Invasion Planet Earth

[Thoddy]

STYOM
Spanish bribe back Cannae and Lisbon :embarassed:

use a double stack to prevent this and destroy surrounding RR

We are the bad boys.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

re: double stack... that's been working well against the English, but the Spanish have the advantage in numbers in Central America. Even multiple units in fortresses become casualties!

Here comes the save...

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Site's back up...

STYOA returns from visiting the Central American front, where fighting is heavy against the Spanish. Fortified with an indigenous drink the locals call 'T'Quilla', STYOA resumes the fight against the filthy humans.

2033:

Surprisingly ineffective AI attacks. Americans nuke Atlanta. Heavy fighting in North Africa; again, we win more than we lose.

2034:

More heavy fighting in English North Africa. Rivered fortresses are the only thing that keeps us from being chucked out of the continent.

Turin (American) captured. Magogs draw near Seattle and Naples, and to the Russian cities in the Middle East. Cannae (Russian) captured and destroyed.

Russian Stealth Bomber flies 12 squares and attacks our only uncovered Mupbu within range Otherwise, another good round (for us!) of AI attacks.

2035:

I experimented last turn with food Freights. I seldom if ever use them, normally. But then, I asked myself,

"What would Xin Yu do?"

I sent a food Freight from Belzebuth Nest to the starving city of Farichi. Population increased, and half the food box filled up (since we have Pyramids, we keep half the food box filled when a city grows). Since Farichi only has a shortage of 2 food/turn, that solves the the food crisis there. I'm going to try to build food Caravans to solve the food problem on our Homeworld. I've been sending most Mupbu to earth in order to clear pollution... the starving cities problem will never end until the pollution is gone.

Naples (American) captured. Lisbon (Spanish) liberated. Cannae (Spanish) liberated.

Russians and English sign peace treaty.

Spanish recapture Cannae and Lisbon. Man, those two towns are taking a beating.

2036:

Portland (English) liberated.

Russians destroy 2 of our Magogs north of their Middle Eastern enclave. If I wasn't busy using our Mupbu for cleanup, we'd have a railroad right into that area by now and we'd own those cities.

2037:

Seattle (Statue of Liberty) captured. American spaceship returns to Earth

American civilization DESTROYED

Final losses for Americans: 1117 units lost (52 Eightballs, 33 Magogs, 103 Cyborgs, 73 Drakons, 52 Kestrels, 166 Stealth Bombers, 50 Armor, 255 Partisans... I'd be willing to bet that the Partisan number is actually higher, but at 255 due to program limits).

Hydro Plants sold, Nuclear Plants sold (on earth). Buffalo (Hoover Dam) reinforced.

Polluted Squares down to 71.

We begin bombardment of the English cities Portsmouth, Reading, Issus, Cambridge, Richmond, Leeds, and Exeter - the aim is to deplete their units and then capture several cities at once without fear of a counterattack. If not on a river or other defensive terrain, nothing can resist a Magog attack. Nothing. None of our attackers drop below 1/2 their h.p.; almost all are still in the green.

Several food Freights are delivered. Starvation averted in a few cities - this is certainly less work than rehoming Mupbu.

Russians attack us fruitlessly in the Middle East, near their cities there. Also, the Russians have a LOT of sea units in the Indonesian area. It's going to be rough going to make a seaborne invasion work.

Spanish kill our Magogs in Central America.

English lose a few air units attacking our forces in Asia. The fact that they didn't attack in Africa suggests they're weakening.

2038:

More bombardment of English cities. Dozens of units killed with negligible losses on our side. London bombarded - another sign of English weakness; their railroads are clear, few defenders to be seen.

London (J.S. Bach) captured; 5253 gold. English government flees to Oxford. How unChurchillian.

Cunaxa, Issus, Richmond, Portsmouth, Kuibyshev, Leicester, Birmingham, Reading, Exeter, Leeds (all English) captured. Most of them don't have SDI! Many human slaves are quickly put to work rushbuilding those.

Carlisle bombarded by Magogs.

