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wolf_brother
Feb 14, 2006, 09:59 PM
This is a game based upon a mod I made that I hope to have posted in the forums within a couple of weeks. I'm pretty sure it's done, but me and a friend are playing through to make sure the multiplayer works. Anyhow, here's the story.
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The Early Times

Listen to me my children, as I tell you of our ancestors. In the old days, before the advent of the great men, our people wandered the land in search of a purpose...

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It took our people hundreds of thousands of turns of the sun and the moon, but we broke away from the old ways, and found a purpose in the making of things and the exploration of the lands. Many of our people settled in one place near the sea, which they named Washington, meaning Greatness.

We soon meet other tribes of men, who too had stopped wandering the land and had found a purpose in their lives. The first...
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Took solice in farming and trade.

The second...
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Grew strength from warfare and growth.[/I]

Our great scouts also found many other tribes of lower men, who had not yet risen from the earth on which they walked and were like beasts. These they named Barbarian. Amoung these hordes two great tribes arose who choose to join our people and learn the ways of the people..

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Our people, foolish and trusting of the others, traded away their precious knowledge from the great fathers in return for more knowledge from these Iroquois and Cherokee. (Masonry & 22 gold to Iroquois for Alphabet and Masonry in return for Warrior Code and 20 gold from the Cherokee.)

It was then that our noble ancestors meet the demon peoples, who had escaped from the reaches of the darkness during the great chaos before the forming of the people by the great fathers.

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In the time of the year, which is twelve full turns of the moon, in the year 950 (3050bc) some of our people left the land of Washington and travled many tiles west to settle in a new place they named New York, after the great land of York from the legends of the great fathers.

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It was during these times that our people continued to expand, and explore the world in which they lived. They meet more tribes still not settled in the land, but unlike the previous Illlinous and Inuit these new peoples would not join our war-party. Instead they offered us knowledge of the great fathers.

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The Cherokee learned of these things, and offered to trade us for such knowledge. But these men were not masters of the trade as the Iroquois were, and offered our people many great things in return for the tradition of Ancestor Worship, which is why our two peoples honor our ancestors in the same way. The Cherokee believed much more strongly in the tribe as whole than the people that made up the tribe, which is why they were able to convince a party of their own people to become American...

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Soon after, another large group of people's left the Great Land in search of their own homes. These people travled south, settling in a place not too alike Washington, and thus they named it Boston, meaning Good Land.

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It weas in these times that our people first started to devise a new way to govern themselves, as the tribes were too far spread for the despot of Washington to be able to rule according to the old ways. (Start Research on Tribal Council).

Finally, as if to announce the end of the wandering times our people discovered a new tribe that had also risen by the graces of the great fathers, who's reason was in the building of great things and of raising crops.

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Mr David
Feb 14, 2006, 10:00 PM
Can't wait to see this mod up :)

Is this on an Americas map or a world map?

PS, are you going to continue that Japan story?

wolf_brother
Feb 14, 2006, 11:18 PM
Neither can I, I've been working on this thing for nearly a month now.

This is a world map, I just choose to play as America because a) most games I play they end up being a bit player and b) becuase I had already played as all the other powers.

And it was my understanding that my Japan story was finished. :crazyeye:

conquer_dude
Feb 15, 2006, 04:00 PM
Yes you clearly got your butt kicked in that story. But this one looks more promising than the other lol.

Cant wait for an update

wolf_brother
Feb 15, 2006, 10:06 PM
Listen now children, as on this night I tell you more of our noble ancestors...
Our lands grew rich, and our people strong. But they were spread out, divided my forest and river and mountain...

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It was during this time that our people devolped a new way of rule... instead of the Great Chief in the ancestoral city of Washington, our people would now pledge alliegance to tribal chieftans of each city...

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Of course not all of the people accepted this change. There were those that refused any form of rule, and pledged their loyalty only to themselves and the great fathers. These people were called anarchists, and they ruled over the people for many years...

Two great events happened during the time of anarchy, as it came to be known. First, our people discovered another great tribe of men that had arisen from the ground, blessed by the great fathers. These people were far to our south, and made their life by making tools and farming.

