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Rhothaerill
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Vincent Returns!!!
Feb 2003
time: 21:35
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A week or so ago when Beta first noticed that my victory point total was quite a bit more than everyone else’s he asked me how I got up there so quickly. I told him that I’d tell everyone my strategy when the game was finished. So I prepped this last night.
I started out the game with a specific plan in mind. I wanted to become the top naval power in the game which is one of the reasons I went full bore for Magellan’s Voyage. Not only does it provide the shield tile in coast tiles, but it gives a free frigate every five turns. Very handy considering half of my starting cities were one-tile islands with no production. I needed that extra production in Lisbon to even be able to compete.
Building the naval power meant that I could protect my transports better than anyone else and I wouldn’t have to worry as much about the rest of you using your pirate ships. As an aside on that, I wasn’t originally intending to do so much piracy, but I found several unescorted ships that were just begging to be raided.  I kept it up until almost everyone was escorting their ships with multiple frigates, which meant that it would on average take five pirate ships to raid a two frigate/one transport stack. That was no longer profitable so I stopped building pirate ships. Then of course there were a few more raids reported so I figured it must be either con or Paddy who built some pirate ships of their own. By that time I was escorting each transport with four or five frigates so I wasn’t too worried about piracy reprisals. 
My second goal was to use Portugal’s early speedy ships to quickly settle the four areas in the New World that I truly wanted…Cuba (with it’s three types of treasure resources), Dominican Republic (with it’s gold), and the two diamonds in the north coast of South America. I ended up losing out on one of those diamonds to Witt, but instead settled the Panama area to provide an easy access for getting my treasure units out from the Colombia/Peru diamond.
My third goal was to build a nearly unassailable fortress for all of my cities in the New World. To that end I settled on hills, built walls, and eventually stocked each city with 5+ musketmen (effective defense of 10) and pikes and cannons. If anyone had attacked my cities it wouldn’t be easy to take one.
After settling the cities I wanted in the New World I realized that no one had headed to Africa yet. Not only does Africa have multiple ivory resources but it also has gold and a few diamonds, most of which are close to Europe for quick treasure transport back to Lisbon. Africa has a lot of potential, but everyone was focused on the New World so it was ripe to settle. I’ll bet if conmcb25 had been in the game from the start then that wouldn’t have been as nice an option for me though. 
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28-08-2004 03:32
For Halloween about two years ago my wife dressed us up as a pirate and his wench. 
Beta mentioned it last night too.
Still have not received the save Beta....
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