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Epic 14 - Scavenger

My initial plans were to pump out a second city, build the great wall to turn my traits into aggressive/charismatic/imperialistic while defending my cities. I would defend on one side and sweep my forces round the other.

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I settled in place and started building a warrior for defence against the roving AI warriors while my original warrior looked in the close vicinity, Initial research path was Aggriculture -> Mining -> Animal Husbandry

In 3650BC Hinduism founded first, then Buddism in 3575BC

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Found a nice site for my second city with hills for production and defence, pigs for food and wine for happyness

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Found Suryavarman II in 3700 BC and killed his scout in 3675BC.
Montezuma appeared in 3475BC and the scout was soon killed by my warrior, so far it has been fun picking off those pesky AI scouts
Huts so far had given me 54 and 62 gold

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in 2750BC bronze working came in and no Bronze nearby, revolted to slavery straight away State of the world showing future cities. Idea was to get some good production cities, on the frontiers, to produce the military units and then produce some commerce cities in the safe areas

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In 2600 BC disaster, I had farmed the corn and pastured the sheep pastured and an english warrior popped up next to the pasture, I resigned myself to it being pillaged, however the warrior just walks away to my relief.

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In 2524 Wang Kon drops by and in 2475 my settler runs the gauntlet to found Vienne and starts on a barracks that was switched to a monument when mysticism researched

Researched continued as Masonry (for great wall) -> Wheel (Chariots) -> Archery -> Iron working

In 2325 I whip a chariot which travels round preying on scouts and warriors in the open, Iron working revealed iron next to the capital

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In 1625 the first piece of the puzzle falls into place with the great wall built in bibracte

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In 1400 my victory against the random number generator, one of my chariots scouting round bumps into a roman praetorian, which attacks the chariot, the praetorian attacks and loses at 90.9%, however the archer in the city finishes it off.

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The first stack of Khmer aproaches Bibrace and attack in 1075BC the axe, spear and 2 archers all die with no losses, and the Great General is born in Bibracte

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The Great General was settled in the capital as a military instructor to produce +5exp units

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600BC Gergovia is founded to be the science city with gold to improve the economy

In 395BC the 2nd Sury stack of 2 Axes and 2 Spears, all die with no losses.
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The Roman stack of 3 Preatorians and 2 Chariots approach Tolosa, they attack in 260BC with no losses. A great spy is born and settled in the city, mainly for the +3 beakers

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In 260BC a Sumerian stack marches through my lands, ignoring the lightly defended Gergovia to assult my capital, all attackers die.

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200BC Koreans assualt Vienne my Hills promoted Gallic Warrior driving off the attackers. Cleaning up Koreans gains me my 2nd Great General

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125BC an English stack moves through my lands not sure if going to assault Tolosa or march to my capital, try to block way with Woodsman Axemen. The english hang round near Tolosa and retreat in 95BC without attacking, the Aztecs are still hanging round in the forests.

In 20BC a combined stack of Korean and Khmer advance, looks like they are marching on my capital.

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In 5BC the English finally attack, while the Romans and Aztec watch from a distance. The english are defeated with no losses.

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The Aztec attack Toleto in 70AD and while they don't take the city Toteto is fatally weakened by my overconfidence of holding and sending the defenders elsewhere. The Koreans also attack Bibracte and are defeated.

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In 100AD monty brings up the pride of his army, catapults which join the remanents of his attack of Toleto, that I didn't have sufficient forces to drive off. and reattacks. Toleto holds, just and a great general is born to celebrate my victory.

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Monty reattacks
and I'm left with only 1 warrior and a weakend archer in toleto, thankfully axes and spearmen are already on the way and the city survives all Aztec attacks, the Roman Preatorians are just sitting around, not realising that they could destroy my nation if they attack now

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Up to 235AD things are going well, small stacks are attacking and are being defeated with small or no losses, underlined are all the enemy stacks approaching.
I even begin construction of a settler to build a seafood city to the west.

