AU208: Total Eternal Forever War - Reports and Comments

[CorpusScorpius]

Originally posted by Arrian


......The Americans have a huge fleet of frigates and are bombarding my West coast...........
The Americans and English are DEMOCRACIES! .......

-Arrian

The Americans(regent ptw) are the cream of the crop in every game I have played.(Manifest Destiny?) Are the Americans Frigates blasting everyone else?
The whole world seems to love Democracy!! I think that someone mentioned that in an earlier post. I pesonally believe that unless U are invading the other continents They will not switch Governements

[Theseus]

Originally posted by Aeson
Tried it on Deity with the Ottomans... even got a Settler from the second hut... but no dice.

Boy, does this make me feel better!!!

This thing is a bee-yatch!!

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Got milk? Got Rome?

Finally!! 10 Archers and 2 Spears, and I think I squeaked through by a coupla hps.

This almost feels like a puzzle... now, how do I connect Rome to my core?

The map, whether intentionally or not, is intense... this time, I've used the forest between the starting location and the west coast as the basis for a Spear Maginot Line... seems to be working so far. It forces the MWs onto the hills / mountains, drastically slowing them down.

The southernmost hill, 889 of the start, is fabulous as a forward town... I've just realized how important the hills / mountains will be to move north and take on the Iroq with slowmovers.

If Rome flips, my monitor dies.

[BigDork]

Originally posted by Theseus
If Rome flips, my monitor dies.

I've lost Rome twice now. Damn thing is hard to hold on to.

BigD

[Theseus]

Nasty alexman, trying to entice us to WASTE TIME BUILDING COASTAL TOWNS AND TEMPLES TO GET TO THE WHALES!!!!!

I can't believe it took me so long to understand that Total War is for warmongering... warmongering ONLY!

[CorpusScorpius]

Originally posted by BigDork


I've lost Rome twice now. Damn thing is hard to hold on to.

BigD

BigD how many Attackers are U using to Capture Rome?

[vmxa1]

Theseus what the heck is that army? It has four units at this point in the game? It says 11/11, but 1 vet, 2 regs and whatever the legion is, is more than 11 points? What am I missing?

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by Theseus
I can't believe it took me so long to understand that Total War is for warmongering... warmongering ONLY!

Yes I think this is a trap for any semi warmongers. I tried to be a part time war guy, that is I built some structures in the hope of getting better producton and hold down the disorder. This may be too slow to conquer.

[vmxa1]

Finally met the babs, while I was switching govs.
They landed a Calv and a settler, which I jumped on.
I was moving a settler and pike to fill in another coastal hole and found the babs had just founded a town with a galley in it and a Calv. Took it down and filled the hole.
I got no tech from them as I could not offer them enough. I see a RR where teh town, was a bad sign.
It has been a stream of 2-4 calv, which Rider armies can handle for now. The AI sends them to the same place and I can hit them which cats and then riders.
Rome is out of the game and I have not seen or heard from Iroq, but I know they are about.
Babs are twice my score in first, I am in second. Well only because I only know Babs, England, Iroq and defunct Romans. I am guessing the Americans are way ahead. They have an island city I can see, but no contact.
Not putting in much time today.

[nbarclay]

There's an old saying in Persia: If you're going to cheat a queen, cheat her royally. An English galley approached our shores in 170 AD. For 84 gpt and a world map, Persia procured a world map, 172 Gold, The Wheel, Philosophy, Code of Laws, Map Making, and Ceremonial Burial.

Then I really got greedy. The thought occurred to me that if I changed what tiles I worked, I could boost my income still higher for the fraction of a turn that Queen Elizabeth's auditors visited to see what I could afford to pay. I squeezed out an additional 16 gpt and traded that, plus 28 gold cash, for Horseback Riding and Mysticism. That leaves Currency as the only tech England has that I don't. And best of all, my gold reserves to fuel future research are now up to 1670; I almost caught up with England in tech without having to eat into my gold reserves.

Needless to say, poor Lizzy is not at all happy at being cheated out of 100 gpt. But if that's what it takes to get me back in the tech race...

And if I can invade England with my immortals before they get Feudalism and keep the rest of the world from ever finding out about Persia's, ah, "negotiating practices," so much the better.

[AJ Corp. The FAIR]

Originally posted by BigDork


I've lost Rome twice now. Damn thing is hard to hold on to.

BigD

I've razed Rome and settled the spot myself later on. No worries for flip back then! Defend it ith enough decent units, though.

Shaka

[vulture]

Originally posted by vmxa1
Theseus what the heck is that army? It has four units at this point in the game? It says 11/11, but 1 vet, 2 regs and whatever the legion is, is more than 11 points? What am I missing?

Look carefully and you'll notice that the spearman isn't in the army (it is the only one that has its hp and move listed, and doesn't have 'in army')

[Arrian]

Nor Me,

I am envious. Wow.

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So GPT trades were deemed kosher in this one? I think I did one very early on for something like 6gpt, but never since I noticed Catt's comment about it in the other thread.

-Arrian

[lmtoops]

Originally posted by Arrian
Nor Me,

I am envious. Wow.

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So GPT trades were deemed kosher in this one? I think I did one very early on for something like 6gpt, but never since I noticed Catt's comment about it in the other thread.

-Arrian

I'm all in favor of gpt trades. We need all the advantages we can get.

[lmtoops]

Originally posted by Theseus




... this time, I've used the forest between the starting location and the west coast as the basis for a Spear Maginot Line... seems to be working so far. It forces the MWs onto the hills / mountains, drastically slowing them down.

Great idea!!! I will steal this one.

[jshelr]

Good stories all.

I started this at work for something to do and it is fun. Playing emperor with Persia. Given the lux start, I decided to begin with a barracks and try to build a grid of nine cities with eight at the compass points three squares from the capital. I did not explore, since I wanted as little contact as possible until as much of the grid as possible was set up. Worked backward to stay out of contact and got five cities before the wars started.

popped hut for CB early

Hi shows up and we trade pot / wc for 70 gold and Masonry. Always pay my debts!

War with Hi

Vet archers and spears disposed of his warrior rush with no losses.

Rome -- Alpha for 100 gold / War

Forests became a pain in the posterior, but we had good battle luck. Should have chopped early, even if it required building an extra worker. Managed to hold off the first Legionaire.

At this point, I read the AARs to see what I did wrong. Basically, I think the approach is too conservative. Probably should have taken the battle to the enemy right away.

So, we are at war with Rome and Hi, able to build vet units just about fast enough to deal with the continuous rush. We are waiting for them to come to us and that lets us comfortably deal with the rushes. Actually winning is something else. Does not look good for the long run.

Neat scenario. We could have used this idea as the basis for a PBEM.