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RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Nuclearcow — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:56:20 GMT

Thank you, sir. :cool:

Good luck to everyone on the next.

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:38:06 GMT

NuclearCow, congrats! :D Very well done.

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:56:50 GMT

Just to make this all official-like...

Congrats to Nuclearcow, Champion of the July Warlords GOTM!

Working on the August game now... stay tuned...

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:18:35 GMT

I didn't have time this month, with real life throwing bricks at me (And not gold-plated ones either). Just broke down and got BtS as well, but I'm still game for August's GOTM. So much for repeat champions. :P

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Nuclearcow — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:01:52 GMT

I bought BTS today, but haven't touched it yet.

I'd also recommend to do a GOTM when more people have it rather than just 2-3 tops. :)

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Leo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:51:12 GMT

Anyone still playing? Yeah, me.

That being said, however...my game will not be worth posting...1996 right now, at war with the Greeks for the first time ever...tanks and artillery against infantry and rifles/cannon.

I WILL give myself credit for not losing. The barbarians were amazingly troublesome...

But what REALLY freakin' torqued me off was...lessee...my UU is a horse unit. Where are the horses? Yeah, way over there. Oh, coal? You want coal? NO COAL FOR YOU...AI sees it all and the Greeks threw a city 8 million miles from home to snag the nearest (relatively speaking) coal to you. Nothing new there...just worse than ever...normal Civ tickingmeoffitis. And there's nothing I like better than being beaten to wonders by 2 turns...every single time. Oh and the AI trading techs to each other for pocket lint...again nothing new.

On the bright side...I didn't lose...and will win at a time victory unless the Koreans beat me to a ship launch. My capital was also the biggest one I've ever had at like 26...four religions founded...so inother words, every one that didn't spawn at the start of the game, counting judaism that they gave me.

At least I'm working out how to run an empire. 4x the amount of military I think I need and money money money...that's all you need to remember, really. Unless you want to fight...in which case I still need to learn. Doing better, but there seems to be way more WAR in Civ IV and that is not what I tended to play the franchise for. If you can't fight, you're done, because in C-IV, peace is never the answer.

Edit: Done: Time victory. Not bad, Nero is probably about right too...Le Sigh

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

jerm — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:01:52 GMT

Yeah, 30 bucks in the U.S. at least is not a lot of money. I mean, you could go without a few meals (which you know is what you're going to end up doing anyway). Priorities man, priorities. Plus this would give the rest of us a chance... :w00t:

I doubt I will be finishing this one too. Just no time and the hopes of winning are slim. I have a massive army but it's not advanced enough to be able to sweep through the enemy's lands in time to get to some winning landmark. Finally could build conquestadors after pasturing the nearest horse supply which is miles and miles away but I'm going to be able to build cavalry soon anyway so it's almost pointless.

I'll be picking up BtS today and it would be a fun learning experience to have as a GOTM. If not August, September may work out.

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:28:14 GMT

My computer time is limited, so I won't be able to gather any more trophy banners until it's for BtS. You're all so lucky... :P

[quote]Jeez, man. Not all of us are wading in money. [/quote]Heh, I always compare these little expenses with what I used to spend on the seven heavenly sins. It ain't so bad. :)

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:22:45 GMT

No BtS games just yet. We'll wait till more have it... (If mine doesn't arrive by Tuesday, I'm going to burn amazon.com to the ground... any ideas on how I can accomplish this feat with a website?)

After the first patch would probably be the best bet.

Anyone else playing this game still?

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Comedy Dave — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:58:09 GMT

Well I wasn't planning on getting BTS just yet... ;)

It's just trying to find the time to play a GotM these days... :P

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:55:55 GMT

Sure. Exclude those who haven't run out and brought an expansion pack that's probably buggy and won't be playable until the first patch :P

Jeez, man. Not all of us are wading in money. :P

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:24:24 GMT

I wasn't planning on it... just kinda happened. I bought the new expansion today; probably won't be finishing this GOTM. :D

Perhaps we can have a BtS GOTM next?

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

rgndvo — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:39:19 GMT

[spoiler]I started this and could beat it through a time victory, but with 45 or so turns left, Im not gonna finish it out just waiting around for victory and Im not making enough headway to beat it via another route.

The thing that really screwed me up was that I forgot the spanish UU was the conquistador. I figured I would make a knight rush on at least one of the civs near me. I poised myself for that by building up stables in all my cities and securing a horse supply right in time just to find that I couldnt build knights. I was utterly confused by this and figured something was broken in the game. So I played several turns assuming it was broken, then tried a rifle rush but found they all had grenadiers. I got infantry in time to go to war with them but found myself embroiled between all 3 civs attacking me on all fronts. I made good progress taking english territory and just holding off the greeks enough to keep them from taking anything, but I think in 40 more turns the best I can hope for is to take the english out which wouldnt be enough to beat them and Ive been a little frustrated by the time per turn its taking.

