SID Italy continued
1814AD - Buy Colonialism from Inca for 7800 gold. Spain declares war on Israel. A missionary of the great Italian empire was strolling the lands around Nuremberg, when a German Worker attempted to move into the tile my Missionary was stationed in. The Missionary tried to convert the 'lost soul' to the light, but they refused; stuck in their misguided ways. The Missionary had no choice but to brutally slaughter every single last one of the workers, so they could not let the German high command know of their location.
1815AD - Cologne falls to my forces with 3 Hussars lost! 22000 gold in the coffers!

1816AD - Attack on Berlin was a disaster. Many Hussar's dead with nothing to show for it.
That just made me feel like a shaved tailed louie.
Not only that, a bunch of USA units just showed up, War Elephants, Knights, Ancient Cavalry, etc... And to top it off, Hamburg desposed back to Germany! Lost quite a few units.
1818AD - More USA units than I thought (70-80 at least)... I am rush building units every turn in all cities after 1 turn. Put the gold I have to good use. Although the USA units are weaker units, the number of them is still tough.
1819AD - Sign peace with USA, just too many units, slow defenders just aren't capable of withstanding punishment. Will continue rush building units. Israel signs peace with USA (if USA still has MPP with Germany, this won't last long).
1820AD - Efurt desposed to Germans, this is happening very often... I have been leaving all units out of these cities, so I don't lose them. Erfurt is way far away from front lines... annoying. With USA off my back, it's time to smash Germany and destroy them completely to stop this despose non-sense.
1821AD - Take Berlin with horrendous losses... I quit counting because it got so high. After the peace treaty with USA, and the flipped city (it actually happened once before that I did not mention, where I lost 6 units, and 3 units taking it back), I moved 65+ Cavalry and Hussars to attack. I have 37 left.
1823AD - Capture Leipzig! Hannover desposed to Germany, they are WAAY behind my lines... this is getting stupid, happens every turn to some random city. This is why it is impossible to ever go to peace without completely destroying the civ first.
1825AD - Took Nuremberg, and retook Hannover... added 30000 gold to my coffers. Wars have broke out all over the place! I am going to sign some MPP's to keep myself somewhat safe from SoD's! Munich falls to my Stack of Destruction, and I gain another 19000 from the spoils of war. All of these cities are culture bombed, which usually puts my units in range of a quick strike to the next city. I now have Rifleman
1826AD - Uhhh... I just went backwards in tech. I can no longer build Cavalry, and am stuck with Hussar's once I bought Imperialism, Democracy, and Steam Power ?
Take the German city of Mainz! No other German city is really close by anymore, even though they still have about 7 or 8 cities (to the east I believe). The thing is... culture flips happen randomly even to cities that are still far far far to the west... extremely annoying, happens almost every other turn. No way to stop it. It's so irritating that it makes me not want to play anymore every time it happens. Nuremburg just flipped and I lost 11 units. I just took the city last turn.. and all these cities have been culture bombed by my monks.
Tom