Thanks for the comment HardCode, glad you're enjoying this.
Pre-turn We don’t seem able to keep this transport chain functioning as I had planned it with 2 transports at each station, so something for me to work on. These Euro cities will start getting torched once we have the IroWave under control.
We lose about 3 lone units to badguyz in Europe. Iro bombers are punished for raids on Rome
Synthetic fibers in, computers in 8 @40% but that may change.
WW is indeed up, now 29%.
1405AD (1)
New Chondote razed for 17g, now these tundra towns aren’t even worth going after.
Telloh in Greenland taken after defending rifle taken by tank.
War-Sawe and Copenhagen are just useless with resistors like this. Burned them both and replaced.
I scrap almost all the medieval units including those holding high ground in various places, i.e. UK, and Iceland. We had a stack in SA I use to speed up settler deliveries. We’ll deal with any remote invasions as they take place and save some money in the meantime.
I send back the tanks in the transport headed for Germany/Japan. We need them in Europe.
I pull back from the surrounding ground around our European holdings. The Aztecs and Iroquois get hammered by our artillery and bombers. The combat settlers are going to have to fend for themselves and will probably be losses. We need to beat back the Iroquois wave first, then advance in that area.
IBT Babs take Intombe. Nothing we could do about that one.
Vikes and Maya sign peace deal
Aztecs declare war on the Celts and Mongols. Don’t think that was too smart.
1410AD (2)
New Akwesasne levelled in ice wasteland. No gold.
3 Iro units killed by our bombers outside Edrine that had been shot up and worked over last turn. Arty and bombers now have that stack redlined. Time to send in the MA
Guerilla first then 17 redlined infantry follow. Four MA armies take out 16 full health infantry. Two of our regular tank corps take out 5 more. Another 5 to individual MA units and his stack is now reg muskets. Hlobane cav takes down a couple and back to the MA that went elite. Kill another infantry and that leave 2 reg warriors. And how nice, first attack gets another MGL. Load that army with the vet wounded warriors from the earlier MA battles and kill last reg warrior, then that army is off to Lorient with the Hlobane cav for rest and recovery. Lose a bomber to a fighter when attacking a destroyer in the Med. Other bombers redline it and DD Reid sinks her. That should be 49-1 so far.
Colonel Roosevelt’s Rough Riders arrive at Warsaw to kill 3 Aztec cav. Bombers take out a couple others and a Bab rifle 55-1
DD Nicholson takes out a Bab galley a dozen tiles SE of Hilo.
Our Age of Sail Display between Iceland and the UK is formally closed as most frigates there are sent to the breakers in Chalco.
Workers in NA now building a line of outposts to watch over our northern regions. Workers in Europe flipping mines to farms.
Iro-Europe count now 14 inf, 11 marine and a warrior.
IBT lost a ship at Gibraltar due to Iro-bombers. The USAF is castigated for lack of air cover in Europe.
1415AD (3)
Our first elite MA attack vs Bab pike gives us MGL.
Akkad taken, sell harbor, raze and replace. Now Vilnius.
Lose one MA at Ellipi. Kill 3 rifles and a knight. City taken, now Dnepropetrovsk.
Iros are now in the Modern Age with 44 gold left. Visible now are 5 Iro tanks. 5 marines, 2 inf.
Add a pair of airfields in the UK and send out 3 marines to Western US to go to the Pacific.
The assault on the Philippines begins. Supported by the carrier Constellation and destroyers Oldendorf , Kincaid and Hewitt. 2 US Marines take out a sword and spear at Manilla. Our tank army is landed to the north. A redlined spear still defends.
Shuffle our European defenses. We need more of everything. Add 9 new airfields around tundra towns Hopedale NAS and Cartwright NAS in Newfoundland. With those in place, 9 MA are flown into Europe.
IBT
Vikes and Spain sign peace treaty
Sumeria, with nothing better to do, joins the Mongol alliance against Hiawatha. Germany follow suit. Spain joins Mongolian conflict against Babylon. Sumeria gets an MPP with the Mayans.
Vikes join the Zulu alliance against the Iroquois. Zulu declare war on Spain. SOMEONE PLEASE FINISH THIS GUY OFF!!!
1420AD (4)
I’m going to try and get the latest Iro stacks cleaned out. Arty hits first of three stacks. 6 marine, 4 tank cleared out.
Second stack cleaned out.
Third stack lose a MA, get an MGL.
Modern armor and cav army take out 3 defenders at English Nottingham, modern armor kills a marine and down it goes. Sell off improvements, raze and replace. Now Novorossiysk.
8 modern armor and 1 TOW Inf airlifted from NA to Europe.
