Mrs Mongol's Gold - A Crazy Succession Game

[Scouse Gits]

The wanderer returns...welcome back Messer Niccolò

La Fayette is playing, so I suggest Messer Niccolò starts after him. New order:

1) La Fayette
2) Messer Niccolò
3) Julius
4) SG[1]
5) Straybow
6) SG(2)

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SG(2)

[Messer Niccolò]

Ok, back to 'work' then!

[La Fayette]

sorry
I am currently trying to get a high speed connection...and it doesn't work . That's why I have been away from ACS since friday.
Anyway I have downloaded the 1620 game and shall play tomorrow.
Hope to be able to post my savegame when finished.

[Scouse Gits]

Good luck with the connection LaFayette, take your time - I'm still recovering from a marathon session on the Sailing Game - that got my lady in a serious MWHC mood - you too Julius...

SG[1]

[La Fayette]

Lafayette Khan looks at the Empire and says: 'Those Greeks are evil and must be punished. What we need is ironclads and a strong transportation network.'
Here is what happened next:
1630: Beads to NoDecorum = 339g , Wine to NoDec = 111g, Dye to NoDec = 88g.
METALLURGY discovered, RR researched.
1640: Oil to NoDec = 34g , Coal to NoDec = 62g, Salt to NoDec = 46g.
1680: Salt to NoDec = 46g, Hut gives 100g, mighty Mongol crusaders take RIGA (plunder 12g )
1700: Some ironclads now close to Greece, therefore:
Mongols take Thermopylae (plunder 152g), Mongol take Pharsalos (plunder 82g).
1710: RR discovered, EXPLOSIVES researched
Coal to PiRamesses = 50g, Cloth to NoDec = 57g, Cloth to Northern Egypt = 32g
1720: ADAM SMITH completed in NoDecorum (just for the fun of it, since we are now close to victory).
Mongol take Argos (plunder 52g), Mongol bribe Herakleia (cost 1222g, plunder 122g).
Wine to NoDec = 74g.

Lafayette Khan decides that a bottle of champagne in Summer Palace would be nice on the 4th of July. He resigns and wishes his successor lots of fun with all the ironclads now swarming around Greece.

[Messer Niccolò]

Is it my turn now?
I'll d/l tonight, tomorrow I'll post the results.

[Scouse Gits]

Thanks La Fayette...are you now on a fast connection or back with the original one?

Could you please attach the save file so Messer Niccolò can download

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SG(2)

[Straybow]

I bet he did a preview and forgot to redo the attachment before submitting… probably gone by now (physically gone, alcoholically gone, etc)

[Messer Niccolò]

Mr. Niccolò sat on the Mongol Gold Throne a good tea cup in a hand, a mouse in the other, scribes at his feet await fearsome...


effectively no .sav has been added so, Mr. Niccolò has no other chioce that playing a SP game with vikings...

[Scouse Gits]

I have e-mailed La Fayette - hopefully his connection will be good enough (and remembers his old e-address)

SG[1]

[La Fayette]

SG
I think you are right: my new connection seems to work but also seems to have forgotten my e-mail address (and I spent a whole day on hotlines before someone noticed that my computer was connected to the wrong telephone line ).
Of course, if you have good advice about making my new connection remember my e-mails, I shall be thankful.

[Scouse Gits]

OK Messer Niccolò away you go!

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SG(2)

[La Fayette]

no more need for help: my e-mail box now works like a charm.

(La Fayette, ready to switch back to serious activities such as succession games)

[Messer Niccolò]

really sorry but this week end has been quite awful...
I'll play this evening but, would anybody skip me, absolutely no problem...
Sorry again...

[Straybow]

Nothing says you have to play so many turns…

[Messer Niccolò]

Ho ho!
Niccolkahn rises to power! And he sits on the Mrs Mongol's Gold Throne (who is forced to a 40years holiday).
And here we go!
1720 what we have 23 crusaders? and 14 Ironclads? mmmh... this is better than the golden throne!
Our good relationships with our "friend" Hammurabi result in a 150$ gift... we emptied his treasury
1730 Mycene is ours (King Richard Crusade and something else I can't remember)
1740 Crusaders burn, kill, loot and so on...
1750 Mr. Niccolò Engineering Faculty discovers Explosives settlers rejoice and Leonardo's does its work.
1752-6 Pesky Russians lose their last city... We discover Theory of Gravity and Industrialization thanks to mr. Darwin (I suppose?!)
1758 Athens Falls and Babylon cancels his alliance
1760 we discover The Corporation and we go for... guess what? ... Electricity ... just to make some Git happy! (do I need a period in the Sticky Mouse Institute?)

$$$ is high, crusaders ride and navy rules!
3 or 4 cities left to be conquered... long live our Country and all his Priests (in particular the Higest )

[Messer Niccolò]

and the Sav!

