1836 AD: Continued
Declare war on Poland
Nubia:
Capture Medju and Zatju
Nubia is down to the single 'hard to reach' final city. We are at war with all civs between it, but it means getting all the way past the Austrians in the South.
Large number of Korean Troops to the south. Not sure where they were going but are now in the way. Looks like this will be the opposite of last turn and use all our troops.
Used a Great Artist in Zatju but also gain a Monk and GA killing Koreans. I am likely to gain and lose many here. I will likely forget to mention some; Instead we are currently at 26 GA and 4 Monk now. I will give a count at the end.
Poland:
Capture Bydgoszcz guarded by Arquebusier.
After building Abandon 03, I start on Warsaw. Warsaw's Arquebusier cause 2 retreats and a loss. After that are Pike and many offensive units. I don't think Poland has gone to war and large number of units are just sitting in the cities. When done there are 40 attackers that won outside the city.
For L'vov I turn off battle animation. It requires Abandon 04. 36 Units needed with one loss.
Finally Abandon 05 and Torun which is eventually Captured.
Mongol:
Capture Erdenet that we lined up last turn. Abandon 03 allows us to also reach Kazan.
This is all the Mongol cities for now; poland makes a better current target to get a straight front.
There are enough Korean units that I wake up non-coastal, non-capitol defenders to use against all the FireLancers. After the battles, there is one stack of Knights and some stacks with Firelancers and longbow. All the Artillery units are gone that appeared in the north.
I think we got at least 4 leaders for Rushed Electric Power
We have no more Wetlands in our territory. All the workers will have stopped by next turn
IBT: Not sure where Korea thinks they are going. They must be at war with somone else. Their movement is odd.
Poland empty their cities with large numbers going on attack
Realized I forgot to leave defenders in one important class of cities. Ones with Resistance. Will fix that.
1837 AD:
Capture Zeilona Gora from Poland.
Build Abandon 06, 07, 08, 09 to get to six Polish cities(Wroclaw, Bialstok, Kalisz,gniezno, Gor. There are a lot of units to kill but the Hotchkiss will fight cities; Infantry will work on units. Another attack settler will get us to Gneizno as well, so 09 is also likely near there.
Poland has at least 12 cities. I cannot talk to them to get an exact count.
We capture all 6 cities above with minor losses. A monk gets us close enough to Krakow. We capture that as well.
Build south to build a new city that allows us to attack the Greek city. This is followed by the Hebrew city; I was hoping to get decent gold from this but it was less than 5k, and the other 3 cities that could net us 31k are all in Jungle and will likely wait.
We captured an Israeli motorized settler (instead of it turning into Workers).
We then go for two Mongol cities, Ulaanbaatar, and Karakorum
IBT: Some attacks on our units. Opole gets attacked so much, it gets a leader and then gets Captured by Korea killing said leader. They just had too many units (it was southmost, so speed 2 units could attack from the fog). Needless to say, many units fall to the Infantry guarding it.
Carthage also starts attacking and even drops the first landing I have seen (pike, 2 cavalry)
1838 AD: Kill off Landing.
Take back Opole and decided to use a Monk so it can't be attacked out of the fog anymore.
Capture Szczecin from Poland which we can now reach. This allows us to get to Olsztyn as well.
I finally I capture a Korean city Manpo. There is a lot of Austria Hungary speed 2 units, so I defend it.
Do unit cleanup to get units in our lands under better control. We won't advance much.
Get leaders of course, it is getting harder to find useful rushes.
BTW, I am using Uruk as the healing city because I can always find it by hitting h.
With the workers free from the Wetland duty, I go through the towns under 110 and 80 shields and get them above to get one turn hotchkiss and infantry as we can.
Also we have enough gold that I rush stuff this turn.
IBT: Austria Hungary decides to attack Manpo despite defense. They eventually overcome some of the Infantry.
Oh and looks like India is here as well, so another rush is incoming.
1839 AD: We can reach more Mongol cities (note that we get an even 10 culture a turn so every town expands after a single turn - It's really nice)
We capture Tabris, Daidu, Hovt. and Almalik.
