Reign of President "destroy them" Viking
At last I'm finished. I was too lazy to micromanage freight and stuff like that a lot (at this stage of the game I usually prefer big guns to freight) and focused entirely on the military. I managed to eliminate the Mongols (obviously), the Carthaginans and the Americans. I was close to eliminating the French as well and might have been able to do so had I realized earlier on how close I would be to doing so (during the first 2 or 3 turns I assumed there was no chance in hell I would be able to eliminate the French if I eliminated both the Carthaginians and the Americans).
1869 AD (0): Shift the focus entirely to the military, rush buy lots of stealth fighters, howitzsers, spies, engineers, barracks, airports etc. for several thousand $, in many cases without having any shields in a city's production box.
1870 AD (1): The Babylonians build 8 spaceship components and the French 7. Babylonians acquire mobile warfare from the Egyptians who get nuclear power and theology in return. Mongols get flight from the French. We discover refrigeration. Panormus (Carthaginian - Lighthouse) razed, $40 plundered. Caralis (Carthaginian) razed, $40 plundered. Kahun (Egypt) captured, $59 plundered. Pithom (Egypt) captured, $50 plundered.
1871 AD (2): The Babs build 2 spaceship components, discover radio, switch to fundamentalism and get rocketry from the French. The French get mobile warfare and radio in return. The French build 5 spaceship components and acquire nuclear power from the Babs. The Egyptians build 2 spaceship components, the Americans 1 and the Carthaginians 7. Poitiers (French) captured, $252 plundered. Grenoble (French) captured. Besancon (French) bribed for $3180, $304 plundered and we get some military units, including a battleship. 4 Babylonian diplomats killed in this general area. Mendes (Egypt) razed. Freight delivery yields $565.
1872 AD (3): France build 6 spaceship components. Egypt acquires radio and rocketry from France. France acquries superconductor and fusion power from the Americans. The Americans acquire radio, mobile warfare and nuclear power from France. Egypt builds 5 spaceship components. Carthaginians build 4 spaceship components, develop radio and acquire mobile warfare and rocketry from the Americans. For some reason the AI civs do not seem to completely trust us ?? City Walls sabotaged in Carthage. Carthage attacked, its water supply poisoned and the city finally razed, $45 plundered and the Carthaginian government escapes to Leptis Parva. This destroyed the Oracle and Copernicus Obs. Girba (Carthaginian) bribed for $783, $96 plundered. The city walls in Leptis Parva destroyed (required two spies), the city receives the same treatment as Carthage and the Eiffel Tower is history, $30 plundered and the Carthaginian government escapes to Rusicade. Freight delivery yields $480. Basra (Mongol) captured, $849 plundered. Aleppo bribed for $210, $151 plundered. MONGOL CIVILIZATION DESTROYED BY CELTS. El-Ashmunein, a city the Egyptians just founded naer Kahun razed, $6 plundered.
1873 AD (4): Babylonian dip steals superconductor from us (Besancon). Egypt builds 3 spaceship components and develops robotics. Carthago builds just one spaceship component. Rusicade (Carthaginian) captured, $365 plundered and the Carthaginian government escapes to Cartenna. Cartenna captured, $20 plundered. Carthaginan spaceship destroyed. Malaca (Carthaginian) razed, $2 plundered and WS no longer exists. Two Carthaginian partisans bribed for $117 each and they become NONE units. Gades (Carthaginan) bribed for $232, $12 plundered. Additional partisan bribed for $115, becomes NONE. Kabul (Carthaginian) bribed for $380, $15 plundered. Carthago Nova (Carthaginian) bribed for $47, $1 (!) plundered. CARTHAGINIAN CIVILIZATION DESTROYED BY CELTS. Amiens (French) captured, $278 plundered. Chartres (Babylonian) captured, $156 plundered.
1874 AD (5): The Babs get robotics from the Egyptians and the Egypts get superconductor in return. No spaceship components built by the AI civs. A cruise missile attacks our carrier/transport combo SE of Edfu but it survives the attack comfortably. Detroit (American) captured, $100 plundered. Edfu (Egypt) captured, $49 plundered. Athribis (Egypt) captured, $23 plundered. Toulouse (French) razed, $39 plundered and the Apollo program no longer exists. Washinton's city walls destroyed (the third attempt was successful). It is then razed, $23 plundered and Darwin's Voyage and the Great Wall no longer exist. American government escapes to Philadelphia. San Francisco razed, $8 plundered and Isaac Newton's College no longer exists. New York bribed for $507, $39 plundered. Philadelphia city walls destroyed. Philadelphia razed, $7 plundered, American spaceship destroyed and Marco Polo's embassy no longer exists. New Orleans bribed for $385, $43 plundered. Chicago bribed for $500, $52 plundered. Buffalo bribed for $360, $34 plundered. Buffalo bribed for $467, $41 plundered. AMERICAN CIVILIZATION DESTROYED BY CELTS. Tours (French)captured, $456 plundered. Cities of TransptToFrance and InvadeFrance founded. Paris' city walls destroyed. Paris then razed, $33 plundered and the Colossus no longer exists. French government escapes to Lyons. Orleans (French) captured, $103 plundered. Strasbourg (French) bribed for $454, $77 plundered.
I decided to stop now even though the turn is not quite finished, thus giving my successor some room for making decisions and moving some troops in France to safer places. The French have 3 cities left but two of these contain wonders. One of the wonder cities is a size 23 city. The best way is to destroy the city walls using a veteran spy (may take 2-3 attempts), attack to kill everything there (this reduces the size of city) and then poison the water supply to raze it. To do this a lot of spies are required so the French possibly cannot be eliminated until 1876 AD. I have been rush buying spies and other stuff from scratch in about 10-15 cities each turn; we are making a lot of money each turn so this is a good strategy. One French city (Cherbourg) has no wonder and can be captured next turn using the stealth fighter NextToFrance is building and the paratrooper Grenoble is building.
I captured all Egyptian cities not on their main continent. There is an army in Busiris that could invade the main Egyptian continent and capture Avaris but I haven't done so, getting reinforcements there would take too much time, a bigger invasion force is probably needed. To the east of the Egyptian continent (in the former Egyptian cities of Edfu and Athribis) there are also some units, stealth fighters in particular.
Our main island is still poorly defended but the big change is that all of its neighbors have been eliminated except for the French but they are no longer a threat. Just in case I improved the defenses in the capital since the AI might be able to cheat by suddenly building MP and nuking us on the same turn - a long shot though. Also all of the AI civs are researching advanced flight, therefore the stealth fighter in the capital.
There are ship chains to France from the (former) Mongol continent and from the continent where the city of Llangollen et al is located. The chain from the Mongol continent needs to be fixed though; it is important for bringing spies to France.
Finally we shouldn't forget that the more cities we capture the higher our score.
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