THE END GAME

Washington's request for military aid triggered the final phase of this game.

This time around, I had been preparing. I'd trained some Grenadiers and was moving on to Cavalry. These units weren't in position, but they were in the pipeline.

1752AD: My first action was to send a Pikeman in to attack an enemy Knight. I won that battle without a scratch! 1754AD: The Aztecs left a second Knight exposed (moving them toward the city on the lake) and I took that one out too!

1754AD: They have sent in a 3-stack toward Ning-Hsia. I sacrifice a Catapult first, then pick off the wounded enemies without further losses.

Things were quiet for a few turns. Both sides were gathering their forces. Here's a shot of my back lines, training troops (or building Banks).

1770AD: Now both sides are moving on the attack. The Aztecs have mismanaged their advance, though, allowing their catapults to get separated from cover units.

From here, I pushed forward in two major thrusts.

THE BATTLE OF TEO

1776AD: A year of some significance to George Washington, so I'm told.

Somebody once called me a bomb thrower. ... Who, me?

THE BATTLE OF TLACO

Trying to get one of those elite swords to 17XP, so I can build West Point.

IBT 1776AD: Our Guerilla-promoted mine guard (longbows) take out a GRENADIER!

Sadly, they finished us off in the followup.

1778AD: I buy Washington's world map, just to get current intel. Ooh, look at this Army Ant jobber the Aztecs have pulled on America!

Boston stripped bare, and the land pillaged clean all the way to the American capital. Washington was in too many wars in my game to maintain a civ-wide Cottage/Town strategy. As a result, he was unable to run away with the tech race as happened in some other players' games.

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