A bit later, with Coventry and Norwich down, Beth's down to Oxford and Warwick, and the time has come, with Alex thinking about building the UN, to do something about that little problem.

Suddenly, Alex lands an entire horde of guys in what used to be England. What's that about, I wonder?

"Flunkius, prepare the men! We march for Greece!"

"Uh, Boss? We've got a 5 turn lux deal with them."

"Oh dear. Well, march slowly."

"Yes Boss."

Some turns pass...

"Now then. Summon the army, Flunkius. It is time."

"Yes Boss."

Alex has Rocketry, Fusion, and a complete and total lack of Computers. And his oil is next to my borders. Buahaha.

Wham. Pharsalos is bombarded 30 times. Wham. the Greek oil supplies die.

And now we try to live through the counterattack.

Which, in the end, turned out to be pretty weak. Though Alex DID use a cruise missile on me, which was a first. Then he lost three ironclads on the random one of mine I forgot I had. That was cooler. Then I was attacked by 3 or so cav and a few tanks. Yawn.

The next turn, Corinth goes down in the west. Move the arty stack up to Delphi...and it very predictably dies. And then, after a couple more turns and an ENORMOUS battle that eats up all of my tanks...

Burn, baby, burn.

I get some very satisfying "OOH!" noises from disbanding the slave workers.

Well, this ought to be interesting.

And there was...no vote. Hrm.

Continuing onward:

I could really use that right at the moment, but no. Burn it!

And then, for variety, I took down Sparta in 1770. The UN? We burned the UN.

I celebrated the 4th of July, 1776, by lighting up Mycanae and Rhodes as fireworks.

And then for something new and different, I killed Argos. Only Knossos left on the continent now.

In 1788, Knossos FINALLY falls. Lugging arty everywhere is bloody slow (You infantry game players can laugh at me now, if you like). Next up, Spain.

Well, THIS ought to be fun.

Honestly, Izzy. What part of "No" don't you understand?

Oh no! Spain declared war! Whatever shall we do!?

Rather predictably, Spain's outlying colonies begin immitating flies. Jaen and Lograno the one moment, Vittoria and Santander the next. Feels sort of strange burning them all, what with RBP10 and all, but ah well.

Then Spain and Greece sign an MPP. Well, if you insist, I guess.

After a hellish amount of arty bombardment and tank army blitzing, Madrid burns in the fire.

Bach? We don't need Bach! We've got...bagpipes! Buahaha!

And along with that, Barcelona burns, giving us a direct rail line to the front and a LOT of slave workers.

"Tell me, Flunkius. Rome is a militaristic civilization, wouldn't you say?"

"Yes, Boss."

"And the Heroic Epic has been written, has it not?"

"Uh, yeah Boss. A hundred years back."

"And we've got a couple dozen elite tanks, right?"

"Yeah Boss."

"So why aren't we getting any leaders?"

"Dunno, Boss."

Some time later...

And the last Spanish settlement on the continent becomes a smoking crater in 1816. And just for kicks, we declare on Beth.

Bad Alex. No respawning with 20 guys.

No, Beth, you don't get to respawn with 20 guys in the exact same spot and get away with it either.

Izzy fortunately decides that respawning with 20 guys would just be way too much effort, so she opts for dying instead.

The replay was, as always, vastly satisfying. Of note: Greece and I had our GAs at almost the exact same times. Of the three leaders generated during the game, two were mine, the other was England's, made about 3 turns before the cav army came and went. My two, incidentally, were massively useful tank armies.

And I'm first in every demographic category, and I own the top five cities list. Wonder how THAT happened...

2427 points, RBCiv-31 the Conqueror. I miss out on entering my top ten in the HoF, but oh well. It was quite a game.

"Say, Boss. That was quite a comeback."

"Thank you, Flunkius."