Okies I kinda took my sweet time before making a move, mostly cuz zra and vicky were being techwhores grrr. It seemed like JUST as I wa sgetting a navy and army going EVERYBODY zipped through gp and chem and making rifling and sp a BIG priority.
Which kinda shut the window on jannies even b4fore they really got going. So I put things off until I get petter units which to me meant Infantry. So I teched along that path. Minor set beck when after teching through steampower NO coal grrrrr. But I had oil and eventually I felt I had a dedent stack and FIRST thing I did was sail over to Alex's ap city and raised it.
He was a LITTLE ticked at that but after I took another city he was ready to see reason and cap. I thought great, I'll just gift him back the one city I took demand his resources and then go after vicky or zara who were still being the number one techers.
Unfortunately Alex got a little too big for his britches. After ten turns he canceled ALL the resources I was making him give me. Unfortunately for Alex he picked RIGHT after I had teched out Idustrialism to get uppity so:
This time I decided I wasnt going to be nice and have to slap him around a little. I even managed to catch his navy in port hehe.
I know he still has galleys but that was a weird thing in this game. While EVERYbody teched out gunpowder, chem, steel, mil sci and rifling and mil trad NO body got astronomy for the LONGEST time. I dont know if it was cuz they ALL had contact with each other without it so it wasnt a priorty or what but for whatever reason they took their sweet time getting the naval techs going.
Would have been IDEAL time to build TONS of privateers and rule the seas unfortunately by time I noticed it I also noticed I had NO coal so had to hurry and get combustion so I could build RR for the hammers so privateering was out.
SO anyways I take out all of alex's good cities and all he has left mainly is other cities he took from like Sury and Augie and Cy had cities between me and those so I let Alex cap AGAIN and this time he learned his lesson I made fork over ALL his resources again and I mean ALL I was like "I DONT care if I already have 5 other cows hand over BOTH of yours or else!!" and this time he kept his mouth shut and was a good boy rest of the game hehe
Now while I was dealing with Alex Cy made a move on Augie and actually capped him so he had gotten HUGE. But he was spending SOOO much time warring he let his tech slide a bit. The tech whores zara and vicky BOTH had Infantry by this point BUT Cy and his lackeys didnt even have steam power. So even though he was HUGE:
Luckily since he spent so much time warring with augie pretty much ALL his military was waaaaaay off on other side of continent and both he and augie went after alex's cities first.
Eventually a HUGE 40 plus stack of units came my way after alex had lost about 3 cities but by then Cy had lost his cap and all of his orginal core cities and by that time I had bombers going to and LOTS more tanks thanks to air lifts so that stack didnt do all THAT much since they were mostly cav and a few cannons and grenadiers.
So cy started losing cities, Sury lost the two cities he had left and was killed off. I took over the cities Alex lost and kept em just cuz I could (he need to learn when he caps he has to STAY capped hehe
) and started taking roman cities too.
Pretty soon cy was down to just one city and rome had lost a few cities too and my land percent was getting close to sixty out of sixty four % needed so I let augie cap and cy cap and checked the vic conditions:
It seemed like things were looking good so I end the turn and:
I get a dom win
Final graphs look like this:
Not exactly sure WHAT vicky was doing other than spending a TON on xp points hehe. She also build apollo program but since she couldnt build ANY parts thats ALL she did.
Final demos:
managed to be able to get leads in most categories by end.
Final tech sitch:
I guess zara was thinking space too cuz both he and vicky spent LOTS of time on rocketry while me and cy and his lackeys were busy fighting.
Only thing that really annoyed me was:
I didnt have cahnce to take out zara's city that was keeping me from clean sweep of top 5. hehe.
Anyways all of that added up to:
A decent score but not one of my all time best mostly cuz it took me SOOOO long to get enough of an army and navy to make a move the game ended kinda late.
My final empire:
What I took from the AI's:
My top 3 cities:
My money city.
My science city
My cap ended up being my hammer city. Even after I left beauacracy for free speech it still did lots of hammers cuz of IW and it wonderwhored enough to even get to legendary hehe.
I do have some things to trade.
