Kingreno vs Stasius ***SPOILER***
 

Not for your eyes Stas!

I play a Monarch PBEM vs Stasius, he plays Russia while I play Babylon. Aggie made us a continentsmap and the start looks quite nice.


http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/up...1626_start.jpg
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Since this is a monarch game I will have enough time to settle the area and build up an army and a shitload of culture[evil]

River, shielded grass, cow. Wheat for a second city. Not bad at all!

Th egame progresses at a steady pace. Stas has used his expansionist trait well and found a settler very early.[ponder]

I, on the other hand have build my warrior and sent him to scout arround and not opening any huts since babylon is building a granary and is without defences.
Babylon is the only size-4-city on the world at the moment with some "villages" at size 2 comming next:).
I have to guess what stas is doing because I outrank him in pop but he has 2 cities!! He has probably used a forest in the early turns to get many scouts out.

here is a screeny of my empire;



http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/up...518_3000BC.jpg
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to the northwest of babylon I think a four turn settler fac is possible, so I will surely send my first in that direction.

We're doing okay in pace and have arrived at turn 60. This is my "empire" :



http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/up...910bcnorth.jpg
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I plan some more cities in the first ring and a second, and third ring are to follow that. This is made possible by a double Isthmus, ons to the SE and one to the SW, which can be seen in the following screenie.



http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/up...910bcsouth.jpg
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On the Demographics things look simply awesome!



http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/up...emog1910bc.jpg
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With me leading in all mayor Demographics and contact with the Iroquois to be established in the next two turns, we'll see what happens.

Looking good! [coool]

How about an update??

There is sadly not that much to report. The game progresses slowly but steadily.
A summary: I managed to block both chokepoints with units, therefor I plan to settle the entire land before going to war. I am first in all major cattegories. and am racing past all opponents in score. I know the aztecs and the Iro's, who do not know eachother. I lead both by several techs. I will post a screenie in a few days.

Monarch is waaay below your level my friend [groucho]

@Skyfish: I could Play a chieftain game against, for example, you and it would be a match between us and a few flies. Or on Sid, where we both take the flyrole upon ourselves.:). In the end, there is a human opponent that determines the difficulty.
I have very little intel on my opponent Stassius though, so i do not know what his level is. It is the first PBEM for both of us, though I have some more experience in other types of civplay like SG.

@lurkers and other phenomena, the land:



http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/up...945_1400BC.jpg
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To the SE: the happy aztecs, who are doing okay, to the SW the crappy Iroquois.[yeah]

Sorry my comment was not meant as a "critic" at all !
Am just sayin the AIs (...and Stasius btw) stand no chance at all [lol]

Soo...no this game is not dead! :D

It is slow, but it is going very steady indeed.
We are now in the 80th turn and things look still very ok for our Babylonians.


http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/up...740_turn75.jpg
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As can be seen the empire is not that much bigger then in the last pic of the region. However, not less then 5 setlers are on their way to their destination and in 3 turns, 4 more citties will be found.
As an extra, I am 2 turns from Mapmaking and that will certainly bring me to the Silk (-Island?? or continent??).
On infra, I could use some workers so that is a priority. I have also 2 cities dedicated to units, first soem spears, soon swords. I need to get to a short war soon. JungleIro's look a logical target...

For now, my friendly neighbours are very happy with me, though I would like to see some researchprogress. I lead all by at least 2 techs, three if I count MM soon. I have embassies with all, showing Hiawattha is in the dark.[evil]


http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/up...2_turn75f4.jpg
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Scores are pointing out three bigguns in the game, Stassius and the English are some 40-60 points above the rest, and I lead these by some 40 more. Though the most will be Landarea here as I build several temples.[cool]

Looks like you only have an embassy with Persia or is it just an older screenshot ?

You se using magic he? Persians??[lol]