Aurorarcher leads Khazad out of their cavernous homes

[Aurorarcher]

Well, I could but that would take a lot of time if I had to do it manually. My dropbox program makes the images automatically PNG so unless you have an idea how to change that to JPG (without doing it manually), I'm afraid I won't change them.

[Bobchillingworth]

You may want to put each picture in spoiler tags then. I wasn't going to say anything, but this thread is sadly almost impossible to read, with pages taking minutes to load.

[flugauto]

What is the dropbox program?

[Aurorarcher]

You may want to put each picture in spoiler tags then. I wasn't going to say anything, but this thread is sadly almost impossible to read, with pages taking minutes to load.

I didn't realise myself that they'd take that long to load - maybe because I can load them pretty quickly. But now that I look at the sizes of those images... sure, page with 20 pics would be over 50 MBs.

But yeah, spoiler tags could do it. The pics would be as huge as now, but at least you'd load only one at time. I can do that probably. Other possibilty is that I'll use Civ's own screenshot tool, but then I am unable to take pictures where I attack and show the combat odds because pressing the shortcut keys (Alt + Prinscreen or Shift + Prinscreen, I forgot which one) removes the lighted "Green tile" and also the combat odds. Those pics would be JPG now that I think of it. Moving them from Civ's screenshot folder to dropbox folder is child's play.

I could actually take other pictures with Civ's own tool and combat pics with Dropbox desktop tool - and use spoilers as well.

What is the dropbox program?

The usual - the one you can download to manage your pictures on your desktop. Its name is simply Dropbox .

[flugauto]

You can use Printscreen without Alt or Shift in civ4, cannot you?

[Aurorarcher]

Updated page 4, now with spoiler tags. Is it easier to read now?

You can use Printscreen without Alt or Shift in civ4, cannot you?

Nope. Only with Alt + Prinscreen it adds the picture automatically to your Civ's screenshot folder.

Anyone know how to change the shortcut keys?

[flugauto]

Firefox downloads the images in spoilers.

There is Shift + Print Screen to create named images, maybe it will work.

[Aurorarcher]

That's what I actually meant. I have no idea why I wrote Alt when I meant Shift . But nevertheless, it still removes the flashed green tile.

But due to somewhat common request (I guess?), I'll try to make the pics from now on smaller (JPG).

[Aurorarcher]

Turn 103.

First I checked the techs, mostly because I've been nervous of someone getting Priesthood. Turns out Dave has it, and I had actually missed it. He finished it EoT 102:




Not too worried about that. He's probably doing what he should, getting PoLs up. I am going to add a hunter or two incase I see his power rising to counter tigers. Also a thing worth to mention: None of my opponents have a HBR except for Ventessel who has had it for ages.

Then in northern part of Dreylin's land I landed 3 units near one of Dreylin's city and moved my warrior in to check the city:




Ok, not worth moving my axe + treb pair there just yet. The warrior should be able to kill one PB if Dreylin decides to attack it. Notice the galley - I think Dreylin is planning to naval attack me at some point, it's a pretty long way from those cities but it's possible. Dreylin might scout the south with his worker and see my axe + treb and if he has Morois in range he could even kill them. If that happens I have moved some units in range to hit possible attackers:




Currently the southern part is a bit vulnerable if Dreylin decides to move his units from capital there. But of course he can't know that because he can't see these units.

Gotta say I love to take a look at the power graph .




Currently researching Honor. Being able to build Rathas out of the gate (no building requirements) in my HE city should give me Rathas every other turn. I found them the most useful unit for me currently, if Dave decides to attack me later I can make his troops immobile, or alternatively use them for attacking purposes; I can make Dreylin's units trapped in a city and then I can easily take any city with Trebuchets when he's not able to counterattack.

[Aurorarcher]

So after 3 days the turn came back again to me. Vent had been holding it again.

I'm starting to regret that I didn't go and kill Vent in the first place instead of Dreylin.

So anyway T104 opened with the predictable result:




Dreylin killed my warrior, but one of his warriors died when he attacked. I used my Axe to kill the warrior he put guarding the injuried BP of his.

I noticed Dreylin's new units still had bronze weapons and here's why:




Damn, Jale! Ok, not that big of a deal. I'll probably declare war on Jale when I can (T109 earliest) and then he'll probably have to cancel that trade (and he only has 1 copper like everyone else). Other possibility is if I can raze the city that Dreylin and Jale are using for TRs, it must be the city west from Dreylin's cap that's on the coast. That city is hard to raze though as my ships can't get there, and I'd need to go by the land instead and through the cap which ain't possible just yet.

I love this sentry scout:




Dreylin keeps massing his capital but the other cities are pretty poorly defended. He did double whip the Clangers last turn though (probably added a Moroi I'd guess). Now that I think of it I hope that one Moroi won't turn Crazed T105 because then it could end up with 3 moves and be able to reach my super scout (which moved 1E of the hill). Hopefully that won't happen .

In the end I moved my small stack to take The Clangers next turn:




Last turn The Clangers had 4 BP. It lost one to my warrior, one to my axe and the other badly injuried is seen in the picture 1S of the city. The city was doublewhipped on T104 which probably means there are one BP and Moroi in the city. On T105 Dreylin could add one more unit to city but 4 units won't be enough when they'll face Trebs. He can't reach my stack from anywhere else, and most of his power seems to be around the capital area. The only thing I can think of is he can reinforce the city from boats somehow but I doubt it.

Also, I finished Honor EoT and it spawned in Hawaiite which is not terrible. But I need to spread it to Basalt which has HE and then it can start pumping out Rathas fast. Also, better remember to revolt while I'm still in GA. I'm not going to stay in Empyrean forever but 5-10 Rathas would be a nice addition to my army. If I can bring 1-2 Rathas to Dreylin's front quickly enough I think I can finish him off without making a really big stack.