In 1946 London finally fell.
I would eventually capture Karakorum and Washington, both from Kublai, so with Delhi and Athens, I owned five AI capitals. Athens was one of four cities that I could produce a tank from every turn.
In 1948, Winnie capitulates. His only city is Oxford, on the one tile island south of MY continent. He doesn’t look terribly happy about it. Pride goeth before the fall, Winnie!
In 1951, I declare on the last civilization to have the nerve to own property on my continent, the two-faced (think about it) Kublai Khan. Turned out to be a two-on-two as he had Washington as a vassal.
New unit came available, definitely not useful in this game, I’m not exactly sure when it would be useful, honestly.
The other new unit that I managed to get to was the guided missile. I played with it a bit, but 4 square travel is very limiting. I’m assuming you need subs to get the most out of them, but I didn’t try it to find out.
Now here’s an event. Is one of the prerequisites for this event “has knowledge of artillery”? I hope not.
My 1957 remake of Custer’s last stand that I mentioned previously? Remember the spear/tank smiley. Well, it wasn’t quite that bad, but…
Of the battles listed, only one (Cavalry defeats my Infantry, with flanking damage to 4 of my units) didn’t take place in the square of doom. He suicided 24 units, and had a couple of withdrawals. I lost 7 infantry, 2 cavalry, and a tank. My tank lost to a knight, eventually, and one of my infantries lost to a longbowman. I turned Nebuchadrezzar into a vengeance tank, btw.
I did manage to get a National Park/Forest Preserve city built on one of the barbarian islands; I can see the potential, but it was purely a curiosity in this game.
In 1980, the “end” of this turnset:
so close, and yet so far.
Continuing on, it ended in 1982.
I built way too many units late…
…killed a few along the way, too.
And I scored an Augustus Caesar, one position better than me! Hey, wait a minute, Augie’s a hack compared to me. Someone has some explaining to do!
The 1980 save is attached to this post (or will be in the future, given my save posting history so far), I will make a second post with the final save and replay, and with links to each report.