settled in place.. next two cities on south west and north coast..
figured i'd be safe in the immediate term and i could kick out a unit very quickly in emergency so i sent all riflemen out to find the other civs.. two went west in water, one along the coast one south and one east.. as soon as i found them i immediately turned them around to come home.. it was quite unnerving to see three warmongers on my continent all with order while i went autocracy.. seemed strange those civs didnt pick autocracy.. after meeting genghis i knew i'd need gold for bribes..
i started my social policies with four in exploration and one in rationalism.. i planned on keeping myself safe with bribes while pushing science, gold and social policies.. i hoped to time my war push with some good future techs..
tech path: railroad, flight, plastics, rocketry, xcom, stealth, nuclear missiles, satellites.
build order in cap: ironworks, east india, national college, university, hanse, aqueduct, factory (coal from ghengis), hospital, writers guild, pub school, stock market, harbor, cargo ship, lab, heroic epic, xp buildings, circus maximus, zoo, bombers... tried to time science buildings with land development.. i didnt want any citizens working undeveloped tiles or placed in an unnecessary specialist slot.. early CS ally allowed me to forestall circus maximus.
expos BO: first i bought work boat and the gems tile.. two workers in south city, one worker in north, cargo ships x3, one food ship immediately to cap the next after i had the gems hooked up, aqueduct, university, factory, hospital, pub school, labs, hanse, xp buildings, bombers.. walls in north city when genghis looked menacing.. i didnt want the city to go down the same turn he DOW'd.
no units were built until i was ready to war.. i bribed china to fight genghis when i saw him marching his army towards me 20 turns in 26gpt, wine, iron (china also warned me)..
bribed syria to fight genghis.. those bribes were was so expensive i thought it would slow down my culture CS acquisition.. but syria went ahead and DOWd me the very next turn cancelling out 26gpt, wine, open borders.. beautiful..
he began appearing at my southern border with GW infantry visible some turns later.. i camped out my returned riflemen (now infantry) and fortified.. he was chipping away at them with artillery hidden behind hills.. by the time he moved his artillery forward i had some bombers.. built seven bombers and then started cranking out missile cruisers every other turn and sent them south..
meanwhile i am still just hanging on with genghis beginning to move all his forces around my border.. i get the next two GS's just in time (365 & 370) and push through xcoms (367), stealth bombers (370), and nuclear missiles.. so i upgrade all my bombers to stealth with the extra benefit of exposing a nice chunk of the southern border and finish off syria's attack force while my missile cruiser force is nearly ready to pounce..
i pushed through social policies pretty quickly.. in my early exploration i happened upon a solo worker which belonged to brussels.. so i paid them another 250g to ally.. built prora with GE and got to secularism pretty fast.. i bought off bogota after the first rigging.. china trumped the bratislava rigging.. my production was pretty amazing and i was feeling pretty safe when the world fair came around so i waited until it was 40% complete and then joined in with all cities.. i ended up winning it.. that timed perfectly with a writer that popped 8 turns later.. took commerce and built big ben as well.. added another policy in exploration later on.
so when i was all geared up with 11 stealth bombers and the 50 turn war policy i declared war on genghis (376).. i was a little surprised HE didnt declare on me.. nearly every single tile outside northern city had a mongol unit standing on it..
at the same time i was just finishing off syria in the south with missile cruisers, xcom, and stealth..
after i eliminated all the mongol artillery i built 3 rocket artillery, killed the rest of his units and took his cap with infantry.. i sent xcoms to his southern city to expose more tiles.. killed off southern city with one rocket artillery and stealth.. wiped him out by killing eastern city with two rocket artillery and stealth..
meanwhile as soon as the targets grew thinner i declared on china.. i had a spy in there and dropped a couple of xcom in the borders and took beijing with stealth bombers.. his allied CS near mongolia captured and puppeted the two mongol cities i was razing.. i burned a GE to make a citadel near karakorum to keep the CS at bay.
while all this was going on i was building nukes and more missile cruisers and xcom.. while syria was being finished (wiped him out) i sent a force to shaka.. i chipped away at his cap with missile cruisers and dropped two xcoms to cap..
moved the cruisers to rome loaded with 2 nukes (leaving three cruisers and two xcom behind to defend).. moved ten stealth to ulundi (he built airport), moved a cruiser outside gao loaded with a nuke but noticed he was well beaten down when i got there... only 2 units left with roman units on his doorstep.. i didnt nuke him i just stealth bombed him and moved in xcoms..
just when i finished with gao i got visibility on rome with the cruisers and landed two xcoms in the middle of four tanks.. bombed the tanks to get movement space and moved the xcom away.. reinforcements arrived in force.. i nuked rome.. then i nuked slightly farther northwest(?) and accidentally hit egypt oh well.. capped rome with stealth and xcom..
meanwhile in egypt.. landed some xcom.. bombed thebes with newly built stealth arrived in gao.. nuked all the units around his other cities.. capped with xcom..
would have been finished one turn sooner with the simultaneous destruction of rome and thebes but for some reason my xcom near rome didnt get his full two movement off the dyes to the cap.. that was strange... maybe i made a crater in that tile or something =)
was friendly with egypt, rome, zulu all game.. open borders from the beginning.. traded cotton with zulu early.. also friendly with genghis all game and we traded coal and wine/ivory.. at one point even the other continent's pariah askia traded lux for lux.. the coalitions formed exactly as the ideologies chosen.. on one side there was china/syria/songhai vs rome/egypt/zulu/germany.. with genghis odd man out.. he would have friended me if not for our ideological differences.