Major Advantage
Prince
This surely is an interesting exploit of zero-turn-revolution. I just keep asking myself if this really is efficient. In this game, I chose to stay in demo all the way, keep on trading, and delay attacks if the denate interferes. This is how my conquest went on:
1300 Mach.Tools->Mini; bribe Newcastle for 53g (101), England down to their southern colony Warwick; 1516 for demanded gold Wsedfu>Spain
1310 Mini->Computer; preparing attacks on Moskau and Madrid; 430
1320 Comp.->Mob warf.; 1652 for silk > Cedar Creek; Cedar Creek subverted 2*566; deliv. 528; senate denies attack
1330 Mob. Warf.->Robotics; senate interferes again, rush battleship to hit Madrid
1340 Rob.->Laser(2660); attack Moskau, senate agrees, capture Moskau 189+chivalry, bribe St. Petersburg 476g, get ??? + Sun Tzu, bribe Kiev 439 (132+Darwin), 1773g for silk>Madrid, attack & capture Madrid (178g+GL+KRC), bribe Sevilla 513 (87), bribe Cordoba 794(131)
(Spain wants peace, senate allows to continue war)
1350 Laser->Genetic; bribe Minsk 406(228), bribe Valladolid 734(162+Eiffel Tower), senate enforces peace with Spain, 780, 1798
1360 Genetic->Guerilla; Cure built; subvert Cadiz 2*165(76); 552, 432, 616
1370 Guerilla->Flight; subvert Smolensk 2*237(111), Odessa 2*174(77), Sardis 2*350(70); 288, 408
1380 200g from hut, subvert Hladir 2*852(80+120) deliv 492, 105
(Spain switches to Democracy)
1390 Subvert Samaria 2*460(90), 1380
1400 Flight->Radio, bribe Warwick 183(232), subvert Sevastopol 2*134(218), Russia defeated, deliv. 832, 304, 354
1410 Attack Spain, take Bilbao 80, Salamanca 109, subvert Sidon 2*563(114), silk(d) 1254
1420 Radio->Labor U.; Bribe Oxford 50g(77), England defeated, subvert Tyre 2*525(109), deliv. 336, take Saragossa 147, Toledo 113, Barcelona 87, Valencia 55, Spain assimilated
1440 Labor->Adv. flight; Uranium produced
1450 Try to atttack Vikings, senate interferes
1460 Adv. fl.->Comb.; Uranium cashed in for 1440, take Trondheim (105+Pyramids), bribe Kaupang 568 (122)
1470 Comb.->Rockets
1480 Rockets->Amph. war; Adam Smith; bribe Uppsala 434(126), Aarhus 242, subvert Gordium 2*615(129)
1490 Amph.->Space; Hoover Dam, bribe Viborg 38(38), Vikings assimilated; attack Persia, take Persepolis (176+LH), bribe Pasargadae 582(171), Antioch 592(114), Arbela 713(128), Susa 660(108)
1500 Bribe Tarsus 219g(284), Bactra 335(106). Hamadan 62(11), Persia finished
1505 Space->Environmental stuff, WS built; 2nd Uranium freight produced
1510 Uranium for 1787
1515 Env.->plastics; Apollo, begin settling engineers
1520 plast.->Fundy; SoL, Manhattan; rush GW and SETI, try to attack Little BH, senate denies
1525 GW, SETI built, demand Sioux retreat, they declare war, capture LBH, bribe WK, settle last engineers except for one, and it is over!
