It's Clobberin' Time! Raging Barbs Highlands Tokugawa on Monarch

[shallow_thought]

I never heard of Threshold. There are four movies with that name. I assume the 1981 one about a heart surgeon is not the one with the salamander sex

I think Brian is referring to the Star Trek Voyager episode. I've managed to avoid seeing it myself, but it's a regular on "worst episode ever" lists. Someone must hace forced Brian to rewatch it recently .

[RFS-81]

Turn 360:

Captured Dilbat.

Turn 361:

Used a great prophet to build the Muslim shrine.

Turn 362:

Captured Ondini. Built an Academy in Jurrasic Park. Not that it matters: We're at 63.27% of land

Bruteforced kwaDukuza. I was too impatient to wait for artillery, and it was mostly medieval trash.

Turn 363:

VICTORY!

   

[Brian Shanahan]

I never heard of Threshold. There are four movies with that name. I assume the 1981 one about a heart surgeon is not the one with the salamander sex

I think Brian is referring to the Star Trek Voyager episode. I've managed to avoid seeing it myself, but it's a regular on "worst episode ever" lists. Someone must hace forced Brian to rewatch it recently .

SFDebris fan, actually. Every so often I go through the back catalogue. Amazingly enough Threshold isn't the worst voyager episode per Chuck, that dubious honour goes to Tattoo.

Edit We Won! Time to partay!

[shallow_thought]

I never heard of Threshold. There are four movies with that name. I assume the 1981 one about a heart surgeon is not the one with the salamander sex

I think Brian is referring to the Star Trek Voyager episode. I've managed to avoid seeing it myself, but it's a regular on "worst episode ever" lists. Someone must hace forced Brian to rewatch it recently .

SFDebris fan, actually.  Every so often I go through the back catalogue.  Amazingly enough Threshold isn't the worst voyager episode per Chuck, that dubious honour goes to Tattoo.

Edit We Won! Time to partay!

I do love me some SFDebris. His take on Janeway is ... eerily convincing. Working through his Red Dwarf stuff at the moment myself.

And we won . Not an easy game guys - we weren't ever in much danger of actually losing (Monarch, duh) but it was hard, grinding work at points. I found my turnsets a mixed bag  - RL meant I ended up rushing a couple of the early ones - but I did really enjoy parts of the Roman war. It was also fun to kick off the endgame.

I'd be interested particularly in RFS-81's thoughts; I think that Civ is fundamentally harder to do well in the SG format than MOO myself. Its extra complex detail makes the friction of handover a real cost, particularly if things go as late and busy as this one did.

[Zalson]

Way to finish it out, RFS-81! Care to share the save before we won? T362?

[RFS-81]

Well, I could probably have hit next turn a few times and would have finished the game anyway

I haven't made a manual save for that turn, but I'll check if there's an autosave.

[haphazard1]

Thanks for carrying us through to victory, RFS-81! And thanks to everyone on the team for keeping things going without me once I got overwhelmed by move-related chaos.

This was certainly not an easy game, despite the Monarch difficulty. Insane barb troubles, a very strong Rome, and some solid performances from other AIs made this one quite a struggle in places.

[RFS-81]

Sorry, I can't find an autosave.

[Zalson]

I played through to the end; I can post my autosave if y'all want it.