New ToT Succession game

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Thoth
Just a quick update:

I'm working away at my turns, should have a save file and log to post by tonight.

*COUGH* *COUGH*

Update please Thoth?

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

OK then...

Thoth... if you can see this post what you have tonight please. Not to be a hard*ss about this, but it's been several days now. Time to pass it on.

Julius you are next - please play over the weekend if possible. If you are caught up in the Sticky Mouse Rep game, please say so and LDiCesare can jump in.

Let's keep it moving folks... rule of thumb is to play as many turns as you can over 4 days and then upload your save.


reposted:
1. STYOM
2. Thoth
3. Julius Brenzaida - next to play
4. LDiCesare
5. newcomers still welcome

[Julius Brenzaida]

As I have the sticky mouse on hand and I was already forgetting the amnesic one, I won't be able to play this one until, I think, next monday
It should leave some more time for Thot
Otherwise, if DiCaesare want to go ahead of me, I don't see no problem, as long as he leaves me some units to kill

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

OK, LDiCesare, you're up (if you can play this weekend), otherwise Julius can go on Monday.

Please use the 1859 save on the last page if Thoth doesn't post a save in the next few hours.

[Thoth]

My deepest apologies for not posting sooner. Life has gotten very busy of late, and I fear I must bow out of this game. I won't have any free time for the next couple of weeks, so best of luck with the endgame.

[LDiCesare]

OK then. I will download and play after I get some sleep. Should be posted within 24hours.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Sorry to hear that, Thoth... let us know if your time opens up and you can rejoin

[LDiCesare]

1859 - switched 2 temple productions to aqueduct and marketplace. We are in Fundy!
1860 - Tara plundered 43 gold. Sunk boat + 3 units near Tabriz. Bribed Nishapur + 1 engineer for 1600 gold (we have 11000+). Karakorum taken, Mongol government flees to Ormuz. Bought an airport in Kells so we can send troops from there to useful places faster.
1861 - 2 barb leaders in Rising Sun for 300 gold, city retaken and cleared. More airports rushed. Airport = veteran fighters! Same as clads but with 10 move! Kashgar taken. Mongols ask for Advanced Flight !
1862 - Ormuz taken. Mongol mainland is now ours. Llanelli + 1 settler for 196 gold. I wish I had paratroops but I guess we'd as well do without. Cremona (mongol) taken south of Llanelli (on an island south of Tara). More cash founded. Nowhere found in a hut. Trying to spend money on some buildings and rushbuying a few units to attack mongol cities.
1863 - Mongol capital moved to Shangtu, near Cremona... Shangtu taken. Abergavenny taken. Quinsay taken.
1864 - Nothing of interest. Preparing bombing + assault of south Mongolia.
1865 - Khanbalyk taken. Kerman taken.
1866 - Nuclear fission found... Where do the beakers come from? Amphibious warfare researched. Well, given the research rate, teh game will be over before. Kabul taken. Cunaxa taken. Sighted celt settler and fortifications in a far north island. There must be a city around there. Iona taken.
1867 - Illauntanig bribed for 720 gold. Naples taken. Khorasan bribed for 345 gold. Celts and mongols share a big continent on which we have footholds south and north. It is near the Aztecs, too.
1868 - Basra taken. Aberyswyth taken. Shining Sun founded. Issus taken. Turin taken. Cork taken.
1869 - Caerphily bribed. Swansea taken.
1870 - Tintagel taken. Llangollen taken. Ibabanago raised.

Celts have only one city left, somewhere in the north. There is an Aefis cruiser not far where it is supposed to be. Check the fortresses.
Mongols have one city left, which should fall within 2 turns as lots of tanks, a cavalry, a spy, howitzers rush towards it, supported by 2 ships which bombard its defenders into dust.
Aztecs have only one city left too, but that is no great news.
We have a few troops in zulu territory. Once a city is conquered, our huge treasury (27160 gold) should allow airport then one bomber per turn thus easy conquest. Another fleet with very few troops but lots of planes is on its way too. Beware, don't lose the scouting bombers, move them home to the carrier first. Other land transports are on their way a little bit everywhere on the globe. Most of the troops on the west front (Mongols/Celts/Aztecs) are pretty far from the rest, but maybe they can sail on to catch vikings and/or english. We have an empty transport near the vikings. It is unfortunate that I lost the diplomat aboard to the zulus en route near Swazi. Nowhere is the city nearest to the operations, but it is not a harbor and it is still pretty far away. An engineer is nearby though.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Nice work on 3 1/2 hours sleep LDiCesare

[LDiCesare]

Well, actually I didn't sleep. I was afraid I could forget the game this morning.
I think it might have been a better idea to research nuclear power to increase ship speed. I also wanted to nail one civ before I stopped, but it would have been too long.
Julius, there are still a few units to kill, but mostly the war will be with the zulus. I somehow feel the Aztecs won't prove to be a great challenge. You will have to tidy up all the transports that are scattered in the western seas. Some were used to explore, most as ship chains which were disrupted as I realized I was going to gonquer an island before the ships would reach it so they changed route... It needs some tidying up, but I didn't feel like I could do it yesterday... uh... this morning.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Julius, are you still able to go in for the kill this week?
I know you said Monday but there are no downloads yet

Nice work LDiCesare (from the log; as mentioned I didn't download). Don't worry about the ship chains - at this stage of the game it's probably easier to buy the units at the front lines, rather than build then and send them on an unending ship chain... by the time the chain reaches the front, the front has moved and we need to add ships to the chain! Another gigamap hazard.

This might be a good time to build Apollo to find those tiny lost cities.

[Julius Brenzaida]

I've finished yesterday the Sticky Mouse one and I have just downloaded this one
My "killing" turns will be played this week

[Julius Brenzaida]

A quick update :
I am slowly playing.
I will post what I have been able to play this sunday
The war is going very well

[LDiCesare]

Go ahead, Julius, find those pesky celts, and show the zulus who is the mightiest civ!

[Julius Brenzaida]

1871 ad. We switch science high. Nuclear power and its movement bonus for our ships could be a real boost. Combined Weapons could we welcome too. No time to stop science yet. Trade Heaven founded around 1 spice and 3 silks. Many transports are assembled with many weapons. I have the feeling we won’t use them all as the ennemy civs look much weaker than us. The real question is how fast we can reach them.
1872 ad. Apollo Program. We now see the whole map. As we have some moves to do before getting to the ennemy, I decide to trust the “go to” command a lot, before going mad. Even this way it should take about an hour for a turn ! We capture Technochlitan and the Aztecs are no more. We capture Cannae and the Mongols are no more. We capture Ngome.
1873 ad. We capture Mpondo …