First game played :)

[Solver]

BTW, retreat is attack-only, don't forget that.

[snoopy369]

Yeah, I know My major weakness in this stack is nothing to stop mounted units who attack me. I wish I'd brought a couple of machine guns ... thought about it, but they're just too far behind; and the AI has done little or nothing to attack me. They'll probably attack with catapults now, and I realize my uberstack is just asking for it ... I'm assuming Cats in this era don't do much damage, as he has NO cannons, and I'm more worried about the knights hurting me than the cats, but I went ahead and moved half of my cavalry off of the stack just in case.

My total stack, btw, is:
10 cavalry
9 cannon
2 grenadiers (with a 3rd trailing behind)

There are a half-dozen cavalry and several grenadiers in Lahore also that will serve as my reinforcements if it turns out to be necessary, in addition to the reinforcements from the home front.

[snoopy369]

Hmm, they attacked with the three knights, losing all 3, and 2 riflemen, winning with both but down to 3.4 hp and 3.9 hp ... oddly enough, I only have 2 damaged cavalry, and 2 full ones, so I'm sort of confused, as i'm sure i only had 10 cavalry to begin with, and I seem to have lost 2, but only lost 1 ...

Anyway, they moved a second infantry in ... I'm sort of scared that I'm THIS far behind in tech (although ONLY asoka is that far ahead, and i'm pretty sure i can now dominate him, given i've taken nearly half his empire) ...

[James]

I enjoying this alot.

[snoopy369]

I'm enjoying doing it ... maybe i should more often

Karachi is mine I love cannons, i shall have to build more ... 5 of them took city def down to 0, and 4 of them not only KILLED ONE OF THE TWO INFANTRY!!! and brought the other down to 3.4 or something (/20), but damaged every other unit there about 60% total (all cannons had the collateral damage +2 upgrades; i suppose i should have done some with + to city damage, but oh well). I didn't lose another unit on the attack, except losing a cavalry to the infantry that was outside of the city (and not collateral damaged, of course) sitting on the quarry.

Here's a screenie ... notice that the silly little indians have now brought a CATAPULT to reinforce their lone rifleman. Oh, I'm scared now ...

I shall try to make peace with them now, and if they won't, I'll go pillage their territory in the hope that they never recover (They won't make peace this turn, but I seriously hope the AI realizes it needs to make peace, since the #1 and #2 civs are currently 1/3 to 1/2 of the way through wiping them out ...

[snoopy369]

Japan declares war on me again in 1852. Weird bug allows them to have a unit inside my territory before declaring war, and keep it there after declaration (I think my territory may have expanded around this unit during the india war).

So, I have to scramble to counteract this ... I didn't quite support Edo as much as I ought to have given it's position as easily-taken-city-by-Japan, but a quick change to Nationhood got me the musketeer it needs, along with its resident longbowman and a cavalry that came to save the day. I brought five over, four of which ended their movepoints outside the city, but one made it inside... all five attacked the invaders, and crushed several war elephants.

[snoopy369]

On the other front, India is going well of course. 8 cannons, 6 grenadiers, and (now 6, will be 9 when the others heal) cavalry are on their way to Madras. I'm not sure if i'll just raze Madras or what, probably raze, as it's too far away to keep; but it'll be interesting in any event. I should win, it's not a very well defended city outside of its three infantry (which will be annoying, but my cannons should weaken them easily).

After Madras, I may go on a pillaging run ... haven't decided, and it probably depends on how it goes, but I think it should be enough to force peace with India on my terms. I'm going to make peace for at least one tech, and I'm going to make it stick...

[snoopy369]

1864. No civil war, but a Japanese war, and an Indian pillagefest. I decided I'm done attacking Indian cities after Madras, which I help Alexander destroy (my cannons destroyed the defenses and did some serious damage to the infantry). I've pulled the 6 surviving cannons back to form the nucleus of my artillery in a few years, and am just having a grand old time pillaging Indian villages and towns Alexander is doing the same, as India doesn't seem interested in attacking our forces except with the occasional ... catapult

Anyway, I took the new Japanese city of Kagoshima, settled near where Osaka was razed not long ago. I decided to keep it, for some odd reason; haven't quite figured that one out, but I was thinking I believe that I would work out a way to get that marble still ... Lahore isn't pushing hard enough culturally yet for it. Next stop is Kyoto (Again...) with cavalry, I have maybe 10 in the area, which might be enough. If it's not (i'll take a look at the city next turn), I'll wait the seven or eight turns until the cannons appear

[snoopy369]

Dunno if anyone is still following this, given how long it's taking me, but here goes anyway

Japan ended with the fall of Kyoto to the romans (with my significant help), which was fine by me - too many cities at this stage ... They sued for peace, got it (no techs to give sadly).

India I held out for a long while with. I never took another city, though I did help to raze Madras. I basically pillaged and pillaged until I got bored and made peace for 4gpt and 20gp (all he had). Alexander is still going strong in that region, and post-Madras I have nothing to worry about from India (no common cultural border, at least on land) and Alexander is looking to be getting a bit strong militarily ... I only share a bit of border with him, Lahore/Kagoshima in the west, and it's not an area I care much about (though I like the marble); but I'd rather stay friendly with him, and I'd certainly rather him have a harder time killing India. Infantry are going to be hard for him to take no matter what ... though India has no production ability now due to the pillaging.

[Addled Platypus]

eyes wide open

please continue

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[James]

Play more please.

[snoopy369]

hehe

Okay, well I guess I'm doing okay in the culture department ... ye of little faith ...

My capital has nearly 40,000 culture, and will hit 50k around the point where i have 90 turns to go. The other two have 19,000 and 23,000 respectively (the 19,000 one has more C/Turn though). Under free speech and whatnot, the 19k one currently gets 200c/t, the 23k one gets ~120c/t. Not enough to win by culture - yet. But, it will be; I just recently discovered a very ... useful ... tech - medicine, or was it biology? I forget - that gives me +1 food for farmed squares - meaning i can put a lot of specialists in cities now

[snoopy369]

Remember back ~50-60 posts ago when I was trying to convert Cumae, to get its stone and whatnot (eventually just taking the stone but failing with Cumae)?

Well, it finally converted I think I can thank Kufah, undercutting some vital Roman culture in the area.

[snoopy369]

... I was able to trade a tech with the AI

First tech they've been willing to trade me (excepting Asok, who always listed them as willing but never accepted a peace deal with them) since ... um ... wow, a LONG time ago, maybe AD 500 or something. Certainly since Education, but I'm fairly sure it went much further back than that.

[ChrisiusMaximus]

great write up Snoop been following it from the beginning please do continue