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I think a few people are trying this. I certainly encourage my fellow players to play Ghandi this way! I started a game using the same conditions as ragan651 and had a very different, much more stupid result. My Ghandi ended up starting in far northern Siberia, with wall-to-wall fox fur carpeting with two elephants thrown in because of the resource balancing. Amazingly enough, England turned out to be my southern neighbour! I already had two out of the three elements I needed for this victory!
Very stupidly, I did not count on the barbarians nor on how Ghandi settles new cities. Barb encampments prevented me from taking the next best logical city sites, so I concentrated on building up a military rather than settlement. I was surprised at how fast Ghandi could rustle up faith, but I also neglected measured city growth. Soon, my two cities were starving, but I did have an army that could squash the barbarians, including the much-maligned War Elephant.
The nothern reaches include some mountain passes that require some tricky unit placement, so I went out of my way to make sure my units would arrive in proper formation. Taking that extra time was another blunder. The moment friendly England noticed that all of my sharp sticks were pointed north, she rushed my capitol and razed all of my developments. I did withstand that attack by withdrawing Operation Barb-a-killa and sacrificing my quality units to her quantity of forces, but she had 4 cities to my 2, and her production on each city was double of each of mine. I saw the writing on the wall and quit. I don't know Ghandi.
ragan651 asked me to post some screenshots, but I think everybody knows what the loser screen looks like. Like MacArthur, though I Will Return!
The Indian Empire had claimed most of the land in North America. Their only known neighbor was The Dutch, to the south. The early game was spent developing Hinduism to combat Gandhi's happiness penalties. This allowed a good bit of expansion. The Dutch had built The Hague on Florida's peninsula, next to a copper deposit India had been eying since the early stages of the game. This clearly was a cause for war, and the Indian army was being assembled to the Northwest of The Hague.
Early on, Jerusalem was friends with India. They aided the development of the religion, but over time their friendship faded. India chose to devote their attention to Florence instead. This gave William the chance to ally with our immediate neighbors. This was a real threat that had to be addressed.
Fortunately, we got our first spy at this point. While we finished training our invasion force and positioning them, we placed our spy in Jerusalem. A few turns later, we attempted a coup to displace The Dutch as allies. It was successful.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=132852414
Finally, with the Dutch allies displaced and my army in place, I was ready. The attack was quick and more or less flawless. A single catapult was attacked during positioning, and stuck in a marsh. Rather than abandon my plan, I chose to sacrifice the catapult for an attack on the city. A new catapult was on the way to replace it.
In 1100 AD, India would declare their first victory. This battle was short and simple, only taking a few turns. This would be the last simple battle in the Dutch-Indian War of 1040.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=132855169
After the battle, William offered a generous peace treaty to end the war. Of course we declined.
While battling The Hague, our composite bowman/former scout encountered Suleiman, who had a city next to the barbarians they were fighting. In the turns that followed, The Ottomans were asking for a treaty of friendship and being very neighborly. This certainly sealed their fate as future targets.
Immediately after finishing the battle of The Hague, I sent my units south through the Gulf of Mexico. That was where the nearest Dutch territory was, even though I have never seen it. In the west, the city of Pataliputra was building our first boats. My plan was to attack this Dutch land from two sides. The ground forces would strike from the east out of The Hague, while the navy would attack from the west.
I had no idea what I Was getting into.
This wasn't going to be a ground war, and my seafaring technology wasn't that great. The Dutch already had a navy patrolling the waters near Breda, and there were ranged units near the city. It was a massacre, as all of the war elephants were systematically killed. The missionaries, intended to accompany the troops, were set out as bait for the triremes.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=132856306
I had to change my strategy here, and put all units into service. The composite bowman/former scout was sent from Alaska to the battlefield. I was getting a bit worried, although I've handled such battles before, I also know how easily they can fail if troops are not strong enough. The land layout of Central America is not fit for a ground war. So I knew I had to build a navy. The problem is that I only had one coastal city, and it was on the wrong side of the battle!
So I annexed The Hague. The happiness drop was significant. I was able to purchase a trireme, and start production on another one. This trireme was short lived, of course. It was meant to be, I only built it to draw the fire from the ground troops I was churning out. I was finally able to get a trebuchet and war elephant on the ground in reach of Breda. Once I positioned them correctly, they would slowly drain the hit points of the city, while the triremes and ground troops from the conintent were drawing all the fire. Even the composite bowman was killed in action.
Then I decided on the winning strategy. While the ground troops were being used for target practice, Pataliputra would keep churning out triremes. Then I put these triremes south of Breda. They were being fired on, but they managed. The trebuchet and war elephant took Breda's HP completely down, and the last trireme in the south captured the city.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=132856321
I did not raze Breda, it was too valuable strategically. It was the canal that would allow my navy to take over the world.
