I won my last 1 with Jck...it was pretty lame...our settlers met, I had gold and he didnt....GG
I won my last 1 with Jck...it was pretty lame...our settlers met, I had gold and he didnt....GG
2-1 vs Digital.
The Detail.
Game 1 was pretty decent. My Arabs vs his Zulu.
I settle early, too early it turns out, he was far. He got Kyoto and my heart sank. But a few turs later, spirits were lifted when the mighty barbs took that down.
I got Washington for Bronze, but my two caps were far apart. I gambled all my gold (after 100) on galleys north and south, nearly got and island city from him, but in the end lost everything including a galley (he had fundy himself from the pyramids). sold the other. It was looking bad. He then had a couple galleys himself in my area. Attacked my single tile island from the boat but my archer held firm. I then had to build way too many archers as I didn't know what was on his boats. That slowed my roll big time. Though I was out for sure.
Anyway, grabbed irrigation and slow teched Nav. He switched to Demo after planting a few cities and shot away in tech. A mistake for him. I spent what seemed forever building cats and galleons, but managed to launch my attack as his gold crutch came into effect. A three pronged attack managed to win the day. GG.
Game 2 - Egypt Mirror.
DP settles first with Henge. I walked a bit longer getting 25g from a hut but no great settling spots. I ended up risking a 3 desert 1 tree spot next to a barb. The barb resource was crap and it gave me pottery. Going to be uphill. Tech'd HBR and then jsut got the big red X trying to take a barb. I missed the pop up so not sure if DP took the arabs or got Angkor, but with him in fundy, me with 1 tree and can't even get gold I gave up.
Game 3 - My Zulu vs his Arabs.
ABC from my first barb (pretty sure this happens 75%+ with Zulu). Soon get a couple of Vet armies on the move though and take Angkor for GW. Meet one of his armies outside London and lose against the odds (he was upgrading at the time, I didn't know).
My other army finds tripoli. Double injured against his warrior. He then attacks me twice and loses both. Walk in next turn.
Last edited by JackHall2003; 04-16-2012 at 05:27 AM.
Got my last one in with digital. Had horrible start as egypt vs his arabs....rome was in the game so no CoL bonus but when my first gp was a GB i was able to come from behind and take the tec lead due to CoR. Started getting good bonii. meanwhile he has takenout all of the ai but russia and starts expanding. He had the pyramid so he was popping out settlers in ancient and settling them in the next era. plus he has fundy HA near my cap so I cant expand myself. About this time a pop-up causes me to lose the darn SoC. He snagged it from 2 tiles away. Luckily I get a second gb and use it on EITC. I get A 3rd one and save it for LW. Tec is close at 24-22ish(my 3 cities vs his whole map). I had 2 vet PA and 2 vet fundy KA in my cap plus a cruiser fleet and he dropped off 2 cruiser fleets and then emptied out 30 units...for some reason he didnt army them up first,...its not like they could have injured my fully vet PA with cruisers as single units anyways......anyways it lagged out half my turn while he was unloading all those single units so I rage quit. not sure why i did as I had a gb for LW whichwould have turned my units to rifles and battleships but I did so pacrat gets the win.......gg
I don't know if that is a joke or not... but cruisers don't become Battleships bro.Originally Posted by GrizzleyTigers4
yup - someone doesnt play many games that go that late clearly
Updated Leaderboard.
Please have a look and check I have you down for what you're due.
Going to be quite a nice finish I think. If Scottie can take some points from Liam, then the Scottie/Digital match should be a cracker. Muti need to sweep me to just hang in there, but could be a slim as my own chances.
got 3 in vs dan
my arab beats his colussus egypt, i got to his cap fast with the arabs and camped his desert. also had spain and 7cog close
my zulu beats his arabs (we met early - double move warriors win)
my egypt(henge) beat his zulu - this was a bit of a massacre - he didnt stand a chance, classic use of egypt power against zulu.
sorry jack my 2-1 was vs digital
so how about answering the 2011 thred question scottie mysterious
My mistake, think I've sorted it now.
This make your matches vs Liam critical now. Plus 1 vs me.
i'd say 7 cities was close, you got it in the 1st 5 turns. i shouldn't have made the AA. u retreated unwounded. i had to try the 3-3 counter attack, or have a boring time watching the clock run while you terrorize the natives.
