Iron Civer _Coliseum D_ Thread II

[Rommel2D]

First thread here.

...More than blind ambition
More than simple greed
More than a finish line
Must feed this burning need -
In the long run...


Game D players- Hours of freeze time remaining in blue

215 alexman(Netherlands) alexman TA alum TOD mit TOD edu
Trip(England) withdrawn NeroTrip (at) Comcast (dot) net
336 smellymummy(Egypt) sm at inethighway dot com
0 Soltz(Spain) jsosiak "at" shaw.ca
richthur(Spain) kenthur at comcast.net

MC: jwala at fastmail dot fm

All games are set to:
Tiny Pangea with 70% ocean
All victory conditions except wonder
Cultural conversions and Scientific Great Leaders on
Monarch level
Climate/Temperature/Age Random
Roaming Barbarians
No culturally linked start

[Rommel2D]

Reserved for posterity.

[alexman]

350 BC sent

[smellymummy]

to spain

[Soltz]

Turn sent to Netherlands.

Question: I saw a reference in a different thread to "picket lines" not being an acceptable tactic in multiplayer games. I think I may be doing it to the Egyptians (not that they deserve it or anything )

Should I be leaving a square open?

[alexman]

You mean placing military units on your coast so he can't invade you? Nothing wrong with that, IMHO. In fact, you can't even do it with Workers in C3C. You need units with non-zero defense to prevent a landing.

330 BC sent

[Rommel2D]

Is that another little-advertised change to a rather important strategic element of the game? I've noticed the AI still doesn't seem to do it, but was meaning to test if it was possible. Can you capture cities from a ship also?

[alexman]

Yes, the AI still suffers, but this C3C fix was put in with MP in mind.

I don't think you can capture vacant cities without amphibious units though. I have not tried it, but if that were true I suspect I would have heard about it.

[Rommel2D]

The thing is, the AI never leaves a city vacant, ever, does it?

[alexman]

Usually not (although I have seen vacant AI cities for several turns after barbarian attacks), but since there is no AI in this tournament, why should we care what the AI does?

[smellymummy]

you still need to attack a unit to get through though!

which is fine imo. if a player gets in your borders theres no way to force them to leave instantly, so picket line measures works good

and turn sent

[Soltz]

That was my thought as well, plus there would be some risk in spreading out your units. It would only be effective against 'friends'.

Turn sent to Netherlands

[alexman]

I don't think you need to attack a worker. You capture him and you can still attack another unit, as long as you have MP left.

310 sent

[smellymummy]

yes, it would seem to be effective against 'friends'

turn sent

[Soltz]

I think capturing uses up your 'attack' point.

Turn sent.