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I would like to share with you all now the deadliest 7 tiles I have ever experienced in a civ game.

game:
difficulty - emperor
map - continents
Turns - marathon
me: germans
On my continent - England to the East
Pericles to the South East
Mvemba a Nzinga - Southern border
Montezuma - Fractured civ deep south
Saladin west





This is the mountain pass called Hell's Rhodes


As you see here, I have taken London and Bradford

Originally Victoria and Pericles and I were all battling for continental supremacy. My southern border was always heavily defended with multiple encampments and this pass was required to encircle any of my cities with Berlin being on the front lines and Aachen, my capital, due north of Berlin.


With a great inland sea and cliffs protecting it's cities Shetfield and London were impossible to capture early game like I tried multiple times. There was a constant naval arms race for supremacy until London was captured in the Atomic age. Shetfield and London were both protected from the north so an attack through Hell's Rhodes was the obvious choice for me as well.

So back to the tiles, for centuries we had been fighting over those tiles. From about 3000 BC to 600 AD it we me vs. England/Greece in a series of joint wars with me trying to capture either Pericle's northern most city, pharsalos, or me trying to take London.

So I was typically pinned down with an archer unit in tile 1 with back ups in tile 3 and my quarry for healing. Tile 2 and 5 were typically as far as the english and greeks ever got, it wasn't until after 600 AD, when Greece built Rhodes on tile 4 which caused Victoria to ask me to have a joint war against Pericles. I captured and sacked Rhodes quickly as it had a single unit backing it up and i was able to surround it. After the joint English/German war I managed to expand my peace time holdings to include tiles 1, 3, 4, 6, 7.

At this point the German/English wars for the great inland sea were escalating so my archer and siege units in tiles 4, 6, 7 were critical in defeating an English war effort that included 2 harbors to my 1 though it was really a defensive war with me barely holding them off from taking Nuremberg or landing near Aachen.

Then with the technological advancement that allowed the creation of tanks, suddenly a new strategy for war appeared. The German blitzkrieg from Nuremerg was able to pass through Shetfield with minimal damage and head straight for London which allowed the English Redcoats to be surrounded and destroyed which allowed my Hell's Rhodes siege units to destroy the defenses. I was then able to to negotiate the ceding of Bradford for an Eastern ocean route for British peace, but I also gave them numerous luxury resources. So remarkably England is an ally and don't really care about me occupying London.
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