Adventure 44: Novice's OCC conquest

[novice]

So I continue my wonder spam while teching towards military superiority. Hanging Gardens, Colossus, Apostolic Palace, Mausoleum of Mausollos and Taj Mahal are all hand-built. I had embarrasingly good luck with great engineers and was able to rush University of Sankore , Angkor Wat and Sistine Chapel.

I pick up circumnavigation and a music-powered golden age. By turn 167 I'm five turns away from Rifling, and my attack stack consists of 4 longbows and 7 trebuchets. I figure that's enough to start taking out my weakest neighbours.

Moscow is defended by two longbows and three axemen, and thanks to my culture my units can walk straight up to the city:



Russia eliminated on turn 168, 1080 AD.

[novice]

My stack marches straight down to Korea and starts bombarding their capital. Rifling completes, muskets are upgraded, Korea is eliminated. I then pull the same trick as Cyneheard and attach a GG to my warrior, promote it to CRIII + Morale, and upgrade it to a Rifleman.

After Rifling I pick up Military Tradition, and Byzantium is next on the hit list:


After the razing of Constantinople Justinian makes a stand in Paris:


I decide to suicide my remaining three trebuchets before cleaning up with the Rifles and Cavalry. The Apostolic Palace intervenes before I can finish off Byzantium, though, so I divert northwest to bring Boudica down a notch. The next war phase was a race to exploit my technological advantage while it was still possible to make gains without siege support. (I didn't want to waste time building more trebuchets, I built cavalry instead.)

[novice]

I'm going from (a fuzzy) memory now as my notes are on my work computer. I may add some screenshots later. EDIT: See next post.

What followed was a series of short wars where I attacked the AIs that were most technologically advanced to bring them down a notch. My Cavalry stack took out easy central targets such as Spain and India. My one movers diverted northwest and were able to raze all of Boudica's cities except her capital before running out of steam. I think my Cavalry probably participated but ran ahead of the one movers on the return trip. The Apostolic Palace ended some wars as well, so I had to come back 10 turns later. My stacks were criss-crossing around the continent taking out convenient targets.

Aztecs, Persia and Native America held out the longest, researching to gunpowder and then rifling. I was able to eliminate Native America but my cavalry stack was almost not up to the task, and I had to sign peace with Persia to prevent them from killing my wounded.

Meanwhile I had researched to Infantry and Artillery, however, so that was the end of that. My third offensive finished off Persia, Aztecs and Celts, cleaning up the home continent. The other continent was still defended by macemen. Needless to say some boatloads of Infantry and Artillery cleaned up in a few turns. The only resistance of note was the Vikings managing to sink a Galleon, unfortunately for them it was the only empty Galleon in my convoy.

To finish where I started, conquest victory in 1812AD.

[novice]

Finally, because a picture says more than a 1000 words, so a 39-frame GIF animation must say a lot...