2nd game we met early? understatement of the century. you get a friendly 1st turn, i walk off my pathetic peninsula. you settle 2nd turn and take a barb 2 spaces away. i am next to said barb.
ok so its my turn as zulu. time for revenge. except after i walk a couple turns i can't find a spot. i see his border but his warrior finds me before i can assemble a WA. no way i'm suprising him so i go elsewhere. china and america couldn't be farther. i lose a 6-5 to china. i've got 20 gold and 1 city at 1000 bc. he walked in on moscow and has been in republic at 4 techs for some time. i'm very frustrated after the last game and quit.
Liam, can you do Tuesday evening 6pm - 8pm for our games?
dan - I think our games are academic really (unless I sweep both Multi and Liam (fat chance)) but would still like to play them out if we end up on together.
my zulu beat liams Zulu. he got the japanese cap first - but I got 2 caps and 100g soon after. I had better map position and all the gold so he called it.
looking forward to spliting the next two games liam and seeing you in the final
Yes Jack I can definitely do those games to night no problem. As for my game against Scottie, I had a choice to go south or west when I hit a mountain. Took the wrong option going west and although I got 2pop Japan I had to build all my warriors and only ever got 30g. I saw Scottie across the water on the mainland but both cities ports meant a galley would take 8 turns to get there after building it. I saw his scout militia so had lost element of suprise anyway so threw the towel in early doors. Can't wait for the next two where REAL strategy comes into play! ;-)
Cool, what time you normally on? I might get home a little earlier.
I know I'm not mathematically out of it yet, but that's mere details. I'm more just helping determine the top spots and who is likely going to be in play-offs
I'll be ready to rock at 6pm gmt through till about 11pm gmt. Find in that window and you'll have yourself three african games my friend.
2-1 vs Liam. Not much to any of the games.
My Egypt (henge) with some spice at cap beat his zulu who had nothing but a 30g start.
His Egypt (Colossus) beat my Arabs. I walked the wrong way while he had 5 desert tiles.
My Zulu beat his Arabs. Typical stupid zulu game. 100g by 3300bc Took out a pike in Athens at 3100 with an infiltration Army, got 3 pop paris at 2900, got the KT, Irrigation for my 4 cities around 2800bc and then Angkor for the pyramids.
You forgot to mention that I was also on an island in that last one! That first one I was way east and walked west for 5 turns only to get barb blocked! Had to settle with no growth and hope to take AI but couldn't find them till too late one was Aztec who had AA and Rome who had just built an archer which I lost to 6-3 from a hill. My African adventures are taking a nose dive! Two left to play against Scottie and I think I need to win one of them??
I was thinking you called that a bit too soon, but with no growth and no easy route to 100g, I now see why.
At worst you have a play-off for the semi-finals
Me and scottie shared the lat two my egypt won his arabs won. Cheers
Well, talk about a tight finish!
I'm glad Scottie is getting a few games in. Will need to try and catch up with him for our last match.
So how would we settle a 3way tie for 1st.....liam beat me 2-1.....scottie beat liam 2-1....and I beat scottie 3-0....
Hmmmnn.. yeah, been thinking about that. Even if I win against Scottie, it's then a three way below you and liam. I really should have tied all of this up at the beginning - sorry.
OK, we need to determine positions 1 - 4. Ties will be determined by a 1 game play-off. Free to use whatever civ from the 3 (zulu melee anyone) and it will have no bearing when you enter the best of 5 semi finals.
2 way tie is simple enough, 3 way will be FFA. If a 3 way tie for first, the loser of the ffa will take position 3 and the winner 1st. 'Pawk and digital would have 1 game to see who is in and who's out.
if 2 way for first, Grizz/Liam play 1 game to determine and the FFA is between 'Pawk, Digital and Scottie. First out is out and the winner gets 3rd place.
I have been thinking 1 game is harsh to dump someone out, but then again, shoulda won another in the run up
I find this one interesting....its not like we all beat up on one person here for our wins.....the top 5 that still have a chance all beat up on eachother as well
Do I finish my games or is it pointless?
