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Commodore · April 25th, 2012, 08:48

Kokomo, Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahama, Key Largo, Montego, Martinique, Montserrat, Mustique and Port-au-Prince. That's where we wanna go.

scooter · April 25th, 2012, 12:18

Well then, Luddite takes Huayna. Annoying pick as it potentially makes Pyramids thing a little hairy. I mean yeah, FIN is odd to pair with a Mids economy, but it still makes me nervous a touch. Huayna in general is just an odd pick to me. With FIN you generally want to expand hard so you can work more cottages. IND slows that down a bit.

Also, you don't normally take IND first pick of a snake draft unless you have a very specific purpose for it. So Luddite probably has a gameplan here. Henge would make a lot of sense, so that could be it too. We'll see. AT is up next, and I'm expecting another FIN to go down there.

scooter · April 25th, 2012, 12:34

Got Egypt. thumbsup

Also, no surprise, 2/2 on FIN civs. If Sian goes FIN, I'll certainly grab Isabella. If he goes with something very Mids-oriented, I may just grab Pacal to punish everyone for ignoring him since this looks like a fairly strong FIN capital.

scooter · April 25th, 2012, 14:13

Isabella of Egypt against 3 FINs with 3 late UUs?

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scooter · April 25th, 2012, 15:06

Ok, so my reaction was typed on a phone so it had to be brief. Anyways, the picks are really surprising to me. I mean.... I picked Egypt before any of them touched civ and Mist told us it was going to be a bit cramped and... they go and pick a bunch of mid-game UUs? For instance, I REALLY expected Luddite to grab Mali there with that last pick.

Now again, I'm not dead set on a rush and I'm not going to go into some big sim or anything like that because I'm just going to roll with it in this game. But if I find horse easy to reach with stone and copper a little less easy to reach... Well let's just say things could get interesting wink

. It also depends on how cramped we actually are. I mean, with 4 players it's hard to make it cramped short of putting us on a Tiny map, so I thought the cramped comment was rather strange. So... we'll see.

Anyways, I have something interesting and fairly different coming up for the player previews. It's either going to be pretty fun or crash spectacularly. Depends on how, um... helpful certain people are.

scooter · April 25th, 2012, 15:50

Alright guys, so I'm tired of writing leader previews every game. Plus there's several people who I think would be a lot better at it than me. So I've been asking around, trying to get a few people to do them for me since I'm lazy. So yes, we have 3 previews to do, and we have 3 guest writers here. That's right, this game is so laid back that I'm too lazy to write my own player previews. So without further ado, Commodore is going to start us off.

Commodore Wrote:

Sian (Mysterious, Pyramids) as Pacal (Fin, Exp) of France (Agriculture, Wheel)

Hum. Welp. This, my chilluns, is a power combination. Mids Junior™ AKA Sian here has decided to go with Pacal, considered by many to be the strongest leader in the game. Furthermore, France gives him the terrifying draftable 2-movers and a funny accent. France gets Agriculture/Wheel which is exactly what the good Dr. Mist ordered here on this start, and I expect these to allow him to be a serious contender.

As a player, Sian is decidedly a Mackoti acolyte, favoring GLH, Pyramids, and all sorts of shiny things over a more traditional REX + cottage spam. Sian breezed through the PBEM29 greens game, though many players questioned if his leader wasn't a bit too strong. I expect him to run some sort of hybrid economy that lets him get to gunpowder quickly, then draft some musketeers and hurt somebody. Let's just hope that somebody is not us. If it is, well that's just Civ, man.

Well that went off without a hitch. Thank you Commodore. Next, we have Krill, who I asked to write the preview for Luddite. This was a bit tricky, as Krill doesn't do email or long paragraphs, so I hit him up on chat. Well... This is what we ended up with. I attempted to clean it up a bit, but you can only do so much with this... whatever this is.

Krill Wrote:scooter: so Krill, can you write the Luddite preview now? his pick is in
Krill: huh?
scooter: you said you'd do the luddite preview for pbem36?
Krill: I did?
scooter: yeah you said you would last night
Krill: tbh i don't remember much from last night
scooter: were you drunk again?
Krill: doesnt matter. what am I doing again?
scooter: lol. write up a preview for luddite's picks. for the three player previews I want them to be guest posts. sounds kinda fun.
Krill: sounds lazy
scooter: two birds, one stone.
Krill: fine i'll do it. what's his pick
scooter: well he had first pick
Krill: oh so he picked Joao
scooter: well no
Krill: oh, Joao was banned
scooter: ... no. india/inca were banned, everything else was ok
Krill: and he didnt take joao? noob. you took joao right?
scooter: no I didn't. he took huayna capac of Spain
Krill: .... is this a greens game?
scooter: no
Krill: did anyone pick joao?
scooter: no
Krill: then this is a greens game
scooter: whatever, so can you send me a preview or not?
Krill: whatever. if he knows what's good for him, he'll switch to joao. barring that, he'll build stonehenge, oracle alphabet, found buddhism, and blame darrell for all of his mistakes
scooter: .....oracle alphabet?
Krill: and he picked spain? this has to be a greens game. Spain is myst/fishing which is completely unplayable. should've picked Inca
scooter: Inca was banned
Krill: dont care
scooter: Alright, that's probably enough
Krill: good we're done. what was the point of this again?
scooter: ... I'm starting to question that myself
Krill: hurry up and play your pbem34 turn, I'm about to blow off my 13th culture bomb

Alright that was... something. So there we have it. Finally, to wrap it up is the guy that was hardest for me to track down. He was one of the more popular posters due to his unique style. However, he abruptly disappeared and one of our most well-known RB members claimed credit for him. I'm here to say that this is false. I finally got in touch with him. Yep, here is Locke to give us our last preview:

Locke Wrote:OK first I talk about leader. AutomatedTeller pick Willem, which is good because FIN and CRE are two of best traits. But I think Pacal a bit better. But this still not bad but boring pick so I can't say too much LOL.

Now I talk about civ. Byzantium is scariest civ in the game, but starting techs maybe worst in the game so that's not so scary LOL. Maybe War Chariots kill them because they dont build Cataphracts if they're dead LOL. This good civ if they live a long time, but maybe bad if they don't. OK I think enough said. If you want lose, then let them be. If you want to win, then better hurt them before they hurt you LOL.

Well then, that's all folks. Thanks to those three for helping me out.