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The Aztecs liked Boston. They wanted it back. Sadly, this meant they landed a lot of boatloads on the many hills there, giving me fits with counterattacking for leaders. I lost five elites in combat there and had to use vets to score new elites. With one or two shiploads landing every turn, I killed over forty invading Aztec units, half of those by elites. I'm now up over fifty elite victories and still no leader.

In 980AD, Carthage found Greece, who had contact with Rome. Here's the remains of my military at that point, with my core largely occupied building banks and universities.

I've been in constant war since 90AD, except for a dozen turns between eliminating America and declaring on Aztecs in search of a leader. I mentioned my plan to go with constant warfare, right? To stay in Monarchy the entire game? At least I think I mentioned that earlier.

My first self-built wonder completed in 1020AD. You can also see my Bach prebuild going.

The "let the Aztecs land in the hills" grind marched tirelessly onward.

After more than sixty elite victories...

I rushed my FP in Atlanta, not Washington, so that it would be centrally located to both America and Azteca. "Guess who's coming to dinner!"

First, though, I needed to build up my new second core a bit more. You know, granaries, markets, um... barracks and harbors. Courthouses. So I made peace with the Aztecs and took two island towns in the peace deal, thus promising 20 turns to Monty. I was happy to have peace, since I was building wonders back home, and the new core needed the basics.

I went on a wonder-building kick in my original core. I landed Cop, Bach, Magellan, then Newton and Smith. Lost Shakespeare's in the Smith cascade to the city of Carthage, which had also built SunTzu. Hannibal had Colossus, Lighthouse, SunTzu and Shakespeare's in one city. Good grief. Both Cop and Newton in same city, btw.

Oh, did I mention that my rep got ruined in 90AD? Yep. I had a trade deal with the Aztecs through American waters, which got cut off when I attacked the American settler on that island. My rep stank ever since, even though that was my only "misdeed" on the trade front.

Right after I sold Rome a tech for huge gpt, he landed units on one of the isles I got from the Aztecs. I swindled the swindler, but wow, look at the price! Even for one turn, that was painful. Note it still says "getting close to a deal" at that price. I needed 410gpt to make the buy. Here's hoping Civ4 does away with the gpt concept. It's got way too many exploits and loopholes, both for and against the player, and is responsible for killing research, since it is so easy to buy techs on credit.

I led the world into a pile-on vs Rome. Signed up all kind of allies.

The AI's followed me too quickly into the industrial age. I was not ready to attack the Aztecs before they got to rifles, so I went ahead and delayed until I had factories and coal plants built. (No river on the home island, so I built coal plants everywhere immediately. Coal plants in a couple sites in America, too).

I knew there would be no rubber, so I went mad training midievals and gallics -- not only for attack, but for upgrade, too, for the survivors.

Here's the SoD I landed in Azteca over two turns, in 1560-65.

This marks the beginning of the modern era of warfare. From here on out, with my two cores essentially mature, it would be massive troop training and continuous, often multi-front warfare.

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