If AI gets space flight before you in space game

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Originally Posted by AutomatedTeller

The Ottoman's probably didn't start building because they dont have aluminum.

Or cause the AI isn't very smart.

100 shields shouldn't be that hard once you have metros or can get a nuke plant.

Probably because the AI is not too smart.

Originally Posted by ilovesimgolf

Axehaxe,

Did the French or the Vikings nuke you?

It would be interesting if the French did, because you are clearly more powerful (land and )

Thanks (nice game )

--ilovesimgolf

Thanx, I'm glad you find it interesting

Both did but the French shot the very first nuke at one of my size 1 cities. Later on the Vikings nuked a size 12 city so I had to sell all of the improvements and disband the city to keep that city from lowering my score. LOTS of icbms were used by the Aztecs on the Vikings following that so I didn't have to use as many of mine.

 

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So the vikings pretty much had all of their cities been nuked at least once:

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To encourage the Egyptians (yellow right above vikings) to POWN the Vikings, I gifted oil and rubber to them so they could build enough tanks to dispatch the weakened mech infantry in each of the cities. The Egyptians had been getting their @$$ whopped by the Vikings earlier and were desperate to make a comeback.

Meanwhile, the Aztecs suddenly signed a mutual protection pact with Egypt and Japan and to avoid war with them, I was forced to do the same.

 

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Things went smoothly with this deal in place, the Ottomans not wanting to take part though made me a little nervous. Then about 12 turns into the deal, the Ottomans declared on Aztecs!!!!!!

 

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Knowing that the next turn, I'd be in trouble, I tricked the Ottomans by making them pay like 1000+ lump sum for oil and then 'expose enemy spy' WORKED the first time (they had a spy in my capital I had no clue about)!!! Then I triggered war by 'sabotage production' on immediately and failed. To make alliances cheap I didn't sign any because I knew they were going to nuke me with the single ICBM they had in their inventory at the time. And sure enough they did:

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And everyone declared war immediately on the Ottomans.

 

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I had 25 icbms in my inventory and I swept their cities into a sea of orange goo. I landed my armies and modern armors into their continent. This picture shows several things happening:

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Meanwhile, nobody was researching anything and I got tempted to self research the last tech but then again....nah.

The war with the Ottomans proceeds:

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And I continue to wait out research, the end of the MPP with the Aztecs, and the defeat of the Vikings.

 

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And sure enough, about 4 turns left of the stupid MPP, the Aztecs sign peace with the Vikings and I do the same:

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The Egyptians continue to shove them off their own continent as you can see.

 

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There was A LOT of pollution in my own land and I had to micromanage a lot creating worker factories in like 5 cities. Also, I knew something BIG was about to happen for some reason and in preparation, though I may be wrong, I increased the production of my cities by putting in more policemen. 3 turns before MPP w/ Aztecs end, I unfortunately was right:

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Not willing to take any chances, I proceeded to trick the Japanese:

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And plant spy - steal genetics (they JUST got it that turn) success - steal world map success - expose enemy spy FAIL:

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Just to clarify that this would probably not be as bad as it looks:

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I proceeded to nuke their cities - 17 nukes first turn. When the turn ended I was quite surprised by the kind of cities they decided to hit me back with their nukes:

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And even more shockingly, turn after turn they would occasionally hit some good cities but 9/10 times they aimed for THAT same city!!!

 

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Then it wasn't very long before Japan turned into a sea of orange goo as I disbanded all my artillery (which I don't really need anymore) to hurry icbms and use them each turn. Also the Ottomans had enough when they signed peace with the Aztecs:

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Although, they did manage to build some last minute icbms and hit a couple of my good cities, most of the time I captured their cities (another AI stupidity) which had the icbms and were very weakly defended.

 

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Who gets robotics first....Who gets robotics first....Who gets robotics first...and like 13 turns before I get it, very surprisingly:

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They wouldn't trade it so I resorted to try stealing:

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Thought Japan would be a threat till the end but as the picture shows:

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Finally, with robotics, I set one of my icbm prebuilds with 20 shields overrun to finish the LAST PART in 1 TURN!!! Japan's spaceship with 9 parts done was NOT going to finish thanx to all my nuclear shiphopping, icbming, and general hellraising. So, I made every unit skip their turn because the outcome was obvious. Turn ends and thankfully able to leave the nuclear wastelands:

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A game I thought was going nowhere finally done!! Finally I won!

 

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If you won a space race before then open the spoiler. If not then don't.

Spoiler :

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