During the Battle of Breda, another city was revealed, Groningen. This city was also surrounded by ocean tiles and was larger and better guarded than Breda. Fortunately, the Battle of Breda had only left me stronger, because I was churning out troops still, and finally had a navy.
I also had a second great general.
So to make this battle short, I decided I wanted ground troops to get close. I sent the first great general right outside of Groningen, where we built a citadel. I was careful not to destroy the incense there. Then I sent my trebuchet and war elephant to siege the city, while I prepared my triremes to invade. It was the same strategy I used to take Breda.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=132856440
Well the War Elephant was badly wounded, with no real bait to draw the fire. So they pulled out, and I was able to put some longswordsmen next to the city. This turned out better than the original plan.
We now had control of a second canal, as well as two nearby luxuries. That's two cities I failed to raze. Happiness wasn't going well.
I sent a peace offer to William. I would make peace, if he would surrender Groningen and Rotterdam. He refused, so I took the city.
During the recovery after the battle of Groningen, while my navy was recovering and my ground troops were being replaced, a ship came into the contest waters, introducing us to Arabia. They were friendly on sight. They will also be destroyed.
Now my navy had wiped out the Dutch navy, and there was enough units to surround the coast of Rotterdam. Rotterdam only had one tile we could land on, due to the mountains, which also blocked a ground invasion from Groningen. A single opening allowed a war elephant (the same one who helped sack the last two cities) to enter to the south. A second war elephant was shot down in the water on the way to an eastern attack position. Still, the battle was brief, and gave me a chance to test out the new galleas. This was a victory for the Indian navy, but it also shot down our happiness. The people were miserable, so we burned the city down.
After the battle, we agreed to a peace treaty with the Dutch. They gave us the city of Haarlem, which didn't help out happiness problem. So we burned it down, too.
Our naval technology finally caught up, and we sent our caravels east across the Atlantic Ocean, where we knew of Arabia, and little else. We encountered China there, and a few city-states. All were friendly with us.
The treaty gave the Indian units time to heal, while I worked on fixing the happiness problem. Perhaps I should have rebuilt my army more, but I wanted to make sure people were happy, and that we would get the Giant Death Robots.
So at the first moment we could, we broke the peace treaty.
The battle was not easy. There were only two way to get to Amsterdam. We could go through the mountains, which would be slow and vulnerable, or we could go through the ruins of Rotterdam. We did both. Now we were churning out units again, while I surrounded Amsterdam with troops. They were constantly being attacked, there were several casualties. I expected it, though.
I did something I don't think I've done before. I captured a Dutch worker, and kept him in the battlefield. When a soldier would be wounded, I would have them pillage then fortify. Then the worker would move in, and repair the pillaging.
The majority of the battle was positioning. A few trebuchet shots were fired, of course. Mainly, it was a matter of waiting. The Indian units were fortified outside of the city, and just taking damage while the reinforcements arrived. Once all the troops were in place, the battle was short. Three trebuchets survived for the final attack, and took down the city.
Once the battle was done, peace was made with The Dutch, for a price of 5 gold to aid our now flailing economy.
Now that we had the technology to build frigates, one of our galleas units was upgraded and sent to explore the west. While scouting out Ottoman lands with an open borders treaty, and saw that Istanbul was on an exposed peninsula, surrounded by water. We also ran into the city of New York, who was neutral to us instead of friendly. They were at war with the Ottomans, who were invading New York at the time.
The Dutch-Indian Wars spanned almost 7 centuries in game time. They are still unfinished business, but the vital cities of The Netherlands are now in possession of India.
The missionary strategy had to be revised, because as were were attacking the Dutch, they founded their own religion, which was strong enough to resist our conversion. So instead, we sent the missionaries east to Arabia to begin converting that continent. We might just send an inquisitor to Amsterdam as well. The religious aspects of the strategy are being rethought. Instead, this is quickly becoming a naval game.
The next attack will be on The Ottoman Empire. We will build an even bigger navy, which will attack Istanbul from both sides of the water. No ground forces will be used at all. Hopefully the Ottoman-American War will keep them occupied during this time.
After the Ottoman capital falls, we will move East to Arabia, our other friends. We will storm Mecca. This will not be too easy, because they have a vast navy. The attack will be done in two waves. First, the navy that fought the Ottomans will come through and take on the Arab navy. Then our ground forces will march in and attack the city. Once we've established a presence in Africa, we will stop. No wars. Instead, we will go scientific.
We will also work on spreading our religion to the other continents.