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Welcome back to Groundhog Day mark 10! This is guest narrator 1760s once again. Last time we saw a dominant performance by Central Africa; will Bokassa do so well this time?

Second cities roll out, and I can't help but feel like Newfoundland and Vietnam are shooting themselves in the foot by settling so far away.

The first war is on turn 43, with Navarre attacking the Inca. The Inca don't have a huge military, but those slingers will still probably be enough to stymie this invasion.

A few turns later, Thayae Khittaya and Maurya team up on the hapless Geats. Poor Beowulf got boxed in and had to settle Lodose well away from his capital, and now he looks very vulnerable.

Switzerland attacks the Qin, who found room in the snow for a third city. Ezo also has three cities.

Sonora joins in against the Geats as well, and Lodose doesn't stand a chance.

And Walker gets the city, putting Sonora at 4 cities already. Skara's in the red.

The Qin decide to throw away Jiangzhou to the Swiss, who burn it. Genius move.

Duttabaung takes Skara, eliminating the Geats in 21st place. Poor guys.

Albania takes on Ukraine, and has a serious military to back it up with. Ezo attacks the CAE in the background.

Oh sorry, were you expecting to see a warfront here? Nah, Tymoshenko decides she'd rather let Numidia raze Kharkiv than let Albania take it. Absolutely wild.

Bokassa all but guarantees he's not living up to his exploits last round, surrendering Mbaiki to Uzbekistan. I think that's the first peace deal city to not get razed this round.

Switzerland and the Qin went to war again and have made peace again, with the Qin giving up Nanzheng this time. Dufour keeps it.

Turn 100 stats show Navarre with a narrow lead in military strength...

...food...

...and production. All of which bodes well for Sancho, at least for now.

Bangui falls to Ezo! The CAE is eliminated in 20th place by a civ that's usually an underdog.

Ezo's reputation takes a hit for finishing off Bokassa, and is targeted by the Uzbeks and Swiss.

Of course, this means Mbaiki's exposed to Ezo capture, since Uzbekistan couldn't really reinforce it.

Another peace deal, another city ceded: Machu is given to Navarre.

Albania snags the Great Wall. Will they be able to break free in this crowded region?

Ezo gives up Sapporo to Uzbekistan. Technically the cities gained by each of the two in this war cancelled out, but I think Ezo lost more than it gained.

Not content with Machu, Navarre attacks the Inca again! Pachacuti's trying to retake his lost land but we'll have to see how successful that is.

The Inca succeed in flipping Machu back, but the Basque forces headed their way are no joke.

Round 3 of the Swiss-Qin wars kicks off, and I don't foresee this going any better for the Qin than the last two.

The Aleut attack the city-state of Kyiv, but Numidia's composite bows are clogging the battlefield, slowing any Aleut progress.

Apparently Ezo was also at war with the Inca, as they've just snagged Ollantaytambo by sea! Cusco is at half health and crumbling fast.

Xianyang falls to Switzerland, eliminating the Qin in 19th place.

Ezo faces yet another attack by the Uzbek-Swiss alliance. Note the citadel cutting off the ex-CAE territories from the Ezo homeland.

On the brink of death, Pachacuti begs his way into peace deals with Takeaki and Sancho. He only keeps his capital in the process, however. Meanwhile, Skanderbeg gives up on getting to Kyiv.

...not that it matters, since the Aleut just took it, eliminating Ukraine in 18th place.

Turn 200 stats show Uzbekistan of all civs with the military lead.

Meanwhile, the Trung Sisters somehow have a two-tech lead above the pack.

Navarre is still king in production, however.

Navarre attacks Albania, but I can't help but think this would've been easier if they'd finished off the Inca first.

Ouch, Ezo loses its capital to Switzerland! Takeaki flees to Bangui.

Ezo flips their capital only to lose it to Uzbekistan this time.

Other civs smell the blood in the water, and so Navarre and Numidia join the war against Ezo.

Unsurprisingly, Ollantaytambo is quickly snagged by Basque forces.

Switzerland takes Asahikawa, leaving Ezo with just the two CAE cities.

...of which they just lost one, surrendering Mbaiki to Uzbekistan. Where have I heard this one before?

That leaves Switzerland to land the killing blow, taking Bangui and eliminating Ezo in 17th place. A good effort, Takeaki, but not good enough.

The former allies of Switzerland and Uzbekistan turn on each other, fighting over the scraps of their last war and their confusing bordergore.

Dufour starts by picking off Mbaiki...

...followed by Hakodate, with Sapporo in the yellow and surrounded! Uzbek forces are barely present.

Sapporo falls and is put to the torch! There's no way Uzbekistan's getting that one back.

The Aleut sense opportunity, and attack Uzbekistan from the north!

Switzerland takes the Uzbek capital! That ends their war, but...

...the Aleut swoop in to take Samarkand!

About 50 turns of quiet later, Switzerland decides to finish the job already and attacks Bukhara.

And a few turns later, it falls, eliminating Uzbekistan in 16th place.

Ending a war we missed the start of, India gives up Bangalore to the Aleut.

Switzerland targets Albania next. Skanderbeg has the Great Wall but his military tech is falling behind.

