How can I cripple the Americans?

[lz14]

I'm playing the world map with everyone in their historic position. Difficulty is between emperor and deity. It's nearly modern age now, and with 16 civs on the map, the tech is just flying.
Anyway the Iroquois and Aztecs only have a couple of cities left, so the Americans dominants the whole America, being the most powerful. I'm China. So America just have this big geographic advantage, it takes me or anybody else ages to get them. So even I drag other civs in the war, it won't do much. And due to the trade bonus and US's power, it's more likely they drag civs to war against me.
I don't really have the resource to have cities in America, so my aim is just cripple the Americans so keep myself in the tech lead. can anyone suggest how do I do it? Or just more generally, how do you cripple a powerful civ in a far away continent. Many thanks in advance.

 

[wilbill]

Sell them techs for as much GPT as they can come up with. It may not weaken them, but it'll keep them broke.

 

[widdowmaker]

TRade Embargos. GEt them with everyone against america. They may hate you and possibly delare war but then ge mas with everyone aginst ameriica!then load up all your military on galleys and send them across the pacific. I woudl try otr lan where sandeigo and washington (the state are and work your way acroos the continent.

 

[[GoD]Toxic]

I agree on both the GPT and trade embargos, they both work good for me.

If they go to war with anyone support them and if they dosn't have many nukes (and dont have strategic defense) then nuke em

 

[Angmar]

If it comes down to war ensure that you take away their key resources in the first turn or two. Oil and rubber are two key things to remove from a modern army. Iron is key for a pre-modern army.

 

[Ceaser Chris]

I agree with Angmar take away their main resorses and then strike at alaska,LA,newfoundl,D.C.,and flordia and they WILL FALL!Oh yea before that u should line the coast with battleships and destroy the coast.

 

[Moulton]

Send your battleships to the Panama location, and cut the road. so they can't get the rubber and aluminum from SouthAmerica
Trade embargoes so they cannot inport it.
Check the Carribean islands and blockade those ports, so they get no luxuries. Even invade and destroy the port., or bombard it to destroy it.

 

[Moulton]

China is a long ways... put a colony and airport on Hawaii, and ship from there until you can establish a beachhead..

 

[Alvin]

go to Link Deleted and get a cheat and rush all of the nukes you can and unless you're fury. HAHAHA.

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[Generalissimo]

If you just want to criple them for awhile, I suggest sending many many explorers into different part of their lands. Have them split up and pillage every square around their main cities. Also try to get recourses desconnected. I have used this tactic with about 30 explorers against a far away civ that I didn't want to conqure and it worked ok. The trick is to destroy the roads so they can't send in troops to destroy your explorers.

 

[Hygro]

taking hawaii and panama would be a good idea. Nuclear weapons can't hurt (MUAHAHA!), and if you take away the rubber, everything's gravey. oil makes planes, ships, tanks. Rubber makes tanks, and infantry. Both matter, but rubber more so IMNSHO.

 

[Naval Power]

You said you have naval superiority so use it to your advantage. Build up a large attacking force and send one invasion force to the Pacific and one invasion force to the Atlantic. Keep Mech Infantry on the beaches waiting for a counter attack. Before they get close to the MI use your battle ships to pound the beep out of them. Then send in the MA.

 

[NewDestroyer]

ok, sign a mutual protection pact with everyone except america, keep demanding tributes, once america gets furious keep putting spies in america's land. If u sucede with placing one keep doing espionage missions till u get cought. The goal is the have america to declare war on u and atatck u, then everyone in the world is at war w/ america. This really screws america badly lol.

 

[pheezer]

Originally posted by NewDestroyer
ok, sign a mutual protection pact with everyone except america, keep demanding tributes, once america gets furious keep putting spies in america's land. If u sucede with placing one keep doing espionage missions till u get cought. The goal is the have america to declare war on u and atatck u, then everyone in the world is at war w/ america. This really screws america badly lol.

An easier way is to put a worker inside their territory, next to a city. They'll count it as a unit, and start making demands. Don't remove it. Just go to war, and don't do anything. Their first move will be to seize the worker. This makes them the agressor and makes every other nation in the world shift their opinions that way. If you have MPP's, they'll help you.