It was a dark and stormy night, and the zone was not working properly. Hardly anyone was on - hardly any APC’ers anyway. Paralyticus and I tried to play a game with Aryan Angel - the plan was for me to watch. However, I think Angel’s comp scrambled mine, and I wound up having to reboot later on. After a LONG time, Jehu comes on, then Jaheed, then Vixen, then Armagedn. Vixen says she wants to watch Jehu - I wonder why?
I have this premonition I’ll drop suddenly, and jehu finds another guy - FWH_Wolfpack, who he says is real good, so we decide to do a 3 vs 2, Me, arma, and jaheeed vs jehu and wolf. It’s a giga continental. I am green, minoan, jaheed is yellow, random, arma is brown, random,
jehu is blue - hittite, and wolf is cyan - roman.
Vixen coops with Jehu….maybe she could share some of what she learned from that peerless player. (We gotta learn how to beat him. ) Jehu is at nine, Wolf at 12, I’m at three, Jaheed and Arma are at about six and five…of course, we don’t know where Jehu and wolf are yet. When the game starts, I have a nice position, best I’ve ever had. Jaheed has four shore fish, but no forest, and worst, he’s carth. Arma is choson. Whoopee. What a bunch of great civs. They are overjoyed. I have a forest not too far from my tc, and SIX palm trees within about four tiles. I find the berries quickly -- mainly because my tc is sandwhiched in between a gold supply, a big forest, and the water. Naturally, however, I keep forgetting to build houses, and when I do, I forget to build villes…. Jehu, as we all know, is very good, so Jaheed says he will tool rush him. I decide to try to stone/tool rush wolfpack, so I can kill him in bronze easily. (LOL) I finally find his berry guys, and since it is getting late I slap down a barracks without scouting very well. Hahahahaha. It’s right in the middle of his town and wolf bones it in about six seconds. Plus, I notice he’s in tool already. That would have been truly devastating -- minoan clubbers against roman bowmen. By now I’m tooled so I send another peon up to build an archery, about 30 tiles south of the last one -- but wolf bones that too - with a scout, and it looks like he’s building up there too. by now I have many fb’s going from docks, so I hit bronze and send three more peasants out, and they put down two ranges 20 tiles east of the one that got boned. I suddenly notice that one of my peons scouting has uncovered a cyan house near my base…and it’s a bronze house. uh-oh. In a second, two or three broadies come into my base. I had just hit the imp upgrade, along with wheel, archer armor, and galley. They start tearing down the archery at my base, while I cast around for a new location for my vills to flee to when they get attacked. One archery dies, and I build three more. He attacks one, and kill the bowman that pops out. I build a bunch of bowmen at all ranges, and upgrade to compie at one of the ones near his base. I finally beat off the first three - my galleys helped, when three more come in….however, by this time I have a bunch of imps and they die. Suddenly….compies!!!! I see a huge splotch of cyan near my ranges up near wolf, and see a ugly little wall stretching across the map…by now streams of profanity are issuing from arma (j/k) as he is apparently getting double teamed by wolf and jehu. I concentrate on getting to iron quickly, and building a HUGE compie army…I think I build one st. Arma has to relocate, and he spreads all over the map..I finally do writing, and just before I have enough gold to upgrade to iron, wolf sends two cavs into my base, heading for the goldies….. Of course, they have to ride through about 12 compies, and I have my galleys parked by the gold, so they don’t get very far. I finally remember to build a decent force of st’s and get writing…I see that jaheed is fighting with jehu, who appears to be slowly spreading all over the corner that he is in. I decide that jaheed can handle jehu and turn my attention to wolf…I send my mighty fleet of three galleys around and wipe his fishing fleet, then park them by a gold supply. We iron at exactly the same instant, and I do the range, the archer armor, and I try to do alchemy, but I don’t have enough food. I spend three minutes getting my fishing boats sorted out, and build tc’s at various locations to farm. I build a lot of buildings near wolf…
