The (Second) MGE Sailing Succession game

[Old n Slow]

Looks like I O Solo'd just in time. Downloaded DoY's latest & will look at it tonight.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'm back.

Let's go to Fundy and conquer the world. Who needs Communism?

Apologies to STYOM, if you PMed me, it must have bounced. I've had a full box somewhat often since trying to finish off the civ2dg.

Now I'm done, and I have some time for the sxngames, since my exams are done.

May I take 2 sessions in succession and see if I can't take us out of the doldrums?

[Old n Slow]

We have the statue -- we can have a new government -- hmmm (looks to check for the next oedo year, hey wait we have the statue -- EVERY year is an oedo year!) revolt.

1680 (1) -- Become commy as per recommendations from sages. Also toggle to 8.0.2 as we are seriously poor in addition to being weak. Meet Carthage (4 spears; NW of Zulu), cash in dip for embassy, and muddle our use of the NW triremes for the remainder of our tour of duty. They continue to search, and not very well. siren Calls and Argo produce a couple of camels bound for our central markets.

1710 (4) Disband a trireme in Athens, also disband a warrior in Troy for a camel.

1730 (6) Found Cyclops on the spice south of Athens.

1740 (7) Barbs seen N of Siren Call -- adjust builds to dip & chariot to appear on the next turn.

1750 (8) Barbs sail west…(China, which switched fro ST to IN, completes IN)

1752 (9) Barbs double back and are just outside Siren Call -- out folks empty out of the city to great the boat. toggle to 3.0.7

1754 (10) -- discover Myst, opt for Phil.

Notes for next player. We have a couple hundred coins in the treasury, and most of a ship chain of galleons between lands west and lands central. There are a few camels aiming for central markets on the boats now and a couple ashore yearning to go west. my hope was that the commodity camels could be cashed in for the $$ and beakers, allowing for the food camels to be produced in time for the next wonder -- even as the discovery for the next wonder occurs…

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Good stuff.

10 turns apiece.

Play list:

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

Ben, you're up... just 1 set of 10 turns, tho.

[duke o' york]

Remove "only on Sunday mornings" from my name please.
I'm able to play every evening until Monday this week, as my last day at work before Christmas is next Tuesday, and I obviously can't post anything after that. If anyone needs some quick turns completed (guaranteed next day delivery on weeknights - others on Monday next week ) then remember the .

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Sounds good, duke. The game may not get around to you before Xmas, but if it does...

[Ben Kenobi]

Thank you STYOM.

Taking the save.

I'm going to go Fundy. We need the cash, and the ability to expand over the terrain that we know.

We also need modern military technology, as well as Industrialisation.

Lots of challenges!

[Ben Kenobi]

Taking the reigns from OnS....

1754:

We don't have the military to go Commie, and we collect just as much from deliveries under commie, as in Fundamentalism.

We lack cities, as well as improvements to even celebrate and attempt to match the other civs in terms of size, and strength.

I want to go Fundy, build temples marketplaces and harbours in all of our cities. Then, I want to go Demo to celebrate up our cities, so that we have some growth. After we have celebrated, then I want to churn out settlers to exapand our empire, since their are several excellent city locations, yet unexploited.

First comes the economy, then the population, and then the war machine. It's our only hope to catch up.

:doitnow:

Break off from building caravans to Temples and Marketplaces. Rush remaining Caravans already in production.

Revolt to Fundamentalism.

Now making 22 gold per turn.

We are going to need some deliveries to get the ball rolling.

Note, Mike's Chapel has not been built.

1756:

Redirect all cities to build improvements. Shipchain caravans towards Zululand.

1758:

All cities come out from disorder, we now make 100 gold per turn. Much better than communism.

Zulus begin Mikes' Chapel.

Build city of Aristotle, Plato.

Rush two temples.

1760:

Rush another two temples. Now up to 114 gold per turn. Zulus build Mikes chapel.
Build city of Ptolemy

1762:

Rush another two temples, build city of Archimedes. Now up to 120 gold per turn. Sell library to shore up city defenses in new city of Ptolemy threatened by trireme with units.

Raid mongol city of Salamis.

1764:

Mongol Trireme comes from nowhere and sacks Ptolemy. They steal Magnetism.

Raid fails to capture Salamis.

Rush Marketplace, no temples available.

1766:

Mongol catapult costs too much to bribe. Will wait for unit to move, and rebuild another city on the site of Ptolemy. Spanish frigate destroys barbarian frigate patrolling the coast. All units now guard Siren's call.

1768:

Rush two temples. Now making 130 gold per turn.

1770:

Mongols bribe Plato, steal more technology.

How did the diplomat get on our terrain?

Decline from building more city improvements, to increase our cash, and prevent further bribes.

1772:

Again decline, I need to bribe the Mongol catapult.

1774:

Rebribe Plato, steal Gunpowder.

Now we have better defense than Phalanx! All we need will be leadership, and then we can fend off enemy attacks.

Keeping a 100 gold cushion, I build 2 more marketplaces.

1776:

Note, I have a settler going to build another city closer to the Zulu continent. The trade ships continue to Zululand.

Almost all the cities are producing marketplaces in preparation of the explosive celebrations under Democracy.

[Ben Kenobi]

Da Save.

[Scouse Gits]

... and the save?

[Scouse Gits]

Cross post

[duke o' york]

Doesn't sound too bad overall.

I'm not too sure where all these new cities are. I shan't download the game until it's my turn because I may not be able to stop myself playing on...

STYOM

[Bloody Monk]

@ duke

The save looks good. New cities are pretty well placed to fill in around the western and eastern colonies. 17 cities with 15 temples, which is how fundy rings in the coins. If all those white goods can be completed before the next military crisis, things will be looking even better.

Good job Ben.

Monk

[Old n Slow]

Re: The (Second) MGE Sailing Succession game

Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man
(Rather than talk about it forever, I decided to just do it)


Rules... of course there are rules :

1. No trade with the enemy. Period.

And the camels are going where???

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Old n Slow


And the camels are going where???

Somewhere internal. At least we have a lot of sea squares (arrows) and different continent bonuses.

I hope they aren't en route to AI cities... that's a lot of movement wasted if they are

I've downloaded it, and will take a look tonight, play by Friday AM, I hope.