The great war

I started up a game on the second hardest difficulty level. I ended up on a continent shaped like the letter H. There were 3 other people on there with me, including the vikings in the bottom left, the babalyonians in the top left, and the english at the bottom right, just below me. I got really lucky, my first four cities were founded in a semitricial square, 100% grass land (thats with some terrain changing from settlers). Those four cities would become famous. Around that, I continued expanding, founding 4 cities to the south, where I met the english. I signed peace with them, but built a city in the bottleneck seperating us. As I expanded north with five more cities, I came aross a mountian range.

I founded 4 production cities, which would back up my war effort for the rest of the game. I made contact with the babalyonians, and built 2 cities along the border for protection. From about 0 AD to 1400 AD, I only built one more city, on a remote island. Bye about 1500 AD, the four cities I made note of earlier made up for about 60% of the worlds population, each city was 30-35 in size. As soon as I researched robotics, the four production cities started pumping out howitzers, along with the rest of my empire. In 5 turns I had 45 howitzers, I divided them one half on the english and the other on the babylonians. We were all very developed, everybody had railroads everywhere. Within 4 years the English were wiped out, and the babylonians were drivin off the continent 2 years later, along with a quick victory over the vikings. After finishing apolo program, I could see where everybody was. The land far away that I had one city on was rich in everything. I quickly established a ring of cities on the coast. By 1890, I had 7 transports full of howitzers moving toward the celts to the east and japanese to the far north. Both were crushed after about 7 turns of battle.

This left only the zulus. By the year 2020 I was a fundamentalist government with over 300 million people in some 200 cities, I made 5000 gold a year and researched new tech every 2 turns, I was a monster. My navy consisted of some 100 battleships and 40 carriers. I had nearly 700 ground units in defense alone, with a division of 80-100 paratroopers to secure the island west of me. 40 Stealth bombers patrolled sections of my main land every turn, and any ship spotted was attacked by the bombers, or was pounded by cruise missiles. Battleship row was the lower part of the 'H'. Here were stored 80 battleships in a giant square, totally sourrounded by eagis cruisers. Nevertheless, the zulus were very formidable. There city defenses were weak, they had less military units, but they were blanketed all over the map.

I couldn't take them by surprise, no matter where I went there was something there to catch me. I decided to try an all-out assault, I sent 45 battleships, 20 carriers full of fighters and bombers, transports full of tanks and howitzers, and aegis cruisers up the channel between the zulu's two main lands. Cruise missile attacks were heavy, and by the time i reached their capitol I had lost about 30% of the force. The Zulu's rallied their forces, large groups of destroyers, subs, and cruisers followed behind me, a force of battleships and aircraft blocked the northern exit. I went after the capitol, landing my howitzer force, but they made little progress, countless scattered units blocked their way, and my air force did only some damage to the city, which was chocked full of fighters along with a SAM battery to defend. Two turns later the entire force was destroyed. Battleship row was rebuild about 10 years later along with everything else i lost, but it never ended. I retired in 2587. in almost 300 years of war, I had captured 2 magor zulu cities, they had captured none of mine.

By SirAdam