This was a really awesome game. No body dropped, and everyone was a fun opponent. (Not all the time, but mostly
It somehow wound up that team 2 was all - girls, but I din't realize this till afterwards. (I did know 'mulan' had something to do with some girl leader, but..)
Anyway, the game was REALLY hard fought. We almost lost.
It was random civ. it wound up as :
Me - green - sumerian - twelvish
Chubby - blue - palmy - 10
Boneser - red - minoan nine.
vs.
Mulan - orange - hittite
Karen - yellow - phoeny
Vixen - brown - SHANG!!
I was not pleased to find myself with sumer, I civ I had not played before. I was also thrilled to find out that vixen had shang. It was looking good already. The map was med, which was a bit new. I found some neat dock spots and slapped some down and cranked out some fb's and put some guys on shore fish. VERY soon, mulan arrived with a zillion scout ships/war galleys, and wiped me off the map. I stayed off the sea for the rest of the game. I found that karen was next to me, and build a range or two near her. These ranges were a problem, as mulan's galley sket' killing whatever came out When I bronzed I built a few seige workshops, built a tc near karen, and carnked out st's and ca's. I hit Karen apparently before she was ready, because I killed many vills before dying to masses of ca's. and i mean masses. hundreds of them. My fast-firing st's took care of great numbers, hoever, and Karen evactuated her base. I thought she'd fled south, but NOOOOOOO. About this time mulan attacks chubby hard. there are hittite st's running all over. I sent a builder down adn build sw's to crank out st's, but my st's kept dying. Finally, boneser showed up with compies, and we strated to get somewhere. the threat to chubby was eliminated, and boneser turned his attentin to mulan. Somehow, I was not watching closely, mulan wound up not doing anything for quite some time. I figure that boneser must have attacked her with the compie army of his. I took a force of six or seven st's and c'as and went down around the other end of the med, looking for karen and vixen.
I found a few of vixen's things, and killed some villies
suddenly, both vixen and karen came running into my forward bases with ha's, spreading ruin everywhere. I hurried to iron, and got cats, just in time to "stem" the flood after having one important forward base utterly annhilated. I found where they were, and tried to build a base near it, but it was destroyed too. My group of cats to the south killed many vills/buildngs, but destroyed itslef when a vill ran into the middle. oops. I had one left and i let him be. This entire time, karen and vien kept sending ha's and ca's runnning through my bases, slaying villies. I di dhave lots of food though, and could replace my losses without too much trouble. My catapult armies were all destroyed when karen switched to elephants, so I switched to scythes.. not sure why. Boneser was slowly ganing strenght, and creeping up and vixen's southern border. I build a big base just south of the corner that vixen and karen were fortifying - the three o-clock corner. AFter a while both chubby and I got scythes, and we upgraded them and spetn many lives fighitng with evil elephants and horse archers. I was spread out everywhere though, and the losses to my economy were not very severe. which is good, cause vixen kept running into my gold places with hordes of ha's, which then had to be tracked down wiht cat's or scythes. Mulan said she had to go now, for some reason, and due to the fact that vixen and karen were winning, we decided to play on. There was one point where neither chubby or I had ANYTHING left, all our scythes having died. I was very thankful taht they did not press the attack just then. Boneser slowly worked his way up around the othe end, meeting up with me and chubby to attack the middle. He had heles, which made short work of the armored eles. I had brought along a few elephants myself, and some ca'ts, and we VERY slowly won. It was a great game though. there was fighing going on all over the place. I was so busy trying to manage my economy that I missed most of the action. What exactly happened?