RB PBEM #1 - Gandhi [spoilers]

[Ruff_Hi]

I was playing a SP game and Cathy sabotaged a completed part - nasty girl. I am pretty sure it was really expensive. I do have the start of a plan that I will post about later.

[Ruff_Hi]

• Cities:
  • FF: Tank [1], Statue of Liberty [5]
    
  • LQ: Tank -> Tank [1]
    
  • DV: Security Bureau [1]
    
  • BH: Tank -> Tank [1]
    
  • BS: Security Bureau [3]
    
  • AC: Security Bureau [1]
    
  • TN: Mining Exec -> Security Bureau [3]
    
  • KS: Paratrooper -> Security Bureau [3]
    
  • SL: Security Bureau [3]
    
  • MD: Paratrooper -> Mausoleum [3]
    
  • EC: Mausoleum [1]
    
  • NB: Paratrooper -> Mausoleum [2]
    
  • Sparta!: Wealth
    
• Tech: Military Science [4], +96g at 30% science, 223g in the bank
  
• Opponent Tech:
  • sooooo - Radio [3], 317g, -163g @ 100% tech
    
  • mostly harmless - Ratio [5292], 208g, up from 472g (+204 per turn)
    

I guess mh is shipping all of his gold to sooooo. Oh, and it appears mh stole Fascism from Dreylin. Cities that can build 1 turn tanks are. Other cities are getting ready for the post-Sooooo era. I bombed as many of sooooo's units as I could (see pics below). I also adopted Organized Religion and Emancipation.

I split my stack of 21 tanks into 2 stacks ... 9 heading west and 11 going for Athens.

[pocketbeetle]

You seem to be putting a lot of drill promotions on your tanks while Sooo uses combat promotions.
Any comment?

(Collateral damage avoidance? Or just that after siege weapons have attacked, the odds are so good that you don't need the city raider promotions?)

[Ruff_Hi]

I want them to take minimal damage if Sooooo does hit them ... thus the first strike ability. These guys have to go a long way into Sooooo territory and will face a lot of battles with minimal chance to heal. And, yes, my bombers are certainly taking the edge of Sooooo's units so I don't need lots of attack benefits.

The aim at the moment is to kill as many of Sooooo's units as fast as possible and to restrict his ability to make additional units. Thus my focus on his oil and production cities.

[pocketbeetle]

I want them to take minimal damage if Sooooo does hit them ... thus the first strike ability. These guys have to go a long way into Sooooo territory and will face a lot of battles with minimal chance to heal. And, yes, my bombers are certainly taking the edge of Sooooo's units so I don't need lots of attack benefits.

The aim at the moment is to kill as many of Sooooo's units as fast as possible and to restrict his ability to make additional units. Thus my focus on his oil and production cities.

Understood, thanks for the reply.

[regoarrarr]

So once you launch, you just have to survive till it lands to win, right? As long as you have at least one city left and nobody (Dreylin) wins by any other means in the meantime, right?

Was it a previous version of civ where if you razed someone's capital once they launched then that somehow defeated the spaceship?

[Krill]

That was Civ 3.

[regoarrarr]

That was Civ 3.

Thanks Krill - so in Civ 4 am I correct in how it works? So once ruff launches, the only way for Dreylin (or anyone else) to beat him is to either a) launch a faster ship, b) win by culture before ruff arrives, c) eliminate ruff by Conquest?

[sunrise089]

Thanks Krill - so in Civ 4 am I correct in how it works? So once ruff launches, the only way for Dreylin (or anyone else) to beat him is to either a) launch a faster ship, b) win by culture before ruff arrives, c) eliminate ruff by Conquest?

Or win diplo or domination or time if those options are enabled.

[Ruff_Hi]

It will be hard for Dreylin to win by conquest (cannot kill Shangra-La) or domination as we have a non aggressive pact (we will not declare on each other).