AU501 - DAR2: First Dromon

[SirOsis]

Originally posted by vmxa1
I had a hard time viewing it. Do I need to change some options?
It was blurry.

It does have a canvas texture but it still should be readable. Glad everyone likes it. I'll be working on another later on. I'm trying to perfect my mapping technique while trying to perfect my civ3 game.

[steven8r]

Just currious SirOsis,

Your town of Copenhagen, was that named because of the resource on which it was founded, or is it a Danish reference?

Steven

[SirOsis]

Originally posted by steven8r
Just currious SirOsis,

Your town of Copenhagen, was that named because of the resource on which it was founded, or is it a Danish reference?

Steven

It was named for the fine tobacco on which the city was founded. I originally planned on having this as a redneck civ but decided against it later on. We were going to build Colosseums for the populace to enjoy Nascar races and Superbowl halftimes to distract them from the wars we're going to start. However, I decided that this game didn't need to imitate reality.

[vmxa1]

Thanks to CH I finally found out how to get IE to expand it. Then I was able to see how much you put into it.

[SirOsis]

I've played a bit more and feel that the Mayans are going to dominate the early game. I haven't met them yet but they have built the Pyramids and the Temple of Artemis. Highly deadly combination culturally. I'm wondering how the Mayans fared in other games.

[Aeson]

I started playing last night, stock Deity. Given how Curraghs work in stock vs AU mod, probably should post my start here.

Things were going ok early on. Built on the start, lots of Settlers and Workers ran around waiting for the Barbarians to come out of their camps... they never did. Sent out 5 Curraughs and made contact with the Japanese, Sumerians, Hittites, Egyptians, and Russians before they were sunk by Barbarians.

I was able to trade Writing (2 civs beat me to it by a turn) around to get about even in the tech race. The Sumerians had Polytheism, and that is the only tech I wasn't able to grab. Also bankrupted all the AI at this point, and had close to 1000g to upgrade Warriors.

Went for Map Making full bore and got it in 16. The Russians had got it the turn before. Traded for Construction, and gave it away for most of the rest of the AI's gold. Wasn't able to get Polytheism for it.

Didn't have any Curraghs to upgrade, so built 5 Dromons from scratch, and upgraded all my Warriors. Japan had just finished Zeus, and it was probably now or never to hit them. Loaded up the Galleys, and because of how the Japanese had built and where there units were, only had 1 good defensive option for a landing site. The Volcano. It would allow me to land 2 groups of units, giving half of them a chance to fortify before the Japanese could attack.

[Aeson]

[comic book guy]Worst invasion ever![/comic book guy]

[Dominae]

Sorry, Aeson, but I simply must:

With all those kills, that's surely an Elite Volcano! I wonder if it generated an MGL...

Was there no indication that an eruption was imminent (like, say, smoke spewing from the top)?


Dominae, still

[Rhothaerill]

Oh man that's harsh! Sorry Aeson!

In my ENTIRE game neither of the volcanoes on my island or the Japanese island ever erupted. The volcanoes on the two jungle islands both erupted, but nothing bad ever came of it, even though the Sumerians built a city right next to one which I later captured and didn't bother to move.

[SirOsis]

Wow. Gotta watch those volcanos. lol. I haven't invaded Japan yet so I think I'll stay away from that volcano if I do.

I think I did see some code to the effect of:

if (PLAYER==Aeson & UnitsOnVolcano())
Erupt();

[Aeson]

If it had been only a few units, I probably would have been upset. But this was just funny. Checking some prior saves, there was smoke coming from it, but I didn't see it because of my ships covering it up. The pictures are almost exactly what you can see in game. At least one Dromon had been parked over the smoke for quite a while. You can see it with the ships not in the way.

The volcano next to my Capitol has gone off 4 times already, but it's not really a big deal except it keeps destroying my Iron mines.

[ducki]

Ouch, Aeson, that hurts!
I'm glad I was too shortsighted to consider landing in a defensible position. Of course, I did have a few more Dromons for bombarding and I did lose a huge chunk of my force to the Horde.

I think I'll start avoiding volcanoes like the .. er, well, plague.

[Catt]

Ouch.

Originally posted by Aeson
If it had been only a few units, I probably would have been upset. But this was just funny.

Great attitude!

Catt

[Cort Haus]

I'm sorry too, but it's still the funniest DAR I can remember, Aeson. Especially when you described how the smoke was hidden behind a parked dromon! The things you learn at the AU!

SirOsis got it right, Soren put a line in there somewhere for you!

[Arrian]

That's just EVIL. I've seen that volcano erupt repeatedly, more than the one on the home island.

I doubt it makes you feel any better, but I lost my entire first invasion force to the Japanese crappy unit horde (and I'm only on Emperor, and I built Zeus since I was able to trade them horses for ivory). 3 pikes, 1 AC, 6 med inf. Crushed by horse/archer attack. I, however, landed on flat ground (idiot!), thinking my pikemen SO superior. Tell that to the 1 horse + 3 archers that killed them.

-Arrian