Scorched Earth Succession Game

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

I was giving newcomers time to join in, that we might have some more cities

I need to play the Mongol Horde turns and then I can jump in here.... unless anyone else wants to join.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Play list updated.


1. STYOM
2. Old n Slow
3. Sparrowhawk
4. Jrabbit
5. Ben Kenobi
6. SG [1]
7. sirsnuggles (missing)
8. Julius Brenzaida
9...

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

I'm delayed a bit because of the error message I'm getting from 'Poly. Sorry all.

[Ben Kenobi]

scouse (adj) of or pertaining to Liverpool - Ivor was born within sight of Anfield - Liverpool FC home ground

Scuse vs. Scouse. I spell words that don't check by how they sound.

I'll change the sig, and STYOM, you can dl the game now.

[Sparrowhawk]

As a newcomer to Succession Games, I am not sure of the etiquette. I have downloaded the save of this game a couple of times, just to check what is happening, but it occurs to me that maybe this is not allowed . Am I supposed to wait until it is again my turn before downloading the save? (Of course when I have downloaded it I have not played or moved, just for the sake of checking out the empire).
Have I done anything wrong?

Perhaps I should have asked this before joining , but it didn't occur to me at the time.

/me

[Ben Kenobi]

Am I supposed to wait until it is again my turn before downloading the save? (Of course when I have downloaded it I have not played or moved, just for the sake of checking out the empire).

Sparrowhawk, how do you think we generate so much robust constructive criticism? Having access to the save aids review.

So go ahead, download and pick out areas you think ought to be improved.

Now to participate in a Sxn game, you generally have to get into the game when it starts, or you can ask the starter to fill you in for someone who's away. Depending on the situation, you may or may not get in.

When your turn comes up, you get to play for the alotted span and then hand the save over to the person following behind you. General custom encourages slagging the previous player for his destitute kingdom, and leaving sufficient amount of gold for the next player to have something to work with.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

The first "rule" of Succession games is that invariably, one will join a game when one has a lot of free time, and then, one's turns will come up when one is busy at work, and at the same time as the turns come up in the other 3 games one is playing

I will try to play this weekend, guys.

SH, as Ben says, feel free to download... the only thing that isn't really allowed is playing far ahead and then using information gathered while playing ahead, during your own turns (like where the AIs are, for example).

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Apocalyptia renamed to Pax STYOM to reflect the glory of STYOM's benevolent overlordship.

A quick tour of the empire reveals the wretched hovels of previous warlords. Fortunately the Grand Palace of the Esteemed Warlord STYOM still stands in Pax STYOM.

(Rule clarification: Henceforth in this game, a Palace must be constructed in 'your' city during your turns, unless we do not know Masonry, or if a Palace is already present in said city. Lucky break for me this time around. If necessary, improvements may be sold, units disbanded, etc, in order for construction to be complete during your turns. Those who don't have a city, need not worry about this. Sorry, OnS. )

Hmmm. We only have 2 port cities. This could be very tricky. We also have zero Settlers right now. That'll make mining hidden specials (I see 2 around Pax STYOM, and I think one near Spare Oval) difficult.

I have no good plan. We could try to conquer the Greeks, but we have to raze all cities, except one each. That could be hard to do. So, what I think would be better is a small science and trade oriented civ. This isn't a huge map, so other civs won't get too big to tackle later. And spies do a great job of razing cities.

Some build orders changed; a few workers moved around.

550: Hides Caravan in Pax, start Library. KenobiKave is now building Settlers, not a Caravan.
525: Not much. Population hits 300K (2nd in Demography)
500: Hides Lagomorphia>Sparta, 24 g. Library rushed in Pax. Phalanx in Lagomorphia. We are building Settlers based on the assumption we can't get Colossus, and also because we need infrastructure. MPE would be nice, later on. We have 2 Hides Caravans headed towards the Greeks and Lago/Gits are both building Caravans... so in a pinch we might be able to grab MPE in either city.
475: Library in Pax; starts Temple. Science = 7 turns.
French are nearly finished Colossus.
450: Mysticism discovered; researching Literacy (for Philo and Mono; other options were Masonry, Seafaring, WarCode, and Wheel).
Colossus in Paris. Greeks change to Lighthouse; Chinese start Marco Polo, which would be handy for us to have, IMO.
425: Rush Temple in Pax.
400: Temple in Pax; start Caravan.
Egyptians start Great Wall.
375: Gits' Hole builds Silk Caravan, starts Settler.
350: French start Marco Polo's Embassy.
325: Caravans arrive at Gits' Hole, to be used either as fodder for a Wonder there, or shipped north (Silk) or East (Hides)... I leave that decision to the next player.

