Er, I'm pretty sure that's in the wrong thread and I shouldn't have seen it....
|
MLG Civ5 gamers only! Nubs and casuals please leave
|
(October 16th, 2016, 09:51)Krill Wrote: Wait, so when you are building a settler, you shouldn't make food? Above that needed to feed hte population? You should work hammers instead?Easy: because Civ 5 is designed to let cities easily get to 10-15 food surplus, which would wreck the cost balance for settlers if that all converted into hammers. It's a reasonable rule in its own right. It's just unreasonable if you expect Civ 5 to be Civ 4, but it's not. (October 17th, 2016, 12:32)T-hawk Wrote:(October 16th, 2016, 09:51)Krill Wrote: Wait, so when you are building a settler, you shouldn't make food? Above that needed to feed hte population? You should work hammers instead?Easy: because Civ 5 is designed to let cities easily get to 10-15 food surplus, which would wreck the cost balance for settlers if that all converted into hammers. It's unreasonable becomes it's not transparent. That alone is a huge problem.  Not much to say. Yuri landed stonehenge, and will probably beat me to 1st religion (unless I can get a quick 3rd city, maybe up north? Even that won't boost me that much). I'm also behind on happiness improvements: The worker improving my sugars from a few turns ago was delayed due to unhappiness. Building archers to let me extort gold from city states, will build granary next.  A picture of Yuri's land. He grabbed Liberty 2 last turn, which means he has a settler out and will settle fairly soon, most likely towards HAK.  HAK will probably settle towards the truffles. Alternatively, what I could do is settle the truffles myself, but that would be a crazy forward settle. Plus I want an actual coastal city, because I suspect that there is a second continent that has the rest of the civs. Someone else grabbed Goddess of Festivals, but it's not HAK. I wish I had wines/incense instead of sugars, which don't have any equivalent boost.  Picture of 2nd city, I hope it grabs cows next. A worker is being sent that direction to pasture it. Once I can connect sugars, I'll immediately trade it to HAK.
November 17th, 2016, 05:25
(This post was last modified: November 17th, 2016, 21:31 by Nicolae Carpathia.)
A T50 update!
Ichabod seems to have taken Oledavey's capital. That's okay, it means him and Pindicator will be strong rivals to one another. I'm happy turtling up here, maybe I'll wait until Crossbows to eat my rivals.  My core territory. A newly built road connects my capital to my 1st expand. All cities now have a library, capital is working on a Nat College. Will buy the deer in a few turns, will subsequently camp it and chop it in order to speed NC.  Tomboctou is very defensible from the north. Nice settling Yuri! He needs to cross a river for a a melee unit to attack, or try and approach from the northwest. I'm considering stealing Mombassa's worker. Alternatively, I save my free CS wardec on Hanoi, get an Ivory and an extra Circus. I'll also settle somewhere on the coast near the barb camp, get those Truffles in play.  The south. Milan is actually a very powerful city. I might also settle the furs as well. Coastals won't be that great this game, due to the strat resource bug, no one is going to be able to get a critical mass of frigates to roll over everyone. Plus everyone has inland starts. Oledavey (Russia) had a chance, until he got fucked by Persia. I could either leave by 2 neighbours as weak buffers while I tech up, or eat the two of them at crossbows, and see if I can wrangle enough frigates to make something happen on the other continent. Funnily enough, but me and Yuri are sitting on enough faith for a GProphet. But it's still not rolling. Bad luck to Yuri, he hit the threshold earlier. I hope I get it though, that would open up alot of options on happiness.
This game is boring now.
 I got attacked after neglecting my military for a while. But the reason for that Ichabod seems to have conquered his continent without a hitch, and so I had to go full eco in order to stand a chance. But I also made a serious strategic misplay by settling up to HAK, and turning it into a dogpile. But it stalemated. HAK's unit composition was a mess, I don't think my city even took damage. But I did settle it in a tactically defensible location, few tiles to shoot the city from, while its hill plant lets its garrison bombard with impunity. Meanwhile, Yuri retook his old city quite easily, but completely stalemated attacking Harar. I pulled off what I think was a decent flanking maneuver, splitting forces, putting up one firing line parallel with his line, while a second group attacked from the west along the road. So the three of us are bogged down, while Ichabod powers up in peace. It would continue to be fun if I could continue to slaughter my enemies, but everyone's mostly retreated. And since I have the tech advantage (and crossbows), there's no way my neighbours can touch me. So now it's a chore. Also, I lost a settler to a fucking barbarian camp in the south. I knew I should have been suspicious when my settler couldn't move onto a particular tile.
A few final screens of the end of the game and the collapse of the Incans. I kind of bumbled my way into attacking them for good, first it was just keeping them pinned down/feed blood to the blood throne, then it turned out I was sort of winning, and I pushed further and further. And I realized I was killing more units than I was losing, and that I had GG bombs to spare.
  |
