Preturn: Not much to do. Minor tweaks.
1255 AD: There is some irony that both "alot of units need healing" and 141 healthy speed 2 units are both true; with 141 we have plenty to go on the offensive.
Italy is a decent target, but also a bit of a pain with lots of Jungle. I declare war on them.
There are a lot of units on our border. I use the Artillery and some Infantry to kill reachable units.
I then attack Neapolis which is near the unit movement and has 30 odd units in it. We lose 3 taking the city.
Capture Ravena without loss. It has units nearby we may need to prune.
Capture Pompeii without loss. Capture Lugdunum without loss.
Brundism is surrounded by Jungle. Capture with Partisans losing and gaining one.
Kill large number of Italians that move speed 2 or have attack of 4 or higher. The Hotchkiss allow me to target the longbow and xbow first.
Finally capture Rome and then Antium where I ran out of fast units by 1 and used a 4/5 hotchkiss.
Built up some lands with the remaining Steam Rollers not yet used.
Forgot to rush any Hotchkiss at end of turn.
Upgraded about 50 workers to Partisans for the ability to take out jungle towns. Will work on attacking weaker units to increase their numbers and make some veterans.
IBT: No attacks, one pillage.
1260 AD: Take out Pisae with Partisans losing two and gaining one.
Capture Veii after using a combat Settler.
Another combat Settler first allows a Partisan to Capture Byzantium. It also allows us to capture Viroconium with Hotchkiss. Clear Defenders on Italian stack so we can promote Partisans on weaker units. Lose some Hotchkiss (4 on a single Italian Musketeer - win most the rest)
Hispalis falls next leaving one town. I then 'MM' for partisan attacks vs weaker units to increase numbers and promote some to Veteran. We do get our first Elite partisan.
Finally with 5 Partisan left, I take out the final city Lutetia. Italy is no more.
I road to the Aztec. They are weak in tech and France declared war so I want to grab their cities before France.
IBT: I tried to cover a Partisan who attacked into Hebrew lands but we get kicked out immediately leaving the Partisan vulnerable. I need to rethink the Partisan (most other covert units can move in and then out) covering when they attack into other territory (worker? scout?)
1265 AD: Start on Aztec.
They also have a decent number of speed 2 Knights and clear lands so can attack back more effectively.
Capture Malinco, Tamuin, Tzintzuntzen, Tlaxcala, Texcoco and clean out nearby units. Losses are higher here compared to Italy. We keep losing Hotchkiss to defense 4 units. Lack of retreats is a major reason. I would say around 7 Hotchkiss, and equal Partisan loss/gain despite attacking defense 1 mostly. JunkH (not sure where Lee left off but I didn't destroy them so make a guess) gets us to Teayo and Xochicalco.
Random comment: I took a class on Aztec history in college and got a bad grade in large part due to the names. Years of playing civ and I still have to look up the spellings from the map.
Capture Teotihuacan with the loss of a Hotchkiss and Partisan (vs xbow).
Next capture Tenochtitlan with 3 losses.
Looking at Aztec units (we have a spy) I see a settler, but cannot find it in the stacks. I explore a bit and manage to find it. This is good because the Aztecs have a lot of units around the last two cities. They moved to go after France so they still have 23 Knights and 79 xbow around these cities.
We kill several units in Tlacopan without loss and capture it. We are down to using units built this turn but we should have enough to take the last city.
I had forgotten I sent a few units toward the Dutch. Capture Holwerd with them. Newly built units + some units I missed we still have 41. I don't want to attack a new civ but can build a road to Mons and take it. We can also reach Haarlem, Eindhoven, and Charleroi which are captured.
IBT: Minor skirmishes with the Dutch with no losses.
1270 AD: Planted spies. Magreb decides to declare war despite our large military, which also decides our next target.
Build a combat settler. Didn't check for MPP and Magreb had one with France so we can also go for their cities but also need to defend our border with them.
Capture Utica for ~8k losing a Hotchkiss.
Capture Algiers for ~9k losing a Hotchkiss.
Capture Carthage for 9k losing 19 Hotchkiss (vs 10 defenders, HMG, and 3-4 others)
Capture Casablanca for 9k losing 5 Hotchkiss (city had 7 defenders).
Capture Tangier for 9.5k losing 2 Hotchkiss.
Capture Leptis Magna for 10k losing 4 units.
Capture Al Jadida without loss of units.
Use Partisans to capture Southhampton in the hills (just taken from the Brittish).
This leaves 5 towns on the far side of Britain. We still have enough Steam Rollers to work around and capture Ariana, Annaba, Rabat, Casblanca, and Fez. The last city is worth 41k gold and our total is now 212k. I spend this down to 175k mostly rushing units.
Unfortunately, Magreb has a Settler. I go back and use the rest of the units to clean up Magreb stacks that can reach us. I also place some towns to rush boats to take out ships with transport capacity.
IBT: Missed guarding one of the Aztec towns and it loses the 2 units in it. Captured by Magreb.
Magreb also captures Birmingham with their main army.
Take back Magreb/Aztec town of Calixtlahuaca. Sink 2 possible settler boats.
Capture Birmingham. This still doesn't get rid of the Magreb, so I kill the stacks near our cities.
Also attack France. First We capture Lyons and destroy a newly planted city.
Then we go for Beascon and Tours (costs us 3 Hotchkiss to take).
Paris is next losing 4 or so Hotchkiss.
Final Combat settler gets us to Orleans and Rheims.
We then use Partisans to capture Cherbourgh in the Jungle.
Notes:
I did not rush units this turn - its easier to do when they have shields, so every other turn.
I set the new towns to scientists. This brought it from 6 turns to 4 for Tanks. They have to be reset (likely not all of them but some) to be at 3 turns next turn.
Wars are with France and the Dutch (who I ignored last 2 turns).
Continue to sink the Magreb boats so we get final settler. Beware there are some Magreb still alive near the border with England.
