JB01
Pre-turn:
Hold It! Do I have the correct save file? Last time I played in this game there was a Blue Guy and a Red Guy, and they were both wearing hats! Where'd they go?
New Beijing needs a defender. Switch Tatung and Antioch to Settlers. Rush Temple in Namp'o. A couple of workers doing really strange things. Switch Pisae to library and rush. Rush Settler from Uruk. Will divert troops to attack Chicago before Washington. Want to get D.C. last, so we can better chance to keep it.
Ah, screw it. The game won't last 5 turns beyond when we capture D.C., so it'll burn. Checking the numbers with MapStat, we may not even have to kill the U.S. to achieve domination.
IT - Retreat 3 Cavs with a reg. Infantry, lose to Vet Infantry. (Fieldwork)
1255 AD (1)
Found New Xinjian. Abandon Philadelphia (not gonna capture it twice), found New Chengdu in its place. Rush Temple in New Tsingtao. Fairly unispiring bombardment round.
IT - Lose two workers to American Cavs, two Cavs die attacking Namp'o.
1260 AD (2)
Swap cavs outside of New Nanking. I'm not sure what Mrs. O'Leary's cow had to do with it, but Chicago burns at a loss of 2 cavs + 1 infantry. (Last defender ate his Wheaties) Hurry Temple and Library somewhere. I'm corraling workers for a final worker-merge if we hit the territory limit before the population limit. [74 tiles and 34 population to go: Population limit drops as we scorch the earth]
IT - Lose another couple of workers, U.S. cavalry dies on an attack. [We've got ~100 workers, and nothing useful for them to do. I'd normally be more careful than this, but it simply doesn't matter now.]
1265 AD (3)
Have a truly bare-ass minimum bombardment against D.C. But it's good enough for government work. Assault Washington, lose 1 unit, and generate a leader. Shades of 1812 as D.C. smolders.
Ugh, should have kept it. The borders closed on me and I can't refound this turn. About 1/2 the U.S military was in D.C.
1270 AD (4)
Kill a U.S. cavalry, shuffle troops.
1275 AD (5)
Kill two trespassing U.S. cavs Begin seige of Atlanta. Pretty good artillery round, I'm going in. 1st Cav Army kills two Infantry. 2nd Cav Army kills Infantry and Rifle.
Deja vu, Atlanta is in flames. (Tara!)
New Tatang founded on the spot, Library worker-rushed. 30 tiles and 25 pop to go for domination.
IT - A few cities riot, as WW goes a bit higher. Clowns given employment. Have a few border expansions.
1280 AD (6)
Chinese Repatriation Day, as all native chinese workers are melded back into cities. It is also Persian Repatriation day, as all available Persian workers are granted their freedom to re-join formerly Persian cities. [No point prolonging the inevitable, I think we went over the territory limit on the IT]
Just to be spiteful, begin barrage of Boston. Not entirely spectacular, but I'll run with it.
The way I figure, the less cavs survive, the more
for me.
And after a cavalry charge that generated enough horsemeat to open a new McDonalds (
), we ironically enough turn Boston into a big hole in the ground.
[Boy am I glad we're attacking the Americans last, I don't have any material about the Iroquois.
]
We then fill that hole with New Macao. Worker rush a library, in case it matters. Decide not to chance it, and grant Babylonian Emancipation.
IT - A couple of border expansions and ... nothing.
1285 AD (7)
Someone's got to die this turn.
I can reach Hastings, so declare war on England.
Sign Iroquois to an MA against U.S. No good reason, just felt like it. We haven't been at war with them yet, and just wanted to give them a last taste of blood ... :vampire:
Capture Hastings with no losses. Press Return ...
IT - Maybe signing that MA wasn't a good idea. That was a long interturn.
1290 AD (8)
Stuff completes, the game concedes to us. A most satisfying victory. Final score: 6624. My highest Deity score ever.
Save game, only have to hit return and accept build orders to get entry into your HoF. I believe we built zero useful libraries, and may not have self-researched anything after the first row of the Ancient Age. We also went to the bother of capturing the Sistine Chapel and didn't build any cathedrals.
The End Game
what is it with all the hyphens?) 
to Greebley for pummeling those weaker than us in masterful fasion.
We seemed to have a good mix of different playing styles which allowed us to play a strong game. 
![[party]](/images/smilies/partytime.gif "Party [party]")
-ingest game I've ever played. I'm pretty much a builder, and while I've learned how to hurry a war when I need to, I don't think I've ever been at war this much before. Seriously, consider the stages of our game:
