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RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

mongoose201 — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:56:12 GMT

[red]Submission Accepted:[/red] Ziguener [red]Score: 15742[/red] Year: 2050ad

This was the only submission, and therefore, the champion.

Congrats Zig! I know you don't like the banner color, but I'm keeping them uniform, so :P

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:33:08 GMT

I also took a few gunships and pillaged the rails immediately around my city as the culture doesn't kick in until my next turn.

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zigeuner — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:13:49 GMT

Ah, those are some helpful hints that I will benefit from next time I stage a landing on another continent... I was almost squashed by units that were railroaded in so they could attack right away. No fun. I wish you easy pickings with those 50 Bombers.

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:37:38 GMT

The invasion has begun, I started attacking the city I had in mind, but it was too strong, and I couldn't reach with my bomber force to weaken the defenders, so I attacked a much easier city close by. I only lost 2 units before deciding to move onto the other city. I took this one with only one loss. I now have a large army on the other continent. I used by Great Artist to boost culture, and with the revolution gone too, I started work on a theatre. I will ruch the Globe as soon as possible to get more culture going. I also nuked about 6 large cities to delay the Aztecs from an all out attack straight away. Either they will delay to get all units healthy again - by which time my culture should have kicked in and I'll have time to bomb and retaliate before they can get to my city, or they'll attack in dribs and drabs - easy to pick off.

It's 2081...

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:01:15 GMT

Finally wiped out the Persians in 2061. Global warming is striking every so often. I have decided where I'm going to launch my invasion on the other continent, but am currently busy clearing the seas of Aztec Battleships and building up a force big enough to take the city and then hold it. I have a Great Engineer ready to build the Globe Theatre, and I'm preparing for a Great Artist as my next GL to boost the culture in the city I take so that I don't have to wait for the revolution to finish, and I get some breathing room rather than have all the Aztecs forces able to attack me in one go. I have a bit of an advantage in that I have some SERIOUSLY veteran units and they haven't had a war in ages, so shouldn't have anything with more than 3 promotions. I have hoarded quite a few ICBM's and have a 50odd strong Stealth Bomber force. I WILL win this game :P

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

mongoose201 — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:42:16 GMT

I haven't forgotten about this... I'll get this cleaned up on the weekend.

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:15:59 GMT

Lol, I'm with you there!

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zigeuner — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:03:20 GMT

To be honest, I really don't like the color... [url=http://planetsmilies.net][img]http://planetsmilies.net/angel-smiley-5114.gif[/img][/url]

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Locus Coeruleus — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:53:27 GMT

You won brotha, you get the banner whether you like it or not! :w00t:

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zigeuner — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:42:43 GMT

Heh, well if that's how it is, I don't want a banner of victory. It would just look like I set something up tailormade to, um, suit me. So let's get March going and forget about this particular adventure altogether... [challenge]I'm sure I'll earn another banner soon enough.[/challenge]
[url=http://planetsmilies.net][img]http://planetsmilies.net/grinning-smiley-9522.gif[/img][/url]

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:30:44 GMT

Unfortunately, due to an inordinate amount of coursework, I won't get it done by wednesday. If I wasn't working on wed night, I could blitz it in a mega session, but I sfinish Uni at about 4ish, and start work at 8, and finish at 3:30am. So congrats Zig, but I shall finish the game at some point to see how I fared :)

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:05:37 GMT

Lol, yeah, Aztecs are really strong. I have Persia down to 4 cities, so I should be rolling over them soonish, but it's tough going. I put a city pretty much in that bottleneck, so I'm safe enough, but it's just tough going. I didn't concentrate much on my navy, but I'm going to have to soon to launch a massive offensive against the Aztecs. The way I'm defending against invasions at the moment, is to have one city pouring out ICBM's. I have Jets on each side of the continent, having a peak over the oceans each turn. If I spot a big convoy of transports etc, I wait for them to get in range of my stealth bombers, take them down to 2/3 health, then drop ICBM's on them until I get a successful hit. Only one destroyer has survived that method so far ;)

The persians tried to put a boat on the oil in the South, but I've had a sub sitting under the ice (I Love that you can do that :D ) and mucnhed it before it could form a rig.

I have a spy wandering round the other continent to scope out the best invasion point. It's going to be a while though.

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zigeuner — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:08:46 GMT

Sounds good; I'd hate to win unchallenged... [url=http://planetsmilies.net][img]http://planetsmilies.net/alien-smiley-145.gif[/img][/url]

I was waiting for the revolutions to end, but 12 turns is a long time when you're cranking out 12+ new units a turn, so I made a mad dash across Spain and finished them off virtually unopposed. All this was before Domination kicked in (67% of land, last time I looked), so I actually have a much-coveted Conquest win!

