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- THREE WARS-ONE TURN!
-
- I am playing the Chinese in Deity Raging Hordes on Earth. Things have been
- going well for me. I have in excess of 220 cities. Yeah, I maxed out the
- cities. That way no one can challenge my hegemony of the Americas. I have
- about five or six camps where I am producing "NONE" settlers. The annoying
- problem is that the Mongols are my neighbors. Every so often they sneak
- attack me, and do minimal damage. I have to take a city of their to make
- peace. So I usually buy it, and in the meantime I eliminate every Mongol unit
- I can reach which is not in a walled city or fortification. Right after I take
- the city the Mongol asks to speak with me and we make peace since I have the
- UN. Fine. Except that often I am using the Mongol city I take to produce NONE
- settlers, and when I take it, there goes the investment in those camps! If it
- were up to me, the Mongols could keep their cities, and I would keep mine, and
- produce lots of "NONE" settlers. Perhaps I could even max out the number of
- units permitted with "NONE" settlers alone! Then I wouldn't have to worry
- about nasty things like enemy armor or nukes when the technology comes out.
-
- Well, we are all at peace, and the Mongol partisans are infiltrating my lines,
- and I am starting to worry about some of my interior cities which are
- undefended. So I tell the Mongols to get his forces back. He says he is going
- to WAR! What UN? So I walk up to one of his small cities with a diplomat. I
- want to deliver freight to his big cities and make lots of revenue, so I don't
- want to take THEM. I decide the price is right. So I go around cleaning up
- vagrant Mongols, and then I buy the target city. The Mongols say nuthin'. So
- I send an emissary. The Mongols don't want to talk! I guess I will have to
- take a bigger city. So I select I nice big size 12 city and roll up my
- artillery on the railroad tracks. I use five artillery, losing one of them,
- and the city is mine. The Mongols want to talk! We make peace.
-
- However, during the course of the turn, the Mongol's ally, the Egyptians
- declared war on me in Australia. I send a spy to the Egyptian capitol city
- and inspect the defenses. Only one rifleman inside! I roll up my one piece
- of artillery on Australia, and the Egyptian capital is mine, including some
- nice wonders. The Egyptians want to talk. We make peace.
-
- Another problem. BOTH the Mongols AND the French declared war on me when I
- attacked the Egyptian capitol. So I have to take a THIRD Mongol city in the
- turn to keep peace. I pick a small Mongol city far from the Mongol capitol
- and buy it. The Mongols and I make peace again.
-
- I am still at war with the French, but I am about a 1000 U's short of buying a
- French city. Next turn I will earn another 3000+ U's in income, but I would
- really rather not have that distant city. I really wish that I could give it
- to my ally, the Celts, without going to war with them.
-
- Joe Rudmin
- jdr5z@fermi.clas.virginia.edu
-