Merz02 - Emperor Island Empire

[Luv_Muffin]

Ugh, nuts.
My reasoning is that alone he is nothing. But.... he has diplomatic influence, and he despises us. What did we ever do to him (recently)?
Maybe Cathy is starting to isolate herself from us because she is pals with good ole Sally. That good for nothing... *#@%!
Oh well, after Cyrus and MM are brought to their knees, this final triad of alliances will get it's head chopped off. If Cathy gets a body blow from us (Ahem... stealth bombers etc....), Qin and Sally will be able to fight back against us with what? Pillows don't count. Heh Heh. HC is likely still in a state of denial. (But the pyramids belong to me! Why doesn't anyone believe me? *sniffle sniffle* Curses, them Merzinites did it! Cuzco... my precious...)

So be it, Salladin is spared his fate.
Down with Mana "the Moocher" Musa and his ally, our good neighbor and at one time friend... Cyrus "the roadbump"!
Woo hoo!

 

[Merzbow]

Wow, Cathy really gets around, doesn't she...

 

[S.ilver]

Wow guys... really kicking some major @$$ here. In some ways, I'm glad life threw me a dumptruck of stuff, because I'd never have been able to pull off any of that still in the lineup.

Best of luck for the last few decades, although with the skill calibur here, luck really isn't a big issue

 

[Liquidated]

in the process of doing my turns but well I spent a few hours on tweaking the towns..... hehe gonna need to sleep.

Cheers!
-Liq

 

[Merzbow]

No rush... I can't play until Wednesday night anyways.

 

[Liquidated]

preturn: ok well mass tweaks I spent too long just staring at the towns and generally acting like muf.

I love mechs so am going to shut down research until I upgrade all infantry to mechs in 3 turns hehe. No point using the great scientist for fiber optics until all that is done.

ok well not alot we can do to prop up stagnated towns, this map is so food poor it's amazing they got that large in the first place.

Sally has a pact with cathy so well um not really worth the trouble.
i'm really not good at pulling the trigger in this sort of situation and well taking my sweet time looking at our units.

again there's no rush to attack and well 3 turns to the holy city, mech-a hehe get it? mech - a? *liq fumbles with the sliders to make sure mecca isn;t still starving*.
Medina begins: Grocer
Kufah begins: Jail
Juli begins: Work Boat

IBT:hmm peace with hc ended
Ravenna finishes: Modern Armor
Timbuktu finishes: Modern Armor
Cuzco's borders expand

[1]1996 AD
not a lot to do, 2 turns to mechs.
Ravenna begins: Modern Armor
Timbuktu begins: Modern Armor
Tank promoted: City Raider II

hmm running out of transports hehe

IBT:
Cumae finishes: Modern Armor
Arpinum grows: 15
Atico finishes: Modern Armor

moscow got a great person wuwu

[2]1997 AD
atico built a modern armor but well... no way to get it off the island unless I find a spare transport..hahaha.
Cumae begins: Transport
Atico begins: Jet Fighter

just to entertain I moved the transport with 4 tanks over to juli and upgraded them all to modern armor. one of those tanks actually lived it seems as it's up to 4 promotions.

IBT: omgomgomgomg
robotics came in...

mechs AND stealth bombers!!!!! omgomgogmomg

went for refrigeration in 4 turns, +1 ship speed is nice.

Rome finishes: Artillery
Neapolis finishes: Modern Armor
Circei finishes: Modern Armor
Djenne finishes: Modern Armor
Mecca finishes: Modern Armor
Juli finishes: Work Boat



[3]1998 AD
Research begun: Refrigeration
Rome begins: Stealth Bomber
Neapolis begins: transport
Circei begins: Stealth Bomber
Djenne begins: Stealth Bomber
Mecca begins: Stealth Bomber


Research set to 0 and phasors set on mechs. +962 gold a turn. haha a longbow to mech is only 470 gold.

looks like liq waffles the attack again, and after obcessing over the layout, I mean we don;t need to attack cyrus now and well each turn we get much stronger, it's it's like a drug!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IBT:
Cumae finishes: Transport
Arretium finishes: Modern Armor
Mecca grows: 16
Buddhism has spread: Cuzco
Taoism has spread: Buto (Egyptian Empire)


