1st Unofficial Apolyton MP tournament.

[Barley]

EPW I can play at 11pm GMT today (Thurs), see you in lobby at 11.00.

[Toni]

We just finished our game with Quimby. We had a good game there, but Quimby dicided to surrender, because he though i had a huge lead in sci. I think we could have played on, but what can you do. Overall it was more of a development game. There were some nice battles, Quimby tried to surprise attack me with 3 stacks of Cavalry, but i was able to stop them, then after somewhere 50 turns or so he tried the samething but this time with 3 stacks of Artillery and Machine gunners, again i stopped him. We had also some sea battles, but i was able to kill all of his ships, so then i went for some of his coastel cities, made some little skirmishes and took some. A couple of turns after that it was Game Over. Good game, but it was easily dwarfed by the game we had Barley. Oh and here is the save.

[Barley]

EPW & I have just finished out game – gametime was about 10 – 12 hours. EPW Surrendered 780AD, unfortunately I cant work out how to attach a file perhaps someone can explain?


I am obviously free to start another game, though cannot say for sure when I’ll be free as I have a busy weekend (I will be in either Friday or Saturday night I think but not sure which until tomorrow).

[Barley]

EPW v Barley (Barley – win) – Gametime 10-12 hours approx.


Game Summary & Highlights:

I started on a smallish island and was initially concerned there were not adjacent islands but eventually found a shallow water corridor to more land just in time for expansion to 10+ cities. Being on an island and having quite a few Coracles exploring I knew I was relatively safe from attack so went into full on expansion mode. Found EPW shortly afterwards and he was some distance to the North. I was able to make an early surprise attack and sack a small city but my force of Archer/Warrior was soon destroyed by a few Knights.

Having continued to expand towards Feudalism I neglected my defence and paid the price by loosing 3 new cities (that were placed to far from my main cities and to near EPW) to a sustained Knight attack. Shortly after this I was caught out good and proper, I thought I had most approach lanes covered but didn’t account for EPW having Carracks at which he promtly landed 24 Knights on my virtually non defended main island.

At that stage I had Cavalry advance and was able to rush buy / re arrange prod ques to build around 12 Cavalry and get them into defensive positions on my main island within a couple of turns and stop the attack. EPW made an excellent strategic move and had caught me un-awares. I was lucky in being able to block his attacks with a few units to buy some time and EPW unaware of my poor defence committed 12 stacks to his attacks.

After this I built Ship of The Line’s and made a ring of steal around my empire and gradually moved them round his islands like a noose. I noticed EPW was still expanding and made a chance attack on a new island he was populating and was able to destroy 2-3 new cities. At this point EPW was behind on expansion as I guess he was most of the game, I had 35 established cities to his 20-25 and hence EPW realised I was to strong and developed.

A very good game, with this being the first the two of us have played together I didn’t know what to expect. EPW was a very worthy opponent and although I was expanding faster my victory was by no means certain until the game moved into the latter stages.

[EPW]

I'm free for a game tommorow after 11pm gmt, maybe a little earlier, if anyone wants to play.

[Barley]

Here is the current table if my analysis of the results is correct (if not please amend)

Maq, did you say you could post the table in a better format or something?


Toni - Played 2 – Won 2 – Lost – 0 - (Draw – 0)
Maq - Played 2 – Won 2 – Lost – 0 - (Draw – 0)
Barley - Played 2 – Won 1 – Lost – 1 - (Draw – 0)
Quimby - Played 2 – Won 0 – Lost – 2 - (Draw – 0)
EPW - Played 2 – Won 0 – Lost – 2 - (Draw – 0)

Daniel - Played 0 – Won 0 – Lost – 0 - (Draw – 0)


Results so far: (have I got the hosts right? i.e. they are first named player)

Maq v EPW (Maq Win)
Barley v Toni (Toni Win)
Maq v Quimby (Maq Win)
Toni v Quimby (Toni Win)
Barley v EPW (Barley Win)

[Maquiladora]

Barley, email me the save of you and EPW, ill post it along with a table.

Im free for a game Barley (which leaves Toni to play EPW for the first time), tell me what days/times you are available.

[Toni]

Quimby was the host in your game, sorry if i wrote is wrong.

[Toni]

lol ah I got it wrong (our) game i ment hmmm should be more careful

[Toni]

Ok Epw i will be able to play tomorrow, i will meet u at 11pm gmt in the lobby if you can make it earlier just post it here, and i will come

[EPW]

Okay I'll meet you there.

[Barley]

Sent you the file Maq, having a small prob with my mail and the message is still in my outbox, should be with you soon though.

I am free for a game from 11.30pm GMT tonight (Friday) and most of tomorrow but not sure if I have to go out tomorrow yet or not.

[Toni]

Hey Barley, here is Quimby e-mail david_gutkin@yahoo.com he was looking for a game today, maybe you can start your tourney game with him tonight. I and Epw have a scheduled our 1st T game for 11gmt.

[Maquiladora]

I cant figure out whos who in that game I mean i think EPW is orange because his civ is smaller (and he has a city called "bloody internet connection" lol) as you described in your summary, but he has 2 full stacks on your island and took one of your cities so im wondering why you stopped there lol

Anyway i can play until 6/7pm tomorrow Barley, if youre available. Same probably goes for Sunday.

[Toni]

lol yea i too just saw the save interesting why they did stop