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The Color section has lots of potential. In general, each GColor value is made up of four numbers that range from 0 to 255. The first three are red, green, and blue in that order (higher numbers being brighter.) The fourth value is called alpha or opacity; lower numbers mean more transparency. Here's a few examples.

I thought of an interesting variant idea just a few minutes ago, so here it is.

Leader: Huayana Capac (Can be changed)
Map: Fractal - random climate and random sealevel
Difficulty: Monarch or Emperor
Speed: Epic

Variant: Cannot ever change civics

My friends, this is going to be a grind. I think the biggest loss is in slavery which is probably the stronget civic in the game. But lets not forget free market, beauracracy, state property, and ofcourse all of the religious civics.

Looking for 4 people to fill up the roster. Post preferred difficulty when you signup. I would personally prefer not to go below Monarch.

For the benefit of those who do not have Warlords yet (and maybe even for those who do), here's a complete list of changes and additions.

The Great General Unit
Great Generals are generated like Great People, except instead of Great Person Points generated by cities, it uses the total XP of your army. Like GPPs, once you accumulate enough XP, a Great General will appear in one of your cities, the accumulated count resets to zero, and you start working toward your next Great General (which, like other Great People and GPPs, takes a progressively higher number of accumulated points for each one).

The Great General has three special abilities:

• Join a city as a Great Military Instructor. All new units built in that city receive +2 XP.
  
• Construct a Military Academy in a city. The city receives a +25% production bonus when building military units.
  
• Lead another unit as a Warlord. To do this, you select a unit in the same tile for the Great General to attach to. Upon doing so, the General grants 20 bonus XP divided evenly between all units on the tile. The unit you attached the Warlord to receives two additional benefits as well:
  • All future upgrades for that unit are free. Additionally, the unit retains all of its experience after the upgrade.
    
  • The unit gains access to several advanced upgrades. These are only available to units that have been joined with a Warlord.
    • Combat IV (+25% strength)
      
    • Medic III (+15% healing rate to units in the same and adjacent tiles)
      
    • Tactics (+30% chance to withdraw from battle)
      
    • Leadership (+50% experience gained from combat)
      
    • Morale (+1 movement range)
      

• Trebuchet
  • Siege Weapon
    
  • Strength: 4
    
  • Movement: 1
    
  • Cost: 60
    
  • Requires Engineering
    
  • Does not receive defensive bonuses
    
  • 25% withdraw chance
    
  • Causes collateral damage
    
  • +100% city attack
    
  • Can bombard city defenses (-25% per turn)
    
  
  
• Trireme
  • Naval Unit
    
  • Strength: 2
    
  • Movement: 2
    
  • Cost: 50
    
  • Requires Sailing, Bronze Working
    
  • Upgrades to Caravel. Frigate
    
  • Cannot enter ocean
    
  • +50% vs. Galley
    

• Stable
  • Cost: 60
    
  • Requires Horseback Riding
    
  • New mounted units receive +2 XP
    
  
  
• Monument
  The Monument is simply a renaming of the Obelisk (which now refers to the Egyptian unique building). No stats have changed.
  

• The Great Wall
  • Cost: 250 (Double production speed with Stone)
    
  • +2 , +2 (Great Engineer)
    
  • Requires Masonry
    
  • Prevents barbarians from entering borders on continent
    
  • +100% Great General emergence inside cultural borders
    
  • Can only be built on Classical and earlier starts
    
  
  
• The Temple of Artemis
  • Cost: 400 (Double production speed with Marble)
    
  • +8 , +2 (Great Merchant)
    
  • Requires Polytheism
    
  • +100% trade route yield
    
  • +1 free Priest
    
  • Can only be built on Classical and earlier starts
    
  • Obsolete with Chemistry
    
  
  
• The University of Sankore
  • Cost: 550 (Double production speed with Stone)
    
  • +8 , +2 (Great Scientist)
    
  • Requires Paper
    
  • +2 from all state buildings
    
  • Can only be built on Renaissance and earlier starts
    
  • Obsolete with Computers
    

• Imperialistic
  • +100% Great General emergence
    
  • +50% production of Settler
    
  
  
• Charismatic
  • +1 in all cities
    
  • -25% XP needed for unit promotions
    
  • +1 from Monument, Broadcast Tower
    
  
  
• Protective
  • Free promotion (City Garrison I, Drill I)
    • Archery units
      
    • Gunpowder units
      
  • Double production speed of Walls, Castle
    

• Carthaginian Empire
  • Leader: Hannibal (Financial, Charismatic)
    
