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No, it's just that, with 98 cities under a Fundy scheme, there's plenty of firepower -- if you can arrange the transport system to bring it to bear.

It seems kinda lame to buy your way out.

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I'm in Turn 8, planning to play 10 per the ruleset.

RL has thrown me a curve -- my Mom is in the hospital, and it's quite serious. Maybe a few more days before things settles down and I can finish.

If someone wants the reins, let me know and I'll post what I have to this point.

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May 2001
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Blessings to you and for your Mom. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

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Thanks, Monk.

Well, at least the operation was a success. Prognosis is good, but it's still too soon to know what degree of recovery we can expect. Kinda scary. But she seems mentally alert and aware, and that's the main thing.

(Funny how much help the moral support of people you've never met can be...)

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-J, just finish the turns in your own time. We all know that there are far more important things in life than Civ (though sometimes we don't like to admit it ), and this is one such. Best wishes for your mother's recovery - it will be all the quicker with friends and family there to support her.

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-Jrabbit - our thoughts are with you

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JRabbit - Hang in and be strong at this difficult time for you. We all send hopes for your mother's speedy and full recovery.

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Thanx guys.

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Thanks, Monk.

(Funny how much help the moral support of people you've never met can be...)


I think the reverse also applies. It is amazing how the personal lives of your 'online' friends actually influences your real life and how much you sympathise when one of those friends is in pain.

So, with that in mind, just make sure the (j) rabbit stays in front of the hounds. (AKA keep your chin up, and dont let life, or bastards in general, get you down)

Trust your mother is on the road to recovery...

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She's out of intensive care but it'll be awhile before we know how complete her recovery will be.

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Jrab, I'll be thinking of you and wishing for a quick and full recovery.

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NEWS FLASH
Things got suddenly better yesterday! Mom is now clear-eyed and mentally alert (must've been the Demerol). Not 100%, but the overnight change was like night and day.

If she indeed gets her full mental faculties back, then we just need to see how much physical ability will return (very limited movement on right side, lack of fine motor control). They're moving her to a very good physical rehab facility tomorrow.

For any interested, she had a subdermal hematoma. That's a collection of blood between the brain and the skull (left side in this case). They incise, drain the blood, and keep a shunt (drain) in there for a couple days. Mixed medical opinion whether there was a small stroke involved as well.

It's a huge relief to see her smiling and involved, not confused or drifting into memories from decades past. Vital signs have been stable for 3-4 days, so I think we're out of mortal danger.

Thanks again for all the positive thoughts. Prayers also welcome...

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Glad to hear that things are looking better, Jrabbit.

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That's great news, -JR!! Keep your spirits up; it sounds like the worst has past.

Unsolicited advice can often be a pain so feel free to disregard the following.
As things keep improving, don't miss the opportunity to really talk to her (if you haven't been). If this was a wake up call you will not want to leave anything unsaid. Sorry if this sounds strange and/or seems obvious to you. It's just a whole lot easier to talk to someone when they are still here and can respond. Moms are such a blessing and it is great when we let them know that.

Prayers continue.

Monk

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Went to see Mom at the rehab facility last night. She knows it's going to be torture -- 9 hrs/day of physical therapy -- but she's determined to get through it -- got her fighting spirit back.

The facility is awesome, named best physical rehab center in the country by some magazine. The staff seems great -- engaged, caring.

Things are looking up. Last night, I slept well for the first time in a week.

Perhaps even a little Civ in the near future...

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OK, I've held this up long enough. Here's the zipped save. Log to come a bit later today.

Somebody jump in!

Attachment: di_1853a.zip
This has been downloaded 2 time(s).

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We start as a 80-20-0 Fundy, netting 653 GP/turn. Studying Steel, about 20% done at a rate of 26 turns.
98 cities, 13.1 MM ppl.
4,370 GP in the bank.

It takes awhile to track down everything going on. We have a disorganized transport fleet that needs some direction. The French are on the run, but there is little nearby unit production. We have found about half the Babylonian cities. there's a single Carth city to be disposed of.

There are WoWs to destroy -- Pyramids in Babylon, JSB and Marco Polo in Ur, Mike's in Nippur, Magellan and Shakes in Lagash, Adam Smith in Sippar, Women's Suffering in Samarra. The French have Colossus and Cope's in Paris, STWA in Lyons.

build orders? We change a lot of them, concentrating on engineers, cannon, dragoons, and dips. Some Barracks and Temples. Much rushing.

ENTER 1842
Babs change govt, kill 3 rifles and 2 crucs. French chat. We agree to a CF so that we can break it.
--Dip investigates Uruk. It has Walls and 7 more improvements, defended by 3 rifles and a dragoon. We take out their stock market and coloseum.
--Paris dips sabotage production, granary, temple, coloseum, market.
--Rheims revolts for 1312 (102 plunder, 3 muskets). Causes incident.
That wasn't satisfying at all.
We decide on a policy of total conquest. Self-imposed No City bribe rule.
For fun.

1844
Babs are now Fundy. they kill a dragoon, 3 crucs, and 2 rifles.
Barbs land near Karakorum.
--silk (d), Shanghai to Lagash, 360 GP. More deliveries net about 900 more.
--Our DD takes out stack of 3 ironclads, makes vet.
--Much moving about, attempting to aling massive transworld transport system.
--Many units rushed.

