Bye bye PtW

[Mountain Sage]

The first part of the 'Saga of the German Empire' (Director, Sir Ralph, producer, MS) is on my 'Emperor' thread. Enjoy it.

[Mountain Sage]

Originally posted by Arrian
Kill them.

Kill them.

KILL THEM!!!!



Sorry, haven't got Conquests yet, though the package tracking online tells me it has reached my town. Here I am stuck at work, and it could be on my doorstep right now.

-Arrian

Not yet. I'm trying to keep a sort of balance for now. Sooner or later, Rome, Spain, France or Russia will make a big mistake, then I'll need an ally (some of them have mutual defence agreements).
But when the day comes... look at the two Cavalry stacks east of Hastings: 40 Elites!
Of course, I have 8 empty armies and one more/6 turns.
To make things worse, I also have the Pentagon.

Even I have sometimes dreams of 10 4-Panzers Armies


PS: I'm also still awaiting C3C, It's on its way, I've been told. I hope Amazon will not find one of my guerrillas on its way...

[Mountain Sage]

Originally posted by Arrian
What's with all those guerilla builds?

-Arrian

Ah, this is a most devious tactic I found out, just to keep me occupied, of course.
In this game, a guerrila is 'neutral', meaning it can't be traced to a specific civ (like the Privateer).
Since I don't have anything better to build, I'm building 6-10 guerrilla/turn and ship them (railway them, that is) around my continent.
All other civs get crazy because I keep capturing their workers , they lose units vs. 'my' guerrilla and have to re-build their mines/RR/roads etc.

Of course (and this already happened two times), when somebody gets a GL for fighting 'my' guerrillas or another civ's military units, I send a few 'spare guerrillas' to take care of him'.

Sometimes I can really be devious...

[Arrian]

What's with all those guerilla builds?

-Arrian

[vmxa1]

MS you get the 5% from building the small wonder Wall Street IIRC.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Mountain Sage
El Conquistador solitario

Everytime a barbs camp is spawned in the jungle SW of the continent, that poor guy (and the poor dog) race down all my territory to destroy it.
Then they race back towards Spain. Once arrived near my most eastern city, a new camp is spawned and they race back again
Now they have done it at least 5-6 times...

hi ,

so you are letting the AI getting away this , ......

you should teach them not to walk on your ground

have a nice day

[Arrian]

Kill them.

Kill them.

KILL THEM!!!!



Sorry, haven't got Conquests yet, though the package tracking online tells me it has reached my town. Here I am stuck at work, and it could be on my doorstep right now.

-Arrian

[Mountain Sage]

Virtual SOD
The Roman High Command cannot decide which way their units (about 70 of them) should go: south towards Russia or east towards home?
So these units would march south, then north, then east, then west, then south, then stop, then...

[Mountain Sage]

El Conquistador solitario

Everytime a barbs camp is spawned in the jungle SW of the continent, that poor guy (and the poor dog) race down all my territory to destroy it.
Then they race back towards Spain. Once arrived near my most eastern city, a new camp is spawned and they race back again
Now they have done it at least 5-6 times...

[Mountain Sage]

The AI is cheating
Ironclads should not be able to sail on ocean squares.
But of course, if an Ironclad protects a Galleon, he can escort it anywhere...

[Mountain Sage]

Economic Power. No coments, except that I can't get my 5% interests with SmithTC. Somebody chould replace the game's accountant...

[Mountain Sage]

I'm a bit mor than halfway thru this game. As ususal, playing on huge maps with 24 civs takes a lot of time. I will post a short DAR in my 'Emperor games' when I'm finished.
In the meantime, some highlights...

What do you think? Are the French a bit paranoid about me wanting to capture their city or nobody told them RoP exist????
BTW, the city's name is Alesia...

[Mountain Sage]

Originally posted by Arrian


You've summed it up at the end there. Emperor = 90% challenge (work), 10% fun. Occasionally I desire that much challenge, but most of the time I just wanna play. And C-T-T-C turns my stomach. Too damn close!

-Arrian

Well, for me, Emperor is more 50-50. Your chances of winning are very good, even if you try something 'unusual', but ther level is high enough not to allow you to get sloppy in your management (cities, techs, wonders etc.).

As for the C-T-T-C, I agree it's a bit crowded, but again, it all depends on the map and number of civs. If the map is crowded 'at birth', a C-T-T-C gives you more punch (i.e. cities) for the same territory.

[Harovan]

FP, thanks for the tip, I will know in the future. But there's another reason why I didn't even look for such a tool: The Ulitima X scenario has a distorted map. To make it better looking at the minimap, it's stretched 2:1 along the Y-axis, which makes N-S distances twice as long as W-E distances, although they look the same. I made a map, what looks distorted in the minimap (looks stretched in the W-E direction), but has the right "geometry".

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
There's btw an excellent "Ultima X" scenario in the directory. It inspired me greatly, but unfortunately it's not a scenario file but a plain Civ3 1.29f savegame, so I can't tinker with it and had to make all myself.

I hesitate to mention this to you after you've done all that work ... but couldn't you have used that fancy tool that Gramphos developed to turn the .SAV file into a .bic? I'm pretty sure that is possible.