The Aleut declare war on Numidia, but it looks as though Massinissa is making the first strike. Meanwhile, Albania and Navarre make peace.

The Aleut triple the number of wars they're involved in, being attacked by Navarre while also coalitioning against India (with Blackfoot support).

Indira reclaims Bangalore, which she will probably hold onto for now.

The Basque islands are routed by the Aleut navy, with Tudela and Vitoria falling! An irrelevant coalition against Switzerland starts.

Both cities on the island flip back to Navarre.

India attacks Numidia, which successfully stalemated the Aleuts. Switzerland and Navarre make peace. And... Chaluka ended up in Newfoundland's hands somehow? I think Navarre took it and then gave it away...



Cloudberg's note: it was actually directly captured from the Aleuts by Newfoundland.

Apparently everyone in this part of the world is terrified of Newfoundland's massive glitchy mega-cities, and have decided to give them cities as tribute. The Aleut give away Adamagan, cutting their territory in two.

Dufour runs away with the World's Fair by a significant margin.

Remember the Swiss-Albanian war? Finally, some progress is made with the capture of Kruje.

Only two turns later, Albania loses its capital!

Error: turn 404, stats are found. Switzerland has taken the military lead.

Somehow Thayae Khittaya has taken the tech lead? And a rather significant one at that.

The Swiss have a massive lead in production, however.

The Aleut continue to throw away cities in peace deals, giving Kyiv to Navarre. I guess Indira's not afraid of Morris, though, as she's at war with him and has taken Adamagan.

Now, though, India faces a new coalition attack from Numidia and the Blackfoot.

And the Aleut, and Maurya.

Adamagan is back in Aleut hands! Also, those Basque UUs have a cool icon.

The Aleut are attacked by Switzerland, with Thayae Khittaya's endorsement. India makes peace with Newfoundland.

Indira's still not doing great, though, seeing as she's lost Bombay to Numidia and both her remaining cities are in the yellow.

Delhi falls!

The Aleut lose Samarkand to the Swiss, kicking them back to their homeland.

Numidia takes Bangalore, eliminating India in 15th place. The Aleut also face DoWs from Newfoundland and Papua. Right, Papua's in this game.

Numidia faces a coalition war of its own, with Vietnam and Navarre declaring war! Is this the Trungs' time to shine?

First, the Aleut reclaim Chaluka from Newfie hands.

Dufour utterly dominates another international project, contributing over twice the hammers of anyone else.

Switzerland takes Mulege from Sonora! This part of the map's been astonishingly quiet up until now.

Tijuana falls as well! Dufour's production is being put to good use.

Loreto is next to fall!

Maurya ends off-screen wars with Vanuatu and Newfoundland, and Vanuatu makes peace with Papua. Vanuatu was ending these wars in preparation for declaring war on Numidia, which it can't reach. Genius.



Switzerland attacking Numidia's a big deal, though. I bet Dufour's not happy about those citadels from Cirta to Bukhara.

Dufour's military is keeping busy in the east, taking Ensenada.

Ouch, Numidia's capital is taken! Can anyone resist Switzerland's strength?

As if to prove the point even further, Sonora gives up Cabo San Lucas and Lodose to Switzerland in the peace deal! Dufour looks dominant.



Maurya makes an ineffectual DoW on Albania.

Thayae Khittaya drags Navarre into a war against Newfoundland, while Papua makes peace with Sonora.

Numidia continues to lose ground to Switzerland as Auzia falls. Sonora declares war on Numidia as well, but that's not going anywhere.

The Swiss steamroller targets the Blackfoot next, and Siksikawa is sent to red immediately the Swiss air force! Papua is there too. Hi Papua!



Meanwhile, Numidia makes peace with Navarre only to receive a DoW from the city-state of Albania.

Skanderbeg took offense at being called a city-state and takes Cusco! This eliminates the Inca in 14th place.

The Blackfoot capital falls, and Switzerland looks like a juggernaut.

The Aleut attack Numidia, trying to make their way into Bangalore while it's available.

Kainaa falls, and the Blackfoot are eliminated in 13th place.

What's that, you thought the Aleut were getting Bangalore? Nah, Newfoundland.

Vietnam tries again to take out India, only now that's Numidia in the form of Delhi and Bangalore.

And the Vietnamese lake fleet takes Bombay!

Navarre got tired of Skanderbeg holding Cusco, and has decided to remedy that.

Delhi falls to... Albania? Sorry, what?



Uh, apparently Albania gets the kill on Numidia, eliminating them in 12th place. Who saw that coming?

The east side of the map finally heats up, as Switzerland and Vanuatu attack Maurya! Switzerland is frighteningly powerful, but I feel like Cabo San Lucas and Lodose are vulnerable targets.

Switzerland eliminates the Albanian garrison at Delhi. They had their moment.



Albania faces several more DoWs, including an important one from Switzerland.

But first, turn 500 stats! Switzerland holds the military lead by a major margin.

Somehow Thayae Khittaya has a 5 tech lead over the Swiss...

That Swiss production lead is ludicrous, though.

