1st Apolyton C3C Multiplayer Tournament

[notyoueither]

Let me know if you want help, GF. The ports required are in the read me, so you can do that yourself, but I could try to host or connect.

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Let me know if you want help, GF. The ports required are in the read me, so you can do that yourself, but I could try to host or connect.

I have to indorse NYE's advice. Since NYE and myself are both behind firewalls, we decided to have NYE host a Direct IP connect .... and it worked out rather well, a little slower than nomal, but for me, the game was still playable.

[MarkG]

heysewa vs lameduck998 scheduled and allowed to overcome the deadline of round i

[Wittlich]

Swissy beat me in round II. Well played Swissy!

[MarkG]

table updated. looking forward to the AAR!

congrats Swissy!

[Swissy]

My start area was ok. A sugar and lux, but best of all a river and plenty of forests. With a river I went for the EW, EW, Granary, Settler build sequaence. Cutting down some trees to speed the granary build I was slow to start but was able to plant 3 new cities before I made contact with the closest civ, the Ottomans. Seeing that the four civs were Sumerians, Ottomans, Persian, and Babylonians; I went for the horseback riding tech path to get three shots at a SGL. Further exploring showed I had four luxs within easy reach, one being Ivory.

I found river for two of my cities, the third being the horse/ivory city had no fresh water. I also deiscovered I was up in the corner and the two AI civs were nowhere in site. I also found the Ottos had horses and iron. All he needed was saltpeter and I'd be in a load of trouble. To make matters worse, his third and fifth cities were just off desert land, and potential saltpeter.

[Swissy]

We progressed along, I had just completed the Statue of Zeus and got the message the Babylonians started a war with the Ottomans. Seeing a couple Babylonian cities turn orange, I determined I had to attack soon. I sent off my Ancient Cavalry to a spot I left puposely undeveloped to get them upto 6HP elites and farm the barb gold machine. I also set my sites on Chivialry, and got lucking gain Fuedalism as my bonus tech and was able to trade it to Babylon for Monothesim. I changed to monarchy as I had most of my cities at 7 or better. It took 8 turns to switch governments, and I feel behind in tech. I had to clean out my treasury to get chivialry from the Persians. The army build up began.

In preperation for the attack I built a city near to my intended target, the Ottos fifth city. This gave me a one turn shot into the city and easy roading to bring up pikemen. My attack force of 8 AC and 6 knights stormed the two pikemen and crusader holding the city (I had investigated the city the turn before).Enough units were left over to both pacify resistance and send 6 units to the third Otto city which fell next turn. I abandoned that one as it was right next to Istanbul and had a pretty good size resisting population. Those two attacks left me with just 1 AC and 2 knights, so Istanbul had to wait for reinforcements. Knowing that it would be a waste to throw my remaing assault forces against the Ottoman stronghold, I instead pillaged the road network around the Otto capitol cutting it off. I finally got up 8 more knights and hit Istanbul. After that it was basically mop-up as I had cut his horses and iron.

[MarkG]

waiting for 24 hours for heysewa vs lameduck998 then progressing Snotty to the final....

[Adagio]

Hey Mark, could you change the color of the players in the Tournament box? It's pretty diffecult to see the yellow color...

[heysewa]

Just finished with lameduck in 260AD. He had a poor start, for some reason on a continent all by himself as the Celts. While, I started on the main continent as the Inca's with the Mongols and Persians. Persia declared war early, but for some reason never built a road to their source of iron. I didn't have any horses until first trading with the Mongols for some and then finally building a city next to a source after I learned Chivalry.

Fortunately I was near a source of ivory and built Zeus a little while after persia declared war. Fortunately for me my second city was next to a source of iron, so I had swordsmen to fend off persia's attack and to take their cities with. Destroyed one and then took their capitol. Then the mongols declared war so I made peace with persia (only one city left - no iron). I held the persepolis (persia had been between me and the mongols) and eventually sued for peace.

Sometime late BC the Celts landed having built the Great Lighthouse (although we could see each others borders across the sea). He sent some spearmen pillaging around. But I took care of them with the ancient calvary, but from then on we were in state of war but with limited conflict. He built two cities on the main land and I destroyed both. One was next to a source of iron.

He got the mongols to declare war on me shortly after I destroyed the persians and his first city on the main land (not next to iron). I took one mongol city and set about preparing for an invasion of the Celtic lands. while doing so lost a newly built city to the mongols (they destroyed it, then built a new city on it) and later took one from them and pillaged their iron.

I landed my mixed invasion force (Knights, Crusaders, Acncient Calvary and Musketmen) and took Lugdunum. I repulsed his counter attack of longbowmen and spearmen. I think they were an invasion force because they came by boat. HE then conceded (see attached save).

One defining moment came when I researched Fuedalism and got a Science leader. Needless to say Sun Tzu was shortly built. Never did have a golden age. Couldn't get the scouts to beat any one but barbs.

[Snotty]

Well done Heysewa, confirmation email sent for tomorrow night.

[MarkG]

thank you heysewa for the news and the report. to officially accept the result i'll have to hear from lameduck998 as well. a screen would be good for the news item

[MarkG]

recieved mail from lameduck998, heysewa progresses to the Semifinals, looking forward for tomorrow's result!

i wonder if we could somehow make the final a live event

[MarkG]

table updated with results and links to aar's

[Panzer32]

If you wanted a live event per se, you could have 2 seperate chat rooms with each player and they describe what's going on maybe...