Finished off my game at lunchtime.


I did go for the technological victory in the end, but once I’d built and launched my spacecraft I had a few years until it reached Alpha Centauri.

Well, the Indians had been annoying me all game. I’d given them peace every time they asked, but during various wars they’d captured a couple of my outlying cities. I hadn’t been too bothered, but it still hurt, you know? (The fact that I’d stolen them from the Indians using culture in the first place isn’t the point – they were mine!)


If you look at the map, I’m the main empire filling most of the screen. The British are below me, the Egyptians are the yellow empire to the west and the Indians are up in the north-west. By this point in the game, they couldn’t attack me. They couldn’t get to me via land and my advanced ships were blocking the sea channel between us.

However, despite not doing anything about it, they were at war with me and every few turns they’d demand some technology in return for peace – demands that I refused.

So, once my spacecraft had launched, I didn’t have to worry any more, nor did I have any goals to work toward. It was time to make the Indians pay for being so very, very annoying. First off, I attempted to nuke Calcutta. Unfortunately, even though I was at war with the Indians, the stupid Congress refused to sanction my decision. So it was time to get rid of my democracy and become a republic. Once that was done, the nuke was launched and Calcutta disappeared from the map.

Then the waves of bombers went in. And then the ground troops. I was just advancing on one of the Indian cities when my spacecraft reached Alpha Centauri and the game ended. It was actually very annoying. I’d almost forgotten about it and was very much enjoying finally going after the Indians

Ah well, at least I won.