Now THIS is what I call a Blitzkreig...

The most productive game that I ever played was on the largest world map with fixed starting locations... I was the Egyptians (leaving an immense area to settle in) and, by the first year AD, I had allied with the Babylonians, who I was surprised to find were quite powerful (usually, as you likely know, the Babylonians get stuck in Mesopotamia and never expand, or get crushed early). The game was very uneventful until I contacted the French, who were busy crushing everything to the east... their territory was huge; I counted their cities... over 60 easy. And what did I have? 25, maybe? The French were well on to Tactics when the Babylonians and I were discovering leadership. As soon as I had an embassy to look at the French technologies, I immediately jacked up my science rate in a hopeless attempt to keep up.

By this time, I had colonized all of Africa, and was leading a democratic form of government. Unfortunatelymy South African cities were weak; no walls, and protected by only Musketeers. Much to my surprise and misfortune, a huge group of barbarians landed on the coast and proceeded to sack my southernmost city! I sent re-enforcements dwon from the North, but they would have taken too long to get there, so I sent out one of my Musketeers from my current Southernmost city to retake the old one that the barbarians had taken over. The Musketeers managed to fight off a few batallions of Dragoons before the city they had come from fell into disorder, so I returned them there immediately... I was shocked when, even after the Musketeers returned, the city was still in disorder! This caused my entire government to collapse, and the French must've seen it as an opportunity, for they broke their peace treaty and attacked my forts in Suez and the Sinai Penninsula.

I fought off the initial invasion, but things began to look bleak as the french developed advanced flight and Automobile. My only hope was spies, and I managed to first steal advanced flight, then sign a cease fire by giving them nearly half of my hard-earned treasury. For the next ten or twenty years, I switched to a Communim, and built up hordes of bombers.

By the time the next confrontation with the French arose, they had conquered most of the continent of Asia, and had almost crushed the Babylonians (who were just a tad less advanced than I), and the Indians (who were still running around on top of elephants). The french tried to bomb Memphis (Which was where the default location for Thebes is, I had switched their names to be more historically accurate), but were very badly whalloped by the four or five fighters I had there. Then the fun began...

All 12 bombers I had in Memphis and Elephantine (which was west of Memphis on the coast) set out and bombed a city in Spain, Athens, and Rome; then were followed by transportloads of Mechanized Infantry (which I had just developed). Within about five turns, all of Southwestern Europe was mine! A few short turns later, I had captured Paris, however their government escaped to a nearby city. On the next turn, I was apalled to see that the French had just begun construction of the Manhattan Project. I quickly devoted all of my research to finding the secret of the Laser, and by the time the Manhattan Project had been built, all of my accessible cities were protected. My spies in France soon discovered that the French lacked the technology of the Laser, which meant I could begin a full-scale nuclear war! Soon, all of the Ural Mountain range was covered in radiation and French Partisans, and there, all hope of French victory lay in the rubble. Their only hope was to build the Apollo Program and escape this world entirely. The French may had been doomed to lose, but they still had more cities than I did, so when they began construction of the Apollo program, I knew I had no hope to keep up with the space race, so I redoubled my efforts to crush them before they could complete it... my howitzers were firing throughout the empire, but it was going to take too long... for a moment, all seemed lost, when I remembered a spy which I had been using to take down French walls that I had left in the city of Paris. I sent the spy up to the front lines to search for the city that was building the Apollo Program... and found it in a former Chinese city, which I think was Anyang. I hoped and prayed as I instructed the spy to attempt to sabatoge the construction of the Apollo program, and found salvation when she succeeded! Over the next ten or twenty years, France had fallen, and I had retired... I had certainly earned the title which the people of my empire had bestowed upon me... C Augustus!

By The C