1878: It's still our turn... and I spend it messing up our shipchains
Odd... I could swear that I was following SG[1]... and yet, there are tons of white goods in production, many if not most are not being rushed, and we are actually building SETI, which should be totally unnecessary.
I'm bored trying to find the bleedin' French... let's make peace and get some kind of map, shall we?
French tell us to get lost.
Guess they've heard that one before.
Advanced Tribe
Hogtown
French Destroyer attacks us fruitlessly.
1879: Still hunting for French cities. Milan located, and Cruiser destroys its defender.
Battleship sinks French Destroyer.
Melville founded.
French keep telling us to get lost. We are 1 turn away from Space Flight; perhaps it'd be easier to hold the fort for 2 turns and then look at the map.
French move their capital to Besancon
1880:
Space Flight discovered; researching Espionage.
Apollo Program rushed in Paris.
Stupidly realized we can't build Spies and Espionage is worthless
D'oh!'
1881:
Apollo Program in Paris.
St-Etienne captured, 48 g.
Milan captured, 15 g.
French are down to 8 cities. Those 2, I knew about... let's go to the map and see where the other 8 are
Ahh, due west of Persepolis at the bottom of the map. Luckily we have 3 loaded Transports in the Persepolis vicinity
Now that we know where the French are, numerous units that will be too far away to be of use, are disbanded. Others are rushed in the former Persian cities.
1882: Much things are built. Hastily constructed task force (Carrier, 2 Bombers, 3 loaded transports) steams towards New France. (I really am impressed by the AI building 8 linked cities halfway around the world from their core lands, on a gigamap. That almost never happens.)
For scoring purposes, we rush SETI in Karakorum.
1883:
SETI Program in Karakorum. Rush Isaac Newton.
French hold a revolution.
1884:
Isaac Newton's College in Karakorum.
French learn Chivalry
French form Republic
1885:
Espionage discovered
Researching Combined Arms.
The French haven't properly railroaded their cities
Lisbon captured, 25 g.
We refuse to make peace with the French.
1886:
Combined Arms discovered; researching Atomic Theory.
Besancon captured, 47 g.
Cunaxa captured, 24 g.
Avignon captured, 50 g.
1887:
Atomic Theory discovered; researching Nuclear Fission.
Ghent captured, 26 g.
Turin captured, 55 g.
Bergen captured, 7 g.
1888:
Hamburg captured, 46 g. French eliminated. Mongols rule the world!
With the exception of 3 size 3 cities, celebrations reign in all Mongol lands
Thanks for the game, SG[1]! 'Twas challenging to the end (I twice had to stop myself from building Paratroops, and you saw my error in choosing Espionage
)