The Commonplace Thread

[Ginger_Ale]

PBEM Games:
[u]vs. Paalikles</u>
Iroquois
C3C 1.22
Monarch
Spoiler in Forum
Loss

[u]vs. Paalikles 2</u>
Japan
C3C 1.22
Monarch
Spoiler in Forum
Turn 143 - ON HOLD

[u]GCF Staff PBEM, USA vs. Europe (vs. Paalikles, Ville, with Gogf)</u>
Byzantine
C3C 1.22
Monarch
Spoiler Not Made
Loss

PBEM Record:
Overall: 0-2
vs. Paalikles: 0-2
vs. Ville: 0-1
with Gogf: 0-1

Civs Played/Playing, # of Times, Record As Them (* = in progress):
Iroquois: 1, 0-1
Byzantines: 1, 0-1
Japan: 1*

[Ginger_Ale]

SP Update: I won my game as China on Emperor by Space Race - 3738 points (or around there). I'm going to try to move on up to Demi-God. :) (*place your advice/bets on how I'll do here*) :D

[Pastorius]

http://forumspam.articblue.nl/misc/1337/images/0007.jpg

[Ginger_Ale]

Thanks Paal - on second thought, maybe I won't go to demi-god...maybe I will. :) *goes off to read all the strategy articles he can find*

[Ginger_Ale]

SP Update: I won a game on Emperor as the Sumerians - Diplo victory around 1600 AD after I conquered the French and Koreans. Fun times. Score of 3912 - I think I'll give Demi-God a go this weekend.

[Ginger_Ale]

SP Update: Demi-God has a curse on me. I got bored, so I started a game on Deity, continents, as Carthage. It's 1225 BC, and I'm ahead or tied with everyone for techs ... hopefully this game will carry onwards. The only downside: the AI expands like mad!!!!


PS: Thank god for suicide curraghs. :D

[Pastorius]

so, trying to psych me out are you.

pretty evil...

[Ginger_Ale]

A new PBEM starting: GCF Staff PBEM - 4 person PBEM (with Paalikles included! Let's kill him! [yeah] ).
US Team: Gogf and Ginger_Ale (*applaud*)
World Team: Paalikles and Ville (*boo*)

I'm not making a spoiler here though. I'll provide just some screenshots. :)

[Ginger_Ale]

I beat demigod these past couple of days. I could've won by Space Race, but I decided to end it early with honest diplomatic so that I could move onwards. I'm now trying my third real attempt (first I abandoned in the IA because I was in too many wars with republic because of MPPs :(). I'm the Hittites and the game is going swell (never thought you'd hear that word at CDZ, did you? [:p])!

[Ginger_Ale]

I'll be gone from the 13th to the 24th - down south in the US of A. A 12 day break from PBEMing.

[Ginger_Ale]

Finished up a SP game as the Ottomans on Demigod. What can I say, those Sipahis rock. I got 13 MGLs, and 1 SGL (came so late, and I was in war-time mobilization, I never got to use it), mainly due to Sipahis. Got a Domination victory in 1575 AD on Standard, 60% Continents ... best game I've had in a while, with a score of 6948 (best SP score as well). Only took away 43 hours of my life too... :)

[Pastorius]

GA, I ve sent Ville save and password, to avoid holding up the staff game. Sorry for not doing so before.

In other news, dunno when I have time to play our game....perhaps today though :)

[Ginger_Ale]

Getting pretty bored of single player these days. The AI is too predictable, so I have to play variants.

I played an AWM on a Tiny Map today as the Romans - won in 90 AD, though it probably could've been in the BCs if a city didn't flip so close to the end. I got a score of around 8000, my personal best (best is 9000 something, which was a SG) - and to think that was always war on monarch!

I might try some of LKendter's variants Raze 3 to Dominate (after there is no more room left to settle on the map, every third raze of an AI city grants you the right to build another city) or 5CC+ (5 City Challenge - each # of razes grants you another city. 6 razes grants you a 6th city, 7 (so total of 13 (6 + 7)) grants you a 7th, and so on - maybe I'll make a thread here for some.

Paal: Ok. It's going to go so slow.... slower than I thought possible! Ace your exams.