Succession Game - The Sticky Mouse Academy Strikes Back

[-Jrabbit]

Thanks, [1]. We really just wanted to know when. And frankly, it sounds as if you could uw\se a little civtime -- complete with hidden Wine specials.

Oh, and the Friday Night Strategic Gaming Society salutes your timing and welcomes you back to the group.

Hang in there, and cheers!

[Scouse Gits]

Straybow ... it's no use having 4 engineers on the same tile changing terrain! To do this quickly you must use Xin's method of no more than two working at a time and rotating their work schedule.

1853 = Konigsberg reduced by BB bombardment and taken for 425g - four partisans ethnically cleansed - Fundamentalism (SG[1] quickly checks the Oedo table - snatched from his hand by SG(2)); Our spy establishes an Embassy with the Brits and then buys Norwich for 89g - 25g and an Engineer with Genetic Engineering; Hides, One Wonders-Byblos: 318g;

The Grand Plan has been formulated (and we're only on bottle one!):
The Institute will be refounded on the island to the North, this and the other two island colonies will produce soft fluffy armours for the removal of the chinese coastal cities. Meanwhilst... the home continent will concentrate upon Superhighways (the odd airport) and freights. Und! on ze exGerman continent a task force to teach the nasty Fundamentalist Celts a serious lesson - Tactics 101 - do not leave your capital without an active Wonder when the Gits are on the game!!!

1853 bis = Gerry Ferry founded (5 squares from ByeMike); Much rushing and adjusting to conform with the Grand Plan;
1854 = Silk, BachtonDef-NoLighthouse. 82g; SG[1] insists on the founding of WhatOracle on the only remaining square of our Holy Landmass; Hides, Frankfurt-Onewonders, 77g; Beads, Hambourg-OneWonders, 82g; Gold, Heidelburg-OneWonders, 101g;
1855 = The Institute re-founded;
1856 = Silver, Keinkoloss-Giza, 470g; Spice, OneWonders-Byblos, 322g; Nuremburg reduced by BB bombardment and captured by a Musketeer, 412g plundered!; Edo bought for 774g, 191g back with Dip, Engineer & 4 troops and several white goods...;
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1857 = Peace with Germans...as they only have one city with an active wonder there's not much point in war. Silk to Thebes from One Wonders 1104g Marcono - Pi-Ramesses Silver 434g, Wool to Thebes 124g, Salt to Pi-Ramesses 190g, Durrow captured + Theology 256g in plunder.

1858 = Rocketry System of Airports building to connect the remote corners of our Glorious Union of The People.

1859 = CoalGold to One Wonders 205/100g. Tsingtao captured 233g plundered. The Chinese find it hard to wage war in a Democracy and revolt to a Republic! Slight problem with the Berlin by-pass...they have partisans blocking my freight trains ...hence the founding of Without KRC
Tatung bought for 268g (50g back)

1860 = Germans now choose Despotism and now war! Freight to Byblos 174g x 2, 172g x 2, 95g, 72g

1861 = Chinese + Celts develop Amphibious Warfare. Cease Fire with Chinese; Spice to Rampant Cancer 440g. Dye to One Wonders 56g;

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1862 - The fall of Cardiff; Hides to Thebes 147g, 180g, 155g & Gold 116g; (2) over-rules [1]'s natural urge to go Fundy and "Kill the B*ggars" - AGAIN!
1863 - The Utter Destruction of Berlin - the Germans are no more; Armagh (170g);
1864 - Wine - No Wonders, 91g;
1865 - Combined Arms next is Robotics; Beads = No Wonders, 334g; Canton falls (with two thirds of the Chinese navy) for 341g; Silver - NotThe Gardens, 77g;

Enjoy....

[Straybow]

Humbly returning to The Institute to scrub floors and study Xin Engr mgmt…
Hey, you could've left a couple Engrs on the job! Hambourg still isn't growing. For that matter where did 10+ Engrs go, with only 4 cities built?

Whoa, 12 airports already!

[Vlad Antlerkov]

IIRC, I'm next up.

Got the save, will play soon.

[Scouse Gits]

Go get 'em Vlad ! Beware of the Celtic Navy

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SG(2)

[Hydey]

Impale them all Vlad.

[Scouse Gits]

The Celts have a power base that rivals our own - and, being in Fundy, lots of cash -- I humbly suggest that their teeth be extracted forcibly ...

As will have ben noted we have avoided Space Flight and Nuclear Fission like the plague!! There is no way we can protect all our far flung Empire from Tech theft - and it will be damn hard to stop the AI from building Manhatten once they get the bit between their teeth ...

SG[1]

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Should have seen this one coming

My apologies, but I won't be able to play. Some stuff came up between Saturday and Monday (the time when I had intended to play). Since I'm back in school, playing time is rather limited for me, so I feel it'd be best for everyone if I passed. I'd rather not delay the game any further (since the next time I could play is Sunday).

IIRC, Lafayette is up next, so... go ahead.

[Hydey]

for Vlad

[Scouse Gits]

Monsieur La Fayette ... The Sticky Mouse Academy awaits your leadership

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SG(2)

[La Fayette]

where are we going?

Ready,...
but I don't really understand what we are doing.
Are we planning to conquer the world or are we planning to launch a SS?
Please, tell me before I start messing around

[-Jrabbit]

Well, my play has been predicated on getting to AC, but the lack of WoW-building has led us to explore. And with exploration comes opportunities...

Seriously, I vote we get to Apollo and go to the stars. we've been building the production capability and tech lead, but it seems that eliminating competition along the way has become a fun part of the trip.

Question for recent players -- We eliminated Berlin and IIRC Konigsberg, both of which had WoWs. Presumably, they were wiped out, not captured (since that would be against the Rules of the Sticky Mouse Academy!).

Did we starve/poison them down to Pop=1, or what?

[Scouse Gits]

La Fayette

During our turns we thought that the AI had become a little too powerful so we decided on a warlike course before reaching the spaceship stage.

Unless we wish to destroy all the AI cities with wonders to nothing, a spaceship is perhaps a quicker option.

You have the choice

-Jrabbit

Berlin was utterly destroyed and rebuilt on the same site. Konigsberg was taken after Automobile had made Leo's redundant. The capture of cities with wonders which have expired is allowed as there is no extra gain.

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SG(2)

[Scouse Gits]

Sorry about that, Vlad

SG[1]

[-Jrabbit]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
The capture of cities with wonders which have expired is allowed as there is no extra gain.
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SG(2)

...except the +25 pts to our civ score...