Anyone up for some MP today / tonight?

[waterbat]

thanks again for the game guys. Getting choked and basically eliminated by 1 warrior wasn't fun - but not bad for my first MP bts game with opponents over the age of 7

Again Yuri is the thorn in my backside!

Maybe I'll be on later if some of the americans want to also take advantage of me...

[dazedroyalty]

I'll be available to play in 30 minutes or so if anyone is interested (BTS).

[Square Leg]

I'll be available to play in 30 minutes or so if anyone is interested (BTS).

we are waiting for you!

anyone else welcome of course

[dazedroyalty]

What room are we using?

[Square Leg]

What room are we using?

the one i posted earlier

http://tinychat.com/gw5j8

[pindicator]

I'm about 30 min away from home but its so nice out it may be better if the game starts without me

[Square Leg]

gg all in that crazy cramped game... i'll post some shot tm - need sleep.

[DaveV]

Yeah, gg. I was doing a random walk through the tech tree until Yuri showed up with a stack to kill me. His stack is north of Babylon, listed listed on the left, my defenders in Babylon are listed to the right. Five chariots were playing zone defense.

Spoiler for size:

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Whoo, won somehow.

Here's my start:

Wait no, that didn't connect properly, we couldn't continue that game. In that parallel universe, I was FIN/ORG of Rome.

This time, rolled Sury of Sumeria. Here's what my empire looked like at the end. I told you you'd get mad at me. Lots more forests earlier, which slowed me down, but got chopped into the 'mids. Plains hill plants are always good, with EXP. I mined the golds fairly late, I care more about food than commerce.

My strategy was to put Bob on the defensive. Did an old-fashioned choke, lost several warriors to bob's shock warriors, lost a woody II warrior in a stupid way, and fed even more warriors to his chariots.

I don't think anyone besides Bob got a good look at my land. I don't even think Bob saw my golds.

Otherwise, I sat in the corner, protected and safe, kept my power up, razed an aggressive city of Bob's, and managed to get away with it. I got more lucky

A decent bureaucapital. I should have reclaimed the golds from my satellite cities to get the commerce bonus, but I botched that one up I was also going to make a run for the HG.

Should have handed the golds to the capital, and worked rep scientist. Whoops. Sorry about the unimproved grassland as well.

An incredibly awkward copper placement. Only way I could get it before I got rolled by Bob's BFC horses. A few turns before my copper got hooked up, I screamed "Whoo copper connected! Choo choo here comes the pain train" to scare the crap out of Bob. I think it worked, he never pushed deeper into my territory. Diplomacy

Nevertheless, Eridu was going to get better as I spread irrigation and could get more tiles into play. As it was, it was a mediocre hammer city.

Finally, don't ask me why I was building a Confucian temple

Demos. Yeah, this is what happens when someone rolls a ton of easily defended land, and gets left alone for an entire game. Don't know who was #1 in power, but I was stronger than Bob. And no, I wasn't going to kill you off until I had a real technological advantage

[Bobchillingworth]

I screamed "Whoo copper connected! Choo choo here comes the pain train" to scare the crap out of Bob. I think it worked, he never pushed deeper into my territory.

I never seriously considered attacking you I was obsessed with razing Olddavy's Oracle city- the land between you and I was jungled, and my south was all desert. East was ocean. So I was stuck at maybe four cities max until I could burn his city, which I finally did, but by the time it fell I had fallen way behind plus used up most of my HA standing army, so fighting you was entirely out of the question.


My combat luck was really awful too Failed to raze the Oracle city early on due to bad rolls, failed to raze an Yell0w city because I lost a 79% battle, I think over half the fights I lost were at 70% or better odds.