"Nothin' Fancy" Sxn Game

[Scouse Gits]

I make it DaveV or SG(2) next - this right?

In either case I feel (quite) sorry for the AI

SG[1]

[Straybow]

Play order

Since DaveV has not made an appearance:

Straybow
SCG
SG[1]
DaveV (has a life)
STYOM
La Fayette
SG(2)

And, uh, thanks fer the tribute! Please send checks to:

[Straybow]

Rodentian rumblings from the back bench...

Fundies

…we have lowered ourselves from Poor to Atrocious in the eyes of our trading partners.

Give 'em money. Give 'em tech. We aren't worried they can catch us. Whatever it takes to raise our overall rep and our standing with friends. Losing a transport with a couple freights in it could be worse than what it costs to keep them friendly.

[SCG]

Re: Play order

Originally posted by Straybow
Since DaveV has not made an appearance:

Straybow
SCG
SG[1]
DaveV (has a life)
STYOM
La Fayette
SG(2)

I know i haven't been the most prompt of late in posting the results of my turns, but its been over a week (since ides of march) since STYOM finished his rounds, with no-one anouncing they were going to play next. DaveV hasn't posted in over 2 weeks in any forum here, so perhaps La Fayette or SG(2) might want to play?

[Scouse Gits]

I have the save and started work.

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SG(2)

[Scouse Gits]

Newsflash
Hawks win Election ... President Gittwo orders an immediate response to the five nations who have declared war.
1812 - Sioux Battleship sinks Cruiser. Two Cruise Missiles sink Battleship.
Trondheim captured 538g plundered
Uppsala captured 114 plundered. Doves win motion for Cease-Fire with Vikings
Sapporo captured 41 plundered
Kildeer captured 174 plundered
Roskilde captured 196 plundered
Aarhus liberated 134 plundered (Viking cease-Fire expires )
Viborg liberated 85 plundered
The Udal liberated 99 plundered ... we are only at war with four civs now

...........the campaign continues

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SG(2)

[Straybow]

I pity the fool who defies a Git

[Straybow]

Git(2),

1. How was the wedding?
2. How's the hangover coming?
3. Hair of the dog?
4. How's the campaign going?

Inquiring minds want to know!

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Straybow
SCG
SG[1] (oblivious)
DaveV (has a life)
STYOM
La Fayette
SG(2)

[Scouse Gits]

1) The wedding was great - the society event of the year

2) I had too many duties to perform to get really legless - but seemed to be drinking steadily for 12 hours

3) Hair of the dog - always a good cure.

4) Campaign is going well ... I have just come here to see how many turns must be played. At present I am in AI taming mood Must remember to start a spaceship. We went Fundy in 1820 and have a celebrating empire with 30% Lux and 70% Tax. Will post a log shortly.

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SG(2)

[Scouse Gits]

Newsflash
Hawks win Election ... President Gittwo orders an immediate response to the five nations who have declared war.

1812 - Sioux Battleship sinks Cruiser. Two Cruise Missiles sink Battleship.
Trondheim captured 538 plundered
Uppsala captured 114 plundered. Doves win motion for Cease-Fire with Vikings
Sapporo captured 41 plundered
Kildeer captured 174 plundered
Roskilde captured 196 plundered
Aarhus liberated 134 plundered
Viborg liberated 85 plundered
The Udal liberated 99 plundered ... we are only at war with four civs now
Our home continent is cleared of foreigners.
Oil to Madrid 231; Dye to Atlanta/Chicago 652/256;

1814 - Fusion Power
Sioux View founded; Cloth to Bilbao 337g
Bear Paw destroyed 38 plundered
Japanese Battleship sunk south of Sapporo

1816 - Sioux are now a Republic!
Dye to Madrid 77 (Unblocking Madrid's supply); Dye to Bilbao 64 (unblocking Bilbao's supply)
Purple Haven founded on Sioux's continent;
Spy starts to gather intelligence about Sioux. Slim Butts supports their navy ... that's the target! (Four Destroyers, 1 Sub, 1 Battleship and a transport)
Slim Butts captured 452 plundered; Hides to Little Bighorn 236;

