December 18th, 2005, 23:11
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December 18th, 2005, 23:47
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Wowza! I bet you'll have a different game than EVERYONE else. +17 with Monty?? I'm speechless, Sirp! Piggybacking wars on that psycho's shoulders was an interesting strategy. I bet you could have pulled a domination victory, riding his coat tails into battle.
Congrats on a well-played game. You should get some sort of award for winning Monty's UN vote. Wow. Simply wow.
"There is no wealth like knowledge. No poverty like ignorance."
December 19th, 2005, 00:07
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Sirp, you actually got targeted by the AI early on after expanding aggressively towards them with one city placement. Speaker was even more audacious and got a free pass until a little bit later, so it appears that there's still a fair amount of randomness in some of the war declarations. Nice job fighting off Temujin with smoke and mirrors, and then taking one of his cities, but I can see how rough it was on your civ's commerce and development. Even winning the war doesn't always leave you sitting pretty! Learning how to deal with finances is a tough part of Civ4, to be sure. Over-expansion can kill you as surely as lack of expansion at all.
The lack of happiness resources until Calendar near the starting position was another serious issue that everyone had to deal with. Trading for those luxury resources with those other civs once trade routes opened up was clearly one of the best moves you could have made to help out your civ. Also glad to see that you made good use of the Colossus as well (though the late date says wonders about how the AI doesn't prioritize building that wonder enough).
The fact that you were able to make friends with Monty, with or without sharing a religion, is remarkable. I think you deserve a medal just for that.  I'm amazed that you ended up on the side of Montezuma fighting against Gandhi. That's nothing less than surreal.
I hope you enjoyed the game, your alliance with Montezuma certainly makes it stand out from the other reports!
December 19th, 2005, 02:57
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Wow, your first three city placements were *exactly* where mine were!
Great minds think alike.
Except about Monty. I wouldn't befriend that guy if I had a skull-and-feathers fetish. I can't believe you got his vote! You deserve a Nobel peace prize for that alone.
Good game!
-Jester
December 19th, 2005, 06:50
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Wow, nice early victory. I think that's the earliest I've read so far. Well played. (And it's good to see another report from an old-timer  ).
December 19th, 2005, 10:40
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Hi,
making Monty your friend and fighting along his side was a highly original move, very entertaining to read!
What I found also funny about your screenshot from Genghis' declaration of war in 1430AD and his...er, fierce horde...is that he also didn't understand that a City Garrison II promotion wouldn't really help his longbow, even if it's towns he's trying to pillage...
-Kylearan
There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." - John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
December 21st, 2005, 04:32
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Jester Wrote:I wouldn't befriend that guy if I had a skull-and-feathers fetish. I can't believe you got his vote! You deserve a Nobel peace prize for that alone.
Indeed. It's a strange, strange world in which we play.
What I'm trying to get a handle on (and it may take a while to sort out) is which shifts in the larger course of games are directly related to player activity (tech paths, city placement, military strength on hand, etc) and which ones are indirectly related (different random seeds leading to changes, and which of these dice rolls are the ones that make or break a major shift.)
At the moment, this is my first glance at a game in which fifty people played and reported on it, and in such depth. My eyes are bugging out.  And I have most of the reports still to go!
- Sirian
Fortune favors the bold.
December 21st, 2005, 09:43
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"There is no wealth like knowledge. No poverty like ignorance."
December 21st, 2005, 10:30
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Expand Eastward... walks away, shaking head, muttering to himself, Expand Eastward, Expand Eastward...
December 21st, 2005, 17:02
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Great game !
You built the UN 50 years before me showing that you had faster research and thus better economic management (yes cottages !!) then me, contrarily to what you said in my report thread 
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