Round 7: Tokugawa's Nasty Surprise - 1510 AD to 1600 AD [19 Turns]
Finally, the long over-due round. Most of this session was played a month ago, when I actually knew what free time meant.
But anyway, here it is.
I decided to attack Tokugawa rather than Mansa because of several factors.
1. Tokugawa's backwards as hell
2. Tokugawa has few allies
3. Mansa Musa already has infantry!
4. Mansa Musa hasn't hit WFYABTA yet
5. Tokugawa's culture
Basically, what I did was split my stack into 3 groups. One (small) group captured Seville, the former Spanish city that Tokugawa captured in one of the earlier rounds. The two other groups were much more prodigious. One of them was about to capture Nagoya.
At the same time, Tokugawa sent in a rather large stack of about 20 units, consisting of an amalgam of cuirassiers and samurai. Fortunately, the stack didn't contain any siege weapons. To weaken the stack Tokugawa captured in my territory, I refrained from attacking the Japanese city south of Nagoya and moved that southern stack to counter the one Tokugawa sent. Long story short, after a few cannons, it was all mop-up for the infantry.
Oh, and we captured Nagoya, of course.
I was surprised at the fact that the city wasn't culturally swamped. Oh well, that's good news anyway.
I was to receive a nasty surprise next turn.
No no that wasn't the nasty surprise.
Yeah, Tokugawa recaptured Nagoya. I guess leaving 2 infantry units in the city isn't enough. Such a shame, and I already moved the majority of that northern stack towards Kyoto. I debated on what to do, but decided that Nagoya wasn't worth the trouble to recapture until later. Sure, it was feasible, but I didn't want to do it.
All this fighting earned me
another great general. I sent him to build a military academy in Madrid. Cordoba (the Heroic Epic city) already had one. Has anyone been counting how many GG's I've gotten?
Meanwhile, that itinerant southern stack which destroyed the units Tokugawa sent into my territory had another city up their attack list.
While this was happening, my larger stack assaulted Kyoto. Yeah, you can see the kind of tough, technologically advanced resistance I'm facing. I hope the Toku AI can recognize my innuendos and improve his teching for the next game that we meet.
On that same turn, my (somewhat) damaged troops that I had mustered up were at the gates of Nagoya once more.
There was no need to capture the city.
This was a no-brainer vassalization. Tokugawa still had 8 core cities left (9 really because I immediately gifted him the city of Tokyo since it was swamped by his culture) and will probably end up being the best vassal I'll get this game. Also, I needed to hurry up and attack my next target (more info on that later).
I forced Tokugawa to sign open borders and switch to Free Market, but this didn't help my economy at all.
Thus, the Rome vs. Japan war has ended in 1600 AD, with Rome grabbing its third vassal.
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Now, let's move on. I'm certainly not done fighting yet, as I have a long way to go for a domination/conquest victory. To my mind, Mehmed II is the obvious next target, so I've mapped out his land.
He's the most likely target for several reasons. (1) My other potential targets, such as Gilgamesh and Mansa Musa, are more technologically advanced. Mansa Musa is still willing to trade techs ... if I have something to offer him. (2) Mehmed II hates me already so declaring war on him won't be that damaging in terms of technology trading. (3) Pacal II is gearing up for a cultural victory.
As you can see from the map, in order to attack Pacal, I'll have to go through Mehmed II's territory. Since he refuses to sign open borders, I'll just vassal him along the way to Pacal's land.
Technology:
Power:
Demographics (#1 in land area):
Top 5 cities & wonders:
And I FINALLY got a save up.
. He's my favorite.
I guess you're heading for industrialism by teching electricity, but my prefernce would be to go comustion/ flight/fascism for fighters/paratroops and an oil navy. You'll need combustion for tanks anyway.
