[PBEM]Civ4 Succession Game #1: Rome

[GeoModder]

1954

• Kyoto starts a Lighthouse and drafts an infantry (instantly upgraded to SAM).
  Chartres finishes a Bank, starts on a Jewish Temple.
  Pisae finishes a Marine, starts on a Gunship.
  Paris finishes a Hindu Temple, starts on a Marine.
  Antium finishes a Sam, starts on a Fighter.
  Orleans finishes a Fighter and starts another one.
• Karachi is reached by landforces, but no Artillery anymore in the group. Starts pillaging the area.
• 4 Cannons upgraded to Artillery in Tokyo, and killed an Indian tank that came next to the city. Lost a drafted Infantry on it.
• Rebased 4 fighters to the Japanese scene.

1955

• Tokyo under siege. Lost 2 infantry against Gunship (weird, 4 SAM's in the city and they aren't picked to defend) -and Mech+SAM attack in the defense phase. New stack assembles outside Tokyo as my turn begins. Soften it up with my fighters and artillery. The whole stack dies, we lose 1 artillery.
• Bangalore is captured with the loss of 2 artillery (again ). We now own the Liberty Statue, the UN and Hollywood. 11 turns resistance. Starting to destroy all roads around Bangalore on the Indian side as to prevent surprise assaults when our main force advances.
• Graham Bell is born in Cumae, perhaps keep him for the Space Elevator? Another option is to start on the 3 Gorges and rushing it with him but as Modo44 said, that won't give us extra power. The only benefit would be to withhold the wonder for other civs.
  Trade movies for 8 gold with Cathy, gift movies to Alex, trade 1 gold for movies with Monty and gift movies to Mao. Wasn't thinking straight with Monty I'm afraid. I could have cancelled an older spice for gold deal and have all his gold for movies.

1956

• Radio is discovered, I start on Computers (6 turns atm).
• Chartres finishes its Temple, starts a Bomber.
  Rome finishes a Marine, starts a Bomber.
  Paris finishes a Marine, starts a Bomber.
  Pisae finishes a Gunship, starts Artillery.
  Marseilles finishes a SAM, starts a Bomber.
• Attempted to bomb the Indian oilwells, but failed. Our fighters were intercepted but luckily only damaged.
• Our forces are advancing on Delhi, the Indian capital. Still using the scorched earth tactic as we go. Probably by the next player's turn all will be ready for an all out assault if I need bombers to take the city.
• Countryside around Karachi in the south coast is being pillaged, waiting on the arrival of some artillery before attempting to take the city. In general, the swiftness is out of our advance, some tanks being hurt by fighter raids. Scouting flights reveal a stack of 7 Gunships+SAM escort in the city closest to Tokyo. Keeping our forces there tight. For the rest, Gandhi is starting to run low on reserves. Spotted one city with only a few artillery units and a SAM in it.
• A token Russian pillaging force is roaming around in Indian lands. Ah well...

[GeoModder]

And finally...

1957

• Lost a tank in Tokyo to a Mech, took the Mech out with fighters and a gunship.
• Cuman finishes Library, starts on a Courthouse.
  Tokyo finishes Library, starts on a Jail.
• The city of Tarsus has flipped to India.
• Our first units reach Delhi, encircling begins.
  Retreating the Marines from the Karachi area, there's nothing I can do there atm.
• Found and destroyed a Persian destroyer guarding some fisheries near Tyre. The 2 battleships there continue to guard the area for Aztec ships.
• Bombed an Indian oilwell, now the other one...

1958

• Bombing some Indian resources, a plantation and wheat destroyed. Lost a fighter in return.
• Ravenna finishes Islamic Temple, starts on Jail.
  Rome finishes a Bomber, starts another one.
  Paris finishes a Bomber, starts a Jewish Missionary.
  Pisae finishes an Artillery, starts on a SAM.
  Marseille finishes a Bomber, starts another one.
• Rebasing Bombers to Bangalore.
• Everything is in position to capture Delhi next year.
• Cathy must have attacked Tarsus, I see a damaged Mech there.

1959

• Lost a SAM which I left unguarded, Cathy destroys the Mech that killed it.
• An Indian Tank gets close to Cuman and destroys a farm. I take it out with fighter strike and one of the returned Marines. Thank "Jahweh" for that, there was nothing else capable of doing that in the city.
• Mao approaches our ambassador who forwards his request for an Open Border agreement. I accept.
• Antium finishes Bomber, starts on a Marine.
  Kyoto finishes a Lighthouse, starts on a Theater.
  Paris finishes its Missionary, starts on a Bomber.
• Marine reinforcements arrive near Karachi (Artillery included), next player should be able to take the city now without heavy losses.
• Cathy has attacked Delhi, all the defenders there are damaged. This is going to be easy.
  Bombing the defenders a bit more, 1 bomber damaged during this. Continue to assault the city with tanks and infantry, losing one in action, but the city is captured. We now have the Eifel Tower, which promptly ensures that our propaganda explanations of the Indian vile intentions of world domination are broadcasted. We also capture the Hindu Shrine. I left it to the next player whether or not to change religions. Seeing that both Alex and Cyrus are Hindu, and Cathy worships Free Religion nowadays (silly girl ) the financial benefits should be larger then the Jewish one.
• Good news, with the capture of Delhi India can no longer win a cultural victory. We are numero uno now and Gandhi takes a severe dip in the score graph.
• Redirecting troops to Bombay and establishing a defensive line south of Delhi for the time being. At first glance, Bombay holds nothing interesting anymore qua wonders (active ones at least) so can be razed.

