Inherited turn (1925 AD): As I took the helm of our empire, I reviewed my task list:
- Conquer our continent -- that's 10 cities by my count
Sure, no problem. Piece of cake.
I didn't go any further in the list. Even under best of situations, 10 cities is probably enough work for at least the next two turnsets.
We had a good-sized stack in Korea and conquering our continent isn't an issue. But it would take quite a while. We were building research in many core cities but I saw several cities again ungarrisoned. I started building Infantry -- maybe I'm missing something but it feels wrong to leave cities without even an obsolete unit in them, especially with Chinese Caravels snooping around our coast line.
We popped 2 Great Prophets. The first, I sent to Corinth where he constructed Temple of Solomon, gaining us some gold from all the Greek and German Jewish cities. The second is on his way to York to join the city (not Nottingham to avoid polluting our science genes there).
We researched Industrialism (we've got Battleships now) and Plastics. Flight will be done in 5 turns -- I'd go for Radio next for Bombers to help us maintain our offensive on the other continent.
In 1927, Seoul fell with the loss of 2 Artillery. Not bad considering it was on a hill. I split our forces, sending 3 short-stacks off in 3 directions, each aimed at a Korean city. Sufficient troops to build 3 more short-stacks remained at Seoul to heal.
After healing, I formed two more teams. We were then heading towards 5 Korean cities simultaneously (yellow arrows):
A few years later, the arrival of transports and destroyer escorts permitted amphibious movements to speed things up (pink arrows).
In 1929, Pharsalos fell with no losses. Part of that force boarded an escorted Transport bound for P'yongsong.
In 1931, Inchon fell with no losses. Pusan fell too, but we lost a Cavalry. At both cities I sent in a Cavalry to soften up a Machine Gun in order to preserve our veteran Infantry but the second one died. At Wosan, I was 1 unit short of taking that city -- this stack was a little too short, it seems. We lost an Artillery and an Infantry there.
In 1932, Ulsan and Pyongsong fell with the loss of 3 Artillery total. Wang reinforced Wosan so we were forced to wait for reinforcements to arrive there.
In 1934, Wosnan finally fell with the loss of an additional Artillery. Taejon fell too, eliminating Korean culture from the northen half of the Korean peninsula. In the south, Phyrgian fell with no losses.
I'm sorry, but I failed to meet my objective. I only took 9 cities, not 10
. Nampo will fall next turn. Get a peace agreement with Wang immediately. We don't need his island cities to win.
At that point, we will have accomplished our variant requirement of eliminating all AI civs from our continent. London just began building 3 Gorges Dam and will finish it in 5 turns (our Great Engineer knocked 5 turns off the time). It can then complete Manhattan Project on the 6th turn -- start building nukes in every city possible. We might want to build SDI there as soon as possible.
By the time Manhattan Project is complete, we should have been able to move our navy and army to our east coast. Be sure to leave a mobile reaction force to defend our western coast. Wake up every transport sleeping in cities, load up our army and send it across the eastern ocean -- it's the narrower of the two oceans -- and declare on China. The declaration would best be delivered at the tip of our first ICBM. I'd have 10 or 12 nukes ready by then.
I'd hit Mao's capital city first, then grab his large core cities, keeping everything. We are currently at 43.7% of the world's land mass. That will grow another 5% or so when the Korean cities start popping their borders. We may not need to declare on any other civs to reach 60% by capturing part of China. That means we can focus on China and not have to defend our homeland from from the Japanese and Ottoman navies. Just build tanks to ferry across the ocean and maybe some bombers to prep cities and keep hammering him with nukes.
OOPS, check that -- Mao and Mehmed have a defensive pact. Better leave some battleships and maybe 2 stacks of tanks on the west coast. Get some fighters to fly recon missions to reveal any Ottoman fleet movements before they reach our shore.
Here's The Save:
Atomic_Betty_AD-1935.CivWarlordsSave Have fun!
nice read. keep it going.
and...
That would pollute or GA pool!