  • Unique Unit: Numidian Cavalry (replaces Horse Archer)
    • Strength: 5 (Horse Archer: 6)
      
    • +50% vs. melee units
      
    • Starts with Flanking I
      
  • Unique Building: Cothon (replaces Harbor)
    • Cost: 100 (Harbor: 80)
      
    • +1 trade routes
      
  
  
• Celtic Empire
  • Leader: Brennus (Spiritual, Charismatic)
    
  • Unique Unit: Gallic Warrior (replaces Swordsman)
    • Starts with Guerilla I
      
  • Unique Building: Dun (replaces Walls)
    • Free Guerilla I promotion for units built in this city
      
    • Obsolete with Rifling (except defensive bonus)
      
  
  
• Korean Empire
  • Leader: Wang Kon (Financial, Protective)
    
  • Unique Unit: Hwacha (replaces Catapult)
    • +50% vs. melee units
      
  • Unique Building: Seowon (replaces University)
    • +35% (University: +25%)
      
  
  
• Ottoman Empire
  • Leader: Mehmed II (Expansive, Organized)
    
  • Unique Unit: Janissary (replaces Musketman)
    • +25% vs. archery units
      
    • +25% vs. mounted units
      
    • +25% vs. melee units
      
  • Unique Building: Hammam (replaces Aqueduct)
    • +2
      
  
  
• Viking Empire
  • Leader: Ragnar (Aggressive, Financial)
    
  • Unique Unit: Berserker (replaces Maceman)
    • +10% city attack
      
    • Starts with Amphibious
      
  • Unique Building: Trading Post (replaces Lighthouse)
    • Free Navigation I promotion for units built in city
      
  
  
• Zulu Empire
  • Leader: Shaka (Aggressive, Expansive)
    
  • Unique Unit: Impi (replaces Spearman)
    • Movement: 2 (Spearman: 1)
      
    • Starts with Mobility
      
  • Unique Building: Ikhanda (replaces Barracks)
    • Cost: 60 (Barracks: 50)
      
    • -20% Maintenance
      
  
  

• England: Winston Churchill
  • Charismatic, Protective
    
  • Favorite Civic: Nationhood
    
  
  
• Rome: Augustus Caesar
  • Creative, Organized
    
  • Favorite Civic: Representation
    
  
  
• Egypt: Ramesses II
  • Spiritual, Industrious
    
  • Favorite Civic: Theocracy
    
  
  
• Russia: Josef Stalin
  • Aggressive, Industrious
    
  • Favorite Civic: State Property
    

• Asoka
  • Favorite Civic: Free Religion (was: Universal Suffrage)
    
  
  
• Bismarck
  • Favorite Civic: Nationhood (was: Representation)
    
  
  
• Catherine
  • Creative, Imperialistic (was: Creative, Financial)
    
  
  
• Cyrus
  • Charismatic, Imperialistic (was: Creative, Expansive)
    
  
  
• Frederick
  • Philosophical, Organized (was: Philosophical, Creative)
    
  
  
• Gandhi
  • Philosophical, Spiritual (was: Spiritual, Industrious)
    
  
  
• Genghis Khan
  • Aggressive, Imperialistic (was: Aggressive, Expansive)
    
  
  
• Hatshepsut
  • Favorite Civic: Theocracy (was: Hereditary Rule)
    
  
  
• Huayna Capac
  • Industrious, Financial (was: Aggressive, Financial)
    
  
  
• Isabella
  • Favorite Civic: Theocracy (was: Police State)
    
  
  
• Julius Caesar
  • Organized, Imperialistic (was: Expansive, Organized)
    
  
  
• Kublai Khan
  • Favorite Civic: Bureaucracy (was: Hereditary Rule)
    
  
  
• Mao Zedong
  • Expansive, Protective (was: Philosophical, Organized)
    
  
  
• Napoleon
  • Organized, Charismatic (was: Aggressive, Industrious)
    
  
  
• Peter
  • Favorite Civic: Bureaucracy (was: Police State)
    
  
  
• Qin Shi Huang
  • Industrious, Protective (was: Industrious, Financial)
    
  • Favorite Civic: Bureaucracy (was: Police State)
    
  
  
• Roosevelt
  • Favorite Civic: Mercantilism (was: Universal Suffrage)
    
  
  
• Saladin
  • Spiritual, Protective (was: Philosophical, Spiritual)
    
  
  
• Tokugawa
  • Aggressive, Protective (was: Aggressive, Organized)
    
  
  
• Victoria
  • Financial, Imperialistic (was: Expansive, Financial)
    
  
  
• Washington
  • Expansive, Charismatic (was: Financial, Organized)
    