If I lose my game to Scottie, then the rest of the games are meaningless anyway. If I beat him, then mathematically I could still make play-offs, In reality, that means 6 straight wins against you and dan. Another reality is I just don't think i'll have the time to play them anyway (within the time limit I set - End April), so i'll do my best to play Scottie and call it at that - win or lose. Poor form, I know, as tourney host not getting finished up, but that's life. But as long as I play Scottie, it only affects me.
So whats goin on here Im ready to rumble.......
OK, Think i'm gonna need some help here, outcome doesn't affect me but has a big influence at the top.
First off - Has anyone spoken to Scottie? Is he around and wanting to play? I assume yes because he played his remaining with Liam. I haven't been on at all lately, so: -
Option 1 - I get a default and Scottie gets the win. This may not be particularly fair on Digital & Liam though as I took 2 off each of them.
Option 2 - Finish up with the standings as they are and revert to my post #104. Scottie, Digital and Liam in an FFA.
Option 3 -?
Would be nice if someone with no vested interest could make a call - Duke?
well do u think you could get a game in with scottie over a wkend ? would make things easier
'a' weekend, yes - but probably not anytime soon. I'm out of town just now and will be back for the weekend before heading off again on Monday, but if I switch the xbox on when i'm back, I fear it may be the last!
I think standard practice would be I just get the default?
Yes I have been looking for you,
But I dont want to hold this up.
We should make a call that moves the tourney onwards - at least pretty soon. Im fine if that means I am one game short as it is in the initial rules as I understand it.
Right - lets get this moving again. I get a default for non participation, scottie gets the win.
Liam, Grizz and Scottie - 1 FFA to determine positions 1-3. Lets give this a week (or until Digital/Mawpawk finish up) to see if it can be scheduled, otherwise I'll just make a random draw.
Digital/Mawpawk - Best of three again using each civ once only (I feel a single game is to harsh to drop someone)
Everyone cool with that?
im cool with that gd on u jack for making a nice firm decision, just needa questio the best of 5 thing... so we got 3 civs available but a possible 5 games, is it just open as long as you use the 3 different civs first then no triple ups right?
oh and i would vouch for giving liam scottie n grizz a random seed number, as a FFA gets complicated and is kinda unnecnessary when the outcome would be random anyways or the ability 2 choose
You got it. No repeats until you use all 3 first.
Whatever you say director sir.....although that FFA might be a royal PITA to find time for......Liam is like 5 hours a head of me and scottie is like 8 hours behind him....all 3 of us at once might be tough...
If you just randomize them jack give me 2nd or 3rd i dont think I deserve 1st as everybody left got the better of me (2-1) other than scottie which I swept....oh and i would vouch for giving liam scottie n grizz a random seed number, as a FFA gets complicated and is kinda unnecnessary when the outcome would be random anyways or the ability 2 choose
I hear ya...
Here is how it's gonna go down: -
Liam gets first seed - so it's Liam vs (Digital or 'Pawk) in a best of five. (Digital/Pawk - your game is best of 3 to play Liam)
Grizz vs Scottie in a best of 5.
Good luck everyone... a very tough call to pick a winner from any of those match ups.
Okidokies I'll keep my eye out for the winner in Dig & Pawk.
I beat Mawpawk 2-0
1st game my Arabs vs His zulu
very boring game. it was more about who lost less than who won more. barbs giving spys and tech, i got more money from threatening ai and naming tiles than from barbs. he lost his army against america ai 4.5 to 3 then lost some legions against indians. I attacked his cap and lost a vet wa vs his fortified wa 9-7.5 but my ha did take out a 4pop japan then went and attacked his cap and took out a vet la before being destroyed by another single legion I had 4 archers in my cap when maw sent 2 vet la and a vet wa at my cap at the end of the timer my archers got destroyed but i had cat armies waiting and once his force was gone he conceded.
2nd game my zulu vs his egypt (stonehenge)
I take 3 pop china for writing he takes karahorum with ha, once the ha leaves cap i destroy it with my wa but then loose attempting to take karahorum against his single archers but him loosing the 60 hammer ha crushed him. he never reached his 100g and when i grabbed 7CoG 4 tiles from karahorum he conceded
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