Now here's the one I was actually posting for; Poland. On the 3rd turn Austria WD me, and I captured Lviv. On the following turn, Prussia WD me. A few turns pass and the Dutch WD Prussia, hurray! Couple more turns and Russia WDs me... oh lord, my forces are so spread out I occasionally have no units defending Liepaja... China WD Russia, yes! Venice WDs Austria, alright! The Dutch are pounding the Prussians so I take all my forces and capture Gdynia and Berlin before the Dutch.
While my forces are so thin around Warsaw the opportunist Ventians WD me, even though they were at war with the Austrians... The Fins WD the Russians and capture St.Petersburg, wooo, a bit of pressure off. Its a struggle defending against Russia and attacking Austria but I manage to capture Vienna and Budapest and make peace with Venice, now with MGs!
Finally I can take the war to Russia and end up capturing Arkhangel'sk to Sykhryvkar to Tsaritsyn and make peace just as I start pumping out early tanks.
There are about 30 turns of peace where I tech like mad while England makes America and the Sioux vassals and Quebec is now it's capital. Spain still holds Peru as a vassal and evicts Portugal from Europe forcing capitulation on them. The Dutch WD France and capture Paris and force them to capitulate! I was terrified.
China has destroyed the Burmese and made the Vietnamese their vassal. India is public enemy #1 and still independent! (In every game I cheered for India) I WD anyone England asks me too save the Dutch and Ottomans and have a +20 relation with them by the time I WD the Venetians and capture Venice and Dubrovnik and force them to capitulate for the +1
and tech some more.
The Dutch aquire the Swedes, Russians, Indians, and Uzbeck Turks as vassals and are leading the scoreboard. England is closely trailing the Dutch, followed by the Spanish (the only game Spain didn't get obliterated). The Turks hold the Tunisians, Egyptians, Persians, Greek, and Sicilians as vassals and have KO'd the Saudis and maintain their land as their own. Copenhagen flips to me, those Danes really don't watch their capital...
Around this time I notice the Turks are placing a
lot of units in Izmail, more than would be needed to prevent the culture flip waiting to happen and I put everything I can spare on Lviv. I'm more militarily advanced than the Turks, but they're the mother flippin' Turks and I switch most every city to unit production and finish researching Communism and convert to Police State and State Property.
Its 1911 and the Turks declare war I have about 11 tanks and building about 2/turn and have maybe 15 MGs and 4 anti tanks beyond every cities base defenders (2 mgs for non conflict borders, 3 for conflict borders/concerning borders and 1-0 for interior cities). The Turkish WD me and head for Budapest instead of Lviv because it only has 5 defenders and in the next two turns I widdle the stack of 70~ units down to 45~, it's mostly 3/5ths cavalry, 2/5ths artillery and a smidge infantry. I know he's going to attack on the following turn and pull every unit I can spare from every city to Budapest, leaving some on all border cities to prevent wars of opportunity.
I survive the turn with 1MG and a half health explorer, my medic, huzzah! It takes a few turns to churn out a force again and we're skirmishing near Budapest, but I have heavy tanks to his regular tanks. I take out all his vassal's stacks in stride and capture Sophia and begin building a navy and airforce and slowly but surely capture Greece and Istanbul at 1945. It takes a long long time to get over the hump that is Turkey, but as soon as I do I walk over the middle east and Persia.
I refrained from building Wall street anywhere before the beginning of the war with the Turks because no where was any good, but as soon as I had enough
points to see inside Jerusalem I knew it would produce the motherload. I used a GE to rush Wall street the first turn it came out of revolt and ran 100% expense with +200 gold from then on.
Before I capture Riyadh and Mecca the Egyptians came out of capitulation but refuse to become my vassal because they fear the Turks still, pish, come on!! They capitulate to the Chinese who WD me... All the other vassals make the switch easy enough once they were free and I destroy the Egyptians to make peace with the Chinese. Its about 1990 now and I WD the Dutch who have been are war with the Spanish, English and Chinese for about 25 turns and are nice and soft. The turn after I capture Amsterdam the Spanish offer to become my vassal... they still have Pedro as a vassal... ok! I take Spain and Peru as vassals and remove the Dutch from Europe. I couldn't take all the former French cities because Spain captured two and the Dutch gave two to England to end the war.
At the same time I destroy the Swedes after St.Petersburg culturally flips, capture two Uzbek Turk cities and force them to capitulate and scare the Russians into capitulation by intentionally leaving a 3/18 heath MG on their capital with my stack of 10MBTs and M.Artillery. I take Portugal as a vassal, but France refuses because I'm too far away, oh well, I'll get closer; I begin capturing the Dutch holdings in central and South Africa and discover I'm now leading the score board by 600points and decide I've spent way to many hours playing this round.
Poland holds the Spanish, Portuguese, Russians, Uzbek Turks, Tunisians, Persians, remaining Ottoman Turks, Sardinians, and Greeks as vassals. Poland proper extends from Tornio to Al Mukalla, Paris to Chelkar.