My other mistake was that I just got done playing a couple bouts of CivIII before playing this so I over-expanded early on and was economically hindered early.

Oh well, better luck next month I guess. [/spoiler]

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:13:08 GMT

I was able to research crossbows just in time for them to intercept the axes. Now I've researched pikes just in time to deal with the horse archers. I may try something a bit different in this game. Leave the barbs a LOT of space, and send out stacks to eradicate the other civs. Gotta stop building wonders first though... :P

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

GKhan — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:07:16 GMT

I had not played in ages, gave it a try but was not ready for the barbs and was only able to squeze out a time victory with a horible score around 3k or so... no point in submiting it since it is a bad score but woah those barbs are crazy

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:18:43 GMT

[b]Submission Accepted[/b]

[i]Nuclearcow[/i]: Victory - Domination in 1898 [red]Score - 20,770[/red]

The bar has been set high on this one early guys... get after it. :)

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Palpster — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:36:48 GMT

Hello all, been almost a year since I played Civ and visited this site...with all the excitement going around on the web about the new expansion I thought I'd visit again and give the ol' GotM a try. Well, I thought I'd still have something of my skills left, but apparently this wasn't the case. Anyway, I gave up this game after the barbs sacked two of my cities and were running rampant through my empire destroying villages....there really wasn't a point anymore, especially since they'd destroyed my mines and all I could build was archers.

Barbs.....yuck!

Oh well, guess I'll be practicing a bit more again then.

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Nuclearcow — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:22:48 GMT

Hi guys, :)

I have been missing in action here on 1BC for a long time and stopped by again a couple days ago and saw the GOTM thread and remembered how I used to love those for CIV III, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. I've played a lot of CIV IV, but mostly multiplayer. I thought I did pretty well.

Domination victory in 1898. Score 20770 (Augustus Caesar).

I usually hate the raging barbarian setting. I built a LOT of axemen and gave them the 25% melee upgrades when I could and sent them away to forrested hills nearby and tried to fight the barbs there, which worked sometimes, but sometimes they just walk past your fortified troops, which is annoying. Why won't they just come to their death like I planned? :P

I tried to get ivory nearby soon and made some war elephants which crushed the barbs. Only built 4 cities early on with lots of cottage/hamlets, so when I later went out and took barbarian cities, I didn't totally go broke.

I built my cities up a lot and later realized I'm wasting my time, so I went for Cavalry a little earlier and absolutely walked over the Koreans in the 1800s. I'm not sure I lost more than 1 or 2 cavalry total against them. I built up to invade the Greeks, but seeing their cavalry and musketmen (right before I invaded) made me realize I waited too late, so I kept peace with them and sent my stuff over to the Brittish. By the time I declared war, I already had 69% of the land, so I knew I could only take a city or two before I hit 70% land, which I did.

Self critique. I've only played ancient era before and always play marithon setting, so I realized I built up too much and too long before attacking. I ended the game with 51 Cavalry. Stupid. I could have won much earlier than 1898 if I had used them earlier.

I enjoyed it. :)

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

jerm — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:12:18 GMT

Deja vous. Perhaps I'll actually play this one.

RE: July 2007 Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:37:00 GMT

Ooo! This looks yummy. Nice tactic, raging barbs. Build lotsa chariots. :P

Hmm. a lot of different ways to do this. :)

Thanks, Mongoose :)

July 2007 Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:16:13 GMT

[b]Champion[/b]

Nuclearcow: Victory - Domination in 1898 Score - 20,770

This game is for CivIV Warlords expansion

Version: 2.08

Civ: Spain (Expansive, Spiritual)

3 AI Rivals

Note: This is a standard map with only 4 total Civs (Pangaea). There is going to be all kinds of room for all those raging barbs to spring up.

Well, you might think that you'll just build the Great Wall to quell the Barbarian hordes..... Sorry, Classical Era start means no Great Wall for you... tsk tsk tsk..

:D muhuhahahaha

Start Position:

You will start with a Settler, Worker, Scout and Archer.

If this seems similar to the last game, it is.... except that the world is larger. So, don't neglect that military. In your favor, this game is on Warlord Difficulty instead of Noble.

Victory Conditions

All Victories have been enabled and all will be allowed.

Highest Normalized Score in any of the Victory Conditions will be declared GOTM Champion for July.

When you complete the game, take a screenshot of the Victory screen where it lists your leadership counterpart in history. You may post the screenshot in the GOTM thread and then [red]Email your final save[/red] (hopefully one just before victory) to me. Saves should be named as follows: [username]July2007GOTM.CivWarlordsSave

The Email address to send the GOTM is my username @1bcciv.com ... Of course, instead of "my username" of course I mean the name I post with here at 1bc. ;)

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