Pre-Flight: CivAssist 2, Word running. Open the save, look things over. We have plenty of Transports, but all of them are in use and not all where I need them, change a couple of builds back to Transports. I see lots of captured factories, which A) cost upkeep, and B) are worth money when cashed in, and C) benefit the enemy in flip situations. Start cashing them in. Same goes for Banks, Courthouses and other improvements that corruption makes useless. Also added taxmen to some cities set to starve. 1004 at 61 gpt is where I started at. 1844 at 106 gpt.
Civilian units:
Settlers 1
Workers 4
Slaves 87
Military units:
Infantry 19
Mech Infantry 29
TOW Infantry 8
Panzers 61
Cavalry 10
Artillery 27, 9 captured)
Armies 8, 8 Panzer
Guerillas 10
Ships:
Cruisers 7
Transports 10
Destroyers 13
Battleship 1
Carrier 1
Planes:
Bombers 19
Jet Fighters 4
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IBT: Watch with amusement as 2 Bab Bowmen take 2 hp from Rifle guarding Yamama.
Berlin Panzer=>Panzer.
Grand River Transport=>Transport.
Frankfurt Panzer=>Panzer.
Allegheny Panzer=>Panzer.
Heidelburg Panzer=>Panzer.
Turn 1, 1505 AD: Move some stacks toward Arab islands. Airlift new Panzers to other continent.
IBT: Babs move out some fleets, continue attacking Yamama.
Tabriz Marketplace=>Courthouse.
Cologne Panzer=>Panzer.
Oslo Worker=>Worker.
Bremen Settler=>Settler.
Stuttgart Panzer=>Panzer.
Bonn Marketplace=>Bank.
Edfu Harbor=>Transport.
Pollution near Bonn.
Turn 2, 1510 AD: Clean up the pollution. More movement towards Arab islands. Very frustrating, still 2 turns to Yamama and Aden.
Airlift new Panzers.
IBT: Babs Guerilla kills an rRifle at Yamama.
Berlin Panzer=>Panzer.
Hamburg Panzer=>Panzer.
Konigsberg Panzer=>Panzer.
Frankfurt Panzer=>Panzer.
Munich Carrier=>Destroyer.
Hannover Panzer=>Panzer.
Centralia Panzer=>Panzer.
Zarquim Worker=>Worker.
Turn 3, 1515 BC: Finally land an Army and Artillery at Muscat.
Still 2 turns from Aden…grrr!
Airlift new Panzers.
IBT: Babs boot us while freely trespassing on our lands. They will pay….soon!
Salamanca Panzer=>Panzer.
New Hamburg Harbor=Courthouse.
Medina Library=Wealth.
Leipzig Army=>Army.
Allegheny Panzer=>Panzer.
Heidelburg Panzer=>Panzer.
Nuremberg Panzer=>Panzer.
Bremen Settler=>Panzer.
Turn 4, 1520 AD: Battle of Muscat, artillery goes 5-0.
5th Panzers > rvRifle clean.
5th Panzers > rRifle clean.
5th Panzers > cRifle, -2hp, and Muscat is ours! =>Worker.
Land troops at Yamama.
Airlift new Panzers.
IBT: Berlin Panzer=>Panzer.
Frankfurt Panzer=>Panzer.
Cologne Panzer=>Panzer.
Akwesasne Panzer=>Panzer.
Turn 5, 1525 AD: Battle of Yamama: vPanzer<vRifle.
vPanzer> vRifle, promotes.
ePanzer> rRifle, and Yamama is ours!=>Worker.
Airlift new Panzers.
Land troops at Aden. Next turn the Arabs die and I will DoW the Babylonians.
IBT: Babs settle Nimrud, just another town to burn.
Memphis Cruise Missile=>Cruise Missile.
Hamburg Panzer=>Panzer.
Grand River Transport=>Transport.
Konigsberg Panzer=>Panzer.
Kufah Worker=>Worker.
Copenhagen Courthouse=>Library.
Hannover Panzer=>Panzer.
Centralia Panzer=>Panzer.
Stuttgart Panzer=>Panzer.
Turn 6, 1380 AD: Bomb and kill vRifle at Aden with ships and Bombers.
Hengest>cRifles clean.
Hengest>cRifles clean, and Aden is ours! The Arabs are now history!
Order the Babs out, they comply. I declare war anyway.
On the way to Mari, Rommel kills an rSpear clean, capturing a worker.
Battle of Carchemish: vPanzer>vRifle clean, promotes.
vPanzer>rRifle, -1hp.
vPanzer>rRifle, -1hp, and Carchemish is ours!
Battle of Nimrud: ePanzer>vRifle, -3hp, and Nimrud autorazes.
Battle of Alexandria: vPanzer>eGuerilla, -2hp.
vPanzer>vRifle, -1hp, and Alexandria is ours!
Battle of Shurrupak: Artillery goes ~8-10.
vPanzer>2hp vRifle, -3hp.
vPanzer>2hp vGuerilla clean, promotes.
ePanzer>1hp vRifle.
ePanzer>1hp vRifle, -1hp, and Shurrupak is ours!
