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The warmonger formerly known as rpodos. Gathering Storm! Apolyton Spirit!!
Apr 2002
time: 00:22
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Sorry, there's a lot more to the story... Armies, Arty (see why I got excited about auto-bombard??!!), luxuries, re-settling, the battle with Hammy, going from Monarch to Commie (!), the final heroic feats of derring-do and sacrifice by Legions... but no time just now.
Suffice it to say that I am p-ssed off.
I've gutted Bizzie, and will proceed to destroy him north of the French bottleneck (Orleans, an AI-AI flip, btw). Panzers? 8d... training tools. I have also sent a transport of 8 Explorers to pillage his southern remnants, even after an expensive peace.
My attention turns to Babylon... there is a tower that needs undoing.
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werdhertz
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Canada
Jan 2002
time: 05:22
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hey frustrated poet, where did you get the water tileset?? i love how the sea squares go down from coastal ones
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Theseus
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The warmonger formerly known as rpodos. Gathering Storm! Apolyton Spirit!!
Apr 2002
time: 00:22
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Hey guys,
Sorry, I've just been overloaded with the J-O-B. Why is it that 3 hours sleep for Civ is OK, but not for RL??!!
Bear with me... my highest priorities are:
1) Finish 107; I've decided to go commie, destroy enemy production, and then SS. I'm leaving Germany alone for now, production-eviscerated. Hammy's next. I'll do that over this weekend, at the latest.
2) Threads (I've been reading but not posting)
3) Get started on 108 or 201, whatever we call it.
I'm sure all will appreciate this, though... I think about Civ3 all the time... interspersed among my work / deal notes, I have my own private code for Civ-thoughts... other than thinking of how to handle 107, I've had a sort of Vel-like "framework world-view" thing going on in the back of my head... again, bear with me, but I think I might have some interesting thoughts to throw out.
[Arrian, yeah, moved my capitol to Nuremberg a looong time ago... I am now completely committed to moving my Palace to the frontline. I know in that some recent threads people have complained (you included) about betting on GL generation for this kind of thing, but even given the RNG streaks, I reach a certain confluence of war, elites, militaristic, and HE, where I just *know* I'll get that GL for the Palace move... worked here.]
[Looking back at my own world map, we should have a discussion, somewhere, about city spacing and 'context.' The original island, versus the Persian lands, the German lands, the Bab lands, etc.]
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Theseus
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The warmonger formerly known as rpodos. Gathering Storm! Apolyton Spirit!!
Apr 2002
time: 00:22
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OK, back to the story:
1888 AD
Isn;t there something called the 'peace dividend'? Well, this was good enough for me (I would have liked tech, but just couldn;t get there... Rocketry is just too closely held by the AI civs). I needed to regroup a little, I had moved my Palace again, further south, so I wanted to plant a bunch of new towns, and I also needed to get out of mobilization.
Interestingly, I had been planning on changing to Commie, but with that much money on hand, and knowing that I would be dealing with mostly new, and not captured, towns, I decided to go Republic instead. Yeah, I know, coulda just stayed on Monarchy, but with such a large and spread out empire (and only getting more so), I needed some help with corruption.
So, accordingly, I made peace with Hammie as well, thinking that I needed to tone down the saved-up WW. I also did some kind of pretty good trade with him, but I forget what.
I stabilized over a few turns, and then said to heck with WW, and went on attack against Bizzie again... talk about role-playing, I HATED HIS GUTS AND WANTED TO RIP HIS INTESTINES OUT AND HANG HIM WITH THEM!!!!
(Didn't care much about rep at this point.  )
As most of his remaining cities were leftover from the conquest of Russia, they were at Level One culture, and thus I ran around with a stack of like 80 Arty, pulverized everything down to 2 hps, and immediately took the city down with Tanks. The whole thing, taking the top part of the continent, took 4-5 turns.
(Good lesson, btw: Immediately AFTER an AI civs successful conquest of another AI civ, they are very vulnerable.)
 Attachment: 1888 2k gold.jpg
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Theseus
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The warmonger formerly known as rpodos. Gathering Storm! Apolyton Spirit!!
Apr 2002
time: 00:22
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1936 AD (an interesting year)
FINALLY, I got a branch tech lead. While the AI civs researched Adv Flight, Rocketry, Fission, and Space Flight, I went for Ecology. Actually, I wasted about 4 turns of research on Computers, and then *smacked* myself in the head... 1) there was no way I'd trade that away, and 2) uh, can we say MA upgrades for my massive force of Tanks? Duh.
I could only get Adv Flight and Rocketry for it, but I also got a lot of gold, and a couple of luxuries.
So, I'm at peace, my next tech (Syn Fibers) is gonna take a while and there's no way I'm trading it anyway, my two primary landmasses are filled out and merrily a-building, Germany has had its production power completely destroyed, I'm paying god knows how much in military expenses... what's a guy gonna do?
(Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that I had airlifted as many units as I could to the Bab north, and loaded up maybe 10 Transports with the rest of my Tank force and a bunch of Infantry, including a slew of Armies, and sent them towards the Bab SW coast. Oh, and I had 70 Jet Fighters on patrol in forward cities, and in two naval attack groups. Oh, and I also had 40 Bombers and 40 Arty poised in the bottleneck city. But that's all, really.)
So yeah, just being me, I went after Hammie. Babylon and Ellipi have a slew of GWs... otherwise it's gonna be pillage, burn, and raze, baby.
Three huge attack divisions, each consisting of several 3xCav+Tank Armies, 4-5 Infantry, and 25-30 Tanks. The land division came out if the bottleneck city, and rested on a hill 2 tiles from the Bab city to the north and east. The first naval division landed on a hill 2 tiles from the Bab city to the south and east, and the second on a hill 2 tiles from the coastal city further to the SE (Babylon, btw, is the city right above that).
[There'll be a better screenshot of the local mayhem in the next few posts]
Rather than attack my forward forces (boy does the AI hate Armies), here's what Hammie brought to the party at my bottleneck city, prior to my counter-attack.
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Theseus
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The warmonger formerly known as rpodos. Gathering Storm! Apolyton Spirit!!
Apr 2002
time: 00:22
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1964 AD
I feel like I gave birth (panting, , sweaty, exhausted).
Domination victory, 4315 pts.
MAs swept the world in 3 moves. Almost too easy... my last capture, however, was not by the MAs, but rather by six 3xCav+Tank Armies, four moves into Bab territory. 
The best part was definitely overcoming and nailing Bizzie, against pretty tough odds... god, watching the replay was amazing; his takedowns of England, France, and Russia were like lightning.
Whew, I need a break.
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