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astrologix
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On Earth
Jun 2002
time: 06:31
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Curiously, at this stage, our military adviser said to us that we were stronger militarily than Netatolians, but, we had only 3 warriors and 1 worker !
In 3000 BC, an Arab scout (Webring) appeared in the North of Cervoise !
For us this news was a little worrying, because that revealed that we were placed between the two strongest civilizations in score! Fortunately, the diplomatic contact proved to be pleasant with Webring, differently than with CGN. Indeed, already before the incident of Floral-Park, Netatolians adopted a rather arrogant tone towards us. It was different with our new Arab neighbors, with whom one could allow some jokes in the exchanges.
With Netatolia, we had missed the initial technological exchange, before the incident of Obelix, because their requests were exorbitant. After the short war, we hoped that the tension was going to disappear gradually and that we would manage to exchange our Alphabet against one their technologies. But the problem was that Webring had already Alphabet. It was thus delicate for us that the scout arrives at the borders of Netatolia before we could not complete this exchange.
Fortunately, we had a good pretext to prevent their scout from passing towards the South, and the geographical situation also allowed it to us: to the turn following a settler left to found our second city, Cantal, just in the South of the isthmus separating our two cities. The scout was going to be blocked during some turns by our worker, thus leaving the time to parley with Netatolia without hurting our new German friends.
Cantal was founded in 2750 BC on a position militarily ideal, at the top of a hill. It was surrounded by good ground and a cow. We put our worker at the task at this place during several turns, blocking the scout of Webring.
In 2510 BC, we had Alphabet and Warrior Code moreover than CGN. In spite of our efforts to restore a good climate, Netatolia had become adamant on this point. Their arrogance was unbearable, to what was added that their army had become stronger than ours.
In 2230 BC, we finally let pass the scout against obtaining Ceremonial Burial of Webring. This moment, we had a very strong debate in the team, between those which preached a fast war based on archers and spearmen against Netatolia (considering our army was become again average with respect to theirs), and those which wanted to bet on the foundation of more cities. Considering we had only 2 cities and Netatolia certainly 3 or 4, we finally decided to continue the development and to await the final decision until the Iron Working (we were at 6 turns of the discovery). We would know thus if there were or not an iron layer in the vicinity, in order to being able to build swordsmen.
The sites preferred for our 3rd city were the 1 and the 4. The 2 was considered to be very provocative towards Netatolia, since they had let us know that they claimed the spice deposits close to Floral-Park, and the 3 did not seem to offer enough defense in the event of a fast war.
Considering that in 2150 Ottomans (CGN) founded Arlington on the site of spices, we made the decision to almost simultaneously found 2 new cities, initially on site 4 (Cantal settler) then on site 1 (settler of Cervoise). Our explorer had just discovered an ivory site at the North, but this site was considered to be too remote for a city which could not have supported an effective effort of war at this stage.
In 2070 BC we sent the Cantal settler towards site 4, and Cervoise was in 4 turns to produce theirs. We were at 2 turns to the discovery of Iron Works. The things were going soon to be clarified...
(to follow....)
Last edited by astrologix on 24-10-2003 at 01:24
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