[PBEM]Civ4 Succession Game #1: Rome

[snoopy369]

4000 bc: Found Rome, start work on Warrior. Start Hunting, since that gets us Scouts and leads to Animal Domestication, for the cows.
3960 bc: Explore w/ warrior ...
3920 bc: Same ...
3880 bc: Same ...
3840 bc: Warrior finds something useful! Sheep, incense, and best of all ... STONE! We can take a wonder-producing strategy, if we want to. (Heck, my first full SP game I did it without the stone, but ...)

[snoopy369]

3800: Rome expands, and the tribes in the hut there give us ... Mysticism! First tech i've ever gotten this way.

This changes things a bit; i'll go for polytheism or one of the other religious techs next, instead of animals. We don't want an early worker anyway ...

3760: Discover hunting; start work on Polytheism (12). That's a reasonable length of time for it. Go for Meditation (9) if you want the faster religion, but only do that if you're a civ that starts with Mysticism ... otherwise you'll get beaten to it. Polytheism, on the other hand, is often not gone for right away by the AI, and even if it is, Monotheism is right after that, giving you 2 shots at founding a religion (which is very important to do!).

3720: More exploring; find a hut, and a wheat. That's good, so the stone city can have wheat also, and use those shields

[snoopy369]

3680: Warrior #2 produced; change to Scout. Warrior #2 goes to fill in some holes in the south. Warrior #1 heads to the hut, and gets "maps". Ooh, sigh. Also discovers some friendly lions (By friendly, i mean likely-to-kill-him...)

[snoopy369]

3640: Warrior #1 survives the encounter! I don't bother to heal, as he's 1.2/2, and it'll take 5!! turns to heal. More exploring, NW.

3600: Warrior #1 finds silk! That's 3 happiness resources.

3560: Warrior #2 finds that we have a lot of tundra on the southern coast... so we must be near the south pole. Hmm. I am starting to wonder if we're alone on this continent ... which is not a bad thing at all It's not a perfect continent, but it's certainly good enough for me ...

3520: Hinduism is founded in a distant land Before Buddhism (Meditation), which is unusual as it's (Polytheism) a harder tech. Ah well, we'll be jewish then I guess Warrior #1 finds some more lions. Oops ...

3480: Yep, warrior #1 bites the dust. Ah well.

3440: Scout produced! Send him off, and start working on a Work Boat to get those clams for us.

3400: Nothing much ... and so ends my stewardship.

[Grandpa Troll]

I am ready..

Who has the turn next??..

Just saying played like 8 hours last night and up and gonna get some more in now

Gramps

[snoopy369]

Here's the save A tidy 110kb, which is decently small. We'll see how much bigger it gets ...

Suggestions:
* I strongly suggest going for Monotheism as the next tech. I realize this means skipping the worker techs, but it's worth it ... to be competitive in this game, you HAVE to found a religion. Being able to spy everyone else's cities, for free, due to them having your religion in their cities ... it's fantastic And the good relations ... not to mention the shrines ...

* There are a few good city spots. One, the first we should probably settle, is 1 south of the stone. That will in time make a GREAT production city for wonders and whatnot. The other is on the coast, near the sheep. In Civ4, more so than in civ3, settling ON the coast is vital, instead of 1-off of the coast. 1-off of the coast is a horrible city, whereas on the coast is a great city ...

My suggested builds here are probably finish the work boat, and then build a worker, so it's ready when we research a tech for it. After that, probably a settler. Don't forget, food counts towards production for workers and settlers...

BTW, you have to Zip or RAR your save, because it doesn't end in .sav ... not sure why, but it ends in .Civ4Save or something weird like that

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
I am ready..

Who has the turn next??..

Just saying played like 8 hours last night and up and gonna get some more in now

Gramps

Go for it - there's no set turn order.

Play 15 turns, for the first 5 people or so, until we have a decent game going, then cut back to 10 turns.

GT - I expect some good stories from those SP games you're playing

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by snoopy369


Go for it - there's no set turn order.

Play 15 turns, for the first 5 people or so, until we have a decent game going, then cut back to 10 turns.

