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Civ: French
Caravan Rehoming
World Domination March 1915. Only British has two cities left.
Strategy:
August 1914: bypassed Cologne and Strassburg and marched to Berlin-Vienna line (Most German cities were not well protected). Also talked to Americans and accepted invitation to crush the Russian. Rush build artilleries, engineers and 8 freights. Rush build one transport in Brest. Rush built superhighways in Marseilles for better trade bonus. No need for barracks since non-vet artilleries won most of the time.
September 1914: attacked Russia (used an engineer to build a temp city east of Konisburg so that my troops could move via RR to Russia), bypassed Warsaw and pushed to Petrograd-Moscow-Kharhov-Odessa line. Then talked to Russia for a cease fire. First shipload of freights (rehomed to Marseilles) reached Bristol. This ship would not come back home but head to America. Tried to use wounded vet artilleries to occupy cities so it could recover.
IOctober 1914: mobilized to south and pushed to Alexandretta and Mosul. Also took care of Cologne and Strassburg (used vet artilleries since the cities were on river). To prevent Russia from breaking cease fire, gave it all my techs, including the newly developed chemical warfare (this tech allows a 20 shield unit, thus saves me money when rush buying).
November 1914: wiped out Germany then attacked Russia again (got a 'poorly' reputation). At the same time in South I consolidated my front with only Basra and Medina in Turkey's hand.
December 1914: is Italy's turn. Occupied all Italy cities in the penninsula.
January 1915: All Russian, Italy, Turky objective cities were mine. The first ship from Brest were close to America. A ship chain was established so an engineer and 7 artilleries were transported to the ship. Ran out of targets to attack but have to wait till next turn to resolve alliance with British.
Februrary 1915: Landed in America and built a temp city. Resolved alliance with British so another shipload of troops automatically teleported to America. Attacked and easily wiped out the Americans as well as Most British cities.
March 1915: All objectives achieved and only British has two cities in far East escaped destruction.
I sold a lot of city improvements. ALso I set up a benificial trade route between Marseilles and Bristol. I rehomed all freights to Marseilles, then sent to Bristol. The first 3 freights were Oil, Dye, Gold, in that order. All subsequent freights were carrying Dye. After the first 3 trades Bristol always demand Dye so I got 400 golds per freights and one tech per turn (Marseilles has rush built superhighways and sewing system). I always rush buy units in one turn whenever possible(first buy a barracks or poison gas).
Bach in Leipzig and Orthodox Chirch in Minsk helped to ease happiness problems.
Zepplins were not very useful. I used them to weaken Southampton so that my land troops could easily win. Also I used them to destroy Scapa Flow. Armors were not useful as well since they only had move 1. Besides, barracks were sold once the tech for armor was discovered. Battleships were too expensive and did not move fast enough. Hence, the only useful units were artillery and F cavalry, along with engineers, freights, and transports.