Lightning Strikes!

[Thoth]

quote: Originally posted by Roman on 03-03-2001 03:44 PM The game has now been sent to Thoth, Julius and Kcbob.

Game recieved, I'll have a go at it shortly.

Komrade Thoth.

[Thoth]

Sorry for the delay in playing my turns....a couple too many glasses of "Chateau de Beaver Dam" last night.


1320: After a brief period of political infighting, a new leader takes the helm: Komrade Thoth.

1360: Our scientists discover the secrets of Steam Engine. We begin reasearch on Railroad. Little Bighorn begins to build The Effiel Tower in the expectation that a fellow named Darwin will soon wish to make a Voyage.

1380: Salzburg founded.

1400: Bergen founded. Chemistry obtained from Germans in exchange for Invention, Seafaring and Navigation.

1420: Trade Steam Engine to Aztecs for Metallurgy.
Caravan from Wood Lake to Tlataleco, Dye, demanded: 144
Spice from Silver Moon to Tenochtitlan: 121
Wool from Stoney lake to Tenochtitlan: 127

Libraries in Bear Paw and Wood Lake completed.

1440: Russians and Aztecs begin Eiffel Tower. Zulus offer us 100g for a peace treaty. Accepted.

The reactionary Aztecs have sneak attacked us.

The progressive scientists of the United Soviet Sioux Republics discover Railroad, Little Bighorn changed to Darwin's voyage.

Our researchers turn their efforts towards Explosives.

The mantle of leadership is passed on. (Rumours of assasinations will likely be denied by the new regime)

[Julius Brenzaida]

Sorry, but Comrade Julius Brenzaidovich needs some time to purge all the traitors. New goulags are being build and new party members are being trained but the country can’t be fully operational until tomorrow Monday at about 1 pm Apolyton Time. I hope you won’t mind or that if you do, you appreciate Siberia in Winter.
More seriously, skip me if you think I delay the game too much.

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Oh Man, when will you understand that your greatness lies in your failure - Goethe

[Julius Brenzaida]

quote: Originally posted by Thoth on 03-04-2001 08:45 AM The mantle of leadership is passed on. (Rumours of assasinations will likely be denied by the new regime)

Don’t worry Thoth, it has all been done the Party’s way. Your name has been erased from every history books and all officials photos have been worked out to erase the very pictures of you. You haven’t been assassinated : you have never existed.

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Oh Man, when will you understand that your greatness lies in your failure - Goethe

[kcbob]

quote: Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida on 03-04-2001 06:07 PM Sorry, but Comrade Julius Brenzaidovich needs some time to purge all the traitors. New goulags are being build and new party members are being trained but the country can’t be fully operational until tomorrow Monday at about 1 pm Apolyton Time. I hope you won’t mind or that if you do, you appreciate Siberia in Winter. More seriously, skip me if you think I delay the game too much.

1 PM tomorrow Apolyton time will work. After all, who are we to argue with someone who can make people disappear as if they've never existed.

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Frodo lives!

[Julius Brenzaida]

1440 AD. Comrade Brenzaidovich declares he only has one goal. To free the world from evil capitalism. Such a noble cause justifies any means. Chivalry is stolen from the Greeks. They declare war. 1460 AD Feudalism stolen from the Russians. All was well planified but all was slow. After 4 turns nothing else had happened. Then on the very last moment (1510 AD that is) we got sneak attacked by the Zulus, were raided by Barbarians near Salamis – the city will be lost next turn – and then learned that Zulus had discovered Conscription. On the positive side, we discovered Explosives the same year and as science is only a tool for the power of freedom we went for direction. A Zulu catapult was destroyed. Mpondo was captured by a diplomat. It was a bit expensive, but Propaganda always pays in the end. Everybody now knows nobody should dare to sneak attack us. What’s more still on the same last turn, 3 caravans arrived in Tenochlitan, filling back the coffers. The city of Lost Island was also founded. What a last turn !

[Julius Brenzaida]

Game sent to Scouse Gits, with copy to Ribannah and Kcbob. Sorry for the little delay. It was 2 pm, but Siberian wind is really cold.
BTW, I don’t recall who wrote it but I love this line : “We do not move and do not speak. We do not think and do not exist”. Was it a Soviet poet who wrote it ?

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Oh Man, when will you understand that your greatness lies in your failure - Goethe

[Scouse Gits]

Game received - will finish my turns later today.

