Yet another ZWK Game.

[Darius]

I assure you, you wouldn't have even needed fighters. And by the time you would, you would have already had a city there to put them in. Not to mention you could have indeed used that southern airbase of mine; I only had garrisons in Italy and couldn't have hit your planes on the ground. My only two tanks were to the north, poised to retake Genoa.

You can never have too many troops. Plus, once you start in Italy, you keep going in Italy. I had no intention of just taking one city and stopping.

No doubt you would have. The Italians don't have a dime to buy a reacting force with, and they can't raise their taxes either. It really is unwinnable as them unless the Axis are successful in France and can assist you.

Against the AI, however, you can conquer every inch of Europe at this difficulty level. In my one player game I got Spain, all of the French and British territories in the Mideast and North Africa, Greece, Turkey, most of France, and every Soviet city on or near the Black Sea before I just got sick of it. God, is the AI useless. I wish CivIII was just CivII with a decent AI.

 

[TheDuckOfFlanders]

Well ,i was having a good start ,i got poland on a pretty easy way and was able to contain the player's on my border easily.I was taking the baltic and Poland first.Considering the time it needs to mobilize a sufficiant army to Poland ,my protection and annexation strategy was really the best thing to do.

Just like Ohwell i would gave gone for Turkey next.I was building Barack's in every city first ,and was maximizing on food growth.My innitial force's weren't strong ,bnut i wanted to have barrack's in every city till i got my tech's for the T34-35 tank's ,then tottally concentrate on building masses of those tank's.

All considerd ,i got Russia in a very strong position.I had to win time in the begining ,and managed to do that.It ensured me of enough expansion potential to crush the Axis later on.

I didn't fear Ellib much ,his action's at the Maginot line convinced me that i could beat him.Rather i wanted to contain darius at all cost ,as i know that he had plenty of room to expand to and that eventually i would have been next.

although ,i was planning to make an alliance with germany for a while to get my hands on some of my tech's.I figured out that ,after that i would have secured Poland and turkey ,the axis would have signed such a deal to protect themself's.I would actually have gona into war with the Allies ,but only a fake war ,as i didn't had the logistic's to get a invansion force near any allied land except for greece and libya ,wich i would have Diplomaticly annexed from the Allies ,as they would have understood that it was Better for a strong Russia to hold this lands than themselfs.

So basicly i would have expanded in turkey ,then get an Alliance with the Axis ,expand over the whole Eastern Mediteranian region (syria-libya-Egypt and the other allied middle east holding's.After that i would have signed a Alliance with the Allies (as that would have been part of the deal for the surrender of the Allied medditeranian holding's ,including repatriation of the Allied army's to the western front ,and the gift of the tech's i got out of germany)

Hey ,i love to expand diplomaticly withought actually having to fire a shot. ("Il principe" and "the art of War" have always been considerd some of my favourite books)

Finaly at war with the Axis ,i would have full force invaded the Balkan's first ,taking daruis Holding's and capturing Ploesti.This while massing AA's and some tank's/Fighter's in poland. (where i would also have builded the nessecary defense infrastructere while being Allied to Germany)Finaly would have come Germany ,wich would have been involved in a full 3 front war after the defeat of the minor Axis.

Yep ,everything was about planned at front ,except from the Protection of Greece.

 

[Darius]

Actually, I was on the verge of attacking Greece even if it meant war with Russia (because I just couldn't have allied planes attacking me within my own territory), but then within a few turns I was devastated in North Africa and I knew I couldn't spare anything. A single-player testgame showed me that I could easily capture every Black Sea port before running out of steam, but it turned out I needed those ships against the British.

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

Originally posted by Darius
Actually, I was on the verge of attacking Greece even if it meant war with Russia (because I just couldn't have allied planes attacking me within my own territory), but then within a few turns I was devastated in North Africa and I knew I couldn't spare anything.

All of my attacks early on were designed to protect the Minor Allies. My fleet hitting Amsterdam, the bomber patrolling near Greece, even the attacks in Africa.

BTW, if you had built a tank in Benghazi and moved it forward, I would have never thought about you trying to sneak a unit along the southern border. Just the fact that I was able to catch up to your militia and not see a tank trying to protect them or counter attacking, is what made me start to wonder.

What city were you trying for? Cario or Port Said?

 

[Darius]

Cairo. It was too risky to get to Port Said one, because you would likely see me on the way, and two, it was garrisoned. I was hoping to take Cairo and then Alexandria in the next turn, because it seemed you wouldn't have any units to counterattack with. Either way, just taking one city would buy me time to the west, and that's all I really hoped for.

 

[Yop73]

*bump* Is there a player missing here?
I could take his place!

 

[Darius]

No, we chose to end the game if you've been reading.

 

[Yop73]

Yes.
I realised it after I posted.