A flick of a keyboard, a pinch of Quick Combat and Epic speed, some nice spraying of Emperor and all standard everything else, with a dollop of red hot meatballs...
And what do we get?
RED DAWN
Ok, I admit the title isn't exactly tangential, and I want to use this thread to write whatever feels like coming to me. Which isn't much, at the moment, but rest assured that once my writing engine kicks in, we'll have a steamroller ready to roll those alphabets out like hotcakes!
So we begin in the misty mists of 4000 BC, on an alternate universe that may or may not be our own...
Hark, we meet our first civilization.
But that's not 4000 BC?!
Well, we have to say that we didn't take many screenshots and the time budget was low so this is the best we can do.
Also denouncing Mongolia around Turn 40-50. I really love being me. But what could I say? They were neural when we first met, they started off too closely to me, naturally they ~coveted~ my lands as I did their iron-rich hinterlands.
Thus when I settled Satsuma a little to the west of Osaka here, the Mongols threw a breeze and declared war within ten turns.
But whaaaa~ how did this happen?
The Mongols you see were incredibly distracted by a lone warrior I had placed in Satsuma... and perhaps that city-state to the south. They basically sent four warriors, three spearmen and an archer down there for what I cannot say. Perhaps they would like to show overwhelming force in the hopes that I will sue for peace?
Maybe, but it costed them their capital city and later on their second city next to Hsia. They were also at war with America to the northwest, having taken New York and bloodying the Americans into terror. The land of the free immediately closed itself off... by building the Great Wall, robbing me a chance to nab that wonder. I tried going for Hsia, but between Mongol's many leftover units and the city's 16-def, even the few swordsmen and pikemen I had were no match.
Then Russia declared war on the pitiable remains of Mongolia, they managed to take Turfan... and then later on they declared war on me.
With some nicely placed catapults and SAMURAIS, Turfan was mine, and the Mongols were well and truly surrounded on all sides sans their puppet New York.
The time came to move into Hsia not long after, starting with an old worker bait. The thing was the Mongols never really took it, not until many, many, many turns later when I was close to taking their last production city down. Instead they kept moving back and generally try and make a nuisance of my invasion. And they did have a large military - had to use whittling tactics before I could take the city proper. Slow, tedious, and I'm still wondering whether it was worth it.
During that strange war, England of faraway lands had taken the time and opportunity to turn this into the new world. By first, settling a city (Coventry) to the southeast. The next step was to declare war on its runaway champion (Japan). Apparently Monty decided to show up as well and do the new world settling thing too, but he was much friendlier than Liz.
Somewhat.
Thus, when I had taken Hsia, and had that technology to truly roll over everyone else...
Razed to the ground. Testimony to the natives' hellbent isolationist policy of There Can Only Be One.
A brief situational snippet of Red Dawn Continent:
Monty settled two cities close to my capital. I had no patience to do anything burn strategy, so I simply worded off a simple request.
Right, trusted. You settle my continent willy-nilly, and have the sheer balls to... denounce me. Right.
But that's not all it gets better
But anyways, I decided it was high time to fully explore the continent before I got my little obsolete guy to check the faraway lands.
It was a mistake none of my core cities were coastal, and a mistake that I am paying for even now into the end of the 20th Century. But for now, a look at what goes on behind the American Hermit Shell:
I had met the Babylonians by then, and they too share my convictions that the Aztecs are a spammy problem for civilized nations everywhere.
In the next thirty turns, we see the Fall of the Mongol Menace as Washington finally retakes New York.
What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be on the other faraway land with fish n chips and cricket?
But anyways, this gave the American Founder the confidence and impetus to finally do what he always wanted to do.
I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked that this kind of thing would occur
Just so we are clear - when Washington meant odds, he meant completely lopsided against him.
This is just extremely sad.
Not only was he at war with the dominant civ, he was at war with Russia and Babylon and Babylon's many city-state allies.
It was truly ugly.
We had a brief peace after I decided that Washington was the nicest spot to get and his two other cut off cities could just wither on the vine.
True enough, they did.
I was never happy. Between the brief and few bouts of green happy, Japan was always at war with someone or another.
