Another happy evening of multiplaying Part II - Page 5

Rasputin · March 3, 2001, 08:21

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March 3, 2001, 21:07

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Player reaction to Raz's incessant king chat.

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March 4, 2001, 21:09

Sunday night game was a finbar horse affair. The main interest in the game is trading at this stage. The fact that the comp put the Russian and Viking ai civs on the same island has led to some interesting ai behaviour - when they aren't beating the cr*p out of each other, they ally and attack finbar and I.

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finbar · March 4, 2001, 21:44

Only because they know we're better than they are, Horse.

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March 5, 2001, 18:39

Played the finbar/hydey briefly but hydey succumbed to his fevers (get well soon son) and so finbar and I had a rather long session of our game. The Russians were reduced to one city and the Vikings aren't looking too flash either.

In a moment of wickedness I bribed a city finbar had just taken. It was fun while it lasted but we replayed the turn.

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finbar · March 5, 2001, 20:05

Yeah, so now it's down to the Vikings. Who gets which Viking bit? And, more importantly, what happens once the Vikings have bitten the Civ dust?

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March 5, 2001, 20:23

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Yeah, so now it's down to the Vikings. Who gets which Viking bit? And, more importantly, what happens once the Vikings have bitten the Civ dust?

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Well when the Vikings fall (to me I expect), "England shall not brook a double reign, of Harry Percy (I'd say that's you in this metaphor) and the Prince of Wales (or his horse)".

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March 6, 2001, 18:37

Another session of the finbar hydey. I wish someone would finish off the Indians who attack me incessantly.

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finbar · March 6, 2001, 20:17

Sorry, I love watching the Indians hurling skiers at walled Mech Inf. Just love it.

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March 6, 2001, 20:47

That's easy for you to say - I have to deal with their wacky navy, which can actually do some damage.

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finbar · March 6, 2001, 22:50

Prepare a strip with a bit of bounce in it. Get it up around their ears. Watch 'em go to pieces.

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March 7, 2001, 19:10

Won't be round tonight. 8 March is Mrs Horse's birthday. She's 21 again.

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finbar · March 7, 2001, 19:23

Gee. I'll be 22 on March 30. She's about a fortnight away from being an Aries. Consider that a stroke of luck, Horse.

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Big Lewi · March 7, 2001, 20:30

All this work and no play....no time these days to play civ. grrrr!

What's worse is I'm living in a damn caravan park now and my PC is still in Adelaide.

Afraid there wn't be any civving for me for a while....probably for nearly two months!

In the meantime I'll keep maken money and I'll see you guys in about two months when I'm at a real address....

this is Lowang signing off...

But remember, you havn't seen the last of Lowang!

finbar · March 7, 2001, 21:37

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All this work and no play....no time these days to play civ. grrrr!

What's worse is I'm living in a damn caravan park now and my PC is still in Adelaide.
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You might consider changing your nick to Trailer Trash.

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Damn.

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March 7, 2001, 22:25

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Gee. I'll be 22 on March 30. She's about a fortnight away from being an Aries. Consider that a stroke of luck, Horse.

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My mother's birthday is 7 March and my wife's birthday is 8 March. I don't even know what star sign they are.

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finbar · March 8, 2001, 00:43

I think it's Pisces. Same as my ex.

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Hydey · March 8, 2001, 06:02

Happy birthday Mrs Horse xoxoxox

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March 8, 2001, 19:58

As it happens, Mrs Horse got sick and went to bed early so finbar and I got in a session of our game.

Strange ettiquette. The Vikings went the way of the Russians, reduced to 2 cities.

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finbar · March 8, 2001, 22:03

I'm out tonight.

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March 8, 2001, 22:13

Down at the Mitchell Library researching sixties music no doubt.

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finbar · March 9, 2001, 03:10

Playing poker, as it happens.

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March 10, 2001, 20:33

Alas, apologising all the way (my army saying, "sorry", "was that your head?" and "pardon me" as they looted and burned), the Horse empire was left with no choice but to attack the finbar empire in the last session of the finbar hydey game.

The finbar empire was noticed making sinister military preparations, assembling a large army on the Western border of our heartland and researching military techs which could have given them a decisive military advantage if they attacked whilst the bulk of our army was far from our capital (which it was). So, with a heavy heart

the Horse Force struck pre-emptively at finbar's weakly defended Western border region. The attack, though cut short by incessant complaints from the Hydey empire about the time it was taking, was very successful. Taking 8 of his cities of which 7 were held, capturing the Seti program, gaining all the military techs finbar had secretly researched and splitting his now tottering empire in two.

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finbar · March 11, 2001, 07:19

*yawn*

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Hydey · March 11, 2001, 07:50

Well this game has suddenly changed

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March 11, 2001, 08:17

Yes, finbarville falls along with 3 other cities and finbar gives his cities to Hydey. Smart move. Horse 42 cities 179 units. Hydey 34 cities, 106 units. Game on.

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Hydey · March 11, 2001, 17:06

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Yes, finbarville falls along with 3 other cities and finbar gives his cities to Hydey. Smart move. Horse 42 cities 179 units. Hydey 34 cities, 106 units. Game on.

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Hmmmmmmm you forgot to mention your big tech advantage over me Horse,

Lets see Horse has more cities , more units and a big tech lead, I think I'm in trouble.

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finbar · March 11, 2001, 20:15

Sorry, Hydey, I stuffed up what was a great plan. I didn't realise that, when ceding cities, you only transferred the units inside the cities. The units attached to cities, but fortified outside the cities, seem to disappear. Having hardly ever ceded cities, I had no idea. Next time I'll know to relocate the fortified units back inside the cities.

Horse isn't that far ahead of you in techs. And I ICQd you in regard to his tactics. Yes, he has a huge number of units, but a lot of them are committed on my mainland. He obviously has more, but his invasion force needs to be massive, so he has either to re-deploy from my mainland, or build a second invasion force. He's probably already doing the latter, but I suspect you have some time on your side. That was basically the thinking behind my decision.

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March 11, 2001, 20:54

finbar, if you or hydey can load your auto save or have a save, I'm happy for us to go back to your last turn and you can give hydey all your units and techs too. Alternatively, you two should regroup and exchange cities so you both have defensible empires to go on with

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finbar · March 11, 2001, 22:24

Going back to fix the ceding thing - incorporating the fortified units - would make for a better contest. Whether it's kosher is another matter.

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