[Civ 4] Succession Game 3 - Page 11

BamBam

745 Posts

June 17 2010 03:57 GMT

#201

On June 16 2010 00:45 mcneebs wrote:
Damn it damn it damn it. I have to pass my turn that I've been waiting for for so long. Have 2 client jobs for a world cup promotion and getting ready for the shanghai expo, plus doing a project for Randomko_Orean. Sorry guys. Keep up the good fight.

Did you PM shloober telling him he's up?

mcneebs

Canada391 Posts

June 18 2010 02:17 GMT

#202

yup

ShloobeR

Korea (South)3819 Posts

June 18 2010 02:17 GMT

#203

Aha

just got the PM

I'll play in an hour or so!

ShloobeR

Korea (South)3819 Posts

June 18 2010 09:57 GMT

#204

Ok Here we go! Let's see what TeamLiquid can do!

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820 AD -

OH SHIT WE'RE DEAD IT'S ALL OVER
Ok actually they're pretty far away so I guess it's not the end of the world, he moved into our top city with like, two horse archers, pillaged some stuff and isnt really doing anything.

I asked churchill to help us but he didn't because he's a jerk.

Construction finishes and I start tasking some cities to build catapults.

820 AD -

Ahahaha...

no

By killing those two Babylonian troops we got ROBERT E. LEE, I'll park him in the capital until we actually start the war, let whoever that is figure it out.

860 AD

War??!? do you mean the glorious slaughter of babylonian raiders?

yes, ok

My city!
Ze Great wall, it does NOTHING!

My predecessor seemed pretty bent on going for Mansa Musa, the spies are telling us his cities are not too well defended, and I haven't come across any kind of 'army' yet.
So I'm moving the new catapults and praets to Mali.

870 AD

The great war is over, Religion has settled our differences
Everyone votes for peace except Saladin and Hammurabi : )

880 AD

Ok, well...
There goes that idea...

China has lost the war with Napoleon and capitulated.
To the east we have A vassal of our extremely powerful ally,
To the west we have a vassal of the most powerful nation, who owns two vassals.
We have a big outdated army.
This is not going well.

I think we have no choice now but to launch a war on Hannibal and hope that he doesnt bring in too many buddies. I won't actually do this but I'll get it ready.

900 AD

Took a map from Churchill for a little gold, it's annoying to lose the gold but we really need to see hammurabi's position, and the new french empire.
Churchill, Being an AI, has explored every inch of the planet, so it's a good deal.

940 AD

Our army is looking big enough to seriously worry someone now, we should get going as soon as possible... we've totally missed our praet window, but with the catapults we should still be able to beat through a couple of hannibal's cities.

They're being defended by Macemen and longbowmen though... I'm waiting on the next round of catapults to finish then I'll end my turn.

Calender finishes, I Took it because we are starting to have big unhappiness problems and the whipping is starting to get less effective. I've set our research path for Monarchy -> feudalism now though.

970 AD

The ten turn peace period from the Apostollic palace wears off and we are immediately warred upon by...

What?? We have no friends : (
He sneaked two soldiers down to the bottom of our territory... pushed them out to near our weakest city with the declaration of war, and then wants to get a sneaky capture in,

unfortunately for him we have a big fuckoff army.

990 AD

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

1010 AD

Had to sacrifice a fair amount of catapults, but we got them! WE BEAT THEM DOWN.
Here comes wave 2!

To celebrate our great victory, our bottom left Pret proceeds to lose an 84% combat in a crucial fight

1020 AD

Here is our situation... two groups of soldiers in our lands, none of them posing a big threat, but dealing with them whilst not taking casualties is the priority...
We lost a bunch of catapults in defending, but our Praet count is still high.
Good luck to whoever goes next, I have a feeling a 3rd civ is about to declare on us.

Here's the save:
Here!

HolydaKing

21254 Posts

June 18 2010 10:17 GMT

#205

wow ouch, this is looking very very painful :x

cascades

Singapore6122 Posts

June 18 2010 11:49 GMT

#206

Indeed. I for one don't really mind seeing no unified plan for once, but it is apparent some people are not quite at the difficulty level.

miseiler

United States1389 Posts

June 18 2010 22:43 GMT

#207

Given the obvious lead our glorious nation holds amongst these other foolish world-dwellers, expectations are no doubt very high that I will carry the Teamliquid banner to rightful victory.

The world as I knew it in 1020 AD:

There are ENEMIES IN OUR LANDS?! KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL

I begin mining bananas and wine, which our workers had previously refused to do because they did not know what day it was.

I pester our friends Ghandi and Churchill for technologies, but it is to no avail.

The Indians forcibly removed from our lands, I am confident our powerful army will overcome my pitiful opponents, and move boldly into Hannibal's territory.

