Seriously Tricky Sticky Game

[Ben Kenobi]

since they have SunTzu in Athens, and SunTzu is always good to have for a warmonger.

Lafayette:

Mais oui, le grand général Sun Tzu ne peut pas conduire le char.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

It never fails...

I see that it's my turn in this game (in the absence of the Gits), and I'm also up in the Mongol Horde game (turns halfway done) and the Barren 'Burbs game (turns not even started). So, it's unlikely that I'll be able to play this one until the weekend.

Of course, this delay may seem relatively short compared to past delays In any case, if someone badly wants to play ahead of me, please do so

[-Jrabbit]

Yeah, I was up in 4 simultaneously last week. My wife was NOT happy. Mais noblesse oblige...

Haven't even started the OCC comparison yet, and I leave on a biz trip to Montreal tonight.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Yeah, I was up in 4 simultaneously last week. My wife was NOT happy. Mais noblesse oblige...

At least, that means that you won't be up in any succession games for several weeks. Or so you tell her, at the time.

Haven't even started the OCC comparison yet, and I leave on a biz trip to Montreal tonight.

She should probably worry more about you staying in Mtl, than about the succession games

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Delayed!

Long delay due to my ISP being out. I'm going to play this week, tho.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

At long last...

It's 1866, and after a long retirement, STYOM regains the Presidency.

IIRC we are not allowed to change governments. However, spying is legit. And we need to stay spotless. Fair enough.

Where are all the bad guys?

Lots of stuff rushbought. Not much trading going on. Then again, we have all the techs we need to finish off the rest of the AIs - we don't need to risk the theft of spaceship techs.

Interesting - the Indians and Greeks know Labour Union and Nuclear Power. Perhaps they'll learn those space techs on their own! In any event, we'll need to relieve them of that knowledge

Great, another shipchain to figure out

I'll play 8 turns. Goals: nab the last Chinese cities. Take Lutetia and Viroconium and head to the French cities to the west. Go after the Indians S of Makrell, and build up some kind of force N of the Greek cities to the east.

1866: Lots of units blunder around... press enter

Greeks lose 2 cruisers but ultimately sink our Carrier.
Indians learn Computers; start SETI.
Romans sink Transport w/ 2 units that blundered around last turn

1867: Anyang revolts for 148 g, 14 g looted.
Lugdunum revolts for 575 g, 90 g plunder. Romans force ceasefire.

We would like to find Karachi (Mike's) which is somewhere slightly W of Bangalore.

Our Bomber sinks Greek invasion fleet; 9 units lost incl. Cruiser. Greeks tell us to get lost.

1868: Cruiser sinks Greek submarine with 2 units on it. [sudden nasty thought]Hey, nobody's built Manhattan, have they?[/sudden nasty thought] No, they haven't

Airports and Temples bought.

Greeks land near Columbia/DrunkenGits/DisneyChina and begin to wreak havoc with tanks.

1869: Fighter planes and Armors crush the Greek invasion utterly with the loss of 1 Armor.
War provoked with Romans. Hispalis captured, 61 g, ceasefire & peace.

Beijing captured with Copernicus' Observatory, 76 g. Chinese force peace but we subvert Xinjian anyway for 428 g and 30 g back, Chinese civilization eliminated
CartoonScylla founded.

Indians learn Laser. Uh oh, this is not good.

1870: War provoked again with Romans Pisae captured, 63 g. You'd never know we have the UN, ceasefire & peace is again forced on us.

AI's swap a lot of techs, everyone attacks us on all fronts, losses at sea to the Greeks, on land to the Romans (sneak attack), Zenon bombarded by Indians.

1871: Invading Roman units crushed. Pompeii captured, 195 g, we take The Laser. UN finally allows us to continue the war against the Romans. Veii captured, 291 g and Nuclear Power War continues...

Bombardment of Argos and Ephese begins.

French learn Miniaturization, more swapping, Indians finish SETI and most others switch to Apollo.

1872: Argos captured from Greeks, netting us some cash I forgot to note down, and Labour Union. Ephese captured, we take 324 g. War continues...

1873: We begin research of Combined Arms. Paratroopers may come in handy in this game.
We pay 417 g to make Lutetia revolt, 149 g plundered.

Greeks build Apollo Program in Knossos... ah, here we go, the world:

1874: Discover Combined Arms, researching Plastics.
Ravenna revolts for 840 g and the Hoover Dam, solving our worsening pollution problem for now But we only have one Factory, so it won't make much difference in production. War continues...
Just noticed that I cleverly placed CartoonScylla 1 square away from all possible air destinations N and E
Truman founded.
Advanced Tribe Huey - Library sold

Only the Indians and the Greeks have anywhere near the production to contemplate building a spaceship... and neither of them even know Plastics, let alone SuperConductor. Manhattan is as yet, unbuilt and nobody seems eager to build it. I thought about rushbuilding it on my last turn, but realized just in time that I'd be blacklisted from succession games if I did

I have been airlifting units to the 5 cities closest to the Indians, and to other strategic cities. (key is: i=Indians, r=Romans, ir=Indians and Romans, gr=Greeks)

I left about the same amount of cash as I started with, if anyone wants to rushbuy. I did some incrementing and some bribing... but wasn't really disciplined about the former.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

In the absence of the Gits...

Round 4...

Order of Play

Obiwan18 - skipped
La Fayette - played
SCG - MIA
SG[1] - vacation
STYOM - played
SG(2) - vacation... when do the Gits return... if not back then it's...
Straybow - 's turn
Hydey - skipped
DrSpike - skipped
Jrabbit - played

[-Jrabbit]

The Rabbitman recjoices at the activity. Sounds like good (and eventful!) turns, Stray. Actually sounds like it's getting interesting...

It's Hydey Time.

[Straybow]

(Psst, that was STYOMs go)

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Straybow
(Psst, that was STYOMs go)

The unmined hidden specials and lack of canals should be a dead giveaway.

[-Jrabbit]

Sorry. Thought everyone knew you 2 were DLs...

[Straybow]

Sticky wicky

We are not! I was in Atlanta when STYOM was posting here on 'Poly.

I've recovered from my Civ2 Progressive game on the Spanish forums (with a score of 3339) and can go a round with Disney characters.

And now for a little wistful rememberance…

[-Jrabbit]

I think it might be time for this game to revert to the Gits...

[Straybow]

I'm trying to figure out why cities have been renamed "Goofyville -i&r" or "Pluto - gr"

Well, I'll leave that mystery to SG(2), since I'm up in other games.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Straybow
I'm trying to figure out why cities have been renamed "Goofyville -i&r" or "Pluto - gr"

Well, I'll leave that mystery to SG(2), since I'm up in other games.

Sorry, I renamed them in my turns. Knowing which cities are close to which AIs without having to hunt through the map, is handy for airlifting.

So, gr=greeks, i&r= indians and romans. If you're wanting to airlift a unit to the Greek front, sending it to a 'gr' city on the airlift destination list will eliminate much of the searching (for the right destination) required.

A lazy man's solution to the problem of having to remember which of our several dozen cities are where, I admit