After lib @375 I went economics and then rifling. A second dogpile on monte started right about the time I was building my army, so I rushbought a few cavs with my GM from econ to get in on the action before he got capped. I declare on him ~950AD and take 4 cities and then cap him. At that point I have a small window of opportunity before everyone has rifling, so I declare on churchill immediately and take 3 cities to cap him (he had 6 cities).
Next up I go for lincoln. There was a little delay this time between attacks bc I had begged off everyone during the churchill war to prevent backstabs (churchill had steam power on everyone and was friendly with all as well.) Before the lincoln war I bribe zara to attack darius with rifling and physics, again to keep him off me. This slowed down the endgame a lot but was probably safer.
I took a few extra cities beyond the necessary for lincoln, bc he had just built SoL and also the kremlin
Next up, Ghandi, who was way far away from rifling when I started, but gets it in the middle of the war. Bloody battles ensue, but fortunately by now I have physics for airships to wear down the rifles. I get him not too long later:
At this point, Zara has had infantry for a few turns
so I beeline bombers.
Tech at this point has gone (since rifling) phys>bio>communism (revolt sp)>...>radio>...>flight with a few techs traded off of vassals.
I attack him with like 70 cavalry and 25 bombers on 1515AD iirc, but the bastard won't capitulate ever. I guess you can't cap if you have a vassal? (he had vassaled darius during the bribed war) I got him way below 50% of darius' land tho.
Eventually tanks start showing up and the war machine does its work for domination.
Somehow I only have a screenshot of the score:
I got the domination on 1605AD.
I attached a few saves if anyone is interested; the autosave is right before the end (playing really sloppy by then
). Looking at other games, it seems like the RNG really liked me this game. No monster AI capitulation team, no rifles for anyone else until ~1100AD, etc.
Like I said before, suuper fun game
, postponed CS/Pacifism and currently in tech hole).
