1852 (0) - The mighty Persian Empire covers 62.94% of the land. We probably can just wait for French cities to come out of resistance and expand borders. However, during the previous turnsets, I've established a tradition of starting wars on my turn. I swear I am just a peaceful builder and this is a complete coincidence.
So, to keep up this tradition, I use the massive stacks of Tanks and Marines Snaproll arranged so nicely on English border and attack England.
First, every available unit in Byblos area is moved into the city, to decrease the chance of rebellion. We will probably need about a dozen units to properly suppress it, so I am not sure if it's worth the effort. Moving in 3 units drops chance of rebellion from about 9.5% to about 6.5%, so it looks like 1% per unit decrease.
Next I declare war on Vicky.
All healthy non-medic units advance towards nearest British cities, in some cases using the fact that cultural borders around newly captured French cities haven't adjusted yet.
IBT: Some brave British troops (a couple Cavs here, a Cat there) advance towards our cities.
1854 (1) - A bunch of builds complete. British troops in the field (2 Cavs, a Cat and a Redcoat) are quickly dealt with.
Newcastle falls easily, although City Garrison III Redcoats manage to kill a CII, Pinch Marine and a Pinch Infantry units. One marine gets Garrison promotions and is left to guard the city, while the rest of units (including tanks) move on towards London.
A lot of other troops reach their target cities.
IBT: Marine in Newcastle repeals a couple British attacks. It doesn't looks like they have many troops left.
1856 (2) - We are at 63.67%. So one or two more cities coming out of resistance will win the game.
A stack of Artillery captures Leeds and resulting border adjustment puts us over 64%. However, I'll fight out the rest of sieges just for fun.
A massive stack captures Canterbury.
Advanced force of 5 tanks approaches Coventry. City has 60% defense, is defended by several CG Redcoats and there are no fighters in range. However, I attack just in case, to see how close we can get to capturing it. The city is on a hill, so we can't Blitz it. We lose 2 tanks and come 1 unit short, with the city protected by a severely wounded Redcoat.
IBT: It turns out England did have a reserve. The forward force of 3 tanks that approached London is attacked (and destroyed) by about dozen units. They are even smart enough to attack with useless horse archers and elephants first and save Redcoats for the final kills.
1858 (3) - Domination Victory!
I am attaching a bunch of screenshots, as well as final save an replay files. The GNP, production, etc. graphs are fun to play with, but hard to capture in screen shots, so you'll just have to use final save for that. The replay is pretty scary to watch. We grew at about same rate as everybody else until suddenly swallowing up India around 1000 - 1400 AD. After that territory was digested, we just exploded over the map, overrunning the entire world.
This was a very fun game and the things I've learned here helped me win my Adventure 2 game.
I hope to play again with you in the future.
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