  • Favorite Civic: Free Speech (was: Universal Suffrage)
    
  
  

• Chariot
  • +100% vs. Axeman
    
  • 10% withdraw chance (originally: 20%)
    
  
  
• Cossack
  • Strength: 15 (originally: 18)
    
  
  
• Horse Archer
  • -10% city attack
    
  • 20% withdraw chance
    
  
  
• Quechua
  • Starts with Combat I
    
  
  

• Barracks
  • Cost: 50 (originally: 60)
    
  • New land units receive +3 XP (originally: +4)
    
  
  
• Castle
  • +1 trade routes
    
  • Obsolete with Economics
    
  
  

• The Spiral Minaret
  • +2 from all state buildings (originally: +1)
    
  
  
• West Point
  • Requires a unit of Level 6 experience (originally: Level 5)
    
  
  
• Heroic Epic
  • Requires a unit of Level 5 experience (originally: Level 4)
    
  
  

• America: Mall (replaces Supermarket)
  • +10%
    
  • +1 from Hit Musicals, Hit Singles, Hit Movies
    
  
  
• Arabia: Madrassa (replaces Library)
  • +4 (Library: +2)
    
  • Can turn 2 citizens into Priest
    
  
  
• Aztec: Sacrificial Altar (replaces Courthouse)
  • Cost: 90 (Courthouse: 120)
    
  • -50% anger duration from sacrificing population
    
  
  
• China: Pavillion (replaces Theatre)
  • +25%
    
  
  
• Egypt: Obelisk (replaces Monument)
  • Can turn 2 citizens into Priest
    
  
  
• England: Stock Exchange (replaces Bank)
  • +65% (Bank: +50%)
    
  
  
• France: Salon (replaces Observatory)
  • +1 free Artist
    
  
  
• Germany: Assembly Plant (replaces Factory)
  • Can turn 4 citizens into Engineer (Factory: 2)
    
  • Builds 50% faster with Coal
    
  
  
• Greece: Odeon (replaces Colosseum)
  • +3
    
  • +2 (Colosseum: +1)
    
  • Can turn 2 citizens into Artist
    
  • +1 from Hit Singles
    
  
  
• Inca: Terrace (replaces Granary)
  • +2
    
  
  
• India: Mausoleum (replaces Jail)
  • +2
    
  
  
• Japan: Shale Plant (replaces Coal Plant)
  • +10%
    
  • Provides Power (no resources required)
    
  
  
• Mali: Mint (replaces Forge)
  • +25%
    
  
  
• Mongolia: Ger (replaces Stable)
  • New mounted units receive +4 XP (Stable: +2)
    
  
  
• Persia: Apothecary (replaces Grocer)
  • +2
    
  
  
• Rome: Forum (replaces Market)
  • +25% birth rate
    
  
  
• Russia: Research Institute (replaces Laboratory)
  • +2 free Scientist
    
  
  
• Spain: Citadel (replaces Castle)
  • -50% damage to defenses from bombardment (except vs. gunpowder-based units)
    
  • New siege weapons receive +2 XP
    
  
  

• Units
  • New promotion Guerilla III (+25% Hills Attack)
    
  • Drill II, III, IV: 20% collateral damage protection (stacks with each promotion)
    
  
  
• Technology
  • Gunpowder is a requirement for the Pinch promotion
    
  
  
• Buildings
  • City Garrison and City Raider promotions now apply to forts as well as cities
    
  • Forts provide defensive bonuses only to units on the same team (or vassal) as the cultural owner of the plot
    
  
  

Well, we won the first game, so time for the sequel! This thread will be used to plan how we want to go about setting up another game. Since the time we've been using seems to be working, I'd like to continue running MP events on Wednesday nights at 8:00pm EST (with apologies to our European friends!) Here's another game concept I'd like to try:

RBMP Epic #2: Deity Challenge
Large Pangaea, Solid form (sea level will depend on number of players)
5-8 humans vs. 3-4 Deity AIs
Always War

I'm sure Sirian remembers the night we tested a team of 5 humans against 2 Deity AIs, and frankly the 2 were beating the 5! I'm certainly open to altering these proposed settings depending on the number of players interested, or going with a different scenario entirely should the group decide on it. Since all of our players from the last game seem interested in continuing a new one, I hope that we can get 6 or even more humans involved this time. (Blake especially has a spot here if interested, since we unfortunately had to leave him off the roster for the last game.) Keep in mind though - don't sign up if you can't make Wednesday nights! Better not to signup if you can only make it "some of the time" or "once in a while", in all honesty.

