No Science Succession: Revenge of the Space Luddites

[-Jrabbit]

Absolutely awesome, La Fayette!

Love seeing those payffs jump when the Corp kicks in!

Looks like Obiwan will have some fun, too...

[Bloody Monk]

La Fayette,

Well done!! The Republic Central Bank loves all those delveries

I thought about changing some camels to engineers and then forgot to mention it in the hand-off. I'm glad you caught that. And Women's Sufferage will give us some extra flexibility in dealing with misbehaving AI's.

Monk

[Ben Kenobi]

I'm headed to a conference tonight, that will last the weekend.

If I don't post before 5pm,
please slot someone else in my stead.

[Scouse Gits]

Great turns LF

The SGs sloshed

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by obiwan18
I'm headed to a conference tonight, that will last the weekend.

If I don't post before 5pm,
please slot someone else in my stead.

Well, since no-one seems to have stepped up, I suggest that you play when you get back, obi.

Plus, I didn't exactly jump all over your message about being away, and slot someone in - it's Sunday already.


1. obiwan18
2. SG(2)
3. Hydey
4. Vlad Antlerkov
5. Jrabbit
6. SCG
7. STYOM
8. SG[1]
9. Bloody Monk
10. La Fayette

Play 8 turns, pls.

[Ben Kenobi]

Okey dokey, STYOM:

I thought SG(2) might want to play on the weekend.

I'll play tonight.

[Ben Kenobi]

Look at Empire:

What are we currently building?
Women's Suffrage.
This should really help us to function as a militaristic republic.
We currently have 47 active freights.
Definately a trade empire.

37 turns/tech?


17.85 million people,
5486 gold!
Might want to infiltrate our upcoming enemies.
Once we take over a few cities, we can roll over each
empire in turn.

We can leave a zoo city, and seek alpha centauri.

Rushby everything and press enter.

1720 AD
Research Refrigeration- select Electronics
Rush a few banks and marketplaces.

1730 AD
Smack Sioux caravan.
Subvert Toledo.
Get Leadership.

110 coal to Hlobane
320 gold to Kells
172 gold to Kells
234 gems to Cardiff

Launch Iron Duke 'expedition' to Germans
Continue rushing demanded caravans, as well as food for wonders.

1740
Finish Electronics- select Communism
Sioux land Dragoons, seize Wellington, metallurgy.
Sioux sink transport with ironclad.
They shall pay.
Bribe sioux ironclad
Barbarians revolt in Rourke's Drift.

462 silk to Carmethon
230 cloth to Carmethon
188 salt to Carmethon
Should get Communism next turn.

Plow food freights for Hoover Dam

Next up, Women's Suffrage.
Pounding out the freights here.

1750
Communism start Refining
515 Silver to Cardiff

Begin the blockade of the Mongols, shell Dead buffalo with cruisers, knock down city defenses.
Cruiser shells Three forks, gains veteran status
Massive Barb invasion near Booth

1752
Finish Refining, Select Combustion
Spanish Sneak attack Toledo, destroy musket.
536 Silk to Kells
336 Silk to Cardiff
636 Spice to Carmethon
Bribe Persian IronClad
Attack Celtic IronClad, lose.
Vet Cruiser Shells Three Forks, destroys musket, Engineer.
Food Caravans feed UN in Trevithick.

1754
Finish Combustion-
Democracy not offered.
Select Theology.
200 Coal to Dead Buffalo
168 Wool to Slim Buttes
512 Silk to Kells
504 Silk to Cardiff
3 Forks, wood Lake, Dead Buffalo all under blockade.
Incite Revolt in Bear Paw
Steal Democracy.
Sioux have no operating harbours.
Reinforce Toledo with Spanish units.
Bribe Celtic Crusaders near Big Mound.
UN founded in Trevithick!

We promptly stiff the dues.

1756
Persians sneak attack, kill engineer.
Spanish kill diplomat.
Theology -
No Conscription available.
Research Espionage.
Bribe Big Mound. Steal Theory of Gravity
Cruiser sinks Sioux transport with 2 units aboard.
Dragoons capture Three Forks.
Bribe Spanish dragoons, find city of Salamanca.
Dump oil and Gold caravans into Kells.
Pop hut near poles, 50 gold.
Barbarian king captured for 150 gold

1758
Celts sink one transport with IronClad, attack another, which they fail to sink.
Research Espionage, begin Conscription.
Complete JSBC

Complete Women's Suffrage

Bribe Bactra
Bribe Salamanca
Subvert Hamburg

Dragoons capture Stony Lake
Dump caravans on Celts, half-way to Conscription.
The consul calls for my resignation, and I reluctantly comply.

Note, bribe expedition to Hlobane.
Forces on Spanish border, ready to charge.
Unstable situation in three forks, we may lose some units.
Currently have a treasury of 3298 gold earning over 1000 gold per turn.
12 active caravans available for delivery.
Shipchain to Celtic lands is a huge boon.
Xinning for science down to 3 turns per tech.
Need to techgift Sioux at some point, after they are rendered harmless.
19 techs still needed to beat game.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

So long as we leave a few foreign cities to trade with, and keep collecting the bonuses, I'm happy with a conquest phase

I think next time we should play a harder game... with no Xinning allowed! Looks like we should be able to land by 1850 at worst!

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Play list updated... uh oh, (2) is next... there'll be no AI left to trade with, soon!

1. obiwan18
2. SG(2)
3. Hydey
4. Vlad Antlerkov
5. Jrabbit
6. SCG
7. STYOM
8. SG[1]
9. Bloody Monk
10. La Fayette

Play 8 turns, pls.

[SCG]

looks encouraging with the woman's suffrage, as all cities now will have 0 unhappy people from units abroad. seems a rather militaristic turn there don't want to completely lose sight that this is an AC game Also, i see that we are now starving Arkwright - will be out of food in about 3-4 turns at current rate. Another thought - we have the UN - we can force civs to back off from time to time to protect our transports to reduce the need for all those cruisers out there. And of course bribing coastal cites can do that too

[Ben Kenobi]

Edited the post, because I inverted Combustion-Refining.

Also, Hoover Dam completed 1750.

SCG:

I increased the science to push for espionage and forgot to shift Arkwright.

[Scouse Gits]

STYOM - I have the game ... do you want me to be nice to the AI?

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SG(2)

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
STYOM - I have the game ... do you want me to be nice to the AI?

SG(2)

So long as we can get enough trade bonuses out of the surviving cities to get to AC, I'm happy.

*STYOM shudders at the thought of having to deliver 30 x100g Freight to get each new tech, later on*

[Scouse Gits]

Don't worry STYOM - it's much harder to cut through the AI with Cruisers and Dragoons than with Stealth Fighters and Paratroopers

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SG(2)

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Count me out. This time really.

Two reasons for this:

1) I kinda tarnished whatever good reputation I had left as a Civ II player with my last, um, "performance."

2) Huge term paper in History pending, in addition to the rest of my courseload.

Don't worry, I might get involved with SGs again, though don't count on that until July or thereabouts.

Vlad