WOTM 13 First Spoiler

[Munro]

Didn't really adapt to the fact that this game was only at Monarch, making an early rush less effective (since AI has fewer early cities and techs to plunder, and it is easier to keep up or pull ahead in an early economic race and attack later).

Though it is refreshing to be at war in 500AD and the AI still doesn't have longbowmen...

At 20AD I had wiped out Hannibal, crippled Washington, and just started taking out Saladin, but my economy was in reverse, losing 25 per turn with about 200 in the bank (about 8 more turns of war).

Pressed on with the war regardless, took out Saladin (left 1 tundra city so I could sue for peace + techs) before moving onto Cathy, who has been score leader from the beginning. Captured or razed altogether 9 cities over the next 500 years at the rate of about one city every 3-4 turns, which kept the economy going.

Spoiler :

Turn 168/660 (20 AD) [02-Oct-2007 00:36:21]
Captured Medina (Saladin)

Turn 174/660 (110 AD) [03-Oct-2007 22:33:30]
Captured Mecca (Saladin)

Turn 178/660 (170 AD) [03-Oct-2007 23:20:42]
Captured Damascus (Saladin)
Razed Damascus

Turn 180/660 (200 AD) [03-Oct-2007 23:51:10]
Captured Baghdad (Saladin)
Razed Baghdad

Turn 182/660 (230 AD) [04-Oct-2007 22:05:24]
Captured Yekaterinburg (Catherine)
Razed Yekaterinburg

Turn 186/660 (290 AD) [04-Oct-2007 22:54:30]
Captured St. Petersburg (Catherine)

Turn 189/660 (335 AD) [04-Oct-2007 23:36:29]
Captured Vladivostok (Catherine)
Razed Vladivostok

Turn 193/660 (395 AD) [05-Oct-2007 00:25:37]
Captured Novgorod (Catherine)

Turn 197/660 (455 AD) [05-Oct-2007 01:06:15]
Captured Yaroslavl' (Catherine)
Razed Yaroslavl'

I captured the Pyramids along the way (thanks Cathy) and switched to Representation which allowed me to get an SE economy going and finish Construction for cats, just in time to finish off Cathy.

Also extorted several techs from Saladin just in time to trade with you-know-who first reached my shores around 200AD. This gave me CoL and Currency (which were urgently needed for the economy). I am now losing 37 per turn at 100% though my treasury has actually grown during this period due to all the war.

At 500AD, I bascially own the continent, have just started researching Civil Service and will shortly be sending out my veteran (and upgraded maceman) troops into the great blue beyond...

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[Simon_c]

I typed this during the play, so it's rough notes I'm trying to make sense of now I'm finished.

went fishing boat, then warrior worker when size2
tech path picked up budisum, then hunting agriculture, mining BW, wheel, AH, IW
slowish start, 2nd city near gold/stone.
3rd city out near copper on my prominatory.

2nd cit was in a lousy location. It hampered me for most the rest of the game.

noone close enough to axe rush yet. Maybe if anyone ends up without copper.
A slow start compared with the AIs. (Aint it always on monarch ?)

got stone henge in city#2 and pyramids in capitol.
probably going SE to start with,

Declared war on washington (who had budism) to grab a worker as washington was behind hanibal.
Warrior and worker ended up getting their ass kicked by barbs before getting home. :-( So that's someone pissed with me, and not even a worker to show for it. :-(

So, at 685bc, and need a stratagey for the next 1000 years or so.


So, 145bc, I've taken the copper in teh middle of the continent, and hanibla has camped out next to the northern iron.
Obviously we can't let him develop axes/swords, so it's time to cut him down to size. Not much in the way of troops, so
we'll have to be a bit lucky. no chance of taking any old cities until we get cats online.

the economy still needs work. teching to currency might help. or cast system.

somehow hanibal got iron anyway. Not sure where from. So, all I got from that war was an enemy from a friend, and a worker. [sigh]
going to be tough to carve out a niche here I think.


Sigh. Hanibal just got longbows about 4 turns before I was going to attack with my cats. Oh well. No war today.


OK. Looks like the next point I might get somewhere is to plan to make use of my UU and UB
So, lets build up ready for citidels to create +5 siege weapons, and tech allong to conquistordors when we have civil service sorted out.

need to work on the economy, and mending some bridges.
trying to break up the judism love-in is important too I think.

So at this point I was up to around 300AD or so, and not getting anywhere much. The next installment will be in the other thread. (if this made sense to anyone !!)