Frustrated with immortal

[sampsa]

Sure and absolutely no offence taken, I think I know you well enough to understand our style of interaction and I know I can learn a lot from you! And probably my play was weaker in this game than I thought when I wrote the reply to BiC.

I don't try to argue against early honestly, but I just love the fast expansion, especially below deity.

 

[jorissimo]

I finally finished the Washington game. 1880 Dom. My first non-fin win on Immortal with virtually no outside help. Ended up being less peaceful than I had planned because circumstances called for a more aggressive approach. First, AP reassigned Saint Pete, which had been under my control for over 1000 years, to Cathy. That led me to go down the cuirs route, libbing MT. I waged a short and surgical war with 20-something cuirs, just enough to quickly take her 4 cities and resist any counter attacks from her master Wang. So far so good. But then, when I discovered Sci Meth, I realized I didn't have a single source of oil in my 19-city empire. I didn't feel comfortable going to space without any oil, so I went cavs and cannons and took out Wang (I know, very fitting to play as America and go to war over oil). After that, I could have gone to space but it seemed like Pacal could win culture faster. So I went for tanks and fighters/bombers to take him out. After that, I had about 50 tanks sitting around and would it be easy to pump out a few boats and ship everything over to chronically backward, 13-city Genghis on the other continent? Btw, at this point I realized I could have won diplo if I had just converted 1 of Qin's and 1 of Genghis' cities to Hindu, but Genghis had the brilliant idea of attacking me with a bunch of backward mini-stacks and then wouldn't open borders with me for the longest time. So I had to conquer him. I went in with 50 tanks, first attacking his war vassal Qin who had only 3 cities, but also had infantry and destroyers. I sustained heavy losses taking a hyper-cultured Genghis-owned Beijing full of wonders, defended by Chinese infantry and a bajillion Mongol cavalry and lost about half my tank force. I did have air support but had used it for taking Shanghai on the same turn and got impatient The invasion seemed to be on shaky ground but my production was so overwhelming that I managed to break through, especially after I built airports everywhere and started airlifting on a massive scale. I never saw a Mongol infantry and hit the domination limit before he was willing to capitulate. All in all a fun and very eventful game. Btw, if you're wondering about the freakishly long game time, it's because I had a scooter accident in which I broke my right arm and right leg, and played this out with only my left hand.