1BC Official C3C GOTM - September 2007

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started out a little slow. Got the big break early when I beelined to philosophy, used the free tech to get literature and was awarded a great scientist for my efforts. Used the great scientist to build the great library and then shut down all tech spending.

Right around then though my civ was struggling to expand between the Japanese and Russians and both got a little randy and came at me with ultimatums. Fortunately though, with my spending cut to nothing, I had quite the chest of gold available for bribing the french and indians into war against the russians. I took care of the japanese while they did that then turned and took quite a few russian cities before russia and japan were extinct and I had quite a few swords and two sword armys.

Stupidly, I attacked the french next with my large arsenal and paid the indians to fight with me. I say stupidly because I forgot that the indians and their war elephants are going to soon be a force to be reckoned with. I took out most of the french with med. infantry and knights but the indians had a few cities they kept.

Unfortunately, once ghandi built up a few elephants, he attacked me but I was reasonably well suited because our common border was filled mostly with jungle and I had a pretty decent defensive position built up. I took the opportunity to take away the few cities that the indians took from the french though and went to peace.

I started spending gold to get to military tradition and killed off ghandi with a cav rush soon after. I now took a break from warmongering and worked on infrastructure. I built many rifles and infantry and city improvements. Also built many workers to help clear jungle and lay rail. All this while planning the great panzer invasion of maya.

I landed on the mayan shore with two panzer armys and two cav armies with an extra panzer unit attached after pentagon construction. I was going to pillage everything and then start taking cities but chichen itza became too tempting, especially with their bombing campaigns. I bribed the english and babylonians to war with me so the mayans spent more effort taking cities from them than warding me off. I pillaged the only oil tile they had on that land mass which kept back the tanks and bombers for many turns. I waited longer than I needed to probably to explode and take cities but when I finally did, it was a quick death with 9 fully panzer armies and about 50 lone panzers. I had just gotten to modern armor before winning.