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So, the first war ended with Hatty significantly reduced. And Rome not hurt at all, except by some necessary spending on the cultural slider. I probably could have run for space, but I'd already decided I was going to dominate the game, or die trying. The under 100 turn warnings had started, but... Well, the whole game is only 400-some, so that 100-turn warning comes with a fourth of the game left. That's a LONG time.
Carriers and jet fighters helped the air battles. Modern armors and stealth bombers were to win the war. But, after I declared on Hatty (again), Monte declared on me, too. I signed up Louis for a few techs to help against Hatty (it just got Louis pillaged and Hatty promoted, but it did distract her a bit). I smote Monte and moved on to Hatty. My foothold only allowed attacking one city. Byblos. The AI knew it and stacked the city. |
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Yes, that's more than a screen's worth of units. Some of them are non-combat units, though. I sent in my first sacrificial stack to try to draw them out. It worked. While most of my stack died, I was able to kill off essentially all of Hatty's artillery and thin the defenses of Byblos a tiny bit. My larger, real stack then followed. The Byblos siege took a bit, but 50 hp units (thanks, Stealth Bombers) die pretty fast. I think I ended up using a marine to capture Byblos, because my MA were all used up. But it did fall.
And once it fell, Hatty was toast. She had a bunch more cities. And big cultural borders to push through. But it was just a matter of time. Modern armor push. Stealth bombers rock. I lost maybe two units after the initial stack devastation. Just a matter of time. And the clock was ticking.... |
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But it wasn't ticking nearly fast enough. Even before 2000, I had captured all of Hatty's cities (returning one to Louis XIV that she'd taken). Then, it was just a matter of waiting for cultural expansions. France was completely pillaged from their earlier war. It may have been faster to just get the conquest. But I wanted domination.
And domination I got. In 2004 AD. For 11819 points.
Even though Hatty built the UN, I had backdoor domination a LONG time earlier. I was just going through the motions to get the true domination. The land criteria is the killer there, IMO.
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