The (Second) MGE Sailing Succession game

[Scouse Gits]

STYOM - be my guest - we are entertaining this weekend

Stu

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

12 turns apiece.

Play list:

1. Oldnslow
2. Ben Kenobi (skipped)
3. STYOM
4. SG[1]
5. Jrabbit
6. La Fayette
7. Straybow
8. duke o' york (only on Sunday mornings)
9.
...

OK, if there's no objection from Jrabbit and La Fayette (who technically could be playing this weekend), I'll play tomorrow. Unless BK responds in the interim, of course.

[-Jrabbit]

Go for it, STYOM!

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Playing NOW

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

620 AD: Nothing to change. Trade is a while away.
Population now 200,000. Checking demographics, that's 6th. In fact, we are also 6th in GNP and manufactured goods... what poor SOB's are doing worse than us??

640: Siren Call founded on forested river.
Diplomat reveals Whales near Siren Call
Start moving Trireme in our core islands east; will swap Warriors on board for Settlers/Diplomat.

660: Increment a Settler in Charybdis.
Aaaaieee! Message from the Furies states that the Spanish are almost finished Magellan

680: Spanish finish Magellan I suppose we'd better aim at Mike now, or the Lady.

700: Not much, a little incrementing, a little exploring.

720: More of the same.

740: Trade; choose Literacy aiming towards Monotheism/Democracy. I'm beginning to doubt we could possibly get Mike's Chapel. Thought about Seafaring and Horse Riding, though. Some production is changed to Caravans.

Spanish start Great Library.

760: Not much.
Carthagines start Great Library.

780: Increment a little.

800: Good city site located to the west.
Macaulay rates us Hopeless.

820: Land Ho! to the east.
Trireme finished in Troy and Library started, with an eye to Xinning and shipping all our Caravans here.

840: Nomads from hut at 198,170.
Zulus are nearly finished Great Library.

860: Zulus build Great Library, all others abandon.

880: First Caravan comes on-line.

Sorry for taking the extra turn, but I wanted to see whether anyone would switch to something like Michelangelo or Statue once the Zulus finished GL.

Notes for my successor:
1. The Trireme to the east has Settlers and a Diplomat on it; I haven't found any AIs or anywhere worth founding, yet.
2. I was planning on founding with the Nomads near the 2 whales, once we get there.
3. Trireme S of Charybdis has a Caravan for Troy and a Settler to clear the Pheasant and found there.
4. Scylla will probably go into disorder next turn.
5. Once irrigation is finished near Argo, I was planning on putting workers on the grass so that Argo will hit size 2 again before the 2nd Settler is built.

All of which you are free to (and probably will ) ignore.

Good luck.

[-Jrabbit]

No Magellan???

[duke o' york]

Don't worry about it!
After a hesitant start, we are in much better (if not great yet ) shape, and have found land to both the east and the west. We can always capture Magellan as it will prove very useful to us and our efforts at conquest on a map this size. For the time being, we should concentrate on making up the tech shortfall, and Mike's will allow us an easy transition to representative governments.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

I messaged Ben Kenobi about this game on Friday and got no response...

So we'll skip Ben, and call it Stu's turn...

[Scouse Gits]

OK - have d/led - probably play tomorrow...
still have to find time for Sticky............

Stu

[Scouse Gits]

The Approach of Communism

0880 = Sliders to 0.7.3 to induce celebration in Troy and avert Scyllan unrest, Scylla production shifted to Temple; HutFinder invoked to locate goodies, Eastern explorers sense nearby hut;

0900 = Sliders back to 1.4.5; Troy celebrating, Library transformed to Market Place, Scylla now size 4 and OK; Hut Ho to the West - Literacy;
0920 = Zulus start Leo's ; Seafaring selected; Hut to East - Horseback Riding; The Institute founded on the Pheasant - because I shall be spending a lot of time there I think...; Sparta founded to West - only one Whale but this has to be ICS time; Lose celebration now extra cities exist ; Slider to 1.2.7
0940 = Lighthouse goes POP! Colonies are on their own for a while; Western Fleet of Exploration reports it is 'near Ulundi'; Athens founded;
0960 = Seafaring->The Republic; Troy builds Market Place; Hut - Masonry;
0980 = all quiet
1000 = Hut - 25g; allows a little tickling;
1020 = Hut - Construction;
1040 = Carts start Leo's;
1060 = Zulu sighted;
1080 = Bridge Building stolen from Hlobane; Outraged Zulus declare war ;
1100 = Settler joins Troy now size 6; Copper(d), Circe-Troy, 84g; Troy starts Colloseum;
1120 = Chinese starts Ike's; Mongols start Leo's; The Republic->Banking;

... and just as a plan starts to come together, one's turns are over .
Mandatory advice to be ignored by the next player: Our Western colony will continue to spew out Settlers for self expansion and Diplomats for borrowing the knowledge of the great Zulu nation; Ulundi is known to be just to the SW of Hlobane and the road system suggests there are more cities to the NE; If this can net us Engineering, the Lady is just around the corner. Our Eastern colony is only embrionic at the moment, but expansion is about to start, we have enough space, we can GROW!
At home, demanded caravans are being delivered, for the money and beakers, undemended ones are being stored for The Lady - Communism here we come!!!!!!!

[Scouse Gits]

Don't forget to hug the coast!!!

Stu

[duke o' york]

We don't have time on our side, but inspired hut popping and theft means that we're not doing too awfully in the tech race at the moment. The statue will be valuable as Stu said, but for different reasons as far as I'm concerned. She'll mean we can spend time in fundy, democracy and commie with seamless changes (unless all the troops are based in one city) and can build up different areas of our empire in turn.
then then ....

[Scouse Gits]

Theft is to be preferred to hut popping for two reasons - it doesn't dry up with Invention and we are not restricted to getting things for which we have the prereqs...
You try running this 'empire' as a representative gov!!

[duke o' york]

I wasn't planning to "run" it, just to whack up the population for a few turns and then mercilessly subject the people to the iron fist they thought they had been freed from.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Good looking turns Stu

I think Republic/Demo could help to grow us a bit... but certainly these are not a long term solution (conquest game, no happy wonders so far).

Build some harbours, get a WLT*D going in Republic/Demo, grow the cities to size 8+, and get better trade bonuses in Commie.

In the continued absence of BK, Jrabbit is next.