Huge Successors 1: Build and Conquer!

[conmcb25]

Me too!

As long as we party hard, what the hell

[snoopy369]

AD 650: Cleared out around Teotihuacan (which I can also now spell!), not much else.
AD 660: Weird bug - i accidentally tried to attack with catapult from Teotihuacan, ended up that it told me " you can't attack with that" and attacked with my MI underneath the cata instead. Weird ... i won though Clear out some "trainer" units (so called because they are poor defense good offense, ie MI/Swords, stuck in plains/grassland, easy targets for my MI and effective to train them with since they're high value = more promotions!) get an elite MI out of it.
AD 670: Lose an MI to another MI; he gets wolloped by one of our MIs when I get my chance. Get ready for Prince Edward to take Tlacopan; he loses 3hp to a SPEARMAN IN GRASSLAND ... sigh ... take a few extra turns to breathe. Rush library in Teotihuacan.
AD 680: Nice little force in New Port Annie starting to be able to take Texcoco or at least do it serious harm. I hope... some more cleaning up of bad guys near Teotihuacan...
AD 690: Spanish are starting to go inside our borders with a couple units, including a MI... warn them off. 3 turns to the Invasion of Texcoco, give or take 1. Will have 9-10 MIs at least, with several being Elite; several horsemen, a bunch of Trebs, and some 5-6 pikemen to take the city with. Piece of cake, right?
AD 700: Spanish keep coming into our territory ;( and declare war on us, even worse. I may pacify the Aztecs temporarily... moving towards a policy of "Take what I can Get Now" ... Texcoco will be ours, muahahaha. Also try at Tlacopan; kill one pikeman but almost lose Edward but he's ok, but I'm giving up on Tlacopan for now.
Many cities finish MI this turn, they will be redirected towards Spain; Texcoco will be taken hopefully 710...
AD710: Mount Snoopy and Teotihuacan pikemen both valiantly repel MI attacks.
War on Texcoco: First MI dies to Pikeman, 1 hp reduction but promotion. Elite MI kills same pike, no promotion. Elite MI dies to spearman, no reduction, promotion ... vet MI dies to same 4/4 spearman, 1hp reduction, but promotion to 4/5. SuperSpearman (Several treb attacks before on the pike all lost. RNG stacked against me today.) Vet MI kills same spearman, 3/4, now 4/5 promoted. Vet MI kills spear 3/3, now 1/4. Vet MI kills 3/3 spear, now 4/5. Vet MI kills 3/3 spear, now 2/4. Vet Horse kills 3/3 spear, now 2/5. Vet horse retreats 1/4 from 3/3 spear (3/3). Last MI attacks spear 3/3, wins, 1/4. Vet horse retreats 1/4 from 3/3 spear (2/3).
So, Texcoco is short 7 units, and has at least 2 more (one wounded spear and the fresh one I can see). I'll have to recharge this turn, probably not attacking at all, and waiting to next turn to attack again...
AD 720: 5/5 Pikeman stands valiantly again in Mount Snoopy against an MI (he's got plenty of backup now anyway, including a wall). Other minor action outside Tlacopan, pikeman survives.
Texcoco: Bombardment from 4 trebs reduces the 3 defenders each a hp - so only a 2/3 pike, and 2 2/3 spears. So I attack on 4/5 MI kills pike now 1/5. 4/4 MI kills 2/3 spear, 3/4. 3/5 MI kills 2/3 spear, and Takes Texcoco!!! along with 9 (nine!) workers. I go ahead and keep the city, might as well. One Swordsman outside killed by 2/4 MI now 1/4; 2/5 MI dies to 3/3 MI outside (bad luck, ah well)... but we hold Texcoco with a good sized force. Now perhaps Peace with Aztecs will be possible in the short term, allowing a war with Spain?

Peace with Aztecs is gained, for now. Don't expect it to last. (Well, it's up to my successor really - I will keep it at peace until I am done in a few more turns.)

