So, I'm playing on immortal, as Korea, on a Pangea map, epic pace, turn 443 (1853), researching Satellites and building the Manhattan Project while I have the Apollo Program a little on the back burner. I just got done with two economically and scientifically devastating wars of big scale. I've only played one game on Emperor before this, and all my prior games have mostly been Prince with a few Kings, but those were getting really boring. This is is on such a different level, it's really exciting, but I feel like I'm on the ropes right now. I'm middle of the pack in all the demographics except for literacy, number one at 73% compared to the average of 66% for the AI.
Right now I've only got 768 beakers, 85 culture per turn, and 19 faith per turn, with 3 happiness. I have 190 gold and I'm making 26 gpt. My capital is at 23 pop, growth is a bit crap at the moment. My second (and only other city which I actually founded) is at pop 17, groth is also kind of subpar. I'm feeding my capital with two of my trade routes. As for my military, I've got some infantry units that are kind of meh in terms of promotions, although I've got a couple with cover 2 and medic. My air force is non existent, and my navy consists of one ironclad that I upgraded from my last turtle ship. However, my artillery is pretty good, some H'whachas that have upgraded to artillery throughout the ages, and I've just gotten to +1 range on one of them, might be close to logistics with that one soon.
As far as the other cities I control, I've got Memphis (pop 11, but has a nice manufactury courtesy of Egypt), which was my first conquest, and probably the only sound decision i made in this game. I also took Thebes after I saw that it would soon fall to the Celt's and English siege, so I decided to take it for myself... it was Egypt's last city, so guess what happened two turns later? Double dow from Kamehameha and Theodora, who both backstabbed me, folllowed very shortly by my nearest neighbor to the North, Cathy (who also backstabbed me, but honestly I expected it so I always kept my units stationed close to her border, especially after our first war circa turn 100, which may have been my worst mistake of the game by not conquering her outright then and there). I really wish that Montezuma could have made it longer, because he could have been a good impediment to Russia.
Anyway, I had adopted Freedom (Russia took Order, of course), because I mistimed entering the modern era - Elizabeth went Autocracy and crushed my happiness, so I had to rush the Statue of Liberty and barely managed to get Volunteer Army in the knick of time before flipping to Autocracy myself (preventatively), which secured England as my greatest ally of this game. God knows if she decided she didn't like me she'd wipe me out, but I managed to get her to DOW Russia which really helped me. I don't think they've signed peace since they started fighting, although she didn't take any of Russia's cities bar one city state that Russia puppetted earlier in the game. I got triple DOWed again soon after the peace treaties from the first war expired (but not before Cathy used her Brandenburg general to steal Ivory and wheat from me, which I responded to in kind by burning one of my great generals on a second citadel to reclaim). The second war was much more fierce and really destroyed me economically. However, I managed to use my Artillery (which I upgraded from my Hwachas with loans floated by England in exchange for aluminum and one of my single copy luxes) to repel the invaders, and used my turtle ship -> ironclad to repel the Polynesian and Byzantine fleets . I then turned the tide of the war after I saw she had a great war bomber, and captured moscow, losing some of my volunteer army (RIP, my lifesaving godsend from Freedom). It flipped back to her once, and then back to me. She capitulated when I advanced on another one of her cities with my artillery, and gave me St. Petersburg (which amazingly popped a great eng a few turns after). I soon got peace from Polynesia after I retook Thebes, which had been lost early during that second war, and then after I started slaughtering Byzantium's troops in earnest I got white peace from her as well.
So now I'm in a precarious situation - my spy shows that Catherine is building a battle ship in her new capital, she stole radio and is using two spies against me (if not more?) to steal techs, and Theodora is actually really strong - her capital has 32 citizens and 119 combat stregth!
So, what do I do? I'm researching Satellites, and building the Manhattan project (Thebes was on top of 4 uranium), I don't have any oil because I haven't researched Biology yet! I'm rebuilding my cargo ships, which I'm sure I'll probably promptly lose again but I need any source of income right now. I only have two tenets in Autocracy, and I don't think I could take England before I'd get obliterated by everyone. I think if I took all but one of Theodora's cities, and did the same to Catherine and Kamehameha, England would probably decided to wipe me off the map (although at that point I might be able to take her, but I kind of doubt it). Plus the happiness penalties would annihilate me. I feel like my chances of winning this are kind of slim, but I don't want to give up. Any advice?