[4]1999 AD
Cumae begins: Transport
Arretium begins: Mechanized Infantry
I upgrade that longbow in neap to mech and the lone bomber we ever had to our first baby stealthbomber.

aww isn;t it cute?

we seriously need more transports, scowlers wave of armor is flooding in and neapolis is like drowning.
cumae's new transport is now loaded with 2 mechs and 2 armor as it's being built. There's 4 armor and an artillery waiting for a home still.. they screaming something about rent control.

remind me to upgrade those two tanks next turn for a mere 400 gold.

Seriouly I'm completely helpless against the power curve here. So hilarious.

IBT: mansa really want to trade with us and stuff, I just tell him to shove it.
in other news, the bad and the ugly...
Antium finishes: Modern Armor
Pisae finishes: Modern Armor
Timbuktu finishes: Modern Armor
Kumbi Saleh finishes: Modern Armor
Damascus finishes: Modern Armor
Cuzco finishes: Mechanized Infantry

omg sigh.

[5]2000 AD
Antium begins: Transport
Pisae begins: Mechanized Infantry
Timbuktu begins: Mechanized Infantry
Kumbi Saleh begins: Mechanized Infantry
Damascus begins: Mechanized Infantry
Cuzco begins: Mechanized Infantry

ok upgrade the 2 tanks into modern armor.

neapolis is looking like a modern armor convention.

f5 only shows 42 modern armor, think another 170 are hiding somewhere. 8 mechs, need to boost that.

IBT:
Cumae finishes: Transport omg!
Neapolis finishes: Transport omg!
Arpinum finishes: Modern Armor
Gao finishes: Mechanized Infantry
Mecca finishes: Stealth Bomber
Medina finishes: Grocer
Cuzco's borders expand
Tiwanaku's borders expand

[6]2001 AD
Cumae begins: Transport
Neapolis begins: Transport
Arpinum begins: Jet Fighter
Gao begins: Mechanized Infantry
Mecca begins: Mechanized Infantry
Medina begins: Mechanized Infantry
Tiwanaku begins: Work Boat - mecca's clams need a net... how I missed that... =/

ok well those 2 transports that were just built? have 8 modern armor on them now hahahaha ship them south to support team tyrsus.

omg the modern armor has left the neapolis!!!! the town looks deserted!


time to buy more mechs. um we have now, 14 mechs, up from 8 last turn.


oh nm I just moved more armor into neapolis... transport!

merz is gonna have almost as much fun as I am on his turnset.
IBT:
Rome finishes: Stealth Bomber -> neapolis
Khurasan finishes: Modern Armor
Andahuaylas finishes: Forge

[7]2002 AD
Rome begins: Stealth Bomber
Khurasan begins: Airport
Andahuaylas begins: Factory

I upgrade more mechs and well last shipment of transports until I hand over these turns. I seriously tried to start the attack but I so love watching a smooth infrastucture build up overwhleming forces.

IBT:oh the un came up I tried for diplomatic hehe.
Cumae finishes: Transport
Timbuktu finishes: Mechanized Infantry
Djenne finishes: Stealth Bomber
Atico finishes: Jet Fighter
Confucianism has spread: Andahuaylas
Tiwanaku finishes: Work Boat yay

[8]2003 AD
Antium begins: Transport
Cumae begins: Transport
Timbuktu begins: Mechanized Infantry
Djenne begins: Jet Fighter
Atico begins: Jet Fighter

workboat is done so will tend to that, else it'll get lost in the shuffle.

I just spent about 2 mins hitting wait turn on the transports north west of neapolis.... I think we have a few units there....

leaving cash in the til so merz can pick the units to upgrade... I slacked off and only sent 4 modern armor 1 destroyer and 1 battleship up north to tyre, hope that's enough.


nw of neapolis is um, too many units.. I honestly could not tell you how many units are in that stack. lets just say more than 20...

to the sw of neapolis is well a managable amount of um 3x transports of modern armor and a submarine.

this is overkill yeah let me show you a little something...



