It's a Mad Mad Scxn Game!

[Straybow]

Nice cavalry buildup, given our limited number of cities.

[nitpick] Always use 2 Engrs to Transform. 10 turns while waiting for benefit to show up is too long. Once you've got Fridge it is often better to build a Supermarket and start Farming rather than transforming. For shield-poor cities (your own Brenzaidograd, ferxmple) txform one plains to grass so that another plains can be mined into forest.

Look at the Grasslands pattern and only txform plains if result will be shielded grass. Farmed grass is only 1 better than Farmed plains, and with Factory & power of some sort the 1 shield can make the difference between having 40 production (= 2 turns for Cruiser, for example). Avalon already has a huge surplus with farming, so more grass isn't much use. [/nitpick]

Ah, well, you did say "heck with µmgmt"

[Julius Brenzaida]

To hell with micro-management was my motto. I know I haven’t pleased everyone with my attitude. But Sticky Mouse can’t be build : it’s with the “S” letter ! The war is going well, though, thanks to our cavalry : the Aztecs are no more and the Celts down to one city. We have started on the Chinese and the Mongols.
So if I didn’t play perfectly, at least we’re still on the right tracks ... Some transports full of cavalry are on the way. There shouldn’t be any difficulty understanding my plans ...
BTW, the self-imposed rules don’t make it more of a challenge IMO ... (Or was there one prohibiting Cavalry ?)

[Julius Brenzaida]

1816, Too bad we’re not allowed to bribe cities, we’re so rich. I’m going to build a few factories with the money. And it’s time for a new government if we want to conquer the world ...
1818, All hail comrade Julius, yes I’ve made the switch to communism. Declare war on almost everyone, killing some units in the process, especially with the Navy.
1820. We discover Tactics and Leo does his job. Time to attack now ... We capture Tenochlitan.
1822. We capture Carmarthen and Armargh.
1826. We capture Caerphily.
1828. We discover Refining. We launch transports full of Cavalry. One is to finish the Celts, the other to start with the Chinese. Our fleet is very weak indeed, it should change as they are many islands and many ships between them in this world.
1832. Tlaxcala captured, Aztecs disapear. Xinjian captured, Cardiff captured and Basra in a small island near the main Mongol continent (the force sent to the east by my predecessor consisted only of 2 Cavalry, not enough for a “charge héroïque).
1836. We discover Machine Tools.
1838. A spy tells us that Canton is only defended by one riflemen. Ah those crazy Chinese ! We capture the city. 255 gold in the process. We capture Nishapur starting well on the Mongols.

I decide to retire after those military victories. Thanks to the UN, we have made peace, but as our reputation is atrocious, I wouldn’t be surprised if we get sneak attacked. But don’t worry the war is for sure on the AI civs territory.

[Straybow]

You've got a surly few what?

[Julius Brenzaida]

Well it's me who must play now
Wait a few days please as I've got "beaucoup de lait sur le feu", but I won't forget, don't worry
(I even remembered to play the Amnesic one )

[Straybow]

§†®ª¥ß°\/\/ slinks into retirement

1792 3000+ gold nearly everything that can be rushed to the last row is so rushed.
1794 Escape Dye to Teotihuacan 284g, D Vile Gems to Tenochtitlan 444g
–––– 2 Crucs pound Teoti garrisons but kill nothing; 1 Aztec Cat bites the dust
–––– 1 Chinese Caravel sunk
1796 Teotihuacan falls to our Crusaders; 651 gold was collected from the coffers
–––– of their corrupt officials; Caerphilly located W of Cork

1798 Leadership; Leo upgrades Crucs to Dragoons; only Atomic Theory available
–––– One Settlers killed outside Caerphilly, one Phalanx killed inside. Senate signs
–––– cease-fire with Aztecs (fine, we'll kill somebody else). Settlers improving tile
–––– near Canton wandered into our territory was eliminated; tile near Durance Vile
–––– mined to become Pheasant (yumyum!) Celt Trireme w/2 aboard sunk East of
–––– Khanbalyk

1800 Celt Horsemen land near Git's Whale & head towards Betwixt, bribed for 94g
–––– each (Leo will upgrade 'em); Caerphilly Riflemen finish off the last sliver of
–––– our Dragoon & 3 Dragoons die gloriously in futile assault; Aztec Frigate sails
–––– right up to Texcoco, 1 Cruiser in position to eliminate any hostiles
1802 Zulus want 500g, ha! Git's Port Silk to Bapedi 282g, Booboo Dye to Bap 234g
–––– Celt Settlers near Kells destroyed (Az Frigate dropped 2 Engrs off)

1804 Brits discover Atomic Theory, then Karl Marx starts writing a Manifesto
–––– Camelot Dye to Zimbabwe 296g, Betwixt Dye to Mpondo 288g, Git's Whale
–––– Silk to Zim 264g, Beachyfish Gems to Zim 444g (no demand for gems except
–––– Booboo after Camelot Dye demand changed ) Ex-horsemen Dragoons die
–––– assaulting Kells. Straybow realizes that Kells has walls. (D'oh!)
1806 Marx finished his work with the aid of all that bourgioise capitalist trade
–––– bonus (like all the Commies after him), now to Espionage; Celt Settlers and
–––– Horsemen blasted by Cruiser near Carmarthen

