falls (starts work on a Theatre)

Jump culture to 40%, drop Sci down to 50% and we are still loosing close to 100GPT.

City Needs
Hippo-Grocer (health issues)
Hadrumetum. Mayapan and Utica need a Theatres bad so I whip them
Whip a Musket in Carthage, will build Taj there next

1655
Hippo-Musket->Grocer
My Three whipped Theatres go back to Muskets
Whip a Theatre in Mutal and Carthage
Whip a Musket in Utica
Sci back to 70, culture to 30

1660
Carthage Theatre->Taj Mahal
Utica Musket->Trebuchet
Hippo Theatre->Knight
A Musket picks of a russian Mace and we get a free worker
Whip a Theatre in Moscow
Whip the Uni in Hadrumetum

1665
We lose 2 units on the IBT
Hadrumetum Uni->Bank
Mayapan Musket->Longbow
Novgorod Theatre->Barracks
MoscowTheatre->Barracks

And it crashed, DOH!!!!!! Damn that annoys me, I won't be able to finish this up tonight but will tomorrow. Damn computers, can't wait to get my new FAST laptop up and running.

 

[dawn]

I agree with pushing through Russia as far as possible. Settling for peace simply gives her time to rebuild and leaves us with "Yearn to return to the motherland" issues.

 

[glenmetz]

I have an auto-save from 1660 so looks like I didn't lose to much. Just still a PITA to deal with crashes. I hate computers (not good for an IT Manager).

 

[glenmetz]

Alright, starting over here at turn 1670, a few things changed, didn't play 1665 the same

1670AD
Hippo Knight->Mace
Hadrumetum Uni->Bank
Moscow Theatre->Barracks
Just waiting for a couple more units to heal before heading off for St. Petes

1675AD
Utica Trebuchet->Trebuchet
Rostov is no longer Rioting
Move the stack into Russian territory, upgrade 2 Muskies to CGIII and leave them in

1680AD
A Knight takes out a Russian Knight on the IBT
Whip a Theatre in Rostov
St. Petes to fall next turn

1685AD
Moscow Barracks->Library
Rostov Theatre->Barracks
We Pop a Great Scientist in Carthage, I lightbulb Chemistry

The Battle for St. Petersburg....
The following is in the city

Bombard with our Trebs, we're going to need another round of Bombardment before we can attack as the city was at +100% defense
Whip the Bank in Hadrumetum

1690AD
Hadrumetum Bank->Trebuchet
Mayapan Knight->Knight
Another turn of Bombard, should be ready to go next turn

1695AD
Hippo Mace->Mace
Bombard with 4 Trebs, defense finally down to 6%, the other 2 attack but get killed (but at least they softened up the defenses)
A Knight takes out a Pike
We lose a Knight to LB, but the next Knight takes one out
Our Muskets take out a Knight x2, LB, and a Mace x2
A Mace takes out an Axe, an Axe takes out a LB, and....

CRASHED AGAIN!!!!

Will finish soon, promise

 

[dawn]

Wow, that's a lot of crashes.
Hope you're saving after each turn now....

 

[glenmetz]

I wasn't, but I will be now Dawn. My new laptop is almost ready to go. I have to think the crashes are caused by resource issues on my current laptop as its older. The new one should fly
-T7300 Processor
-4GB DDR2-6400 RAM
-200GB 7200RPM SATA II HDD
-ATi HD2600 512MB Video
-15.4" 1680x1050 Screen

 

[pigswill]

glenmtez: sounds like you've been having at least two epic struggles. You playing 10 turns up to 1700 or a few more turns until the next CTD ? Despite the crashes it seems like you've been making progress .