1550AD:
I have removed all of Japanese towns from the rear and razed one in the front. Trying to get roads up so I can send all the armies on the attack. Need to get all the land in the border to prevent a neutral nation from
landing a settler.
1555AD:
Another leader and form an army. The 8th is 3 man right now. I just got back from lunch and I forgot if I started Flight last turn or this one. Looks like this one, not sure. I hooked up the oil a few turns back and in fact the tile is cleared now.
Japan sent a few cavs to attack a town. It had two infantry, so not problem. I am not making walls as they just are not sending enough units to sweat it.
Four settlers are about to get into position to fill the rest of the tundra. I have roads up on the coast and will have rails in a turn or two. Still a fair amount of tiles with no roads in the old Nippon land. Leave it to the AI to not improve the land or the pollution.
I trade Medicine to China, last place, for map, a little cash, Nav and Econ. No one has finished Smith's, so I switch my army to it. It was nearly done, so I should beat them to Smith's. If not, well I still get my army, just paid too much for it.
Mainly I wanted to get the map. I can now see that it is a large continent as well. China looks to have a lot of land. More than the rest. They have more than even Japan, second only to me.
1560AD:
Joan asked for peace on the IBT and I agree with a swap of maps. I can now see two fair sized island that have French and Chinese towns. I could see them if I had looked earlier.
Poor Joan, will have to declare as soon as I attack Japan again. I do not mind giving my map at this point as I will have no place they can land, before they can get here.
I see Japan is drafting rifles now, so I will hold the empty army till tanks, in case I want to invade. Still I razed Suo.
1565AD:
Raze another town and now I have planted enough towns to break even on unit support. Three more towns should go down next turn. Just need to get them into place on the border. All the tundra is in the borders now.
Japan 24, Spain 31, Russia 34, France 20, China 30 (up 1), Germany 91.
1570AD:
The usual crazy antics of the AI. They sign an embargo and then DOW the one that they signed the embargo with.
Spain DOW China and Japan has to honor its MPP. Japan is not going to be able to help. I am not sure who will hurt whom with Joan and Mao.
China is huge next to them in land on the continent. The two island they share, could go either way. Often they do nothing on those islands. France does have a lone town among China's towns, but they may not even take that down. They all have Nat, so it may turn out to be a lot of nothing.
China is down to the others so I trade them Ind for some techs and their world map. Now I can see all the world.
I now see Spain and Russia are nearly the same in land and larger than China. France has the least amount of land. I see three tiny islands filled. The island that is next to us is still empty.
Guerilla makes a leader, so 2 empty armies now.
1575AD:
I knew there were on 5 other nation on this big map and I knew I should go with Monarchy, but I figured that I would play more peaceful as a more common style. So I have to pay the price for that now.
A bunch of towns are set to riot, because of the WW. I do what I must and raze one last city and sink and kill any of Spain's units and make peace with Japan. They gave up two junk towns on one of the island, so I abandoned them. I do not make peace with France or Spain.
They did the declaring, so not an issue. I can kill any units they land and not trigger any MPP, if it one is still in effect. I may sink a ship to trigger Japan to DOW in a bit, will see.
I have three settlers coming out, so I used all my armies to block any attempt to go into the neutral zone. I want to fill that land next turn.
Smith's will be done next turn, so I can make a bank here or there at no cost. Flight is two turns.
1580AD:
95 towns and Japan is at 21. The rest unchanged.
1585AD:
Flight yields another SGL. Will hold it for Seti. Don't need any more MGL's right now anyway. Start Mass in 4 turns as I went around to the size 6 towns and set up some beaker heads.
1590AD:
France shows up with a galleon and I sink it with one of those fancy destroyers. All the boats like to land near Hamburg. I have switched it to bombers. Till I finish the new border tiles, I will refrain form sinking any at
sea, only in my waters. I think France has an MPP with Japan, not sure. I know Spain did. Too lazy to check.
1595AD:
The last French ship I sunk prior to landing. This I sunk after the landing of 2 spears and 2 longbow.
1600AD:
start Motor in 4 turn.
1610AD:
Russia lands 2 MDI, but I can only ask then to leave.
1615AD:
Ok, I was able to force them to DOW, yahoo.
1620AD:
Happiness breaks out thanks to the DOW. Tanks next turns.
1625AD:
Bad news, good news Fission for my free tech, rather than Computers. Start Comps. Army finished. I start the UN and another army as a pre for Internet.
I am not going to allow a vote as that is not a way I care to win. If I did I would have been cultivating at least two friends.
Start tanks. Been bombing one of Isabella's islands, just for spite. I just recalled I have Panzer units.
Everyone is down 12 techs right now. They are so weak, I was hoping they would get Espionage for me to steal. I have lots of cash.
1655AD:
China lands 2 horses and I tell them to withdraw. They cannot reach the target and the towns they can reach are safe. One has infantry and the other has Panzers. Comps next turn.
1660AD:
Start Mini, upgrade infantry to MI for 660.
Mao is contacted and he Declares.
Rush Seti in my 4th best city. Its base is not that much different.
1685AD:
I must be past my 20 turns of peace now, so I will attack Japan. This means I will be at war with all. Von, note that this game could have been won soon after 1625AD, if you wanted to do it. I had an SGL and could have rush the UN.
I could have made or kept good terms with several of the nations and won the vote. You would have wanted to make some gifts around 1600AD and just work on making some votes. I am never in a rush to win, so I ignored the vote.
I also did not want to just blast everyone, that is one of the reason I choose Republic, rather than Monarchy.
I am wanting to use these Panzer as I seldom see them, so off I go. Panzers are the reason I have not gone for Fibers as that would mean Panzer are obsolete. I have filled the 9th with Panzers and will fill the 10th now.
I still have the 11th empty. I may fill it with Mechs, just to have the army to use. Plus that army will be fine if you want to invade. If I decide to play out and invade I will start making peace soon. I have rebuffed all calls for a truce so far.