RB Pitboss #2 [SPOILERS] - Speaker and Sullla

[Sullla]

Thanks one final time to all our wonderful readers during the past nine months. I think we'll try to move the postgame discussion to the new thread I put up, so we can finally bid farewell to this long-running thread.

Quarter of a million thread views in total?!? That's got to be a record for Realms Beyond.

[Bobchillingworth]

Will you be doing a final write-up / summary on your website?

[darrelljs]

Quarter of a million thread views in total?!? That's got to be a record for Realms Beyond.

But not quite the 654,994 for Cuban Isolationists .

Darrell

[Sullla]

Probably at some point, Bob. I mean, this was a pretty epic game.

For the moment though, I need to see what the other teams did in their threads and get their perspective on things. Also find out wtf those lurkers were doing with their 3000+ posts in the "No Players!" thread.

[Adlain]

we did what all lurkers do best, Argue the point and basicly spam alot to confuse all the players into thinking somthing was up.

Great Game Sullla and Speaker

[Darkmantle]

A lot of posts in the lurker threads were basically "I'm calling it for India now" which started after the dogpile.

[DMOC]

Good game India. I wish we could have provided better resistance.

[Speaker]

Good game India. I wish we could have provided better resistance.

It is *extremely* difficult to attack in the Industrial age. You simply overextended, and left us with a couple of opportunities to wipe out large stacks of units, without taking (m)any losses of our own. Then our units get more promos, giving us a bigger advantage. You would have been better off attacking Dantski a lot sooner, while the bulk of our army was off rampaging through the Ottoman countryside. We wouldn't have been able to help him much then.

[BCAgamer]

Also find out wtf those lurkers were doing with their 3000+ posts in the "No Players!" thread.

Right now we're having an intelligent discussion about Coffee

[Sullla]

Let's wrap things up with some pictures from the final turn. sunrise sent me the ending savefile and admin password, so here's a last look at how each team was faring.

KOREA



I took pictures of each team's original core with the interface on, so that we could see their research at break-even rate for comparison purposes. Korea was right around 400 beakers/turn, having recently expanded out quite a bit into unclaimed islands and former Roman/Zulu territory in the east.



Overhead view of the Korea Empire. There's just one or two more cities cut out to the far east and south. I believe Korea had 23 cities at the end, spaced across the main landmass and 6-7 islands.



Korea's Demographics. Korea was pretty clearly the #3 empire at the time the game closed, climbing rapidly towards the #2 position due to Holy Rome's warfare problems.

[SIZE="3"]HOLY ROME[/SIZE]



Holy Rome's original core of cities. Happiness was a major problem due to Dantski's Statue of Zeus-induced war weariness. Holy Rome was running 30% culture slider to combat unhappiness, which crippled research. Break-even rate was less than 200 beakers/turn... obviously not helped by having so many cities coastal blockaded.



Holy Rome still had a large amount of territory remaining. Amazingly, Holy Rome's 19 cities were actually fewer than those possessed by Korea at game's end. Believe me, I never would have believed that either!



Poor Roland and its unhappiness problems... Theatre and colosseum really would have helped, considering all the culture slider being run here.



Holy Rome's demographics. This is a good example of how GNP can be a deceptive figure if interpreted as = research, as Holy Rome ranks well in GNP but pooly in actual beaker count. (The figure is not lying either, it's just counting commerce being applied for culture via the slider.) Holy Rome's military remained formidable, however the Food/Production numbers were definitely slipping. Fighting an opponent with triple the Production capacity was more or less an impossible task.