1st Apolyton C3C Multiplayer Tournament

[heysewa]

round 2

snotty won round 2 with the Statue of Zeus being the key.

[Snotty]

Thanks to Heysewa for a fun game.

I smiled when I saw I had Ivory. My land was quite acceptable, although a lack of forests to quick-chop meant my buildings were thrown up with the blood of my peasents instead.

[Snotty]

I quickly stumbled into the chinese and hittites, finding that Heysewa was on the other side. Writing jumped in my list of priorities so I could organize military alliances.

I harrassed Heysewa with a stack of two warriors and an elite hoplite. I tore up some mines, and temporarily isolated his capital. I took a leak and when I came back my hoplite was dust.

I dont know what china was playing at in this game, but he seemed defective, even for an AI. He dropped his second city touching my borders, and defended it with a lone warrior. I captured it using Hoplites offensivly to trigger my GA so I could get Zeus up and running. I sued for peace after moving on his capital and he gave me a pile of stuff. The Hittites were crazy warmongers in this game. Constantly demanding, sneak attacking, and always willing to get into a Mil alliance (I even think they broke an alliance with me to get an alliance with Heysewa!)

I had horses close by so I started churning them out. The barbs seemed to be set to raging so I had a fair few elites despite not being Mil. I moved 3 hoplites and an archer into Heysewa's land, but he repulsed the pillage attempt. I retreated the remains to the end of the mountain chain where they met the rest of my advancing army. It must have been 4 vet ancient cav, 3 elite horses, 5 vet and a couple of replacement hops. I moved back into open terrain and charged my fastmovers into Oporta. The ancient cav died in the first wave, but the horses mopped up what was left, creating a MGL in the process. I captured 4 catapults and used them to rebuff Heysewas counter attack.

It was a close run thing considering the city was only defended by horses. I could have lost the city. All I wanted to do was raze it to the ground, but you dont get that option in MP. You have to choose abandon city, which takes that turn and the next, it seems. Heysewa conceded and that was the end of that

The early game had me sweating, but I dont think the portugease strengths really lend themselves to tiny pangea maps. I think zeus certainly helped, but they only made up 1/3 of my final attack force. I had a nice tech lead I could bait the AI into alliances with, although my Sci trait never really played a part.

[Snotty]

Another odd thing I noticed was that the Hittites got a SGL yet never built a wonder. I couldnt tell if they had used it for a science GA. Does the AI know how to use them?

[MarkG]

thanks you both and congratulations! Swissy vs Snotty on the final!

[Snotty]

Confirmation email sent. Im free on friday night, so it is probably going to be then.

[Snotty]

All set for for 7pm Poly time friday.

[Sarxis]

Swissy vs. Snotty...

I see a pattern.

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba
Swissy vs. Snotty...

I see a pattern.

I was thinking the same thing myself!

[Admiral PJ]

(This message topic has been started as a Thread under Civ3:General - no hyperlink to it yet)
For recording civ games, You could use a windows recorder program, which records mouse movements and clicks and keyboard presses.
I don't know what programs do this right now.. I have seen some a long time ago though.
You would need to use exactly the same game and windows type as the gameplayer, and playback the recording on your civ game to see how he played it.

The recorder would have to have Keep Random events option off, so every turn would look the same to Spectators. They wouldn't be able to do anything else on windows, as this would break the recording (continuity would stop and the civ3 game would get confused)

I could write a program to record civ games.
(This is slightly Off topic to MPing-sorry)

Someone just HAS to try this.

[Swissy]

Snotty won.

I was lost from the start. No river in start area, Snotty and the AIs had rivers, and the closest fresh water was 10 sqaures away. To top it off Snotty had Ivory and built the Statue of Zeus. I played it out to see If I could make Fuedalism and have a chance, but he showed up with a nice stack and it was pretty much over. Not much I could do with this one.

[Snotty]

Thanks Swissy.

River, plains, grass, iron, horses and ivory. Everything I needed really. I triggered my GA when I had a mere three citys so I could get zeus moving. I tried a couple of unsuccesful pillage attempts, but Swissy was on the ball and saw them off. I pruned the local Indians down to one city, and started blazing a trail through the jungle so I could get my cats to the front line. While I was doing that I moved my stack into Swissys land to do some move and pillage, and he conceded seeing it was hopeless. A chunk of luck from the random map generator helped me beat a far superior player.

My land:

[Snotty]

Swissys land:

[Snotty]

The end bit:

[Snotty]

So this makes me Poly champion right?

Time for some of this I think