The Grand Passage, Chapter 1

[Rhothaerill]

I eventually took care of those stacks though…only to run into more stacks of barbs. Throughout all the barb-hunting I think I only lost maybe 4 or 5 units total. I tried pinging as many with cannons as I could as well as inducing the barbs to attack my fortified-on-hills musketmen with their 1-attack pikes.

[Rhothaerill]

And yet more, this right near the end. I actually encouraged this stack to chase me close to home. I had 29,995 victory points and five treasure units on the way home. All I needed was to kill even one of those barbs (whether offensively or defensively) to give me the last few points I needed for the win.

[Rhothaerill]

A quick look at my military a turn before the end of the game (if anyone cares ). Besides what is shown I also had 12 medieval infantry. All my rush-buying was why I maintained the largest military throughout the game. I never built a single fast-moving unit (knight) and only a few cannons. I was originally going to build more cannons, but decided to focus more on the musketmen at the end. With their high (10) defense in my main cities I felt they would have more bang for the buck if I was attacked by anyone.

[Rhothaerill]

All in all it has been a really fun game and I'm sorry to see it end. Thanks for the fun guys.

[Beta]

Wow!!! The last time I checked - you were at 19,000 vp's.

Congrats Rhothaerill!!!





Yes- great game. And you were right to be worried. The Spanish-French-Engisih alliance was about to come down on your head big time. But you finessed us all. Well done, sir.

What bugs me is the effort I have put into creating my civ in the new world. And my colonial capitol was to be finished in Texania next turn. With that orange swath and all the treasure producing tiles, if we could have kept you in check - it would have been interesting. And my navy was fairly impressive as well - and other than pirate hunting - I never got a chance to let it loose.

All in all - a great game. One of my favourite pbem's to-date.

[Rhothaerill]

Originally posted by Beta

Yes- great game. And you were right to be worried. The Spanish-French-Engisih alliance was about to come down on your head big time. But you finessed us all. Well done, sir.

I knew it was coming, which was why I took the effort of building up my defensive forces so high. In my treasure cities in the New World, each one had 7 muskets and other units by this last turn. Even with a three-on-one pile-up it still would have taken a lot of resources for you guys to take any one of my cities.

All I needed was some time and I got it.

What bugs me is the effort I have put into creating my civ in the new world.

Regarding the big swath of orange, or con's swath of blue and Paddy's of pink...that's the whole point. I didn't waste unnecessary resources building so many cities. I put my resources into getting treasure units as quickly as possible in cities that were only a few turns away from my capital. With some of the far-flung treasure cities it would have taken you guys several more turns then my average of 3 turns to return treasure...and I was returning 4 or 5 treasure units at a time.

[Rhothaerill]

By the way I'd be interested to see how each of you got to where you are in the game too....except for con since no one cares about a has-been pirate.

Well, mainly because he doesn't know what went on with his civ for the first 30+ turns.

[Wittlich]

Congrats on your victory Rhoth!

To bad I wasn't even able to create at least ONE treasure before it ended.

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by Rhothaerill
By the way I'd be interested to see how each of you got to where you are in the game too....

Please. For me it's easy - can you say "butt place"?

[Rhothaerill]

Originally posted by Wittlich



Please. For me it's easy - can you say "butt place"?

Not around you.

[Paddy]

Well Done Old Chap

Originally posted by Rhothaerill

All I needed was some time and I got it.

Regarding the big swath of orange, or con's swath of blue and Paddy's of pink...that's the whole point. I didn't waste unnecessary resources building so many cities. I put my resources into getting treasure units as quickly as possible in cities that were only a few turns away from my capital. With some of the far-flung treasure cities it would have taken you guys several more turns then my average of 3 turns to return treasure...and I was returning 4 or 5 treasure units at a time.

well done old chap

bloody well done

you did a grand job

and yes there was no way to keep up with your treasue production...

and having to have strong fleets to keep the pirates at bay...

ahh you did good

[Paddy]

what a smirk you have

[Beta]

Good post, Paddy.

[Beta]

Originally posted by Rhothaerill


Regarding the big swath of orange, or con's swath of blue and Paddy's of pink...that's the whole point. I didn't waste unnecessary resources building so many cities. I put my resources into getting treasure units as quickly as possible in cities that were only a few turns away from my capital. With some of the far-flung treasure cities it would have taken you guys several more turns then my average of 3 turns to return treasure...and I was returning 4 or 5 treasure units at a time.

Yes - this seems to be the key - and the point that the rest of us missed. One does get hung up on the regular style of civ play. So I was building temples and barracks and the like. I also had coralled the most treasure sites I believe. But I was slower to bring them on line. I think I had only returned around 6 treasures, with another 6 en-route.

With my colonial capitol coming on stream next turn in Texania - and with the layout of cities around the Gulf of Texania (ie Mexico) and inland - it would have been a powerhouse new world. But that is not the point - is it.

This was a great gaming experience, but I gotta tell you, it sure tastes like more.

[conmcb25]

I was actually starting to go into the same mode, Rhoth, store up a bunch of treasure and deliver them all at the same time.

Sir Osis had the same game plan as Beta and Paddy, I could n't understand why he had built where he did and had virtually no treasure producing cities set up when I took over.

But then he told me it was his first time with this scenario and he was playing it cold.

I was scrambling to get my treasure producers working, and actually was set to deliver 5 or 6 within two turns. I was deliberately holding off as you were so I wouldn't prematurely inflate my score and then have everyone after me

Ah well.

Now we need to do (GrandPassage#2) AOD#6 with all the same people except in different positions