Let's get some feedback. Is anyone interested in this idea? Am I being TOO crazy about this? Let me know.

Just wanted to check if there were enough people out there who would be interested in playing an SG for MoO1. I've read through some of the reports of previous games on CivFanatics, and they sound like they were fun.

In terms of level/size/variant, that would depend on the players involved. I'm up for any level from average to impossible, depending on what interested players would like to try.

Olorin (OlorinStormcrow on CivFanatics)

Hi all. RB19 succession game proved to be a great success, but now I have in mind to try something a bit harder. I've always felt that simplest variants make for some of the best games, so here's one that should be a doozy.

RB21 - The Mongol Hordes
Temujin (Aggressive/Expansive)
Standard Pangaea, Epic Speed, Emperor difficulty
All victory conditions enabled, but we must win by Conquest or Domination
Variant Rule: No Promotions, ever!

I expect this game will be rather on the rough side. No City Raider axes or maces, no city garrison defensive units, no Medic units (!) or anything else. (We will have some Combat I units to ease the pain somewhat, but virtually no economic boosts whatsoever as Temujin.) Can we conquer the world, on Emperor, given those restrictions? Let's find out.

By special request, T-Hawk and Kylearan both have spots reserved for this game, should they find the concept interesting. I have also asked Sirian, but he has his hands full with RB20 succession game (you know how Huge maps are ). I am looking for one or two other players who would be interested in running this variant. I'd like anyone who signs up to have some familiarity with Emperor, given that this could be a toughee. But in the end, we'll do or die trying, right?

I'll generate a start file and open a CivFanatics thread once we have a roster set. Since my last succession game filled up in all of six hours, I don't expect that to take very long.

The Epic Four Results page can be seen here. This Epic had strong participation- 29 games made it to the results, not counting late reports or Sirian's shadow. From your thread titles I can tell that some of you actually even read the little blurbs I write up on the Civ site, too.

It's also nice to see that there are 5 Epic heroes for this event, including three players who are newly recognized. :hippie: It's also fun to note that fully 2/3 of the players from the original Epic Four played this Epic Four.

Thanks to everyone who participated. I hope that you're enjoying the adventure!

I don't know how many of you have heard of / played in the SGOTM over at Civ Fanatics. It's basically a succession game, but with multiple teams playing the same start.

I know that some folks here at RB played in the first one, which is just about to end. The signups for the 2nd one are starting already.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=178766

The start looks fairly interesting, from a variant perspective. You are Tokugawa on a fractal map at Monarch level. The twist is that in addition to your opening settler / warrior, you start with a city already founded, on a one tile island surrounded by ocean, quite a distance from your settler.

I don't know if there is room on the SGOTM1 RB team, or if there is enough interest from other folks here for a 2nd team, but I thought I'd bring it up.

What I'm looking for is a team of people that will be able to spend a day or two between turns analyzing things, and trying to reach consensus about the general plan that we're trying to accomplish, as well as be on-time and write good reports.

I don't know if any of you guys do the Game of the Month over at Civ Fanatics, but I just finished up my replay.

I thought some might enjoy it, and I know I'd certainly enjoy seeing if anybody else here at RB has a writeup for their participation. If you haven't played, there is still a week to finish the game. But since there already exists a spoiler thread in the GOTM Forums, I figure it's not a problem to post my completed game.

Needless to say, my writeup has spoilers for the game, so if you're planning on playing and haven't finished, don't read it (yet!)

Hopefully nobody at RB will mind my posting this - after all, there are no Epics / Adventures closing today, so that means a boring Monday with no reports to read!!!

My report is at http://www.regoarrarr.com/civ/replay.php?story=14

I went through everybody's reports and wrote down all the results. Here they are, in alphabetical order (no scoring):

Atlas - Conquest Loss - 1320 AD
Blake - Domination Victory - 1589AD
blid – Domination Victory – 1679 AD
Compromise – Domination Victory – 1208 AD
darrelljs – Conquest Loss - ?
Dreylin – Domination Victory – 1800 AD
Iustus – Retired – 1106 AD
Kodii – Incomplete – 1124 AD
mihau – Conquest Victory – 1679 AD
pindicator – Domination Victory – 1661 AD
regoarrarr – Conquest Victory – 845 AD
Ruff_Hi – Domination Victory – 1732 AD
sooooo – Conquest Victory – 670 BC
Sullla – Domination Victory – 1160 AD
T-Hawk – Conquest Victory – 875 AD
uberfish – Conquest Victory – 1142 AD

One order of flowers and affection for:
T-Hawk

If I made any mistakes or left anyone out, let me know!