Kickoff to the revived Continued Monarch Student Bullpen series - Darius

thats a couple turns after a border pop, by the way.

I warred sloppily the whole game. From the start against Manny, it was a total bloodfest, and I was just too fatigued to continue. The only thing I did right was cap Ragnar in about 8 turns of war. Got some nice cities and beelined Rifling while building the Globe Theater in my original capital. Proceeded to draft a bunch of Rifles, whicpped a bunch of cannons and and went after Rome, who was #1. Caesar was a pain, but after I took his capital and and Antium he capped too. Then I planned to hit Hammy but HRE started plotting. He was #1 now and had only started really producing Cavs, and he was cautious with both me and Hammy, so I just kept whipping and drafting to oblivion, figuring I'd better move fast. And I took two cities nearest the Roman ones I just conquered. Promptly gave them back when I moved my stack on his capital. So, I turned around and took them back again, and razed, losing precious cannons all the while. Only then did I realize I should have just waged a pillaging war against HRE and left the conquering for artillery and infantry. Simultaneously, I split stacks and DoW'd on Hammy, because he had mostly longbows and musket. Well, he whipped a rather scary Cav army and almost took a couple Roman cities that were now mine. That is what happens when you attack without spying first, I guess.

So I stumble into a peace agreement with Burger King so I can deal with Hammy, and lose my super healer along with a good chunk of my force in a quirky spot trapped inside HRE borders on the coast of a lake. And here I thought I was ready to give Emperor a go.

As you can see, a total bloodbath: