Tales from the Front

Makeo · July 11, 2003, 18:32

I just had very enjoyable game. Enjoyable because i won of course, but heres a bit of a tale from the front.

Three players. I got off to a pretty good start. Got some cities down, got Lighthouse, and thought I was crusing.

Makeo · July 11, 2003, 18:34

The greeks lose their capital to the Romans and so are basically out of the game.

The Aztecs began to languis and the Romans build HG and the Collossus. I still have a good pop lead due to more cities.
I send three triremes and six elephants and kill a northern Roman city.

Makeo · July 11, 2003, 18:36

The romans are rapidly getting out of control. They build the chapel get monotheism and feudalism whilst the aztecs have to be content with polytheism and no more wonders.

Romans have a go at Teayo but the defenders just hold on against the crusaders.

Therefore I attack the norther roman city you can see north east of my triremes. 8 elephants. Destroy city because Romans are defending well.

Makeo · July 11, 2003, 18:39

Luckily most of my elephants survive and I reinforce them with three more elephants and a settler. So i have 5 triremes with 9 elephants and one settler. I build my gateway city since I know there will be roman cities within attacking distance.

Makeo · July 11, 2003, 18:45

This next battle was very cool, from my perspective. My attack force was five triremes, eight elephants and one elephant with a sliver of red.

I pull my ships through gateway and move south east, and find the wonder city of the Romans. Note the two pikes on the trees. I got lucky there. So I land my elephants and attack. There are three unfortified pikes plus a phalanxe plus an elephant plus a a crusader plus two caravans in the city. I lose one battle. but it puts the pikeman into the red. So here I am the city is size one all my elephants have moved except the one in the red with only one movement point. Two of my ships have 1 movement left. I attack with the first ship and it kills a cara. the second ship attacks and kills the red pike. the wonder city is at size one with no defenders. I have nothing left except the red elephant. he hops off the ship into the wonder city destroying it. HG, Colossus and MC go down. I nearly had a heart attack. fun fun fun.

Makeo · July 11, 2003, 18:46

So overall I had some luck, but triumphed in the end.

War4ever · July 11, 2003, 20:27

wow, that is fun! good stuff Makeo

Ming · July 12, 2003, 02:39

"Tales from the Front" used to be a staple of the MP forums. It's good to see the old tradition brought back.

Thanks for the story. Anybody else have some great stories?

atawa · July 12, 2003, 03:15

Nice story, and good attack

Hydey · July 12, 2003, 04:04

Makeo is a true legend

Ming · July 12, 2003, 04:16

I've heard him called other things by people he has played

Alexander's Horse · July 12, 2003, 04:43

Other stories? Well there was this time makeo agreed to cede me a city and..........

DrSpike · July 12, 2003, 06:51

No one mention Onion Island.

Hydey · July 12, 2003, 07:12

You've been warned never to mention that Island.

DrSpike · July 12, 2003, 07:13

Quote:

Originally posted by Hydey
You've been warned never to mention that Island.

I was just making sure noone would mention it.

Hydey · July 12, 2003, 07:19

Oh thats ok then, please accept my appologies

Makeo · July 12, 2003, 07:30

look, go and find some other thread to spam.

rah · July 12, 2003, 20:13

Yes, fun looking game. Whenever an opponent near me get's lighthouse, I reasses my defenses along the coast.

Sparrowhawk · July 12, 2003, 21:03

Like Ming, I have enjoyed the Tales from the front threads of the Past, with one of the most memorable, forever lost to servers of the past, being the WWII scenario that (correct me if I get the names wrong) Xin/Ming/Rah played as the 3 weakest civs. That was a great story, and there have been a number of others.

to Makeo for returning this great tradition.

as for your game, great sneak attack, looks like the last thing your opponent was expecting is an attack by sea. Maybe not a mistake he will soon make again

Andemagne · July 13, 2003, 19:21

did I ever tell that story about my game on last tuesday with atawa. I gave him a whopping in less than 15 minutes.

and it was my first full MP game EVER.

Hydey · July 13, 2003, 20:59

15 minutes

are you claiming great skill or can we assume great luck

atawa · July 13, 2003, 21:42

med map, 3300bc or something, an archer comes crushing down on my cap and I have only warriors to defend.

And no, this is not a loss and I'm still the greatest player ever!

Hydey · July 13, 2003, 21:52

The old archer from a hut and then stumble on the opponents Capital trick.

I can see it was all skill then

Cobra · July 14, 2003, 03:54

What a great win

. Now Andemagne is world´s greatest player and everybody want´s to challenge him to get the crown.
We should organize a candidates tournament for that

rah · July 14, 2003, 09:51

Yes, unless I got an unit from a hut, around 3300, my cap would be about to finish off the settler and only have a single warrior defending. Most definately skill.

Alexander's Horse · July 15, 2003, 00:28

Aussies would better on a "tales from the back" thread.

Hydey · July 15, 2003, 05:56

or should that be "tales from the back of beyond"

Alexander's Horse · July 15, 2003, 08:04

No I was thinking more stab in the back tales.

rah · July 15, 2003, 08:12

Yes, it's hard to have Gentlemen's agreements when there are no gentlemen in the game.

Alexander's Horse · July 15, 2003, 08:17

Says the guy who needs to have a set of rules.....