1950 AD - Our spies conduct another investigation of Tenochtitlan, as by now a full-fledged attack on it is undoubtedly near. This is what we find:
We have three Artillery and two Bombers in the New World right now, and our Battleship will be ready to bombard again soon. With six Infantry and one Mech Infantry ready to attack next turn, we'll be strong enough with a decent bombardment and decent luck in the attack.
This turn, however, is the turn for Neapolis to fall.
Our 13 Artillery right outside the city unload, and redline all the defenders. Bomber runs then kill two of those. Little remains of the defence, and a Guerilla charges the city. Almost immediately the last defenders fall. Neapolis is ours.
Then we send a Tank over to take Hispalis.
I pity the pikeman.
And then Ulysess heads west and attacks the Roman city of Lutetia, taking out a Musketman but not yet taking the city for Greece.
We've realized by now that we have more troops than we need fighting Rome - blimely, we only actually attacked Neapolis with one ground troop. Thus we send Ajax north to take the Celtic city of Alesia, at the mouth of the Nile.
He struggles mightily and loses half his hitpoints, but wins in the end. Theodoros Kolokotronis follows him in the attack, and wins without any hitpoint loss. Alesia still has defenders, and as no more Greek troops can reach it, it will not be taken this turn. Hector's Army is send to the Celtic capital of Entremont, where he will attack next turn with air support. And four Marines are sent towards Lugdunum, the finest city in the world.
In a slightly less ambitious move, a Tank attacks the Spearman the English send into our territory in the Gobi Desert.
The spearman gets owned. Which is good, because I didn't feel like having to include everyone's favorite smiley as a result of this battle
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1950 AD IBT - The Ottomans make a full-scale attack on Tenochtitlan!!! And they do well. They kill two Infantry with their Sipahi, and do not take many losses. By now they have jumped to seven Sipahi. We have no choice now but to attack next turn - otherwise Tenochtitlan will likely become Ottoman, and while that would be good, it's not the same as sticking it to the Aztecs!
The Celts play hardball as much as they can and attack the Marines heading towards Lugdunum.
In fact, they completely destroy the Marines, while only losing one of their own brigades. Ouch. Guess we aren't heading to Lugdunum after all.