Moves - Volume 2

[Beta]

Not sure they would find it so funny. There was clearly bad blood between Lux and ND.

[Beta]

1275 bc turn played as per the above.

Map Making received for 40 gold.

Elipolis should finish the galley at the end of the next turn, when the workers finish off the forest.

I kept the citizen in MillerTown on the irrigated plains square. We could get the warrior out in two - but it would cut down the pop growth from 3 tund to 6 turns. Figure we could use the growth. So went with warrior in 3, growth in 3.

Also- instead of sending NeuD the full 30 gold as per my letter, I am going to send it in 3 batches of 10. This will hopefully speed up their response on the trade deal.

Research still at 10%. We can still do Poly in 19, or currency in 26.

Letter going to NeuD this evening.

[Beta]

1250bc turn played.

Screen shots sent.

The will of the people was recognized.

Iron connected via colony.

The Voice produced warrior. Will produce settler in 4 turns. Screen says 5 but it will be 4 with pop growth.

Miller Town finishes warrior in 2, Dissidentville in 4.

Witt City barracks in 5.

AND OUR FIRST IMMORTAL WAS THE UPGRADE OF THE WARRIOR IN MILLER TOWN.

Second worker helped complete the cutting of the forest. At the end of the turn, 10 shields returned to Elipolis, which means the galley is out next turn.

No gold sent to ND.

And research still at 10% on poly. Cranked up to 100% we get it done in 17 turns.

I believe this is the last turn we can afford at this research rate, or we will fall tremendously behind in any research endeavour. We need to resolve some trade matters.

[Eli]

Beta :

Can you please convert the screenshots to JPGs before sending them?
Every bmp of this size takes 2MB, while a jpg takes 200kb, ten times less. It will save us all a lot of time when downloading the screenshots from the mail servers.

[Beta]

1225bc turn played. Screen shot for northern section only is coming (jpeg this time)

Galley produced in Elipolis. I also came up with a better plan to claim Wittlich Ost. I loaded the Elipolis spearman into the galley before heading up the coast. He will be able to unload the spearman on the hill across the straight, before checking into Wittlich City to get the settler and Immortal. This gets us there two turns earlier. It also gives us a spearman to top the stack.

The Immortal from Miller Town is moving down to Elipolis temporarily.

Workers built road on tile north of Elipolis - two get it done in one turn. One will stay behind and irrigate. The other will head north. Other worker is heading north as well. He is under the immortal.

Settler produced in 3 turns. Says 4 but will be three.

Research down to 0%. May as well accumulate cash for deals until we work out a plan.

[Eli]

This gets us there two turns earlier. It also gives us a spearman to top the stack.

This also gives them warning about our arrival two turns earlier. Hopefully they have no units nearby to unveil the fog.

[Beta]

Agreed - but if they are going to be immediately aggressive - I would rather have them kill a spearman as opposed to a settler and immortal.

The key here will be to get enough units over to Wittlich Ost to guarantee its survival.

[Dis]

did you rename the Immortal?

we can use member names as with the cities. Or just use my fist name. Jim the Immortal. I just want an immortal named after me

[Beta]

No - will do next turn.

Also - I forgot to mention - put 49 gold on the table for Poly with GoW and send it back accepted.

And NeuD, sent Poly, and contacy with Lego, and something else - I can't remember. I sent it back unaccepted with nothing on the table.

[Wittlich]

I actually like Beta's idea of having a spearman on hill top first (to perform a visual reconaissance and get the region ready for our settler)...besides, the new city on their landmass is going to be called "Wittlich Ost", this indicates the eastern suburb of Wittlich City - which, in fact, it is - after Wittlich City expands, it would have normally included that hilltop...so we are not purposely settleing their land - just claiming what is rightfully ours to begin with.

I like the reasoning behind this action!

[Beta]

1200bc played.

Bad news. No - the point is still clear - no problem there. But the game converted the current warrior builds to Immortals, and there is no way to switch them back. This affected Miller Town - which would have been finished this turn , and Dissidentville which had 3 turns to go.

We learned something about civ3 in this. It must give you a certain number of turns to complete the obsolete units, then converts the build queues automatically.

Anyways - Miller Town can have a vet Immortal out in 4. Dissidentville and its one shield per turn I converted to spearman. This effectively cost us two immortals. But it does save us 80 gold .

Elipolis to spearman as well until we decide.

Settler out in two. And we have a warrior in The Voice who can be upgraded. But he needs to stay there for crowd control.

Landing at Wittlich Ost next turn.

Workers working on irrigation projects to give more useable tiles to Elipolis, Miller Town, and Wittlich City, all of which need them.

Research to 0%. Adds 12 gold per turn. Treasury currently at 108.

Research times were currency 24 turns at 100% (lose 4 gpt) or construction at 30. I suspect we can buy them cheaper. Unless of course, GoW does not sell construction to keep every one back one era.

Received Poly from GoW. Passed it onto GS. Jon, you may want to let them know. Also, I accepted it. It will be obvious to GoW that we passed it on in one turn. GS may want to wait a few turns - up to them.

GoW also offered contact with Lego. I accepted, but did not offer anything in return.

NeuD offered their world map and contact with Lego. I did not accept.

[Dis]

So what's the deal with research?

I assume we are going to max out gold and just buy them.

I agree with that. We are so far behind now, it makes no sense to start researching currency.

The only problem is ND is demanding so much for things. I suggest we buy currency from someone else who gets it off ND. Either GOW or RP.

[Beta]

Agreed. See my post in the RP FA thread. I fully support your idea.

[mjmacy]

We could try and get currancy with the construction deal that GoW proposed. Because Construction for a midevil tech is not a fair trade. I think that we should still talk to ND as if we are trying to get a deal done. This will make it look like we are still a long way off from settling on there Continent.

[Beta]

And I claim this land in the name of The One - for Vox Controli.

Screen shots on their way - status and argha - will need your e-mails. They go in the thread of everything.

Spearman succesfully landed on the hill. No one is in sight. Unfortunately no two-food tiles to use. I still say we build there for strategic reasons, unless we have other ideas.

Galley docked in Wittlich. Settler is out next turn. Miller Town will produce Immortal in 3 turns, not the four as indicated (we are short two shields and can adjsut for the last two turns of the build).

The warrior in the Voice can move out with the settler next turn to get upgraded to Immortal.

Dissidentville could have produced a spearman using a poprush - but we had not discussed this and I'm not sure it is worth it for a spearman.

Workers all working on irrigation projects where needed now, or in the very near future by the central cities. Next priority for the most northerly worker will be to hook up the luxury. We will need it when Miller Town grows to size 4 in 9 turns.

Gold - plus 13 through moving citizens around in the capitol.

No contact yet with Legoland. And no offers from GoW.

NeuD sent back an empty offer table, unaccepted. Not usre if that was a message of some sort.

That white tuskey thing we thought we saw back at the start of the game was the rear end of a cow.

In terms of expansion on Bob - it would appear that there is another row of hills to the west, and the most northerly hill, on the coast, and next to the cow is at first glance very promising. And let's hope there is a river or lake up here somewhere. Someone will need to do a walkabout as soon as we get more settled in. Lets hope we get a few turns to do so.