Well Ruff laid out an excellent pre play plan of:-
1. Accumulate cash for a 100% assembly line run
2. Sneaky take down Americas back lines and looking for a capitualation with Democracy thrown in for good measure
3. Then set up New York as a lightning rod for Zara’s stacks when we declare on him.
It was a good plan, in fact a very good plan but perhaps too good a plan ???
Initially things progress swimmingly until the first flaw in the plan is revealed. That major flaw was when we encountered our first IBKAC problem.
What’s an IBKAC problem, you ask … some new wonderful Civ Acronym you haven’t encountered perhaps…. Some masterful AI strategy gleaned from years of dutiful scrutiny of obscure XML files in the bowels of Civ perhaps ??
As I said initially things went great as we followed Ruff’s invasion plan capturing Philadelphia
Soon to be followed by San Francisco.
So just as I am happily starting to research AL Roosevelt capitulates to Zara who promptly of course declares war and sends a non –trivial stack to our back lines.
Here is where I begin to realize the real major flaw in Ruff’s plan - in that it was a far far too good plan and we are being punished with a SID (Superior Intelligence Disaster) response.
Running 100% cash ready for a 100% research run at a tech.
Nope the AI would never do it.
Setting up a city like New York as a killing ground for a future opponents stack.
Nope the AI would never be clever enough to do that
So what’s the only way to our redeem ourselves from the SID Issue???
Yes it is time to start behaving like the AI would… What does that mean? Well how about trading for Democracy and immediately making the Civic Switch in mid war.
Yes that does feel much more appropriate.
Admittedly the Emancipation unhappiness was an issue so we did gain from it but I did feel much more in theme “Revolting” whilst puzzling out what to do about Zara….
And lo and behold it worked and things started getting back under control. We did lose Washington for a turn but have recaptured it and I am afraid Zara still has Atlanta
.
But stage 1 of paying him back is complete with the Capture of Yeha
His big stack up north isn’t actually that much of a threat with Machine Gun Defenders in place and the cash to upgrade rifles to Infantry if desired.
We are close to finishing off America’s back lines although obviously he retains New York on the Mainland at the moment.
And we have a force that when upgrade to Infantry / cannons (did I mention we have a fair bit of cash?) can do him some severe damage.
On the relationship front Boudi seems to have discovered a very dodgy younger brother from Spawning a Colony…
We are really disliking Hammurabi as he has asked for our Girlfriends protection. Just not on…
Other than that we either don’t care or hate everybody…
Ralph
(no way of building anything).
. Like Ralph said, we got to have one of those pointless maintainance killers!
Yes, but now I have evidence! Let us dance, you and I 
