http://www.guildwars.com/press/releases/...-02-09.php

So... Who's pre-ordering?

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http://files.filefront.com/KrytaBomberWM...einfo.html


KoP

I had this specialized strategy that I wanted to try out on a suitably adverse start.

I decided to play as China.

Juuuust kidding.

I actually decided to boldly Eviscerate China, sacrifice her people and move the Altar of Sacrifice to Beijing (then kill a passing settler). Here they can be seen surgically removing China's heart.


How did those longbows get down there? Simple.

The TOP SECRET Fuedalism Slingshot (of awesomeness)

Then it was a simple matter of sacrificing thousands of slaves to prepare the army.

Going for Domination on a large Highlands is almighty tedious , I've played up to the Industrial age and am firmly in first place, but it's pretty boring so I don't think I'll bother continuing or reporting it. I just thought it was pretty cool attacking China right away and actually succeeding with a military coup.

Hi,

I've finally found the time to report about another private game. This time it was with the variant rule that I would not be allowed to build any military units! If you like to read about it, look here.

This is dedicated to Charis, who did a similar game in Civ 3 and whose crazy reports about crazy games I really miss...

-Kylearan

I only found the Realms Beyond after it was too late to get into Adventures 1 & 2 so this was the first one I tried - sucked in by the Byzantine scoring system

My full report is here.

The executive summary:

This was my second or third Prince game & I've not won one yet. So my goal was to survive & be a Tsar. Towards the end I began to think I could've won if I'd been a bit less timid at the start, ah well. I lost to Asoka who launched a Spaceship in 1992.

Score: 195 or 205 (pending decision on Organised Religon, my revolt to it wasn't documented :mad: )

F: 54 or 64
P: 117
S: 24

So I'm a Tsar & acheived my goal

This was a great game, but unfortunately I got started a bit too late...and so I ran out of time, in 1937 AD. I was headed towards a space victory, but actually if I had more time I could've gone back on the conquest path and upped my soldier score (and gotten the doubling for >50 pts. in all 3 categories) easily, just by conquering the rest of the home continent.

A full report and scoresheet will follow later, but it seemed like the soldiering points were unusually hard to get...maybe my game was unique in this regard (but perhaps not, considering that 9 civs on a large map - it was 9 on large, right? - would lead to larger empires and later wars), but it took a long while for expansion to be sufficient for an actual war of aggression against a neighbor. Before then, I did pick off a few barbarian cities, but nothing that would allow for serious points.

I expanded at a decent rate, but couldn't grow my cities large enough (but probably would have gotten some >25 if I had kept on with the game), but despite the fact that I focused on windmills and farms over mines/cottages, I was getting both a lot of commerce and production, so much so that by the end of the game my military was #2 in soldiers (something that rarely happens except for the very end of the space race with nothing left to build) and I was #2 in tech behind Mansa Musa. I'm starting to get a new respect for the State Property civic, when there's lots of wind and watermills on the board.

I quickly converted Qin to my permanent state religion (Hinduism) as well as founded Christianity. I was able to export my religions decently well, given the fact that most of my neighbors were in Theocracy for much of the game. Because of the early conversion, I was at peace (but never alliance) with Qin for the whole game - although with more time (again), once I had cleared out the rest of the continent I would've turned on him. It took two wars to conquer most of Spain (there were 3 far-flung colonies left) and I took two Arabian cities before time expired.

Quick scoresheet (subject to recalculation):

Farmer: 92 points.
Priest: 173 points.
Soldier: 42 points (not....quite....there...)

No victory, no binding, so final score = 307.

Hey all! Long-time admirer, recent poster providing my first (completed) RB-Civ report!

http://pindicator.coconia.net/Adv3/Adv-3.html

On that note, it's a first-time for a website construction as well. Any and all constructive criticism welcome!

Warning: - Clicking from part 1 to part 2 may lead you to a dead-end ad page (it's done it to me every time so far) but if you go back to the main menu and head to part 2 that way, it works. I have no idea why (the link is good, I've dbl and trpl checked) it does this! :mad:

Good game, I had fun in the early part, and learned some valuable lessons during the midgame. I actually completed the game a couple weeks ago, but then I've been out of town for over a week, and just got the report completed tonight. Now off to try and read some of the other reports!!

Justus II's Report

Hi,
due to time shortage I only managed to play til 1900AD on this day.
Anyway, I have an interesting war with Saladin going on and will probably continue the game although closing day has passed.


So far I scored a 105 Farmers Points, a meagre 32 Soldier Points and a somewhat questionable 67 Priest points. Will be interesting to see where I stand.
A report to back up my "point claims" will follow, hopefully by tomorrow.

One general wondering: Do units loose xp points when they get upgraded? I had an elephant with 24/26xps and he fell back to 10/26xps after upgrading to cossacks! If this is a known bug or something please up my soldier points to 41.


Another question reagrding my special priest point situation. I managed to not found a single religion. So I adopted the first one that spread into my lands. I captured the holy shrine from Isabella later on. Do I get points for possessing the shrine? And do I get points for all the cities in th world having my state religion?

I must have missed something when reading the manual. How do you guys get those images where the squares cultured by each city are shown? eg. from Sirian's latest report

http://sirian.warpcore.org/civ4/adventur...an-118.jpg

Thanks