My scouts are trying to tell me something...not now, trying to sneak up on Hannibal's Tacape city just now...what's th...elephants? RETREAT OH GOD RETREAT

A precious 2 turns are wasted dealing with the beasts. We do not suffer casualties.

Feudalism finishes, which gives us access to a few interesting civics. The people will need to rule themselves for several turns, but I am confident in their abilities. We are Roman, after all.

As we seize control of the government, our praetorians move into position around Hannibal's cities, and move to protect Ghuzz, situated precariously in the middle of his territory. As we prepare to strike, Sitting Bull sends a small stack of elephants to the west country, where conveniently we have no defenses.

A treaty is evidently out of the question.

I did the only sensible thing. I decided the situation was irrelephant and declared war on Hannibal.

Which caused Hammurabi to declare war on us.

Which caused Ghandi to give us Philosophy. Evidently he was impressed with my logical actions, and wanted to encourage such thinking in the future.

A turn later, Tacape is mine. Our Praetorians courageously stormed the longbowman-infested city and won without losing a single unit (!!) We are given the great general Isorouku Yamamoto.

Ah. They have knights. That could be...problematic.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

PRAETORIANS >>>>>>> KNIGHTS

YOU WILL NOT DIE IN VAIN

We suffer heavy casualties, but the city holds and Hannibal is forced to retreat.

We are still at war with three civs, but stable. However, it does not seem like we will need to worry overmuch about the Indians, for their leader chooses to do something very, very stupid: convert to Buddhism.

....and this is where my turn ends.

We have a very large standing army, however they are VERY spread out, due to constantly keeping the various civs off our backs. However, Sitting Bull is distracted now, and a concerted effort slash stack of death could let us push further into Hannibal's territory.

Megaupload refuses to work, so here's a dropbox link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/467624/Teamliquid AD-1220.CivBeyondSwordSave

EDIT: PMed h3r1n6!
EDIT2: Fixed the last image

h3r1n6

Iceland2039 Posts

June 18 2010 23:47 GMT

#208

Got it, will play it after I got some sleep. I took a quick look at the situation, the war against hannibal should grant some results.

There is a small stack of horse archers and a knight east of our capital from Mansa, I am afraid of the possibility of him declaring war during my turns. Mansa is not much of a war monger though (is he? I am not good at keeping track of ai personalities, except for Shaka, Monty and Genghis Khan ofc :D)

BamBam

745 Posts

June 19 2010 00:01 GMT

#209

On June 19 2010 08:47 h3r1n6 wrote:
Got it, will play it after I got some sleep. I took a quick look at the situation, the war against hannibal should grant some results.

There is a small stack of horse archers and a knight east of our capital from Mansa, I am afraid of the possibility of him declaring war during my turns. Mansa is not much of a war monger though (is he? I am not good at keeping track of ai personalities, except for Shaka, Monty and Genghis Khan ofc :D)

Aye, mansa is more of the turtling-as-long-as-I-have-my-spaceship-I-cant-lose type of folk. However, seeing as how low we are in the power ranking, it can make even the more..... sensible civies turn around and stab us. Put a couple war elephants there just to keep safe.

Now regardless of what happens with the war... What do we do afterwords? Maintain our aggression until our units run into infantry as we get the most land we can, go for culture, or just pray to w/e religion leader we're worshiping that we get a monopoly tech to put us slightly back in the lead?

h3r1n6

Iceland2039 Posts

June 19 2010 16:52 GMT

#210

It is 1220 in the Roman empire. With the emperor miseiler stepping down from duty, Rome needed someone else stepping up. Miseilers last action was sending a letter to the next person on the holy list of emperors, which is senator hering. The formerly quiet senator stands up and makes his way through the room. He is heading right for the throne, with the letter in his hand and all eyes on him, he reaches the throne in the middle of the room and sits down confidently. His eyes are lit with fire, he wants honor and glory on the battlefield.

The first step for the young senator on the throne are asking his advisors, he spends a great deal of time talking with his military advisor. The military advisor speaks: "A decent number of praetorians and some catapults is all we really have." The senator speaks: "Against our enemies riding warriors the praetorians seem to have a disadvantage, but they will have to do for now. Gather our forces in the northwest!"

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20 years of gathering forces at hannibals border along with a few successfull clashes with the vile native americans pass, when suddenly a scientist storms into the room: "We have discovered, what we call 'civil service', we could run this empire differently, making the capitol the center of wealth and production". The emperor screams "That would weaken our military units training, NEVER!".

