[SPOILERS] Stonehenge First: scooter's thread

[scooter]

Those signs are a little out of date...

This is what I've learned at RB. If you want lurker comments, leave something out that people can nitpick about rather than do something interesting/entertaining.

Edit: If you must know, I left that sign out because I was tracking decay because I stopped the Library to build a bunch of units - before and during Theocracy mainly. That Library sat in the queue for a long time so I was making sure I didn't lose hammers. I just haven't bothered deleting it yet.

[NobleHelium]

Signs, plural. It was obvious that sign was for tracking decay.

[scooter]

Signs, plural. It was obvious that sign was for tracking decay.

Ah the elephant probably, though there's several culture signs that are out of date. The elephant was his but moving towards me early on, but when I razed his city the first time it immediately flipped to me and has been tilting my way ever since, so I haven't had a need to update it. I tend to leave signs up much longer than necessary.

[Bigger]

awesome, now you just need to raze Commodore and Pindicator's capitals and you'll can coast to the win .

[spacemanmf]

awesome, now you just need to raze Commodore and Pindicator's capitals and you'll can coast to the win .

That's a win by Civ Rev standards.

[scooter]

T99-101 preps for Liberalism

AT did cover his city as I'm sure you know:



However, this was at the cost of losing a city to Pindicator. One of the serious downsides of a banter thread here is it broadcasts to other players when it's time for an opportunistic strike. No idea if that's what Pindicator did or not, but there was a reason I kept quiet publicly until AT mentioned my attack on him. Didn't want to influence Pindicator or Commodore who play after me but before AT. Anyways, Commodore launched a golden age:



Of course he's beating me now in MFG, but I'm still ahead in GNP despite being in normal age:



Delightful. Philosophy due in 2, scientist for Education bulb due 1 turn after that:



And I of course have tons of stored gold so I can keep chugging at 100% through Liberalism. Unless Commodore manages multiple scientists, I think I can beat him to Liberalism, though him using a GA to turbo-boost him was a smart move. I keep expecting Pindicator to launch a MoM golden age to try to snipe it too, but it hasn't happened. Also, Commodore has maces:



Just worth noting. I've skipped so many crucial techs to be able to catch up from my early tech hole to win Liberalism. I currently do not have Currency, Metal Casting, or Literature to name a few techs that would be really important for me. See the thing is, if Commodore just gunned straight for Nationalism he could probably steal the Taj due to the fact that he owns Marble and I don't. THis is the biggest short-coming in my position for sure - lack of marble. Also, this is really annoying:



And that is why I didn't bother building that second cottage. You're welcome Pindicator for leveling that cottage up for you. /sadface

[scooter]

Ok I"m getting behind, so a quick dump of three turns worth of screenshots before Commodore got Liberalism.



Pindicator sprung an MoM GA as expected. He's got a real shot at the Taj if he plays his cards right, but I don't have tech visibility on him so I really don't know for sure. Unfortunately, Commodore used an Education bulb and some deficit spending apparently:



I did still give it a shot with a bulb of my own:



But he beat me to Liberalism by a turn. Nicely done. THat's about as deep a beeline as I could have done for Liberlism, so I'm not sure I could've done much differently. I did sadly have to use up some of my deficit gold because Pindicator was screwing around:



That's a fairly real stack. So I moved a pile of HAs over there to be like "I SEE YOU AND DON'T SCREW WITH ME" and see if he got the picture. Yes he did:



Thankfully due to my visibility I'm fairly safe over here, though he could still pull something nasty with Engineering which I don't believe he has. I did wonder where this nasty stack ran off to, and my other front is much more dangerous. Britta is no longer under any threat due to AT's borders receding drastically (the razes), so I could afford to shuffle pointless units from Britta into Jeff, so that made me feel a lot better about the scary stack.

We've played a few more turns, I'll try to get something up for those tonight too.

[scooter]

Oh btw, I did get University of Sankore:



I'm getting this out of the way now because it sounds like Pindicator and AT may have simul-attacked Commodore..? This is ironic because I just launched something of my own that I'm going to show you in a bit... So yeah, get these pointless peace-related posts out of the way first.

Hope Commodore loses a city. I'm just hoping people freak out over him getting Liberalism. I see AT spazzing a bit in the banter thread, but I didn't want to admit that I was basically 1-2T behind Commodore so it's not like he's blowing us away TOO badly.

One more random note - I LOVE being PHI when it comes to Oxford. Just the best.

[scooter]

Aha, Commodore just gave it away. That horse archer stack I've seen on both of my borders now apparently went at Commodore. Awesome.

Hopefully something comes of it.

[scooter]

So this is why I'm kinda chuckling about this:



I chose to pressure AT by forking his cities, the eastern of which I've got under catapult pressure. I could lose a few units here, but I can handle that. I'm starting to think I should have waited one more turn for AT to really take a swipe at Commodore if he really is involved, but I had no way of knowing that was happening.

Anyways, this could be lucrative for me or really bad. I'm primarily hoping to clear some space for a 5th city - Pindicator and Commodore surely have more than 4 and that'll catch up with time.