2050 AD - Augustus Caesar

It sounds like you're having a much harder game, Zone. I blocked the bottleneck on the starter continent with MechInfs and kept it blocked until I was through with Persia. Without Oil and Aluminum they were not well off... I also lined up enough ships along my coast to catch all incoming Transports. Weren't too many of those, but I guess the onslaught after I landed explains why that was... [url=http://planetsmilies.net][img]http://planetsmilies.net/alien-smiley-139.gif[/img][/url] [url=http://planetsmilies.net][img]http://planetsmilies.net/alien-smiley-132.gif[/img][/url]

Good luck! (but not too much...)

Addited: Oh, I forgot to rename the .sav I uploaded...

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

mongoose201 — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:07:29 GMT

I'm extending this for 1 week... till March 7th, so that maybe a few can get saves submitted.

The new game may start while this one is still underway.

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:30:08 GMT

Lol, it's not gonna be finished today. I'm going to make a dash for the civ III GOTM as others have already finished on time.

I'll continue playing this one even if you do get done in time just to see... :)

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:26:37 GMT

So both civs survived on the other continent until you joined in... I've got an entire continent of Aztecs to take on... Once I've delt with the Perisans...

This may have to be a rollover at this rate... Unless you can finish it tomorrow Zig. I doubt I can.

If you don't manage, I propose that we carry on with them and a new GOTM is started for March, and whichever of us gets the higher score when we finish (deadline mid-march to ensure it gets done) this one, get's the award... Afterall, I'm sure people who didn't want to wade into this one will want to have a go in March.

Edit: Don't take this as a 'I won't be able to finish'. I've got a few spare hours at the moment. I'm going to give it a go ;)

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zigeuner — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:04:10 GMT

I'm almost there. No more Aztecia! I just need to wait for the bouts of revolution to end in my new towns, maybe overrun a Spanish city or two, and Domination is mine, hopefully tonight... (I'm relieved it's not just Conquest victory; my arm is aching from clicking so much.)

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:26:20 GMT

Not sure if I'll get this one finished, it'll take a mammoth session...

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zigeuner — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:09:00 GMT

I didn't complain about the difficulty level, only about my own neglect and the shortness of the month of February. I played some this weekend though, and Montezuma is broken, his empire reduced to three cities that will rapidly fall before the unstoppable horde of ModArms and Gunships. Spain is pesky but sending everything it's got in little batches, tailormade for slaughter. Victory is sweet. Victory hurts too, man, I hate to diss the best civ ever, but it just plain sucks that I cannot see ALL my units that are in a tile. Show them as unit types instead of individual little units. Having to click through 60 planes to get to the land units is no good... [url=http://planetsmilies.net][img]http://planetsmilies.net/alien-smiley-113.gif[/img][/url]

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Scipio Africanus — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:10:30 GMT

I think it mighta been a tad bit easier one or two notches lower on difficulty :w00t:

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zigeuner — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:07:39 GMT

Crud, I made a slight tactical slip up... I was confident I had troops aplenty so I wasn't satisfied to sit the first rush out, oh no, I just had to send a good stack over to take the second town... There was a bloody massacre, and a lot of my veterans perished. Then the onslaught came to my tiny toehold town, and I could barely move enough troops overseas to withstand the pressure. At one point I had one badly battered ModArm and two Artillery holding the fort... Luckily I have plenty of cities that crank out a unit a turn. I *think* the evil empires have expended their reserves and will send small raiding bands from now on, but man, did this suck in all the wrong places... :blink:

I think I'm going to be hard-pressed to finish this one in time. Looking forward to play a game from the start again. :Whistling:

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:48:50 GMT

I made a little progress last night, took another city by sidling round the enemy. Now have to hold onto the city until the culture can expand a tad, then off to do the same again. As I take down the cities, they shouldn't be able to build Mech Infs so fast and It'll get easier. Then I have to crack the Aztecs...

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zigeuner — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:19:51 GMT

[quote]The AI have sorted out who owns the other continent, so just the 3 of us left[/quote]That *does* sound uphill...

In my game I built units for many turns and I now own a tiny town in Aztecia with a ring of Jet Fighters circling it, and such an enormous stack of everything defending that the AI is just never going to get it back. Impossible. No way. Uh-uh. :)

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Scipio Africanus — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:57:17 GMT

I did not get very far with that one, and since I've decided to sort out my folders for Civ 4 on my D: Drive I can't get Civ4 to work (though strangely Warlords works fine). So I guess I'll be uninstalling, deleting, and then re-installing Civ 4 one day soon. But really, as long as Warlords works I'm prone to just ride with my current set up.