Here's a link to an image that gives a rough outlay of what's going on in my game:
https://i.imgur.com/Mu39BiX.jpg
Right now I've only got 768 beakers, 85 culture per turn, and 19 faith per turn, with 3 happiness. I have 190 gold and I'm making 26 gpt. My capital is at 23 pop, growth is a bit crap at the moment. My second (and only other city which I actually founded) is at pop 17, groth is also kind of subpar. I'm feeding my capital with two of my trade routes. As for my military, I've got some infantry units that are kind of meh in terms of promotions, although I've got a couple with cover 2 and medic. My air force is non existent, and my navy consists of one ironclad that I upgraded from my last turtle ship. However, my artillery is pretty good, some H'whachas that have upgraded to artillery throughout the ages, and I've just gotten to +1 range on one of them, might be close to logistics with that one soon.
As far as the other cities I control, I've got Memphis (pop 11, but has a nice manufactury courtesy of Egypt), which was my first conquest, and probably the only sound decision i made in this game. I also took Thebes after I saw that it would soon fall to the Celt's and English siege, so I decided to take it for myself... it was Egypt's last city, so guess what happened two turns later? Double dow from Kamehameha and Theodora, who both backstabbed me, folllowed very shortly by my nearest neighbor to the North, Cathy (who also backstabbed me, but honestly I expected it so I always kept my units stationed close to her border, especially after our first war circa turn 100, which may have been my worst mistake of the game by not conquering her outright then and there). I really wish that Montezuma could have made it longer, because he could have been a good impediment to Russia.
Anyway, I had adopted Freedom (Russia took Order, of course), because I mistimed entering the modern era - Elizabeth went Autocracy and crushed my happiness, so I had to rush the Statue of Liberty and barely managed to get Volunteer Army in the knick of time before flipping to Autocracy myself (preventatively), which secured England as my greatest ally of this game. God knows if she decided she didn't like me she'd wipe me out, but I managed to get her to DOW Russia which really helped me. I don't think they've signed peace since they started fighting, although she didn't take any of Russia's cities bar one city state that Russia puppetted earlier in the game. I got triple DOWed again soon after the peace treaties from the first war expired (but not before Cathy used her Brandenburg general to steal Ivory and wheat from me, which I responded to in kind by burning one of my great generals on a second citadel to reclaim). The second war was much more fierce and really destroyed me economically. However, I managed to use my Artillery (which I upgraded from my Hwachas with loans floated by England in exchange for aluminum and one of my single copy luxes) to repel the invaders, and used my turtle ship -> ironclad to repel the Polynesian and Byzantine fleets . I then turned the tide of the war after I saw she had a great war bomber, and captured moscow, losing some of my volunteer army (RIP, my lifesaving godsend from Freedom). It flipped back to her once, and then back to me. She capitulated when I advanced on another one of her cities with my artillery, and gave me St. Petersburg (which amazingly popped a great eng a few turns after). I soon got peace from Polynesia after I retook Thebes, which had been lost early during that second war, and then after I started slaughtering Byzantium's troops in earnest I got white peace from her as well.
So now I'm in a precarious situation - my spy shows that Catherine is building a battle ship in her new capital, she stole radio and is using two spies against me (if not more?) to steal techs, and Theodora is actually really strong - her capital has 32 citizens and 119 combat stregth!
So, what do I do? I'm researching Satellites, and building the Manhattan project (Thebes was on top of 4 uranium), I don't have any oil because I haven't researched Biology yet! I'm rebuilding my cargo ships, which I'm sure I'll probably promptly lose again but I need any source of income right now. I only have two tenets in Autocracy, and I don't think I could take England before I'd get obliterated by everyone. I think if I took all but one of Theodora's cities, and did the same to Catherine and Kamehameha, England would probably decided to wipe me off the map (although at that point I might be able to take her, but I kind of doubt it). Plus the happiness penalties would annihilate me. I feel like my chances of winning this are kind of slim, but I don't want to give up. Any advice?
Here's a link to an image that gives a rough outlay of what's going on in my game:
https://i.imgur.com/Mu39BiX.jpg