We have mass transports finally and more on the way so we'll have a few extra to go around. There's a few stranded armors ranndomly where scowler accidentally built units on islands with no airport. can fish them out if you want, that simply wasn;t an option in my turn.

And if you think liq had a boring turnset, we'll I'm here to wash the blood off the driveways and trim the lawns. I love this sort of thing.

Need to hit work in a bit so will post screens later... sorry, take a look at the power graph though, it's hilarious.


I dare muff to figure out how many liqs in a tootsie pop, er how many units are in that stack nw of neapolis.

Cheers!
-Liq

 

[Merzbow]

That power graph is freaking hilarious... once again I must thank Liq for setting up da hamma for me to drop.

 

[Merzbow]

Pre-turn (47 left):

Let's check up on the space race first... hmm Mali has casings and thrusters done and is on the cockpit. Cyrus has just thrusters and casings, Egypt just casings.

So Mansa is just 4 parts away, ack... and he has both fiber optics and ecology. At first glance this looks worrying but the spy reveals that his tech rate is kinda slow. He still needs Robotics and a bunch of other crap.

Given that we need research nothing else the rest of the game I'll keep tech at 0. I'm also tweaking all the cities for Engineers and not Scientists.

I don't quite understand why everybody is on mech infantry.... we're going to be razing, not keeping these towns. Defense? When these finish I'm putting them on other units.

I declare. We're now at war with Mansa and Cyrus.

Culture to 10%.

I'm rebasing our bombers near Mansa. They're mostly useless against Cyrus since he has so many jets and SAMs.

This is really screwed up... I find out AFTER I land the stack of armor SW of Neap that it's just transports and subs... and all MA. There is no arty, and no destroyers or battleships anywhere nearby that can knock down these city defenses! I'll have to let this stack cool its heels for two turns while I bring down destroyers from the north.

But except for that, overall the setup was great. This is just sick:





Turn 1 (46 left):

Cute, somebody built the UN:



Pasgardae burnt with no losses:



Susa burnt with one loss:



Tyre burnt with no losses:



Neop: transport -> nuke plant
Mecca: mech -> battleship
Cuzco: mech -> modern armor

Turn 2 (45 left):

Tarsus gone with no losses:



Cumae: transport -> battleship
Pisae: mech -> modern armor

Turn 3 (44 left):

Tagazha burnt, no losses:



Ugh, Cyrus landed an invasion force north of Anda:



I think this is actually the first time we've been invaded the entire game. I managed to get two mech infs and a jet in that city for defense. Hopefully it will be enough.

Rome: bomber -> modern armor
Arretium: mech -> jet
Arpinum: jet -> modern armor
Timbuktu: mech -> battleship
Cori: chouse -> forge (120 turns only...)

Turn 4 (43 left):

I get voted head of the UN. I put forward +1 trade routes.

Wow, Cyrus throws every ship he has at the ship stack SE of Persopolis and kills a bunch of battleships and destroyers. The transports survive thankfully.

Arbala razed with a couple losses. Hilariously enough, just this turn Cyrus decided to found a new city on the ruins of whatever was to the NW of here. Next turn I'll raze it.

Persopolis razed with moderate losses.

Antium: transport -> modern armor
Ravenna: modern armor -> drydock
Circei: bomber -> nuke plant
Kumbi: mech -> modern armor
Gao: mech -> modern armor
Mecca: bship -> destroyer

Turn 5 (42 left):

Qin threatens us to cancel deals with the Egyptians. I dare your puny ass to attack.

The +1 trade routes vote succeeds.

Samaria razed with no losses:



Kano, the first of Mansa's cities, is gone with no losses:



Cumae: bship -> destroyer
Media: mech -> jet
Kufah: jail -> jet

 

[Merzbow]

Turn 6 (41 left):

Up to 50% culture, ugh. But we can afford it.

