War!

On turn 358 I finally declare war on England! I take Oxford on that very same turn and Newcastle just four turns later. This means that Beaver Island is now completely mine! The English Redcoats were no match for my tanks. I also complete the Forbidden Palace in Circassian on the Beaver Island, reducing the city maintenance costs there.

I also dominate the seas: the English sailing vessels are no match for my modern ships. With the support of my war ships I get my first transports to the English mainland. The first fights there yield three dead units from my side and about six of their units dead. Using Marines I also take Liverpool, which is located right next to the Beaver Island on a lone, 1x1 island and was completely defenseless.

In 1947 (turn 367) I get a message informing me that a new computer game called Civilization has been developed in Mongolia. I get to choose whether to sell its rights away, use it to make my citizens happy or, because of it's historical accuracy, use it in the education system and as such use it to boost my scientific research. I choose to use it to boost the scientific research, even though my funds are running low because of the new cities I have conquered... I solve that problem by taking some money away from the research.

I also get my first Mechanized Infantry units and ship them to the war zone. The Redcoats are helpless! In spite of my aggressive war, the Englishmen act like gentleman: they have healed some of my units and returned them to my capital city. This is called a "heroic gesture", but as it happens, no good deed goes unpunished and I just decide to ship the units back to the battlefield.

My units get something to listen to from their field radios when Beshbalik completes the Rock 'n' Roll wonder on turn 376. Maybe because of this they conquer Canterbury immediately. I choose to raze the city because defending it would take too many units out of the main business.

Other Worlds

After conquering my continent I realized I had almost completely neglected the research of anything related to naval vessels. This became apparent when I tried to explore the island with the remaining Aztec cities but the Aztec ships quickly sunk my poor boats.

Luckily I already had a prospering research organization and the necessary technologies were quickly studied. On turn 249 I also achieved my long-term scientific goal, rifling, which enables the training of riflemen. Around the same time I was also informed that Mongolia now holds five million people.

So, back to the seafaring technologies. I quickly trained some new ships and sent them out to explore. I soon met Pacal II of the Mayans, Hammurabi of the Babylonians and Winston Churchill of England. Pacal was a bit hostile but it was only words, Churchill on the other hand sold me their world map. No good deed goes unpunished, though: my new fleet of privateers, unmarked rogue ships, destroyed one of Churchill's caravels as well as some other ships by some other civilizations. Tough luck for them.

I then also destroyed the naval resistance of the Aztecs and unloaded my units onto the other island. My first victim city there was Shangian which I burned down because I didn't want to use my resources to defend it. I then captured Texcoco, north from Shangian's remains and finally Tlaxcala, east from where Shangian used to be. This ended the war, because the Aztecs are no more! Here is my current map:

Renaissance

In 1290 AD (turn 189) my civilization reaches the Era of Renaissance! This happy piece of news is slightly shadowed by the fact that right after this event Montezuma declares a war on me. It was supposed to be the other way around! Montezuma immediately moves a large stack of units towards Beshbalik, but fortunately that was exactly where I had stacked my units too.

At this point I complete the Notre Dame, which adds happiness, which is good because of war weariness. A great engineer also emerges from one of my cities. I use him to start the Golden Age, which enhances the production and commerce output of my cities. I also adapt the Police State civic which reduces war weariness and speeds up the training of military units. A couple of turns only and I have destroyed Montezuma's first wave of attackers, and can begin my counter-offensive.

A great general has also emerged in one of my cities so I use him to lead my troops, which gives them more experience. In turn 206 I capture Teotihuacan from the Aztecs and loot a good amount of money from their vaults. By the turn 226 I have also conquered Tlatelolco and Tenochtitlan, which makes the continent mine and only mine. The Aztecs still have some cities in a nearby island...