We then take Gdansk from Poland.
Tried to get a look at Spain's world map but we fail and they declare. We do get Portugal's map.
Pozan owned by Korea sticks out, so I capture that as well
We then continue to clear our lands, leaving only a stack of 15, 6, and 4 random units all on the border. We use leaders to get Heavy Industry; I have set the best towns to them so I can find them. Otherwise I may rush a useless town's industry or power.
Continue to upgrade towns; I am going from highest shields to lowest (Skipped most already over 110 though). We have over 250 workers to do this with which seems sufficient. I have switched worker builds to Settlers.
We have optimized all cities with over 40 shields now. Some will need some more after they grow.
Rushed some more; especially to get towns finished with shield improvements so they can start on units.
We currently have 179 hotchkiss, 378 Infantry, and 545 workers (about half are used for the war front). We have fewer foreign workers (50-70?), I tend to use them for Garrisons.
We still have 40k gold.
NOTE: We have hit MAX Cities.
Rushed some boats so I can kill more ships. Some aren't heading home.
IBT: Not so much this turn. We are driving back the bombarding boats with the planes, so there is less and less bombardment.
1840 AD:
Move Abandon 08 and 09 to reach two more Mongol cities. Darkhan is the current Capitol and has several red-lined units that I don't think I caused. They might be at war though I see no signs of it. We also capture Erenholt
Against Korea:
We can reach Sariwon even without a settler and easily capture it. This allows us to reach and capture two more cities. We capture Pyongyang and Taejon. A Monk will allow us to reach Seoul and pyongsong. Doing this we lose a heck of a lot more units than expected. 3 and 4 losses for two of the cities for example. This is with Garrison support on our size and defense 4 vs our attack 9. However the losses is still smaller than the number of unit we get each turn
We can also reach Inchon from a border expansion now and capture it. This leaves Ulsan surrounded which can be gotten by moving Abandon 10.
Pusan is also within range and we capture it.
Poland's Lodz is also within range and we capture it.
Capture Suwon from Korea followed by Fustat.
Moved on the Hebrew town of Arnon lining up an attack for next turn.
I was considering stopping here but hit enter by accident; so onward...
IBT: Our attack on Israel pulls Persia (who we haven't met) into war with us.
More units beyond the first two Cavalry show up from India
Carthage head backwards, but captures some Workers I missed protecting with a Hussar.
1841 AD:
Get a Great Artist and Leader on same attack.
Capture Arnon from Israel, but it costs two Artillery type units.
Capture Paegam from Korea
Attempt to capture the final Polish city:
Capture Hyangsan from Korea after building Abandon 01.
Using a great artist and building Abandon 07 we are able to capture Cheju
Choir is auto-destroyed so I rebuild it.
I don't think I will see as many enemy units, so the need for Speed 2 units is becoming greater and we have many speed 1. I therefore switch 1 turn infantry builds to 2 turn Hotchkiss.
We have units left over so I build a town and use an Artist to take out Mongol towns:
We capture Dalanzadgad and Mandalgovi
Only one more Mongol city. Worth moving Abandon 05 and a great Artist.
Success:
IBT: Spot first Egyptian. India shows up with more fast troops.
Didn't defend Cloibalsan enough I think I had 3 or 4 defenders. Captured by Carthage.
1842 AD:
Start with captureing Chonju and Kaesong from Korea and they are gone:
Capture Ajolon from Israel which puts us back over 50k gold. They have only their Capitol now.
A single Hotchkiss auto-destroys the Greek City. It was along the lines Thallonica I think. They only have their capitol left.
The immense jungle is annoying. However, the Austrian town of Klagenfort has a single cleared square which means we should be able to grab it this turn and line up the kill for both Israel and Greece next turn.
I build the road to Kagelfort, Capture it and move Abandon 04 to where I can set up troops to Attack the Greek Capitol
We finally meet Turkey and steal their map (2nd try) which removes a large black area. We also try Mayans but get caught (no war).
Capture back Choibalsan from Carthiginian and Cirta too which is near it.
Using an Artist on Cirta can get us around the Mountains in Carthage. We can build a town to get to Hadrumetum. We do this and capture the city.
