After the new math advisor was fired for smoking weed imported from India,
Jean Paul d'Charis took the reigns in the middle of a loooooong and arduous
campaign. Yet he knew this was only the beginning of a time that would show
no let up, so he girded his loins. (And OUCH did THAT hurt!!!)
1810 AD (0) - Fifteen japanese cities left. Two have a glorious French
horde at their front door. If I look back since when war with Japan
started, there were 47 in 1760, 39 in 1776, 33 in 1790, 15 in 1810.
Loss rate averages 1.33 cities per turn. Voila!! Due to be extinct in
ten years! Well that sure makes for a nice 'goal'
If Bordeaux holds out it will be a miracle, and if we can just keep
something alive at Cod Piece for 10 more turns, they can get full attention
after that. Richelieu... do we really want to keep him around all the way
to UN build?? If we lose an army and fail to get three in the field
when we build an army in 3 turns, I might just let that boy loose!
The AI need all optional tech before they can go into modern era, and we
could probably out build it anyway, and we CAN prebuild it... sure could
use a Tank Army right about NOW! Thoughts of pentagon arise...
Porthos, Aramis and Athos get together and decide...
... our armies *MUST* make room for a 4th member... D'Artagnon!!!!
All for One and One for All concur, and Richileu lathers the glorious
rabble into a frenzy from which...
... a tank army emerges! (Hold off on weed discussions til after turn plz ;p )
Paris, home of the Heroic Epic and The "Academie", is switched over to
Pentagon!
1812 AD (1) - Quite a show by the Persian navy! Vs Cod Piece just one cav,
retreats. Japanese longbowmen take the fields to face the tanks.
Alex has had enough of the MPP. We say "oh come on Alex!! How about if
we toss in Gems and Ivory and you toss in Trade Embargoes, just for the
heck of it? He's very gracious at this offer. Several Tanks done, and
a police station even. D'Charis makes the *utmost* effort not to veto
any police stations! He's making a lot of requests of 'future leaders'
and so must respect the wishes of others as well...
The French and 1812... D'Charis hears the strange sounds of an unfamiliar
tune run though his head and has the STRANGEST urge to invade Russia!!???
"Perhaps when winter comes, he thinks!"
Just now he looks at the stack of artillery outside Syracuse!
How GLORIOUS!! Thank the heavens we have Jacques here to man these
contraptions!!
Eastern front - Ise is shellacked, losing all citizens but one, its
marketplace, library, cathedral and bank. THEN the tanks roll...
First one barely wins, second one is an elite one and we see...
* DE GAULLE * A new leader!
Well ok, ends-justifies-the-means validates the choice to use Richilieu
(not that I subscribe to that theory!) Cav unit takes the city.
He's sent to HyuK'Meer to ponder his next move. The thought of a glorious
Marine or Paratrooper army intrigue him!
Shift to Western front... bombard Syracuse (poof to Temple, Library,
Marketplace, Cathdral, all in first five shots! Then University, then it
looks like just two 1hp defenders. Syracuse falls. Our infantry grow elite
mopping up the longbows in the field.
1814 AD (2) - Cod Piece holds off and kills another Cossack (it and other
city their got a tank each last round). Bordeaux, on the other hand,
lost its Coastal Fortress on the first salvo, then its temple and courhouse
and all but last citizen. Yet the sole Infantry held, and a barracks
rushed last turn made good use of one citizen that would have been killed
anyway
Rome and Japan sign a peace treaty. (That won't do!)
Japan wants to talk peace, and offers five cities. Tempting, but no.
Here comes a Samurai ;P Nothing flipped mid-turn, good. (Virtually
all garrisons placed by last leader were kept for that reason)
Just one defender in Arretium?? We're now seeing phase 2 of
'running out of gas', not only no offense, now the defense is gone.
Er.. a second defender. A spearman is crushed under our treads
Back on the West front, Izumo is next. It's reduced down to size 5.
Three defenders killed, now down to conscripts. Maybe next round...
On the far east, Edo is put in the crosshairs. At least 3 defenders,
Cathedral smashed along with Police and Temple, and down to size 6.
Just below that, Nagasaki barracks destroyed. At the end we whip about six
temples in the captured Japanese territory (remember, no cash just peeps,
as we're in communism)
1816 AD (3) - There go the barracks at Bordeaux. OTOH, The Pentagon is
completed in Paris!
At end of 1814 we pulled Rome back in
with MPP for dyes, and now they declare on the Japanese.
Again no flips good. (The proximity of Osaka does make that an issue)
Izumo is crushed, buildings falling right and left. Two defenders it
looks like. It is captured, and now our monsterly glorious artillery
stack of doom is within range of Osaka! On the Eastern front, Edo falls.
Osaka barracks and marketplace destroyed by the expert bombing of our
glorious M'eer pilots!! Five or six cities set up to attack next round...
On Cod Island... Magnitorask drops below size 7. Well below. Then the
University and Harbor fall. (Hmmm... to Whomever got all these planes
over here...
)
1818 AD (4) - Greece and Persia sign peace treaty. Rome has the *BOLD*
audacity to ask a WORKER get himself out of THEIR territory on the
one square that keeps us from railroad connectivity to out latest
conquest. Well I don't expect war with Rome within 20, so offer an RoP.
Wowza!! Their longbowmen have been sipping Jolt cola or something!
Our first large group of casualties in a while. One longbow slays a
conscript infantry, then a second drives back a vet tank. Another
KILLS a tank (bah), then they snag a few workers they were closer
to than I thought. At Bordeaux there's almost nothing left to bombard.
Their immortal *ALMOST* pulls off victory, but our elite inf there
wins with 2hp left. (Hmmm, do we have a boat fast enough to get in
and drop off before getting creamed by the armada there?)
