The (Second) MGE Sailing Succession game

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Hmmm... bad guys having a tech lead? That wouldn't be fair, would it?

The Big Bronze Dude is a risk. If we don't get LH, our exploring will be kind of limited. I'm not sure what I'd do if Maps comes in as a white tech. Even if we got Colossus, what's to stop the AIs from switching to, say, Great Wall, and then back to LH when they get Mapmaking?

[-Jrabbit]

Personally, I think our better chance is to grab the LH first, then go for Colossus. If no Colossus, we grab Marco Polo.

Download complete...

[Scouse Gits]

For what it's worth - I think that Marco is a chimera this game - we will have naught to swap and they will hate us...

[Bloody Monk]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Personally, I think our better chance is to grab the LH first, then go for Colossus. If no Colossus, we grab Marco Polo.

An interesting path and probably the only way to have a shot at Colossus. And having MPE may be useful. But this will have the effect of delaying exploration. We will need a boat and a settler and just getting them will take time. Beginning to see the consequences of not having a second city.

From hard choices a life is built.

Monk

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

My choices would be LH and one of (in order) Colossus/HG/whatever's left.

[Straybow]

What, no canal site?

Colossus

Ahem, that's Emperor canal/Colossus lover, and sign me up!

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Straybow
What, no canal site?

Colossus

Ahem, that's Emperor canal/Colossus lover, and sign me up!

Emperor, eh?

Consider yourself spam signed up

[La Fayette]

Jrabbit

Glad to see that you go for LH

(imagine what kind of hell our life will be if we don't grab it )

[-Jrabbit]

In a normal game, I consider LH a waste of 200 early shields, but this is different.

I really think Colossus is the best 2nd wow (if we can get a 2nd of the ancient wows), but plan to save commodity (not food) camels towards it. Cuz I agree that MPE will be of limited use. (Still, I like to know what the bad guys are doing, even if my diplomacy is blunted.)

I brought the work laptop home and have now emailed to the home iMac. Kon't know if I'll get to it tonight, but will try.

20 turns sounds like enough room to have some fun...

[Scouse Gits]

Sorry -Jrabbit -- no camels -- we don't have Trade yet and some kind of Government is getting to be kind of essential ...

[Sore Loser]

I've been to my grandmother's funeral for the past few days, I'll see if I can get MGE to work tomorrow.

[duke o' york]

Can I share you peanuts please Monk?

Has anyone been tempted to forest the square in the far west of the island? You know, the grassland square that would hold a special if the whale was in the corner of a 4-special pattern. This could turn out to be a waste of lots of turns or it could be a vital boost to your empire's early days. Is anyone brave enough to take this risk?

Turning to other matters, I think you'd be foolish not to go straight for the LH and another government asap, ideally Monarchy. Once you have these then Writing and the ability to bribe opponents cities and amass an army of NONs. Having only one city in the middle of nowhere will mean that NONs are guaranteed!
Once you've got enough....

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

@ Sore - let us know when MGE is working, and I'll then readjust the list to have you next in line. For now Jrabbit is still up, since you were then (and may still be) MGE-incapable.

Originally posted by duke o' york
Can I share you peanuts please Monk?

Has anyone been tempted to forest the square in the far west of the island? You know, the grassland square that would hold a special if the whale was in the corner of a 4-special pattern. This could turn out to be a waste of lots of turns or it could be a vital boost to your empire's early days. Is anyone brave enough to take this risk?

I thought of that too. I honestly and truly don't remember the pattern (no, really! ). But I think that it's a bit of a waste of time now. If we still had the 2nd NON Settler, it could have been worth doing before adding him to Troy - but now we're committed to a Wonder. And as soon as we get MM, I say we should build a Trireme and a Settler ASAP and get off the island.

Turning to other matters, I think you'd be foolish not to go straight for the LH and another government asap, ideally Monarchy. Once you have these then Writing and the ability to bribe opponents cities and amass an army of NONs. Having only one city in the middle of nowhere will mean that NONs are guaranteed!
Once you've got enough....

One of the rules is no city bribe until Robotics

But unit bribe is ok. Amassing NONs is certainly OK (although this is a big map - we might have to travel far to be assured of NONs). I agree that LH and Monarchy are keys, at the moment. This isn't like a landbased OCC where we can wander and collect allies and huts (yet, anyway) so I think Republic might be more trouble than it's worth.

[-Jrabbit]

The Save -- 500 BC

Pretty boring times. We have the Lighthouse and a Trireme a-sailing. Log coming shorthly...

La Fayette is up -- unless Sore Loser has MGE running...

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Re: The Save -- 500 BC

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Pretty boring times. We have the Lighthouse and a Trireme a-sailing. Log coming shorthly...

La Fayette is up -- unless Sore Loser has MGE running...

Good work Nothing like ending the debate on Colossus by building LH

Now I have to look at the save to see if the special pattern is revealed

La Fayette is next (Sore Loser follows, contingent on MGE working).

Play list:

1. Oldnslow
2. Ben Kenobi
3. SG[1]
4. Sore Loser (skipped if MGE not installed)
5. Jrabbit
6. La Fayette
7. Straybow
8...