Timbuk: bship -> modern armor
Djenne: jet -> drydock
Mecca: destroyer -> bship
Atico: jet -> jet
Machu: forge -> rax

Turn 7 (40 left):

Zohak razed:



Pisae: modern armor -> bomber
Tiwan: mech -> rax (ugh)

Turn 8 (39 left):

UN comes up; I vote for open markets

The first attack on Mansa's central empire comes. I raze Katsina with just mech infantry:



Rome: modern armor -> modern armor

Turn 9 (38 left):

Gordium down (so much for the bloody knot):



Dariush down:



Cumae: destroyer -> destroyer
Ravenna; drydock -> bship
Mecca: bship -> modern armor

Turn 10 (37 left):

Tekkeda man-handled:



Sardis wife-beaten:



Arretium: jet -> jet
Timbuk: modern armor -> modern armor

To next player:

Armor is lined up outside a bunch of major cities for attack next turn. Cyrus is history; he only has a few runt cities left, ignore them. Continue to focus on Mansa, then go for Hatty. Cathy isn't a concern since she isn't in the space race.

Save

 

[Liquidated]

mechs own for the very reason you used them for merz.

when combined with airports (innate medic from red cross owns if you can set it up), they form the core of defensive force second to none.

Though we didn;t see it here, mechs also add amazing durability to a stack of armor in the case of gunships.

Scowlers round attacking hc showed that as we lost alot of modern armor on counter attacks due to monotone stacks. In that case, infantry would have slowed him down, but since mechs move the same speed as armor, they are incredibly flexible.

Oh and to stress I'm not slamming on scowler


Amazing amount of carnage merz, good job as always.

Sorry about the lack of arty in sw, I thought I stripped nw of one but it got lost in the suffle.

Glad tyrus wasn;t a problem.

Cheers!
-Liq

 

[Luv_Muffin]

I got it. My first impression was... WHOA! Persia sure got a whoopin, heh heh.
Nice work Merz.
I was a little surprised we didn't keep his capital. Pentagon?
Oh well, I guess it doesn't change things long term anyway. It's not like we really need it anyway.

I noticed that in many places where we razed citis, the AI's came and planted brand new cities in the vacant (and worker improved) areas. How annoying.

I'll have a better look at the save tommorow and try to find where our armies are at. The Merz empire seem to be steamrolling over all opposition at this point.

I wonder what kind of victory condition we are working towards though. Dom? Or is our aim to just go to war with spaceship builders until time runs out?

 

[Merzbow]

Hmm, I forgot that mechs move at the same speed as tanks. If I had known that I would have included a few in each stack.

If there were more time left in the game, I would have kept some or all of the cities instead of razing them. But at this point I surmised that speed was more important. With only 40-odd turns remaining none of the new AI cities is going to have time to pump out anything of value after they are given a courthouse, harbor, forge, factory, lab, etc.

Victory condition is time. Just keep walking over everybody else's biggest cities.

 

[Luv_Muffin]

37 turns left! Here we go....
Antium finishes: Modern Armor
Neapolis finishes: Nuclear Plant
Arpinum finishes: Modern Armor
Timbuktu's borders expand
Djenne finishes: Drydock
Medina finishes: Jet Fighter
Juli grows: 6
Machu Picchu finishes: Barracks
Cuzco finishes: Airport
Tiwanaku finishes: Barracks
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1. 2014 AD
Antium begins: Artillery
Neapolis begins: Gunship
Arpinum begins: Battleship
Djenne begins: Gunship
Medina begins: Stealth Bomber
Machu Picchu begins: Mechanized Infantry
Cuzco begins: Jail
Tiwanaku begins: Theatre
Arpinum begins: Work Boat
Ravenna begins: Work Boat

Our forces are outside of MM's capital, Niani. It is currently building the lifesupport module!
Mechanized Infantry loses to: Malinese Marine (0.96/24)
Modern Armor defeats (12.00/40): Malinese SAM Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (35.20/40): Malinese SAM Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (40.00/40): Malinese Cavalry
Modern Armor defeats (40.00/40): Malinese Marine
Buddhism has spread: Niani
Captured Niani (Mansa Musa)
Niani begins: Theatre

I decided to capture MM's Capital, and use it to extert our influence east of Rome and keep the shipping lanes open. If we have more fighting to do in the east, we can always airdrop units closer to the front this way. But I intend to raze most of the cities I encounter (not the christian holy city though, because that would be a sin or something.)

