AU208: Total Eternal Forever War - Reports and Comments

[BigDork]

Hi all...

Is it possible??? Could I possibly be having a good game? Okay, I'm now playing as the Chinese, still on regent. Actually I had to double-check and make sure I hadn't changed the difficulty because I was doing so well.

3250BC -Contact with Iroquios. These f'ing scouts show up way to quick. I got pottery, bronze working and 2 gold for masonry.

2800BC-Iroquios must have gotten settler from huts to SE. Bop Iroquios settler.


I can't believe how early the dang scout showed up. I hadn't even built a second city.

[BigDork]

1525BC-Contact with Rome. Got alphabet for 40 gold.

950BC-Take out another Iroquios settler.

850BC-Autoraze Niagra Falls. Yay, I took out a city before I lost one.

I sent a big stack up at the Iroquios. I got Niagra Falls and then on to Salamanca without any opposition. I almost took it but it wasn't meant to be. But I had another focus and haven't been back since.

This has been by far my best game so far. I'm not sure if Rome and the Iroquios went to war or something but neither of them have been sending a lot of units my way and neither of them have many cities.


670BC-Rome is captured

[BigDork]

But alas, it wasn't meant to be.

[BigDork]

But in the end I did manage to retake Rome. I had another stack headed for some other Roman cities that I instead sent for Rome itself. 2 legionaries in Rome took out 5 archers. But I have it. I'm sending in more units to hopefully keep Rome from flipping again so we'll see.

No GLs yet but I'm hoping. I'm currently building the GL in my capitol and it'd be great if I could rush it.

On a sad note my computer chair just broke. I guess it was just as surprised as me that I was actually doing good.

BigD

[Arrian]

Dominae,

Better placed by 2 tiles ain't much. Both of us are stuck with FP cities that require aqueducts to grow, which is vaguely annoying. Researching Construction now.

BigD,

Keep pluggin' away, man! It's starting to look good.

-Arrian

[Konquest02]

500AD

I played a lot yesterday, as it was raining therefore I wasn't working... Here is how it went.

When I left, I was struggling with the Iroquois and the Romans, as everyone else. Just a reminder, I'm playing Germany at Regent difficulty.

Shortly after, I met an Indian galley near my eastern coast. Unfortunately, they had met the Iroquois and Romans first so they were already furious with me. I got their territory map in exchange of my world map. Not a pretty useful trade, but they had no money and I didn't want to buy anything with gold, as I needed it.

So to war I go... again! On that turn, the Indians traded contacts to everyone else in the world.

Total war it was!

[Konquest02]

Entering the Middle Ages

My science was set to 0% because of the GL and most of my cash is going to upgrades. With the rest of the world contacted, the tech pace was a lot faster. I grabbed feudalism fairly soon that way. Almost all my cash went into swordmen->Med. Inf. upgrades. With a 4 attacker, I was ready to take on the Iroquois.

Remember, I already had taken Rome. So Rome deprived of iron was not a great threat to my empire. My swordmen were taking MW in ambush at the base of the mountains, but I wasn't ready to charge on Salamanca.

So I brought a couple of newly upgraded pikemen to cover me and attacked Salamanca, which I managed to take. Then deprived of horses, the Iroquois were a much easier prey. I finally managed to take all of their juicy lands.

[Konquest02]

760AD

In 760AD, I managed to control all my continent. The Iroquois were no more and the Romans were sent off in exile to a northern island on which they have two cities. It is pretty nice to see all this island covered in blue... German blue!

[Konquest02]

1180AD

Near 1100 AD, the attacks started to come home. Remember, we're playing a total war game...? The war then came. The convoy in the screenshot below was full of troops which the AI, in it's great wisdom, dropped one ship at a time, ALL ON THE SAME TILE!!. So for a couple of turns, my island was heavily fortified on a part of my island and the rest was basically not covered...

[Konquest02]

But with these landings of swordmen, Med. Inf, horsemen and warriors, I managed to keep my troops alert. One of them even generated a GL, my 4th.

The other were respectively passed on army, FP in Rome, Adam Smith Trading Company, Palace move to Salamanca.

I just entered the Industrial age and got Steam Power from my scientific trait. I would have been happy if... I'll delay this until more people are at this point.

I think I'll be able to hold on, but I really don't see how I might win. The other nations are now dropping cavalry on my shores, which I counterattack with some knights and defend with pikemen. Casualties are heavy but I hold on. If the game continies like this, I'll probably suffer a spaceship or histographic loss. However, I have already reached the stage of "Moral Victory"

Here is a view of my continent right now (1385AD). Circled are my palace and FP. Not optimal placement, but decent though. The yellow spot is THE landing tile of the first wave of attacks.

--Kon--

[Konquest02]

Since the beginning of my game, I have nt seen any AI at war against each other. They might have been at war, but nobody ever managed to capture a city. This is one important thing I miss about always being at war with the AI: we can't use diplomacy in order to create world wars to slow down the tech pace of everybody. It's a technique I use frequently and I really miss it here...

[Dominae]

Crap, I lost my last AAR post.

Anyway, I'm gone for the weekend and will not get to play this game...I'm at 1200 or so AD now, and things are pretty rough tech-wise, though I did just get Newton's and Smith's (on the same turn!). More reports on Sunday night. Have fun everyone, and keep it up (it's a tough scenario, yes, but possible...I think).


Dominae

[Arrian]

Newton's & Smith's, eh? That's HUGE. It's about as much as you could ask for... but the really big ones are yet to come... ToE & Hoover! Not to mention the UN...

-Arrian

[Aeson]

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

Went for IW right off, complete waste of 40g. Met up with Rome and the Iroquois on the same turn, after they built cities right up next to mine. That allowed for some pretty good trading, Masonry + my gpt + gold got me Pottery, CB, WC, Alphabet, and 40 of my gold back.

I was pretty suprised how well Spears behind Walls worked out. I was at about 90% in battles won, using Archers for counterattacks (mostly on MW's) and Spears to hold onto cities. There just were far far too many AI units.

Ended up getting 2 Leaders, one rushed the Pyramids, the other would have made an Army if I had any units to fill it with at the time, or rushed the GL if I could've held out for the 20 more turns till Literature.

Maybe Carthage with Mathmatics could do it. Without Iron or Horses there isn't a lot that can be done.

[vmxa1]

BigDork did you have any barracks in any of the ciies? I made them in all my front line cities. They do two things that are useful: 1 produce vets 2- heal surviviors.
The way to handle legions is to attack them in the open and take Rome. They will not be able to build any more Legions. I guess they do not have any more iron. They kept sending archers and spears, but no legions.

Edit: wow this was meant for your Persia post, but I see a new game since then.