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Rhothaerill
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Vincent Returns!!!
Feb 2003
time: 21:34
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After building several warriors and sending them out scouting, along with starting a curragh, my nation is now up to the point of meeting another nation...the Carthaginians.
After finishing up pottery I decided to go for the wheel and not bronze working. There are four other nations out there that begin with bronze working and three that begin with masonry...and Japan isn't playing so the wheel is potentially good trade bait.
After meeting Hannibal I couldn't get masonry out of him, but did get bronze working and 20 gold for my techs. Not too bad. Hopefully I'll meet another civ and get masonry from them, or wait until I have wheel and do some more trading.
Oh, and no I haven't popped the hut close to me yet. I don't like popping huts on emperor level when I have only a warrior for protection. It's too close to my capitol at the moment.
 Attachment: 3300bc.jpg
This has been downloaded 165 time(s).
Last edited by Rhothaerill on 10-08-2004 at 03:51
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Rhothaerill
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Vincent Returns!!!
Feb 2003
time: 21:34
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I haven't taken a screenshot of my land lately, but the one above serves well for what I'm about to mention. I also haven't kept detailed notes as I wanted to have more fun with this one. 
From where we left off last night (925bc) not a single other nation has discovered a new technology. There are only four left in the age (two of them government techs) so that doesn't surprise me. My research on construction has continued apace. Beta and the Babylonians still don't have polytheism as Beta said he doesn't want it from me. I assume he'll try to get it from the AI.
My REXing has also continued well. I've settled several more cities in the last 300 years including one in the river valley directly north of Pompeii and one along the river directly east of Pompeii (shares first city radius with a Carthage city, but is building a temple currently). I have also claimed the dyes in the northwest and have both another city close to it and a road almost finished to connect it. One more city on the river valley and I will have a line of my territory completely blocking off Carthage. Then I can concentrate on settling the horse tile and some of the northern areas. I was initially afraid I would be cut off from settling the river valleys, but Carthage has only managed to settle one city in the area so far. My not-quite-optimal settler pump city of Rome has been doing well. I've also been able to set up my city placement such that almost every city I currently have has access to fresh water and no need for an aqueduct. A few of those cities share first ring tiles with Carthage, but I expect to have culture sooner than them and steal his first ring tiles. 
On the military front I am maintaining parity with the other nations which isn't bad considering I shut one of my military cities (Veii) down to build the Statue of Zeus. There are only 10 more turns before I get it and can ramp the city back up to military production as well as having all those nice Ancient Cavalry (keep in mind we're not playing the AU mod). I'm fairly sure I'll get it as no one else is building it and Carthage has only recently put forth an effort from one city toward the Pyramids (which other nations have been building for a while). I haven't built too many Legions as yet as I didn't want an ultra-early golden age. But now my empire has expanded enough that it won't be a huge problem if something happens. I'd still like to be in another government first though, and preferably spring the golden age by building the Statue of Zeus, and then a late middle age commercial wonder like Smith's Trading Company.
I also finally contacted the last of the nations, Egypt, after travelling through German territory. They had nothing for me though. So far everyone except Persia (cautious) and Beta's Greeks like me.
And finally, Beta had sent a warrior into my territory and admitted to me that it was on a mission to try to sack a city. I thought about just destroying it, but instead toyed a bit with him by not attacking him, but not letting it close to a tile. Unfortunately that came back to bite me as a barb camp that I hadn't taken care of yet chose that moment to spring out a horseman near an unprotected worker roading to Pompeii. Beta at that moment was on the one tile I had told him he could travel on without me taking it as a hostile act, and I couldn't get a defender over to protect the worker in time.  Oh well.
That's all for now. I'll probably put up another "state of the empire" screenshot when we get to the next cutoff point at 750bc.
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sabrewolf
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turicum, helvetistan
Jun 2002
time: 06:34
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I paid 16gpt and 15 gold and got back 7gpt and 195 gold. |
now imagine you get the 195g without paying the 9gpt 
but ok, it's probably not worth it.
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So I essentially paid absolutely nothing to purchase code of laws, polytheism, and map making. |
yes and no.
net, you paid nothing, but looking at the whole picture, 3 AIs now have all techs too  (but here it's better like that, then beta can't trade it to them)
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I want to have the option to be the most well liked of the two human players if the game comes down to it |
if you really should get to the modern ages without a final decision in favour of one of the players, i doubt getting persia to declare war on you now will make an influence (you're bound to go to war some day)
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I'll see if I can find it as he also posted a link to them there. |
couldn't find it at first glance
if you can't find it either, do you think you could post it here? it's just following file:
...\Civilization III\Art\Terrain\Territory.pcx
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09-08-2004 02:07
Luckily they hadn't traded it around yet. I spent a few turns sweating it out to finish my tech. The very same turn I got it, the Germannics must have received it from Persia so that trade was out. But I was able to get iron working from Carthage for writing and some gold.
). Because Beta and I decided not to have the opportunity to take AI cities I want to grab some of the choice riverland as soon as I can. It's a good thing too as Carthage has a settler and escort in the area. Hopefully they'll move back east as I'm soon to settle the area right next to their other city, as well as the riverland to the north of Pompeii. Food galore. 
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