They proceed to talks about the research orientation in the future. The scientist speaks about a new way of believing. Emperor hering is thinking about it. Soldiers that believe they are marching under god fight better, that would certainly be useful. However, he comes up with a better idea, new weaponry to counter the opponents riding soldiers. Those would need a new kind of metal forming first, so he tells the scientist to do the following:
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The year 1250, the emperor is just enjoying a song his bard wrote about him, when one of his generals storms into the room and reports the sighting of a large army under the banner of Hammurabi marching in from the northwest. Concerns spread in the senat, but the emperor seems to stay calm. He speaks up "Their soldiers are trained to attack cities. We will punish them for marshing through the desert. Position our soldiers in the forest in the south and on the hills in the east."
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The soldiers of Hammurabi act as expected and were crushed in the following battle, which puts a light smile on the troubled emperor.

1255, a messenger from Mansa Musa disturbs as the battle with Hammurabis forces is still going on. "Convert to christianity? GET OUT OF MY PALACE". The possibilty of a war against Mansa is troubling the emperors thoughts, he asks his friends to keep Mansa, Hammurabi or Hannibal busy with a war, but no one wants to go to war. Let alone by his allies, the increasingly stressed emperor just focusses on the current war, hoping for the best.
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With a few units under the banner of Sitting Bull still in the north of his territory, there is a slight relief when a messenger enters the senate in order to get the opinion on a vote on stopping the war against Sitting Bull.
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The same messenger enters the senate again 5 years later, declaring the war over.
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1285, diplomacy. "The strongest nation in the world, who likes us decently, wants us to stop trading with the second strongest nation, who dislikes us." his advisor said. The emperor decides, that while he should keep his allies as friends, he can't risk a war against the french. Diplomacy has never been the aging mans strong suit.
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After receiving a letter without a sender that reads "Ghandi has researched liberalism", whatever that means, an English scientist enters the throne room. "Churchill send me, I should teach you how to manifacture paper". The emperor gladly accepts the offer.
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In the old days of the emperor, Sitting Bull himself suddenly enters the throne room with a big peace pipe. What is he doing here, thinks the emperor, awaiting the native american to speak. Sitting Bull offers to open borders again. Being a Buddhist nation too, hering decides to accept the deal.
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At the same time as Sitting Bulls offer, the clashes against Hannibal at his border are still going on, leaving the roman empire no chance to ever get an army together strong enough to really go on the offensive. Troubled by his inability to get into Hannibals land and get his goals done, the now old emperor sits down in his throne with a loud sigh. He mumbles some advice into the ear of the general standing next to him, which proved decent success against the advanced warriors of Hannibal, but the emperor seems broken.
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1325, feeling his time has come, the emperor stands up wordless and leaves the room, not to be seen again for at least a couple of years.
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Well, I teched towards engineering, held of a few units from sitting bull, the stack from Hammurabi and crap from Hannibal in the northwest without losing too much. It was luckily the only battlefront I had to worry about, but praets vs macemen and knights is not really fun, imagine we weren't rome and had to fight with swordsmen. Got out a few war elephants to help against the knights. I lost a medic 3 praet, but we still have a medic 3 chariot and 2 great generals. We also have a few forges out now. And I suck at diplomacy (and at everything else, but diplomacy the most :D).

Save here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2361111/Teamliquid AD-1325.CivBeyondSwordSave

PM'ing next person now.

catabowl

United States815 Posts

June 19 2010 19:13 GMT

#211

I am shocked at our success. I probably would have restarted by now! nice!

Eben

United States769 Posts

June 20 2010 03:34 GMT

#212

LOVED the write up that h3r1n6 did.

Very enjoyable to read and something that makes these games really fun to keep track of even without playing.

Appreciated it

Mystlord

United States10264 Posts

June 20 2010 03:54 GMT

#213

Yeah we're screwed. Move on to next game please XD

Manit0u

Poland17431 Posts

June 20 2010 04:20 GMT

#214

Pangea-type map is a lot of hurt with this many civs. And I think that pretty soon a new threat will arise, in form of mass spies everywhere, destroying improvements, poisoning the water and stirring unrest (god, I hate spies).

You guys need to catch up in military tech, and fast!

miseiler

United States1389 Posts

June 20 2010 12:22 GMT

#215

The next person should declare against every civ and go down in a blaze of glory

h3r1n6

Iceland2039 Posts

June 20 2010 13:04 GMT

#216

On June 20 2010 12:34 Eben wrote:
LOVED the write up that h3r1n6 did.

Very enjoyable to read and something that makes these games really fun to keep track of even without playing.

Appreciated it

Thanks, writing took far longer than playing the turns, glad to see it's enjoyable.

And yes we're screwed.

JustAnotherKnave

United States67 Posts

June 21 2010 02:09 GMT

#217

i lol'd so many times reading that last report