In a blind stupor from too much human liquor, STYOA reels off into retirement clutching plunder from the human lands (a Rolls-Royce from the English, season tickets to the "Yhan-Quis" from the Americans, and the ubiquitous "T'Quilla" from the Spanish), secure in the knowledge that his successors will ruthlessly smite the remaining human cities in the years to come.

* * * * *

City count went to 154 from 131... unit count to 510 from 342, including 84 Mupbu and 282 Magogs. The Aliens definitely have the humans on the run now.

English unit losses are up to 828. 310 units lost in 10 turns... that's bad. They're not long for this world.

Pollution on earth can probably be eliminated totally in another 2 or 3 turns.

Watch out for the Spanish in Central America. They're massing for what I assume to be an attack. We have some units in Indonesia in fortresses, which will have to be convoyed to Russian cities.

Our Magogs are spread out all over Africa, but the situation seems well in hand there. I expect some nuking though, due to the lack of SDI in many of the cities we captured.

Over to you, Julius...

STYOM

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

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[Scouse Gits]

Great work STYOM

[Julius Brenzaida]

I have the game, but please be patient
Next to the real life, I've got the hellenistic succession game and the crusader one to play.
But as it took us some time to reach earth and pollute it, I expect you to remember that time is on our side.

[The Mad Monk]

Let me butt in for a sec -- I know from standard extended games that global warming on Earth 'leaks' somehow to Alpha Centauri; even if you have lots of solar plants on Earth, for some reason they don't apply to the 'leaked' warming. Have you tried building solar plants on AC? It appeared to be a successful fix in my games.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

A ha! I suspected that GW was leaking to AC! Thanks for corroborating my hypothesis, MM

The other odd thing I noticed about this game is that normally, the negative applied to your score due to pollution is -10 per square. Do solar plants affect this figure? If not, then something's screwy with the scoring... we had -310 for pollution last time I checked, and there is WAY more pollution than 31 squares still on the board.

As for you, Julius, the first step towards overcoming an addiction (succession games) is admitting that you have a problem

STYOM

[Julius Brenzaida]

Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man
As for you, Julius, the first step towards overcoming an addiction (succession games) is admitting that you have a problem
STYOM

Yeah, but I am not sure it should be near enough

[Julius Brenzaida]

2038 What the *** has someone let me in. I hit end of turn and then the English nuke 5 cities without taking them and recapture London ! Eh that was their own people down there that they killed. Thanks for building the SDI, but one turn too late !
Not a good way to start ! Anyway, here’s my plan : there’s too much pollution to fight against, let’s attack with what we’ve got and use our money to bribe at any cost, those AIs are not in democracy are they ? Let’s build magogs and spies and kill them all. But one, by one : 1st the english, Tony B. has played enough with the atoms. We kill every defenders we can with magogs (only 30 of them left, what happened is it only the nuke losses or do we have 255+30), but don’t capture cities immediatly. The nuclear counterattacks may kill too many units, move them first and capture the cities one turn later will be our politic.
Turns will take forever but I shall keep you informed.

[Mercator]

... those AIs are not in democracy are they ?

AFAIK, they still are. I think the main reason for that is the large amount of cash they have (thanks to your no-limits patch ).

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida
2038 What the *** has someone let me in. I hit end of turn and then the English nuke 5 cities without taking them and recapture London ! Eh that was their own people down there that they killed. Thanks for building the SDI, but one turn too late !
Not a good way to start ! Anyway, here’s my plan : there’s too much pollution to fight against, let’s attack with what we’ve got and use our money to bribe at any cost, those AIs are not in democracy are they ? Let’s build magogs and spies and kill them all. But one, by one : 1st the english, Tony B. has played enough with the atoms. We kill every defenders we can with magogs (only 30 of them left, what happened is it only the nuke losses or do we have 255+30), but don’t capture cities immediatly. The nuclear counterattacks may kill too many units, move them first and capture the cities one turn later will be our politic.
Turns will take forever but I shall keep you informed.

Well, I did warn you in my log entry there'd be some nuking! Thus, I tried to keep as many Magogs out of the fallout radius as possible. I doubt we lost more than 10 Magogs to the retaliatory strikes... there were 282 at the end of my turn, so we netted 3 more, from new construction. Definitely well over 30.