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It just now occurred to me I am not using the ability of Settlers to move two squares - we always have owned the land that I place the Settler. Thus any previous statements of needing artists and such is not actually correct.
Too used to speed 1 from normal civ I guess.
We have 29 Great Artists still left so it is not really a problem.
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Abandon 06 (not using an Artist anymore) gets us to Utica which is a Tough nut with a lot of troops.
Move Abandon 06 again to get to Carthage itself. We capture it - it was not actually harder than Utica.
Decide I would like more Workers after all. The front is expanding and there is open land; I am using all the Workers on the front line rather than having 200 for improvments. Also only Egypt has rails. Switch appropriate Settler builds to build some next turn (we only have 543 - how are we to survive?) It is fairly easy to find 50 cities to switch over.
Moving Abandon 06 again and we can take out Leptis Minor, Rusaddir, and Theveste
We can reach Oea so it is Captured
Move Abandon 07 and capture Sabratha. I move it to the end of the Peninsula to place units next to Nora for next turn. Then it is moved back to get closer to Leptis Magna and Capture it
Move Abandon 03 to get over the mountains for Sulcis next turn (surrounded by hills) and Abandon 09 to get to Gadir. Move it again to get to Hippo Regius and capture it.
We can capture rusicade after moving Abandon 04. This leaves 3 cities. The capitol is far away past India. Nora and Sulcis we will try to capture next turn.
We also build the city 'Turkish Blood Bath' on their borders. Not that they should be nervous or anything....
IBT: We had a landing from Canada and from India. No real attacks to mention on the front lines.
1843 AD: For Canada we capture Gatineau and Surrey moving Abandon 01 to do so. Surrey has a Motorized Settler. We attempt the Capital (moving Abandon 02) but they have a boat Settler.
We capture the Spanish City of Asturias and Indian town of Dacca (using Abandon 03)
Build Mountain Fortress and use a Great Artist to Grab 'no man's Land' that is being used to reach us.
Also (later) build Grey Hills to Grab more mountains With most under our control we will not need to fight as many units in them.
We attempt to kill off Israel:
And then Greece:
My plan to take all the North will not occur with Canada not killable. This makes India lesss attractive. Arabia, Turkey, Persia, and Austria are all on our borders. Persia declared war on us sight unseen, so while not the best in terms of 'front line', they win the 'most righteous smiting' award. The other civ we are at war with; Austria is a contender has an annoying Jungle and Swamp to get past, so is not the best for a last turn.
Gathered units near capitol so I can find them.
So Persia:
Our attack is already lined up on Bactra which we capture.
Move Abandon 07 and then Capture Ghulman, Gordium, and Istakhr.
Move Abandon 08 to Capture borazjan. We can also capture Sidon
Stepping past some Swamp, we are able to move Abandon 01 to Capture the capital Persepolis.
Clean up units next to and in our borders. Our lawyers fail this turn but we get a Monk.
Move Abandon 03. That gets us to Tyre.
Using a Monk on Abandon 01 allows us to capture Antioch.
Moving Abandon 04 gets us Pasargadae
Abandon 09 gets us Arbela
Ababdib 10 gets us Ergili
Notes:
I liked the 'Abandon 01-10 idea'; they occur first in the shift-L list of city names and I can just move to them by finding an old one and disbanding to rebuild it somewhere else. (10 are not actually needed - maybe 01-05?). Its not actually my idea; I saw cities named this when I used shift-L and found it useful.
We ran out of Workers first. There are a few units near the capital and not all is roaded. There was a lot of open spaces this turn. This is in spite of building forty last IBT. 583 seems enough though...
We have dropped to 35 settlers; they no longer extend more than one page. We have 73k gold after taking out Israel and will get 20k more if we can kill Canada.
The best guess for Canada settler is this Ship. There are 3 visible stacks; one just landed and another I killed the transport but it didn't help. Or it could be somewhere unknown...
Canada, Nubia, and Carthage are all down to just their Capital.
We own 53% land with us taking a lot of space this last 10 turns. We are near the end.