Part 74: The Tipping Point

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Hey everyone! u/streetlamp25 here and honored to bring you this very exciting part 74?. Shout out to TPang for the opportunity. A lot of questions were left unanswered last part and hopefully they will be answered soon. Will the Boers repel the invaders once and for all? Will the Brazilians finally realize their golden opportunity in South America? How long will it take for the Inuit to swallow yet another civilization? Will the Mongolians ever stop using Helicopters in all ways but the proper one? Stay tuned to find out in another exciting edition of the Battle Royale!

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And here is the cylinder as we saw it last. We can see that the African coast continues to flip and the Inuit moving in. And let‘s not forget…. ____________________ | | | | | RIP | | | | DAVID | | | | | | |

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Spherical Melon delivers a ridiculously high quality representation of the Boer Ryk. We here are Battle Royale (tm) can only be jealous as all hell of the consistent talent in this community.

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Despite the continent of Africa falling under the leadership of a wisened biomechanical neckbearded Afrikaner, the Inuit still retain their top spot due to their potential to power through Yakutia‘s territory like piss through snow.

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Not many civs are left on our cylinder, but only 4 manage to remain neutral (albeit just because they aren‘t at war it doesn‘t mean there isn‘t a veritable slew of denouncements and passive-aggressive comments on other civ‘s facebook pages.

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What a way to start! I believe this is the Inuit/Yakut front but can‘t really tell through all the smoke and radiation. Darkhan (Yakut) seems to have taken a leaf out of the Buccaneer chapter of How to Fight Wars Good. All the Inuit cities here are in the red or black but Darkhan doesn‘t exactly have an available strike team to do anything about it.

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Another hazy war front this time in Central America. The Buccs have the clear tech advantage here and could be looking to make gains into Mexico. On another note the Australian subs had their bring your super old outdated unit to work day up in the top left.

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Here we see that recruit Ishtar made it to Osaka. Also notice the lack of enemy units. Looks like Meiji will survive. For now.

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And next to the Vietnamese mountain we have a couple Siberian nukes possibly preparing to nuke the Finns to oblivion. We also see a shot of newly acquired Sibirian Kabul with only an Afghan general in the area. Looks like they‘ll be holding on to that.

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And all of Nebbuchadnezzar‘s recruits have made it to their respective destinations so let‘s take a quick break from the action to see what they have to tell us.

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Looking at who‘s plotting against who we see a lot of fairly meaningless rump state politics. There probably won‘t be any important game hanging wars coming out of these.

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And here‘s a look at Kandahar, the new Afghan Capital after the fall of Kabul. A couple productive and workable tiles that would allow Hotak to stay alive to live another day if they can work out a peace deal. We can also see a Sibir hovertank picking off any odd melee units very close to the city so that peace deal better come soon.

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Here we see Osaka where Japan has been surviving for a while now. Not many resources around and that cannon isn‘t going to repel prospective invaders if they manage to send more than one boat. For now however the Japanese are focused on their anime version of Pride and Prejudice. ~uguuuuuu

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And another city view, this time at Ciudad Juarez. A lot of pillaged tiles to the south and east but the Mexican capital keeps chugging our troops to try and repel the Buccs and their power infantry squads we saw earlier.

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A shot of the European core here with the Bucc lands bare except for some radiation and some overworked workers. In other news Gustavus (Sweden) realized that he could never abolish leg day and makes peace with Leonidas. If there‘s one thing we can take away from this is never ever diss leg day.

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The Boers must really hate the citizens of Kumasi. Surrounded by hovertanks, Kumasi is not going fall unless the Boers get a melee unit in there. And when I say surrounded I mean like SURROUNDED. That‘s a lot of tanks for one city, even if it is a capital. At this point the city will just be bombarded to death, a sad end.

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Here we see what used to be Arrrrrfrica. No longer. All the Buccaneer cities we can see are in the black and the boers are in a great position to finally push the Buccs out with a GDR poised to take Bamako and plenty of units ready to go.

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Mess with the bull you get the nukes. Or something like that. It appears as if the Inuit didn‘t like being nuked (who would) and are preparing a strike of their own. The Inuit have the troops to support their strike though so this might spell trouble for the Yakut.