Switzerland takes Durres. Skanderbeg, I don't think Ashoka is the threat you should be worried about...

Speaking of Maurya, they've lost their capital to Switzerland too, showing that my concerns about Swiss-Sonora being vulnerable were not well-founded.

Navarre finally takes Cusco, eliminating Albania in 11th place.

Thayae Khittaya takes Mount Pearl from Newfoundland! Newfoundland and Sonora also DoW Maurya, but neither can get there.



St. John's has 75 population.

Pataliputra flips, only to end up in Vanuatu's hands. Kudos to Vanuatu for actually building and using Destroyers properly.

And it flips again, and is back in Swiss hands. Other Mauryan cities are taking heavy damage, too.

Toshali is the next to fall to Switzerland, and Mathura's fallen to Vanuatu.

Taxila is Swiss now, eliminating Maurya in 10th place.

Mount Pearl somehow falls to Vanuatu. How and why that's a warfront Roymata committed to is beyond me.

Needless to say, Duttabaung reverses that.

Vietnam and Newfoundland team up against the Aleut! I never thought the Anangula/Bangalore border would become such a military hotbed.

Down in the one-tile islands of the southeast, Navarre loses Tafalla to Vanuatu as they make peace.

Navarre takes a swing at the Aleuts as well, but Agugux's navy is no joke.



Poor Kyiv has almost no land left after heavy citadel action.

Duttabaung conjures a fleet a few turns later, taking Chaluka!

Aleut resistance crumples as Morris takes Anangula!

Thayae Khittaya and Navarre team up to finish off Sonora, which is in no position to resist.

La Paz falls to Duttabaung, eliminating Sonora in 9th place. Thayae Khittaya and Vietnam are both fielding XCOMs.

The Aleut somehow survived their last war, but I don't know if they'll survive this one.

Yeah, they don't. Duttabaung's XCOMs snipe Adamagan, eliminating the Aleut in 8th place.

Duttabaung seems committed to building as much strength as he can before the Swiss juggernaut hits him. His next target is Vietnam, and he's dragged along an army of lost Basque paratroopers.

Dufour, please, chill. Couldn't you have stopped at like, 6x the hammers of your competition? Geez.

Navarre loses another ice outpost to Vanuatu.

Looks like turn 750 is world war, as many combatants have endgame tech and things seem to be stagnating somewhat.



St. John's got to 101 pop. Damn.

Navarre brings Ollantaytambo down low, but the Swiss fleet of destroyers is intimidating as hell.



Cloudberg's note: Switzerland actually just captured Ollantaytambo from Navarre.

Vanuatu takes Boera from Papua, but this whole area seems like a total mess.

Hanoi falls to a stray Papuan paratrooper. Papua also reclaims Boera.

Needless to say, Hanoi is quickly snapped up by Switzerland.

The Swiss are also making inroads in the southeast, taking Boera and bringing pretty much every city to 0 HP.

One turn later, and Vanuatu's been kicked off the mainland entirely. Vietnam flipped and lost their capital again.

Thayae Khittaya takes Cabo San Lucas. Those XCOMs can only buy you so much time, Duttabaung.

Switzerland's taken Kyiv and Tiwanaku, and the Basque forces are starting to dwindle.

Ex-Sonora falls to Switzerland as Thayae Khittaya is pushed back to the coast.

Navarre snipes Hanuabada, while also flipping cities on the west end of the continent.

Saigon falls to Newfoundland, and St. John's has gone from 101 pop to 7. God damn.



Cloudberg's note: 409,122,341 people died in St. John's. Of course most of them were People of the Glitch anyway.

Papua retakes its capital but loses Elevala. Boera appears to have been nuked off the map.

Bombay falls, eliminating Vietnam in a tie for 6th/7th place...

...a tie it shares with Papua, which is also eliminated on the same turn.



Cloudberg's note: Papua died first because Navarre moves before Switzerland in the turn order.

Switzerland pushes the Basque forces off the east side of the continent and completes its line of territory around the world.

Swiss forces push to the north at Corner Brook. Duttabaung briefly retakes Cabo San Lucas.

Navarre, for at least a moment, retakes its peninsula.

Adamagan goes Swiss.

St. John's has fallen!

Thayae Khittaya is down to two badly beaten cities in what used to be its core.

Make that one...

Newfoundland's last cities have fallen, eliminating it in 5th place. Thayae Khittaya lost its whole homeland, surviving only in Chaluka.

Here's what's left of Duttabaung's home territory.

Dufour breaks out the XCOMs and GDRs, and Navarre can't stop them. Machu's nuked off the map.

Chaluka falls, eliminating Thayae Khittaya in 4th place.



Cloudberg's note: actually third.

The remaining Vanuatu cities down here are all Swiss now too, eliminating them in 3rd place.



Cloudberg's note: actually 4th.

All that's stopping Switzerland from winning is Pamplona...

And as it falls, that's a win for Switzerland! Dufour's on the scoreboard with his first point of the mark.

Here's what little's left of runner-up Navarre.



And it's Cloudberg here with the score:

Albania: 1

Switzerland: 1

CAE: 1

Sonora: 1

Thanks for reading and I'll be back with more soon!