Incas: I offer them RoP; accepted. Moves them to Annoyed from Furious. I offer 1gpt-accepted; hoping to bring them around and encourage a second ally against Spain (and also encourage them to sell us techs, since they're ahead of us)... planning a daring maneuver, as well (you will see) ...

AD 730: St Simonsville is TAKEN by the spanish, in a bit of a non-surprise (they had MI in Vitoria, I couldn't maneuver defenses that fast). Attack with the 2 horsemen than are produced; first retreats with no change on the 3/3 MI; second wins, promoted to 2/5, RETAKES St Simonsville. Temple rushed in Texcoco, to make sure we keep it.

AD 740: Spanish move towards the empty York (emptied to initially protect Mount Snoopy). Towards, not into, being the vital difference; now they're off of the mountains and in the plains. Yummy. I could totally use this exploit on purpose, as it seems to work BEAUTIFULLY, but I don't generally, and didn't on purpose here. But it works. Knight killed, MI killed, Swords killed, 2/3 swords is all that's left of the attacking stack, and i didn't want to risk anyone getting next to the OTHER stack...

AD 750: Usual fine defensive work in Mt Snoopy. Knight kills itself attacking a MI (wow!), other knight kills our horseman that killed the knight in 740. Not a bad trade- a horseman for a knight... MIs kill swords 3/3 and knight from above 3/3 (backed against the seaboard, no retreat!)

I'm going to stop here. I'm tired, and 10 turns will do me fine (though 15 is the standard - i'm letting the game catch up to where Con et al stole a few extra turns, anywho, or something like that.) I'll email it down the line - and we'll continue!

[snoopy369]

Demos ...

Oh yeah, and the surprise I was planning? Take the 4 galleys (soon to be 5) from York, stick them 1 square outside york (3 from york) and then wait a turn (load them with MI/trebs/pikemen). Next turn - 4 squares takes you to Toledo, smush the city, raze it, and come back. Scares the Spanish.

Oh, and one more thing- I convinced the Mayans to help us out. Now I don't think they'll do a whole lot - but maybe Spain will attack them?

[snoopy369]

Ok, i'll send the save to Paddy, who can then send to the next in the list. We'll just add your name after mine. So send to Smelly, unless Con got skipped this turn? Con, did you play like AD 350 or so?

[conmcb25]

No I got skipped but Id like to play today if thats OK with everyone.

The b1tch er the wife is going out of town for the weekend and I can CIV CIV CIV

[McMeadows]

go ahead matey... play Play PLAY..!!

[conmcb25]

Snoop Dog

Can you get me the save?

NEED TO CIV

[Paddy]

are ya still there Con???

the last save England 750

[conmcb25]

yep will play in a couple of hours
.going to Science Olympiad with the kids this morning, and by the time I get back the witch er the wife should be gone

[Paddy]

lovely, just bloody loverly indeed

[snoopy369]

Ahem ...

[conmcb25]

Ahem, what?

[conmcb25]

760AD_Attacked some units outside of Mount Snoopy. Moved to assauly Murcia

770AD- Captured Murcia, Aztecs build Great Library, Romans complete Knights Templar

780AD ~~~~~

790AD- Aztecs declare war after I ask them to leave, most units rehealed on the Spanish Front, now Im headed for madrid

800AD-~~~

810AD- Beat off aztecs attacks

820AD-Captured Madrid, but then the Spanish recaptured it, and then the maya captured it from the Spanish

830AD-Tula captured from us, thats that city we got in peace (I think) from the aztecs at the end of last war at the southern tip of the aztec pennisula.

840AD- ~~~~

Im only playing 10 turns, Im kind of tired tonight.

Beware of Tenochitlan, a main force is surrounding it.

[Paddy]

hey where are the pics????

bloody foreigners... probably wants double time for doing pictures

and now for some encouragement for the pics


a true Scotish 18 year old, honey-rich and toffeed on the palate with nutty, spicy overtones... mature, rich and sexy

[Paddy]

so can I have a go now then

Ok so I have been a little bad today, but well it was worth it

so can I play a turn ???