Brigadier General Scoutsout watched the passing Incan cavalry cross the open grassland heading for Paris from the turret of his tank Theyll be sitting ducks for the artillery he said and he was correct as the Dutch artillery decimated the Incan horse soldiers and the Dutch Cavalry killed all of what remained, while a pair of Dutch Tank Armies led an armored offensive into the Incan heartland.
In the north things were not as east to evaluate. The Dutch defenders in Warwick were caught by surprise by the Incan Cavalry and fell quickly. The same could not be said of the defenders of Oxford as the single Mechanized Infantry unit absorbed wave after wave of Incan Cavalry before the 15th wave finally killed the last defender. The Incans had made the same mistake the Spanish had nearly a thousand years earlier as they had spent most of their offensive firepower on a meaningless city and now were about to face the wrath of the Dutch counteroffensive. In the north Canterbury, London, Nottingham and Andahauylas fell quickly to a second pair of Dutch Tank Armies and the newly christened Third Tank Army, while an Army of Knights was busy pillaging the Incan resources. In the south, where the Incan cities of Vilcas, Machu Pichu and Corihuayrachina once stood, only ashes remained. Dutch settlers from the homeland were in route to resettle these lands once the Incan menace was gone.
The battle for the Incan city of Victos was a particularly memorable one as an elite tank under the command of Colonel Matrix, made an innovative maneuver to out flank pair of defending Incan infantry units and was returned to Lyons to become the Brigadier General of Fourth Tank Army. The following day, another elite tank unit led by Rik Meleet completed the razing of Victos and another hero of the Dutch was born. He was also sent to Lyons to form the Fifth Tank Army. Arriving at the front with newly arrived Sixth Tank Army these offensive dreadnoughts continued to roll over the Incan defenders in the west. Four more Incan cites lay in ashes and new Dutch cities have been founded to replace them.
Excellent report General Grahamiam, I think its time we begin keeping these Incan cites. Im very pleased to hear our losses have been minimal. William said Congratulate the troops for me for their outstanding work. Sorry to cut you short, but I have to hurry to The Hague for the United Nations dedication this afternoon.
From the top of his armored column Brigadier General Scoutsout witnessed the fall of the final four Incan cites. In the city of Cuzco, he sat with his staff in ex-Incan capital directing his staff to their new tasks as administrators of a fallen nation. He opened the meeting with Well need a new chancellor for the War Academy and a new Chairmen for the Trading post, I want a list of candidates for both by the end of the week. The city religious leadership would like us to attend a service on Sunday at the Sistine Chapel in Huamanga and I told him wed be honored to attend, so see that youre all ready, well be leaving at 6am so be on time unless youd like to be reassigned to one of those little atolls on garrison duty. Any new business? and with no response from his staff he dismissed his men.
The entire staff nearly fell to the floor, when the messenger announced that the Zulu leader had landed a Warrior next to Amsterdam caused laughter to erupt around the room. The Mechanized Infantry unit defending the city suffered a mild hearing loss to the warrior pounding on the APC before it ran him over.
William had ordered that there was no need to worry about this threat to the Republic and bade the troops to continue preparations for the visit to the Mayan lands.
The roar of the Saturn V rockets left Williams ears ringing for a couple of days, but the joy in his heart was nearly as large as the rocket to know he would soon be on his way to Alpha Centauri again. He had to hurry to the final planning meeting of Operation Chicken Pizza and was surprised to find himself the last to arrive. Status gentlemen?
Admiral Bugsy began with a quick review of the cruiser deployment and the task force escort plan and was followed by General Grahamiam laying out the plans for the six tank armies plans for conquest of the Mayan lands.
The declaration of war was met with trepidation by the Mayan ambassador. His threats were still lingering in the halls when the Dutch tanks rolled into Warwick and the lands of the English, French, Spanish and Incan all now fly the flag of the Dutch Republic.
It was a splendid morning for William, three Mayan cities were now his and the third piece of the spaceship puzzle had been completed. Three more Mayan cities would soon fall and by the announcement of the completion of the Internet six years hence, eight more Mayan cities would fall.
Newly promoted General Scoutsout once again stood in a fallen nations capital and was amazed at the Pyramids in the town center and the Great Lighthouse in the harbor. He was the proud new commander of the nations first Modern Armor Army thanks to the eighth hero of the Dutch people, Ruud Van Nistelrooy who personally kick a Mayan grenade into their armory and hastened the fall of Chichen Itza. The final four Mayan cites fell to the pair of Modern Armor Armies and once again the world was at peace.
William was sitting admiring the photo of the fifth piece of the spaceship, when the General burst into the room The Egyptians are have attacked he shouted. Calm down general and give me the details William countered. The damage was not that bad, three recent Mayan cities had their Mechanized Infantry garrison overwhelmed by waves of Egyptian cavalry. The front had stabilized thanks to 6 Modern Armor Armies & 6 Tank Armies forming a defensive skirmish line. Get with Admiral and get me a complete status report and what your recommendations are for our reply, also get me the Zulu & English Ambassadors, lets get them involved.
The three lost cities were quickly reclaimed and another trio of Egyptian cities were added to the Dutch Republic when Cleopatras Ambassador came requesting peace. The peace treaty cost the Egyptian treasury dearly and the subsequent deals of obsolete technologies completed emptying of the remaining assets (gold, wines & technology).
Its too bad that our Zulu and English friends had to miss this day, William thought as he took one final look at the all yellow map of the world before heading to the launch pad to once again head to space.
He had made it a point of donating his entire silly hat collection to the Nations History Museum before leaving the capital and was embarrassed to leave behind his harem to the new leader, but his stasis pod was only built for one.
A strange feeling of déjà vu hit Mursilis as he closed the door on his stasis chamber and started the automated activation sequence. The captains name, Ain Wood, seemed quite familiar, but he wasnt quite sure where he heard it before. Maybe it was one of those ex-lovers of Joan and Isabella that often complained about as being so unsatisfying compared to him. As the sleep gas began to fill the chamber the answer suddenly came to him and he began to shout Thats the son of a
just before he lost consciousness.
Editors note: Space Race Victory in 1914 AD - Jason 4331 - 3739 Firaxis poinits in 47.5 hours.
to the GOTM staff for another entertaining & challenging game.
where I built Zeus because it was on the coast and treathened to expand, beyond workable tiles. You can't sell a Wonder, so it ha to go. I had time enough to build the Settlers to quickly regain the pop level.
Now will go back and see if I could have won one of the 5 UN votes that I wasn't brave enough to hold! 
i only used the money in rush-building the templs and libraris and cathedrals in 4 mainland cities so that i could assimilate the two annoying AI cities on my continent and in 2 far-away cities so that they don't flip and for the coal!!! (our motherland is such resourceless continent. fortunately i didn't have a real war and never needed any horse, iron, saltpeter,etc. the only thing that pissed me off was the coal... i used more than 1000gold to rush the cultural buildings to expand that city's border. it got all the imrpvements in about 8 turns.)
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