My latest accomplishment is truly a work of genuis.
The Greeks and Russians are to the north, and the last bastion of the French is at the end of a long peninsula, the begining of which is controlled by the French. I would of played nice, but all three of them were forcing my hand. War was inevatable. The Greeks would have to go first. They are the second biggest civ on this continent, and are the only ones that could truly threaten me, even with the tecnological gap. Plus, unless I want to launch an amphibous assualt, I have to secure a land route to the Russians and French. The problem? There is a reason for the location of my border with the Greeks. To the west is a large mountain chain that splits the continent in half, with only two narrow passes, and surrounded by rough terrain. To the east is a 7 tile wide route riddled with lakes and rough terrain, with the ocean on one side and mountains of the other. Even with mechanized infantry and armor, the Greeks large army, combined of riflemen, cannons, and AT guns (No idea how they have those) could easily bog me down there, turning into a costly war. This has to be quick, swift, and leave me with enough momentum to take on the Russians and French without pause. I form a plan.
First, I take out the Greeks support. I take out three city-states, each in a key location to take key supply lines between me and the Greeks. Then, once thats done, I deploy my forces. To the west I assemble my paratroopers and jet fighters. To the east I assemble my mechanized infantry and modern armor. The east have three rocket artillery units but the west only has one. I only have one battleship and one aircraft carrier, due to only having one coastal city with any degree of production. The aircraft carrier will be useless, so I put it in it's own little harbor as far away from teh action as possible. The battleship is put into place north of the Greeks, where it will be able to spot targets and rain down fire on the reinforcements. Then I launch my attack. First a lance of armor is sent from the east through a narrow strip of open terrain, heading towards the west. Then I move in my battleship. I deploy two of my paratroopers, and put them in position. From here I can easily see most of the Greek terratory. I then order my intial strike. Four flights of bombers take off, each with a deadly payload. The first hits Sparta, which forms the border on the east. Sparta is wiped off the map in a brilliant flash. The second hits Athens and the army built up there. My battleship and jet fighters kill the survivors. Then the third strike hits, this time on a city near the west, damaging that city and the army nearby. The last one hits a concentration of their troops. With the way cleared, the rest of my armor strikes. To the west, my other four paratrooper units take off and land at key locations, while my rocket artillery takes up position. Three of my paratroopers are tasked with taking a city, while the others are to hold up the army. To the east, my mechanized forces strike. Within the first turn my rocket artillery levels a city's defenses, and a modern armor unit takes in with minimal damage. The other units fan out, surrounding another city, taking out a group of units, and getting ready to hit another city. By this point I wiped out what I estimate to be a third of Greece's forces. Their turn comes. The bulk of their military is to the north west, and they have to get through my paratroopers. They absorb the blow, with one unit being destroyed and another having only one hp remaining. But I fully expected that. Next turn I retaliate, using my last bomb to punch a hole in those units, with my paratroopers and rocket artillery killing the remainder. My forces to the east soon capture their other targets, and two of my armored units hit Athens, capturing it with the help of my battleship. This action divides up the Greek army, as I have split their empire down the middle. During the second turn. After this, it is just mopping up what remains and taking out the Russians and the French, who didn't even put up a fight. One of the best parts? The year was 1939. Blitzkreig understates what I did. I even left entire cities behind my lines to prevent my advance from slowing down. I only lost two units, the paratrooper, and the aircraft carrier, as four frigats were somehow in the area and ambushed it.
Civ V, again. After this I got bored, not wanting to go through the logistics of getting my army across the ocean to deal with a long protrated war with the only other continent.
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