Here the pictures so u know i'm not talking out of hot air.
My heartland in first picture. cologne and dortmund is recent settlements and you see london? I can't even raze it even If i wanted to D= Its one friggin tile away from the river. And Belgrade, it used to be my ally no more cuz I keep onlosing gold through mysterious means I don't know how. Same with Happiness problems how the heck I see one thread iwth +63 HAPPINESS I gain like 12 happiness in one turn from buildings, and it alld isappears. I'm at 1 happiness atm.
And now, in second screenshot, you see Genoa I think he declared permanent war on Arabian or someone else I'm not too sure, happened during renaissance, aka, hours ago. I think he's egyptian's friend atm.
And you see, Munich? I originally only settled it there just for two iron nodes giving me 12 alone from Munich. And later on, i found out it settled on a oil node plus one out of town. for a total of four oil nodes. Two tiles away of it is natural wonder, a huge crater thingie plus a citadel which I saced a great general for it, I sure didn't like it but man, it made arabia stop attacking there after I entered renaissance.
It sure worked great to my advance, shock promos plus arabia was split up in two attacking column at munich. Arabia used to spam raiders down there he did at one point with so many artillery but they all died while he still used riflemen and while i still used longswordmen.
East of the Munich is the now dead ottoman empire, he didn't last very long against arabia friggin AI don't know how to fight jack, he died so quick. Was an 3v1 situation germany, ottoman, siam vs arabia.
And now for the third picture,
Town of Essen is my newest town Settled in like 2030 something.
And you see Monaco? It used to be allied to me then to arabia And just tiny northwest of it used to be a arabian city, which I razed to the ground to avoid the unhappiness.
And you see Stockholm? It ignited the war for me/siam/ottomans, arabia took stocklhom and we declared on him. IT literally took me centuries just to retake stockholm I couldn't at all, it was only when I finally got tech to build panzers and then build three of them and had it be suppoted by two destroyers patrolling frankfurt that it fell. I saw arabia rushbuy a rocket artillery in it but it was too late for it fell on 2nd turn of siege and stockholm returned from death and declared on arabia.
I did a attempt earlier composed of Longswordmen and musketman and Knight, got beaten back by rifleman defenses/artillery.
And now for Frankfurt, there was a arabian city located between two mountain ranges east of frankfurt you see, the city ruins is still there even in modern era lol.
I razed it, way back in medieval era. I attempted to save siam which was northeast of Frankfurt. But man there was so many troops It took me time to move slowly across the river and the hills you see there. I actually made it to one tile just before the siam city before i started to retreat cuz tons of troops was taking excessive damage In fact, only reason i survived was cuz i was using longswordmen supported by knights and honor talent and great general backing em up with a lone cannon shooting em. at that point, frankfurt didn't even exist although when I saw that my troops needed to heal, i started to build a settler in berlin. I've been using frankfurt as a heal point for badly damaged troop unit and rotate em.
I managed to have a couple of frigates built and moved em out to help frankfurt out And I survived for awhile there, longswordmen stuck it out until I upgraded em to rifleman and there arabia did a pretty big push which amanged to take lone cannon out which I suspect angried him quite alot. Almost lost frankfurt there, but managed to have new riflemen finishing and running up there at same time as units was dying. I was taking down attack helicopters with knights and cavalry man.
And after a little while he stopped sending riflemen and started to send infantry thankgoodness by then I had riflemen. he was furstatied by other cannon i have managed to send in meanwhile. And so he fortified three infantry units just out of my cannon's range on hill.
Dunno, can't remember exactly when i brought out artillery but keep in the mind that There was no pause in fightings at all only really brief interludes. Two artillery batteries made it in time at just right time and started to bombardment the arabia really hard, in faact, it took a huge toll on him and I think my artilleries used to be cannons yeah, that was it. I was really on defensive had to only shoot them as they apporached frankfurt really close cuz cannon had bad range.
By then after shooting em up for awhile, they became god cannons and man, don't get me started on my frigates, my frigates could bombardment past the mountain ranges if they park in the city XD
Arabia was going berserk he was even sending workers as meatshield to take the hits for his soldiers. For some reason, workers have some kind of special immunity to artillery I always hit them for 4 damage, nothing more nothing less, forcing me to use three shots to remove a worker and put them into the grave completely.
Now, Don't think he neglected that small inland sea either, he did attempt to flank and destroy me completely by retaking monaco but he failed numberous times. That took place while I had longswordmen and riflemen. While he used musketman/rifleman/artillery combo.
Well as you can see, I have four panzers now, one rush bought to assault stockholm quickly.
But man, if your cannons artillery and frigates live long enough and gained tons of levels, they'll get logistics promo which will let them to shoot twice xD less op than blitz one which let u attack as long as you still have movement points left D=
Yes I had frigates shooting down attack helicopters and blowing up modern infantry/armor. They recently upgraded to destroyers
I recently acquired flight tech, bombers will raise hell. failing that, battleships instead.
Only reason I haven't moved ahead to assault siam lands yet is cuz I have too few panzers and need to build even more and that arabia been slowing down lately with occasional big attacks on frankfurt, he might try to assault me from the west next, that's where my berlin is located! If that is true, that's what panzers is for, to panzer down on the panzy guy like arabia attackign me from the west.
But man, fix 2050 year bug, I cant even play past turn 2050 anymore!
