Plains-Cow
Best Resource; Always Wins
Endgame:
So I got up during an end-turn to use the bathroom, and I come back to find Kiev surrounded by fallout. I can scrub it soon, but, uh, what? I checked the event log, and I can't tell what happened. It's the only nuke-like event that happened in the game. Nobody else dropped any bombs, and I didn't build any reactors. Maybe Peter had one there I didn't notice and it melted down? Some Chernobyl event that happens in the Modern Era? lol
I decide it's time to take out the rest of the bit-players at the same time as I sweep south through China. The Khmer are toast, and they go down quickly, surely making Justinian supremely pleased.
A barb city spawns in Siberia, perhaps the remnants of Mongolia? Paid bandits? Dissident reindeer herders? You decide!
Well, that's the end of that.
I decide to just blitz through the Khmer with my tanks, which perform great. Suryavarman's down in less than 5 turns. There are about 10 fortified defenders here on this hill with city garrison perks. This is a good chance to show just what tanks can do against these kinds of units in entrenched situations.
Aftermath. Despite not the best odds at first, the tanks with City Raider just maul the defenders, even with full cultural defenses intact.
China surrenders to the might of France, securing all of the green tea that we could ever hope to drink for an eternity, which was the real war aim of Louis XIV. Funny under-bite face for comedic surrender effect; it's sure to play well in the papers back home in Paris.
The Viking raiders are finally brought to heel, no longer able to hide behind the Great Wall of their Chinese masters.
The Khmer capitulate the same turn as well, netting me three new vassals at the same time. I've kicked everyone off the mainland, though, so all they hold are nonsense island cities and a few holdings in Australia.
Domination win! The French celebrate from the Pacific to the Atlantic, having overcome many struggles to create the France Louis XIV dreamed of. Will it hold together? Only time will tell, but as long as the Sun King lives, the golden globe will never set on the French Empire!
Spoiler Update #4 pictures and text continued; endgame :
So I got up during an end-turn to use the bathroom, and I come back to find Kiev surrounded by fallout. I can scrub it soon, but, uh, what? I checked the event log, and I can't tell what happened. It's the only nuke-like event that happened in the game. Nobody else dropped any bombs, and I didn't build any reactors. Maybe Peter had one there I didn't notice and it melted down? Some Chernobyl event that happens in the Modern Era? lol
I decide it's time to take out the rest of the bit-players at the same time as I sweep south through China. The Khmer are toast, and they go down quickly, surely making Justinian supremely pleased.
A barb city spawns in Siberia, perhaps the remnants of Mongolia? Paid bandits? Dissident reindeer herders? You decide!
Well, that's the end of that.
I decide to just blitz through the Khmer with my tanks, which perform great. Suryavarman's down in less than 5 turns. There are about 10 fortified defenders here on this hill with city garrison perks. This is a good chance to show just what tanks can do against these kinds of units in entrenched situations.
Aftermath. Despite not the best odds at first, the tanks with City Raider just maul the defenders, even with full cultural defenses intact.
China surrenders to the might of France, securing all of the green tea that we could ever hope to drink for an eternity, which was the real war aim of Louis XIV. Funny under-bite face for comedic surrender effect; it's sure to play well in the papers back home in Paris.
The Viking raiders are finally brought to heel, no longer able to hide behind the Great Wall of their Chinese masters.
The Khmer capitulate the same turn as well, netting me three new vassals at the same time. I've kicked everyone off the mainland, though, so all they hold are nonsense island cities and a few holdings in Australia.
Domination win! The French celebrate from the Pacific to the Atlantic, having overcome many struggles to create the France Louis XIV dreamed of. Will it hold together? Only time will tell, but as long as the Sun King lives, the golden globe will never set on the French Empire!