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Long live teh Schwampel!
Dec 2001
time: 06:26
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Now that most of you finished it already, I finally started this game, with France (I love France on huge maps!) on Emperor with the PtW AU mod.
Got a kick start, using 2 floodplains and the cattle as food source, went warrior-warrior-warrior-settler-granary and after I had the settler pump ready, I rexed like mad. Had a short skirmish with Babylon to my south, which netted me 2 workers and some money. I succeeded to keep the Zulus and Germans out by blocking the isthmuses.
Later I finished Babylon and attacked the Zulus, to get some more room. Although I didn't conquer so much, as the adjacent AI land is awful (jungle and hills) and I better wait till the AIs cleared this a bit.
I was sneak attacked by the Germans, made an alliance with the Mongols against them, and the Mongols sneak attacked me too. So everyone of us 3 was at war with everyone else. Lovely. The Mongols burned one of my cities, before I could stop their success (they came with a huge SoD). After this, they luckily went more after the Germans than after me. The Germans came with lots of Knights and gave me some problems (and fairly big losses), before I could push them back.
My wars gave me 3 leaders so far, I used them for an army (--> Heroic Epic), Leo's and a well placed FP. I built JS Bach's for good and hope to build Adam Smith's too.
It's 770AD and the Ottomans just sailed over. I leveled the techs of both continents, before the AIs do it (I was lucky to intercept the first galley). Our continent didn't have Navigation yet, since I went for Banking-->Economy instead of Astronomy, for obvious reasons.
I have the tech lead (shared with 2-3 AIs) and am the biggest and most powerful civ (France 1669, Ottomans 1370, Mongols 1212). Fun game so far, although I don't yet know if I have the time to finish it. Huge map games get very slow in the industrial age.
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nbarclay
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Huntsville, Alabama
Dec 1999
time: 23:26
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I'm finished, and since my previous posts were rather sporadic and lacking in screenshots, I'll start over from the top. I'm hoping for an AAR worthy of a huge map.
Egypt sprang forth from the valley of the Nile, lands of flood plains, grasslands, and even a few grazing cattle. Fortune smiled on her people when friendly tribesmen nearby taught us the skill of Pottery in our earliest days, and we immediately set to work on a granary. Doing so left us vulnerable militarily and with little chance to scout our surroundings, but our people valued growth above all else.
We got a bit of a scare in our early years as a group of warriors who called themselves Babylonian wandered around our poorly defended lands. But peace prevailed, and our nation was able to grow large and prosperous. We researched straight toward a form of government we would someday call Monarchy, sacrificing speed of research in favor of the accumulation of massive amounts of gold. In the meantime, since we had never taken the time to learn how to figure out how wheels worked (and since so much nearby terrain could not be crossed by wheels in any case), we started training over thirty fighting units with clubs in the hope that the same skills could later be transferred to swords.
Monarchy came in 510 BC, and with it numerous exchanges of technology. The Zulus, Mongols, and Japanese had knowledge of the making of Maps, which we lacked, but otherwise, we were caught up with the rest of the world. More importantly, we could finally start production of war chariots, a unique innovation unmatched anywhere in the rest of the world.
Expansion continued, but we saw that we would soon reach a point where peaceful expansion proved impossible. That left only one alternative: war. In 230 BC, we were ready.
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nbarclay
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Huntsville, Alabama
Dec 1999
time: 23:26
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But conquering Babylon was merely a small first step toward the expansion Germany craved. Egypt was in its Golden Age, building war chariots and horsemen like there was no tomorrow - which, for any who stood against them, would soon be the case.
Egypt's industrious workers had been accompnaying or following closely behind its troops marching up toward the Zulu borders. Jungles in northwestern Egypt near the German border had already been roaded or cleared. If the Zulus and Germans were counting on the area's rugged terrain to protect them from sharing Babylon's fate, they were in for a nasty surprise.
Our queen and her council drew up battle plans for both the east and the west. By that point, our forces were large enough that taking on two opponents at once would pose us with little difficulty.
In the east, the initial punch was with swordsmen, followed up by large forces of war chariots and horsemen. Initially, war chariots operated mostly against German posessions while swordsmen focused on the Germans. Later, war chariots and horsemen joined our surviving swordsmen on the Zulu front.
[Note that the map I drew this battle plan on predates the Zulu war by quite a bit, as evidenced by the fact that Babylonians still exist.]
