16-07-2003 09:06									#1
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You've obviously overlooked something. That quote, once heard, has always stuck with me.

This is a "Doomsday thread."

Admittedly, things look VERY, VERY promising for us right now- the only bumps being that GCA leader and the war weariness situation.

In chess (and in many other games, including my own strategies for MP Civ) if things look very good, I ask myself a question:

"What, within reason, would be the worst possible thing that could happen right now, and how can I prepare for it, again within reason?"

It would be very easy to say "Oh, well, everyone declares war on us and ignores each other" but that's not 'within reason.' Let's begin to look for 'holes.' Things we might have overlooked. If YOU were the guy in each civ in charge of taking down 'poly, how would YOU do it?

Now, how can we guard against that within reason? Surprise attacks are called that because they're unexpected. If CDG showed up with a stack of 10 immortals on our border NEXT TURN, how would we respond? That's just an example- remember, others are capable of 'flying under the radar' too.

We're doing very well and things look great- and GCA probably thinks that too. One of us is wrong; let's set our egos and confidence aside for a moment and make sure who is wrong, isn't us.

We're not being forced to stretch our noodles right now. So let's put ourselves through a few drills and be ready, in case we've missed something (no, I don't know how we could have missed something either, but you never DO know, do you?) and Doomsday really does come knocking.

Your mission is to beat Apolyton. Figure out how. Then let's figure out how to stop it.

	16-07-2003 12:06									#2
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• The two strongest civs from the other continent could prove closer than we thought and start harrassing us.
  
• Barbs start popping up everywhere and get incredibly lucky.
  
• The game crashes because of one of Firaxis' bugs.
  

	16-07-2003 12:15									#3
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We can mess things up by becoming stagnant and happy with our current situation; we need to be constantly looking for better ways to do things and keep up on our Foriegn Relations. Do not let things slide or think that someonelse will do things or make suggstions. Speak up if you have something to say.

	16-07-2003 16:07									#4
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One of the worst things that could happen:
GCA has stunning victory after stunning victory, and completely swallows CDG in the next 10 turns, refortifies the chokepoints against CFC and prepares to erradicate us.

I dont think its likely though, if Euclidia falls next though, we may have to worry a bit.

	16-07-2003 16:15									#5
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CFC & GCA declare peace.
CFC expands & builds while we wait out the war with CDG & GCA.
Our war takes longer than planned and by the time we finish, CFC have a decent economy and start pumping out riders, making our continent conquest far more difficult.

	16-07-2003 16:19									#6
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I agree that everything looks very good. Especially since we are building new cities quite fast right now. We just have to go on like this and poly will never fall!

	16-07-2003 18:23									#7
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Really annoying possibility: peace is declared between all warring civs on our continent. Not sure how to avoid this one...


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