Preturn: Several cities hadn't been adjusted for end of war so I did so, putting the clowns to work.
I drafted in our fastest growing cities to build 2 frigates near the Steamers next turn.
IBT: Rome declares on Koreans. Koreans, Carthage at peace With Carthage: Dyes deal came up for renewal. Got it for furs and tech. Also got 103 gpt for another tech after a misclick where we donated a tech. Hungary and Turkey are now at peace.
Tlatelolco deposes us for the British. That just doesn't seem right especially as its size 3. Lost a regular unit
1801 AD: There are now 3 British towns so a settler has settled. I also sank 2 of the 3 Steamers I could see.
Capture Oxford. Destroy Brighton. At least one steamer is destroyed. We can reach Tlatelolco with a Partisan so we take the city and the English are gone.
Load troops onto some Steamers
IBT: Russia and Arabia sign a peace treaty.
1802 AD: Landing on other continent. The initial landing is 120 units.
IBT: Arabia and Mayan at peace, China & India form a MPP. Given that we landed in India last turn, it means war.
We fiight of the first Indian attacks losing one unit.
1803 AD: We have moved our planes close so we can bombard the defenders of Calcutta and the nearby garrison to 2 hp. Take out Garrison and then city without loss. 3 units next to the city killed without loss giving us a great Artist (we have 2 more in the stack. Use the great artist. Garrison and Airfield built. We have coal next to the city (this city was ideal - close across the ocean, coal, and hill next to city) so we can build the national coal mine when we get a leader.
We can also reach Madras with our tanks so we capture it. We lost a tank.
Also steal maps from Incan and fail with Hebrew. 2 more fails where black still exists, and then succeed with carthage. This gives us most of it. The Hebrew/Indochina/China area is still black but we are at war with China and Indochina, so done with map stealing for now.
<note I lost my turn log from 1804-1806 so I will not give exact reconstruction>
We have 55 airfield in the southwest desert (clear spot on our minimap). First send over units, then workers.
We used our clan to build a town and the first leader to rush the National Coal Mine. This gave us the ability to build rails.
Lots of Isreal units show up. I didn't think they were after us but they attacked Madras putting us at war. The number of units that showed up so quickly seems to indicate they were planning to attack India, but since we owned the city they attacked us instead.
Isreal has tons of low level units - Knights, elephants and such first then the slower ones with def 4 Arquebusier being the best defense. This turns out to be a boon for making our Tanks go to elite. There are so many of them they kept me mostly busy. By 1806, most of the fast units are gone and the slow are showing up.
In 1804 we used Hotchkiss to capture Delhi. I think we lost 6 doing so.
In 1805 we capture Lahore with Hotchkiss.
In 1806 we Capture Karachi and Bombay. We are finally starting to build rails. Sent over 53 workers and 2 of our first settlers.
End summary: Here is a picture
IBT: As expected the Indochinese Cavalry on the edge of the picture attack our city, but we hold the attacking ones off.
Isreal forces attack our stack next to Karachi. Enough units are near enough that they take it out with lots of losses. They also attack Kirachi itself, but only dent the defenders.
Delhi flips. It has Ganges Pilgrimage. I had lowered the defenders to 2 so we lose just a little.
1807 AD: We take back Delhi
Using a plane for recon shows us:
Each Chinese stack is about 30 Ancient Cavalry.
I was thinking of taking Bangkok, but I don't have enough units to do that and clear out the surrounding units (I still have the Hebrew units to deal with). Instead I bombard the road one South of Bankok. This cuts the road and forces speed 2 units to stop before attacking Jaipur. That way I can kill the units on attack instead of defending in Jaipur - a huge advantage for us.
I will pick off units for the initial rush and then advance. It looks like a mountain road could be cut that would block Indochina. I may try bombarding it when it doesn't have units on it though that would mean moving the bombers north.
I also build a garrison in the area to help out the attacks.
Capture Indochina city of Bangalore.
Build Dallas to capture Kolhapor losing 2 Tanks
Build Los Angeles to capture Hyderabad, losing 2 Tanks and gaining a leader which I air transport to the other continent.
India is destroyed!
Pare down the Isrealites that can be reached.
Notes:
The rush by Isreal is pretty much over. They are low tech and could be taken over.
We only 1 settler over on the far continent, but I rushed a few for next turn. I switched some but not all cites with 2-5 shields over to settlers for the long term. The rest are building Town Centers, so can be switched and rushed at any time.
We are at peace with Inca and Persia so our East is buffered by them. However, some civs to the East have likely started sending units because we are at war with them.
Israel is reasonably big and primitive so we could grab their cities without much work. China next to them are sending ancient cavalry and such so are also primitive. This would give us the westmost bulge of the continent as ours. I think we should grab that first.