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A strategic view of the region shows radiation on both fronts of the wars with Khonuu flipping back to the Mongols but surrounded by the worst radiation of the region suggesting a nuclear strike. Maybe it wiped the helicopters out and forced the Mongols to find a new strategy. Hopefully.

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And there he is! The Ashanti pikeman finally learned how to embark into the sea and is heading back to Boer territory albeit a one tile island. Maybe he‘s looking for some vacation. Meanwhile the battle of the century is heating up as a Boer carrier faces off against a Vietnamese carrier. In all seriousness Vietnam has a decent army here. Perhaps a new front to the war?

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Scratch that stuff I said about Kandahar possibly becoming a safe place for the Afghans to hole up. It‘s in the black with a Siberian power infantry within striking distance. Looks like we could see another death here folks. Prepare that F key.

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Meanwhile in Korea: Korean general: Sir the Yakutians have been nuking people like crazy! what should we do? Sejong: What are we gonna do, declare war? General: Yes supreme leader. As you say. Sejong: You‘re joking General: You outlawed sarcasm yesterday remember? Sejong: Ahh yes. Well get on with it then. And nuke something for the hell of it. We‘ll just say it was a test. True story. But anyway the Koreans already have Jokuskai surrounded and in the red. This definitely isn‘t Yakutias part.

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A lot is going on in this slide. First a look at the remains of Etharabia with Jericho on the red. Thankfully for them, no enemy units are close (EXCEPT FOR THE GIANT RADIOACTIVE BOER SCORPIONS BUT THAT‘S OKAY NO NEED TO WORRY). Prime the F keys. The Jewish Inquisitor seems to have lost his protector as he wanders towards Gaza only now believing the stories of his homeland in red and gray. You‘ve got to feel sorry for them as now Hotak (Afghanistan) Is plotting against them. It seems as if the world is trying to stop the Jewish Inquisition from happening before it even starts. Yakutia also has made peace with Sibir in hopes of strengthening their eastern front.

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And the Ashanti just can‘t get a break. Besides Mexico plotting against everyones favorite pikeman, look what Vietnam did! Just as the Ashanti were about to enjoy a nice relaxed beachfront vacation, Vietnam decided to spite the Ashanti and snipe the hot bed of the nice relaxed beachfront activities. The Ashanti are left with only their pool of tears to swim in, a sad replacement to nice relaxed beachfront activities.

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And now Meiji is in on the plotting, this time against Anawrahta (Burma). And although Burma has been dead for a while now (since part 44, although rumour has it that a musician still roams the seas around Arabia entertaining sailors for a twenty), the Japanese might become a bit too greedy with their plotting and anger a legitimate power. Maybe not such a smart idea. While Japanese cannons are mighty, they‘re also cannons. And there‘s one so…..

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My point exactly. Here we see the Kimberly fleet, now with more boats (a groundbreaking strategy) and a nuke. Shooting a nuke with a cannon is difficult and won‘t really prevent the nuke from ravaging the land but don’t tell Meiji that

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Goodbye for now Arrrrrfrica. We might see you again, we might not. Personally I want rum to rule the world but that glorious dream might have to be put on hold. The Boers have landed a hovertank in Iberia so it could be the start of Boerope.

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An Icelandic fleet armed with a nuke seem to be lost in the warm waters of the pacific. Or are they? The Buccs core is still void of anything but workers, but the Icelandic troops would have to go through the wall of carriers, a daunting task in itself.

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The Yakutians seem to have defended Jokuskai not too shabbily. It‘s still in the red but not as many sarcasm deprived Koreans surround it. Druzhna has also been lowed to the red however with Korean reinforcements ready in the south to go to either city.

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Speak of the devil and he shall appear. I eat my words again as the Koreans power through and grab Jokusai. A GDR is ready to take Druzhna and free up the hovertanks to harass the Yakut settler who is just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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The Inuit have a GDR of their own ready to take Verkhnevilyuysk (say that 5 time fast). There seems to be every color of unit surrounding it except brown and blue. The Yakuts are really losing ground here and with two superpowers pushing on their core, they might not make it out of this one.

