It's a Mad Mad Scxn Game!

[Scouse Gits]

The Dream ...

1764 == Marketplace in Durance Vile, Dogsbody; Bank in Booboo on You; Stock Exchange in Abington; Theory of Gravity (Why?) -> Conscription (What else?); Chinese invasion of our NW territories temporarily slowed by Engineers and Freights - we have nothing else - not even a dip on the home continent!!!
1766 ==
1768 == Beads, ExMongol-Teotihuacan, 96g; Musketeer in ExMongol beats off a Celtic invasion and becomes vet; Texcoco size 8, bribed (Barbs are fair game right?) 404g with two Musks and a Dip; Hides, Betwixt 2 Bays-Teotihuacan, 112g; Oil, Doorstop-Teotihuacan, 102g; Beads, Escape my Fate-Teotihuacan, 148g; Beads, Brenzaidograd-Teotihuacan, 190g; Hides, Camelot-Teotihuacan, 142g;
1770 == Marketplace in CatchyName; Conscription (and Leo does his thing) -> Fundamentalism (did you ever doubt it?); Chinese Settler cheats past ZoC;
1772 == Guard Hill founded to prevent further Chinese incursions; Dye, Durance Vile-Tlatelolco, 224g; Salt, BeachyFish- Tiatihuacan, 158g;
1774 == Marketplace in Doorstop; Factory in Daresbury; Temple in Catchyname; Git's Port drunk, sorry I mean founded; Git's Whale founded; Beads, Divine Wind-Teotihuacan, 72g;
1776 == Temple in Durance Vile & Dogsbody; Bank in Camelot; Market Place in Beachy Fish; Cruisers in Avalon & Brenzaidograd;
1778 == Temple in Doorstop; Barracks in Daresbury; Fundamentalism -> Refrigeration; Dye, Former Tintagel-Tenochtitlan, 108g; Revolution;
1780 == Temple in Beachy Fish; Factory in Brenzaidograd & Avalon; Fundamentalist government established; Salt, Celtic Relic-Teotihuacan, 90g;
1782 == WLTLPD in Doorstop, Divine Wind, Booboo on You, Brenzaidograd, Abington & Avalon; Market Place in Divine Wind; Khanbalik reduced by naval bombardment and taken, 94g & Chivalry; Aztecs declare war for no obvious reason; Chinese diplomat (sneaking towards Guard Hill expelled; Rifleman claims Daresbury's pheasant with extreme prejudice (I imagine the Chinese will ask us to withdraw - I think not);
1784 == Market Place in Ex Mongol; WLTLPD in Escape My Fate, Dogsbody, Daresbury, Beachy Fish; Bank in Dogsbody; Harbour in Beachy Fish; Stock Exchange in Booboo on You; Barracks in Brenzaidagrad; Hides, Abington, 68g;
1786 == Chinese threaten us with their 'mighty armies' - we remain underwhelmed; Bank in Escape my Fate; Temple in Divine Wind; WLTLPD in Camelot; Harbour in Catchyname; 100g from hut;
1788 == Temple in Ex Mongol; Dye, Abington-Teotihuacan, 244g;
1790 == Chinese sneak attack - unsuccessfully te he ; Gems, Brenzaidograd-Tenochtitlan, 588g; Tlatelolco and Lady Liberty are ours with 473g; Cork with 124g taken; Copper, Texcoco, 146g; Tsingtao destroyed - thus ends the Chinese incident - for now;
1792 == Bank in Ex Mongol; Factory in Divine Wind; Marketplace in Texcoco; Silk, Guard Hill, 80g; Cloth, Doorstop-Teotihuacan, 94g;

Chubby surveys the peaceful British countryside, the celebrating people, the 3000g in the treasury, and turns to his cabinet and says, "The British Democracy is safe in your hands, gentlemen. I shall retire."

[Scouse Gits]

Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida
Don't tell me we're not under a powerful democracy anymore

Did I say that Julius?

Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida
It was perfectly adequate

It was, but we don't do adequate, we want superb...

SG[1]

[Straybow]

Pythonized Play Order

Albatross! ALBATROSS!!

1) Straybow   "Uh... I'm not quite dead, sir!"
2) Julius     They ate Sir Robin's minstrels. And there was much rejoicing.
3) STYOM   "Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcicial aquatic ceremony!"
4) LaFayette   "…and that, my Leige, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped."
5) SG[1] "Zoot!" "No, I am Zoot's identical twin sister, Inge."

Alphabetical means name your founded cities in rough (first letter) alpha order, as an organizational aid. Don't worry about TANSTAAFL coming after Tunafish; don't feel you must rename captured cities.

No Science Wonders (GL, Cope's, Newton's) assures that we will not grossly outpace our competitors. The size of continents should be a limit to early expansion as well.

No City Bribing (modified) applies to core AI cities. The exception: occasional loner AI city (from wandering Settlers the AI likes to send out, or Adv Tribe, etc) far from their core is fair game. Invasion actions shall be limited to one (1) attempt to sabotage walls (or another improvement) per city and unlimited production sabotage attempts.

[Straybow]

LaFayette, Darwin is a better deal than that. Food caravans for wonder production are generally produced in cities that have no open commodity slots, so no trade revenue or beaker bonus is lost.

Git, Nice job taking Tlatelolco and SoL. Glad you finally got to found some Git cities. At this rate of 5 cities per letter LaFayette, STYOM, and Straybow are outta luck unless we sleaze.

I still say Fundi victory is shooting fish in a barrel. Ho-hum.

[Scouse Gits]

Fundy - what Fundy?

SG[1]

[Straybow]

High Priest Chubby?

Wadja do, run sci down to zero while Fundi then swap back to Dem and restart research on Fridge after getting SoL?

[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…

[Julius Brenzaida]

Two questions

What was that "refrigeration" incident

Whose turn is it to play

[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]

[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]

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]

[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

[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...

[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]

[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