1846
Carths, with only one landlocked city to their empire, learn the secret of Steam Engine.
Babs kill engineer, freight (oops), 3 rifles. more reinforcements arrive.
--Dip finally sabotages city walls at Uruk. City captured, 130 plundered.
--Cartenna falls, Carthaginians civ destroyed. 49 plunder.
--Babs chat, demand Magnetism - no. Request CF - yes. But they somehow don't trust us enough to sign a peace treaty...
--Dips sabotage Lagash repeatedly, each one causing a fresh international incident. Production, stock ex, barracks, temple, WALLS. We are publicly condemned.
--We lose about 15 crucs (several vets) and 4 rifles trying to take Lagash.
--Build orders shift dramaticall toward massive reliance on cannons, plus dips and engineers.

1848
French clads sink two empty transports. this will slow our delivery of diplomats. We rush some more boats. clads head back to their home base in Lyons.
--babs take out two rifles.
--Mass troop movements. Very boring, and every time I get casual, another shipchain breaks...

1850
Babylonians take out a rifle and a cruc, losing two dragoons in the process.
--Carthage builds engineer, getting it down to the requisite Size 8 max.
--dips sabotage Lyons. It takes 6 of them to bring down the walls.
--Deliveries to doomed Babs yields 198+160+462(d)+618(d)

1851
We discover STEEL. Either Tacktics or Espionage would push to huge military superiority. We go with Spies.
--Bribe French transport @Avignon for 427.
Lyons (Sun Tzu) captured. size 7. engineers will be rushed until the evil WOW is gone. Until then, we build vets everywhere...
--anothe French CF negotiated and broken.
--Paris attacked by sabateur-diplomats. Everything but the walls go down. we are publicly and repeated condemned.
--Cities of Eridu and Izibia spotted.
--dry dusty Canal founded to speed transport.
--Lagash is dipped again. It takes 7 of them before we take down the rebuilt walls.
--Some minor deliveries.
--Lagash attacked with fortressed cannon, inevitably captured, along with 139 GP, plus Magellans and Shake's. These will have to be destroyed, but in the mentime out transports are becoming much more viable.
--Babs chat. We agree to, then violate the Cease Fire.
--As with every turn, we rush huge numbers of units and transport them toward the front. Backwater cites build for tithes, or freights. some switch to Capitalization, since their units are just a pain to get to the front and shouldn't be needed.

1852
Population now 14.47 MM. A few deliveries happen. Zamua mapped.
--Sabotage of Ur eats up 8 dips before walls come down. Cannons volley until they say uncle. Ur yields 153 GP, JS Bach's Cathedral.
--Paris is similarly taken. We capture 99 GP, Colossus & Copernicus' Observatory.
--The attack continues at Orleans, which falls and pays 51 GP.
--French ask for and receive a CF. Dips promptly sabotage Chartres 5 times, eventually getting the walls and achieving great public condemnation of our terrorism.
--More dips at Izibia. Walls down, along with a few other things.
--At Kish, it takes 8 dips, but the walls come down. Cannons do their dirty deed. Kish yields 196 GP.
--Babs chat, request and get CF. But we are out of units to break the CF!

1853
It seems no matter how many units we rush, we end up with about the same treasury. For the heck of it, we sell some unneeded libraries and granaries and such.
We are now landing troops on the Bab continent at a furious pace.
But producing them faster than we can move them!! (NOTE: Jump-ff point is city of Skanky on ex-Chinese continent.
--Babs take out a rifle and an engineer.
--Frozen Canal disbanded, engineer heads to the Bab front.
--We turn off the science and go to a 50-0-50 regime. 36 cities celebrate -- not bad for such a far-flung bunch of small cities.
--Lagash builds engineer, drops to size 4. Another one to be rushed!!
--violate CF, attack French.
--Chartres captured, netting 206 GP. FRENCH CIV DESTROYED.
--DD sinks a Bab caravel with 2 aboard, makes vet.
Isibia captured -->> 169 GP.
--Akkad sabotage: prod, barracks, temple, mkt, CH, aueduct, harbor, lobrary, then finally WALLS.
--We found the city of UNdead. Build the UN there. To be disbanded with rushed engineer!!
--City of Ellipi (12) is mapped.
--Akkad captured (258 GP)
--Chat with Babs. Just to review, they are a Fundy with 3429 GP, capital in babylon, studying Magnetism. They have 14 cities left. We give them a CF, then demand tribute. They declare WAR!
--Need RR to Nippur for smooth attack.
--Paris down to size 5. Another Engineer to be rushed.

And... I'm spent.

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Nice work, JRabbit. I particularly like the way you repeatedly got them to sign ceasefires with you. You must be a real charmer!

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And... I'm spent.


Groovey Baby....

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STYOM, are you ready to be drawn back into the maelstrom of Succession gaming?

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STYOM, are you ready to be drawn back into the maelstrom of Succession gaming?


I'm getting closer. I feel like I should finish the game I started (Second Sailing) before jumping into any others. So for now, I'm still a lurker. And RL is still somewhat busy; hopefully less so by fall...

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It is amazing how the lazy summer ..... isn't. I'm almost back as well.

At least in my case, RL has been good so far.

Great work JR -- hope your mom recovers fully (and my mom has similar risks...) we are of an age...

-- Peace.

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*bump*

C'mon someone!

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Per the last-four-barred rule, I'm still barred. But if no one else jumps in, I'll try to make some time for it.

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Whoops! I forgot, this one's not a free-for-all. The play order is

1) Old n Slow
2) JRabbit
3) STYOM
4) Lafayette
5) SG1
6) Zedd
7) debeest
8) Duke of York

But I think at this point we should make it a free-for-all. What do y'all think?

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Definitely.

Has anyone seen La Fayette recently?

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I think that we could allow SG in here....

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I am busy winning a scenario ("Dominion War") that has never been won previously AFAIK.
Ready to play this one within a few days .

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Great news about your Mum - the civ was pretty fair too

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