[BTS] Civ IV Newbie Succession Game - Monarch - Beginning now!

[Tasunke]

Good turnset.

Illinois could be useful for saving us a settler (once we can afford it) ... looking again at the map I would have almost petitioned a City in that region to be either 1 NW (for the stone), or 1 E (to avoid useless mountain tiles).

However, I suppose a filler city could pick up the stone in its southern ring ... and at this point, how useful is stone anyways? I know it can be VERY useful early on ... but I simply lack the knowledge to know if its that useful in the Midgame of BTS. (ie worth an early filler city, or worth a replaced 1NW Illinois). If the barb city wasn't there ... maybe we could have reconfigured that city site (IF it was worth it) .... but since the barb city site is there, it probably makes the most sense to capture it once economically feasible. (Still, 1E would be a lot nicer imho as far as coastal cities go)

I like that we founded Char, I think in a few turnsets that will turn into quite a lovely city.

However ... Above Illinois or any filler cities, we have a few other important City-based priorities.

1) the Iron city on the northern coast

2) the Corn/Cow/Stone/River!! city in the Fog (C1N)

and lastly, the Silks galore city near our capital, but not useful until we get Calendar in.

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ON SHAKA

I believe we have two basic macro Strategies for Shaka .... especially since I believe Encirclement is useful against the AI

1) we can take his northernmost city next ... to continue the Encirclement of his forces, confusing the AI on which direction to attack

OR

2) we can take his nearest city next, which is ALREADY nicely encircled ... to begin a more 'conventional' war with Shaka

I would be somewhat against #2 because the encircled city has WONDERFUL visibility ... meaning that we have almost total awareness of his troop movements within the Area

lastly we have

3) don't capture any of his cities ... passively kill troops until we have another White Peace.

Technically this is my favorite, at least until our economy is a bit better, as our initial encirclement has been famously successful.

Once we have the additional troops and economy, I would suggest going for Prop1, but for now I think Prop3 is best, at least for the next half a Turnset.

[Dhalphir]

i think we should continue to defend and take white peaces. we don't want war weariness to accumulate too much, or we'll have so much military tied up on hereditary rule police duty that we'll have no standing army. we already need 3-4 units per mature city to keep them at the level they've grown to.

[BaII]

I can grab the save unless hart wants to grab it?

[Tasunke]

Go ahead baII

I have a feeling Hart meant that he wanted to play the next time it came
Around to him, unless I read that incorrectly.

[Hart]

Yeah, that's fine. It's unexpectedly become a busy week.

[BaII]

Okay save will be done tomorrow.

[BaII]

Turn Report
First thing I do is start up on sailing to get galleries, so we don't have everything pillaged by a barb galley.


Tarsonis was working a spy specialist and a plains forest(stupid AI Governer) quickly corrected that and switched it to be an aqueduct that will be whipped and overflown into the Market.
http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y413...6eaae0.jpg

Small stack coming from Shaka.
http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y413...8f8a77.jpg

Hiigara had a 2 pop whip for the next settler.

Decided to use attach the GG as we actually don't have that many units since a lot of them are tied in MP. Next one should be a GG medic and followed by that we can just keep on putting them into our Heroic Epic City.


Probably going to try and spread Confucansim, around, since once we revolt, we will need less MP. And we can bring down the on Shaka. We probably want Hindu, since we want to be friends with Saladin, expect we already have cities with Confucianism and we have no cities with Hindu.
http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y413...fd229f.jpg

WE, that could be trouble, heading off to Pikes after Metal Casting and Calendar.


Made a quick trade with Saladin to get some of his spices.
http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y413...044649.jpg

Shaka threw his army away to take Char Saura, we managed to 1 lone axemen survived with 0.1 HP We killed an impi and a cat and we lost 2 Axemen.


Unforutnately we had an unlucky battle and lost our cat to a chariot.


2 New cities founded, we probably want to stop expansion here for now. Then later attack Shaka for some more territory.
http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y413...a5aceb.jpg

Calendar next for Silks. Also we got Hindi, if u guys think it's worthwhile to spread that around and convert to that instead.
http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y413...61d4b0.jpg

1 turned Hunting cause we're going to need some spears to deal with that elephant.
http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y413...2255e8.jpg
Well we lost the city regardless, and the GG should have just ran away.


Shaka's power continues so spike, shoulda have noticed this beforehand. It's going to cost us another city.
Terrible turnset on my part, shoulda have noticed the spike in power by Shaka, and responed with my own. We need Machinery next and then pikes, probably want to whip out a mace from every city and just reconquer back our lands.

Atleast we got another city to compensate for our losses.


This is the stack we are going to have to deal with if it goes into our Terriotry.


Me not paying attention to Shaka's rising power costly us quite a bit..... I wasn't able to get that many forges up because we are in a dire need for more units so we lose anymore. Sorry about the poorly played turnset.

[Dhalphir]

good luck have fun brian!

[Brian Shanahan]

Didn't see the save edited in. Sorry about that.

Will play some time tomorrow.

[Brian Shanahan]

Apologies again. Had a long day today, was working this morning, and this evening had to travel to Feenagh (read, arse end of nowhere) to play a football relegation final (we won and are staying Senior next year).

And tomorrow with the All-Ireland football final, Manchester derby, and the club's second team playing in the East Junior B hurling, I probably won't get to this then either. I didn't drink tonight, but tomorrow's a different story.

You can skip me or hold on to Monday, whichever you prefer.

Again, my apologies.