Preflight check: There are too many cities to even begin optimizing. Change some cav builds to tank prebuilds. Change about 5 builds to settlers. Airlift 6 bombers to Dutch border. I think Ill try to take the Dutch and the Zulu during my 10.
Weird, it seems some towns do not have any culture building even though there are temples in the cities.
IBT: Hittites have destroyed the Inca; a lot of WLTKDs end and I get some very unexpected riots due to loss of war happiness. Whats really annoying is that some cities have no business rioting since they have the same # of happy and unhappy people.
T1: 1605AD Trade with Sumeria: Wines for Gems, Dyes, Coal, Incense, fur, Ivory. Move all our bombers to the border of the Dutch. Place a spy in Amsterdam and see that they are weaker than the Zulu, who are extremely weak.
IBT: Motorized Transport -> Radio at a leisurely 60% for +306gpt, 12T; Lots of celebrations. Seems like they liked the wine
T2: 1610AD Sumeria can't offer much for Flight nor MT so I decide to stop messing around and declare on the Dutch. Take Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague, Maastricht, Haarlem and Middleburg losing 5 cavalry in the process and gaining 1 MGL. They are now down to 1 city on the Hittite island. We are at 67% of the population but only 50% of the land. Still have a lot of units left on the island so I shore-up the border with Korea.
T3: 1615AD Get ready for Zulu war. Make a tank army. Move bombers within range of Zulu island. Send cav army out to get last Dutch city.
IBT: Zulu and Hittites sign peace
T4: 1620AD Declare War on Zulu, land troops, kill all muskets and rifles within range of the bombers. Land army and 1 infantry next to last Dutch town.
T5: 1625AD Zulu war: Capture Bapedi, Isandhlwana, Intombe, and Zimbabwe.
Dutch war: Maudes Mauraders uses 3 attacks on the last Dutch town to capture it, destroying the Dutch.
The rest of the turns will be done tomorrow as I'm 1/2 thru turn 6.
1 thing that stinks about fascism is pop rushing. we have all the gold we'll ever need but can't use it to rush a stinkin' temple. i don't think i'll ever use this gov't on my own.