[1.19a] Play by Play of Ridiculous Game (Seasons 41-60)

Continuation of this thread: https://forums.elementalgame.com/404944

Commentary:

• S41: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19969679/Elemental/PlaybyPlay/119a%20PlaybyPlay%20S41.EleSav Leja found Umber who is pretty far away. Their FP is actually lower than mine now. Altar sued for peace but I told them to upgrade my computer and I might consider it. He said what's a computer so I shrugged and attacked. Altar dead - I had Janusk tank the forward observer. Lost no units, had several damaged but not a big deal. Buh bye Altar. Air Shrine already in progress (cool because I don't have the tech!). Settlement already level 3. Janusk leveled, because he's so far away from my capital I'm going to have him be a charisma build. I have plenty of land to civilize - time to get busy with pioneers and such. Letting my army rest and heal. Q'd up a pioneer in capital2 (fka Altar). Going to move some of my extra garrison out of both capitals to explore the boundaries of my zoc. I found a cave bear near my capital - moved the garrison out along with my sov, arcane buffed the stack (worked correctly, left sov until last).
• S42 - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19969679/Elemental/PlaybyPlay/119a%20PlaybyPlay%20S42.EleSav Capital2 completed air shrine. Population limit vastly expanded due to completed refugee camp. Building merchant to help my currently sluggish gildar creation. Dispatched cave bear - dispelled the arcane buffs. Sent damaged units back to capital to heal, sent two other units to edge of zoc for line of sight on monsters. Found a darkling hanging out near capital 2 - sent 2 stack garrison to deal with it (arcane buffed). PROBLEM: did it again, double-buffed one unit instead of hitting both. Also had a near CTD as I was zooming on the cloth map. Display driver recovered instead of CTD. Cancelled the pioneer in capital2 - going to settle that fertile land below my capital before I consider way up there.
• S43 - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19969679/Elemental/PlaybyPlay/119a%20PlaybyPlay%20S43.EleSav Capital1 completed merchant - thankfully! Building 1 more workshop to help with materials then will focus on studies. Dispatched darkling up by capital2 and dispelled arcane buff. Will have caravans in 2 turns - need to figure out game plan to escort since the roads will be completely unguarded as there is tons of wastelands between my cities. Researching fertility to help grow my cities when I hit the prestige debuff (for too many cities).

At this point I'm focusing on consolidating the land I've taken. This includes making new settlements, defending, and building my economy. My gildar production sucks so I need to remedy that. Will post saves at pivotal points.

• S45 - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19969679/Elemental/PlaybyPlay/119a%20PlaybyPlay%20S45.EleSav Now researching magic to get shard mastery - I have 2 untapped fire shards by capital1. Building caravans.
• S46 - multiple endless loop of failures - had to kill the game. Here's the debug. http://pastebin.com/uvCQMU5s and my post of other CTD's. https://forums.elementalgame.com/404868 & https://forums.elementalgame.com/404863
• S60 - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19969679/Elemental/PlaybyPlay/119a%20PlaybyPlay%20S60.EleSav Still have not discovered any other factions. They must all be on the west side. Plenty of food and land to expand so I'm focusing hard on building settlements and using the charisma build plus fertility spell to level those to 3 asap - for the expanded zoc. I'm basically just empire building with the occasional spider or bandit romp. Gildar is slowly but surely increasing. My major strategic goal at this point is to civilize the wastes, especially forests, by settling and leveling new cities to level 3. I want to eliminate all sources of monster spawns behind my lines and minimize fronts so I can force magnify against Umber or the yet to be discovered faction(s) to the west.

For seasons 61+ see here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/404982