1808 Silk discovered beside Celtic Remnant; Vik Transport+3, Zulu Caravel sent to
–––– Davy Jones' locker; Adv Tribe Hampton near Zulu continent
1810 Military Intelligence section 5 established, scientists insist on studying cancer
–––– Our first Spy successfully sabotages the walls of Kells, the Celt capital! She
–––– sacrifices her life for the glory of Britain. One Celt Riflemen outside of the city
–––– succumbs to offshore bombardment, another within falls to the onslaught of
–––– 2 Dragoons (the second battered severely). Vik Destroyer sunk

1812 Surviving Dragoons take Kells! Celts ask to talk. Prime Minister Straybow sends
–––– them away, but the treacherous Senate grants them a cease-fire.
1814 Celtic Relic Silk to Intombe 456g! A round dozen food freight convoy to the UN
–––– site prepared in Abington. More Dragoons produced in anticipation of next Leo;
–––– Unrest threatens, lux bumped up a notch; Vikes and Mongols sign Karakorum
–––– Pact to limit us (haven't we seen that before?)

1816 Genetic Engr figgered out, on to Tactics UN complete
–––– Divine Wind Dye to Canton 272g, Kanbalyk Silk to Canton 282g;
–––– Zulu Transport+1 sunk; All other 1816 tweaking left to my successor.

To the east a transport is carrying 2 freight to Khanbalyk (demanded at Booboo), while some Dragoons and a Spy await pickup. On the West end of Britain a freight and Dragoons await a ship to somewhere useful. Unfortunately our transport is vulnerable, having no moves left after delivering freight. Further out you will see a ship loaded with Copper freight demanded by Vikes. Toward the far end of, ummm, Africa (?) is a ship with a single Dye freight headed for Mongolia.

I suppose we should amass strength now that the Senate wimps have signed away our casus belli on the Celts. Aztec cease-fire expires in 1818. We should have many more cities by now, which would greatly aid our need to spend all that lovely money on ships and horses and then support them without unrest. I got distracted draining swamps to make forests and such (reserve my quarters in Dogsbody or wherever we go).

I didn't do any rushing before the 3rd row and couldn't spend the money fast enough to keep ahead of trade revenue! Therefore it is up to you guys to spend the huge treasury on arms and send our enemies to the nether regions.

[Straybow]

I've been building Freight towards UN and doing some kick-áss long-distance trading. And about the "refrigeration incident," I've twice had only one advance presented for study during this round

[Scouse Gits]

Hint to Stray et al -- Assuming that I get another go at this one - I don't expect to see many chinese faces left smiling from the North West Frontier ...

SG[1]

[Cyrion]

SG and Straybow: thanks for your welcome! And I'll definitely join a new (MGE) game in the next weeks.

And yes, I promise I won't forget anything I learned in the Amnesiac game...

[Straybow]

Delay, delay, delay

Yes, I'm up. No, I'm not terribly functional at the moment.

1. Recover from too much Civ/not enough sleep playing my MGE round
2. Work helping with too much Civ portion of recovery (thanks, but I could handle it without that help)
3. Thunderstorms interfering with sleep deprivation portion of recovery (thanks, we really did need the rain)
4. Air conditioning failure in apt interfering with everything (it's gotta happen on a holiday)
5. Independence Day celebrations commencing soon (well, looks like I wanted to get out of the apt anyway)

I've forced myself to play one or more turns each day anyway, so I'm half done with my round.

Hi Cyrion! Good to met you. Was on an anything-to-do-with-civ-Sabbatical last year. Somehow Apolyton survived without me. Hope our amnesiac scxn game has been helpful

[Scouse Gits]

Cyrion - You will be most welcome - and don't forget when RL really imposes itself one can always pass up one's turn.

SG[1]

[Cyrion]

[threadjack mode]
Sorry fo threadjacking, but I thought it would be better than creating a new thread to just to say it!

So just 2 things:

1) @ SG(2) in SG(1) post! I really like the "letterbox pissing" description! English can be such a colourful and descriptive language...

2) @ all in this Succession game, and above all at those I read the most in other threads in the last year: SGs, La Fayette and Julius (et oui, il y a d'autres romands chez Poly... )!

Though I never took part in a Succession game, I have been learning a lot by reading your posts, so many thanks to you all (Straybow, Niccolo and STYOM not forgotten).

I hope to join you when I have more time (involved in a few pbems at the time and, let's face it, in Summer I give more room to Real Life...) if you're patient enough to "coach" a player whose experience can't be compared to yours...

So, keep on the good work !

[/threadjack mode]

[Scouse Gits]

I believe Stray is up - I too had a hell of a slog on the MGE game - I sympathise with him.

The 'Refrigeration Incident' - when I told SG(2) that I had gone Fundy on this nice peaceful Democratic game he thought that, "I had pi$$ed through your letterbox", but when I told him I had then selected Refrigeration (probably the most useless tech on the tree) rather than the various juicy techs that might have ben offered (but weren't - honest) he described that as, "and then knocked on the door to ask how far..." ... but then he is a Scouse Git

Yes Stray - every 10% devoted to Science in Fundy is 5% of your total trade arrows wasted - I did trade like hell that about half filled the box.

SG[1]

[Julius Brenzaida]

Two questions

What was that "refrigeration" incident

Whose turn is it to play

[Straybow]

Sorry guys…

Aaaggh! Little did I know what a monster my round of the MGE game was going to be like. Didn't get much sleep & had trouble staying awake at work! I'm only starting this today…