[Messer Niccolò]

@ Stray: c'mon, here is the save and just in 10 minutes!!!

Pizza Mr. Niccolò or Mr. Niccolò Hut?

[Scouse Gits]

Thanks Messer Niccolò ! The order is as follows:

1) La Fayette
2) Messer Niccolò
3) Julius
4) SG[1]
5) Straybow
6) SG(2)

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SG(2)

[Julius Brenzaida]

All right, I will play this one is the coming days

[La Fayette]

No need to hurry up, Julius.
I have a feeling that you might manage to conquer the last 'alien' (*) city before you resign. Therefore no speedy successor waiting...
(*) Mongol dictionary: 'alien' = 'not Mongol...yet'.

[Julius Brenzaida]

1762 ad. Well, this one is almost finished. 5 towns left to conquer. The only challenge is to find the 2 greeks one ... And to manage 75 cities ! Although we have more than 14000 gold, I change freight production to capitalization about 40 times to avoid getting mad with now useless micromanagement. We’re too far away from space flight and its Apollo map anyway.
1764 ad. We discover Electricity. As with Leo we get scouting destroyers of 8-move, it might prove a blessing. One of our new destroyer kills a greek archer, in the yet unexlored north part of their continent. If their 2 cities were there, it would be too easy. Gordion captured and Persian civilization destroyed.
1766 ad. We discover Communism. (Note to the participants of another Succession game, with freights, science can go very fast while in Fundy). We lose Yakutsk to barbarians.
1768 ad. We build the United Nations. A little bit of Diplomacy in this world of treachery and for 4000 gold a made worshipful Alexander shows us where its last 2 cities hide. They were close to the others !
1770 ad. We capture Halicarnassus.
1772 ad. We discover Chivalry. Marathon captured and Greeks are no more.
1774 ad. Yakust recaptured.
1778 ad. We discover Leadership, while the Babylonians develop warrior code. Their cities are “defended” by phalanxes, are were the one of the Greeks. It’s much too easy.
1780 ad. We capture Babylon, Ashur and newly founded Ellipi. The war is over. Final score : 266%

[Julius Brenzaida]

End of the game. Another one that went smoothly. In my opinion, the 2.42 is much too weak for any challenge. Under certain circumstaces, MGE or ToT can be fun (some scenarios or premade maps, really challenging rules, or really different great leaders ... greatly different).
Here is the saved game before I took the last city if anyone wants to take a look.

[Messer Niccolò]

Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida
1764 ad. We discover Electricity. As with Leo we get scouting destroyers of 8-move, it might prove a blessing.

.. this was my hope (and, I add, the other goal was to "upset" SG[1] )

Good work Julius!

[Scouse Gits]

Thanks, Julius - a good game to all

SG[1]


Just you wait, Master Nick, when I catch you you will be over Granny's knee before you can bat an eye, I tell you. Little boys should NOT play with Electricity it is dangerous! (to my Clads )

[Scouse Gits]

Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida End of the game. Another one that went smoothly. In my opinion, the 2.42 is much too weak for any challenge.

Good work Julius

I take your point about 2.42, but these games are quite instructive for many players.

I do have an idea for a very simple game which should be challenging...even in 2.42...more on this soon.

Thanks to everyone who took part and for keeping things moving so well.

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SG(2)

[La Fayette]

Good job, Julius!
BTW you achieved even more than needed, namely took back Yakutsk. One wins the game even if one leaves 10 cities to the barbs (and they rightly deserve it, poor blokes, after all the leaders they offered us )
We should play the next game with one arm tied behind our back.

[Julius Brenzaida]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
I do have an idea for a very simple game which should be challenging...even in 2.42...more on this soon.
SG(2)

I am eagerly waiting to learn more about that

[Scouse Gits]

Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida
I am eagerly waiting to learn more about that

Patience is a virtue,
Have it if you can,
Seldom in a woman,
Never in a man!

I'm glad you are interested Julius


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SG(2)

[Julius Brenzaida]

I am a very patient man
Those who know me, know that
I was expressing a big interest, not a big impatience