Originally posted by rysingsun
*** So I had a revolution (with statue of liberty) and nuked that city *** .... you know you can do this without a revolution if you just use spies to do it. its one of my favorite ways to conquer the world under democracy. start a war by nuking one city. of course you end up at war with the world but you lose no reputation (/rolls eyes) and being at war with distant rivals is usually no big deal.
actually i have to disagree with you on that "being at war with distant rivals is usually no big deal"
almost always, even the distant empires get 10 or so Transports and Carriers to get their troops and planes and Missiles to your shores and other Naval Units (Destroyers, Battleships, etc.) to fight off any of your ships if you have any and your Transports if you plan to invade while they're transporting their main armies across the oceans. the AI cheats this way (of course it cheats a lot more ways, too - more than one turn in Democracy in discontent, still no Anarchy, no Anarchy at all if they switch gov't - they get the benefits/drawbacks of the new intended gov't immediately). once it has a tech, it will have tons of the military units that the tech offers.
i was playing a game like that once.
i was Democratic Russia.
France, my Peace-Treaty companion, had built a city on my core continent, on a peninsula that was completely useless (bad surroundings - jungle). I decided that I would not stand for the colonization of my core continent. Since I had an arsenal of about 15 Nukes and 30 Cruise Missiles, and 16 Armor units, 5 Veteran Spies, I thought: I'll just nuke the settlement, occupy, and the invaders will be vanquished. How wrong was I. I had a GIANT overseas empire. during the middle ages i followed a policy of "ultra-expansionism" and fought wars with two empires - completely assimilating one and partitioning the other with the Japanese (a long-time ally) until only 3 cities were left and it was obvious that they'd be paralyzed and would fall prey to the other empires' demands for tribute in echange for allowing them to remain sovereign. America, my ally and greatest foreign economic benefactor, was so far away from me when my "terrorist attack" hapened that i thought that it would never get to my territories and the world, shocked to see a Democratic country do this kind of thing, declared war. I naturally occupied the half-dead city only to see it get occupied by Japan two turns later. America and France took my Northern Overseas States. Carthaginian forces attacked my Eastern Colonies and seemed satisfied to gain the Manhattan Project that was located in the main city of that area becase they refrained from anymore attacks. France and Japan began to overrun my core continent. I had no way out except try to Nuke the invading armies. This, however, destroyed my lands - people died of starvation. Within 3 more turns, the far-off Americans were already starting to join in the division of the western portion of my core continent, replacing Japan as an invader because they had decided to turn towards my Southern Overseas States. I tried to at least cease-fire the main invaders so that I could still have the few major cities on my core continent and survive until the end of the game (2020 - it was currently 1997). No-one responded. Unfortunately, 2/3 of my economic and intellectual base were my Overseas States and the Eastern Colonies. So, basically, while the Total Cost dropped significantly, it was still about 240 gold, while my Total Income plunged to 189 gold. One reason for this Depression (a recession had already begun about 5 turns/years before my Nuke attack) was that the Trading Cities were mainly in the North and East. With the Trading Bloc out of my control, there was almost no support for my economy. My Science rate was now 14 turns per tech. Pre-War status: 2 turns per tech. So, I depleted my Nuke supply by Nuke-bombing several Carriers and Battleships. My Cruise Missiles were mainly concentrated in Smolensk, now controlled by America. So, I have no way of immediately taking out the occupying armies. My Armors were the only things that could save me.
Guess what......
THEY DIDNT
The Americans took Minsk and St. Petersburg. Now Moscow was virtually up for grabs. Most of my improvements (including SAM BAttery Coastal Fortress and City Walls) were sold by the gov't to try to gain more money to last.
My gold continued to decrease rapidly.
So then France, obviously for revenge purposes, Nuked Moscow - their way of saying "what goes around comes around"
Occupied Moscow for the glory of their Fundamentalist Archbishop Louis.
I lost. My empire partitioned.
And It was MOSTLY FAR-OFF NATIONS that devoured my empire!
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...which is protected by SDI!!!!
. The next decades they stayed on their isle. But, to be sure I built a city (Oxford) on present-day Korea to check on them periodically. And suddenly, an invasion force of 5 transports travelled the sea between Asia and Japan and they started to attack Oxford and not long thereafter conquered it. After that, they continued the military operation in Russia, to be finally stopped in Germany(!), by my line of howitzers, armors and marines :devil2:. They succeeded in:
Russian civilization. 
