Pre-Flight (630AD)
Everything looks pretty good. I mm a little for shields and growth but cant find enough extra commerce to either drop the research time or to get enough gpt to bump science 10%, best I can do is -1gpt with no taxmen and dont really wanna hire any.
IBT - AOL units move around... damn they have a lot of guys.
Turn 1 (640AD) - Redmond grows culturally, Menlo Park and Web Search finish uni's.
Worker moves, the two uni's dropped Mil Trad from 17 to 14 turns.
IBT - AOL really does have lots of guys...
Turn 2 (650AD)- Googleplex builds uni. Get our saltpetre connected. Mil Trad has dropped to 8 turns.
Deals with linux and apple have ended. We could get Mil Trad from Linux for 2 luxs but we've decided to pull the plug on trades with them. Can't find any reference to apple so I decide to trade with them.
Apple: Silks + Gems + Furs for Magnetism + 16 gp (we have 1 source of silks left to trade but only linux to trade them to)
IBT - Really, I am serious about those AOL guys... lots!
Turn 3 (660AD)- Mountain view finishes uni, mil trad drops to 5 turns. Everywhere building military units is on web crawlers for a bulkus upgrade. Googleplex is MM for 20spt so it can pop a webcrawler every turn.
IBT - But they are pretty crappy units really...
Turn 4 (670AD) - meh, not much. I'm getting ready for a bulk upgrade. Need cash, just waiting really. Keeping an eye on possible trades. None that great.
IBT - I think a couple muskets and we wont have to worry...
Turn 5 (680AD)- hey this aint too bad. IBM old mate, whats that? You're people are unhappy? Awww, thats a shame you know. Ay? Silks? Well yeh, we do have lots... yep a surplus. Military tradition? Oh I dunno... I'm a music fan too... hey thats good, lets do that.
IBM: Silks for Military Tradition + Music Theory (Bach's gone tho) + 1gp
Research is set to Theory o' Grav. Thats what we want (lucky wasn't something crappy like navigation...) wind back sci to 0% (I know a waste of hte new unis but its only for a little while) and turn all mil cities from cav back to web crawlers (can anyone say 'Leo your a Legend'?). Do the first big upgrade.
14 Web Crawlers - 840gp
1 Horse - 50gp
1 Knight - 10gp
We have 16 cavs and feel much better. Left our elite horses as horses. That is till they pop a leader (touch wood).
11 turns on silks deal with AoL, might be able to tempt war...
IBT - zzz
Turn 6 (690AD) - Just moving troops around, more upgrades (will be upgrading guys every turn till we hit a GA. I actually feel we could win the war in say 5 turns.
IBT - zzz
Turn 7 (700AD) - less than 5 even. Seriously, biggest problem is figuring out how to get into the war without ruining our rep. Eveyone else is Industrial.
IBT - zzz
Turn 8 (710AD)- ok, here's the plan. keep build web crawlers and upgrading them every turn till the silks deal runs out, then declare war kill everything our side of the choke. Take or burn all AOL cities our side of the choke. Hold the actual choke. Sue for techs with peace.
Piece'sa cake Peekay!
IBT - zzz
Turn 9 (720AD) - 7 turns...
IBT - They don't look so tough
Turn 10 (730AD) - 6 turns...
IBT - Penguins start Universal Suffrage...
Turn 11 (740AD) - 5 turns...
IBT - yahoo cancels our incense - silks deal, we have to forfeit our 1gpt in order to renogotiate
Turn 12 (750AD) - 4 turns... the tension is killing me. We are strong compared to AOL, probably for the first time in the game.
IBT - zzz
Turn 13 (760AD) - 3 turns...
IBT - zzz
Turn 14 (770AD) - 2 turns...
IBT - zzz
Turn 15 (780AD) - 1 turn...
IBT - Sun asks for a MPP, I consider it but decide, as I can't see who they are at war with I don't want to risk it. Might have been nice having them at our back though...
Turn 16 (790AD) - Well this is it. The big one.
We declare war on AOL
Its right now that I realise we don't have an embassy with Yahoo!, funny that. I make one.
I rearrange our defences, we aren't striking this turn. We are letting them waste that huge army on our side of the choke by moving into our territory where our cavalry (6 to a city all the way along the border) will utterly anhilate them.
As suggested I give Z/os to Sun.
IBT - Linux signs a Trade Embargo against us. Our wines deal with Apple is up for renewal, it costs us an extra 1gpt to keep it going. AOL starts to move into our territory... hehehe
Turn 17 (800AD) - start by picking off all the stragglers in our territory. (5-0) cover any exposed cavs with muskets. Despite killing 4 monthly subscribers and a spear at Warner Bros the city still stands. Ok... (10-0)
We kill 3 subscribers, and a spear and born Time (14-0). The territory made ours give us control of roads and we kill another 2 spears (16-0).
IBT - our people want Wall Street, we get a double palace expansion and LOTS (and I really mean lots, I'm counting upwards of 50 guys) of AOL troops move toward us... I really underestimated them... good thing I didn't cancel our web crawler upgrade scheme.
Ok well I'll have to pause here as I have to go play soccer (should win... hopefully), I play sweeper and am captain so I really have to go. I will complete this war upon my return.
Watch out AOL, Google has you in her sights!