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Hopefully I can get this done sooner rather than later, but there is a lot of football to be watched at the moment and so it may have to wait until Saturday morning. But by the looks of things it has been waiting a while already so a couple more days can't hurt. Can they?
Well I had some spare time last night because the good duchess went out to a friend's hen party, but I only opened the save and had a look around. Things can get very interesting from here.....
I didn't move any units or change anything because football called and I'm a sucker for it. I'll try to get it all done on Saturday though. Will probably post the save and report then, rather than waiting until Monday.
1925 (0) – Cunaxa bought by a spy just to the north of Naples. Nice and cheap, one rifleman and city walls. Lots of movement, little action.
1926 (1) – Spanish diplomat investigates our city! He seemed to pop in and then there was no sign that anything had been taken. Maybe because I had two vet spies stationed there for just such an occasion. A Cart marine turns up outside Rusicade. They’ll have a city on the headland there. He dies anyway. The city is Akragas, size 19. And connected to the rail network! It dies. I buy Rouen and immediately start on an airport to bring in even more troops. Cadiz captured (864g) and the Spanish have disappeared from the map! I discover more Mongol cities to the west of Hamburg, but this is not their centre.
1927 (2) – Mongols sneak attack after I so kindly invited them to by leaving an unguarded spy in their territory. Now I can take Hamburg. I do, and the Mongols sign a peace treaty, which ought to give me enough time to build a coastal fortress before their ships arrive. Verona is bought from the Carts, who now only have three cities left.
1928 (3) – Preparing to crush the Carts for good. I have also spotted what should be the main Mongol land, but I’ll have to wait to find out. Halfway House founded on the island between us and China, and “Trading Post” (honest!) is founded on the tip of their continent.
1929 (4) – China’s getting antsy, and Mongolia breaks the cease-fire as I knew they would. It’s a pain because I wanted some time to explore their domain, but now it looks as thought they have two separate islands in addition to all the stuff I can see. The Chinese are nearly finished Apollo so we should have a better view very soon. Paris bought from the Mongols and we sign a short-lived peace treaty.
1930 (5) – Chinan builds Apollo. Let the battle planning begin! Stupid things done this turn number two (major) at least. I asked the Mongols to remove their troops and then found myself without a city to capture to get another cease-fire, and secondly I’ve left an enormous string of engineers between Cunaxa and Rouen totally unprotected from Mongol planes. :stupid: I also failed to take Tabriz, and to take the Mongols out of the game, but a spy will be completed in Verona next turn and they’ll be cheap!
Good luck with the assaults on China (almost ready, a silk caravan is trying to manoeuvre its way to Issus for a big pay-out), and Mongolia. I took apart the ship chain to Spain, though there are still some on the southern edge of that continent because China has four cities on the south pole, but most of them are ferrying units between Londinium, Halfway House and “Trading Post”. We’ll need another chain to Mongolia though. I don’t think we need the “home” cities to keep producing units, because there are so few, and feel that the ship chains to Troy and Athens can be converted to go north to Mongolia.
The Mongols look fearsome and ready to start a space ship next turn.
Were it not for the conquest stipulation, the fastest win would be a 33-4-4-1-1-1 ship, which is possible for us to build in one turn (!) once we steal Superconductor from the Chinese (which should bring about war despite our UN). However, under the circumstances, in order to guarantee a conquest victory, we should plan for having to take out the Mongols in at most 6 turns...
I'm almost back (have an obligation tonight, but look to be free soon otherwise.) So Stray gets another day to speak up. D/L & sent home anyway, just in case.
Those with lower expectations face fewer disappointments
It dies. I buy Rouen and immediately start on an airport to bring in even more troops. Cadiz captured (864g) and the Spanish have disappeared from the map! I discover more Mongol cities to the west of Hamburg, but this is not their centre. 
Stupid things done this turn number two (major) at least. I asked the Mongols to remove their troops and then found myself without a city to capture to get another cease-fire, and secondly I’ve left an enormous string of engineers between Cunaxa and Rouen totally unprotected from Mongol planes. :stupid: I also failed to take Tabriz, and to take the Mongols out of the game, but a spy will be completed in Verona next turn and they’ll be cheap! 
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