Battle of Nippur: vPanzer>vRifle clean, promotes.
vPanzer>vRifle -1hp, and Nippur is ours!
Battle of Akkad: vPanzer>vRifle -3hp.
vPanzer>rRifle -2hp.
ePanzer>rRifle -1hp, and Akkad is ours!
Lose 2 Panzers cleaning up stray units to eliminate counterattack.
Airlift new Panzers.
Move troops into position to take at least 8 of their 12 remaining cities.
IBT: Fog hidden Cavalry captures the Artillery near Shurrupak. Otherwise, a few ships mill around.
Berlin Panzer=>Panzer.
Damascus Worker=>Worker.
Frankfurt Panzer=>Panzer.
Allegheny Panzer=>Panzer.
Munich Destroyer=>Panzer.
Heidelburg Panzer=>Panzer.
Pollution near Nuremberg and Heidelberg.
Turn 7, 1385 AD: Recapture the artillery, kill the guilty Cavalry, -1hp.
Battle of Sippar: Ships bombard, mostly hits.
Barbarossa 2>2hp vGuerilla clean.
vPanzer>1hp rRifle.
vPanzer>1hp vRifle, -3hp, and Sippar is ours!
Battle of Samarra: 6th Panzers>vRifle, -2hp.
6th Panzers>vGuerilla, -3hp, unit within promotes.
6th Panzers>vGuerilla, -1hp.
vPanzer vGuerilla, -1hp, promotes, and Samarra is ours!
Battle of Uruk: Barbarossa 1>vRifle, -2hp.
Horsa 1> vRifle, -2hp.
Barbarossa 1>vGuerilla, -1hp.
Horsa 1> rRifle clean and Uruk is ours! 3 Artillery taken.
Battle of Eridu: Artillery goes 10-12.
vPanzer>1hp rRifle, -2hp.
vPanzer>1hp vRifle, -1hp.
vPanzer>1hp vRifle, -2hp.
vPanzer>1hp vGuerilla, -1hp, promotes, and Eridu is ours!
Battle of Nineveh: Artillery goes 4 of 6.
7th Panzers>3hp vGuerilla, -4hp.
7th Panzers>2hp vRifle, -2hp.
7th Panzers>2hp vRifle clean.
7th Panzers>2hp vGuerilla, -3hp, and Nineveh is ours! 1 artillery, 3 workers taken.
Battle of Ellipi: Ships and Bombers shave a few hp off.
Hengest 1>3hp vRifle, -3hp.
Hengest 1>3hp vGuerilla, -2hp.
Hengest 1>2hp Rifle clean.
Hengest 1>1hp vGuerilla, -1hp, and Ellipi is ours!
Battle of Eulbar: 5th Panzers>vRifle, -2hp
5th Panzers>vGuerilla, -1hp.
5th Panzers>2hp vRifle clean.
5th Panzers>cRifle clean, and Eulbar is ours!
Battle of Ashur: Bombers kill both vRifles, vPanzers takes Ashur unopposed, capturing an Artillery.
Suddenly I realize I can win this game this turn!
Battle of Larsa: an rRifle retreats a vPanzer…damn coward should be shot!
ePanzer>rRifle clean. That’s better!
ePanzer>rRifle, -2hp.
eRifle>cRifle clean, and Larsa is ours!
Battle of Izibia: Artillery goes 4 of 5.
ePanzer>3hp vRifle, -4hp.
vPanzer>3hp vGuerilla, -1hp.
3hp vPanzer>2hp rRifle.
vMech Inf.>2hp rRifle clean, and Izibia is ours!
Battle of Mari: Rommel >vGuerilla clean.
Rommel >rRifle clean.
Rommel >rRifle clean, and Mari is ours! Now that’s a kick-ass army!
Battle of Darhan: vPanzer>rRifle clean.
vPanzer>rRifle clean, and Darhan is ours!
Battle of Babylon: vPanzer>vRifle clean.
vPanzer>vRifle, -1hp.
vPanzer>vRifle, -2hp.
vPanzer>vRifle clean.
vPanzer>vRifle clean.
vPanzer>vRifle, -2hp.
vPanzer<vGuerilla, doing 2 hp damage.
vPanzer>2Rifle, -1hp.
Hit the Guerilla with a Cruise Missile, redlining him.
ePanzer>1hp vGuerilla, and Babylon is ours! We do not get a victory notification, meaning a settler is out there somewhere.
Find a guerilla and settler near Thebes. Kill the Guerilla, still another one hiding.
Try to position Ships and planes to maximize the chance of finding the hidden settler.
IBT: Celebrations in German cities, protests in captured Babylonian cities.
Cologne Panzer=>Panzer.
Turn 8, 1390 AD: After some bombardment by other ships and planes, a bomber of ours sinks the Galleon with the last remaining Babylonian. I prepare for the turn that declares us the winner. Save the game so everyone who wants can enjoy the victory lap.
IBT: Final score: 4638
