Update 6: The REICHHUNDE Bites Back!Next two turns are full of fighting the Mongols. Our Alpine troops and Riflemen effectively block every Cavalry and Cannon that the Mongols toss at us.
Unfortunately our Airships had only moderate success; one Battleship sunk but it costed our Veteran Airship lots of health, and the other barely survived a bombing of fortified Rifleman unit. They're now docked at Heidelburg for repairs.
We now have Flight! I've ordered some cities to create buncha Fighters in case Mongols decide to bomb us with Airships they have.
However!
Soon we will have something even better than Fighterplanes!
By 1918, our Airships sunk two Destroyers and severely bombed Ormuz but its garrison, despite losing 3 Riflemen and an Artillery piece, is still strong. I also had to switch production in some cities to Police Stations to curb the unhappiness we have from those Airships and other units being outside cities/forts.
The war turns a bit unfunny in 1920. They also get Guerilla Warfare from Romans next turn which will make grabbing of Ormuz a bit harder.
Our first Fighter scored major strafing victories against garrison of Ormuz, killing 2 Riflemen units before I had him return to Heidelberg; still no Tanks nor Airships spotted on Mongol side.
Our Airship force is now 4 vessels strong, all Veterans of bombings of Ormuz. All the vessels are heavily damaged though; I wish Radio popped up on Research table soon so I can build Airports for faster repairs.
Unfortunately, our navy (what navy?) had terrible performance so far. We lost 3 subs and a Destroyer and sunk only a single empty Transport and a Destroyer ourselves. Therefore I decided to stop funding the Navy and concentrate our funds and resources on the Luftwaffe and land forces only.
Also remember that hill Fortress at edge of Ormuz that kept triggering Romans and later on Mongols? We recaptured and restaffed it.
First pair of Mongol tanks attacked it next year, but our brave Alpine Troopers tanked (ha!) them.
Haha! Now to rebuild Barracks and then we can start creating Tanks ourselves!
YES! We captured Ormuz! The list of plunder-able techs was vast but I picked Steel.
This is truly a historic moment. It took us many centuries, but not only we caught up with the Mongols, we also captured the city that launched sea-and-land raids against our borders for last several centuries.
I should be more careful with our Airships from now on.
Also, Mongols flooded the plains in front of Ormuz with about 10 Tanks. Our reply?
A charge with our Cavalry and shiny Tank. I also sacrificed one of the Airship so it could bomb a stack of 4 Tanks with the last of its fuel. RIP Airship.
As you can see I managed to further reduce the Tank hordes.
Another stack of Tanks destroyed! But the Mongols keep coming!! I had to pull some Alpine garrisons from as far as Berlin and Leipzig to reinforce Ormuz in preparation for unavoidable Tank rush.
Hot damn, Chinese lost a city?? They're like the most advanced peoples, I thought they also had adequate army to repel Mongols.
The rush of 6 or 7 Mongol Tanks against Ormuz was repelled; out of all defenders we lost only 1 Alpine unit.
Radio has been developed by the Reich scientists. Unfortunately in the same time Mongol Fighter planes shot down
3 out of 6 currently operating Airships.
Zulus continue fighting against Mongols, as we do. Another stack of (3) Tanks was destroyed by a bombing run, while our Alpine troops repel an Airship raid against Ormuz!
I also opened another front with an Airship and 3 Alpine troops operating from Konigsberg. They primarily harass Mongol footsoldiers and Engineers.
Between 1930 and 1931 we lose another Airship to the Mongol Fighterplanes. Several Tank columns however are repelled by both Ormuz defenders and the Fortress crew as the Mongols seemingly decided to sneak some tanks through the mountains.
In 1932, Chinese lose
three cities to the Mongols, while Aztecs lose a city they have taken from Mongols earlier.
I'm going to talk with the Chinese about these developments.
Finally after centuries of being ignored, they sign a peace treaty with us!
I gave them Mobile Warfare in exchange for Atomic Theory.
Further proof that Caesar is an incredible asshole.
It's 1934; I decided to close the Konigsberg front and fly its Airship to Ormuz via Leipzig and Nuremberg. The 'deluge' of Mongol tanks have turned into a slim stream, but their Artillery continues to harass us every year.
I just checked their casualty list (we still have embassy with them!); they lost over
45 tanks, 15 Airships, 12 Fighters, 20 pieces of Artillery, 20-something Fanatics and almost
30 Riflemen, plus 18 Submarines, 14 Destroyers and 15 Cavalry so far in this 'World War',
holy shit.Status of the frontlines & our army listing at the end of 1935.
For the interested: I'm building that one Transport to ferry units from Konigsberg&Cologne to the mainland; surprisingly those two cities have very nice Shield output, would be a waste to not put it to good use. With Leipzig and Cologne being only 4 tiles apart, our transport can get from city-to-city in 1 turn without getting sunk by Mongol submarines (that are still aplenty).
The war continues, but this update ends here!
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