GT - I expect some good stories from those SP games you're playing

ok

since new at this

Ill followmyour orders of build and post some screenies of our world and interaction

15 turns..see you in a wee bit

as for stories

I will try to amuse all with stories galore

[Grandpa Troll]

Real quickly:

When you save the d/l from here it is in .rar file extension

Then you go to load the save it looks like this in your folder:

Nothing

[Grandpa Troll]

You actually have to rename the save file extension to this:

.Civ4SavedGame

then the save will look like this instead of that file that has no association with it

Dont forget the"." before the wording

[Grandpa Troll]

Then your load screen will look like this:

Ok

Off to play

Gramps

[Grandpa Troll]

I tried loading my save and got this???

[snoopy369]

GT, .rar is a kind of zip file You have to unrar it first ...

http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar351.exe

It had to be rarred (zipped) because Apolyton won't accept .Civ4SavedGame as a file extension

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by snoopy369
GT, .rar is a kind of zip file You have to unrar it first ...

http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar351.exe

It had to be rarred (zipped) because Apolyton won't accept .Civ4SavedGame as a file extension

ok..so you dont have to go through all them steps I just stated?

BTW..thanks its working fine..playing now

[snoopy369]

Looking forward to seeing this

[Grandpa Troll]

We continued on with our exploration of the new virgin -to-us lands

This is refreshing that we have such fine lands..

I thought I caught a glimpse of a darkened beast traveling northwest of me..blackish brown in tone

well whatever it was is gone

[Grandpa Troll]

As our scout climbed a might tree the keen ears of the warriors hears a windsong bird sing a tune..from far away..Buddism...Buddism has been formed

what does this mean to us?

Time will tell

[Grandpa Troll]

We have discovered Polytheism and now seek knowledge of Monotheism as a way of helping our people form a civilized and organized land having peace and spiritual enlightenment

[Grandpa Troll]

Our warriors caught a glimpse of fast moving creatures but then lost sight..they were huge hairy beats unlike the darkened ones we saw earlier.. but where did they go?

Our warriors seek the scout out whom has gone looking without our defensive abilities to protect them..

Too late as we see the scout so do the Lions

[Grandpa Troll]

Our warriors , now seeing the approaching beasts about to attack our scout, encourage he scout to crouch low and spring forth with sharpened sticks in the softer regions under the Lions mane..a weak point

Indeed this works as the Lions fall

The windsong can be heard singing ...deeeee..dee.dope dope dope da da la The Lions sleep tonight..

[Grandpa Troll]

We found a very nice rushing river and also more importantly a strategic area to build a city to keep unwanted heathens from entering our lands

[snoopy369]

That may be a good city indeed

It's hard to get used to scouts being BETTER than warriors on defense ... they get a bonus against animals after all

[Grandpa Troll]

We have met a neighbor, a small man with what appears to be a complex of sorts, we will have to help him relax, he seems to be a little too hyper...I believe he called himself Napoleon

[Grandpa Troll]

In the meantime, back in Rome we built a workboat

Now a decision had to be made and as a ruler in the front sometimes decisons made aree not as easily discerned as when the news reaches the senate with many views..

So I made a decision for our people to turn the work boat into a fishing boat.

The reasoning is + 2 food

Time will tell..if this was right decision

[Grandpa Troll]

Now that Napoleon understand we have peaceable plans we continue our explorations and growth efforts

[Grandpa Troll]

Ok

This may be a sign of affirmation afterall for the fishing boat decision

We have gained Clams which are our first food resource. This will help raise health in all cities connected to the Capital in turn encouraging fster growth.

It certainly wont be a total failure then

[Grandpa Troll]

We continue exploration and below is a map from our lands as they begin spreading out

[Grandpa Troll]

We have one of the Top 5 cities in our known world a Population of 3 count

[Grandpa Troll]

and last but not least the Demographics screen


We shall all learn from this experience of how to be a better Rome

I bid you farewell as I take my seat on the Senate floor until next go around

[Grandpa Troll]

Lets see if Old Gramps learned something from his Buddy Snoopy?

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