First time reporter...
I know...late...
Wow...
After reading, and more importantly trying to craft, the reports seen here on a regular basis, I have a whole new respect for the authors. My first follows. Sorry, just text (I haven't mastered the playing/picture taking yet...it takes all my concentration to just stay in the game as a Prince player at this level in an RB Epic)!
But, I did not want to be a "take a download and disappear" kinda guy.
I received an Egypt file.
Started and quickly found I was surrounded - Mao - Liz - Sal - Mansa all showed up at roughly the same time. Then JC - Toku and finally guessed that Roosey was a bit further away than the rest.
2380 BC - First expanded with Memphis Settler to the west, in an effort to head off JC, then sent next to the SW and founded Heliopolis to stop the Mao expansion.
955 BC - Because I was so crowded, Sal planted a city exactly where I wanted to place one to the SE and playing to the strength of the War Chariots, I decided Sal was my victim and declared.
Killed and kept Medina, then moved on Hindu holy city of Mecca and capture it! Captured Bahgdad next on the coast. It wasn't where I would have put it, so burned...and, that's the end of Sal.
*** Frankly, do NOT know what got into me, I am usually peaceful to a fault (or death, which ever comes first). But with the borders closing in around me, I made a bold move and it actually paid off!
Despite capturing the Hindu city, stayed away from religion still. At this point it seemed that the world was shaping up as JC-Toku-Mao being pals and Liz-Mansa-Roosey being tight.
35 AD - JC and Mao had come to the Hindu faith. They are animals, so I converted as well so they would be with me as opposed to agin me.
80 AD - Pop-rushed the Parthenon in Thebes and the GLibrary in Damascus (to the immediate east of the capital) - I know...tough w/o pics!!! Next time.
275 AD - JC asks that I cancel relations with Liz. I agree with my strong friend.
470 AD - In a move typical of my playing above my head, and by trying to keep too many units fed and happy, I put myself in a "strike" position. Answer...WAR! Because Liz made me angry when she planted a city to my immediate eastern border, I declare on her in 530 AD.
560 AD - Burn Nottingham, the city she had planted east. Then move along and take the Jewish holy city of York and keep!
905 AD - It took years, but finally cracked London and kept it! It was the Buddist holy city. Kept it too! Took one more city shortly after, then asked for peace and a tech - done!
1124 - Took time to use a GProphet to build Hindu shrine...now I was rolling in dough, so...WAR!
1152 - Liz on the pointy end of my stick again. It came down to my troops standing outside a size 1 city that was the Confuscian holy city. She was now Confused of course, as was Mansa. It was not worth keeping (and I knew Mansa would be the next target) so I burned it just to make him bitter!
*** I have no idea what got into me. Must be the pressure of playing RB Monarch!!!
1274 - Finally finished off Hanging Gardens in Thebes too!
1550 AD - Sorry...notes were a little sporadic at this point. I declared WAR again on Mansa and pulled in my buddy JC for backup!
1601 - After wiping the floor with him and taking Djenne and Timbuktu, take Walata and then break to stock up on Rifles.
1667 - Finish a couple of badly placed northern Mansa outposts and he's history!
1673 - Use rifling tech to bride JC into turning on Mao (did I mention Mao had turned Tao some time ago). He anxiously took the challenge! I also remembered Toku was still in the game and bribed him to take on Mao too. There was method to my sudden bloodlust as I planned to wait briefly, then stab Mao myself when he was slightly weakened.
1718 - Beijing - mine!
1734 - Guangzhou - mine!
1748 - Chengdu - mine!
1754 - Ooops, Toku beat me to Shanghai and took it - Mao is gone!
*** Ran quickly outside...must have been a full moon, planet alignment or SOMETHING. I'm actually kicking Monarch behind?!?!?
1766 - 52% pop and 53% land by this point. Domination, as you may have guessed, the goal!
1800 - Seems like a nice round number. Cannons...check! Rifles...check! Cav...roger! Grens...oh ya! Still faithful to my good pal JC, and with Roosey way off to the west and being very quiet, I decide Toku is the unfortunate recipient of my final push to DOM.
1804 - Shanghai - mine!
1806 - Nara mine! AND capture Tokyo same turn! Yikes...I'm scaring even myself now.
1812 - Capture Tao holy city of Xian (and Dia Mao intact)!
1816 - Osaka - Mine!
1821 - Edo - mine!
*** Of course, at this point, I'm am saying I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN PICTURES AND BETTER NOTES FOR MY FIRST RB REPORT!!!
1824 - 61.57% land and begin attacking Japanese capital city.
1825 - Capture Kyoto and with that hit 62.75% land..........
1826 - DOMINATION! 46,351 "Augustus Ceasar"
*** I would REALLY like to thank each and every RB player for helping my game along. Reading reports is one thing. Putting what they teach you into practice quite another. Oh, trust me, I have been humbled since...but for a brief moment (hopefully the first of many) I was playing well above my head and actually won at the Monarch level. Thank you!
