I really like the additional variant rules of the RB games, having read a few reports the other day on Sulla's site.

I cannot recall a GP ever being used as a super specialist though. It would be interesting to see how players coped with only being able to use GP's as super specialists. So far their (SS) utility seems to under appreciated by the majority. It may also help to drag many players away from the addiction of building shrines and academies.

Hopefully 'GP's only to be used as super specialists' would be considered for a future Adventure game.

Great game and map. I wanted to write a full report but I can't find the time :/
So a short summary of what I did.

I build the Oracle and grabbed CoL for Condusianism in 950 BC so I could pop my boreders more easily. I settled the narrow valley to the north which is my passage to England and further expand westward. I make a good friend of the French and join them on a war against Asoka. I get some border towns and we're at peace again.

From here I build up forces to capture two English cities near the earlier passage after which I make peace to build those up and get multiple stacks ready for England's demice. Once I start going in on England again France ask my help against Asoka once more. This would mean a two front war without good logistics but hey he's my buddy :D

I mainly harass Asoka at this point gaining little but once my production of units isn't needed in "New China" (formerly known as England), I start sending in more troops to the west.

A round of peace starts again with me building up some more. England has one town left and Asoka lost some northern towns to France. The Incans are nicely locked in between various small passages which keeps there furtile valley quite safe (I wish it was my start so I could've played an awesome builders game).

Time to take it all! Carefully planned military routes are followed dilligently by my troops marching through India. They fall easily and are assimilated shortly after the English populace

Time for the Incans. I expected way less resistence then I got. While fending off me in the south he actually captured 4 French cities to his west. Time to for a war of attrition
I kept him busy while going into war build mode (police state) ~18 cities building barracks/forges/factories and 16+ buidling tanks all within 5 turns
Guess what he didn't last

So waiting a few more turns for Incan cities to embrace china cultural inheritance puts me over the domination limit in 1953 scoring 22134 points.

Something I did very extensively this game was use alot of leaders for free/partial techs something along the lines of 10-12 which really helped getting my fast expansion and expenses covered with new techs

This map was weird did you add some mountains? It where 4 perfect quadrants which were closed almost completely with mountains. Travel could only go clockwise or counter clockwise with the biggest opening being north of the sea west of Beijing. Great work if you did, made for some really good strategical options

hey all ~ anybody have a favorite civ they like to play quite a bit? personally, i'm partial to izzy or cathy ~ anybody else?

The Devon Cluster being Galahad, Tristan, Bedevere, Morgan Le Fay, and Igraine...

Just curious to see if anyone from here plays.

I play typically on Tristan Midgaard realm, Officer in the "Oracle of Tristan" guild.

my charcter names are:
Tamuriel 50 Thane, Napolde 50 Dark SM, Arangato 50 Suppression SM, Visceral 50 Savage, Toraig 50 Berserker, Klonefour 50 Bone Dancer, and 3 or 4 lower level characters

I have alternate characters on the Igraine Server.

Results are now up for Adventure Three, plus FTP is working again so I can post them.

It looks like Sirian, Garath, and Kylearan were the clear leaders in score for this one, so congratulations to them. I also always find it interesting when a game's scoring system results in some losing games scoring higher than winning ones. So, next time you're feeling frustrated that you're losing, don't despair!

There are always many more people who download than people who report, so a big thanks to everyone who took the time to write about their experiences, win or lose. Also thanks to Kylearan for compiling the results.

Unfortunately I do not have the time to create a full-fledged report, so I will limit it to a short summary and possibly upload some screenshots tomorrow.

A fun adventure indeed! Since we wouldn't be able to build any research bonus buildings until Astronomy (Observatories), I figured this would be a warmongering game for myself. I ended up with a Domination Victory in 1812, which could have been considerably quicker had I chosen to go for speed rather than just building whatever caught my whim.

