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Details she fights like a robot

she fights like a robot

MY 2221.  So far so good.  I predicted she would put a stack of 3 probe teams next to my city, and I shall summarily kill them.  I predicted 1 unit would come next to 1 city, so I only needed to rush 1 unit to kill it.  I didn't predict my pop booming would disrupt my weapons production.  It's not a crisis, but I did lose a turn in 4 cities from that.  I still don't know how to play my own mod.

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Details remnant of the horde

remnant of the horde

MY 2222.  She moved in with a lot more troops this time.  I was able to kill or wound many of them, leaving only 1 of her units remaining next to 2 of my cities.  I presume that her 3X gun can't take out my 3 defender behind a wall.  Which reminds me: I forgot to scrap a Perimeter Defense at one of my Morganic bases.

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Details clearing the pests

clearing the pests

MY 2223.  She didn't even try to attack my 3 defenders behind walls.  I liquidated everything on my walls and even had reserves of unused troops.  The immediate peril is over, although I don't know how many waves she'll send before she can't.  I've resumed worrying about pop booming.

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Details for the love of coffee

for the love of coffee

MY 2224.  My sugar plantation is severely overtaxed and might perish.  I think I lost a Scout unit in the last exchange.  I didn't get radically depopulated so I'm not sure if chemical weapons were used or not.  They were available.  I've taken the precaution of moving my Foil Probe Team out of the city in case it is taken, since no probe teams are approaching.

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Details guess its decaf

guess its decaf

Definitely chemical weapons used that time!  I just couldn't get defensive units together fast enough to deal with all of that.  It was the 1 base in my empire that was "not a priority".  Everyone else got done up to the same uniform standard of defense.  TBH the war broke out with much less warning than I expected.  Maybe that's my bad?  It's ironic that AFAIK, I'm the 1st victim of urban mass casualties!  That foil probe team isn't even going to have a city left to do a mission on.  It'll just have to sit around in the lake feeling pretty miserable.

Details beating back the tide

beating back the tide

On the eastern front, I'm going on the offensive.  I've got the units to destroy any city in front of me.  I just need the Formers to build the rails up to their doorstep.  That'll be easily accomplished next year.

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Details Zak fights academically

Zak fights academically

MY 2231.  Maybe he shouldn't have gotten into a war with the Hive?

Details chatty Zakky

chatty Zakky

And he wants to talk about it.  Well, I actually have the troops to deal with Yang now.  I've wiped out the Cyborg's 2 nearest cities, giving me some breathing room.  I wouldn't mind unifying my empire.  Very well, let's get on with it.  To think we were all friends once.

Details I like the clear view

I like the clear view

I wipe out 4 of Yang's cities in 1 turn.  In my home territory, this was facilitated by poor garrisoning and a rail on his part.  I was able to use my wounded 4X-1-1 units to reduce Scout defenders.

Details teach a drone to fish

teach a drone to fish

I also discovered a Battle Ogre MK2 at sea!  I'm thinking of throwing it at the Monsoon Jungle, but maybe I'll find something else to do with it.  I nerfed them a bit.  A spammy enemy can probably hold one off indefinitely.

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Details my place of healing

my place of healing

MY 2234.  A quirk of my core empire, is I didn't have a Monolith.  With the invasion of Yang's territory, I have corrected that.  I've done massive amounts of rail movement back and forth to wipe out yet more stuff.

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Details wiping out the south

wiping out the south

MY 2236.  The partial rail lines that Yang built, are proving very helpful for wiping him out.  I just need to finish connecting them to bring my troops right to his doorstep.  He's also building the Maritime Control Center for me at the Hive.  I'm saving that city for last as I'll have to take it conventionally.

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Details rah rah undirected research

rah rah undirected research

MY 2237.  This isn't proving all that helpful right now, as I don't really have an offensive problem.  Zhakarov's Retroviral Engineering would have been pretty useful.

Details saving my puppet

saving my puppet

My Battle Ogre MK2 arrives in Morganic territory just as both cities are in danger of being wiped out.  So, it is tasked with preserving my patsy on the Planetary Council!

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Details sneaky robot sickness

sneaky robot sickness

MY 2242.  I contemplate changing to a different Social Engineering model.  I realize that Knowledge wouldn't be so bad for me now, but Zhakarov will not sell any of his techs.  I loan him money since I expect him to be a long term ally.  I look to see if the Cyborgs have researched anything meanwhile, and they've got Retroviral Engineering.  Good thing I've had an ironclad probe team defense since forever!  I need to steal it and start ruining her cities.

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Details public projects

public projects

MY 2244.  I complete the Merchant Exchange in my capitol.  Morgan gave me the tech a long time ago.  Zhakarov was staring to work on it, so I rushed it. 

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Details beginning of the end

beginning of the end

MY 2245.  I steal Retroviral Engineering from the Cyborgs.  This is going to be very bad for them!  Meanwhile Yang is down to 2 cities, his capitol and a runty outpost that the University is pummeling.  I will turn my attention to the Cyborgs, as my 4X-1-1 units are not all that effective when used conventionally.  I need either a better weapon, or for the University to do the work of weakening the Hive before I take it over.

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Details first genetic atrocity

first genetic atrocity

MY 2247.  I reduce a Cyborg city from size 7 to 3 and badly wound its 2 defenders.  Can you say cakewalk?  Pity the probe team didn't live, I guess they caught a whiff of their own stuff!

Details ring around the capitol

ring around the capitol

I am building cities around my capitol to prevent further encroachment by the University, and to create an economic / research zone of great profit.  The effort will slow down my offensive against the Cyborgs because Formers are needed for both tasks.  Also I have to garrison any new cities with defensive probe teams.

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Details this is so over

this is so over

MY 2248.  Just the thing I need to walk all over anyone!  Even if only to provide cover for my advancing Elite 4X-1-1 units.  I suppose an air umbrella doesn't extend indefinitely, so I'll still need some Formers to build air bases.  I could build a Carrier if the Cyborgs weren't so far inland.  Actually I can still do that to their Monsoon Jungle holdings.  Its their original interior which is completely landlocked.  The most immediate relief will be wiping out anything approaching Morganic territory.

Conventional air units might also do a pretty good job of wiping out the Hive.  Retroviral Engineering did give me Soporific Gas Pods.

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Details The Last Hiverian

The Last Hiverian

MY 2253.  Zhakarov takes over a Hive city with a mind control probe, leaving Yang with only his capitol.