AUSG101 - Spaceship team DAR 1

[Rhothaerill]

This is the DAR (“during action report”) thread for the first turn block of 40 turns (4000bc – 2150bc) for the spaceship victory team. Please post your DAR of the first 40 turns, including thoughts of why you did what you did in the game, along with a screenshot at 2150bc and a savegame at 2150bc. Please name your save with your nickname, team name, and the time (i.e. rhoth-spaceship-2150bc).

Current votes:

Tarquinius: 3
alexman: 2
vmxa1: 1

Total votes cast so far: 6 of 6

[Tarquinius]

I am first of our team yay

I liked the start a lot! (Thanks Rhoth ) I built Mecca on the starting spot, and started to build another scout.
Worker starts irrigating a cattle. Start researching Bronze Working at 100% (because it is a decent tech and cheap, so i can get more expensive techs from huts)

3800 BC: Scout ready in Mecca, builds a warrior next

3750 BC: Get warrior code from hut

3600 BC: worker is done irrigating/roading one cattle and goes to the other one. Scout finds warrior in hut.
Warrior done in Mecca, start building a Granary next.

3500 BC: Map from hut. Meeting America. I trade CB and WC for Masonry and 10 gold.

3300 BC: Meet Carthage. I trade WC and pottery for Alpha and 14 gold. I could get more gold if I traded CB with him too, but decided i did not need the gold.

3250 BC: I discover BW, and start working on mathematics with 80% science. Maybe not the best choice but I noticed it was cheaper than normal so I gave it a go

3200 BC: worker starts mining the bonus grass.

3100 BC: Granary finished in Mecca, starts building a settler.

3000 BC: 25 gold from a hut.

2900 BC: Settler ready, got mysticism from a hut.

2800 BC: Warrior built in Mecca, starting another settler.

2750 BC: Masonry + pottery for the Wheel + 10 gold from Japan.

2710 BC: Medina Founded 4 tiles away from Mecca (9,9,9,6), on the food plain next to the deer.

2670 BC: Settler built in Mecca, going south.

Status in 2590 BC (30 turns)
2 cities, and one settler on its way to a city site.
All tier 1 techs + mysticism discovered. Mathematics in 2 more turns. All neighbours two techs behind.
Exploration: I can see most of my continent, only the size of the southern part where Carthage is is unknown.
The enemy civs are quite far off, so my pure builder approach will probably work quite well. I use a loose spacing, with preferably 4 tiles between cities.
Military: I have 4 warriors, with one more to come, and two scouts.
Probably mine will not be chosen, but I do not think I did so badly
Unfortenately no screenshot, as I do not know how... Once someone tells me how to do it I will make one

[vmxa1]

Wow, expansion trait isvery strong on this map.
4000 found Mecca, research to Alp, it is just a place holder I would guess. Building warrior. worker to irrigate cow.
Went warrior scout scout scout warrior I think.
I am going to uncover all I can before barbs start whacking scouts or blocking them.
3600 got adv tribe at Medina. I am not sure I have ever had one before.
3550 Mason from hut
3250 trade for Alp I gave a tech and gold
3300 started settler
3250 got a warrior, sent to Medina
3150 Warriro Code
3100 Medina starts worker, got another warriro, traded it looks like Bronze for WC can't read my own writing
2950 Wheel for Alp +10 (note I am not bicker for them, just taking them as they offer them
2900 Start Temple in Mecca
2850 found Damascus near coast an spices
2270 one scout has returned from Japan and found a hut near Mecca and gets Mysticism
2230 found Baghdad to link up with Medina

[vmxa1]

I have no firther notes, so I guess nothing much happened. I did not have a save for 2150, but found that autosave was on and it had one. I usually disable autosave, so it was a break.

Man I had to zio this puppy?

[vmxa1]

Here is a screenie

[vmxa1]

I have not gone around to make any trades. All first level techs learned + Mysticism. Iron Working being researched, sorry the war part of me. I should have gone for Writing to get a bead on Lit. I was thinking that I would get the GL by force, whoops. I did not look real close to see how the capitol is set up to build wonders. I know workers are in order now and I would want to get some more land.
This map was very well set for an expansion race and America may have cut into some of the action.

[vmxa1]

Looks like there is max confusing about the first report cycle, oh well. There is always a few kinks to fix.

[vmxa1]

Tarquinius nice job, I just got around to reading your report and I noticed the screen part.
Here is one way to do it and it is free.

http://www.irfanview.com/

You can bring it up anytime and start the capture as any key you want. I use Cntrl-F11.
Once it has been captured to the clipboard, you can use the resize option to get it to 800.
Save it some place as a jpg and attach it via the post reply browse button.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Looking at the 4000bc save... Rhothy mentioned a LOTR-themed surprise. Well, I checked the F10 screen (spaceship), and guess what I found?

[Tarquinius]

Thanks a lot for the screenshot help vmxa, I think I got it now
I played 10 more turns; not too much happened:
2510 BC: Mathematics discovered, writing is next at 80% sci. Warrior ready in 2nd city, building worker next there.

2470 BC: Damascus founded west from Mecca

2430 BC: Got Horsebackriding from a hut

2230 BC: Temple built in Mecca

In 2150 BC I got 3 cities, and two additional techs over 2590 BC: Horsebackriding and Mathematics.
A temple and a granary are built in mecca.
A warrior settler pair is aiming for two tiles northeast, to block the Americans off. (I think I am aiming for the same site where vmxa has put a city in his game) Usually I don't place cities so far off, but in this start I want all the space I can get to use my granary in Mecca to the fullest.

[Tarquinius]

And a screenie

[Tarquinius]

Now I got the hang of it

[vmxa1]

I take it the Black Land has something to do wit Lord Of The Rings?

[Rhothaerill]

Originally posted by vmxa1
I take it the Black Land has something to do wit Lord Of The Rings?

'Tis the name of Mordor. Many of the regulars for the Intersite Democracy Game have avatars relating to the Lord of the Rings right now.

[vmxa1]

I actually own the first one on DVD, but was not sure. I can remember if I ever read the books. It is one of those deals where you have been exposed to so much, it is confusing to remember if you heard it or read it. It would have be in the early 60's if I did. I read SF/Fanatasy in the 50's and 60's. A long time ago.