I know...late...
Wow...
After reading, and more importantly trying to craft, the reports seen here on a regular basis, I have a whole new respect for the authors. My first follows. Sorry, just text (I haven't mastered the playing/picture taking yet...it takes all my concentration to just stay in the game as a Prince player at this level in an RB Epic)!
But, I did not want to be a "take a download and disappear" kinda guy.
I received an Egypt file.
Started and quickly found I was surrounded - Mao - Liz - Sal - Mansa all showed up at roughly the same time. Then JC - Toku and finally guessed that Roosey was a bit further away than the rest.
2380 BC - First expanded with Memphis Settler to the west, in an effort to head off JC, then sent next to the SW and founded Heliopolis to stop the Mao expansion.
955 BC - Because I was so crowded, Sal planted a city exactly where I wanted to place one to the SE and playing to the strength of the War Chariots, I decided Sal was my victim and declared.
Killed and kept Medina, then moved on Hindu holy city of Mecca and capture it! Captured Bahgdad next on the coast. It wasn't where I would have put it, so burned...and, that's the end of Sal.
*** Frankly, do NOT know what got into me, I am usually peaceful to a fault (or death, which ever comes first). But with the borders closing in around me, I made a bold move and it actually paid off!
Despite capturing the Hindu city, stayed away from religion still. At this point it seemed that the world was shaping up as JC-Toku-Mao being pals and Liz-Mansa-Roosey being tight.
35 AD - JC and Mao had come to the Hindu faith. They are animals, so I converted as well so they would be with me as opposed to agin me.
80 AD - Pop-rushed the Parthenon in Thebes and the GLibrary in Damascus (to the immediate east of the capital) - I know...tough w/o pics!!! Next time.
275 AD - JC asks that I cancel relations with Liz. I agree with my strong friend.
470 AD - In a move typical of my playing above my head, and by trying to keep too many units fed and happy, I put myself in a "strike" position. Answer...WAR! Because Liz made me angry when she planted a city to my immediate eastern border, I declare on her in 530 AD.
560 AD - Burn Nottingham, the city she had planted east. Then move along and take the Jewish holy city of York and keep!
905 AD - It took years, but finally cracked London and kept it! It was the Buddist holy city. Kept it too! Took one more city shortly after, then asked for peace and a tech - done!
1124 - Took time to use a GProphet to build Hindu shrine...now I was rolling in dough, so...WAR!
1152 - Liz on the pointy end of my stick again. It came down to my troops standing outside a size 1 city that was the Confuscian holy city. She was now Confused of course, as was Mansa. It was not worth keeping (and I knew Mansa would be the next target) so I burned it just to make him bitter!
*** I have no idea what got into me. Must be the pressure of playing RB Monarch!!!
1274 - Finally finished off Hanging Gardens in Thebes too!
1550 AD - Sorry...notes were a little sporadic at this point. I declared WAR again on Mansa and pulled in my buddy JC for backup!
1601 - After wiping the floor with him and taking Djenne and Timbuktu, take Walata and then break to stock up on Rifles.
1667 - Finish a couple of badly placed northern Mansa outposts and he's history!
1673 - Use rifling tech to bride JC into turning on Mao (did I mention Mao had turned Tao some time ago). He anxiously took the challenge! I also remembered Toku was still in the game and bribed him to take on Mao too. There was method to my sudden bloodlust as I planned to wait briefly, then stab Mao myself when he was slightly weakened.
1718 - Beijing - mine!
1734 - Guangzhou - mine!
1748 - Chengdu - mine!
1754 - Ooops, Toku beat me to Shanghai and took it - Mao is gone!
*** Ran quickly outside...must have been a full moon, planet alignment or SOMETHING. I'm actually kicking Monarch behind?!?!?
1766 - 52% pop and 53% land by this point. Domination, as you may have guessed, the goal!
1800 - Seems like a nice round number. Cannons...check! Rifles...check! Cav...roger! Grens...oh ya! Still faithful to my good pal JC, and with Roosey way off to the west and being very quiet, I decide Toku is the unfortunate recipient of my final push to DOM.
1804 - Shanghai - mine!
1806 - Nara mine! AND capture Tokyo same turn! Yikes...I'm scaring even myself now.
1812 - Capture Tao holy city of Xian (and Dia Mao intact)!
1816 - Osaka - Mine!
1821 - Edo - mine!
*** Of course, at this point, I'm am saying I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN PICTURES AND BETTER NOTES FOR MY FIRST RB REPORT!!!
1824 - 61.57% land and begin attacking Japanese capital city.
1825 - Capture Kyoto and with that hit 62.75% land..........
1826 - DOMINATION! 46,351 "Augustus Ceasar"
*** I would REALLY like to thank each and every RB player for helping my game along. Reading reports is one thing. Putting what they teach you into practice quite another. Oh, trust me, I have been humbled since...but for a brief moment (hopefully the first of many) I was playing well above my head and actually won at the Monarch level. Thank you!