Whoo, boy. Barrels o' fun and games. Let's see if I can get it all straight.
First part of the reign was spent checking out the benefits of mobilization and fighting off the Romans. Mobilization isn't worth much to us. This is such a bunch of dedicated MM'ers that mobilizing just gives us shield overruns. One problem we have is that the only coastal town with any shields is Paris, so building transports and destroyers is a real pain in the pocket book.
The big news is that Rome's Modern Armor landings were handled with not much pain: shell 'em into shock then bomb them to death. After summarily dealing with two landings of six each, Julius called his Mediterrenean pal Alex and signed him up in an alliance against us......we lost two luxes, and the Greeks ripped apart the center of the old Zulu lands. Something like six towns fell on the the first wave across the center. Spears and archers just aren't much good against tanks
The only towns of any consequence are Brest in the south and Besancon north of Paris.
Anyway, so now it's time to spank Alex. Rip through the old Portugese cities with artillery and armor, laying waste to them, and bomb his invaders to a standstill.
After that little bit of carnage Julius is willing to negotiate a peace treaty for the paltry sum of 80g. Don't have enough in the kitty to buy anything from him, though.
After retaking the towns in the center lost to Alex's first wave Alex is willing to talk and gives up Mass Production and Communism (we need Police Stations to deal with War Weariness) for 200 gpt.
Use the resulting peace dividend to buy Electronics from Ragnar after threatening war for only 190gpt. Then send George Smiley to Rome but James Bond is entirely too slimey for Alex and he redeclares. Reorganise the forces for assaults on Argos in the north, Delphi south of Marseilles, and Knossos in our east. and teh old German towns in the west. They don't fall easily, most are burned, and I lose two tank armies in the process.
but I keep Knossos and Argos .
Finish the cop shops in the core and rush settlers out of the plains towns to fill in old Portugal and Germany (every new settlement is worth 5gpt right out of the box, so keep cramming them in down there).
Had to do lot of conscription to keep Alex stalled after his first wave, so his second attack is stopped in its tracks. All his attackers are coming from the west with an occasional tank out of Herakleia. He is pretty gassed, though.
Somewhere in all the bloodshed Julius declared on Alex and Ragnar took Brest from the Greeks then signed a peace treaty.
Built a lot of AA units and they actually did a good job of decimating the Roman carrier based bombers and defending Marseilles from Greek tanks
D=6 against land units so they have 2/3 the defensive value of a tank. Pretty handy in a crunch and they are cheap to build.
Our lone tank army is healing in Rouen and Paris is back to building an army. The artillery and air force are concentrated in the west. Eretria is the next Greek city to get the torch (and with it Greece's only source of rubber, I think). Their only source of oil that I can see is west of Rennes at Rhodes.
Rome now has seven space ship parts built and two in process.
My one attempt at sabotage wrecked a bomber in Rome.
We are at 40% lux and WW is a problem but the cop shops in the core are helping.
If we can keep the pressure on Greece without falling into civil disorder, do it, Alex will talk but isn't giving anything meaningful.
Didn't get any navy built and a Roman sub sank one of our transports loaded with tanks on the opening.
Have fun, goz. You're no longer surrounded but I didn't make much progress on our Roman problem.....
Took a few extra turns just ' cause I was having so much fun spanking Alex and I didn't want to turn the game over with a lot of rubbleized towns and no victories.
They finish it in 1 turn. But we need gold, and now. Immediate would cost 3807, we have 2914. Can we get enough money?
on the sabotage. Bought some time and maybe the Romans will go back to war-time production.
