RAH Rules: The Continuing Evolution

[War4ever]

i wanted to add something to the rules......

Incessant whining is a rule.......

for instance, (we will use Ming as an example here )

if you pop a hut in the first couple of turns while surrounded by desert, its important for you to let everyone in the game know, just how bad your position is....

ie "This blows!" "Arrrrrrrrrrgggggg" is also appropriate.

it may get you a sympathy restart........

If you lose your second settler to barbs or your second city for that matter, or are just pissed that your rival (War4ever) always gets a mounted unit like a chariot, the appropriate response is :

"commmmme oooooooooooooon !" of course these responses are fine typed in kings chat, but are far more effective over icq phone

[rah]

But I will say that I have no sympathy for people that lose their second settler to barbs by opening a hut. They know what the risk is and if they take it, so be it.
(I'll only consider doing it if I think I've fallen far behind and it's time to take some risks, but if you fall behind that fast, there's something wrong) Unless it's because War4 got multiple 2x movement units from huts, and a few non-settlers.

[Ming]

Hmmm... Well War4ever... you seem to have gotten it just about right. However, you have missed some of the classics...

GOD... WHAT DOES A F*CKING HUT LOOK LIKE!!!!!!!!!!

Notice the all capital letter approach.

Also, the SECOND the opening map is shown to you, you must respond.

This SUCKS... no specials.. no huts, no rivers, no production, NO NOTHING... This REALLY BLOWS!!!!!!

And then you really missed my traditional all purpose whine...

I CAN'T CATCH A F*CKING BREAK... I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS.

Not that these whines actually do any real good, but it's important that you set the stage properly hoping that it might do you some good down the road when you actually meet somebody.

Oh. and War...
*I know have to clean my keyboard off from the spit up coffee*

[gonzo_for_civ]

Hmm...playing a rah game now

And yep..I've seen all the above listed whines(even invented a few myself)

I'm going for more of a sympathy approach though..as i know my ass is doomed to be kicked repeatedly

[War4ever]

lol , the b1tch fest was on huge last night, first by partypooper ming.....then by partypooper War.....

with the ferrets just plugging along, and Gonzo, going Gonzo with kings chat

[Ming]

Yes... Gonzo was FAR more chatty than we usually are. It was almost like playing with ICQ phone on

[War4ever]

i am not sure the last time i heard play by play on kings chat

how did the game turn out btw

[Ming]

Rah had a good lead when it ended... I was in a comfortable second place on the power graph... but totally pinned in. Even ships wouldn't have helped, because I was land locked with no access to a real ocean. Gonzo had his city count up there, but was down on the power graph and down on techs.

Last night... Rah slaughtered them... Even though he got off to a VERY SLOW start, he ended up with about 2/3 or the world. It was really strange, he kept sending units out, and was still finding huts... It seems like if either of the remaining players had built some ships early, it would have ended up really different. Instead, they gave Rah most of the world.

I look forward to your rematch with FF

[gonzo_for_civ]

i am not sure the last time i heard play by play on kings chat

how did the game turn out btw

It's a shame you got your ass kicked so fast..you could've seen the rest of it too

Last night... Rah slaughtered them... Even though he got off to a VERY SLOW start, he ended up with about 2/3 or the world. It was really strange, he kept sending units out, and was still finding huts... It seems like if either of the remaining players had built some ships early, it would have ended up really different. Instead, they gave Rah most of the world.

He got his own damn continent!! There was a TINY land bridge that was about 1/4 of the map away from me and right next to the mongols and FF, there was no way to go that way. I was so behind in tech at that point and I needed knights and pikeman to fend off the technologically superior FF, there was no way i was going to research mapmaking and build triremes to try and gain a foothold on a continent already held by rah whilst trying to continue to expand on my home continent while fending off the blue barbarian backstabbers

So yes, FF kicked Wars ass...I killed a lot of FF troops but he destroyed 1 city, and rah beat us all considering he only maybe lost 2 troops to us total.

[War4ever]

The funny things is FF didn't really kick my ass, i conceded most of the cities to him.......and as i predicted to him, Rah would conquer the board, despite his treachery......

oh well, FF and i patched things up......no hard feelings.....

its too bad FF and i were so close together, the land there was primo, he had the trade, i had none, i guss rich troops fight better than poor ones

[gonzo_for_civ]

It's because his were diseased...and you're too poor to actually afford immunizations so yours got sick with those nasty european diseases and......oops wrong war

[War4ever]

lol that excuse works for me

[rah]

Yes, war's soldiers have been subpar this weekend. They couldn't even finish off a lone horse on Thursday night.

Good to hear no one took it personal, but the rematch should be entertaining.

[Ming]

Originally posted by gonzo_for_civ there was no way i was going to research mapmaking and build triremes to try and gain a foothold on a continent already held by rah

Most of it was still empty at the end of the game. Some great land was available for you if you had built one ship... one settler... and one defending unit. A small effort by you would have been worth as much land as you already. A stategic mistake on your part

[War4ever]

i am telling you the civ gods were against me....i have decided to change strategies again......

i will be back with a vengence