I have one game left against Morte. I can play either tonight or tomorrow morning (Europe). I will be on vacation and away from the XBox for the rest of the year.
Morte, any chance we can get that done today or tomorrow?
I have one game left against Morte. I can play either tonight or tomorrow morning (Europe). I will be on vacation and away from the XBox for the rest of the year.
Morte, any chance we can get that done today or tomorrow?
Maybe, it depends on your timeOriginally Posted by REM018
i got 1 game against ya 2 morte, u available this wkend?
oh and i just read the rules scottie and your right.
ok can some1 clarify the rules on a 3-way split? scottie seems granted a definite spot... but its possible me and thrasher might equal his win/loss ratio, im sure it wont come down 2 that but what if?
Last edited by Mawpawk; 12-14-2011 at 05:35 PM.
You know guys I might actually retire before one of you gets to play me at this rate - christmas is coming and if i get a good gift....
I can be online this weekend maybe. I haven't been online for a while, sorry.
hopefully in the 2012 brackets all participants will commit to finishing their games no matter the outcome.
Your right, Scottie is in because his record vs you and thrasher is better. If you two then finish 7-3 each you will have one further game together to determine 2nd spot as it stands at 1-1 against each other. Civ selection will be re-set for this game but the civ picked can't then be used vs Scottie.
What if Mawpawk dies of old age before this happens? Will his children carry on the fight?
Sorry, buddy, but let's be realistic. You can't have more than 60-70 years left.
A nudge up for this. Group 2 sign up should be starting soon I guess.
glenneyre and I finally got our games in last night. After another zombifying day of work (with the exception of Saturday, I've worked every day since X-mas), I was playing Skyrim and glenn asked if I wanted to get the games in. Can't really say no, but I wasn't sure I'd be in top form.
My England, his Japan - I started on a peninsula and quickly found a two tree + dye spot, so I settled there. I built a warrior to explore, but he didn't really find anything so I sold him to get a horseman out. Finally took a barb, which gave me a galley. I dropped the militia on an island (got an exploration tile there) and sold the galley so I could complete my horse army. I found a horseman of glenn's and killed it, then mounted a hill. Next turn, I was sitting there on the hill and for some reason I decided to check in with my militia for a moment, but then my cursor kind of stuck to it and then I see a 12-6 battle of glenn's horse army killing mine. So not really top form, no. No more barbs for me this game either.
If I were Russia, it's game over, but as England there's still a hope. I got an archer to a chokepoint so I wouldn't be completely vulnerable. Nothing puts me in the zone like a really crappy start. So I was working gold and my tree and I decided to send out a galley. It took a while to find anything, but I got an exploration tile or two and eventually found Confucius, meanwhile I was nearing 100 gold at 5 per and building a barracks. glenn took out Rome but didn't go to Republic (didn't get it? not sure) and then took a run at London, but lost to my longbow archer 9-7.5. I sat on Confucius for about four turns for my first GP to arrive. I was getting 4 culture per turn, so it was almost 0 AD by the time I got my 100 gold and GP, a builder. I went for the Samurai Castle naturally. It took six painful turns to get my galley back, but it brought home a GS and a GA. Meanwhile my strategy is totally telegraphed to glenn. Nothing I can do about that. He also had a galley on London's dye, which wasn't really a big deal since I had two trees.
I was able to afford one army to start. I figured I'd run at him and linger around his first city, so he'd put his defense and counters there, then GA flip the city and run amok. It could work. It was doing 11 culture (4 palace * 2 + 3 for my wonder) with 4 pop, so no worries about being cultural enough! I also had cleverly sent a vet longbow over to scout. It turned out his closest city was Rome. I found it with my galley first as my knights cautiously proceeded through a sea of archers glenn had set up to delay me. Sadly, I'd left my other militia to explore an island and didn't realize it was empty when I arrived or I might have dropped my archer in. Instead I landed next to it and glenn put a unit it. I flipped it and with the added production from Rome I was able to field a 2nd army.
All this was very slow with lots of turns passing, but fortunately I was still in ancient while glenn was in medieval. He certainly had me beat in cities, but his units were more expensive than mine, but what really made a difference is my longbows. glenn got out some samurai knights, but while I could overrun his archers with my 22.5 attack, his 22.5 attack wasn't enough to overrun a longbow, so basically the old standoff just wasn't. We both advance archers and then knights. If he attacks me, he kills my longbow and loses movement. When I attack him, I get overrun and I kill all his defenders one by one, then still get to kill his knights. We did that twice and glenn was out of juice.