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Second, a band of our people broke away from the anarchists and sought out to seek their own lands. These people cultivated the city of Philadelphia, meaning 'city of brotherly love'...

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...these people were mostly tribalists, and we can owe the times of rule under the system of Tribal Council to them. It was they that formed the first and second Great Council meetings in the very heart of their new city, and it was they that eventually drove out the anarchists.

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Under these new, wise, rulers our people prospered, un-restrained from the bounds of despotism. We grew, both in body and soul, and soon we traded our secret knowledge with the other great tribes of men. In part because they wished to know more of the knowledge of the great fathers, and had come to realize that they were not the sole barrers of this wisdom. It took our people many moons to fully understand what this meant...

Aswell, our people were foolish, and trusting, as many were in those days. War-parties were only used to destroy the dreded barbarians, and those had been driven to the far reaches of the icy north, far beyond the land of the Iroquois...

First the Aztecs, who are people at this time still did not know as the soul-less.

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Second, the Mapuche, who like the Cherokee put their strength in the tribe and not the individual people...

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Finally, our people traded with the Iroquious, who were master of trade. They broke a hard bargin, but eventually the deal was broke..

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Finally in the year of 2625 (1375 BC) two events happened, that at the time were not thought of as important. If only our ancestors could have known...

First, the last great tribe of men were discovered. These people lived to the south, but not as far south as the Mapuche. Nestled away in a strong mountain hold, our scouts have swept right by them at first. These people were explorers of the lands like our own, and did very well in the growth of the land they discovered.

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Secondly, the sea-shore city of Atlanta was founded by a band of our people. This city was far to the south, in a jungle-like land that could only be elsewhere found in the far southern lands of the Inca..

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These were the times of peace, of settlement, of worship and wisdom. These were times before the empire, before the darkness, before the soul-less invaded our lands..

conquer_dude
Feb 16, 2006, 04:30 PM
Nice story more updates wanted. :thumbsup:

wolf_brother
Feb 16, 2006, 11:07 PM
Short update tonight, hope to have one up later tonight or within a few days.
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Gather close now young one's, as we finish the tale...
By the time of the 12th moon's passing in the year of 3250 (750) our people had grown strong. They were a might race, a great race; the only true descents of the great fathers we said. How wrong we were...

Following the words of wisdom from warriors dead long ago...

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Our people trained more and more war parties, though there were no barbarians left...

On the 4th day of the 5th new moon of the year 3250, war-parties from the tribal cities of Phildadelphia, Boston, New York and Washington fell upon the Cherokee town of Delaware...

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It was then, in our time of our greatest foolish weakness, in the face of peace, that the soul-less struck us...

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Within mere months, our forces were overrun. It took all our mighty forces and we still lost my children. Our assualt on their township of Tlatelolco failed, costing us many more lives...

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And now my children...
Just then, a sudden interruption appeared in the warrior Burning Spear, who had been one of the first in the war-parties to strike at the soul-less Aztec.
Father, father. The embassy from the Mayan's has returned. They've agreed father, they've agreed! Prasie the great fathers!

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conquer_dude
Feb 17, 2006, 06:48 PM
Can't afford to lose cities like that its dangerous. :sad:

wolf_brother
Feb 18, 2006, 03:23 PM
Different writing style this time around.
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Warring Tribes: Pt. 1
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Burning Spear rested against the paladin walls of the city behind him, panting harshly as he tried to regain his breath. His smooth, dark face was splattered with blood; only some of it his. His spear lay broke on the other side of the wall, along with the bodies and souls of dozens of his people. The soul-less had dispersed a war-party of their fearsome Jaguar Warriors against the city of Philadelphia. They couldn't afford to lose cities again, as had happened to the villages of Seattle and Atlanta, that it's dangerous, so said the tribal elders. As if his warriors didn't already know that. He stood, looking out over the wall from his high point on the inside of it, out across the grassland surrounding the city. Back towards the east were hills high enough to be called mountains, the same way to the south. The North held forests even thicker than the one that separated the American grasslands around Philadelphia from the soul-less city of Tlatelolco. 'If only we could take that city', he thought bitterly, 'than we could finally push the soul-less back to their arid hell'.
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Watchful Owl looked on in disgust at the new 'gods' being worshipped by the weakest of the people in his city. These new figures had been brought to his lands by a lucrative trading deal with the Inca, who worshipped idols that demanded blood and sacrifice. The great fathers were slowly being pushed out, forgotten one by one as these new seraphs caught his people's eye. Though, he did have to admit, trading this new way or worship onto the Cherokee did earn us the great masonry skill of construction.

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He walked on through the streets of Philadelphia, intent on finding the war-parties camp just outside the main city, near the great walls that had held the soul-less back this very afternoon. An elusive old man, Watchful Owl had long been the village doctor and shaman for as long as the city had existed for all it's inhabitants knew. It didn't take him long to find the man he was looking for, the man who had directed the war-party in the brave defense of the city.

"Glorious Night Burning Spear"
"Glorious Dawn Watchful Owl" the young man before him replied, nodding his head ever so slightly in a sign of respect. 'Good', Watchful Owl thought, 'he is one few people that still remember the ways of the great fathers.'
"I hear you fought bravely today against the soul-less, some even say you drove them back yourself." The old man tittered away, while slowly moving around the war tent, gazing with masked interest at the maps and diagrams, troop numbers and resource inventory sheets spread out on the floor.
"I merely fought the foul beasts back from our great city wise one, if I had been truly brave would have followed them all the way back to their pit they use as a camp to strike against us."
"Well," the old man started, turning to look the young commander in the eyes, "Maybe soon you will.."

"You now a war-party of several hundred swordsman, as well as plenty of spearmen for defense. The ancestral city is sending another two parties of swords this way within the next moons passing, and you are directed to strike when the time is right."
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"Bring me a messenger, I have to send word of this to Burning Spear..."

Today our lookouts have reported three war parties of Jaguar Warriors leaving Tlatelolco and heading towards Texcoco. Our Mayan brothers must be doing enough to distract these soul-less in the south.

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Strongly advise attack as soon as possible.

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Burning Spear hid in the shadows of the trees around him, gazing out at the city just yards away from him, hidden by the deep shades of the forests and by the moonless night. He had been staring at this city for hours; watching, studying, waiting. He had been watching this city for almost all his life, planning it's end. And now the time had finally come. He mood fluidly, a creature shroaded in the darkness, and with moved the bodies of hundreds of other creatures just like him. They approached the wall-less city at first a trot, quickly advancing to a run, until the war-party finally slammed into the city guards in an all-out assualt. Within moments the first fires had sprung up, and quickly spread out of control. The cries of the dieing and wounded were eeirly overtoned by the mute silence of the dead. By dawn's break, the city of Tlatelolco simply no longer existed...

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"Divide up the troops! 4/10s of you, you turn around and head back towards the ruins of Tlatelolco. The rest of are with me, we continue on towards Texcoco." Burning Spear prounounced, mere moments after a rear-guard scout had revealed to him that the Cherokee had recently built a city across the river from the ruins. This was a obvious invasion of American lands, regardless of wheter or not an actual American city had yet to be built there, and would be treated as such.

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Even as the fires burned in the ruins of the village of Ochietarironnon and the war drums beat in the hearts of the plains peoples, the American war-party continued it's quest; destroying any and all that opposed it, until...

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"I'm sure we can come to some kind of agreement about this..." The soul-less beast hissed, as he laid out plans and figures drawn out in the Aztec writing; one of the few things the tribes of Aztec and America had in common.

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Washington gazed our across the city of Philadelphia from the roof of his mound. He was called a great hero, a military genuis, the master mind behind the destruction of the invading Cherokee city of Ochietarironnon. He called himself a soldier, nothing more or less. The entire city seemed to be celebration in America's victory over the soul-less, that is the entire city except for Washington. 'This isn't the end,' he told himself. 'This is merely the beginning.'

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“To be prepared for war is the most effective means of preserving peace.” - George Washington

Mirc
Feb 18, 2006, 03:32 PM
Great story! I noticed it a bit too late, but anyway...

stocktracker
Feb 18, 2006, 03:36 PM
It's nice to see you got the Aztecs back for what they have done to you.

conquer_dude
Feb 18, 2006, 04:56 PM
Strange did you attack with spearmen? Spearmen are 1 attack and 2 defense. Just to tell you because it could help. Also: unless you want the whole world getting anoyed or furious with you, you should declare war when you are not in the enemy's borderes. That should help you out. ;)

Nice story. :) Can we see a map of the world you know?

Nate128
Feb 18, 2006, 04:58 PM
This story is unbelievably good. Although I am begging you for a world map, as I eagerly anticpiate the upcoming release of the mod.

Ansar
Feb 18, 2006, 08:27 PM
Did you really get all of those aztec cities in the peace treaty?:eek:

Nice job on the payback on the Aztecs.:)

conquer_dude
Feb 19, 2006, 11:15 AM
I think so. That's impressive. :D

wolf_brother
Feb 19, 2006, 03:43 PM
Lol, yeah I got all of those Aztec cities. Only two of them are worth anything, and only because their close to the Aztec boarders. One of the others is on nothing but desert tiles (Baja California) and the other is up in the Alaskan Rockies, so their both pretty much worthless.
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In the year 3770 (230 bc) the great Tribal leaders all gathered in the ancestoral city, to discuss the future of the people. With the end of the war in sight, they looked beyond the horizon to what must be done once peace was in hand. The conflict with the Cherokee showed them that the other peoples of this world would not respect their bounds unless they had a city within the area, and so it was decided that four mour townships would be established as soon as possible...

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"How does the campaign go, Watchful Owl?" asked Long Fang, newly seated chief of the Texcoco tribe of the people.
"It goes well Long Fang," the elder of the two replied, his long greying hair nearly hiding his face as he spoke. "Burning Spear continues to marshall his troops, and now advances towards Tahlequah. He will meet up there with your son, Mighty Wind, and together they will take the Cherokee's ancestoral city."

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"That will teach them to stay off our lands!" the first declared, laughing as he did.
Neither of the two elders saw the young general just outside of their tent, listening to their conversation and shaking his head in true understanding of the enenmy. "This is only the beginning... " he said, not for the first time in the last week.
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Might Wind ducked behind the ample brush of the land, hiding just below the surface of the tall prarie grass that covered this land. 'It's like a desert' he told himself, looking out slightly. He wasn't watching the tall grass whip back and forth in the wind though, he was on the lookout for Cherokee war-pareties. He signaled to his men, who slowly advanced, crouching and crawling in the tall grass aswell as they approached the Cherokee capital..

It was a quiet night as Burning Spear's war-party approached the Cherokee city of Tahlequah. His troops were dispersed around him, fanning out as they strode towards the city gates, staying just under the cover of the dark night. He signaled to his men, and the attack began. Yelling, screaming, his men launched themselves at the wall-less city, slamming themselves into the sparse guards they met just beyond the first of the buildings. Burning Spear himself found himself battling a man with a spear. He howled his battle cry, jabbing at the man's face with his own spear. The men ducked back, raising up his shield he pushed Burning Spear's weapon out of the way as he swung his spear at Burning Spear's face. Burning Spear jerked his head out of the way, bring his own weapon back into play he used it like a javelin, hefting it high above his head he threatened the man's head and upper torso with it, forcing his combatant to continually raise his own sheild in defense. Finally as he closed in he shoved his sheid against the others, catching it well below his face as he brought his spear down at the man's head...

...and gasped, coughing up blood as he felt the warrior's spear-tip penetrate his side, digging deep between his ribs and into his right lung. He spewed up more blood, coating the other man's face in it as the life in him was slowly sapped away. 'It's cold out tonight...' he mused, as he feel to the ground. He watched the other man stand above him, raising up his spear one last time, and his last thoughts were not of his family or his clan, nor of his warriors and the attack on the city. 'It's so cold, I should put on my shirt...'

Mighty Wind stood just outside the light cast by the city's torches, his men spread out in the plains around him. He signaled the man behind him, who signaled the man behind him, and on down the line until finally towards the end of the war-party Tall Oak finally received his signal. He drew his bow, and dipped the arrow-head into the fire. He raised the bow and fired, the signal shouting loud and clear to all of the American forces surronding the city; attack.

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The next mourning saw a different sign outside of the city of Tahlequah, a new guard around the city permiter, and a new ruler inside. Indeed, the next dawn saw a totally different world...

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...And following in the orders of the tribal leaders set down before the end of the war...

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With the foudning of the city of St. Louis, it was an entirely new world for the American people. The last of the men alive during the times before, or during the wars, Tall Oak, died on the same night as the last mound was completed in St. Louis. It was a new time on the world, with new, young, men who wanted to lead America in a different way, under different ways, and towards a different goal.. It was the birth of the American Empire.

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conquer_dude
Feb 19, 2006, 04:12 PM
Haha lol San Fransisco is in Florida. Kinda like when I played the Age of Discovery scenerio a while back Williamsburg was in Africa. :lol:

Anyways nice update, looks alot like the US once you drive those freaks out of your territory and :hammer: them down. :D

Nate128
Mar 05, 2006, 12:43 PM
PLease don't let this story die

conquer_dude
Mar 05, 2006, 01:12 PM
I'm ditto with Nate, dont let this die

wolf_brother
Mar 05, 2006, 01:19 PM
Sorry guys, I really do plan to update sometime soon (and upload the mod for you guys to download). It's just that I've recently had far less time on the computer than previously, and then I found my civ1 disc.... ;)

Suffice it to say that I will continue this story.

Hopefully within the week.

BuckyRea
Mar 05, 2006, 04:10 PM
I like this geography. Houston is where Tulsa's supposed to be, St Louis is where Houston's supposed to be, and right in the middle of Texas is a town called... Texcoco.

But nothing's more mixed than having Delaware at the mouth of the Mississippi River, since no doubt the next city you build will be "Mississippi" at the mouth of the Delaware River.

Red Door
Mar 12, 2006, 08:45 PM
I have to ask...are you going to release that mod? It looks quite interesting.

wolf_brother
Mar 13, 2006, 01:39 AM
Actually I just got it done today and hope to have it up within a few days. I'll be sure to drop the link here once I get that thread started. And now that I have that done I can get back to this thread since the moddin was taking up most of my free time, lol. :)

Just be warned though, that this game is based upon version 1.2-1.3 of the mod, and was basically just barely operating. The completed game that I plan to put on the forums is something like version 6.7, but atleast I finally have everything set the way I want it to be. ;)

wolf_brother
Mar 16, 2006, 02:23 AM
"Young Alexus slow down! You're going to be the death of me! Now come here and read your books. It seems that the world may have changed but young boys never will. Now come here!"

"We know very little about the people across the sea that call themselves American, especially between the years of 10 A.D. and 300 A.D. Most of what we do know is confussing and mostly scrambled, and it is hard to pick out the truth from the various myths and stories being told by the people of that world..."

"What we do know is that in 30 A.D. the great Historian Machiavelli completed his Great History of the World. In it he detailed the eight happiest peoples upon this planet. The Americans were named 6th, just above their southern counterparts the Mapuche and their most recent conquest, the Cherokee."

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"We also know is that by sixty years later, the American had a more powerful military on all of the new world, only second to their northern neighbors."

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"By the year of our lord 290 we know that the Mayan people, America's sole southern ally were on the brink of destruction."

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"Not wanting to ruin the peaceful existience that the American had forged with his neighbors, instead of re-joining the war he instead taught the Mayan man many powerful techniques in return for a very small sum."

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"With the raging war in the south and cultural and military pressure being exerted by the Americans, the Cherokee and Iroquois peoples were forced to settling the barran frozen north, a land the American was willing to let them have."

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"And then the world changed, forever."

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Nate128
Mar 16, 2006, 07:14 AM
:clap: Another brilliant chapter.

stocktracker
Mar 16, 2006, 07:33 AM
With that many civilizations, you can take the lead easily.

BuckyRea
Mar 16, 2006, 01:33 PM
Nice cliff hanger.

Ansar
Mar 16, 2006, 03:26 PM
Are the Cherokee and Irouquis agriculutural? If so, then those tundra cities get 3 food out of the capital and +2 out of the lake.

Nice update!:clap:

conquer_dude
Mar 16, 2006, 04:04 PM
Map screenie? This is freakin awesome dude!

I laugh at the Charooke! Having to move to the tundra because of the war. Well, better than destruction I guess... Or is it. :ninja:

wolf_brother
Mar 18, 2006, 02:23 AM
The mod for this game is finally up in the forums. Dl it here
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=3825836&posted=1#post3825836

wolf_brother
Mar 22, 2006, 10:40 AM
Alright guys, time for a poll. I had started this story basically as a way to advertise for my mod (terrible of me, I know) but alot of you seem to be actually intrested in the story. So the question is that now that the mod is out do you guys want me to

A) Drop the story.
B) Continue working on the story (I don't gurantee I'll finish it thought.)

Sima Qian
Mar 22, 2006, 04:28 PM
Keep it up, I'd like to see this continue... or at least bring it to some kind of fitting conclusion...

Marsden
Mar 22, 2006, 05:30 PM
I would also like to see the story continue.

Nate128
Mar 22, 2006, 05:45 PM
B all the way

wolf_brother
Mar 23, 2006, 12:25 PM
The council members sat around the large wooden lodge in silence, each of them lost in his own thoughts. The smoke from the fire and the incense burning there filled the room, imported from around the world, the mystical scent filling the lungs of all of them. It was Blue Duck, eldest of them all that spoke first.

"These new people from across the sea are both a blessing and a curse on our people. "

The others looked up silently, listening intently as honor and tradition dictated to the old man.

"They trade with us many fine things, and bring to this land many new ways in which to live and prosper. But they also brings to this world their weapons, their greed and their cruelty!"

He reached into a bag near his feet, and with some difficulty lifted out the heavy flail. The iron ball was connected to a two hand-sized wooden shaft by nearly one hands length of iron chain. Protruding from the sphere were several sharp points, iron daggers waiting for human flesh.

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"This weapon is a thing of death. But more than that, it is a thing of torture. So much more painful than a good American sword, this thing will not only kill a man, it will tear him to peices. "

The elder than, with strength not his age, threw the weapon from across the sea into the fire, where it's shiny iron skin soon darkened and turned black in the heat of the flames.

"And it is this weapon," Blue Duck half-whispered, "that has led to the destruction of our closest allies."

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"Listen to me Red Tail!" the American emissary to Cherokee shouted, just to be heard above the other man's ravings. "This is what my people are demanding from yours. Now I would suggest that you do as we ask, we wouldn't want anything to happan like what had been done in our grandfathers time, would we?"

Red Tail stood in the tee-pee the two were in, his aids raising with him. The small tent with was somewhere on the boarder between the two nations, in mutually agreed to 'neutral territory' as was the tradition for these meetings. Things had started off pleasant enough, with the ritual smoking from the peace pipe and idle talk of hunting and farming, and the simple ways of the world. Than this little man, this American had dared to threaten his mighty people.

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"Listen to me Washington. Tensions are running high with these Cherokee fools, and our scouts have been reporting Cherokee war parties moving in the area for moons now. I want you to go to Tahlequah and help speed up the building of the Forbidden Palace, as Blue Duck insists we name it, there. It will serve as our forward war camp if our neighbors to the east do not come to their senses."

"Take a two parties of Braves with you as well, I think you might need them."

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Ansar
Mar 23, 2006, 12:30 PM
What kind of unit is a companion?:)


Thank you for continuing the story.:D

lucky donkey
Mar 23, 2006, 01:08 PM
Wow...nice mod and nice story :D

Nate128
Mar 23, 2006, 04:13 PM
Companion is a 3.2.1 swordsman, as opposed to the 3.1.1 swordsmen previously seen. The 3.2.1 is available much later.

seanos08
Mar 25, 2006, 08:47 PM
Great story and I love to see the Aztecs getting beaten.

conquer_dude
Mar 25, 2006, 08:52 PM
Poor Mayans. They didn't stand a chance. :(

Updates? :D

BuckyRea
Mar 27, 2006, 05:22 PM
awesome story

conquer_dude
Mar 27, 2006, 08:00 PM
The mod looks good, bro. Wish I had cquest working again. :(