[Civ4] 2nd Succession game - Page 8

BamBam

745 Posts

May 08 2010 13:41 GMT

#141

Might be a little late, but soooo count me in on this (if not the current, then the next!)

Difficulty - immortal

Map - Random

Climate - temerate
Map size - large
Game speed - marathon (more turns, less chance of a screwup, and in general, more fun!)
Barbarians - On
Tech Trading - on
Vassal states - on
Goodie huts - Off
Random events - Off

If you would like to have the last two on, then as my friend would say, give yourself 400 gold, 2 warriors, and put in 3 barbarian archers in your capital once you create it.

deconduo

Ireland4122 Posts

May 08 2010 14:16 GMT

#142

Woooooow, that cottage spam is really starting to kick in. Sustainable 90% research rate is awesome. Definitely seems like the best option is a space race. One thing I'd be nervous about though is getting ganked on because we didn't join in on the war.

Fen

Australia1848 Posts

May 08 2010 16:25 GMT

#143

On May 08 2010 22:41 Energizer wrote:
Might be a little late, but soooo count me in on this (if not the current, then the next!)

Difficulty - immortal

Map - Random

Climate - temerate
Map size - large
Game speed - marathon (more turns, less chance of a screwup, and in general, more fun!)
Barbarians - On
Tech Trading - on
Vassal states - on
Goodie huts - Off
Random events - Off

If you would like to have the last two on, then as my friend would say, give yourself 400 gold, 2 warriors, and put in 3 barbarian archers in your capital once you create it.

Lol, the game is already well under way. When this one is over, if people are interested, Ill start another one and discuss game settings then. At the moment this game is gettin real hot.

I've added you to the bottom of the list for this game.

HolydaKing

21254 Posts

May 08 2010 17:22 GMT

#144

i'm loving to follow this thread! learned quite a few things, too bad i have just the original Civ4...

narri

United States55 Posts

May 08 2010 23:55 GMT

#145

Save: [url blocked]
PM to Mystlord sent

In 1760 AD, the world was at war. Of course, the wise leaders of Teamliquid decided to stay the hell out of it.

Nice to see all those boosted cottages. But Rocketry right away is a mistake. The space race is more about tech than Apollo really. No, my goal is to get to Plastics, then Superconductors, and THEN Rocketry.

+ Show Spoiler [Goals] +

Plastics -> 3 Gorges Dam in Capital. More hammers to EVERY city with a factory. Ironworks is going in capital, btw. This city rocks with production (though it could have used some more river tiles *sigh*)
Refrigeration + Superconductors -> Supermarket (health + 1 free food) and Laboratory (more beakers and more spaceship production)
Rocketry
Then the 3 following paths should be done in some order:
Radio,Computers,Fiber Optics, Fission, Fusion
Medicine, Genetics
Satellites,Composites
Ecology is last since that part is the cheapest.

1766 AD:
I'm building stuff, when I get horrible news.

TOKUGAWA IS NOW A VASSAL OF SULEIMAN!!!!

All my assumptions about preventing Diplo hinged on Toku and/or Asoka being alive and actively abstaining. Now that he's the vassal of Suleiman, he will vote for the religious man. That bites.

Now the last vote showed that we almost have enough to block on our own. I don't like almost anymore. More population with Hinduism time!

1774 AD:
Trade:

Now the workers have something to do after all

1780 AD:
Now Asoka is a vassal of Suleiman as well. We are in trouble. Luckily, I was starting to build up military for just such a problem.

Our victim is going to be Boudica. She has longbows and maces. We have Cavs and Artillery. And I upgraded the old army for another stomp. And she's the vassal of nobody. Sorry, m'lady, but you must die.

1786 AD:
Lucky us. The vote is on universal open borders. I would have had to take cities this turn if it was for Diplo.

1790 AD:
But that won't spare Boudica:
DIE!!!

5 turns later:

In 1800 AD, Teamliquid had devestated the Celtic Empire. Nobody on the ground knew why the war was started in the first place (rumors are that their leader had mistreated some elephants (Ivory)). But this was certain, she is ready to capitulate if you wish. But the commander on the ground recommends taking the capital and the Confucian holy city as well before accepting surrender! That will end the happiness issues we have in a few cities.

Mystlord

United States10264 Posts

May 09 2010 06:47 GMT

#146

Got the PM, will play tomorrow, perhaps Monday if I end up not having any time tomorrow :<

knavery

5 Posts

May 10 2010 01:10 GMT

#147

I finally registered here at TL, and sadly I did so to vent my frustrations at narri.

Narri, a huge part of the excitement for any viewer following a documented succession game is the military engagements. Maybe you're not too amped on giving a play-by-play for a war with a technologically inferior army, but doing so could have been done in highly entertaining fashion. Instead, what I (as an audience member) got was a simple "5 turns later."

EDIT: yeah, i know how hypocritical it is to post this when I haven't contributed to this community in any way shape or form.

Manit0u

Poland17766 Posts

May 10 2010 01:35 GMT

#148

One should not be ashamed for constructive criticism (as opposed to blind criticism).

Spenguin

Australia3316 Posts

May 12 2010 11:05 GMT

#149

Hate to be a nag but is anyone still out there?

Mystlord

United States10264 Posts

May 12 2010 15:36 GMT

#150

Yeah sorry sorry, I had other concerns the past few days. I'll get it done today.

