30% Iron Civer Tournament

[Paddy]

yes you could have...

and I could have lived with that (as I am living with the Green baron's madness...)

yet they were yours to abandon, not his

and what was that manourve with your capital...

you just walked your lads outside and let his spearman and warrior walk in ...

maybe you could talk to the folks in Persia about letting the Tamworth Music Festival Battalion do that

[Aqualung71]

Ah, it all shows in some ways how realistic this can be at the human level. We're all having a whale of a time for so long, but then the going gets tough.....and desperate people do desperate things.

To borrow a quote from Paddy, it is all good.....well, mostly anyway

[Paddy]

hahahahaha

yes we did have a good time for a long time

[jshelr]

Rommel's behavior in c3c is a great contrast to this action here. He has had no chance for awhile, due to an overwhelming combination of military tech disadvantage, alliance against him, and relative size, but he has carried on as best he can. (And remains a definite pain in the ass )

[Rommel2D]

The worst problem was starting in the jungle, away from the coast with a seafaring tribe, on a map that was 'previewed for fairness'- the main reason I promoted the restart rule in this tournament.

I actually have the military tech advantage. If saltpeter had been more accesible for me I could have offered Egypt reasonable resistance. Does Krill think my melted butter defense is a pain in the ass?

[snoopy369]

thanks for clearing up my question ^^

Masuro, i'd say you did the right thing. The cities should rightly have been abandoned by ricketyclick, and thus abandoning them yourself is the right thing to do. Sorry, Paddy... i'm sure you can put the empty land to good use

[Paddy]

ahh and they wiped the opportunity to take true spoils of war

and yes although these lands are far from my borders (and very very close to Lord Aqualungs) I hope that one day I will be able to use these lands...

but alas I fear that the game may be long over by then

for the mighty Eygptian has the Pyramids and Iron to play so hard in the face of war

[Aqualung71]

Yet the mighty Inca have cities a-plenty, a stronger army and a GA up their sleeves

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by Paddy the Scot
ahh and they wiped the opportunity to take true spoils of war

see it from the positive side: you saved lots of units by not having to conquer them.... these units can help you getting the pyramid and iron

[marcuspeddle]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Masuro, i'd say you did the right thing. The cities should rightly have been abandoned by ricketyclick, and thus abandoning them yourself is the right thing to do.

Well, I shouldn't have accepted them in the first place. I have to take half the blame for the 'scandal'.

[Paddy]

ahh well we are all just blowing smoke...

as it is along run to the end game

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by sabrewolf


see it from the positive side: you saved lots of units by not having to conquer them.... these units can help you getting the pyramid and iron

Ok, i'm confused. Are you folks playing a stripped down version of civIII? In my version, it's Pyramids... like more than one ... since I need many burial locations for my former enemies...

[jshelr]

Originally posted by Rommel2D
The worst problem was starting in the jungle, away from the coast with a seafaring tribe, on a map that was 'previewed for fairness'- the main reason I promoted the restart rule in this tournament.

I actually have the military tech advantage. If saltpeter had been more accesible for me I could have offered Egypt reasonable resistance. Does Krill think my melted butter defense is a pain in the ass?

The starting locations did seem unfair. Portugal has the largest gnp simply because of its river system, for example. Egypt's capital is way out of alignment with its civ. And the Arabs lacked water, although i think Adagio may have mistaken the huge middle lake for ocean in the beginning of the game.

I was referring to chivalry as the tech disadvantage in question

But you fought to the end, as did Adagio, and that caused units losses for the attacking alliance and avoided the fiasco discussed above.

My recommendation for all of us would be not to make deals that tilt the outcome of the game one way or another as we gracefully exit the game

I plan to practice this relatively soon in a couple of games

[Krill]

The starting locations did seem unfair. Portugal has the largest gnp simply because of its river system, for example. Egypt's capital is way out of alignment with its civ. And the Arabs lacked water, although i think Adagio may have mistaken the huge middle lake for ocean in the beginning of the game.

Trust me, you have no idea how screwed up my empire is. Gold is the only thing I have in any amount, so I thank the guys for showing me why to cut iron

[Aqualung71]

Alas, it has fallen upon me, Cleopatra of the Egyptians, to inform the world at large that Japan has been eliminated from Coliseum A.....largely at the point of Incan arrows - as were the Arabs - it's clear who the aggressor in this game has been

Paddy?