I also capture Awdaghost, it is a northern city with a decent amount of tiles it can work.
Modern Armor defeats (29.60/40): Malinese Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (34.00/40): Malinese Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (40.00/40): Malinese Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (34.00/40): Malinese Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (40.00/40): Malinese SAM Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (40.00/40): Malinese SAM Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (29.60/40): Malinese SAM Infantry
Christianity has spread: Awdaghost
Captured Awdaghost (Mansa Musa)
Awdaghost begins: Theatre

I heal most of the fleet near Niani, but send a battleship east towards Bactra (Persia) where I discover that MM has a Galleon with a settler/infantry(2) on board! Yummy.
I send in a transport for the glory!
Transport defeats (16.00/16): Malinese Galleon

Victory, without a scratch!
Ha ha ha!

Rome finishes: Modern Armor
Cumae finishes: Destroyer
Ravenna finishes: Work Boat
Arpinum finishes: Work Boat
Kumbi Saleh finishes: Modern Armor
Mecca finishes: Modern Armor
Machu Picchu grows: 11
Cuzco's borders expand


2. 2015 AD
UN holds a vote, I vote for us.

Rome begins: Modern Armor
Cumae begins: Modern Armor
Arpinum begins: Work Boat
Kumbi Saleh begins: Modern Armor
Mecca begins: Modern Armor
Ravenna begins: Work Boat

I get rid of that annoying persian transport that was pillaging our fishes near Arpinum.
Battleship defeats (40.00/40): Persian Transport

I know Merz won't like me keeping those cities, but they sure do help with the healing, and keeping our momentum going. In a few turns we'll get all these promoted units back to fighting, with a handfull of reinforcements too! Nice.

Modern Armor defeats (34.80/40): Malinese Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (32.00/40): Malinese Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (20.00/40): Malinese Infantry
Modern Armor loses to: Malinese Infantry (14.60/20)
Modern Armor defeats (34.80/40): Malinese SAM Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (20.00/40): Malinese Infantry
Christianity has spread: Walata
Captured Walata (Mansa Musa)


I capture Walata! (The Christian Holy City)
*It should help finance our war effort.

Pisae's borders expand
Pisae finishes: Stealth Bomber
Ravenna finishes: Work Boat
Arpinum finishes: Work Boat
Atico's borders expand
Tiwanaku finishes: Theatre
Christianity has spread: Ningbo (Chinese Empire)

3. 2016 AD
We win the UN Sec-General vote (of course)

Pisae begins: Work Boat
Tiwanaku begins: Granary
Arpinum begins: Work Boat
Arretium begins: Work Boat

MM has mech infantry in Wadan. Oh well, not every battle will be a cakewalk.
Modern Armor defeats (40.00/40): Malinese Mechanized Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (28.80/40): Malinese Mechanized Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (40.00/40): Malinese SAM Infantry
Taoism has spread: Wadan (Malinese Empire)
Taoism has spread: Wadan
Captured Wadan (Mansa Musa)
Razed Wadan
Taoism has spread: Wadan
Wadan lost
I take Wadan, no losses (modern armor vs.mech inf), and decide to raze it. Just so that Merz doesn't take me out to the woodshack later on. heh heh.

I capture Sidon to secure that flank next to Mecca. No losses, units got XP and cyrus lost some oil.
Modern Armor defeats (11.20/40): Persian SAM Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (33.20/40): Persian SAM Infantry
Mechanized Infantry defeats (32.00/32): Persian Infantry
Taoism has spread: Sidon (Persian Empire)
Taoism has spread: Sidon
Captured Sidon (Cyrus)
Sidon begins: Lighthouse

Pisae finishes: Work Boat
Arretium finishes: Work Boat
Arpinum's borders expand
Arpinum finishes: Work Boat
Timbuktu grows: 14
Timbuktu finishes: Modern Armor
Kumbi Saleh grows: 16
Cuzco grows: 13
Cuzco finishes: Jail

