Succession Game #1: Warriors of Mount Planet

[Xian]

Originally posted by #endgame
I'm running Linux and only have a Windows based SMAC, but I enjoy reading the reports and looking at the screenshots.

ok, if thats what people want I will

Next decade is up whoever posts it first unless somebody already called it go for it

[Player99]

Who's up next? I'll take a turn at it if that's okay.

[#endgame]

I'm running Linux and only have a Windows based SMAC, but I enjoy reading the reports and looking at the screenshots.

[Xian]

why? the anyone can clearly see it by downloading and playing.

If it were up to me I think we should be silent about it and let our actions speak instead of words. Maybe afterwords discuss what was going on in each of your heads

anyhow, next decade is up

[PJayTycy]

xian, you should atleast tell what you've done

[Kataphraktoi]

Whatever\whichever you like xian :-) (i view threads in reply mode so i didnt know you played) but you should tell what you did.

[Xian]

As I requested, the 30s to 40s

Should we discuss strategy in this thread or let each player make his/her own decisions?

Note: Ive never played as the spartans before.

[JustinSane]

I did not see anyone claim 2120-2130, so I played those turns - I hope no one minds. I'm a much better chess player than Alpha Centauri player. Chess is all about tactics and not at all about economics. You've got to attack.

So when I downloaded this and saw how close University Base was and how many high morale rovers we had running around, in addition to already having a transport to move units across the channel, I couldn't help myself. Anyway, isn't that what you're supposed to do with the Spartans? Probably stupid. Slowed colonization. Slowed exploration. Ah well.

I founded bases with the two colony pods and switched to planned (at the risk of ticking off Morgan and the Gaians) for the boost in production and started building a probe team and prototyping lasers on a rover at one of the two new bases. I moved the second citizen at Sparta Command from a rolling rainy tile to Mount Planet for the extra mineral and started moving the rovers back home.

Training camp built another colony pod while this was going on, rushed as soon as the pop expanded to two. Floated it down the river and founded a base on the square immediately behind the westernmost rover in the picture during the last turn of 2130. (two squares between the new base and Training Camp. Not good at explaining spatial relationships. Sorry about that )

During this time, the probe team had finished and was transported accross the narrow channel to University Base (which is roughly 5 or 6 tiles north of Sparta Command, though seperated by water) along with a Commando scout rover. The probe team landed next to University base and stole a tech (to get the AI to declare war without damaging our reputation). Unexpectedly, it was Industrial Automation. Bonus! Didn't even know they had that. So in this instance, going for Doctrine: Flexibility early worked like a charm. Good call Kataphraktoi!

The rover then landed and defeated a University unity rover and promoted to elite. Everything that could possibly have gone right that turn, did.

Two turns later I dropped off two more rovers (though I had not had time to upgrade either off them) and that was enough to take University Base. The first of the new batch, which was commando, beat a disciplined university rover. The second was lost but weakened the remaining defender, a scout patrol now deep in red (maybe 20%?), enough for the elite rover to defeat it and take the city that turn. It immediately met another university unit. They sued for peace and I accepted, then they proposed a treaty of friendship. Oddly enough, as I turn this over to everyone else at the end of turn 2130, they are Magnaminous despite having just lost their capital base!

Overall, I think that went better than could have been hoped. IA is an important tech and the captured base is close enough to be useful without specialists and has recycling tanks and a net node. Alright, on to Xian

Thank you to the creator of this game. It's a fantastic idea

[Xian]

I will officially do the 30s-40s

Im downloading the save only to see whats going on, Ill wait for my year to actually play it and upload it

[Maniac]

Yeah, I've heard similar voices in the wind as well.

[Kataphraktoi]

I see someone was busy while i was gone...

Kataphraktoi, would you mind if I started a succession game for SMAniaC as well, or would you prefer if I waited till this one was done?

That could be great -but a little birde told me any more SG's beyond this one would need to be in the multiplaying forum(for now). FYI

[Humphrey]

I did the next 10 turns, I hope that was OK, and I hope I didn't break anything. I did notice some strange things, a lot of the sounds weren't playing and the battles resolved very quickly. I don't know why this is.

Things that happened:
Happy Rover breeding time! 2 rovers cloned, one new one from a pod. I don't think I've seen so many rovers so early on before (well, not very often really). Maybe they should all go and kill someone.

One artifact from a pod, one stolen from Morgan who was silly enough to leave it wandering around on it's own. (Note: Morgan has another one near the fully healed commando rover, last seen two turns ago, two squares directly above the scout patrol of his that can be seen. He'll probably leave that one on it's own too, so it probably can also be stolen.)

Built one colony pod, the other colony pod was completed by a pod.

Got Uni's comlink from a pod. Brought Morgan's comlink from him. Bumped into a Gaian unit, brought Beliver's and Yang's comlinks from them. Treaty with all of them, very much tech traded.

Tell me if I did something wrong or something.

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Humphrey
Anyone can play the next 10 turns right?

Yes. However from looking at the thread 3 other people have already downloaded the 2110 turn and are potentially playing this simultaneously. I would say that if you want to, download the turn, announce in this thread that you are officially playing the 2110 - 2120 turn, then post your results for the next person to play.

[Humphrey]

Anyone can play the next 10 turns right?

[Petek]

Originally posted by Straybow
Question: is this SMAX or original SMAC?

Appears to be SMAX, since the save doesn't load with SMAC.