A Challange.

[arii]

It looks like we have worked out a nice compromise. I'm looking forward to play 3 great players tomorrow.

[markusf]

I would like crustation to play, if war is not going to play.


Also can we go bloodlust. If we are going to go all that way I would like to use all those units in some kind of war. Its been so long since i used stealth fighters and bombers!

[iadkins]

I chatted to markus about bloodlust - we'll give it a miss But any game can become bloodlust by nature of the players!
I'm happy for it to be a 5 way if Crusty's free.
We aim to start as soon after 6pm PST as possible on Tuesday evening; 1pm Aust EDT.

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[finbar]

So who's actually in the game? I'm available.

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[arii]

I prefere to leave the space ship option open since it might not be possible to take out some well defended cities.
I guess if 1 has 2 settlers or 4 specials in his initial squarre we just keep going; luck of the draw (since no host advantage).

[iadkins]

CONFIRMED:
arii
markus
THE DEITY
finbar
Crusty

Starts in one hour. Crusty preparing to host if necessary with a saved file with no host techs.... OK?


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[iadkins]

Great first session with nearly 5 hours play and only one connect hicough.
The great DEITIANS (Americans) lead most of the way with a handy lead in the pg at the close of session.
markus of the Gypos was close behind but with many more cities.
arii of the Romans has the most cities and will be a force to reckon with. Especially when you consider he has the Hanging Gardens Wonder.
Crusty of the Germans is my annoying neighbour who never trades maps and is very picky about trading techs. God he bugs me
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THE DEITY started out with a small tribe in a desert wilderness. Just about every second land sq was desert! A few tiny river systems were discovered and settlements gradually began to flourish.
One interesting thing was the near certainty of losing the prize city of NEWKE to the Barbs. In fact after the very strong Barb archer knocked out our Horse and Phalanx on the city perimeter it looked like we were toast So the settler which that city was supporting was going to be lost too. A decision was made to immediately found a new city on the land where it stood. Yep you guessed it - DESERT!! But you know what? We never lost NEWKE at all with a quick build on a Horse from DEITICITY coming to the rescue on the next turn and killing the Archers with only 2/3 strength. A nice break but we now have a stupid city on a deseret square that can't get much over size 3 in pop

Common borders with Pesky, err I mean Crusty, have also been agreed.
And a peace treaty exists with both him and markus.
No sign of any other civ yet but there must be something across those oceans? Primitives probably

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[Crustacian]

The land appears hostile all around, yes even the neighbors are a bit edgy. The strange creatures called Yankee Dieters have founded a little village in haste out in the desert, which delighted a band of red traveling salesmen in the area to think a circus was being erected spontainiously for their enjoyment. Even so they did at least offer to give us the secret of kite making in trade for monotheism.
We were after these salesmen, due to loosing a few unwary residents who drank some elixer they were selling ....oh yeah, and to um "warn" the Pale Blue Folk of this scam. hehe.
(& claim 100 golde in reward)
The very quiet Gypos have been allowed a border province as a good will gesture, plus we can keep an eye on them and their strange
doings. They have wild chariot riders who dart out all at once then park in the woods. It must be some cultish thing, or maybe just the result of a poor diet too high in fiber, in which case they should see the Yankee Deiters and their new city of Desert.
All the while we the Ger-men Folk try to promote peace, lawful conduct, and toilettes, while at the same time maintaining some vestage of beer making purity in this crazy landscape devoid of order and short on good hops.


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The journey itself is the thing~Odysseus

[arii]

We the romans have encontered difficulties in the early game. First they found themselves in a relatively small island isolated from the others. Monarchy was only reached recently due to techs found in hutts (3-non monarchy), the apropriate tech not being offered (3 times)and no other civs to trade with. Also we were engaged in a war against invincible barbs (7 units lost) and 3 cities were lost. But the romans are a brave people and those troubles are now put behind. The romans will be catching up fast.

[finbar]

1. Housekeeping department. Set to resume same time next week? That's 1pm Wednesday (Oz time), which translates to 6pm Tuesday (US Pacific) and 9pm (US East Coast). God save us when we lose Daylight Saving here in a few weeks. Going to have to learn a whole new lot of calculations!

