Novice Game 2 Discussion Thread

[Nugog]

Novice League Game 2 has closed for submissions. Please feel free to discuss your game in as much detail as you want. The more we talk, the more we can learn from each others successes and failures......

Only three submissions, one win and two losses (all score points).......

The top three :

1st: cattivan : Won Cultural Victory - 1878AD - 6045 points / 41821 points

2nd: OFogy : Lost to Cultural - 2022AD - 4345 points / 6232 points - LOST
3rd: Makahlua : Lost to Conquest - 1630AD - 777 points / 6214 points - LOST


Congratulations!!!!

[Makahlua]

Well now I feel better!

Did we all lose except cattivan?

[OFogy]

How I lost but still finished 2nd

Novice game #2.

This looks like a bit of a challenge, since I’m not usually a warrior but a builder. But I know that as a Zulu I’ll have to battle.
First mistake was probably not making use of the Impis, which are immediately available and strong. Oh well, lots more mistakes to come.
I’m not sure how it happened but Catherine soon became a vassal state of mine.
I have a few short wars and take a couple of Mehmed’s cities, but then when I’m poised to take a third, Catherine grabs it from under my nose. Harrumph.
I’m comfortably in the lead in victory points and ahead in technology, especially military techs – no one else has gunpowder yet.
But then, at around 1540, I make another, really dumb mistake: Cyrus persuades me to go to war with the Aztecs. Unfortunately, the Aztecs are next-door neighbors…
During the melee, I fail to notice the Aztecs have captured Ulundi, my capital, so I have to go to war on them again to recapture it, also manage to nab another small city as well, though.

I manage to leave Ulundi with too small a garrison again and Montezuma captures it again; while I fight his garrison down to a couple of old codgers, that damned woman Catherine swoops in and takes it. The good news is that I finally learned the value of having a Vassal State: I couldn’t persuade her to turn Ulundi over to me so tried to goad her into renouncing her vassalness. She had about 10 trade items available. I demanded them, she gave in. I also took her treasury and kept demanding Ulundi, as well as a couple of Arab cities she’d grabbed from under my nose. Eventually she simply gave Ulundi back.

In 2021, while I was at war with Russia and Aztecs, both started by them, and ascendant, Montezuma won a cultural victory. Harrumph, that feather-covered maniac was Cultured?

[RobWorham]

Originally posted by Makahlua
Well now I feel better!

Did we all lose except cattivan?

Only three submissions for this game........

Cattivan was the only winner, OFogy and yourself both lost, but finished second and third respectively by virtue of there being no other submissions.

[Makahlua]

Ooooh.

I still feel some better, though. Stupid Caherine/Monty tag team >_<

[ChrisHill]

I didn't realize the game was ending so soon and as a result did not finish, but it was not going well anyway. I tried to be the aggressor for once and go after Monty early, but it turned out early was too early and he managed to turn back my offense, at which point I was behind in tech and expansion. I probably could have stayed alive just by building units constantly, but I was in no position to win. Still a fun game though, will hopefully learn from this in Game 3!

[RobWorham]

All games run for 4 weeks (28 days) (or more eh Nugog ) The final date for submissions is listed in post 7 of each game thread

Game 3 ends 25th November
Game 4 ends 2nd December

Good luck!!!

[Nugog]

Originally posted by RobWorham
(or more eh Nugog )

Yeah yeah...................