Not much happened, except for a little growth and some shameless favouritism involving my own city The barbs left us alone, and I did no exploring to speak of. I still like the idea of growing our cities past size 8 and then trading like crazy until the KGB Espionage is discovered.

Still 10 turns per player for now. Feel free to delay Masonry, but ultimately, we'll need it to grow, of course. He who discovers Masonry must build a Palace

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Da Play List...

Round 2. 10 turns each.

1. STYOM
2. Old n Slow
3. Sparrowhawk
4. Jrabbit
5. Ben Kenobi
6. SG [1]
7. sirsnuggles (missing)
8. Julius Brenzaida
9...

[Old n Slow]

Downloaded the save -- need to find some country music -- gotta have a home, gotta have a home. But since my home buildin' days are gone, we be lookin' for so long, that for someone else we'll say... so long.

Too bad we're not in a position to take things easily...

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Old n Slow
Downloaded the save -- need to find some country music -- gotta have a home, gotta have a home. But since my home buildin' days are gone, we be lookin' for so long, that for someone else we'll say... so long.

Too bad we're not in a position to take things easily...

Yes... this one looks like it might be tricky. I'm reassured when I recall that the map is just medium, and we are 2nd on most Demographic indicators. And my strategy is of course, just a suggestion... others may have better ideas.

I'm not sure if I could have nabbed Colossus, but you can probably build any of the 200-shield wonders in Gits' if you want. (hint, hint ... MPE )

And there are hidden specials all over the place that can be mined...

[Old n Slow]

At Long Last -- Masonry!

325 BC (0) -- Do a little readjustment; search for Slowville, but only see ashes (sniff!)

300 BC (1) -- Keno builds a settler, switches to camel activity

275 BC (2) -- Lago makes a camel (which heads north) swith Git's activity to a dip...

250 BC (3) -- Discover Lit, on to Phil. Cash in 4 camels...

225 BC (4) -- Git's Hole builds Marco Polo's Embassy (French abandon, Chinese switch to Great Wall); French start Great Library on their turn. not too many techs of interest -- no reason for us to swap now.

200 BC (5) -- Move a couple of units -- am also partial RB 5 shields/turn for a couple of camels, inching them along in these days of cheap economy.

175 BC (6) -- Only item of note is the light house in Sparta (Hmmm ... perhaps a future city for us? I'll take it if someone has a chance to pick it up on the free market before I get around to playing again.)

150 BC (7) -- Chinese land near Keno -- (they have 3 spears) do we want to trade Lit away for Masonry (no) -- WAR. We respond by pushing Keno's horse deeeeeep into the red zone, but the warrior + fool on the hill are now no more. Sad K J pops out a settler.

125 BC (8) -- Barbs are sailing in near Keno -- hey the fun never ends (maybe there is some sort of cosmic equality going on here...)

100 BC (9) -- Barb Archers (at least two + something else) land near Keno; the horse is healing, solidly in yellow for now.

75 BC (10) -- Discover Phil -- opt for Mono over Mas (which just about everybody knows), Med, Rep, & WC; Get Mono, & opt for Rep over Mas, Med, Sea, WC, & Wheel. Hmmm, techs were officially coming in at 8 turns, but a little growth gave us the gain in 7. Is it worth slowing down the rate & picking up some extra knowledge? Why not.


After the great trading round, we gain Masonry, Construction, Wheel, Warrior Code, Iron Working, & give away Philosophy, Pottery, Construction, Monarchy, (had to give the Babylonians Map to see officially where they were) but decided to not let go of Monotheism just yet.

Ten turns ago we had 14 techs & led the world -- now we have 21 techs, but it will take 22 turns for the next discovery. Almost allied with Egyptians and almost again with the Babs (but they wanted Mono, & we decided to delay that bit of information.

The Greeks have 6 spears, 10 cities; French 5 spears, 8 cities; (we're next with six cities) Chinese (also at war with France -- we chatted & they offered a cease fire, but we declined -- they didn't come back with cash, so we really don't care.) have 3 spears & 4 cities; Egypt has 2 spears and 5 cities; Babylonians have 1 spear and 3 cities; and the Mongols, might Mongols are bringing up the rear as their one city is smaller than the barbarian city only a few spaces away!

[Old n Slow]

For those counting coop, Philosophey was discovered in Git's Hole.

[Sparrowhawk]

/me has downloaded the save, and unlike the first turn where I played third and didn't see much chance of screwing anything up for anyone else, I am actually nervous about messing up hte game

I will play when I can, but I don't want to rush (for the reasons mentioned above). Should post the summary and save within the next 30 hours or so though.

[Old n Slow]

Not to worry -- Kenobiville has two warriors and a horse & a crusader coming from next door.

Besides, you get the glory of constructing a palace in your city!