Stopping a Space Race?

[Heart Break Kid]

Cool map, but probably too huge for my liking, interesting to see.

Would like an update.

You're most likely going to have to just terrorize him, you have a huge navy. You're the underdog and you'll probably lose given the tech difference, but meh, you have nothing to lose. You're going to have to more or less wipe out all of China's major cities, might not have to raze every single one, but you'll need to be able to control his continent, which isn't easy.

I'm assuming you don't have nukes as well.


I wouldn't turn off science victory for the future. It's probably the hardest (or at least longest) way to win aside from time victory.

 

[Callonia]

Looks interesting, but I hardly use mods because some "disable" the achievements. So I'd like to know if the achievements still work with this map script?

PS Your fleet really looks amazing ;-)

Uhh I don't know.. if it disabled teh achievements I don't care. Map script is just far superior to firaxis's scripts.

And thank you xD

The map looks interesting. Just downloaded Tectonics on BNW. Did you use any other mods?

Either way, this game looks really interesting. China really ran away, it seems, but your fleet seems... very impressive.

No other mods in this current game in progress.

And thank you, it's impressive yes but I've had even more bigger fleets and armies in gods n kings due to 1 gold from river and coast/ocean. This is way smaller than i'm used to >.>

Anyways.. the status update so that you know what's happening atm..

China sends out several patrol ships to check out Luthica island and sees my armada in the same turn as i plan to declare war on china. 3 battleships and 1 dessy was sunk after the declaration of war. But I wanna share this because i found China's hi to me amusing.

Spoiler :

As a good "friend" of china, I dow china to help China test the might of their military. After those patrolling ships was sunk and my armada moved into position to charge into the strait. That alone took up the first turn of the war to achieve.

Then as second turn of the war rolled around, China suddenly had tons of dissidents running around in China putting them at -21 unhappiness. I suspect autocracy rebels has been waiting for this moment for ages xD

Spoiler :

I was like.. no way.. Because first fleet of China went uhoh and got sunk instantly due to -40% strength given to them by dissidents. 20 ships sunk so easily, my submarines which formed the spearhead of the advance had a field day oneshotting everything. First fleet engaged and sunk in a single turn. Them dissidents did good job of crippling there ships. XD I lost nothing. And took Walalta because it haz lux and i wanted china to be even more unhappy. And I took advantage of unexpected opporunity to smash basically almost all chinese cities in the strait and raze them to the ground.

And finally, I went pillage happy to keep my panzer's hp high, I don't care because a preserved panzer is happy soldier that gets to go home after war. And florence joined in the fun too! I only lost 1 panzer so far, military defense of china in there desert was horrible. It's almost like all the points they had came from wonders they hogged.

Spoiler :

China doing what the AI does best. They built Sydney's court house thinige in the capital just a turn before I managed to capture the capital >_> Sooo.. i haz Sydney house thinige wonder now. I was really? Well okay whatever.

Spoiler :

I'm laying siege on average of 4-8 chinese cities at same time every turn after I eliminated all of chinese navy fleets in the area, there was surprisingly five fleets.

Oh and the damage the autocratic dissidents did to China lasted four turns.. but those four turns is where China lost the most of their navy to me. The first two fleets that is, the other three fleets showed up after dissidents left for time being. China was back in positive happiness xD

Remember me commenting about the air force of China? Well uh dissidents made them useless as Destroyers of mine shot them all down -40% strength hurts. Cuz of this, my battleships got through ok.

Normally I would've stopped after taking beijing but since the spaceship teleports to next capital, I have no choice but to keep on taking chinese city after chinese city and burn them to the ground after pillaging alot. And I felt like taking Gao because it have three pearls which I can use in trade and helps me become more self sustaining in case whole world decides it's time for me to rest in the graveyard.

Spoiler :

This one, i dunno why China did that, they jsut dropped an atomic bomb on Machu like they saw I was busy razing it to the ground and they felt like giving me a hand on that to raze it faster.
Nothing of value was lost because I have nothing in macau and surrounding hex so in essence China screwed up and hurt itself in process.

Spoiler :

Oh and the number of soldiers I have on demographics is now 689k putting me 1st in military.

I'm now razing every single city I can get my hands on unless they're in useful locations. And China tried to fed me poison in a "Tribute" of surrendering 11 cities to me because that might put me into -20 and more at once. I smartly declined their offer and chose to take each and every of those cities personally. Better that than have "Chinese rebels" spawning at my capital.

Oh and Iroquois went Order, I now have legit pretext to declare war on them again for refusing to acknowledge might of autocracy xD They're still suffering in unhappiness and their people want autocracy. Hiawatha just have no luck now at all, they keep on switching ideology but people keep on rebelling against hiawatha, Its really great watching hiawatha suffer.

I think i will finish the war with China by tomorrow whether if China manages to launch the spaceship or I manage to raze every single city that China has before they can launch the spaceship.

 

[Heart Break Kid]

Nice job, interesting update .

Good thing for ideology pressure. Lol at that nuke.

 

[Callonia]

For anyone that cares.. I won on king

I had 36 votes so i needed only six more votes to win a diplomatic victory, So i used the gold from pillaging all of china and bought up three more city states I discovered by exploring the sea beyond china straits. I won diplomatic victory with total of 46 votes, i brought songhai back to life for his four votes.

Then runaway China got stopped cold.

China had terrible military, all their points was in wonders and tech advancement. They just didn't stand a chance with me Assaulting China EVERYWHERE. The chinese lands north of Luthica have bunch of panzers raising hell eveywhere and razing stuff.

As for Chogqing, It has a airport and now panzers is being airlifted there as fast as possible to continue burning the cities inland.

And I was forunate enough to have the airport located in beijing is intact so panzers got airlifted there even when it's still in rebellion. As well for the desert strait, thats' where the most of my panzers is, there's very few chinese left there almost all of the land has been pillaged/razed.

Aside for the six fleets that China sent to me, chinese land military was horrifically small, Random Marines and Mech infantry plus SAM units and a general then that was it. They acted like barbarians but more worse, they attacked with no coordination make it trivial for my panzers to faceroll.

Moving up the difficulty level because military is a disappointment.

Moving up to emperor I guess, but if the cheats that AI gets is too great on emperor then i will stay at king.

 

[dexters]

Tectonics Map Script V.3 by a guy named Haftetavenscrap.. You can find him on steamworkshop on the steam.

i should warn you, once you go on this map script.. you'll never use firaxis's maps ever again. World maps that I get is AMAZING. I frankly never know what to expect.

While with firaxis' maps I immediately know what the world looks like in my mind.

Quick question... does it count as a MOD?

And how are custom map scripts different from other mods.

 

[Callonia]

Quick question... does it count as a MOD?

And how are custom map scripts different from other mods.

Yeah its a mod. And counts as a mod, looks like I didn't get king achievement for beating it on king.

 

[GWashington]

See if they like atom bombs, they can taste quite victorious on an enemy city and spaceship part.

 

[Hippocrates]

This doesn't work if you are too far behind but if you can get to nanotechnology pretty early you can use the xcom squad to destroy all of their terrestrial sources of aluminum and surround and pillage everything near their major cities and make key tiles useless.