Seriously Tricky Sticky Game

Straybow · September 30, 2003, 20:56

Originally posted by duke o' york
Er, can someone explain to me what all those superscript numbers and asterisks are about.

Added to the names of cities so that when wading through the city screens you can remember where it is, and on the map the "ª" helps you find the cities with Airports to do airlifting.

Originally posted by STYOM
Apparentice Rodent asks... no other cities captured?

Forgot to put that in the log! Indians made peace as soon as I got close. And with all those lovely and vulnerable Freights to deliver to their juicey cities, is the unapologetic perfectionist going to say, "No?"

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Manhattans in Rhodes, we may wish to raze this city to deny the computer nukes.

Errrr, no, once built nukes are in play for all civs with Fission for the remainder of the game. Right??

Next turn we ought to be able to ship howitzers to India in one turn, from anywhere in the empire.

[SG(2) mode]

Didn't we already have about 40 units poised on continent 42 to jump across the straights? What we needed was more ships for chains to the French: up from Makrell once we're done with Gandhi, and across from Corinth now that Hyppolyta is history. [/mode]

Ben Kenobi · September 30, 2003, 21:02

SG(2) mode] Didn't we already have about 40 units poised on continent 42 to jump across the straights? What we needed was more ships for chains to the French: up from Makrell once we're done with Gandhi, and across from Corinth now that Hyppolyta.

Yes, and I'm using those troops to stomp Gandhi. About 1/2 of the troops were in Delhi when Delhi got nuked.

Secondly, this shipchain exists independently of all the other ones. I simply added to our existing merchant marine, rather than diverting ships from elsewhere.

Thirdly, look at the save, and the shipchain I'm constructing up to the French.

I'm not going to bother from Corinth, given that the ships are around 40 squares away, and the task force only about 20 squares. It's just one city out in the middle of nowhere.

Straybow · September 30, 2003, 21:50

About 1/2 of the troops were in Delhi when Delhi got nuked

Well, if only fifteen… or twenty… units got nuked I can see why you might not mention that…
What are turn logs for, again?

Ben Kenobi · September 30, 2003, 23:04

Indians nuke Delhi, break ceasefire.

Six Thousand Year Old Man · October 1, 2003, 09:33

If you're going to break a ceasefire, do it emphatically.

And nothing says "to h*ll with your stinkin' ceasefire" like H-bombing your former capital city

duke o' york · October 1, 2003, 10:58

"Our words are backed with nuclear weapons!"
"Oh, er, they're not. Any more. The YTS trainee pressed the wrong button, nuked our former capital and got us back into a war we were lucky to get out of."

"Er, er, um. Have I ever said how much I admire the leadership of President Kenobi?"

Oh, YTS stands for Youth Training Scheme, and was a way the government used to use to get young unemployed people work experience. (Also to reduce unemployment figures

). Is it still going?

Scouse Gits · October 1, 2003, 12:15

See you're having fun, guys

Ben Kenobi · October 4, 2003, 16:21

It's HYDEY time again.

Straybow · October 5, 2003, 20:19

PM?

Straybow · October 14, 2003, 16:53

Obiwan18 - was skipped, now played
La Fayette - played
SCG - MIA
SG[1] - ???
STYOM - played
SG(2) - retired *sniff, sniff*
Straybow - played
Hydey - MIA
DrSpike - skipped (MIA?)
Jrabbit - played

Looking at all that, I'd say either DrSpike or SG[1] is up to bat. Shall PM both…

Edit: DrSpike's box is full

DrSpike · October 14, 2003, 17:32

I'm not MIA..........I missed the last set because I was on vacation IIRC. But I'm not now, so I'll try and play some turns this weekend.

Straybow · October 15, 2003, 00:49

For those using 25/page

Obiwan18 - was skipped, now played
La Fayette - played
SCG - MIA
SG[1] - on deck
STYOM - played
SG(2) - retired *sniff, sniff*
Straybow - played
Hydey - MIA
DrSpike - at bat
Jrabbit - played

Straybow · October 21, 2003, 10:15

DrSpike · October 21, 2003, 10:24

Hehe, last weekend didn't work out, but this week for sure, or you can make me go and stand in the corner of the academy until I repent.

