this was fun

[Hammer Rabbi]

i almost never go for The Louvre, but i was in an Emperor game as Rome on pangea and i was in a war with Catherine. her borders were starting to bleed toward mine and i couldnt buy any of the tiles to prevent her from taking my road (too far from a city and the other border was a puppet). i started the Louvre hoping to get the 2 artists for a culture bomb if she took that road. plus i had one spot of my own that would let me CB and get 5 tile of hers and cut off 3 of her cities from her capitol.

well, her borders indeed took my road, and i finished the Louvre and used one to get them back (didnt know there was a 7 turn wait on CB with a 2nd one) and 7 turns later took her 5 tiles and trade route with it. it was pretty cool to take so many tiles with one CB. Plus, even though we were already at war her angry screen came up saying that i was just asking for a war on both bombs, haha.

edit: this was also my first effort at going for the stealth bomber. i got a dom vic in 1916, pretty good for a terrible dom vic player. a) i now know SB's are really awesome and b) i now know its freaking hard to get a unit into an isolated capitol to actually take it. i wasted about 30 turns trying to figure out how to strategically get there. i also learned paratroopers can only parachute when starting in friendly territory.

 

[Scarpa]

I learned that about the isolated capitals in a Stealth domination game, too. At one point I had every single city in range down to 1hp while waiting for my melee units to catch up. Even killed off all the workers I could see, just a big empty empire waiting for the taking.

 

[Hammer Rabbi]

even though i built one, i still dont know how carriers work. i tried to rebase one to a carrier and it wouldnt do it.

 

[Scarpa]

Stealth Bombers can't be based on a carrier, if that's what you tried. Fighters, Jet Fighters, Atomic Bombs and Bombers only.

 

[Hammer Rabbi]

ah. it says house up to 3 aircraft so i thought SB was an aircraft. also it would have pissed me off when my 3 SB rendered a city to dust and no one to pillage so it all worked out anyway. glad to know they arent eligible for the carrier. thanks.