Soooooo, in the down time after last night it occurred to me that I CAN'T fall into AP troubles, as I control the AP. DoWing Monty wouldn't be a problem unless it pisses Joao off too much. My goals then at the start of this segment are:
1. Get to communism ASAP for the Kremlin and
2. Knock some heads - preferably monty as he's really poor in tech.
Most people are near rifling - Monty is not. I think I can go kremlin before wiping him off the map. That will also allow me to spam missionaries peacefully some more until I can rush buy cavalry en masse'
OK, let's go.
1525 Democracy completes. Time for Emancipation and US. Divine Right and MT to Lincoln for SM (hurts to give up monastaries, but I need the Kremlin. Constitution and 700 gold to lincoln for replaceable parts! The only person with techs I don't have now is vicky.
1550 I pop a great merchant - why not trigger another GA? I can revolt to SP freely then and will be in my end civics!
1565 Revolt to SP - running the slider is a 23 gpt deficit now at 100%. Anything less and I net positive.
1570 GE rush and some hammers net me SoL in capitol
1580 Finish corp - going Rifling, but first turning slider off to BUY kremlin since vicky is near it too maybe.
1590 Monty cancels the DP to DOW me
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...JUST KIDDING! He declares on Vicky, his worst enemy. I'm still friendly with him.
1595 Asoka declares on monty. AP forces war on Vicky (yes, I did this
). This forces everyone but asoka into war with vicky, which is a pretty big screwjob on her - she's next to Joao and Freddy after all!
1620 Rush buy finishes the Kremlin
1650 Vicky pillaged a ton of seafood, but now I gave her 55 gold for peace. She's everyone elses problem now. Aztec took a city so change of plan - I'm teching to industrialism, then turning the slider off to buy my way to a very, very fast sequence of wars!
1665 DR, Communism, MT to Joao for Physics. BTW, 100% science, +10 GPT. 794 BPT...all w/o GA.
1690 Joao goes FR - pleased now. The game is still bugged too - AIs in their favorite civic consider ALL CURRENT CIVICS their favorite civic in the trade screen. Monty also fell to pleased, which kind of means he hast to die.
1704 Revolt to theocracy.
1706 Asoka makes peace with Monty.
1708 I bribe Monty into war with Freddy. I don't want him getting too much on his hands early.
1724 Monty wants war with Freddy - I REFUSE!!!!!!
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1732 Rush buy has gotten me 50 Cavalry - I now go back to teching.
1734
Monty, whose best unit is the musket. Too much Cavalry for that I think! I instantly capture 2 cities.
1736 Another Aztec city falls.
1740 Huge field battle win for me, another city.
1742 Aztec recapture Teotihuacan - not for long!
1748 It's mine again with backup cavalry - main stack is healing to charge Monty's capitol. After taking it I'll probably take capitulation because I'm afraid of Joao taking Monty as a vassal - that would suck. Actually, scratch that, I will keep on Monty until Joao makes peace with Vicky - I don't think the AIs will take a vassal and DoW while at a major war like that.
1750 Monty makes peace with Freddy. Ok.
1752 The intelligence agencies I built kick in - I can see all of monty now. He's in BAD shape
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1754 Aztec capitol is mine
. Buddhist shine? He has it. 37 GPT
. FIVE SHRINES FOR ME (though I'm not bothering with islamic). I'm already netting positive at 100% slider (currently 20% in culture). Another shrine? Yes please!
1762 Joao makes peace with Vicky. OK, I'll stop smacking Monty down now! The shrine is what I wanted and I did enough damage so that the city won't revolt too! Monty capitulates, giving me 120 gold also.
1778 Where am I techwise? Combustion just finished. 1083 BPT. The war slowed me up a bit (did turn the slider off to rush buy after all). Joao has assembly line on me but pretty much I'm pushing towards industrialism and will get there first! Since most of asoka's cities are coastal, that will get very ugly fast. Actually, now that I look at it, EVERY SINGLE CITY HE HAS IS COASTAL
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1780 Um...on this entire land mass, monty is the only one with oil, alternatively I can settle a junk city in the southern mountains. I will do that, because if I didn't I'd have to wait 12 turns to tech out fission.
1790 Monty settled the oil first
. Whatever, I'll just gift him techs and make him give it to me.
1820 I'm an idiot. I had oil after all...there's some near Texcoco, which I captured.
1828 Industrialism. Slider off time. Massed marines/destro time - Asoka then Vicky are going to leave the map.
1859 DoW Asoka - He doesn't have infantry yet, and I have marines/destros
. As I mentioned...ALL of his cities are coastal!!!!!!!!!
1860 Nevermind, he is getting infantry now
. Still doubt this will take long. Delhi falls. So does Bombay. See what I mean?
1861 Most advanced civs comes out - Lincoln, the COLONY, leads
. I'm 5th. Do I care? Of course not. I want this to end fast, so I capitulate asoka even though I could obliterate him.
1869 DoW Vicky. Much better force, since she's actually ahead of me in tech a bit. She is, however, in no condition to stop forces like this - my power rating is more than double hers - and she's the strongest AI left
. I capture 2 cities the same turn.
1876 I use the AP to force war on vicky. Yes, that means the entire world vs vicky
. I also have triple her and Joao's power now.
1877 Vicky capitulates
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1878 Lincoln and Joao have both made apollo, though neither have parts yet.
1885 It's time to cut down Germany.
1889 I take all of freddy's coastal cities, asoka takes an inland city, freddy has capitulated!
1896 No time to waste! Time to take out lincoln/joao. USA first - they're on my continent and I doubt Joao will capitulate nicely if he still has is vassal. Also, I think Joao may just be distracted by the dogpile coming from his own continent
. I take 3 of Lincoln's 4 cities instantly - 2 coastal and one of them using leftover cavalry
. 3 infantry don't do well against 30 cavalry, even with 80% defense.
1897 Lincoln is off the map...Back where you came from guy, the real america will debut elsewhere
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1898 I capture a portugese city, so does vicky. I cut through the captured city to take lisbon.
1900 After I take a few more cities and vicky gets her 2nd, Joao capitulates.
1901 I'm somewhat angry, as this triggered conquest and domination simultaneously, but I got the latter
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Let's review:
Took a little longer than usual mostly because I was typing this as I went and taking the pics - I upload them afterward.
See, wasn't that more fun than culture? I think so
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