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:08:00 GMT

War of Attrition doesn't even begin to describe this... The AI have sorted out who owns the other continent, so just the 3 of us left and I'm struggling to get enough units together to attack whilst still fending off the massed ranks of Mech Inf.

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Scipio Africanus — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:03:41 GMT

Wow the AI can really crank out the units on Emperor difficulty!

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zigeuner — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:35:29 GMT

*stops building MechInf Marines* Ah, I guess Modern Armor with 3 x collateral is the way to go then...

(Speaking of which, it's a shame there isn't a special ops unit in the late game, like a Marine that gets +100% bonus when attacking off of a ship. Speaking of shame, I wish Transports could be upgraded to carry more units...)

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:37:44 GMT

They don't need the amphibious promotion to attack from the seas, it just means that they will get an attack penalty (around 50% I believe).

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zigeuner — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:53:02 GMT

I saved over my GOTM .sav, so I had to replay the entire (19)70s... :crazy:

Oh well, Cyrus is no more. He has perished most fatally. The only thing he will be remembered for is the most MechInfs produced; he never managed to hook up that ocean oil down south. :)

I already have a Spy scouting for a good beach of carnage on the other continent. I'm hoping to find a forested/bejungled hill where I can drop an enormous multitude of veteran units, but perhaps it'd make more sense to take a small, poorly defended town amphibiously. Don't have any troops with that promotion yet though.

It will probably take me the rest of the month to bring this to an end, but it's fun to slowly grind the life out of them. :D

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

mongoose201 — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:22:28 GMT

[quote][b]Zigeuner (2/4/2007)[/b][hr]Hm, I guess I have no idea what those different scores mean, and how they're calculated... Thinking of Civ3 again...

*matches shrug* :Whistling:[/quote]

Next time you're ingame, hold your cursor over your leadername in the diplomacy list on the bottom right side of the game screen. When you do this, you can see what factors are determining your score, and what your final score would be if you won on that turn.

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:50:20 GMT

That shouldn't be so much of an issue, I've never played cIV at this level of difficulty, but the main way the difficulty affects you over a game is keeping up in tech. In this game, you have all the techs, so as a human, you should be able to take on the AI easily as it will probably waste some time in some cities building things like Libraries when culture and science is going to make sod all difference in this game.

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

ozwego — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:01:11 GMT

Well I havent had much luck with any difficulty above noble but I decided to give it a shot anyway. Plthhh, Im not going to even post my score because these settings are way beyond my skillz. Anywho, good luck to all others and Ill be looking forward to the MGOTM. :hehe:

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zigeuner — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:58:01 GMT

Hm, I guess I have no idea what those different scores mean, and how they're calculated... Thinking of Civ3 again...

*matches shrug* :Whistling:

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

mongoose201 — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:06:09 GMT

The player with the Highest Normalized Score will likely be the one with the earliest victory, so I don't know that it matters a great deal what the wording is. I do see what your point it, but I guess I just got used to asking for Highest Normalized.

: shrug :

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zigeuner — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:46:08 GMT

[quote]The Highest Normalized Score in either of those two victory conditions will be named February GOTM Champion.[/quote]If there's a win in 2304 and another in 2100, who will have the Highest Normalized Score? If it's a toss-up, wouldn't it be more straightforward to just look at the quickest win?

This is doable on Deity so don't be too alarmed by the Emperor difficulty. It's a whole different game...

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Scipio Africanus — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:20:32 GMT

Cool. Will definitely have to do this one!

RE: February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

Zone — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:26:49 GMT

Different. I like it :)

February 2007 CivIV (Vanilla) GOTM

mongoose201 — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:33:06 GMT

[b]Game Closed[/b]

Champion: [b]Zigeuner[/b] [red]Score: 15742[/red] Year: 2050ad

Greetings all, this GOTM submitted by Zigeuner.

Vanilla CivIV Version 1.61

Civ: India with 3 Rivals

With the Future Starting Era, you begin with all techs and a full view of the map and all available resources.

Please note that the "Always War" option is selected. This means there is no such thing as peacetime in this game. :)

Here are your starting units:

And your starting position:

Your only victory options are Domination and Conquest. Those are the only victory conditions that have been enabled.

The Highest Normalized Score in either of those two victory conditions will be named February GOTM Champion.

When you complete the game, take a screenshot of the Victory screen where it lists your leadership counterpart in history. You may post the screenshot in the GOTM thread and then PM your final save (hopefully one just before victory) to me. Saves should be named as follows: [username]FEB2007GOTM.Civ4SavedGame.

[red]Good Luck, the savefile is attached below. Please note the 1760AD Starting year has no bearing as only military victories are allowed. Also, due to the nature of this GOTM, where all of the map/resources are visible, I'll be a participant in this game, as is the games submitter, Zigeuner.[/red]

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