4. 2017 AD
Qin has completed a spaceship casing!
Hatty completed thusters

Pisae begins: Modern Armor
Arpinum begins: Work Boat
Timbuktu begins: Mechanized Infantry
Cuzco begins: Colosseum
Ravenna begins: Hospital

Modern Armor defeats (40.00/40): Persian Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (35.60/40): Persian SAM Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (40.00/40): Persian SAM Infantry
Hinduism has spread: Bactra
Captured Bactra (Cyrus)
Bactra begins: Theatre
I capture Bactra (Cyrus's capital) this turn, and keep it. Again, it is closer to the front, and we can airlift reinforcements into it to keep the momentum moving.

From what I can see, Cyrus has two cities left, one in the north pole. Since I'm in the area anyway, I will raze this city in a few (Ghulaman). The other is in the south pole (Ergili). It has oil, but is a wasteland.

Modern Armor defeats (28.00/40): Malinese Mechanized Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (26.40/40): Malinese Mechanized Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (28.00/40): Malinese SAM Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (20.00/40): Malinese SAM Infantry
Christianity has spread: Tadmekka (Malinese Empire)
Christianity has spread: Tadmekka
Captured Tadmekka (Mansa Musa)
Tadmekka begins: Theatre
Tadmekka is captured (surprisingly). I only had a pair of fresh modern armor units, and simply wanted to cause injury before I land 8 veteran units. I guess I'll have to use the veterans (from the artic campaign) elsewhere. Heh heh.

Antium finishes: Artillery
Arpinum finishes: Work Boat
Circei grows: 15
Setia's borders expand
Mecca finishes: Modern Armor
Damascus finishes: Modern Armor
Atico grows: 4
Huamanga grows: 6
Tiwanaku grows: 10
Tiwanaku's borders expand
Tiwanaku finishes: Granary


5. 2018 AD
Antium begins: Modern Armor
Arpinum begins: Bank
Damascus begins: Jail
Tiwanaku begins: Harbor
Walata begins: Theatre

I capture and raze Taodeni.
Modern Armor defeats (22.00/40): Malinese Mechanized Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (40.00/40): Malinese SAM Infantry
Buddhism has spread: Taodeni
Captured Taodeni (Mansa Musa)
Razed Taodeni
Buddhism has spread: Taodeni
Taodeni lost
MM must be freaking by now.
Moving whatever troops now that I can spare towards our inevitable war with Hatty

Rome finishes: Modern Armor
Circei finishes: Nuclear Plant
Gao finishes: Modern Armor
Atico finishes: Jet Fighter
Andahuaylas grows: 7
Juli finishes: Mechanized Infantry
Corihuayrachina grows: 8


6. 2019 AD
As UN Sec-General, I propose that the world uses a single currency... ours! Mwa ha ha!

Rome begins: Mechanized Infantry
Circei begins: Market
Gao begins: Work Boat
Atico begins: Transport
Juli begins: Forge
Machu Picchu begins: Jail

Destroyer defeats (26.70/30): Malinese Frigate
* south of MM's new capital.

Modern Armor defeats (40.00/40): Persian Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (39.60/40): Persian Infantry
Confucianism has spread: Ghulaman (Persian Empire)
Confucianism has spread: Ghulaman
Captured Ghulaman (Cyrus)
Razed Ghulaman
Confucianism has spread: Ghulaman
Ghulaman lost
Ghulaman is destroyed! I think that means Cyrus only has one city remaining. Heh heh.

I know Merz said concentrate on MM, and I'm wailing on him, but if we can remove Cyrus entirely, he will never be a threat again, and whatever spaceship parts he has are gone!

Cumae finishes: Modern Armor
Neapolis finishes: Gunship
Circei's borders expand
Antony van Leeuwenhoek (Great Scientist) born in Circei
Timbuktu finishes: Mechanized Infantry
Gao finishes: Work Boat
Mecca grows: 18
Huamanga's borders expand
Cuzco finishes: Colosseum
Tiwanaku finishes: Harbor

7. 2020 AD
UN vote on single currency succeeds!

