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A few months back thebirdman & I finished probably the longest, meanest running modern age war. He got ahead of me on the PG and had much higher tech. I had a slightly smaller empire but the cities were stronger and high production capacity. he hit me with 13 marines, 46 fighters, & 11 destroyers, 21 subs, 3 aircraft carriers, & 61 SOL's in a landing on one of my cities. I only had 9 marines, 9 cavs, and SOL's, but I had apx 140 SOL's, I told you I had very high production capacity. So I kept waiting for him to keep and hold a city on my mainland and I was going to resign and give him the game. However in retaking my cities each turn he brought my tech up to his level as I kept getting advances when I retook the city. so now I had the same tech and the cities on my mainland had cities that could give me marines in 1 & 2 turns and fighters in 2 turns. so I could use the SOL's to keep destroying his landing and take back my cities. So he never could hold them. Due to my strong production capacity I could keep putting 6 to 8 new fighters on the ground each turn. Mine were always at the fight and he had to fly his to get to me. so eventually I could start making landings on him, but he drove me off too. Then paratroopers got in the game and we started wrecking each others cities. It was close on either side. I took his capitol twice he took mine once. I finally got a toe hold on 2 of his landmasses and eventually on his mainland. I could not take him though we were too evenly matched. Then I got Advanced composites offered for my next advance. So I knew it was a race. I went to all my cities and gauged the food in the graneries and took every worker off of food, but kept the ones on production and gold, and put those food workers on science and doubled my science. I stationed marines on the cites to be launched from later. The turn I got them, I launched 3 loaded with 14 marines in to the middle of his empire where he had little support and took 8 of his core cities and he could not take them back. so he conceded. I was shocked as I knew he had beat me, but wanted to hang in until he took and held a city on my mainland so he could finish me off. He couldn't keep his beachhead, so I kept playing. I wanted to make him beat me. Well he didn't, I won. Be both were shocked. He replied he could believe what had happened and said he forgot about space planes, but it was in front of him so he had to believe it.
Also it was a rubber match. We both had beaten each other once so this made it 2 for me and 1 for him. I have all the turns still for the game if someone would like to see the beginning of hostilities and the final turn.
This war lasted 52 turns, yes 52 turns, he hit me on turn 136 and conceded on turn 188. it was non-stop attacks every turn for almost 2 months of play. Some of my moves took 2 hours to do, you have to be careful as any mistep could cost the war.
Here are some stats:
Start of the war thebirdman dancemassese
cities 39 31
production 11,419 9936
gold total/usuable 4715/1609 4498/1725
gov communism theocracy (later changed to Fascism)
aircradt carriers 3 0
destroyers 11 0
marines 13 9
fighters 45 0
SOL's 61 140
subs 21 4
cavs 0 9
musketeer 33 0
cannons 21 5
Units lost in the fighting 722 656
yes we lost 1378 units in the fighting during 52 turns that took almost 2 months to do, just the fighting only not the play up to that time. it was the most exciting game I ever played.
I told gramps about it and he sid others might like hearing about it.
So is this the longest running continual battle, yes every turn, especially for modern weaponry?
I have all the turns of this still saved. If anyone would like to look at the first and last turn please ask, I will send them to you or any turn you would like to see.
Ken/dancemasseuse
Also it was a rubber match. We both had beaten each other once so this made it 2 for me and 1 for him. I have all the turns still for the game if someone would like to see the beginning of hostilities and the final turn.
This war lasted 52 turns, yes 52 turns, he hit me on turn 136 and conceded on turn 188. it was non-stop attacks every turn for almost 2 months of play. Some of my moves took 2 hours to do, you have to be careful as any mistep could cost the war.
Here are some stats:
Start of the war thebirdman dancemassese
cities 39 31
production 11,419 9936
gold total/usuable 4715/1609 4498/1725
gov communism theocracy (later changed to Fascism)
aircradt carriers 3 0
destroyers 11 0
marines 13 9
fighters 45 0
SOL's 61 140
subs 21 4
cavs 0 9
musketeer 33 0
cannons 21 5
Units lost in the fighting 722 656
yes we lost 1378 units in the fighting during 52 turns that took almost 2 months to do, just the fighting only not the play up to that time. it was the most exciting game I ever played.
I told gramps about it and he sid others might like hearing about it.
So is this the longest running continual battle, yes every turn, especially for modern weaponry?
I have all the turns of this still saved. If anyone would like to look at the first and last turn please ask, I will send them to you or any turn you would like to see.
Ken/dancemasseuse
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