Standard Germany on Fractal Immortal. Quit (destroyed) on Turn 261
I have to give the AI credit in this one. It was one of the rare games where I was on top, had my comfortable 6 cities and a bunch of CS, and I was ahead in wonders, science, and culture. And then the AI brought the pain HARD. Persia declares, then Korea (who had UR). Indonesia threw in to but didn't do anything.
Persia was a monster, I killed a full 8 unit navy 3 times, and it just regenerated.
I used that narrow funnel to try and hold on for dear life, blasting with musketmen from the northwest of Troyes. Things were going alright for a while, and then France sneak attacks me, brings in Musketeers and just crushes my backline. Suddenly all of my ranged musketmen are dead, and my land support is in taters.
Even UR is beating up Tyre, come on Tyre your better than this!
I only have 25 supply so I don't have much to work with, but I do what I can. I rotate Corsairs through the narrow choke as best I can, even using GAs when necessary to heal. But once my land forces crumbled I just could not match the endless strength of Persia. He poped the choke, and I folded like a lawn chair. He takes Frankfurt, he is about to take Troyes, and he managed to take one of my back cities that I just couldn't spare enough men to hold.
So AI I give this one to you, good game.
My only note about naval combat on Immortal...it really is all or nothing. If you are going to participate in naval combat, there are no half measures. You have to bring an incredible amount of ships so that your fleet doesn't get wrecked in open water, and then you have to kill equivalent fleets again and again and again to finally wear the AI down. This is one of the reasons I never get a navy as Tradition, you simply cannot afford the supply. I will also say that spotters are absolutely critical. Twice Persia ambushed me with a fresh fleet when I was caught out of position, I really should have kept a navigation 2 ship in the fleet to keep better watch.