Cartouche Bee vs Taurendil

[Taurendil]

Why do all the threads here mention "OPEN THREAD"? Isn't that the name of the forum?

Anyway:
Emporer difficulty featuring
Chancellor CB of the Germans,
Saint Taurendil of the French,
Hammurabi, Catherine, Brennus and Alexander, all of some countries soon forgotten.

I forgot the other game specifics, but those will be gladly explained by CB in the following post ;)


http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/taurendil/200362505151_vs cb turn 1.jpg
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[Cartouche Bee]

My start at 3950BC. I moving though.



http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Cartouche Bee/20036251417_tau-3950BC.jpg
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[Cartouche Bee]

OK, OK my first city.

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Cartouche Bee/20036252541_tau-3900BC.jpg
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[Cartouche Bee]

This probably looks like a weird first move but I hate to waste flood plains bu building on them, GOTM14 is a good reference for that, plus building a city on a hill is always nice for defense. :)

[digger760]

I like to move onto hills as well. Should be a big city in the future, pity about those desert sqaures, you never know they may have oil.

[Taurendil]

We seem to have slightly different views on this. I'd personally hate to waste the good production of hills when i can settle on abundant flood plains.
@digger: those 3 desert squares shouldnt be a problem. This is a small pangea map. If city sizes over 12 are ever an issue, we have done something wrong. The same goes for oil.

[Aggie]

In despotism growth is also very important. You are able to whip improvements at a certain size...

[Taurendil]

Our game ended very prematurely in turn 32, when the Celts decided there wasn't enough room for both of us in the world. And the RNG backed them up. Cartouche was very nice to call the game a draw and we restarted. The game specifics are the same, except for the AI's. This (http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=569) is my spoiler thread, and this is my start:


http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/taurendil/2003629235337_vs cb turn 1.jpg
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[Cartouche Bee]

Well our new map was not too balanced and it shows. I got stuck with 3 AI planted on top of me and T has 2 way far away. T also got a found a settler and is way ahead on expansion but... since I'm the Germans I'm just going to muscle out a fair military position. :D

[Aggie]

I looked at the map and indeed, I've made a bit of a mess [blush2] of it.

[Cartouche Bee]

Not to worry aggie, things are starting to go fine for me anyway. I'm still about par on techs and I'm just in my first war now and doubt I'll ever be at peace again from this point on, cept maybe when I do a government change, don't like to war too much in anarchy.

[Taurendil]

I've also managed to cripple India's expansion with an early attack, and blocked off persian expansion for a while using the old settler block tactics. As a result, i've had a lot more room. This game is far from over still. CB might reap the benefits of warmongering (leaders), and has placed his cities RCP style.

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/taurendil/2003715202153_vs cb 85.jpg
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[Cartouche Bee]

Isn't is amazing how out of scale the mini maps are to the real maps?

I wish they would fix that.

Take T's shot of the map. If you look at that map, the my sister cities in the first ring to the east and west look like they are very close together, yet the sister cities to the north and south look much further apart. However the sister cities are all equally space apart. [eek]