In the Industrial Modern era, it was Russia.
I could have left her alone. With the amount of land and cities at my beck, even faraway Babylon had nothing on me.
The Aztecs were gone by then, swept in fire by both Babylon and our continent by his city-state allies and friend-civ Russia, and then later on his second last city next to my capital was taken with a lone artillery and WW2 infantry and promptly razed. Such was the ignominious end of Montezuma, who joined the ranks of Mongolia and America.
But Russia? Russia was different. Her sheer size made me think five times about trying to conquer her. It was easily done, what with me having artillery and mech inf and Zero fighters and tanks, she only had Infantry and Artillery to match.
But one thing that made me go after this land of sheer unhappiness, was that on this ginormous boxy continent, her lands were the only places that contained Uranium.
So I had no choice but to go.
Her frontier cities easily fell.
But as I went deeper and deeper, the unhappiness racketed.
Such that this was what faced me in the first half of the 1940s.
Too large, had to be slowly whittled down and with the -33% combat inefficiency it was hellishly a pain to slog through. Even my Zero fighters couldn't do much by themselves, and Catherine was smart enough to maneuver her units out of artillery range for quite sometime.
But the unhappiness was a killer.
Then I took Moscow, and Rostov, and Novgorod, and then if there was an empire fracture mechanic it would have kicked in heavily now.
-23 Unhappiness.
Yet the only rebels were a pair of AA guns, who were promptly put down by a combo of rushbought artilleries and mechinf. I had to rushbuy several stadiums and annexed a couple cities along the way with rushbought happiness buildings, severely dampening my ability to flesh out the Autocracy and Rationalism/Commerce trees.
Meanwhile Babylon had all the city-states in the world as his ally, even on my continent, and thusly he won the diplo vote to become world ruler forever.
Now we reached the end of this story.
And this was the one who captured the Aztec capital.
And here's a post-credit wrapup:
NEXT UP: Preparing for Long War with Babylon Runaway/Korea Remnants
(England is getting gobbled by Babylon)
And what do we get?
RED DAWN
Ok, I admit the title isn't exactly tangential, and I want to use this thread to write whatever feels like coming to me. Which isn't much, at the moment, but rest assured that once my writing engine kicks in, we'll have a steamroller ready to roll those alphabets out like hotcakes!
So we begin in the misty mists of 4000 BC, on an alternate universe that may or may not be our own...
Hark, we meet our first civilization.
Spoiler :
But that's not 4000 BC?!
Well, we have to say that we didn't take many screenshots and the time budget was low so this is the best we can do.
Also denouncing Mongolia around Turn 40-50. I really love being me. But what could I say? They were neural when we first met, they started off too closely to me, naturally they ~coveted~ my lands as I did their iron-rich hinterlands.
Thus when I settled Satsuma a little to the west of Osaka here, the Mongols threw a breeze and declared war within ten turns.
Spoiler :
But whaaaa~ how did this happen?
The Mongols you see were incredibly distracted by a lone warrior I had placed in Satsuma... and perhaps that city-state to the south. They basically sent four warriors, three spearmen and an archer down there for what I cannot say. Perhaps they would like to show overwhelming force in the hopes that I will sue for peace?
Maybe, but it costed them their capital city and later on their second city next to Hsia. They were also at war with America to the northwest, having taken New York and bloodying the Americans into terror. The land of the free immediately closed itself off... by building the Great Wall, robbing me a chance to nab that wonder. I tried going for Hsia, but between Mongol's many leftover units and the city's 16-def, even the few swordsmen and pikemen I had were no match.
Then Russia declared war on the pitiable remains of Mongolia, they managed to take Turfan... and then later on they declared war on me.
With some nicely placed catapults and SAMURAIS, Turfan was mine, and the Mongols were well and truly surrounded on all sides sans their puppet New York.
Spoiler :
The time came to move into Hsia not long after, starting with an old worker bait. The thing was the Mongols never really took it, not until many, many, many turns later when I was close to taking their last production city down. Instead they kept moving back and generally try and make a nuisance of my invasion. And they did have a large military - had to use whittling tactics before I could take the city proper. Slow, tedious, and I'm still wondering whether it was worth it.
