Off northwest Africa we bombard three Australian destroyers with artillery and sink them with destroyer attacks (67-0). Then it turns out that we have some uncommitted bombers, so we sink another two destroyers and two transports, sending five inf and a marine to the bottom in the transports (77-0).
We storm and auto-raze Toulouse, an Australian city in northern Italy garrisoned by two riflemen (79-0).
We spend most of our nest egg rushing transports, which Im confident is the right use of the gold.
We ship a fair number of inf back to the cities on our home islands. This is tedious, but the Australians have marines so we have to be somewhat careful.
We found fourteen cities, for various reasons: to replace razed towns, to fill in areas unlikely to be covered by expansions before we win, and to give us convenient spots for rushing naval units.
I do a lot of MM, and assign enough extra scientists to bring our time to Computers down to four turns.
We sell some useless improvements in corrupt conquered towns for 610 gold, reducing our maintenance costs somewhat.
1535 (2): Mostly using rushed transports, we land strong forces on Madagascar (three Australian cites), Britain (two Russian cities), and Ceylon (one Australian city).
Off the coast of Africa we sink five redlined Australian shipsthree battleships, a carrier, and a destroyerwith bombers, but lose a bomber (84-1).
Also off the African coast we bombard and sink an Argentinian destroyer and two American destroyers (86-1).
The Australians have landed a substantial force adjacent to Xinjian 2, our isolated city on Hawaii. We have an airfield next to the town, but barring excellent luck in the defense, this will only allow us to re-take the city after it falls. So, we build twenty-one airfields in the Scandinavian tundrait was time for this anywayand airlift a mixed force led by seven tanks to Hawaii.
We found Homage to a Government on the ruins of Coober Pedy in southern India.
We make our landings on Madagascar, Britain, and Ceylon.
Our inf and guerrilla defending Xinjian 2 on Hawaii put up a tremendous fight, slaying two cav, two guerrillas, and two inf, and only missing a miracle save by the last attackers last hit point (92-3). They even generate a Great Leader, though of course hes lost when the town falls. Their sacrifice should make it easy for us to take back Xinjian 2, and then capture (Australian) New San Francisco as well.
Size-one Chelyabinsk flips to Russia. We lose a conscript inf.
1540 (3): We have work to do on four islands this turn, along with our attack on France. We start small, seizing Port Arthur on Ceylon from its garrison of three inf and a tank and wrecking a fighter on the ground (97-3).
We sell Port Arthurs improvements for 160 gold and replace it with MCMXIV.
Our campaign on Madagascar begins from this position: