| Marius, 9/11/02 |
| 350 AD (0) - Marius, the descendent of the lines of King Berrio and
Marianus II takes the throne of France as King Marius III, having all
other claimants...dealt with. The first thing the second King of
France beheld was a map
left to him by his predecessor. There is some pondering as to why
Bescanon was founded in the present location, as opposed to one north,
the original dot location. King Marius noted with some pleasure
the legions of settlers rushing south to colonize Paradise. Similarly,
the French military was the best it had ever been. Diplomacy, on
the other hand, was not so good. Everyone was annoyed with the
French for some reason or another. Even worse, they were all
giants compared to France. Scanning the maps again, King Marius
prepared to get down to business, when his eyes noticed a city to the
east of Orleans. Huexotla, it was called, and it was not a
Persian, or a Babylonian, or an Iroquois city. Horsemen were
directed to scout out this city, and they brought back news of a great
chief, Montezuma of the Aztecs. Montezuma verily oozed gold
(500+), and controlled vast territories,
but appeared to be a slight step above barbarity, lacking mathematics,
polytheism, literature, and the republican form of government. Seizing
the day, King Marius immediately sent ambassadors to the courts of
Montezuma to discuss a deal. In return for 490 rather large sacks
of gold and the Aztec world map, Montezuma was introduced to Babylonian
and Persian emissaries. As for the Iroquois, they were invited to
contribute 40 sacks of gold and the Iroquois world map to the French
treasury. Of note to the King, Paradise had already been fully
explored:
Declaring an auspicious start to his reign, King Marius threw a great
celebration in Paris, then settled down to exploiting his windfall. |
| Stormboy, 9/12/02 |
| ...and our story continues, as King Stormboy ascends the throne of
France. 450 AD: King Marius hasn't even been buried, as the people of Chartres convert his library to a marketplace. The philistines! 460 AD: We've started building libraries in Tours and Lyons. That should impress the neighbours :). The Iroquois are willing to supply us with pink paint, in exchange for a few barrels of French wine. Great, more pink stuff all across the country! :) 470 AD: The city of Orleans will get an aqueduct. A productive city like this, should be allowed to grow much larger. We've established an embassy in the Aztec capitol of Tenochtitlan. Finally we'll get some inside information on these strange islanders. 480 AD: Our neighbours drop off some scrolls about something called "Monotheism" at our Great Library. Our capitol, Paris, gets its own marketplace. 490 AD: Rheims is another promising city that needs to expand, it will also get an aqueduct. Rouen starts training more workers. 500 AD: The Babylonians are building "Hanging Gardens". Whatever for, we wonder. 510 AD: People in the city of Avignon have started building a galley. France will sail the seas at last! Now that our noblemen have grasped the concept of Feudalism, our scientists can start teaching them some finer manners. Ah Chivalry! Opening doors for ladies, pulling chairs from under them (or something like that ;). I'm sure there's a military use for it as well... 520 AD: What's up with the young people of Marseilles, running around with their Babylonian hairdos? Before you know it, they'll start wearing red tunics and those ugly red sandals. A big, pink cathedral in the middle of their town square should remind them of were they are. :) 530 AD: The city of Dijon is founded in the south of the Paradise peninsula. 540 AD: The people go about their business. 550 AD: Hammurabi of the Babylonians tries to bully us into giving him the secret of Feudalism. We laugh in his face (while touching wood). It's not a good year for 'Ham': an unknown people, called the English, have finished their version of the Hanging Gardens first. A marketplace is planned in the center of Tours. King Stormboy is run over by a speeding ox cart and dies after a poorly performed leg amputation. He leaves no heir, the throne of France is up for grabs... Some further comments: - For our science needs, I've gone with libraries in the border cities, and marketplaces inland. The extra income should give us roughly as much science as going all libraries, but with more financial flexibility. - All other known civs are republics. If we ever need to go to war with them, cutting them off from their luxuries should hurt big time. - We've still got a settler running around, I've started him on his way to Avignon, where we're building a galley. Screenshots: |
| Berrys, 9/16/02 |
| King Berrio III ascends to the throne after killing all the surviving
relatives of King Stormboy. Unfortunately King Berrio III's reign was completely uneventful, so here's just a brief summary of what happened: 560 AD (1) - Chartres starts library. Paradise starts library. 570 AD (2) - Yawn 580 AD (3) - Grenoble starts temple. Iroquois are building Art of War. Paris hurries market place. 590 AD (4) - Babs are buillding Sun Tzu. Rouen produces worker, starts temple. 600 AD (5) - Lyons starts market place. 610 AD (6) - Orleans finishes aqueduct starts marketplace. 620 AD (7) - Civil disorder in Tours, give them entertainment. 630 AD ( 8 ) - Chartres starts cathedral. Civil disorder in Besancon, governor told to manage moods. Dijon starts temple. Avignon starts library. 640 AD (9) - Chivalry completed, start on theology. Rheims completes aqueduct, starts market place. Upgrade several horsemen to knights. 650 AD (10) - Aztecs are building Sun Tzu. Upgrade some more horsemen. It turned out that not all of King Stormboy's relatives had been exterminated and King Berrio III is hacked to death by the newly created knights and used as fertilizer for the fields. |
| Marius, 9/16/02 |
| Well, that could have gone better. 650 AD (0) - After the death of King Berio III by the relatives of King Stormboy, massive rioting and popular opinion drove said relatives out of Paris and appointed a new king, a relative of Marius III who took the throne as King Marianus III. What he saw was good. Chivalry had been reached, and with it, knights. Resolving to build the French into the world's foremost military power, Marianus upgraded horsemen into knights in Chartres and Orleans, and slashed science funding as far as it would go to make money for still more upgrades. Not neglecting France's defenses, Marianus bought hordes of new pikes for the spearmen defending in Orleans, Tours, Rhiems, and Marsielles. 660 AD (1) - Hiawatha gets snippy about some unit or another in Iroquois territory. We promise to leave, and he goes away content. Little does he know... Tours finishes a marketplace and begins work on a barracks. Chartres upgrades another knight and a pikeman. 670 AD (2) - Hiawatha thinks we should trade him wine for nothing. He is told to go away, and immediately goes from polite to annoyed. He has chosen unwisely. News from Persia indicates that they are building Sun Tzu's Art of War. A horseman in Rhiems is upgraded to a knight. French forces begin moving towards Iroquois lands. 680 AD (3) - Rhiems upgrades another knight. Our forces move into position. 690 AD (4) - Montezuma comes demanding Monotheism, our territory map, and 7 sacks of gold. He is told where he can stick his demands, and he runs off, tail between his legs. Paris goes into disorder as news comes from Persia that the Persians are building the Sistine Chapel. Two more knights are upgraded in Chartres, and French knights begin moving into final positions for an Iroquois war. 700 AD (5) - Orleans produces a marketplace and begins work on another knight. Tours produces a barracks and begins producing pikes. Forces of knights are now in position and ready to attack the Iroquois. Another knight is upgraded in Marsielles, and a pikeman in Paris. The northern attack force, who will blitz Awkwesasne:
The western attack force, tasked with taking Allegheny:
The southern attack force, tasked with taking the Iroquois colonies and then reinforcing our own:
King and country readied for war. Vive le France!
Advice for the next ruler is simple: Seek peace. We're getting steamrolled BAD by those freaking Munchkin Warriors. We're doing ok in the south, but our northern knights are dropping like flies, and there's no way they can be replaced at anything like the rate we're using them up. |
| Stormboy, 9/16/02 |
| ...following the death of King Marianus III, and the flight of his
allies from Paris, the Stormboy clan seizes the opportunity to get back
in power. After a short but violent insurrection, the leader of the
Stormboyite rebellion is crowned King of France. Thus begins the reign
of King Stormboy II... interregnum (750 AD): In the besieged city of Akwesane, a small regiment of knights is holding out against a large Iroquois force of mounted warriors, swordsmen and archers. King Stormboy wants peace, but the fight must continue until the Iroquois are prepared to pay reasonable war reparations. Should we lose Akwesane however, getting a favorable settlement with the Iroquois would be difficult. Akwesane must not fall! Our knights charge and defeat injured archer and a mounted warrior units. They brace themselves for what is about to come... 760 AD: The Iroquois cleverly retreat their injured mounted warriors as fresh troops charge from Allegheny. Two mounted warrior units are defeated. Then the Iroquois change tactics and bring in 4 swordsman regiments. The injured defenders fortify. How much longer can they hold out? Near Grenoble, one of our archer units is ambushed and destroyed by Iroquois snipers. A swordsman regiment storms out of Lyons and defeats the Iroquois archers, before they can attack the poorly defended city of Grenoble. 770 AD: The Iroquois swordsmen try to charge Akwesane, but their attempt fails miserably. They bring in 3 more swordsman regiments and an archer unit from Allegheny. The few knights that are still reasonably healthy manage to surprise the Iroquois reinforcements with a brave charge. Two Iroquois regiments are wiped out. The battle of Akwesane is starting to turn in our favor. Our atempt to take Kente goes less favorably, as our veteran knight regiment is defeated by a determined spearman unit. Iroquois saboteurs have destroyed the road to our mine in Rouen, luckily this wasn't our only source of iron. The Aztecs have started building the Sistine Chapel. 780 AD: The terrible losses at Akwesane finally bring the Iroquois to the negotiation table. This time they're ready to pay up! They will give us 13 sacks of gold every ten years, for the next 2 centuries. 6 sacks of gold will be paid immediately. 790 AD: The cities of France change their production to defensive units and peacetime improvements. The Iroquois start on their version of the Sistine Chapel. 800 AD: In an attempt to profit from France's post-war weakness, the Persians suddenly demand 62 sacks of gold and a map of our territory! No king of the Stormboy clan has ever given in to extortion, Stormboy II is no exception. We refuse and the Persians promptly declare war! 810 AD: France reluctantly changes back to a wartime economy. Two of our knight regiments gather outside the Persian settlement of Ghulaman, just east of Paris. 820 AD: The attack against Ghulaman has started. Two defending spearman units are defeated. Two more knight regiments prepare to engage the enemy. 830 AD: The last defenders of Ghulaman, 2 archer regiments, are defeated. A galley in the harbor is destroyed. Ghulaman is burned to the ground. 840 AD: Paradise has completed a harbor. From there we can trade with the Aztecs. We make a deal with them to supply us with spices in exchange for 275 sacks of gold. 850 AD: Attempts to talk to the Persians fail. A diplomatic delegation, headed by King Stormboy II himself, was supposed to meet with the Persians several weeks ago. Nothing has been heard from them since. The king is feared dead... |
| Marius, 9/16/02 |
| Screenshots and commentary. Here's our glorious knights attacking the godless Persians. Commentary. I'm impressed. I thought we were horridly screwed at Akwesasne for sure. But then it may have been my dismal luck with the RNG coloring things. War with Persia = not so good, but it's very likely that it won't go anywhere, so no worries. As to what to do with the cash... I'm torn. I'd really like to see the Iroquois Wars Part II, maybe this time with somebody other than me leading the negotiations with the RNG. On the other hand, we sure could use some more city infrastructure. So here's a plan... Militarily: How are our knight forces doing numerically? IMHO, our core cities with rax[1] could stand to crank out a few knights, at least until we run into the free unit pop cap for Monarchy (check the mil advisor if you have no idea what I just said). As we get closer to that, disbanding some of those more or less useless archers might be a good idea. Or if we're right next to invention, turn them into longbows. Depending on our numbers, I see the next war going something like this: We send 5 or so units down south to deal with those stray Iroquois colonies, which we want - decent land, and with an FP in Bescanon, they'll be pretty productive as well. Everything else can make runs at Aleghany or Niagra Falls and kill the Iro army off until they go for peace again. If we're gonna win this game, we're desperately gonna need more land, and the Iroquois have good land, and it's right there close. <shrug> [1] - We really can't afford regulars anymore. That 3hp crap just kills us dead dead dead. Most of my combat losses in the Iroquois War were due to 3 hp knights. Economically, I've mentioned putting our Forbidden Palace in Bescanon, although if we carve out a big enough chunk of the Iroquois it might be better to put it there instead, or move the capitol somewhere like Tours or Chartres. IIRC, most of our core is doing pretty well on infrastructure, so we can afford to switch them over to knights, or rax and then knights. That having been said, if there are any marketplaces left unbuilt, those should maybe be rushed in the core. For the Paradise region, we should maybe think about rushing in temple/courthouse combos and getting the FP up in Bescanon or some other well-located city. If any of our core is missing cathedrals, we ought to think about those, too, and maybe libraries if we're out of things to do. Universities only if we have absolutely nothing ELSE to do, except maybe in Marsielles just to keep up with Hammurabbi culturally. |
| Berrys, 9/17/02 |
| It's next to impossible for us to attack the Persians, or for them to attack us, appart from by sea. Briging in the Babs on our side (and they may not go for it at a reasonable cost) could have one of three longer term effects: either the Babylonians become much stronger, or, the Persians become much stronger, or, they both become much weaker (our best outcome, IMO). My feeling is to steer clear of any military alliances for the time being and hope for peace soon. what does the rest of the panel think? |
| Marius, 9/17/02 |
| Agreement. The Persian/Babylonian status quo is pretty well in our favor at this point. The folks that worry me a lot are the Aztecs, and getting them involved in a war somewhere would be great for us, but a 20 turn military alliance at this point would hurt like hell, IMHO. |
| Stormboy, 9/17/02 |
| The main reason I suggested getting the Babs involved, is cause I'm
slightly worried about the other civs joining the Persians and ganging
up on us. _Marius is right though, keeping the fight against Persia up for another 20 turns is not something to look forward to. I think Persia would slaughter the Babs anyway. So, unless our situation starts to deteriorate, I agree it's probably best to stay away from military alliances. |
| Berrys, 9/19/02 |
| The mangled remains of King Stormboy II are found lying in an
irrigation ditch - he has been ambushed and killed by some Immortals.
General Berrier uses the opportunity to instigate a coup d'etat and is pronounced
King by the French military. 860 AD (1) - Out people go about their business. The dastardly Persians attack and sink our galley with the settler in it :( 870 AD (2) - Kente overthrows their rulers and swear allegiance to us, much rejoicing can be heard throughout the Kingdom! Persian Knights are sighted approaching Marseilles. King Berrier orders reinforcements to Marseilles and a division of knights to approach the enemy lines. 880 AD (3) - Attack regular knight with an elite who is killed! :/ Another elite knight kills off remaining Persian knights. 890 AD (4) - Grenoble starts aqueduct. Lyons starts knight. Iroquois forces massing near Tours. 900 AD (5) - Our people go about their business. A new source of iron is found near Orleans by the Royal Surveyors. King Berrier cracks open a case of champagne in celebration. 910 AD (6) - More infrastructure. Goigouen produces pikie, starts temple. Orleans starts library. 920 AD (7) - Paris finishes cathederal and starts on worker to start building mines to increase our production in the city. Paradise starts marketplace. ork continues on a road to Dijon. 930 AD ( 8 ) - A Peace treaty with Persians is negotiated by King Berrier (they give us world map - sadly they are completely broke and technologically behind us) 940 AD (9) - Disaster! The godless people of Akwesasne rebel and revert to Iroquois rule :( 950 AD (10) - Our people go about their business. King Berrier is crushed to death when the Great Library unexpectedly collapses. |
| Marius, 9/19/02 |
| 950 AD (0) - Following the crushing of King Berrier, the King's
advisors decide they like ruling an awful lot, and stick a mosaic
portrait of King Marianus III on the throne as King Marianus IV. They
then go about their business. The first order of this is
re-arranging the military. The last remaining archer is upgraded
to a longbow unit, and numerous knight units performing useless garrison
duties are switched into a field army near Tours. Noticing the
giant surplus of gold in the bank, the internal advisor sees what can be
bought. Rhiems is switched to a cathedral, Grenoble's aqueduct is
rushed, Lyons is switched to a cathedral, Marsielles is switched to a
courthouse, temples are rushed in Rouen and Dijon, a marketplace is
rushed in Paradise, and Avignon is switched to an aqueduct. 960 AD (1) - Hiawatha is furious with us about some troops or another near Akwesasne. The advisors wonder why he's so furious about a worker. A wounded Persian knight wanders into our territory, and Iroquois settlers randomly wander around our lands. Orleans completes a library and begins work on a cathedral. Paradise finishes a marketplace and begins work on a cathedral. Rouen finishes it's temple and begins work on a courthouse. Grenoble's aqueduct is completed and production is shifted to a cathedral. Dijon's temple is completed and work begins on a courthouse. A worker is shifted off of roadbuilding near Dijon and sent back to Bescanon to complete infrastructure (why all the two-worker teams? We're industrious and don't really need that sort of thing. 970 AD (2) - Our scientists discover the secrets of Gunpowder. It is undecided whether to go the Banking route or the Military Tradition route, and it is eventually decided to go to work on Chemistry. Marsielles completes a courthouse and begins work on a marketplace. Bescanon completes a temple and begins work on a courthouse. There is some slight pause as the internal advisor discovers some misirrigation near Paris and Orleans...
Note the irrigation in the red circle that doesn't provide benefit to
anybody at all. That's like six wasted worker turns we could have
been doing something far more beneficial to our civ. Paradise
badly needs workers, frex. I sort of let this go without comment
back when workers were running around randomly irrigating up by where
Grenoble is now, and I saved the 12 or so worker turns lost up there by
founding Grenoble in the first place, but well, enough is enough, ok?
Watch where you're sending the workers. There's only a very
limited radius (2 squares out) (if you don't know what I'm talking
about, ASK!) that gets any benefit whatsoever from being improved, and
doing anything outside of that is a complete waste of worker time.
And we're not exactly overflowing with surplus to waste. On
a similar note, we're an industrious civ. 2 worker teams at this
point are pretty much wasted effort when we could be improving more land
elsewhere. I note the road near Dijon which didn't need anywhere
near that kind of effort, and the mountains near Paradise, which weren't
really all THAT needy either. We now return you to your regularly
scheduled Civ game.
In other news, we've got, uh, problems. Most of them revolve
around the abysmal culture of our civ. We can go to war, but
unless we start razing like fiends, we're going to lose it all. Thus
the idea of going to war with the Iroquois when the wines deal runs out,
and razing stuff. |
| Berrys, 9/20/02 |
| Yup, we're getting "out-cultured" badly, and falling behind
on the science too :( I often go for the Banking/Economics route and build Wall Street and Smith's Trading Company which does wonders for the economy allowing higher science spending. Basically, we need more cities and in decent places. Unfortunately we were pretty stuffed from the outset given our starting position. On the two-man worker teams: I inherited some of them from Stormboy, and personally like two-man teams since they can build a section of road or irrigate in a single turn. :/ |
| Stormboy, 9/20/02 |
| I'm still thinking about this one. Right now I'm inclined to go with a
2nd Iroquois war, but only after some careful preparation. This time I'd
like to start by cutting off their iron and horses first. Ideally, all
their strategic resources should be cut at the same time. I've edited a few screenshots to show what I think would be a good approach. (I hope the links work. I finally sorted out a mix-up about my subscription type with my ISP.) 1) Round the back: A galley lands 2 knights who split up and cut iron & horses. 2) Round the side: A galley lands a knight (or 2) who cuts the road leading to that peninsula. This cuts off their only source of ivory as well. 3) Near the front: Just a simple knight sortie from outside Tours. After that I think we should press on and beat them down to their last city. Comments? Thoughts? |
| Marius, 9/20/02 |
| Having done some thinking on the subject... I'd suggest using pikes for the strike forces. Knights are really expensive, and any units we drop off back there aren't going to be doing much capturing of cities or much else besides camping on resources. So either a couple of pikes for each galley, or a couple of pikes upgraded to muskets. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I like the idea. We've got tons of pikes sitting around, and the four we'd need to go convert is pretty minimal. And 3/4 m'eers are pretty much invincible fortified on hills and mountains and such. It might also be worth waiting on astronomy and caravels to do this, but perhaps not. Time is, as always, of the essence. And we can definitely afford 3 galleys and 4 pikes/muskets. Knights, like I said, are bloody expensive though. Can't go throwing em away. I like the strike locations, mostly. I would suggest that the guy who cuts the horse in 1 go and cut off the saltpeter if it's there, though. Worse than Munchkin Warriors for us are guns. They get muskets and we'll slow WAY the hell down. As for 2, I say use a pair of muskets, and land one of them directly on both the ivory and iron squares. It surefire eliminates both resources without the little problem we'll have if he's got more than one road out of that peninsula, let alone harbors. Plus the whole fortified muskets in mountains thing gives me the warm fuzzy feeling. And I'd back up 3 with a m'eer just to camp out on the iron so he doesn't re-road it. Otherwise, the plan appears good. I'm rather unsure about if we should go for genocidal slaughter of the Iroquois or keeping the cities, though. Our culture really bites, and to get this done right we're going to immediately need to rush in temples in captured cities to keep them from flipping elsewhere. The other thing we'll need to do is immediately starve the hell out of the populace to get the number of foreign nationals down. If we've got to capture all their cities twice because of flips, this war will really suck. That having been said, I looked at Babylon again some. The immediate advantage is that their army is weak compared to ours. On the downside, their resources are all really hard to get to. Plus we owe the Iroquois some pain. ;) Other misc thoughts - We badly need a gold surplus to pull this off. Off the top of my head we're going to need to be upgrading pikes like mad and rushing culture buildings as well, both of which require lots of cash. If that should mean that after the war we're required to buy some techs off Babylon, so be it. Speaking of techs and Babylon, the other continent is at least as advanced as ours. It might be worthwhile to make suicide runs with our galleys off into the unknown to try and make contact with the other continent. If we should pick up Astronomy, it ought to be a goal of ours to send out a caravel to explore. Supposing we can broker contact between both sides, we'll get RICH as hell from it. Another priority is going to need to be where to stick the Forbidden Palace. Offhand, I'd call Oka our best bet for it, followed by Salamanca and St Regis. Post-temple, that's probably the first thing that needs to get started on. If we can leader rush it, so much the better, though we might want to wait until the war ends in case it flips. |
| Stormboy, 9/21/02 |
| After the "portrait incident" the nobles of France appoint a
member of the house of Stormboy as regent. He will rule until the
succession disputes are settled and a suitable heir to the throne is
found. interregnum(1050 AD): The city of Avignon stops building its cathedral and starts working on a galley. Work on the temple in Kente is changed to a galley as well. Three pikemen (in Lyons, Tours and Paris) are promoted to musketeers. 1060 AD: The 3 musketeers :) move towards the western coast. The cathedral in Orleans is finished, musketeer training is started. Marseilles has completed its marketplace and starts building a university. 1070 AD: Lyons has finished its cathedral and starts recruiting knights. 1090 AD: "We Love The King Day" in Lyons :) 1100 AD: Our chemistry research is complete, we're now trying to figure out metallurgy. We sell chemistry to the Persians and the Babylonians: Persia gives us astronomy + banking + 15 gpt + 95g, the Babylonians give navigation + 22 gpt + 9g. Two great wonders have been completed by other civilizations: Leonardo's Workshop (Aztecs) and the Sistine Chapel (English). 1110 AD: A galley sets sail for the Iroquois lands, on board are 2 musketeers. 1120 AD: Chartres and Rheims start building a bank, Grenoble gets started on a marketplace. 1130 AD: The people of Goigouen are building a courthouse. 1140 AD: Lyons keeps training more knights. 1150 AD: Our 3rd musketeer boards a caravel in Kente, a 4th muskeer is on his way to join him. Tours builds a bank, Kente a temple. The nobles of France have agreed to crown a young prince from the house of Berry as their new king. Regent Stormboy steps aside. A few pictures illustrating our sabotage plan (with _Marius' comments taken into account):
A musketeer ready to join his comrade on board a caravel. They'll sail round the side of the Iroquois lands and cut ivory & iron.
Two other musketeers sailing their galley around the back of the Iroquois lands...
...until they reach the pink spot where they disembark and cut iron & horses supply (possibly salpeter as well) One other thing: We're close to getting metallurgy (just 6 more turns - thanks to generous funding by the Babylonians and the Persians :), which means we can get cannons if we want to. Should we take some cannons with us in our campaign against the Iroquois? I've never been overly impressed by the things, what do you guys think? |
| Marius, 9/22/02 |
| This is looking really good. :) Cannons, though... bleh. I hate the things. I say we build more knights. |
| Berrys, 9/26/02 |
| Well, sorry about the delay. This could also have gone a lot better
for us - here's the latest: 1160 AD (1) - The new King Berrier II surveys his kingdom and reviews the battle plan put forward by King Stormboy for the destruction of the godless Iroquois. Seeing that it seems to be a good plan, a platoon of Musketeers are loaded into a caravel and ordered to sail to Ganogeh and await sabotage instructions. 1170 AD (2) - Paris completes the Sorbon University and starts recruiting knights for the forthcoming batle. News reaches Paris that the Iroquois are building Magellan's Voyage. 1180 AD (3) - King Berrier orders that the noxious jungle surrounding Kente be chopped down. 1190 AD (4) - Besancon completed courthouse, starts library. 1200 AD (5) - Orleans completes Bank, starts knight. Lyons completes knight. Avignon completes harbor, starts musketman. Some pikemen are promoted to musketeers in honour of their valuable contributions to the security of the nation. 1210 AD (6) - Chartres completes bank, starts knight. Paradise completes cathedral, starts knight. A road is completed to the saltpetre mines situated near Avignon. Knight buildup continues near Allegheny and Akwesasne. Our scientists have mastered the arts of Metallurgy, and at the strong insistence of King Berrier they start researching Military Tradition. 1220 AD (7) - Grenoble completes market place, starts knight. Paris completes knight. Jungle cleared near Kente, start road. Our landing parties are now in place. 1230 AD ( 8 ) - Move saboteurs into position near Ganogeh. Montezuma demands that we give him a gift of the secrets of Navigation. King Berrier, impetuously tells the Aztec envoys where to get off - they declare war :( Never the less, the people love King Berrier so much they expand his palace - they build nice big columns with statues of all the Kings of the Berrio/Berrier line. 1240 AD (9) - Hiawatha demands we remove our troops. The unloyal people of Dijon defect to the Aztecs :( Our saboteur musketman near the Iroquois horses is killed :( Our glorious armies take Allegheny and Akwesasne. Longbows chase off knights near the iron mines at Lyons. The Iroquois Iron and ivory supplies are successfully cut at Ganogeh. 1250 AD (10) - Yippee!!! We enter a golden age! The people admire King Berrier so, so, so much that they plant a rather nice garden for him. The Iroqouis retake Allegheny :( News reaches Paris that the Babylonians and Persians are building Smiths Trading Company. Our glorious armies take Huexotla from Aztecs. The Iroquois Iron supplies are cut near Grand River. Our saboteurs are killed near Ganogeh (Jeez! Veteran Musketmen killed by regular spears :/ Ho, hum). King Berrier is fatally wounded in the battle to retake Allegeheny, his dying orders are that the French fleet go in search of the "others" rumoured to exist on the other side of the vast oceans.
Typical isn't it? We're just in place to attack the Iroquois and the
damned Aztecs declare war on us, and also at the point when it was very
difficult to back out of the Iroquois offensive. The good thing is that
the Aztecs are miles away and can only attack us by boat, so we can
probably take over all the of the Paradise peninsula and get peace with
Montezuma fairly quickly. |