More than typical pollution this round too.
Culture check- 59482, up from 57581 in 1812. Then 627/turn, now 634/turn.
Updated cultural ETA- 1946ad. Ack! Weeeeed! Our SECOND math advisor is
fired!! I just read Sirian's post and I've forgotten it's not JUST 100K, but
you need double nearest rival. Not a chance in heck, others are way too close.
City culture? Needs 20K - Athos is our bet...
Barracks, temple, marketplace at Echigo fall, then Library, Bank,
Cathedral. Japan has got to be feeling very thouroughly demoralized and
brutalized at this point. Our four tanks at their door surge forward,
and sweep the city (losing one.) Hmm... to the far West, I note that
Selucia is no longer Japanese but Greek! Excellent, that one was over
mountains and much out of our way
Osaka... the new capital... our glorious tanks roll on the city.
One falls, but another comes behind it. Osaka has many defenders,
and we run out of tanks. Cavs??? Where are they?? "Sir, General Sirian
sent all but a dozen to the glue factory!" Eep! "Well find them and
get them to Osaka!" One, two are found, and they defeat 1hp inf.
Yet another defender seen. A careful study of the census shows two in
Tokyo on "anti-flip" detail. One wins, and a longbowman steps up to
defend their capital. He forces the cav to retreat!!? (Foiled!! We could
not get a glorious artillery up in range to bury the archer!)
Precisely two left, also on flip detail - Hakodate and Ise. "Cav, HO!"
Osaka falls! Just barely outside the city, covered by fog, is a stack of
reinforcements just a moment too late. Mostly middle age units too.
Now that rail connect us, infantry can be rode in to finish them.
Six resisters though, ugh. The capital moves next door, to Matsuyama.
Kyoto conscripts are moved up to Osaka, and some become regulars.
"Sir, there is one more item to report in the royal annals... By
next turn you will hear of either the glorious coup or the glorious
death of a battallion of combined arms!!??"
Before the end of the Japanese empire there is one concern. We actually
bother to get an accurate city count!! It looks like 5, but ah yes,
there is ONE city far far away, New Nagoya on Madagascar island. With
the Persian armada there, there's no way to take it this century.
This is a problem. If we make peace, it might hurt our relations with
Greece and Rome, otherwise we could take the city as tribute. Then again,
do we have any reputation left here at all?? A slightly crazed diplomat
is sent to talk...
1820 AD (5) - "Sir, the 'interim' report today shows there was a worldwide
epidemic of weed smoking, sir. I'm sad to say, some was smoked in your
court, but just as much was smoked in Japan!" "??? Explain"
It is a not-so-glorious death sir, an entire regiment drowned at sea.
A renegate general took pity for his daughter trapped in Madagascar
North and ordered a full transport be dispatched to try to save them.
He reasoned that if one infantry could hold out for twenty years, how
long could a battallion hold out, even under withering armada fire?
Well sir, he reports that the dreaded AI-can-scout-further-than-you-can
weed was on board the transport, and the battleship pounding Mad North
instantly smelled them 5 miles away and came to chew them up and spit
them out. A combined force of cav, inf, tank, and yes, a glorious M'eer
and artillery... we're lost at sea!"
More bad news sire. So fraught and upset were the people of Bordeaux,
their will to fight was gone. Walls crumbled, the harbor, now bereft
of its fortress, fell into the sea, and that last, brave, brave infantry
man, was slain. The general's daughter and a second worker were slain.
This is sad news indeed. Although it is this mad general's fault, the
King D'Charis took full blame. "Sir, do you want to hear what that General's
brother, the diplomat did?" D'Charis sank in his chair, waiting for worse
news. "He called together his good friends Alex and Caesar and said, 'Let
us see what kind of man this Tokogawa really is. We shall seek peace and
demand tribute. If on the next turn he fails to bellow and try to kick us
off our own land, then I am a warmongerer and I have failed your great
countries. But... if he curses and bellows and demands 'Leave or War!!'
then he shall have war, and a swift one! For your trouble Alex, I shall
split the spoils of war with you!! New Nagoya is all yours. Please take
this as a freewill offering!" (When you get a city as a 'demand' you get
*NO* defenders in it!!! That city is on the tip of Persia-dominated island
and literally has no hope. So it was used to build back any ill will, if
in fact there was any generated.)
So said the glorious king, and so it was done. And true to form, Tokogawa
did bellow and curse the very way of the Musketeer, and so we told him to
shove his threats so deep not even a M'eer cannon cleaning rod can get them
out. It was then that Tokagawa was seen to share the love for the weed...
He poured **12** of his very last units, defenders of his last city, OUT
of Matsuyama, and ran them towards the 'empty' city of Old Nagoya. They
did not make it and were trapped in open country on our rail line,
defenseless. What follows need hardly be mentioned.
The full, and I mean FULL force of glorious French artillery was brought
to bare on the LONE two japanese occupied squares. It was brutal. From
size 8 down to 1, and a mere two defenders, barracks and 7 other buildings
leveled. Lost one tank on an inf in the city, that's about it. Shooting
duck, let's try to promote practive on the field units
Oh, did I mention Persia now has bombers? :-\
New Kagoshima and Bayonne find this out.
-- continued next post
). I hope the Persians are happy trading their democracy for one "glorious victory" over an unreinforced city with ONE unit on defense. They fired so many shots, at least one seems to have hit them in the foot. 
No, that's, uh... weed math! (Would be #turns if we NEEDED 12K, not had 12K) It's 95 turns, less than for 'civ' cultural victory. (That gaff is like you having a sentence with two misspellings and an incomplete sentence all in one shot!)
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