My Mongols, his Romans - Now this game was something else and by that I mean I had 5 cities, Navigation and a functional Oracle at 3100 BC. I ended up with 5 barb towns plus the three caps and then I hit a series of tech huts getting Iron Working, Irrigation and Construction (really good barb town now at 3 pop with hills). I never got 100 gold, but that wasn't much of a problem. I had 14 cities by the time I found glenn, then got a GH. Game was pretty ridiculous. Then I got disconnected. Fortunately glenn stayed in the game and I was able to get back in. The AI decided I needed a bunch of libraries (I rest my case on libraries!) and something happened to my militia, but otherwise things were mostly intact. So I'd kind of gone nuts expanding and realized that I probably just needed to bother glenn a lot. I found him with some keshik and took a city. He came with a horse army, but 3 movement really trumps 2 and so I was able to kill his army. I had legions coming the other way in a galleon. Pretty sure I would have beaten absolutely any player, any civ with this start.
Good stuff. Bad luck glenn, although just mixing in here was an achievement in itself.
Morte/Mawpawk is now a must play game.
Morte gets Germany or India against Mawpawk's Japan. Don't mean to make you nervous, Mawpawk, but I don't think you have much of a shot there. Perhaps Morte will accept your honorable surrender.
haha you wish...
if anyone can win that its mawpawk
or his heir
Gotta say I'm rooting for Thrasher here. He deserves it after finishing 2nd the previous year and putting up another great showing this year.
luckily i dont have japan but the mighty french!
anyway my japanese did ok vs india in this tourney
actually france an japan were two of my of my good games,
until I got a little lazy with the game well in hand.
BTW mawpawk does deserve some kudos for winning the group with thrasher in it and getting through to the finals in one attempt (or did I misread the thread?). Thrasher on the other hand has been the outstanding contributer to the comunity on strategy lately.
Last edited by ScottieX; 01-10-2012 at 08:06 PM.
Oh my mistake. Well, I'm sure you're very confident about beating Morte's Germans with the French.
id just be happy 2 close this tourney up b4 all the 2012 brackets close! what say you mr morte where 4 art thou?
what happens if I win my two games?
It will be scottie and thraser 7-3 and me and mawpawk 6-4.
Tell me when you're online, it's a bit hard sometimes cause the time is different.
Then me and thrasher go through. you are playing for the sake of giving thrasher/mawpawk a fair route to the final.
My enthusiasm for civ is pretty much on the wane. So it would be nice to get this done before It is gone.
if it happens soon I might see if i can record the final games too. althought i dont have the high tech of the other guysLooks like it kinda works however if i setup the furnature a bit...
well what can we do im back at work now, so just need a time and a day for mr morte and myself to jam
Don't work too hard Maw.
or we could get a substitute! or morte gets a deadline and i win by default! yea great idea(the second 1) how about 2 week from now! any objections?
Yes, I think we now need a deadline. 2 more weeks sounds reasonable to me. After that? If we exclude Morte's results it still leave you and Thrasher with a play-off. Sub - I don't know? I'd happily do it, but unfortunately nowhere near a good enough standard - Maybe if Duke is willing?
I was talking with mawpawk. my oppinion is duke is perfect if he has time.
He was also 2nd to morte I think in the division. For getting this moving I'd settle for anyone, but elthrasher might reasonably object to anyone other than Duke as that being a little unfair on him.
Last edited by ScottieX; 01-18-2012 at 10:08 AM.
I can play, but you should tell me when you can play Maw
from what i've seen maw spends more time online. when can you play morte?
It depends on the day, but usally my afternoon is ok, like from 2.00 pm. Even the evening, and remember that my timeline is +1GMT. A pm is a good idea since I'll read it (here in 2k forums)
FWIW, I think two weeks to get it done is fine. If that doesn't happen, Duke could substitute. Or even I could!
sounds like 2.00am for me luckily i work nights or either that or the wkend but im usually on late...not the best times for me but hell whats a litttle 5min game gona cost me.
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This isn't good enough. You need to set a date and a time and stick to it. That's how it works in the big people world.
It may go from your 2am to 11 am I think.
ok howabout a time friday afternoon 4 you? thats my saturday morning
that should be ok, next week?
its a date, il see ya then
If you can't play right now, I won't have time later.
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