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Ass-kicking ahoy ya landlubbers. The Buccs are back and they‘re all out of bubble gum. They have retaken most of the cities they lost the last time we looked here and Iceland has gotten in in the action. Now all the Boer cities are on the black and a Bucc paratrooper, after a rousing pep talk and a bottle of rum has landed alone in the heart of the Boers primed to snipe Quarzazate. With some luck they could actually hold it as the nearest Boer units are workers and a hovertank.

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Vietnam is trying to take Middleberg, another one tile Boer city. Their plans of taking it with one boat (seriously the AI strategy is golden) should be foiled by the drone laden carriers sporadically placed around this shot.

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And the walls of Jericho have fallen. The Ethiopians had a good run, building up a sizable empire in east Africa and Arabia but being so close to the Boers was always going to be a huge hurdle for Selassie. RIP.

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A shot of Boer East Africa with more workers than units. Baghdad is in yellow but with only one hovertank attacking the Boers would be hard pressed to keep it if they could take it. Which they can’t because of the whole hovertank thing.

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And the Boers are angry. Not much emotion affects the cyboergs these days, but prevent the Ashanti from nice relaxing beachfront activities? DEATH. I mean 4 nukes is probably overkill. At this point what would remain of that strike wouldn‘t make nice relaxing beachfront activities enjoyable.

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The Ashanti realize this and begrudgingly make their way back to the mainland noticing the Vietnamese border gore cutting Sri Lanka in two. They might want to talk to the inquisitor about freeing their respective homelands.

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And the Boers have repelled the Bucc push and are preparing a push of their own. This remains one of the most fluctuating fronts of the entire BR. One turn you think the Buccs are gonna hold their land and he next the Boers have purged them out. Makes for great action and makes my job easy (except for the whole predicting part)

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Jokusai is still in the possession of the Koreans but the Yakuts have units nearby ready to flip it back. Druzhna is now in the black and will fall soon. Meanwhile in the top right Verkhnevilyuysk is also in the red. Worse news for the Yakut… The Mongol helicopters survived and are coming from the southeast.

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And the nukes just keep falling. This time in Arabia. It looks like both sides were nuked and there‘s a nice fallout patch to commemorate the ruins of Damascus. Afghanistan keeps plotting against dead Civs just to make them feel powerful again.

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Meiji has made peace with Leonidas as Koreans naval carpet extends close and closer to mainland Japan. A Finnish paratrooper is just “passing through” while two more look on from the north ready for their orders. Soon the hologram of Emperor Kekkonen could crackle through, “Execute order 66”.

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A look now to the Mexican front where even the combatants can‘t tell if they‘ve been nuked again due to the insane amount of smoke. Ciudad Juarez is still in the red but has been reinforced by friendly Mexican units who are still out-teched by the Buccs

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An Icelandic Great Musician plays a mournful song to commemorate the lives and AI lost in the most recent glassing of West Africa and even Iberia. The death by nukes toll is getting higher and higher. Don‘t you just wish the World Council would abolish them? That was the first thing the AI in Civ IV would do….

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In a shot of North Africa it appears that Iceland unloaded their arsenal we saw last part here as well. No Boer is safe from the strength of suns. The Bucc holdings here are under siege from the Boers who demand revenge for their West African friends slain by the atom bomb. Boers don’t hate these cities as much as Kumasi but thats still a sizeable army.

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More nukes are being prepared and fired as Olenyok and Mukhtuy are in the red and surrounded by the Yakut Navy and a mighty worker, killer of Inuit, conqueror of cities, protector of Yakut, and all that jazz.

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Korea continues to gobble up Yakutian territory with terrifyingly passive ease.

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A strategic view of the north again with the same radiation problem that most people are having. The Inuit haven‘t made a large amount of progress this part but again keep slowly pushing through the Yakut. The addition of the Koreans to the war definitely will open the Yakut up even more.

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Well it looks like the Buccs are getting a taste of their own medicine as multiple nukes are unleashed on Buccaneer Spain. The best news for the Buccs right now is that their caravel wasn‘t blown to bits.

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Here we have a good look at the Tibetan city of Lhasa guarded by an invincible army….. Of caravans. But an army is an army and if you want to build a metric buttload of caravans go ahead. To each his own. That‘s all folks. See you next time on the Battle Royale!

Part 74: The Tipping Point – mk2

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