Suvorov
Nov 06, 2001, 06:12 PM
A nasty trick I worked out.
Part 1: I am the Romans. I own the huge middle of a continent. The Zulus to the west decide to try to take my iron and declare war on me. My legions hold them off, but my army is currently involved in razing Chinese cities overseas because they were insolent, and I don't have the strength to counterattack effectively.
2. I then look to the Persians to the east. They have been building up their army recently, and I think they are itching for expansion. Knowing I would probably be in their sights, I decide to be proactive and ask them to declare war on the Zulus. They agree, with a tiny amount of gold and my map thrown in. I also give them right of passage so they can actually get there.
3. The massive persian army traverses my territory and falls upon the zulus, meeting quite a lot of intial success, taking three cities and only losing one to counterattack.
4. The war drags on with no sign of abating. The persians make some more headway, recapturing one of the intitial threecities and taking 3 more, leaving the zulus with only 7 (albeit bigger) ones left. Then the zulus launch a massive counterattack, recapturing all but 2 of the cities within a few turns. A huge force of persian reinforcements crosses my territory to assist.
Here's the tricky part:
5. When the Persian reinforcements reach Zulu territory, I cancel the right of passage agreement. The Persians then sign a peace treaty with the zulus.
However, their army is stranded in Zulu territoy. I have brought my army back from the succesful Chinese campaign and am moving it to the Zulu border to force peace on the powindah infidels.
Strange thing happens. The Zulu declare war on the Persians because they won't remove their units! The Persian army and the Zulus fall on eachother and the persians are annihilated, but for the Zulu it is a pyrrhic victory.
Then my army falls on the zulu. I burn 8 of their cities before I agree to peace. Later on it turns out that in the ex-zulu territory I settled their is both rubber and oil. I am greatly rewarded for my bastardry.
The Persians rebuild their army. They demand one of my cities. I laugh in their faces. They send their immortals at me, who are blown apart by my musketeers. My army burns their border cities to the ground and they sue for peace. They declare war again. I burn Persopolis to the ground and they sue for peace again.
Eventually, I start absorbing their cities through culture as they no longer have their capital to give them a huge boost. I eventually use cavalry to overrun the rest of them. I now own my own continent with iron, oil, rubber and coal, and proceed to laugh heartily and maniacally. Then I burned the chinese empire to the ground for kicks.
The moral of the story is: Ghenghis Khan had some damn good ideas.
Part 1: I am the Romans. I own the huge middle of a continent. The Zulus to the west decide to try to take my iron and declare war on me. My legions hold them off, but my army is currently involved in razing Chinese cities overseas because they were insolent, and I don't have the strength to counterattack effectively.
2. I then look to the Persians to the east. They have been building up their army recently, and I think they are itching for expansion. Knowing I would probably be in their sights, I decide to be proactive and ask them to declare war on the Zulus. They agree, with a tiny amount of gold and my map thrown in. I also give them right of passage so they can actually get there.
3. The massive persian army traverses my territory and falls upon the zulus, meeting quite a lot of intial success, taking three cities and only losing one to counterattack.
4. The war drags on with no sign of abating. The persians make some more headway, recapturing one of the intitial threecities and taking 3 more, leaving the zulus with only 7 (albeit bigger) ones left. Then the zulus launch a massive counterattack, recapturing all but 2 of the cities within a few turns. A huge force of persian reinforcements crosses my territory to assist.
Here's the tricky part:
5. When the Persian reinforcements reach Zulu territory, I cancel the right of passage agreement. The Persians then sign a peace treaty with the zulus.
However, their army is stranded in Zulu territoy. I have brought my army back from the succesful Chinese campaign and am moving it to the Zulu border to force peace on the powindah infidels.
Strange thing happens. The Zulu declare war on the Persians because they won't remove their units! The Persian army and the Zulus fall on eachother and the persians are annihilated, but for the Zulu it is a pyrrhic victory.
Then my army falls on the zulu. I burn 8 of their cities before I agree to peace. Later on it turns out that in the ex-zulu territory I settled their is both rubber and oil. I am greatly rewarded for my bastardry.
The Persians rebuild their army. They demand one of my cities. I laugh in their faces. They send their immortals at me, who are blown apart by my musketeers. My army burns their border cities to the ground and they sue for peace. They declare war again. I burn Persopolis to the ground and they sue for peace again.
Eventually, I start absorbing their cities through culture as they no longer have their capital to give them a huge boost. I eventually use cavalry to overrun the rest of them. I now own my own continent with iron, oil, rubber and coal, and proceed to laugh heartily and maniacally. Then I burned the chinese empire to the ground for kicks.
The moral of the story is: Ghenghis Khan had some damn good ideas.