Succession game "The Morons"

[SKILORD]

Originally posted by randommushroom
I'll play my turn tomorrow night. I love Civ3, but I love my girlfriend more.

Originally posted by SKILORD i'm gonna have to back out. i've gotta cut down on my 5 Sg's due to a request from my girlfreind.

i'm still reading it (still don't have time to play it tho) and i notice this pattern. morons are obviously rather susceptible to female charms cya guys.

[Tarquinius]

Wow, a great leader!
I usally use the first leader to form an army, then I can build the heroic epic and military academy. In this game it seems even more attractive as we cannot build libararies and universities, so we will run out of buildings to build soon. So we will wage a lot of wars because we don't have anything to build but soldiers
Then the heroic epic and armies might come in handy

[randommushroom]

I won't make my decision about the GL until I sit down with the game after work today, but odds favor an army to get the Heroic Epic.

Definitely don't want the Forbidden Palace yet. We'll want to put it in a place where we'll get another core of productive cities, and we may want to consider placing it on another continent than our starting one. Why? Right now, it looks like we're going to have an excellent chance of securing the home continent without too much trouble, and there's a very good chance that the Great Library will be built by another civ on another continent. Since we'll be going to war with that civ on that continent, if we could get some cities there through war and/or founding, along with a GL from the battles, we could then rush a Forb. Palace there, and use its productivity to ease the struggle of a cross ocean war.

[randommushroom]

Okay, played it out. War has gone very well, and nearing the end, although our forces have been spread a little thin.




310 BC Renegotiate peace with Alexander. He gives us Pharsalos.

290 BC Swordsman chop and burn down Centralia, rewarded with 17 shiny round things, and more laborers. Temple whipped in Nagoya.


270 BC Yokohama founded near good smelling hills.

250 BC Swordsman army completed, sent towards Iroqouis front.

230 BC Swordsmen pound Allegheny into the dirt, finding 18 shiny round things in the dust.

210 BC Hi came in between turns, asking for peace, willing to part with two cities, plus something that he says would let us build stadiums for our moronic rabble. I decline, war good, war very good.

190 BC

170 BC

150 BC Salamanca falls to our guys with long sharp things. We immediately begin starving the idiots.

130 BC ---

110 BC Niagra Falls, well, falls. 28 gold, another worker. Shimoneski founded.


Whoops, took an extra turn, didn't I? Okay, the Iroquois are almost dust. Hopefully, Tarq you'll be able to use our army to win a battle and take Cattaragus. Workers have begun clearing forest to clear out an irrigation path to Kagoshima. Maybe I should have razed Salamanca, it looks like the Iroqs whipped the hell out of it. And our literacy rate remains at 0%.

[Tarquinius]

Looks good randommushroom! Ill see what I can do. However, I don't have much time this weekend, I hope i can play, otherwise it will be monday.

[randommushroom]

If you're subscribed to this thread, Tarq, posting this will let you know that Apolyton has come back online.

[dunk]

I just read something that fits our game...

We should set our science rate to zero and make one citizen somewhere a scientist. This way, none of our tax income is devoted to science and we still get regular research (40 turn maximum). This would maximize the gold per turn we get and minimize the money spent on science.

[randommushroom]

Good idea, Dunk. Of course, we should find that scientist a cold, dark, and dank city.

[dunk]

If Tarquinius hasn't said anything by 8 or so, I'm going to skip him, ok?

[randommushroom]

Okay. I hope that skips don't happen, but if it does happen, we'll then hope that Tarq returns and takes a turn immediately afterwards. Especially since I've been playtesting a variant I call the Pacifists, and have been having a bit of fun with a game where I can't build any offensive millitary.

[dunk]

I am playing now.

We need some more players. If anyone is reading along and would like to play, please let us know.

[dunk]

Here is the tale of Dunk III. The first Dunk in the line of Dunks to live exactly as long as he was supposed to. (In other words, I played the right number of turns. )

90 BC... The Iriquois sign a peace treaty with Greece. Dunk III says, "Oki doki. Not like they helped any anyhow."

Mr. Shaka ends our alliance against the Iriquois. Dunk III then buys Philosophy for 48 shiny things. Shaka says Philosophy is cool, so Dunk III immediately wanted it.

The bald-headed man advisor who calls himself "Minister of Skiance" or somesuch tells me that he figured out that there are many gods. I ask him what that means, and he says, "It means there are many gods." I tell him to leave and do whatever he likes with his 3 gold per turn. He says he will research some kind of gubberment where I get to where a shiny, pointy hat.

The city of Kyoto is told to build the Great Wall.

70 BC... The Zulu complete the Pyramids. Dunk III rubs the bald-headed woman advisor's head as she tells him.

50 BC... Kyoto is told to cease with the Great Wall and instead build a Heroic Epic which is a neat story about our guys with pointy metal sticks.

30 BC... The Iriquois city of Cattaraugus is taken. No shiny things are found among the debris. The Geeks, I mean Greeks, start building the Great Wall. The city of Athens finishes the Oracle.

10 BC... Zulu sign peace treaty with Iriquois. Moronland now stands alone against the vast empire of the Iriquois.

10 AD... Dunk III wonders why the year is the same as it was 20 years ago. The science advisor confuses him so he is sent away.

30 AD... The citizens of Cattaraugus are made into scientists so Dunk III is able to spend even less money on science. And there was much rejoicing.

50 AD... Matsuyama founded on iron deposit near Satsuma.

70 AD... General Tojo's army is defeated at Niagara Falls. And there was little rejoicing. A barbarian camp near Satsuma is destroyed.

Dunk III dies from considering how pointy his hat will be when the science advisor tells him he figured out the pointy hat gubberment.

[randommushroom]

Yow, this is a heck of a start, and we're going to be in great shape to whomp on the Zulus and Greeks.

I'm going to give Tarq a chance to check in and grab the game. If not, I'll play tomorrow evening.

Or, if anyone else is interested in joining, we could use a couple more bodies to play.

[Tarquinius]

Sorry guys, Ill play the game immediately, and will make a report of it shortly after, to make it up to you guys

[randommushroom]

No problem, Tarq. Good to see ya back.