AU 107 Spoilers

[Theseus]

1868 AD

Now we're talkin'...

[Theseus]

1888 AD

The tide turns...

[nbarclay]

Theseus, all I can say is, WOW! I guess you've just won the job of AU's official judo instructor!

Nathan

[Theseus]

Sorry, there's a lot more to the story... Armies, Arty (see why I got excited about auto-bombard??!!), luxuries, re-settling, the battle with Hammy, going from Monarch to Commie (!), the final heroic feats of derring-do and sacrifice by Legions... but no time just now.

Suffice it to say that I am p-ssed off.

I've gutted Bizzie, and will proceed to destroy him north of the French bottleneck (Orleans, an AI-AI flip, btw). Panzers? 8d... training tools. I have also sent a transport of 8 Explorers to pillage his southern remnants, even after an expensive peace.

My attention turns to Babylon... there is a tower that needs undoing.

[Arrian]

Heh, good job, Theseus. Am I imagining things, or did you move your capitol to Nuremburg?

-Arrian

[werdhertz]

hey frustrated poet, where did you get the water tileset?? i love how the sea squares go down from coastal ones

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by werdhertz
hey frustrated poet, where did you get the water tileset?? i love how the sea squares go down from coastal ones

It's the latest graphics mod by sn00py.

Get it here: http://www24.brinkster.com/snoopsciv/

It's hosted by Civfanatics too I think, look there if the link above doesn't work.

[Theseus]

Hey guys,

Sorry, I've just been overloaded with the J-O-B. Why is it that 3 hours sleep for Civ is OK, but not for RL??!!

Bear with me... my highest priorities are:
1) Finish 107; I've decided to go commie, destroy enemy production, and then SS. I'm leaving Germany alone for now, production-eviscerated. Hammy's next. I'll do that over this weekend, at the latest.
2) Threads (I've been reading but not posting)
3) Get started on 108 or 201, whatever we call it.

I'm sure all will appreciate this, though... I think about Civ3 all the time... interspersed among my work / deal notes, I have my own private code for Civ-thoughts... other than thinking of how to handle 107, I've had a sort of Vel-like "framework world-view" thing going on in the back of my head... again, bear with me, but I think I might have some interesting thoughts to throw out.

[Arrian, yeah, moved my capitol to Nuremberg a looong time ago... I am now completely committed to moving my Palace to the frontline. I know in that some recent threads people have complained (you included) about betting on GL generation for this kind of thing, but even given the RNG streaks, I reach a certain confluence of war, elites, militaristic, and HE, where I just *know* I'll get that GL for the Palace move... worked here.]

[Looking back at my own world map, we should have a discussion, somewhere, about city spacing and 'context.' The original island, versus the Persian lands, the German lands, the Bab lands, etc.]

[Theseus]

OK... I'm BA-ACK!!!!

First priority: Finish 107. Having decimated the German production core, I have decided to be a very bad man. I declared peace to sort of re-group, and have decided to betray Bizzie-marckie just several turns later. I am going to lay waste to EVERYTHING on the big continent, and then take down Hammie.
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[Trumpets blow, pigeons are let loose.]

"SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS, CAESAR TE SALUTANT!!"

[The crowds go wild.]

"Our victories over the German barbarians have been glorious, but are not yet complete. Therefore, henceforth, all Romans shall be named Grog."

[ ]

"And you shall all get TANKS!!!"

[The crowds go wild again. ]

[vmxa1]

Grog want MA.

[nbarclay]

Originally posted by Theseus

"Our victories over the German barbarians have been glorious, but are not yet complete.

Don't you have it backwards? With how hard it was to compete in culture, I thought we were the barbarians. (Or is it just that we're so barbaric we don't realize we're the real barbarians in the game?)

Nathan

[Theseus]

The victor writes the history of the defeated.

[badman]

today i have started this one, because i don't see the point in AU 201 and i didn't play any other AU games yet.

it's really alot of fun, although i'm not sure if i'll ever be able to catch up with the other civs.
i just don't get leaders to build a new palace and my homeland still sucks especially when it comes to building knights or even bigger projects.
the conquered persian lands are unproductive due to corruption. well we'll see how that developes. so far i've beaten up the persians and i'm at war with both the babylonians and the germans. the babylonians are really awesome at culture and science but they suck at military so i make progress conquering them even though i'm very slow.
the germans are relatively weak in my game, the persians would have beaten them up if i hadn't distracted them.
the germans just built their first musketeers, i am building my very first knights atm. (haven't completed any)

i decided to go into two wars at the same time, because the babs would have become way to strong and i figured it was the best time to attack the germans since they were suffering from losses during their war with persia but they were quickly regaining strength. i just hope my legionaries can handle that.

yet i hope i can get some productive cities soon that can quickly build knights.

[Theseus]

Knights and Legions can take Muskets... go for it. The key is to keep the pressure on, and managing your elites for GL generation. Unable to build GWs (you know the feeling), after the Palace I built Army after Army.

[Theseus]

OK, back to the story:

1888 AD

Isn;t there something called the 'peace dividend'? Well, this was good enough for me (I would have liked tech, but just couldn;t get there... Rocketry is just too closely held by the AI civs). I needed to regroup a little, I had moved my Palace again, further south, so I wanted to plant a bunch of new towns, and I also needed to get out of mobilization.

Interestingly, I had been planning on changing to Commie, but with that much money on hand, and knowing that I would be dealing with mostly new, and not captured, towns, I decided to go Republic instead. Yeah, I know, coulda just stayed on Monarchy, but with such a large and spread out empire (and only getting more so), I needed some help with corruption.

So, accordingly, I made peace with Hammie as well, thinking that I needed to tone down the saved-up WW. I also did some kind of pretty good trade with him, but I forget what.

I stabilized over a few turns, and then said to heck with WW, and went on attack against Bizzie again... talk about role-playing, I HATED HIS GUTS AND WANTED TO RIP HIS INTESTINES OUT AND HANG HIM WITH THEM!!!!

(Didn't care much about rep at this point. )

As most of his remaining cities were leftover from the conquest of Russia, they were at Level One culture, and thus I ran around with a stack of like 80 Arty, pulverized everything down to 2 hps, and immediately took the city down with Tanks. The whole thing, taking the top part of the continent, took 4-5 turns.

(Good lesson, btw: Immediately AFTER an AI civs successful conquest of another AI civ, they are very vulnerable.)