Spoiler :
During that strange war, England of faraway lands had taken the time and opportunity to turn this into the new world. By first, settling a city (Coventry) to the southeast. The next step was to declare war on its runaway champion (Japan). Apparently Monty decided to show up as well and do the new world settling thing too, but he was much friendlier than Liz.
Somewhat.
Thus, when I had taken Hsia, and had that technology to truly roll over everyone else...
Spoiler :
Razed to the ground. Testimony to the natives' hellbent isolationist policy of There Can Only Be One.
A brief situational snippet of Red Dawn Continent:
Spoiler :
Monty settled two cities close to my capital. I had no patience to do anything burn strategy, so I simply worded off a simple request.
Spoiler :
Right, trusted. You settle my continent willy-nilly, and have the sheer balls to... denounce me. Right.
But that's not all it gets better
Spoiler :
But anyways, I decided it was high time to fully explore the continent before I got my little obsolete guy to check the faraway lands.
It was a mistake none of my core cities were coastal, and a mistake that I am paying for even now into the end of the 20th Century. But for now, a look at what goes on behind the American Hermit Shell:
Spoiler :
I had met the Babylonians by then, and they too share my convictions that the Aztecs are a spammy problem for civilized nations everywhere.
Spoiler :
In the next thirty turns, we see the Fall of the Mongol Menace as Washington finally retakes New York.
Spoiler :
What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be on the other faraway land with fish n chips and cricket?
But anyways, this gave the American Founder the confidence and impetus to finally do what he always wanted to do.
Spoiler :
I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked that this kind of thing would occur
Just so we are clear - when Washington meant odds, he meant completely lopsided against him.
Spoiler :
This is just extremely sad.
Not only was he at war with the dominant civ, he was at war with Russia and Babylon and Babylon's many city-state allies.
It was truly ugly.
Spoiler :
We had a brief peace after I decided that Washington was the nicest spot to get and his two other cut off cities could just wither on the vine.
True enough, they did.
Spoiler :
I was never happy. Between the brief and few bouts of green happy, Japan was always at war with someone or another.
In the Industrial Modern era, it was Russia.
I could have left her alone. With the amount of land and cities at my beck, even faraway Babylon had nothing on me.
The Aztecs were gone by then, swept in fire by both Babylon and our continent by his city-state allies and friend-civ Russia, and then later on his second last city next to my capital was taken with a lone artillery and WW2 infantry and promptly razed. Such was the ignominious end of Montezuma, who joined the ranks of Mongolia and America.
But Russia? Russia was different. Her sheer size made me think five times about trying to conquer her. It was easily done, what with me having artillery and mech inf and Zero fighters and tanks, she only had Infantry and Artillery to match.
But one thing that made me go after this land of sheer unhappiness, was that on this ginormous boxy continent, her lands were the only places that contained Uranium.
So I had no choice but to go.
Spoiler :
Her frontier cities easily fell.
But as I went deeper and deeper, the unhappiness racketed.
Such that this was what faced me in the first half of the 1940s.
Spoiler :
Too large, had to be slowly whittled down and with the -33% combat inefficiency it was hellishly a pain to slog through. Even my Zero fighters couldn't do much by themselves, and Catherine was smart enough to maneuver her units out of artillery range for quite sometime.
But the unhappiness was a killer.
Then I took Moscow, and Rostov, and Novgorod, and then if there was an empire fracture mechanic it would have kicked in heavily now.
-23 Unhappiness.
Yet the only rebels were a pair of AA guns, who were promptly put down by a combo of rushbought artilleries and mechinf. I had to rushbuy several stadiums and annexed a couple cities along the way with rushbought happiness buildings, severely dampening my ability to flesh out the Autocracy and Rationalism/Commerce trees.
Meanwhile Babylon had all the city-states in the world as his ally, even on my continent, and thusly he won the diplo vote to become world ruler forever.
Now we reached the end of this story.
And this was the one who captured the Aztec capital.
Spoiler :
And here's a post-credit wrapup:
Spoiler :
NEXT UP: Preparing for Long War with Babylon Runaway/Korea Remnants
(England is getting gobbled by Babylon)
