The War Machine

I was Prince William of the Dutch Empire on the Europe map. My opponents were the Spanish, Celts, Sioux, Zulu's, Carthaginia ns and the Persians. All was going well for the 4 cities of the Dutch Federation. The people had an alliance with the mighty Spanish civilization and were safe from any attack coming through Europe. Many wonders were built in the great city of Amst erdam, including Marco Polo's Wonder. I then made contact with the Celts and traded maps. They had a average Empire in Engla nd. Then I did something stupid. I asked to have an alliance with the Celts and they asked for me to declare war against my loyal Spanish allies. I was feeling cocky and I said yes. Then I checked the Spanish Embassy and saw that they had 15 cities compared to my four. Suddenly Spanish Knights and catapults pounded the cities of Amsterdam, Chrichnev, and Krachov. I bare ly held them of with every phalanx in my cities were in critical condition. Luckily the missed the undefended city of Trechn ov.

I signed a cease-fire with the Spanish and built up the defenses in my capital to city walls and 2 veteran pikemen. Suddenly a horde of Spanish troops surrounded Amsterdam. My republic begged for peace but the Spanish refused. There was 5 elephants 10 knights and 8 catapults and I'm not exaggerating. Luckily Amsterdam survived. Sounds a little like what happened in hist ory except for the Celts. Then I boldly did something that didn't happen in history. I built 6 veteran knights and 2 veteran caravels and set sail from Trechnov the Spain. When I reached Spain, I explored the entire coast but I could not find their capital, Madrid. Just then my veteran knights were upgraded to dragoons courtesy of Leonardo Workshop. I decided to try to take a less important coastal city and fortify it. When I landed, I saw Madrid which was one square away from the ocean. I p repared for a bloody battle but all my troops survived. Madrid fell to the Dutch Empire!

I didn't stop at Madrid. Those six veteran! dragoons took all the Spanish cities in Spain, France, Germany and in most of Eu rope. They took one city at a time and the injured troops slept in newly conquered cities while a musketeer unit was built a nd sometime bought. I must be the ultimate power leader I thought. right! No! I had captured 15 Spanish cities but those bas tards had built 15 more. Where were they! I searched but couldn't find them. Then my two veteran caravels that were searchin g for Spanish Coastal cites went of course be accident and found Carthage. The six invincible dragoons of the Spanish Wars r eturned to Madrid and then sailed toward Carthage.

It was during the trip that almost all of the Spanish cities in my republic started civil disorder. What is this, some sort of Organized Spanish Resistance or OSR. I quickly bough temples, coliseums, cathedrals. I was broke. Time to punish those re bels. No more improvements or Wonders or irrigation or roads for them Ha! they kept construction on temples even though they already had them ( I turned of the annoying your city is building but already has messages). My troops landed at Carthage a nd took the city a few turns later. While I conquered city after city, I noticed the Carthaginians had a great road system s tretching from the West side of North Africa all the way to Upper Syria. I used the roads against them and soon they only ha d 1 hidden city. During that time most of my cities except four the original four began continues construction on military u nits instead of improvements or Wonders.

I then came in Contact with the Zulu's and Persians, both living in Syria and around that are? (it was real starting places) . Both were slaves of the Sioux empire which was where the Mongols usually are. Time to free them of their slavery. I contac ted the Persians and said " You never did anything to me but I am going to kill you Men Women and Children and plunder your gold. The Persians actually put up a good fight with their elephants but Persopolis fell and I felt sorry for them since I a m Iranian. So gave Persopolis the honour of supporting the invincible six. Next the Zulu's. They only had 4 cities but were heavily fortified. When taking their capital I lost 2 of the invincible six while attacking and to counterattacks!! I took t he capital, made peace gave them gift including gunpowder( there was nothing else to give them) traded maps and found there little city and eliminated it.

I found the Carthaginian city took it but lost of the Invincible six!

I sent two of the remaining 3 invincible home to Amsterdam to live like kings. I received reports from Dutch Troops at the S panish Border. The Spanish were nestled at the edge of the great Sioux empire and were rebuilding. Troops destroyed the Span ish cities, It was quite annoying taking six 3 cities and waiting for defenses to be built since I was low on money. I had s witched to Communism recently since My republic kept signing Peace.

Since I had a peace treaty with the Sioux, I careful sneaked around there cities while eliminating Spanish ones. Soon the Sp anish only had one city and 2 dragoons are heading for it right now. While all of this was happening, the Celts were sitting back in their democracy and had settled the little piece of land called America, Sweden and Greenland. Except for those are as and Eastern Asia And Siberia, I controlled the world. I was pissed at the Celts so I sent the caravels which had been upg raded to transports built 8 new dragoons landed in England and took all their cities there. I was 1600's by now and I wanted to finish the game by the early 1700's. So the transports went to America, took it and Greenland and are heading to Sweden to kill my loyal allies. HA HA.

So now only the mighty Sioux are the only ones who could challenge William of Orange. The dam Zulu's gave them gunpowder bef ore I killed them. Still their cities average 8 while mine average 12. And I outnumber their military units 5 to 1 even thou gh all their cities have city walls. My armies from Europe and Africa have combined and loads of Dragoons and Catapults head for the Sioux Empire led by one of the remaining 3 invincible dragoons. Soon the Sioux will be dead and I will rule the Wor ld. I'm finally first place in Military on the demographics. The causalities are so great I can't imagine killing and losing all those units. Nothing like The Time Machine story where there were no causalities until 1815. I resigned and was called William the mad with a low score. oh well.

Thank You for listening to my long story. Whenever I write a story I keep going and going and going and going and going Stop !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for reminding me.

By Amin Email me at sabz@axion.net (Looking forward to Multiplayer Civ2)