2. Public posturing department. Lobby Lloyd - Oz's answer to Eric Clapton in that most fabulous decade, the 60s - wasn't quick enough on the mouse to select his favorite Yellow colour and thus was stuck with the Mustard colour. Not only does it clash horribly with the desktop colour scheme, but who wants a condiment for a National colour? Good grief, one of Lobby's early exploring units found a Hot Dog and immediately spread itself all over it.

And it was downhill from there. Lobby discovered he'd been lumped with an island that contained a total of three green shield squares and nothing else but plains, mountains and jungle. Still, never one to be disheartened, Lobby founded his tribe and dubbed them the Coloured Balls, after a shortlived band he led in the 60s, famous for one feedback-choked single entitled Chrome Plated Yabbie, a yabbie being a sort of fresh-water prawn (or shrimp to our foreign friends). A Chrome Plated Yabbie (Shrimp) made sense back in the 60s, but then most things did.

Thus the Coloured Balls battled along, having to build roads and irrigate to achieve any sort of progress, thus slowing expansion, thus slowing everything.

Lately, a meeting with He Who Was Quicker On The Mouse And Grabbed Yellow resulted in a peace treaty. Lobby resisted the urge the break the guy's mouse finger.

Still and all, as Lobby told himself, there's a long way to go. For Lobby himself, in real life, somewhere approaching 60, is still producing indie bands.



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[finbar]

1. Housekeeping department. Set to resume same time next week? That's 1pm Wednesday (Oz time), which translates to 6pm Tuesday (US Pacific) and 9pm (US East Coast). God save us when we lose Daylight Saving here in a few weeks. Going to have to learn a whole new lot of calculations!

2. Public posturing department. Lobby Lloyd - Oz's answer to Eric Clapton in that most fabulous decade, the 60s - wasn't quick enough on the mouse to select his favorite Yellow colour and thus was stuck with the Mustard colour. Not only does it clash horribly with the desktop colour scheme, but who wants a condiment for a National colour? Good grief, one of Lobby's early exploring units found a Hot Dog and immediately spread itself all over it.

And it was downhill from there. Lobby discovered he'd been lumped with an island that contained a total of three green shield squares and nothing else but plains, mountains and jungle. Still, never one to be disheartened, Lobby founded his tribe and dubbed them the Coloured Balls, after a shortlived band he led in the 60s, famous for one feedback-choked single entitled Chrome Plated Yabbie, a yabbie being a sort of fresh-water prawn (or shrimp to our foreign friends). A Chrome Plated Yabbie (Shrimp) made sense back in the 60s, but then most things did.

Thus the Coloured Balls battled along, having to build roads and irrigate to achieve any sort of progress, thus slowing expansion, thus slowing everything.

Lately, a meeting with He Who Was Quicker On The Mouse And Grabbed Yellow resulted in a peace treaty. Lobby resisted the urge to break the guy's mouse finger.

Still and all, as Lobby told himself, there's a long way to go. For Lobby himself, in real life, somewhere approaching 60, is still producing indie bands.



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[markusf]

After the heathen "Pesky" stole my beloved Germans i was forced to play the pitiful "egyptions"

Then after getting off to a terrible start we expanded rapidly until we ran into the pesky heathens. They managed to fluke out and kill a horse.. Shortly there after borders where secured and a infustructure building program was implimented. We then secured the GL and our science rate was greatly increased. Unfortunately we share boarders with colored freaks, pesky heathens, and Spoilt partying Dieties who somehow manage to grow their cities through unnateral acts. All in all we are trapped in a god forsaken land. It is sad to note that just to the north there is a VAST expanse of land which is under no ones control.

[iadkins]

I guess it's all in a rhythm shared by the gypos whose growth mirrors that of THE DEITIANS
Yes I too wouldst have chosen MY beloved German DEITIANS... how badly they fare under the Pesky leadership! No wonder they are desperate to build frivolous happy Wonders for the people are missing their true leader....
who just happens to be a little to the East

I wish to remind THE PESK that the swamp square west of my TINY river system is the North/South border between our nations, as agreed. This line goes continuously North and South and any unsettled land to the East of and inclusive of this border is DEITIAN territory. THE MARK may well take notice of this too...


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[markusf]

We all on for tomorrow night?

[finbar]

I am. Pretty sure Deity is. Hopefully we all are!

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