Mystlord

United States10264 Posts

May 12 2010 22:16 GMT

#151

I think the RNG system hates me or something. I lost two full HP tanks and one 14 HP Cavalry to units that should have died during the war on Boudica... Oh well.

We were basically guaranteed to crush Boudica, considering just how technologically advanced we were. As my turn began, I looked and I saw this:

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I'm not a big fan of generals on regular units, since they tend to be the first ones to die in a stack for obvious reasons. But whatever, what's done is done, so I used him to dominate

In any case, all of our forces were already in position to kill the Celts, but as the war rages, Gilgamesh decides that he wants to get all fierce on us.

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Obviously I told him to GTFO, and he did.

On the same turn, the first of my unfortunate events happened:

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WTF that was a freaking 14 HP Cavalry that just got smacked by an Axeman. I call foul.

But whatever, a minor loss. I press on, and use Artillery to great effect on the most heavily defended city:

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Unfortunately, I suck at calculating things out, so at the end of the engagements, he was left with ONE MACEMAN and I couldn't do anything about it

And I do it again a few turns later:

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Thankfully nothing was really ruined, so I continue on my merry way, taking down Boudica's cities one by one. As the first Tanks roll off the assembly line, they make their way to the capital city of the Celts, ready to take it down, no artillery needed.

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At this point I'm just clicking units into battles, and I start taking more cities until...

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See that Celtic area of influence at the right? Yeah I didn't see that. Whoops. Time to redirect my forces.

Well anyway, not much to say other than just showing a flurry of screenshots demonstrating how much we rule.

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Suck it Boudica.

Anyway, this ends up finishing near the end of my turn:

And you can see that I have my mouse over a certain Wonder that I can't wait to build... Unfortunately Utrecht was building Broadway at the time, so I couldn't start the Three Gorges. Well it shouldn't matter. It was just a few turns away from finishing anyway.

I decided to go straight for Refrigeration because I like Supermarkets and the health boost. Always helpful. That's pretty much the final piece of infrastructure we need (other than laboratories) before we start the Space Race!

But a threat looms on the horizon...

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Hoooly fuuuuck Gilgamesh only needs 200 votes for a freaking diplomatic victory. I suppose it doesn't matter though because we have enough population to block his diplo victory now, so we're safe. It would have sucked if Boudica was buddy-buddy with Gilgamesh though. Thank god we took her down.

A turn later, the Ottomans come before our feet with a proposition:

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Yeah I'm down for that. I don't think anyone will dare to attack us now, and unless Suleiman wants to start going on a rampage, I think we'll be fine for a Space Race victory. But despite Suleiman's good intentions, we discovery something terrible:

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Suleiman you whore. I wanted damn Broadway. BLARG. Oh well, the overflow from the last turn went to starting the Three Gorges Dam and we get some more gold for some more turns for research, so we'll get that one turn faster and we can keep up the 100% research for a while..

Right before I end my turn, this guy pops:

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Which I'll assume we're going to use for a Golden Age. I don't think he lightbulbs anything useful. I also traded Wheat to Suleiman for a Hit Musical. Needed to grab one before they all went away!

By killing Boudica, we got a ton of workers, which should be used to Cottagify all of Boudica's former land. When I got them I assigned them to just building Railroads, because obviously we want Boudica's cities to grow first. We're probably going to lose one city to the Indians because it's completely in their cultural boundaries, but whatever. I think we're all set otherwise.

Pmed Biochemist. And here's the save: [url blocked]

Eben

United States769 Posts

May 13 2010 05:49 GMT

#152

good set of turns! Good to see that the diplo victory wont be an issue.

Keep them coming =)

Qatol

United States3165 Posts

May 13 2010 09:14 GMT

#153

Mystlord, how did you use the hammers from Broadway on 3 Gorges? I've been trying to figure out how to use my hammers on something useful after missing a wonder for AGES.

Mystlord

United States10264 Posts

May 13 2010 14:44 GMT

#154

On May 13 2010 18:14 Qatol wrote:
Mystlord, how did you use the hammers from Broadway on 3 Gorges? I've been trying to figure out how to use my hammers on something useful after missing a wonder for AGES.

Oops mistyped. I meant to say that we had some overflow left over from the Broadway that got added into the Three Gorges production. The rest got converted into gold

Biochemist

United States1008 Posts

May 13 2010 15:22 GMT

#155

Got the PM, thanks. I'll play this afternoon after my midterm is over.

Edit: Haven't had time to play as yet, sorry for the delay. Will get my turn done and posted as soon as I have time.

nexusil

United States52 Posts

May 14 2010 14:53 GMT

#156

can't wait till civ 5, i'm def gonna play if you guys do one for civ 5!!

Biochemist

United States1008 Posts

May 17 2010 03:19 GMT

#157

The future just got really busy, need to reorient my priorities for a bit. Sorry guys, probably best to take me off the list for the rest of this game.

Spenguin

Australia3316 Posts

May 17 2010 09:39 GMT

#158

Damn I was so excited when I saw your name on the last post display ;_;

deconduo

Ireland4122 Posts

May 17 2010 10:15 GMT

#159

On May 17 2010 12:19 Biochemist wrote:
The future just got really busy, need to reorient my priorities for a bit. Sorry guys, probably best to take me off the list for the rest of this game.

Did you PM shivas?

Shivaz

Canada1783 Posts

May 18 2010 01:59 GMT

#160

uhh i'll get to it soon either today or tommrrow.

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