In the Pacific, our marines finish what they started and Manilla is ours. Our Sherman tanks head north towards Luzon.
WW is hitting us hard at the end of this turn, even at 40% lux, SA is needing a lot of clowns now.
IBT Sumeria says what the Hell and allies with Vikings against England.
England and Celts ally vs Spain.
Attacks by some Iro bombers on our fleet. A pair of F-15s don’t intercept. Ten of their tanks arrive with a marine, we get an arty captured.
1425AD (5)
1st Tank Corps kills 2 spears and Nuremberg falls, now Luzon.
2 infantry redlined at Aztecs Uskudar and killed by modern armor. Now Baku.
Take out a couple Aztec units losing one of our own. Build roads to the west now for bringing up arty.
Cav army and one modern armor take out 3 defenders and take Iznik, now Incirlik
Modern Armor Army takes out 3 defenders at Bursa after heavy artillery barrage. Cav army kills 3 more and we take that city along with Smith’s Trading Company. The troublesome Iro stacks in Europe are now cut off. We also now have incense which will counter some of our WW nicely. Bursa now Adana.
Tank and MA army kill 7 Iro tanks and 2-3 more by single modern tanks. Those stacks are now gone.
Sign RoP with the Mongols.
3 modern armor attack without loss at Trondheim and the city falls.
A tank and MA army kill 3 defenders and take Cattaraugus. 1st Infantry Corps reaches the Sinai. The Iroquois empire is now split in two.
Destroyers Peterson and Mooseburger take out an Iro and Aztec frigate respectively.
Carrier Yorktown takes out a pair of Aztec frigates east of Edinburgh. Carrier Independence drops a Bab rifle east of Kiev founded this turn.
Destroyer Cummings that had been redlined quite a while ago from dealing with Aztec frigates along with the transport with 2 marines we were going to use vs Shaka finally make it home. Now parked in Perryville, Aleutians.
I’m sending the transport Colorado with escort DD Spruance to settle the spices that we can grab.
This is a priority mission, as it is quite literally the last lux we need. I just rushed the harbor in Manila after sacrificing a couple units, so the Celt spice deal due to expire in 3 can do just that. The Spanish ivory deal still has 14 turns to go. From what I can see, there don’t appear to be any ivory sources close to us, so we’ll have to hope she stays polite and keeps taking our techs.
Carrier Leyte has two patrols, first spots and bombers take out a German caravel west of Guam. Second catches a pair of galleys NW of Guam. DD Hewitt takes down one, Carrier Constellation the other.
For the Iroquois, if we clear out Arabia, Iran and the “Stans” that won’t eliminate their oil. Ironically, west of Salamanca is Oil Springs that I believe would be their last source.
This should be our new priority now, the Mayans can wait.
European deliveries. Flew in infantry, MA and a couple mobile SAMs. Deliveries over water included some tanks that were upgraded. On the GIUK chain, I renamed a lot of the transports with two letters and a number that are providing the needed shipping services.
Please do not take them away for other purposes.
Pacific deliveries. Airlifting in marines through Hawaii to Rabaul. Rabaul is our main base of sorts with tanks, marines and workers. If we are going to keep doing transport shuttle runs, they can probably be minimal as we can bring over by air a couple units a turn. I don’t know that we need a lot of tanks though.
Military Advisor. We have 17 armies, 16 filled. One tank army in the Pacific at Manila. One cav army in the US at Albany that also has a half dozen modern armor and arty as our Western Hemisphere quick reaction force. The bottom 6 cities along the east coast of SA are unguarded against marine attack. One empty army awaiting to go up the GIUK transport chain next week. A pair of armies SE of Edrine, now Budapest. 5 armies by Adana with most of the artillery. Two MA armies healing at Lorient with a bunch of banged up singles and 3 armies by Cattaraugus, now Jerusalem. In the Pacific if you want to settle more places in New Guinea, go ahead but I hadn’t during my set. If you want to head north with the marines towards Bismarck, feel free, but Europe remains the more important theater.
If Paris or any other city flips again, I suggest using all arty and bombers to kill as much of the population as possible to eliminate potential resistors.
Domestic Advisor. South America has lost a lot of scientists to the entertainment industry due to a lack of markets. Size 6 and under are not an issue and remain scientists. Pop 10-12 and they tend to all be entertainers. If we rush settlers as needed that should help keep them under control. Otherwise,
it’s 1189 in the treasury @ -62gpt and computers in 7. If you have a better use for workers in NA, feel free to give them something else to do.
Foreign advisor. The Zulu still have an active MPP with the Celts, so
Shaka cannot be attacked without Brennus jumping in. We should leave him until that expires.
And the save.