And here we go. Took a while as I played turns 4-8 twice - boy do I love computers crashing.
This is no logisitical nightmare - looks good IMO! Thanks for the signs and pointers AK - they helped figure out the large number of units pretty fast!
I start by punting the culture rate to 10% - ridding us of a lot of unhappy faces. Switch one or two builds on the mainland to fulfill my grand plan! Then it's ready to go.
On the IBT it turns out we are the wealthiest with our 4030gold...
Turn 1:
Troops move into place. Canterbury is taken with a combination of tanks and marines.
Turn 2:
Lots of antiquated Zulu troops run about - shak brings in a stack to counter his lossees - it even has a sword in it. Our tanks tremble. - I bomb them a bit.
Radio is discovered - Sattelites is queued next, so I let that go on - game should be over before we discover much more IMO.
Capture some cities: Umungdun-thingamyjigger, Nobamba (with tourist friendly pyramids), Brighton.
Turn 3:
Zulus counterattack IBT - lots of troops suicide on Modern units.
Capture Babanango, KwaHlomendlini (via ampbibious assault), Hastings.
Turn 4: (same 2nd time around)
Nothing much on the IBT.
Capture Nongoma and Nottingham.
Destroy a large Zulu stack with one of my fave units - Collaterol damage tanks.
Line up a bunch of troops to lay some smackdown next turn.
Turn 5: (same 2nd time around)
Elect ourselves head of the AP by 241 votes to 8. The Indian civ is finished on the IT.
Capture Kwadukuza, Khangela, Coventry,
I dial science down in favor of culture - growing cities are worth more to us than Science at this point - very nearly done.
Zulus are down to 4 cities now - the end is nigh!
Turn 6: (same except the tank lived)
The zulus launch a heavy offensive in the north - they manage to kill a tank at the cost of a load of obsolete units - even had chariots attacking.
Capture York and Ondini - shaka down to 2 cities.
Shuffle troops for the last 2 cities.
Turn 7: (second time around I failed to capture London - had 2 defenders holding out).
Liz demands Assembly line - clear off lady - we might need to kill you!
Capture Norwich by amphibious assault, then London. Zulus are down to zero cities, but realise I need to kill their units as well.
At this point my computer crashes. Turns out that at some point it has dropped my autosave every turn setting - last autosave was Turn 4. Bah! Ah well...
Turn 8:
Capture London. Sink the last visible Zulu unit (a caravel) - they still aren't dead though.
Shuffle troops to heal.
At this point I was going to stop - but decided to press enter and see how close the cities coming out of revolt would take us...
Score is 79439 - Augustus Caeser level...
Thanks very much for this game - was a lot of fun! Unfortunately it's 1:10am and I have work tomorrow - will write a little more tomorrow.
Have included the save from the end of the turn before victory for those that want the scoreboard and victory stuff.
mention for trying.