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SG(2)

[Scouse Gits]

1520 - The world looks purple.
At the GITtysburg Address SG2 promised the masses Darwin's Voyage as well as the wonders of a modern/railroaded/industrialised nation whilst crushing the bourgeois enemies of the people .. .. crowd went to sleep ...
As predicted by Comrade Juliusovich the city of Salamis fell to barb crusaders.
Copper to Zimbabwe 94g
1530 - Aztec diplomat killed by patrol near Prague; Gems to Munich 108g
1540 - Leadership discovered & Conscription pinched from Aztecs in Bapedi
Gems to Bapedi 36g; Gold to Hlobane 44g; Naval patrol kills Zulu diplomat
1550 - DARWIN - Industrialisation + The Corporation
Aztecs become a Democracy; Gems to Cologne 132g; Wine to Teotihuacan 105g; Wine to Isandhlwana 132g
Gave Germans Railroad/Industrialisation for Maps and Medicine Bribe Salamis from Barbs for 52g; Ironclad blasts Hlobane which falls. (153g)
1560 - Coal to Leipzig 230g.
1570 - Tactics - Magnetism next research goal; Intombe falls to the new Cavalry Regiment (119g) - Zulus give 250g for Cease Fire.
1580 - Bapedi (Aztec) falls (178g) to Ironclad/Cavalry.
With several cities "Xinning" tech rate is 3. It's time for Ribannah to lead the Presidium.
(Game sent Ribannah, copies to kcbob, Dave, and SG[1])

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SG(2)
[This message has been edited by Scouse Gits (edited March 07, 2001).]

[Ribannah]

I played only 5 turns, but a lot happened in a mere 50 years. The Sioux rule the seven seas!

1580 AD Changed Granary in Little Bighorn to Harbor, sold Hlobane Aqueduct
1590 AD built 1 each of Harbor, Library, Diplomat, Engineers, Riflemen, Cavalry, Alpine Troops, Dye, Silver, Spice, killed Barb Crusaders
----- The Sioux nation has more than 5 million citizens!!
1600 AD built 1 Harbor and 1 Granary , killed Aztec Cannon and Barb Dragoons
----- Killdeer Gold to Zimbabwe (d,258), founded Ironfist
----- The brave Sioux Cavalry add Isandhlwana to the empire (136 gold)
----- Aztecs offer Cease Fire, we refuse
1610 AD Magnetism discovered, now researching Sanitation in preparation of capital growth
----- built 1 Harbor, 3 Granaries , 1 Library, killed 2 Barb Dragoons and 2 Aztec Crusaders
----- Cedar Creek Gold (d,216), Snake Canyon Silver (d,180), Stony lake Gold (d,204), Singing Bird Gold (d,132), Naples Beads (66) all to Zimbabwe
----- Diplomat converts Greek Herakleia to the right faith for 620 gold (get 110 gold back)
----- Founded Free Haven, Darkmoor and Goblinwatch
1620 AD Sanitation discovered, now researching Amphibious Warfare
----- built 1 Granary, 1 Library, 1 Ironclad, 1 Gems and 3 Gold , Moon Temple founded
----- Raging Brook Silk (d,456), Cedar Creek Wool (148), Running Bear Coal (d,315), Morning Rock Wool (144) all to Tenochtitlan
----- Russians discover Communism (who else? ) -> MP expires
----- Greeks demand Gunpowder, we refuse, Cease Fire offer also refused , killed Greek Knights
1630 Amphibious Warfare discovered, now researching Theology
----- built 3 Harbors, 1 Library, a Bank in Little Bighorn, 1 Dip, 1 Coal, 1 Gems, 1 Hides
----- heroic Sioux Cavalry take Ulundi (116 gold into our coffers)
----- made peace with the Russians, got Communism for Tactics (they refused Magnetism )

Before long, the Aztecs and the Greeks will be provinces of the great Sioux nation. Then we will come for the Persians, ha!

Edit: zipped save sent to DaveV and kcbob

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If you have no feet, don't walk on fire
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[DaveV]

Pass. I was hoping to have some time to play the game last night, but didn't. Tonight is not looking any better. Give 'em what for, kcbob!

[kcbob]

Thanks for the heads up, DaveV. I'll get on it tonight.

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Frodo lives!

[John-SJ]

SG: "1580 - Bapedi (Aztec) falls (178g) to Ironclad/Cavalry.
With several cities "Xinning" tech rate is 3. It's time for Ribannah to lead the Presidium."

OK, I gotta ask, what is "xinning"?

John-SJ

[Scouse Gits]

'Xinning' is the term we use to denote following the 'Size 5 Strategy' expounded by Xin Yu (hence the name) in which every worker in a city of size 5 (or greater) is converted to a specialist - although this leads to much hunger as long as there is a single sheaf in the food box no loss of population occurs so on the next turn sufficient workers are returned to the fields to put a few sheaves in the box and the process repeated - at the expense of a few turns of loss of growth some remarkable scientific advances can be achieved ...
See also a related thread by La Fayette called 'SSC = Starving Silicon City' which IMHO did not recieve half as much attention as it deserved.

Good civin'

[edit to correctly accredit La Fayette]
Scouse Git[1]

"Staring at your screen in horror and disbelief when you open a saved game is one of the fun things of a succession game " - Hueij
"The Great Library must be built!"
"A short cut has to be challenging,
were it not so it would be 'the way'." - Paul Craven
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[John-SJ]

I got the save game from kcbob, I'm surprised he hasn't posted yet. Oh well, I will play this turn tomorrow morning.

BTW SG, thanks for answering. I remember reading about the pop 5 strategy, guess I didn't realize it had been imortalized with a name. Thanks also for the links!

John-SJ

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