1818 - Stealth - Start selling Universities and Libraries;
Little Bighorn + SoL captured, 494 plundered;
Wounded Knee bribed for 844, 156 plundered
Cedar Creek + Adam Smith captured, 80 plundered
Spice to Bilbao/Chicago 1010/392g; Copper to Kaupang 112;

1820 - Apollo Program ... useful for seeing where to find the enemy
Revolution to Fundamentalism
Izumo captured 169 plundered;
Yokohama 25 plundered;
Bizen bribed for 300 - 38 plundered 183 plundered;
Stony Lake captured - 138 plundered
Oil to Chicago 304; Gold to Valencia 290;

1822 - Sevastopol captured 145 plundered;
Sverdovsk bribed for 655; 126 plundered
Silk to Philadelphia 248; Wine to Chicago 163; Oil to Washington/Bilbao 453/164
Eastern View founded as a ferry port for English

1824 - English Ironclad sinks transport and 2 Freights
Three Forks bribed for 352 - 240 plundered; Sioux destroyed
Port England founded on three square island half way to London. (8 tiles away from Eastern View.) Cuba founded next door which has the other whale.
Dye to London 232; Dye to Boston 868; Spice to Bilbao 420;
Novgorod captured (Japanese) 109 plundered;
Osaka captured 177 plundered;

1826 - Americans begin Spaceship; They want Superconductor ... we say "dream on" so Alliance is cancelled.
Kagoshima captured - 129 plundered; 150 for Barb King (with Stealth Fighter )
Yakutsk captured - 88 plundered;
Kiev captured - 145 plundered;
Moscow captured - (Govt. escapes to St. Petersburgh) 74 plundered
London - 211 plundered
York bribed for 1314 - 224 plundered ... with the Eiffel Tower at last our reputation improves!
Hastings captured - 112 plundered
Nottingham captured - 162 plundered
Canterbury captured - 90 plundered
Silk to Washington 384; Copper to Boston 362; Coal to Seville 159; Dye to York 552; Dye to Nottingham 206;

1828 - Uranium to Bilbao 667; Gold to Valencia 422; Silk to Saragossa 411; Gems to Salamanca 268; Gold to Valencia 482; Coal to Philadelphia 254; Vladivostock captured 10 plundered

8 and a bit turns seems about right.

Notes for the next player. It will be safe to build the Spaceship now and should be possible in one turn. There are two freight stores. One just south of Malaga with (food) and the second is east of Madrid - commodity freights.

61 Cities ... all but a few celebrating with Tax @ 70% and Lux @ 30%
Population 40m
Treasury = 10,171
Income = 3179 - Expenditure = 258

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SG(2)

[Straybow]

Ah, the Golden Iberian Empire covers the globe!
Looks great except for Fundies
Eehcchh, leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
That, and founding two cities on a 3 tile island.

[La Fayette]

SG(2)
You haven't left much left, have you ?

... well, this is the common fate of all succession games we played recently.

What happens with the 'silly rules' remains to be seen

[Scouse Gits]

Originally posted by Straybow
Looks great except for Fundies
Eehcchh, leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
That, and founding two cities on a 3 tile island.

Towards the end of this kind of game city placement isn't about the perfect four special site. Cities are founded for strategic reasons only. In this case the island was eight tiles away from home. The rail link to its partner city on the same island was in para-drop range of the bad guys. So troops could be built on the home continent and transported to the front line without the risk of the enemy navy sinking elements of a ship chain. Tell me a better way and I'll do it.

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SG(2)

[Straybow]

Well, Mr Smartypants, you can paradrop from an airfield. Then you could use the Engr to build a canal city.

[Scouse Gits]

I built 2 canal cities on that island. Well sort of... Why do you complain about Fundies? You placed no government restrictions on the game ... I seem to remember a bulldozer saying "Nothin' Fancy" and that's what you got.

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SG(2)