I present you the main battlefield at the end of 1959.

[GeoModder]

And for the next Dictator!

Here comes the turn...

Edit: btw, the uncompressed save now exceeds half a meg. I had to upload it here on 'Poly which luckily compresses it even more. About quarter of a meg now. The download you see was me testing it.

[GeoModder]

Next!

[Modo44]

But who is that?

[GeoModder]

You, obviously. Grandpa still doesn't risk it AFAIK.

Take out the Indians for us.

[Modo44]

If you could provide a non-broken file, that would be nice. RAR says "unexpected ond of archive"...

EDIT: Sent my e-mail address over to GeoModder.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Modo44
If you could provide a non-broken file, that would be nice. RAR says "unexpected ond of archive"...

which is why I am hesitant to play as much as I want to

I dont ant to mess things up

[GeoModder]

What are you talking about, Grandpa?

Modo, I need to mail the file, it's too big to attach. Can you provide me with an address by PM or something?

[GeoModder]

Houston, we have ignition...
save sent to Modo44.

[Modo44]

Go it. Playing now.

1959 AD:

• Why are we at war with Cyrus?
• Changed some builds. Why on earth would I ever build SAM Infantry over Fighters?

1960 AD:

• 2 Roman Tanks lost, 1 Indian Mech Inf destroyed during Indian moves.
• Unloaded units near Karachi.
• Moved units towards Bombay and Lahore.
• Heavy bombing of Bombay. Some damage to our planes, some damage to the city.

1961 AD:

• Many, many air fights (they bomb us).
• More air fights (we bomb them).
• After bombing Bombay down to 0% defense, the attack commences. 1 Artillery and 1 Tank lost, 2 Mech Infs, 2 SAM Infantry, 2 Fighters destroyed. Bombay captured.
• 2 Indian Mech Infs destroyed near Bombay.
• Attack Karachi. 1 Artillery lost, 2 Mech infs and 1 Sam Infantry destroyed. Karachi captured.

1962 AD:

• Computers researched, starting Satellites. We need to get Modern Armor, because we will probably have to kill china as soon as we are done with India. (That is assuming it is not too late already -- India is not the only nation making a spaceship...)
• First bombing of Lahore. Some bombers damaged, Lahore defenses damaged.

1963 AD:

• Two Tanks lost while attacking Lahore. Lahore captured.
• First bombing of Calcutta

1964 AD:

• Some general bombing. Units closing in on cities.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by GeoModder
What are you talking about, Grandpa?

Modo, I need to mail the file, it's too big to attach. Can you provide me with an address by PM or something?

I downloaded a game speed tuner for sp to mod games and I dont want to screw this game up

[TheDarkside]

I wonder how much it would cost to upgrade our tanks once we get modern armor

[Modo44]

1965 AD:

• Madras captured, losing 2 Tanks.
• 1 Bomber lost this turn. This is the first one shot down in 6 turns of almost constand bombing. It seems Bombers can take quite a beating in CIV, compared to Civ3...

1966 AD:

• Kolhapur captured, losing a Gunship and 2 Tanks.
• I switch production to transport ships. Some units begin moving towards Rome.

1967 AD:

• Captured Calcutta, and burned Tarsus. Buh-bye India.
• A Russian revolt happened in Bangalore.

1968 AD:

• Bombing Persia to try and "convince" Cyrus to give peace a chance. And he does.
• The best spaceship-building AI is China, but they have only started (5 Casings, no other stuff done yet). Phew, we have plenty of time to prepare the invasion.
• (Wait, I meant .)
• Our first Carrier, Italia, is built.

1969 AD:

• Airports are being made. We need to prepare to airlift reinforcements...
• The best offensive units (strongest promoted Tanks) go to Rome.
• The air force is left where it was. No point moving it elsewhere -- it sits in a good central (as far as vectors of approach go) position.

Below are our new lands. Pretty nice, although somebody thrashed the improvements in the northern part for no good reason.

[Modo44]

Originally posted by TheDarkside
I wonder how much it would cost to upgrade our tanks once we get modern armor

A lot. But we can stop research completely after Composites and Robotics are researched, so I would not worry about it.

The score graph looks favorable.