And oh yes, Spies won't help, everyone's in Demo, the Americans stayed in Demo right down to when they had only 1 city left

STOP CLEANING POLLUTION??? NO WAY! Not after I spent 10 turns moving Mupbus around cleaning up the mess you guys made... with all those suitcase nukes! With 80 Mupbus you should have Asia clean in a few turns.

Of course, this is a succession game That's just my advice... of course... nothing more than advice...

STYOM

[Julius Brenzaida]

2039 We have 285 magogs, but they are all in democracy ! We capture the English city of Carlisles. Hell (aka as magogs) is falling on the English. We begin building an highway from Peru to North America and in the alpha continent connecting to Russia. Mbupus and dozens of Magogs on the way.
2040 We capture Canterbury, Newcastle, York, London, Liverpool, Gloucester all in Africa and rushbuild SDI’s.
Russian cities of Crete destroyed in Pakistan. Issus, Bonn and Cunaxa captured there too.
2041 We capture Hastings, Ipswich , Berwick and Brighton.
2042 Ipswich is nuked (oups thought they had SDI). Notthingham and Naples captured.
2043 Norwich, Dover and Coventry captured.
2044 Oxford, Warwick and Manchester captured. English governement flies twice ! We land in Indonesia to attack the Russians. Our transport are sunk but they’ve had time to disembark their troops.
2045 Despite all our efforts, ice melting strikes again on Alpha Centauri. The pollution counter has disappeared, maybe it can’t get worse. Russian city of Verona destroyed in Indonesia. We capture Bristol, the last english city in southern Africa.
I still want to play some turns later in the week. In a few turns both a hundred magogs shall attack the Spanish and the Russians. Our fire power is tremendous !

[Julius Brenzaida]

2046 Pollution warning again on Alpha. Nothing to do about it, we won’t clean Africa soon enough. Hopefully we got enough settlers to build our railroads. We also decide to build a strong navy for the Pacific. For now, the Russians rule there and our dreadnoughts are no matches.
2047 We capture the spanish cities of Cannae and Lisbon in Mexico. It’s our 1st wave of Magogs there. We capture the English city of Tula in Madagascar.
2048 We destroy the spanish city of Cordoba on Alpha Centauri and capture the Russian city of Genoa there. We capture the russian city of Kursk in Borneo.
2049 Russian nuke Kurks and take it with paratroopers. Nice tactic. We destroy another russian city in Alpha Centauri. We capture the russian city of Rostov in Australia and leave it empty as it has no SDI. We get Kazan too. We got a beach head.
2050 About 100 magogs are invading Australia, thanks to portals and a great planification. We capture Riga, Vitebsk, Yakutsk, Saint-Petersburg, Sevastopol, Minsk, Novgorod, Sverdolvsk, Odessa, Smolensk, Moscow, Kiev, Astrakhan, Krasnoyarks, Tbilisi, Vladivostok, Magnitogorsk and Krasnovdorsk. The greatest campaign I’ve ever lead. We also capture the English city of Cremona in north West Africa and the Spanish one of Crete in Texas. Both civs are should be down in the next turns.

[Julius Brenzaida]

Oups, sorry, I was enjoying myself too much and played one turn too many. It is my successor who should have the honor to finish them off. There is a Xaos missile in Kazan and a transport full of units near the 1 square Island of Kalilin, see the tactic ? Expect a counter attack from the spanish, they can still put a fight for a few turns. But once (in 3 or 4 turns) we complete the railroad from Peru to Mexico, about a hundred more Magogs should join the combat zone and overwhelm the Spanish. There is “a few” polluted square to clean up in Africa to improve our score. And whoever plays next should be kind enough to provide the stats of casualties before destroying the last city of each 3 AI civ or at least to put the saved game to let me do it. It has been the bloodiest war I have ever seen. But now I’m confident we’ll win it soon. The toughest might be to get to scattered cities on Alpha. Magogs with their native teleports should be quick enough, or a fleet of dreadnoughts rushbuild.