[Spoilers] Wang Kon of the Incans, or why I hate building monuments, by Krill

[NobleHelium]

So can you build ships yet?

[Krill]

Only those of the wooden variety, well, and ironclads. 2 turns from Fission and managed to trade Electricity for RR with mh, plus SM+something cheap for Assembly Line with Dazed.

Really think that the tweaks to the tech tree, tech trading and the diplo model works, but starting to worry a bit more that nukes, CR and a few other late game things need to be removed from the game.

[Krill]

mh declared war on yruis and took out 3 cities including the city that was threatening his oil resource. I'm going to use a golden age in 2 turns, revolt to US and rush buy marines everywhere. There is a decent chunk of land I want from yuris, specifically to get his oil resource.

[Krill]

OK, so I'll accept that due to not really paying much attention I might have made a mistake, but how's this for a plan:

Next turn I should be able to capture Nanjing, I have 12 DD that can bomb it down which is plenty, and 6 marines and assorted rifles, inf and cav to take out 1 MG, and about 4 cho-ko-nos and ancient era junk. I just triggered my GA to revolt to US and rushed about a dozen more marines (that was my mistake, could have done it 5 turns ago).

I have enough units to potentially drop on Beijing as well next turn but I only have to beat mh there. My aim is to capture or raze Beijing, and use my Great Artist to pop Yangzhous' borders. That'll just about get the oil into my borders, and with a few rushed culture buildings can hold it. I think I'm going to have to take over Guangzhou one way or another, but after the bomb I'm going to have easy route to capture it and I'll be able to grab oil for just a single turn, so with MM I should be able to make sure I get plenty of tanks out for at least one turn to provide a deterrent to mhs' tanks.

After that I have a nice little bonus in Rocketry. I'm the only one with Arty so I'm about 18K beakers ahead of mh in the nuke race. Disconnect his oil, his Uranium and destroy his army and rush him. I figure there is a single city, Epheseus, that I need to capture along with the resource disconnects to have a strong upper hand: the rest of the cities I can take with marines and tac nukes. Oh, and I need Radio for submarines to carry tac nukes, which also opens up the CR and I just popped a GE.

Oh things are starting to fall into place...just gotta hope mh sits there and doesn't attack me next turn.

[darrelljs]

Clever Krill is more fun to lurk than whiny Krill .

Darrell

[Krill]

Clever Krill decided to go on vacation for a few months once PBEM4 ended. I think he just came through the door though, would you like me to get him for you?

[Krill]

I just played t175, I finish Rocketry and Manhatten on t176, and should have enough gold to rush something like 15 ICMB and 6 Tac nukes on t178. Luckily, I also have 27 cities so I have some leeway where I can build the nukes, even though I only 4 cities that I want to tac nuke on the first turn of the war against mh.

Also, I'm keeping a close eye on the other players gold. mh has 1350ish gold saved up. I have 9878 this turn and will make at least 2300 next turn even if I have to use 10% slider to finish Rocketry, so even if mh tries to rush ICBMs, he won't be able to rush anywhere near as many as I should be able to.

That said, he has a lot more units than I do, and in much better static defensive positions. I have to hope I can use nukes to even those odds a bit, especially as mh has a good 28 tanks that I can see, which means I suspect he has 45ish lying around. That number of tanks would be hard to deal with without bombers, tanks or a shitload of marines.

[darrelljs]

Nothing like screenshots of nuclear death .

Darrell

[NobleHelium]

So, no nukes. What will Krill do now?

[Krill]

Try to kill everything with shit loads of marines.

Frankly I've been fairly screwed by the map controlling 40% of it and not a single oil resource. I have to get at least 1 city off just so I can safely control an oil resource (I can grab it next turn with an artist bomb and I have 6 workers on transports ready to move into an mh city and then immediately hook the oil). The only problem is that it is now a 3 player game, so this war with mh would give Dazed a good chance to get back into the game, and most likely win IMO.