Then I notice that jaheed has no more troops, and jehu is building seige workshops near jaheed and attacking with ca’s. Now, if there’s one thing a minoan player hates, it’s hittite cats. I suddenly decide that jehu is priority numero uno. I grab as many compies as I can get in one swipe and march south west, destroying ca’s as I go….I get into his base, but their aren’t nearly as many vills as I thought there would be…he must’ve run with them early. I kill what I see and begin to level his base with that best weapon for leveling…arrows!! I notice my arrows arent burning and head back to my base to sort out my economy and do some upgrades. My gold mine is dead, so I take over the two in Jehu’s old base. Suddenly arma informs me that wolf has scythes. Yippeee. I see three or four and take them out with compie companys roaming the map. Jaheed is spreading out all over the map, too, and is apparently trying to get to the iron age…he sacrificed his economy a lot in order to slow down Jehu, I think. Arma is trying to get to iron and get those awesome legions. By now I have some resources, and I can give him a little bit of food. I get cats and build a bunch, and do the hele upgrade…I just never get around to building any. Suddenly, arma yells to me that wolf is attacking my seige weapons from behind!! They die, but my compies and armas broadies fight them off, and arma discovers one of wolf’s bases in the middle of the map. I take it out with cats and compies…with heavy losses…and arma helps too. jaheed is sending up stonethrowers to punch through wolf’s huge ring of walls, and arma and I have pierced the first one already. Suddenly, a bunch of my compies discover they are able to fire at all Jehu and wolf’s woodies!! The woods they have are long and thin, and they’ve used them as their wall, so my compies can walk right up and shoot down scores of woodies. Cool. I send a two big compy armies over to defend against the inevitable attack. Wolf attacks the compies with three cats, but I kill them all with only losing one compy. The fact that they came one at a time helped. Suddenly, a wave of scythes comes pouring around the woods…they had deleted their wall there. One compie army bites the dust, and arma’s broadies are decimated, but the scythes die. Then arma gets long swords…yippee!!. Now we can do something. We are about to assault the wall, but we discover that that rascal wolf has built a base outside his wall with a bunch of scythes. They die, and jaheed sends up ellies for the final assault. I punch through the wall, and send in a compie army…they run into a bunch of scythes, and die…however, jaheed’s eles and arma’s swordsmen are right behind, with covering fire from my other compies…my catapult died somehow. Then arma and I switch over to the other side of the wall, and punch through there. We meet a lot of scythes there too, but the end is plainly in site. I finally had the idea of loading cats and compies and vills into a transport to build a base next to the sea behind their walls. By navy has kept the seashore clear. However, they resign before that….wolf had a TON of vills, but not many scythes left, and we had cut them off from their wood supply. Jehu didn’t have that much….I suspect he was tribbing wolf to run his awesome war economy. It was a great game….if wolf had found me sooner, and he didn’t because my tc was off in a corner and I built real compactly, it might have turned out different. Oh yeah, and this game was the first time a lion actually helped me. One of wolf’s scouts ran into my base, and attacked one of my vills in the middle of town. I have him fight back, but not without much hope. Suddenly, I notice a darling lion chewing up the scouts back end! Cool! The end result is a dead scout and a dead villie… of course, then there’s this lion in the middle of my base…. Also, I think I may need to apologize to vixen…I was joking and kidding around, and I may have sounded rude. I’m very sorry. That was a fun game….teamwork really helped out. I had the highest score, and by far the biggest kills minus losses ratio, but I don’t know if that means a lot or not. Jaheed tooled Jehu early to keep him from killing us all, and poor arma absorbed the brunt of both their attacks, with Jaheed coming in for some additional friendly attention from Jehu. I only wish I had done writing sooner to see what was up….however, that can be rectified by you guys posting here….I’d especially like to hear from vixen….( I have this bet with this guy whether it’s 20 or 21 vills Jehu has by the two minute mark. J/k)
Great game you guys….that was the largest compie army I think I have ever had…just wish I’d gotten some screen shots. Another victory for the average (or in my case, less than average ) players of the APC.