Churchy or Kubly ? Hmm. I decide on Churchill. I will wait for Kublai until I get to rifles. All my Oromos upgraded will be the clincher hopefully. Elephants will protect my Oromos from the mounted units, but really, the first strikes of the Oromos will be neutralized against Kublai's Knights.
The other danger is flanking.
Declare on Churchill. He squanders alot of his units on a mini stack on a forest hill.
But it's in his territory.There was no hill in my territory. I want him to come to me to feel the burn of Statue of Zeus.
I play cat and mouse with Churchill's stack, or one of them, so that he loses his units on my territory .
He takes the bait and loses a lot of units in my territory.
I wonder if Statue of Zeus applies when the attacker is on your vassals territory?
Flanking! I have 18 and then 16 siege units damaged. Like, cant use them damaged. That's a lot of damage. I wait for stack number three to arrive and to heal the seige. Medic 3 is really needed because of this flanking.
Rifling in but , I see you cant upgrade in your vassal's land. Mass exodus of Oromos to the border for upgrades. Turn off tech, and do the rounds asking for gold.
Upgrades done, it's time to stop . .. .. .. .. . footing with Chuchy. Things go my way, Kublai decalres on Churchill.
This is good.
Take ONE city and Churchill capitulates. I accept instead of him capping to Kublai . Gift a bunch of rifles and Oromos to Churchill, and then gift him back his city. Not sure if that risks losing him as a vassal.
Diplo notice arrives that we can vote to return one of Washington's cites to him after Mehemd took it. Great opportunity to use the apsotolic to annoy another civ. I vote yes. Mehemed is the enemy.
This means Mehemed has christianity. He in fact has 1 vote. Someone sneaked it in there. So no war against the infidels (sad)
I had a missionary on a boat to go to Mehemed, but decided to keep Mehemed infidel. The missionary is still sitting on the boat waiting.
( later he got sunk on that same bit of water!)
This means I can win by Apost-diplo probably, but I want to go domination. Next target Kublai with Infantry. Then if needed, Mehemed. Washy is my friend.
I see a merchant of Kublais.
He will use the gold to upgraqde his knights to cav soon. I would like to kill it, but it's better to get to inf and then pwn.
Assembly line in . Turn off tech and upgrade again. Most are drill 2 combat 1 and another promo on that.
Churchill offers Astronomy and I finally accept it, obsoleting my beloved Steles and all their culture.
The UB did really well holding off culture in my captured Indian cities.
Wall street late in Aksum. I have a merchant and would like to build Sid's S. there, then against the odds, an Engineer.
I will build mining inc, my new favorite civ feature.
SoL comes in.
Declare on Kublai Khan. My vassals go in with good stacks. England does it's bit.
Khan should fall in ten or so turns.
With mining inc and sushi, a dom victory is assured. It's just a case of doing it with style now. That will involve galleons to Mehemed.