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nbarclay
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Huntsville, Alabama
Dec 1999
time: 23:26
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Cleopatra's advisors had long since ruled out Japan and Mongolia as targets for further expansion. Their pikes would have made fighting them more expensive than we preferred. But America was another matter. Egypt's vast army, with over a hundred offensive units, needed to be used somewhere, and America lacked the technology to defend itself.
But in their eagerness to attack America, Cleopatra's generals overlooked something critical. Almost the moment the war with America started, a lone Japanese spear unit escorting a settler found itself next to an undefended city that we had previously "liberated" from the Zulus. They attacked, and we suddenly found ourselves faced by an enemy far more modern than we were equipped to deal with. And as if that were not enough, Japan's newly formed corps of samurai quickly launched them into a golden age.
As Japanese and American forces advanced, we had to hand all but our southernmost American conquest and an outlying western city over to the Mongols or Zulus in order to keep Japanese forces from capturing them and using the cities' roads to speed their advance. Worse we also had to give up a few other pieces of previously conquered territory. On the whole, by the time Japan could be persuaded to agree to peace, we had lost both net territory and about a third of our military.
By the way, it's hard to tell, but the island of yellow between America and Japan in the bottom shot is the city I gave the Mongols; I wasn't about to sign an alliance that would commit me to twenty turns of war, but I was perfectly happy to give the Mongols a city that might lead to conflict. Unfortunately, Japan never took the bait.
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Theseus
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The warmonger formerly known as rpodos. Gathering Storm! Apolyton Spirit!!
Apr 2002
time: 00:26
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quote:
Originally posted by Arrian
A couple of turns later, having made peace with Germany, I see Mongolian units coming for me. So I sign an alliance with the Mongols vs. Japan plus a RoP. That next turn, the Mongols violated our RoP and attacked me (and lost a horseman to a pikeman). Filthy jerks.
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G*DDAMN, that pisses me off!!
Soren, future reference, given all the rep / attitude penalties that we humans are subject to (no confirmation as of yet that the AI civs get the same), this is just abominable behavior, and should put the given civ, whether AI or human, into an "axis of evil" category for centuries if not millenia.
Grrr.  
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nbarclay
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Huntsville, Alabama
Dec 1999
time: 23:26
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After the fiasco that was the first invasion of America, Egypt decided to focus its efforts on research for a while. Our borders remained thinly guarded, but we felt that in the absence of Japanese forces passing right by an undefended city, the latent power inherent in our size would be enough to deter Tokugawa's aggressive tendancies. Fortunately, we were right.
As the middle ages wore on, we were able to catch up with Japan and Mongolia in technology, but not to gain a decisive lead. We were the first to Military Tradition, but that was the only technology we had that our chief competitors did not.
Our first cavalry action involved recapturing the cities we had been forced to give to the Zulus to protect them from Japanese aggression. Then, once again, we turned our eyes toward America. It was a nation defended by pikes in the dawn of the era of cavalry, and would thus be little challenge to defeat.
Ironically, our battle plan for the second invasion was much the same as in the first: sign a Right of Passage agreement with Japan and preposition large forces of fast-movers. But this time, the outcome was very different.
Below is a copy of the invasion plan drawn by one of our generals.
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nbarclay
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Huntsville, Alabama
Dec 1999
time: 23:26
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Once Egypt finished upgrading, healing, and redeploying to bring enough cavalry to bear, we decided to target the Mongols. We had over sixty cavalry at the time, but considered it necessary to keep some of them back on defense on other fronts since we had so few units really designed for defensive roles.
Our initial strike went well, capturing three cities. But then Mongol slow-movers started pouring south. Turn after turn, Egyptian forces decimated their ranks, but still they came. We took a fourth city on a peninsula behind one of the first three, but our cavalry kept injuring themselves killing the Mongol hoardes (wait, weren't those supposed to be mounted?  ) and so could not mass in sufficient numbers to press the attack farther. We also faced a culture flip along the way, although we quickly reclaimed the city involved.
Finally, we got together enough offensive power to capture one last Mongol city. With five cities captured,\our forces depleted, and war weariness starting to set in, we decided that it was time for peace - for now.
The war gave us three leaders, moving our palace to the former American city of Houston and securing for us Bach's Cathedral and Newton's University. Those were Egypt's either fifth through seventh or sixth through eighth wonders of the game.
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18-04-2003 23:39
But they lost 2 cavalry, 5 riflemen, 6 infantry, and 2 musketmen. All they have left is a couple of cavalry in their last city. 
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There have been many times I've been at war and had the luxury slider up to 40/50% due to WW. One time my war lasted so long the citizens revolted and I had to switch to monarchy. I tried to switch back into democracy hoping that WW had been reset. It wasn't.
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