So very cold (of the map generator)

[Aeson]

I played up to 1555AD last night, mostly just building up tanks to upgrade to modern armor when the time came. I took advantage of some wars on the other continent to establish a foothold. The AI's in this game have all been completely psycho. I don't think there has been a turn of peace for any of the AI since the advent of nationalism.

I should get synthetic fibers at least a couple of turns before anyone else... should be a fun couple of turns!

[Arrian]

200 Modern Armor ready to go. That's nice. The AI, however, has Mech Infantry, no?

And how in the HELL are you so rich? I've been that rich once or twice... on Monarch a with beautiful starting position and the spoils of early continental conquest. I cannot fathom, however, turning that iceberg into 10 grand.

-Arrian

[Pythagoras]

Originally posted by Arrian
200 Modern Armor ready to go. That's nice. The AI, however, has Mech Infantry, no?

And how in the HELL are you so rich? I've been that rich once or twice... on Monarch a with beautiful starting position and the spoils of early continental conquest. I cannot fathom, however, turning that iceberg into 10 grand.

-Arrian

If you trade tech wisely you can be reaping in like all of the AI's income. Sometimes you shouldnt trade tech, but other times when another AI has it and they will get it eventually, might as well trade it for the bazillion gold a turn.

[Aeson]

Except for researching Synthetic Fibers, I've been on 100% tax rate for the entire game. I did research Ecology first, with one scientist and 40 turns (the AI likes the 'space' techs far too much). I bought Spaceflight with it and 9k gold (no one else could afford it yet), then sold those to all the other AI's who had any cash. I ended up making a profit off of Spaceflight alone. Every tech through the last half of the Industrial age made me a profit this way, and the free Fission helped a lot too.

I've also had 3 and sometimes 4 Iron sources to sell, for a while I was selling 6 gems, 2 saltpeter, 2 coal, an oil... It just all adds up eventually. I was up to 20k just recently, but I rushed a lot of tanks with it. Just need enough gold for the upgrades (~8000).

Some of the AI do not have Mechs yet, and a couple more of them are lacking Oil and/or Rubber. The ones without Rubber will only have Riflemen available to build, though most of them do have Infantry built in times past. Modern Armor should cut through those civs like a hot knife. Also on the other continent England and Rome have been in a knock down drag out fight for centuries now. Most of Rome's southern holdings are conquered Greek cities, and very small with no culture (Greeks are out). So I might be able to pull off a conquest win. I'll have to resort to capitol killing to delay spaceships most likely though.

[Theseus]

Aeson, are you really Deep Blue in disguise?

[Aeson]

Who is deep blue? (That probably answers your question )

Just a mini-update. I had 235 MA at 1575AD. I bought an ROP with China for 900 gold, and attacked Indian and the Americans. It only took about half of my MA's to finish both of them off, lost 20 in the process. I got Hoover Dam and Universal Suffrage to boot. So now I have 215 MA and the map looks like this:

[Aeson]

MA's sure are fun. China even had mostly Mech Infantry and I still was able to take all but 5 cities in 1 turn. The ROP I broke helped, but because of the way the AI spaces their cities it wouldn't have mattered anyways. None of my MA's had enough hp's after their first fight to blitz, and all of China's cities were with 2 tiles imbetween.

Down to 165 MA's though.

[Aeson]

The Iroquois decided to attack my MPP partner the Romans in 1590AD. I had to declare war and they took 1 of my less well defended chinese cities. I had been building up a force of MA's on the eastern isle, so I was ready. Because of the Iroquois city to the far south east, I disbanded most of their cities to avoid culture flips.

I also finally started getting leaders fighting against the Iroquois, 3 in total, 1 on defence even! I thought about moving my palace to the mainland, but it's more interesting to leave it where it is. So I ended up with 3 more armies, bringing my total surviving to 7.

No one has started building spaceship parts yet (extremely late already for deity), so I should be able to finish this game off in conquest style.

Here is the map from 1600AD, I have 114 MA's left. So the continent cost me a little more than 120 MA's, not bad.

[jshelr]

Alkis has to realize that we make no attempt to speak english in this country.

[Arrian]

Aeson,

Deep Blue is a supercomputer - the one that beat the #1 ranked chess player, IIRC.

Hmm... looks like England has to go. They have unlawfully stolen your Orange.

-Arrian

[Cookie Monster]

Fascinating........................

Turning a worthless piece of land into a supreme empire on deity while amassing large quantities of cold hard cash deserves a reward of some sort from Firaxis!!!!!!!

[Carver]

Amazing. So what now? Are you moving modern armors over to the second continent for a capitol killing blitz if necessary?

[Barfus]

i guess this thread is dead, but i for one would really like to know what thee hell happened.....damn fine show. damn fine

[Barfus]

all the dumb luck in the universe converged on my comp a few minutes ago, look at this spot. i settled my first city and immediately got a tech, plus the city itself is on a wine.....crazy....

[Aeson]

Nice start there Barfus!

Another update, though the game is pretty much uninteresting now. 1635AD, 121MA's, 8 Armies, Babylon is no more. The Iroquois will be gone in a turn or two.