LK30
After centuries of absence Rheinmetall returns just in time to inherit the rule of mighty German nation after shdwlord sudden disappearance. There are rumours that he left to take over other "succession games".
0/1834: Preturn
After arriving upon the stone heap the lesser folks call a "palace" Rheinmetall swiftly assesses his choices and resources left to him by shdwlord. Foreign advisor tells Rheinmetall that Japanese, Egyptians and Russians are no more. Military advisor gleefully explains bloody details of their downfall and presents Rheinmetall a new fearsome weapon called the "Panzer". Previous rulers hadused it with great success against our now extinct foes. Rheinmetall wants this trend to continue.
Rheinmetall briefly visits Avignon, Stuttgart, Lisht, Dortmund, Brandenburg, New Berlin, Dnepropetrovsk, Matsuyama, New Leipzig, Moscow, Kyoto, Berlin, Memphis, Kiev, Hamburg, Elephantine and Frankfurt and gives precise instructions to local government how to manage these cities to get best results.
Science advisor informs that future is bright for Germans. He promises great advances in military technology that eventually allow us to build glorious war machines that surpass in power even the feared Panzers.
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Shooed roman forces from Germany. Cancelled some deals with Mao. He is really broke. I have chosen France as my primary target. China is secondary. America and Rome are out because our forces are on wrong continent. France doesn't want to buy any luxuries so we have nothing to gain from them but their territory.

. I'll wait until resistance ends in Egyptian cities. Then France will feel my wrath!
1/1836AD
Troop movement. Resistance is quelling. War declared on France. War Time economy declared! Set research to 10% and lux. up. War weariness will get us real quick so this war must be short and painful (for the French). Destroyed French Iron and Dyes colonies and captured some workers. Capture Tokyo. Capture Tours, lost panzer. Capture Orleans. Capture Tientsin. Killed 2 French cavalry standing next to Satsuma. Capture Satsuma, lost panzer. Captured Besacnon, lost panzer. Captured Nara. Captured Grenoble. These were the easy ones. I'll need more substantial force to take out Paris and our lines grow thin.
2/1838AD
Rome and America settle their differences. France counterattacks with infantry. Lost three more panzers. Six were supplied from homeland. Weakened French infantry units with artillery and finished them off but still lost one panzer.
3/1840AD
Quickly build railroad to Grenoble to support offensive against Paris. After heavy artillery bombardment German panzer divisions roll down the mountains to Paris and capture it. Lost an elite panzer to an 1 HP infantry

. We now control Leo's. Captured Rouen.
4/1842AD
Rheims gets its share of artillery shells and gets overrun by German panzers. Three remaining French cities are in hard to get places so it'll take few more turns to get rid of France. I don't deal anything to China. I think you can guess why.

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5/1844AD
Captured Lyons. GL Horsa emerges. Captured Marseilles, lost panzer.
6/1846AD
Horsa hurries Manhattan Project in Thebes. Captured Chartres. Caught Infantry/Settler pair, France is no more. Sci 70% Lux 0% Ecology 5 turns -83gpt.
7/1848AD
Manhattan Project completed in Thebes, start courthouse. Sevastopol riots, hired entertainer. Nuremberg builds panzer, order hospital. Krasnoyarsk riots, hired entertainer. New Leipzig builds granary, start courthouse. Dijon completes harbor, courthouse ordered. I really would like to switch to communism.
8/1850AD
Chinese army appears near Edo. Terrain in China is favourable to direct panzer assault. War declared on Chinese. Tatung captured. Athribis captured. Chengdu captured. Shanghai captured, lost 5 panzers. Taking metropolis without any artillery support is a bad idea. Switch to War time economy again.
9/1852AD
Chinese cavalry army takes Edo after almost losing to a cavalry defending it

. Edo captured. Macao captured. Tsingtao captured. Chinan captured. Hangchow captured, lost panzer. Beijing captured, lost 3 panzers. Bach's is ours. Canton captured. Xinjian captured. Barbarossa emerged and hurries panzer in Xinjian. Nanking captured. Lux. raised by 10% Sci. down by 10%. Note: i used science/luxury sliders every now and then but didn't document all moves.
10/1854AD
Chinese ironclads become a nuisance. Shangtung captured with heavy losses. Ningpo captured. Anyang captured. New Shanghai captured. Yangchow captured. New Beijing captured, lost 2 panzers. New Nanking captured. New Canton captured, lost panzer. New Tsingtao captured. Richthoffen emerges and hurries panzer in Kiev.
11/1856AD
China and Rome sign MPP. We learn ecology. Started on synthetic Fibers. War weariness starts biting. Autorazed New Chengdu. Lux. up to 50% to combat WW. I don't want any riots now. Amiens captured. Lincoln distracts Rome for horses and iron. RoP with America.
12/1858AD
Romans launch their attack. UN completed in Leipzig. I'll pass the elections. New Xinjian captured. New Frankfurt liberated. Kahun captured. Chinese are no longer. I start railroading through American territory to get panzers to Rome faster. Brundisium captured. Prepare transports to ferry troops to American island from China.

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13/1860AD
Romans liberate Syracuse. Syracuse captured.
14/1862AD
Fierce fighting in Roman territory.
15/1864AD
Cumae captured.
16/1866AD
Rome captured, lost panzer. We now control Newton's. Hispalis captured, lost panzer.
17/1868AD
Veii captured, lost 2 panzers.
18/1870AD
War weariness is getting worse. Terrain and lack of American rail net slowed me down too much. Ravenna captured, lost panzer. Lutetia captured. I have to kill research to get lux. up to 60%. War weariness is too much.
19/1872AD
Rome flips, lost panzer. Taking Rome back got GL Hengest. Hengest hurries panzer in Dortmund. Pisae captured. Lugdunum captured, lost panzer. Americans are bringing troops between me and the Romans, thus slowing down the attack.
20/1874AD
Americans liberated Houston. Neapolis captured. Viroconium captured. Romans have been eradicated.
Next player can finish off Americans. Shouldn't be a difficult task. I took a huge risk taking on France and China so early but it paid off.
Capture Houston first to get rubber away from Abe.
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I think I could have played it to the end in few more turns, but clock was already 1:25 in the morning and I had to wake up at 6:45 to go to work.
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