AGG (Amphibious and transport efficiency*)
PHI (Astro Bulb)
CHM (boat promos)

Japan, Spain, Inca (terrace irrig), Rome, America, France

Alexander of Japan is my ideal combo, but Lincoln or even Brennus of Spain might be interesting.

*promos more important this game because each extra couple units requires an extra transport too, so additional hammer savings on densifying your power.

edit: more detail as to why

I dunno, this kinda looks like a Vikings angle to me.

I asked if there would be an interest in an RotP succession game in the forum and got positive vibes from @RefSteel, @haphazard1 and @DP101 so am putting feelers out.

Now I'd say I'm not sure if I'm the right person to set it up and get it going (see my !), but if anybody would like, I could roll a map the weekend (or the weekend after, or the one after that and so on) and go from there.

I would suggest that we start on standard settings (normal difficulty, default advanced settings) with either a 50 or 70 star galaxy and either four or five opponents, not sure who to pick for our empire. I am completely open to different settings and will roll what the consensus is.

So any takers? Or even anybody wanting to roll their own game for me to be in?

Do I have a lurker? 
I am happy to play without one, but my incompetence might degrade the match quality.

Paradox releasing a civ clone:
https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games...nnia/about

Thoughts?

there we go again.

Es war einmal - Once upon a time

The classic beginning for one of the most known collection of fairytales of the world.

The better known (Disney) version is rather unsuitable for FFH2, but the original versions should fit much better - I've heard.
Unlike Disney, the Brothers Grimm had adults as their target audience.


To the game:
FFH2 in the incarnation of the EitB Submod.
It's surprising difficult to find all setting.
I think this is more or less a copy of the last game ?

Six players:
Aurorarcher
Bing
coldrain
Ginger
mackoti
xist10

A bigger map as the last map and a similiar accelerated start.


I don't expect much from this game - I have no significant FFH2 experience and I think, I can't really transport my (small) BtS experience to this mod. And maybe I play to many games.

I think, this report will be more or less a mirror of my german report on civforum.de - Storythread at CF
Uploading screenshots is still not working reliably here, I think.

Just posting a thread for now so RefSteel can give map and civs whenever he’s ready

Just finished up a fun game with Darloks on Impossible. It was a classic case of being able to come from behind with them. Overall, Darloks are certainly my favorite race to play, even though Klackons are stronger. I had to go back to old saves to get pics, and I didn't have saves for all the best times, so there are some gaps. This was Impossible Medium map. 

Started out with a decent map and some challenging opponents:
   

The close green star on the lower right ended up being Ultra Poor, but I went ahead anyway. 

For quite a while I only had contact with the Silicoids and Mrrshan. I was planning to go against the Silis but then the Klackons got involved and I decided to go after them instead, as they were a softer target. I had been able to acquire a good selection planets early on by setting the forward planets ASAP and then filling in my back field, which you'll see in the next map. I started spying almost right way, but made sure to start trade agreements on the first turn of meeting and also gave some minor tribute.

I met the Psilons around 2447:

   

   

I was worried when I saw them, as they looked to be a good bit ahead and with a sizable population. I got spies in ASAP to see what they had. 

   

   

Looked like they were pretty well ahead. I was contemplating just throwing in the towel, but since I was Darloks I went ahead. 

   

Here's what the map looked like by this point: 
   

So far everything had been peaceful. A few rebuffed skirmishes. The Psilons actually attacked a planet of mine, but I was barely able to drive them away with Planetary Shields and Scatter Packs and then they just left me alone for a bit. 

So I launched an attack on the Klackons as of this turn, but I didn't have much to work with:
   

I attacked the closest green star right below the red one near my home world in the map above.

This is how my research was set:
   

It mostly stayed about that like through most of the game, a few changes here and there. 

You can see why I didn't go after the Silis:
   

So this was how things looked at the mid-game. I had some decent planets, but was pretty far behind the Psilons in tech, especially in computers, which had me worried. But I was able to get good relations with them long enough while I started taking over the Klackons.