Thanks guys !
Erikk : no way I can do it man ! He is huge and got loads of big cities and his lands have much more food bonuses than mine.
I might do a comparative study later if I have time.
Also he has tons of coastal cities and will flood me with Berzerks !
Even Rifles lose massively vs those fuckers
I already told Kemal when we started :
This is the PBEM of all PBEMs to end the PTW era :
if I win this one I will retire from PBEMs and possibly Civ3...could not reach a higher goal
Plux : I can guarantee you it's not a Hollywood movie so dont expect any "happy end" !
I better go on before I forget the rest of the story, I lost some of my notes already
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OK so we know a bit more about Kemal now but what about the other AIs ?
India is stronger than Carthage, they have Currency and Literature but no Republic !
Carth is missing Lit and Republic, both have almost no money though...
Now the funny part about this is that I have asked *multiple times*,
hell I even begged him to get an agreement about the fact that we should not have abusive MAs or phoney wars :
he always refused saying we could negotiate "in the game" once he can "evaluate the situation better" ! grrr...
Well now I am going to show him why I think its not fun to play with "anything goes" rules !
I buy Embassies with India, Carthage and Arabs, I go to the F4 screen, declare War on Kemal,
go to India, buy an Alliance (and all their money) for Republic,
I go to Carthage and do the same.
Finally I go to the Arabs and buy an Alliance for Construction
This last move was a tough decision because now Construction
is known by one AI Kemal has contact with and it will be cheaper
for him to search it
but since he is at war with Arabia (and everyone else he knows)
at least he can not buy it for 6 turns !
Finally, I realize I am in the Middle Ages now since I got Currency from Arabs but both Korea and Babs still aren't...
My free tech is Monotheism !
I go to the Babs and gift them Currency (they have nothing left...)
They get Feudalism !
Monotheism + 187g buys me Feudalism !
Now I go to Korea and sell them Construction for all their money (remember I wanted to grab it during the inter-turn...)
turns out it was 232g.
They draw Feudalism too... cant have all the luck of course !
And that concludes this huge trading round :
- I have all the money in the world (760g) except the 187g I gave to the Babs.
- I am up Republic, Construction, Currency, Literature, Monotheism
and Feudalism on Kemal
- I have exclusive contacts between the 2 continents and I am the only one to have the World Map.
- He is at war with all the AIs he knows so no way he can trade for techs in the next 6 turns (except if he has a galley close of course)
- All AIs are Polite towards me, except Korea who still lacks Republic (I am hoping I can trade for it later)
Here is a nice screenie :
Finally to conclude, I go to Aydin my garrison city, upgrade my 20 chariots for 400g and declare war honourably on the Americans.
Then at last I go to the F1 screen and go into Anarchy : I draw 6 turns which is average all things considered.
This was my most exciting round for as long as I can remember and just the thought of Kemal opening the turn makes me chuckle :
I can always say that for one moment, a short unreal moment, I had the edge over him
Of course I had to fuck up somewehre, I still made a crucial mistake :
I should have bought embassies with Korea and Babylon before going into Anarchy. One can not buy Embassies while in Anarchy
Now if Kemal finds Korea then he will be able to trade with them and get contact with Babs and Americans.
I did not want to give
my AIs contact with him though in order to keep tech costs up,
that is why the whole world is not at war with them.
If my galley survives it will stay at that junction so that if Kemal is close to finding the Koreans
(and my galley can not sink his
) then I can get an Embassy with Korea and buy an Alliance with them...
Thats hoping it will be in more than 6 turns