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In 280AD a roman stack approaches Tolosa and bombard down my defenses, the city holds the Roman attack **PICS 038&39 comined. The English and Aztecs are just sitting round watching the attack

The Aztecs decide on having a go at Bibracte attacking in 475AD, with the Khmer also having a go, Bibracte holds however the lands were pillaged in the attacks another Great General is born to celebrate the Celtic victories and merged into Bibracte

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Its starting to get serious with a stack of Khmer and Koreans marching towards Bibrace

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In building a few more axes for the defence of Bibracte I have caused my economy to collapse, I disband some warriors and non medic chariots to ensure that axes don't disband. I start producing buildings in my cities to try and recover the economy.

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and are driven off and the Khmer attack in 625.

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Here is the state of the world in 684BC, armies are marching through my lands with no ability of mine to strike back, also Aztec elephants are arriving, showing I'm starting to slip technological on the battlefield. I'm builing the heroic epic in Vienne, in the attempt it will become a military powerhouse, the great library in Bibrace in Bibracte to help give me the ability to research and the Statue of Zeus in Tolosa in the hope that someone else will build it first and I'll get some gold from it, on reflection I should have just build wealth in Tolosa and Dergovia.

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In 745AD Monty attacks and fails against Bibracte, however the Khmer finally decide that it might be wise to attack the lightly defended Gergovia, inly one archer and axe in it and take it.

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The tide turns with a large stack of english attacking and taking Tolosa, the majority of my military was in that city

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The romans begin to march on my capital and two large stacks of Koreans and Khmer free to march around its all over and I conceed defeat in 835AD.

Conclusion

Tolosa was placed in the wrong location, it should have been placed one north east on the hill gaining the archer bonus for being on a hill as well as the hillman promotion from the Dun. I got a bit overconfident in the early stages and stopped building military and started building infrastructure, when I should have built a stack of Gallic Warriors and raze a Khmer city or two.

The failure to build cottages except at Gergovia was a mistake, as I was focused about being able to out produce multiple opponents when Vienne should have been a science city with Bibrace producing the military.
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I killed 131 enemy units with a loss of only 40, with the majority in the last few turns.

I was surprised at the lack of pillage by the computer, a huge change in the vanilla/warlords days when they pillaged everything they saw, including roads. At one stage a preatorian sat on my gold mine and walked off without pillaging!
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The power chart shows a period after 1150BC when I was leading, however I think this is when my overconfidence set in. I should have also chopped more forests to help get some settlers/crucial buildings and also ensure that all forests next to cities are cut so the enemy can't hide in.

I enjoyed the game and had a lot of fun in an always war game even if I lost, I learnt a lot and will also ma
ke sure that I have a warmup game next time as I hadn't played for a month until the patch came out.
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scavenger, even though I was sorry to hear that you were defeated, that was an epic story you had to tell! thumbsup Some of those pictures were truly fantastic. Reminded me of the movie "300", especially your comment at the end about killing so many more units than you lost.

As you yourself said, not placing Tolosa on a hill was probably its eventual undoing. But even if it had held out, you would have needed to solve the financial situation as well, and advance to better units before the AI could out-tech you. Not an easy task! eek That's why this one was an "Extreme" Adventure (well, Epic!)

I thoroughly enjoyed your report. Thanks much for sharing! smile
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Very nice report. smile

Praetorians in 1400BC?! That's much earlier than I saw them. I wonder what caused such a difference. Perhaps my early scouting chariot scaring them into settling far from iron did me more good than I realized.

You did a good job defending your lands, but you just needed more territory to remain competitive against 5 AIs.
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Compliments on the report. There were definitely times when I thought I was going to suffer a similar fate, and I feel a bit lucky after reading your report. The stacks shown that finished you seemed large to me, in my game only Churchill generally went that large and only after getting all the classical age units. Tough break.

Incidentally, I had only one more city for a long time until I had some successful offensives, and even though I was working cottages in 4 of the 6 cities I couldn't pull my research rate out of the gutter.
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Thanks for all your feedback, been a long time reader of reports, so I decided to get my act together and report one myself.

I was lucky that the AI didn't co-ordinate its attacks. The amount of times a English/Roman/Aztec stack would attack while the other nations sat by with forces that could destroy my nation made me last as long as I did.
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