Cumae begins: Work Boat
Neapolis begins: Work Boat
Timbuktu begins: Mechanized Infantry
Gao begins: Mechanized Infantry
Cuzco begins: Bank
Tiwanaku begins: Jail
Setia begins: Theatre

MM's capital Awlil is captured.
Modern Armor defeats (32.40/40): Malinese Mechanized Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (34.00/40): Malinese SAM Infantry
Modern Armor defeats (28.00/40): Malinese SAM Infantry
Confucianism has spread: Awlil (Malinese Empire)
Confucianism has spread: Awlil
Captured Awlil (Mansa Musa)
I'm keeping this one too, since we have no cities in the area to airlife troops.

MM's southpole city (Ngazargumu) south of Mecca is razed.
Modern Armor defeats (40.00/40): Malinese Mechanized Infantry
Captured Ngazargumu (Mansa Musa)
Razed Ngazargumu
Judaism has spread: Ngazargumu
Ngazargumu lost
We shouldn't be getting surprise attacks coming from any direction now, unless another Civ decides to pearl harbor us.

Great Scientist born in Circei. We have another Great Scientist in Rome, but we can't start a golden age (we need three, and something else besides a GS)

I'll end my turn here, on a round number.
As it stands, Cyrus can be knocked out next turn by scowler. No more Persia to deal with.


MM has three cities remaining, his capital (which should fall in 2)

...and his two dinky towns in the SW part of the world.


I think MM is toast. Once we take his capital, just send a small force to finish off his two loser towns, and he will be removed from the spacerace screen so we can see what we're dealing with.

Qin is building spaceship parts, but he takes so long to build anything that he's hopeless. I've started moving forces towards Hatty's empire, but most of our forces are in the east, not the west. Hatty is weak on the ground, but does have a navy.
Do we start a new war with Hatty? It will take some time to shift units in that direction. I've started a slow build-up at Ravenna, we have battleships in the area, we just need transports now. We can probably spare a few from our war with MM. Besides, once we take MM's capital, the majority of those units/naval forces can head NE towards Hatty's homeland.


At this point, once Cyrus and MM are toast, I don't think we have anyone who can attempt to build the spaceship in time. Unless Cathy has been busy... (which is why wiping out MM is important, to see who our biggest threat is now.





The Save

 

[Merzbow]

I still don't think Cathy's built Apollo yet (judging from the last time I checked the National Projects list in the Demo window).

 

[Luv_Muffin]

Just to let you know (I don't think it showed up), Mecca is building the Manhattan Project. Should be done by the end of Scowlers turn, and we might be able to build a few nukes to soften up our next targets and punch through anyone we happen to be at war with at the time.
* So don't use the UN to broker a non-proliferation treaty, because we want to proliferate ourselves*

And it looks like Merz will be playing the final turns of his own SG. Kind of poetic, don't you think Merz?
Bring us home, boys!

 

[Liquidated]

I love the power graphs. omgz mufs look there's some dip in out power curve, um I think!

Thinking we have a merz term in the making,

Muf "saladated" cyrus and mansa!

totally bizzare game though, so little food(farms) and hammers (and horses!) on this map. Tech and production was so stunted for all of us, well until saladin donated mecca to us!



Cheers!
-Liq

 

[Double Stack]

I found it funny to see Arabia power line in the recent screenshot. Look like a failed heart beat line.

 

[Scowler]

Looks like I've been handed a plate of leftovers again

 

[Luv_Muffin]

I found it funny to see Arabia power line in the recent screenshot. Look like a failed heart beat line.

And sorry for the leftovers Scowler.
What an apt phrase to use though.
Well, try to have fun with it anyway. Then you can join me on the bleachers.
We can hoot and holler together when the mushroom clouds start appearing.

 

[Liquidated]

oh forgot to comment on the gally beating...






As for saladin, we all must thank him for being such a gimp and donating Mecca to us.

What a freaking powerhouse that town is. On a map where some cities have one hammer innate, Mecca looms above all.

have a feeling my turn after scowlers will be 10x 'next turns'.

Cheers!
-Liq