Revolted to Mercantilism immediately and moved the settler SE. Renamed the warrior Odysseus because his boat landed on the wrong side of the lake, and sent him wandering to find home. He runs across the Lotus Eaters (england) and finds a Cyclops (bear) before returning home to his son Telemachus (my first trained warrior). Back in the home front, I settled Beijing SE-SE and realized how silly that was. SE-S would have been superior, and on the spot was a good location if you were able to shuttle a worker around to the other side of the mountain. Second town was Shanghai, built in 2200BC to the north of Beijing. It was founded to capture the Sheep, Bronze, and Dye and would be one of my shield powerhouses in the game. With exploration my next two cities would provide eastern and western chokes (have to love the highlands maps for those). Guangzhou became the eastern choke, founded 1 tile due east of the corn and all but isolating the SE of the map for my uses. In the northwest I settled Nanjing 1 tile west of the small lake, picking up the gold, cattle, and corn in its city radius. Thus, I had blocked off large sections of land while only having a narrow front to contain AIs.

To compliment Mercantilism, Code of Laws was my priority tech-wise. I completed the Oracle in 925BC and grabbed Code of Laws as my free tech. I immediately converted to Organized Rel and Caste System, then sent my missionary over to England for conversion. Lizzy was my friend all game long (well, most of the game) and allowed me to concentrate my troops down one front.

Running Mercantilism and Caste System allowed a large land grab in the early stages of the game. After the initial border expansion, I swapped from an artist to a taxman. By 300AD I held 8 cities, filled out the northwest, and still continued on 100% science, all thanks to Tax Specialists and Courthouses. I even ran a few scientists where I could. I also managed to lead the world in GNP by this point in the game.

Machinery is learned in 900AD and I declare on India in 1040AD. My army is mostly based around Level 2 Cho-Ko-Nus (from running Vassalage -- Theocracy was tempting, but I stuck with Org Rel so I could continue making missionaries and spreading some culture). The Indian capital of Dehli falls in 1190AD and the Indians are wiped out in 1380AD.

Immediately set my sights on Napoleon. Most of my army is in the far north and runs along the northern edge of the map heading towards Paris. My newly built southern army, mostly knights, choko's, maces, and catapults, gets obliterated after taking the first two cities and moving against Paris. Nappy had been building up! But I out-produce him and quickly have a second southern force built up while my northern troops slowly consolidate the north and move towards Paris and Orleans. Paris falls in 1630AD, cutting the remaining French empire in twain.

Military Tradition is learned in 1635AD.

Declare on Huayna in 1680AD, and proceed to steamroll him. Took the war slow and steady; could have won earlier easily. Around now I'm massing more settlers and artists to expand boundaries and aim for the cultural victory. This takes more and more priority the farther along I go. Inca are annhiliated in 1810AD. Attack England now and the extra territory I gain from capturing their border town of Hastings is enough to push me over the Domination mark in 1812AD

Final Score: 66336

Fun game.

Here is my report.

Hi

Ever since starting to play Hardcore in D2, I have come to hate the Windows Key.

There it sits, right beside the Alt key, where I am all too prone to stabbing it by accident. And there I am, back to desktop :mad: when I really want my attention to be in the game, finding ways to Not Die™.

I was starting to consider the Brute Force method of disabling it, with a flat-top screwdriver.

However, a gaming companion just introduced me to this little piece of software.

http://www.bytegems.com/ihatethiskeydeluxe.shtml

I have now disabled that dratted key, and when I manage to kill off my toons, I will have one less excuse for it.

I thought it might be worth sharing, as there are other games where this can be an issue.

Reporting is open for the Cultural Revolution. I'm excited to see what kind of city placement choices everyone made.

Please have reports by the end of Tuesday in this forum.

But is there a timeline for a new adventure or epic? I just finished up GOTM 3 over at CivFanatics, and don't want to start another personal game if there will be an Epic or Adventure coming down.

I've got some ideas for Adventures of my own, that I could share if TPTB were interested.