Straybow · October 21, 2003, 11:26

I don't think we're worried about breaking any speed records on this game anyway.

Six Thousand Year Old Man · October 21, 2003, 11:42

This is definitely one of the slower ones

Scouse Gits · October 22, 2003, 04:57

Thanks for the PM, Stray - this game is foundering somewhat...

Do I gather that once Doc has played I get a lovely glowing nuclear turn?
If so - this will be my first ever nuclear turn in a Succession Game!! - and only about the fifth or sixth ever ...

Stu

DrSpike · October 26, 2003, 12:12

Um, there is a problem. I downloaded the last save to continue the game, but it said it wasn't a save file. I tried the last few saves and none of them work.........even SG's original save.

All other game saves I have work though, just not any ones I download today. I even tried some from a different succession game. I reinstalled Civ2 to be sure, but the same thing happens. Version is 2.42.

What's going on?

Six Thousand Year Old Man · October 26, 2003, 12:43

Isn't this MGE, Herr Dokter?

edit:

Originally posted by Gits "Oh - its a Giga map 180x180, small land mass, archipelago"

2.42 doesn't support gigamaps, so this is definitely MGE.

DrSpike · October 26, 2003, 12:52

Oops. I convinced myself I played my last set of turns on this windows install. It must have been the last one, when I had MGE set up. Ok, will rectify this after I eat and thanks to the quick response can still get some turns in today.

DrSpike · October 26, 2003, 16:44

Tum ti tum...........*loads up the save*

(few minutes later)

A-ha, an enemy city. Oooh sir, I don't think I've ever seen such a large and magnificent empire.

1887 Tweak: BK has left things in order, but some vulnerable partisans were squished.

1888: Various partisan attacks, but nothing lost.

Calcutta captured. Enough partisans butchered to keep the bloodthirsty rodents happy.

1889: Indians found Punjab in our territory.

Punjab captured
Kolhapur captured
Lahore captured

Partisans mashed

1890:

Bombay captured, destroying Indians

1891:

Ceasefire with French.

1892:

All is ready for the final assault now..........we have units galore and a worldwide fleet of transports. SG will need his "the French are scum" cap to facilitate matters. Over to you SG.

DrSpike · October 26, 2003, 16:46

Save.

Scouse Gits · October 27, 2003, 02:33

okey dokey - will smash the scummy French asap

RAR

-Jrabbit · October 27, 2003, 08:36

Ah, the Indian scourge squished.

Welcome back, Spike.

La Fayette · October 27, 2003, 19:00

Originally posted by DrSpike
. SG will need his "the French are scum" cap to facilitate matters.

If you manage to grab such a cap, Dr, please send it to me

DrSpike · October 27, 2003, 19:04

[backpedal] I meant, of course, that to rile such a peaceful and civilised race SG would need to resort to underhand tactics. [/backpedal]

Six Thousand Year Old Man · October 28, 2003, 00:54

In any event, the French were the longest-surviving AIs in both the Mongol Horde game and this one.

So they're doing something right

Or maybe they just happened to be furthest away

Scouse Gits · October 28, 2003, 03:13

Why tend your own vinyard - when there are French peasants just itching to do it for you

duke o' york · October 28, 2003, 05:15

Is that the cap that you wear on holiday [1]?

And now for something entirely different......

Happy birthday to the wascally wabbit!

I hope that it's -Jrabbit's birthday in all your timezones too, but when the forums front page tells me it is then that's cause for celebration, regardless of whether he is out of bed yet.

-Jrabbit · October 28, 2003, 08:46

Thank you, duke. Nice to be remembered.

For the record, the b'day is Oct. 28, and this one's the Big 5-0. Which bothers me not at all. Really.

Celebrating (some would say, trying to recapture my lost and misspent youth) by taking my teenage daughter to a concert tonight -- Michelle Branch.