Joan d'Tupace was a nice girl, and had come to be in charge of the French.
d'Tupace was regarded by her own people as very capable and she had a great deal of faith in her own abilities. Her cousin Tupacius of the Romans had achieved World Domination of his own planet and had challenged d'Tupace to do the same or better. However d'Tupace felt that in order to prove she was greater she would have to do it without the advantages that Tupacius had. So as she looked for a home to start on she kept several things in mind.

She must not have a food bonus.
She may not have more than 2 BG.
She may have a source of fresh water.
She must start close to another AI.
She must play on Pangea.

This is where she ended up.

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WORLD SETTINGS
Vanilla
Deity
Standard
7 opponents
Pangea
70% Water
Temperate
Cool
5 Billion years
All victory conditions enabled

Not a bad start at first glance however a quick fog gaze revealed taht there was a solitary BG within the radius, no food bonus and an AI right next door. She decided to call it home.

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It took a mere 7 turns to meet her neighbours.

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Well that ruled out expansion to the south, d'Tupace had started on a min run on Writing and so with some of her cash saved up she decided to buy one of Monty's workers for 30gp.

As she continued to explore it wasnt long before she encountered the Japanese. As they had exactly the same techs as the Aztecs d'Tupace saw a chance for trade.

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Then the babylonians arrived.

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Hami was up mysticism but down Alphabet, and d'Tupace was relectunt to give up her powerful monopoly on Alphabet, that was her ticket to glory.

In Paris d'Tupace had built warrior --> warrior --> warrior --> settler, popping the settler just as Paris grew to size 3. The settler made his way NE and founded the town of Orleans. d'Tupace was excited, she now had 2 Cities compared to her neighbours 5 or 6.

d'Tupace found out that the Babylonians had learned about alphabet so to prevent them profitting from the knowledge d'Tupace called up Monty and sold him Alphabet and 1 gp for Mysticism then called up Tokugawa and sold him Alphabet, Mysticism and 10gp for IW. d'Tupace was delighted, her two starting techs had netted her 7 techs by themselves.

It wasn't long before she met new friends. The Iroquois.

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They were hopelesly backward lacking alphabet, masonry and bronze working.

d'Tupace's min run on writing had paid off, plenty of cash and it still came in as a monopoly. However she knew she couldn't hoard it so back to the trading table it was.

Irqoquois: Alphabet for Contact with Russia
Babylon: Writing for Contact with Germany, HBR and 2gp
Aztecs: Writing for contact with Zululand and 113gp
Zulu: Writing for 77gp
Germany: Pottery for 10gp.

With all the cash from her trades d'Tupace was now able to afford embassies with everyone in the world. This made her a popular young lady.

In 2070, nearly 2000 years after founding Paris there were finally enough people in France to found a 3rd city. Named Lyons.

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Lyons was founded where it was for a very specific purpose.

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Tokugawa demanded 23 gp and d'Tupace accepted. 23gp was a small price to pay to remain alive. And she would have revenge. Oh yes, there would be a reckoning for this.

Iron Working, purchased from Japan so long ago now came in handy. A quick survey revealed iron in the hills north of Lyons so the next settler was sent there (in 1550bc) and the town of Rheims was founded.

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Now d'Tupace had iron. That was what she wanted to hear.

d'Tupace knew she had reached the time for war. Although she had just four cities she had no more room. It was war or be consumed. She had iron, or else she would have conceeded defeat but the task before her was great. She did however find space to squeeze one more city.

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And to poach land in a place she had no right to be

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She had 4 swordsmen. When she had 5 she would make her move. She had no choice, if she didn't she would die...

Nice start! And you have an assault force almost ready to go.:hammer:

Hey, one more city west of Paris. Snag that wheat! :)

Looking forward to seeing Joan conquor the world with 5 swordsmen. :ar15:

d'Tupace had her fifth swordsman and so she declared on the one neighbour she felt she could conceivably, maybe not die instantly against. Good ol' Monty

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Her 5 swords marched on Teotihuacan, a thorn in the side of Paris for thousands of years. They captured the city, but only to give Paris access to the silks there. Work was immediately begun on a settler to move the city 1 tile SW.

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With d'Tupace now consolidating Hami came demanding money and maps from d'Tupace. As she had no army to speak of save those swords in Aztecland she had no choice but to bow to the demands, as much as it hurt her. Immediately Bismarck made an identical demand.
d'Tupace had heard of Bismarck from Tupacius and he was indeed as bald, ugly and stupid as she had heard. Still, now was not the time for rash actions. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

d'Tupace had gained a lux from the war and so now offered Monty peace in exchange for... ahem... 'adequate reparations'

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With peace in France again d'Tupace did not neglect her duties in building the army. After all France was still well and truly the weakest nation of the world. d'Tupace had continued to work hard on research and she had recycled one of Tupacius' old ideas, the currency bee-line. Maths had been futile, she'd been beaten to it, but currency she had got before a few of the AI's and so she began to trade

Babylon: Currency for Polytheism, Territory Map and 50gp.
Germany: Currency + Polytheism for Construction + TM

That put d'Tupace into the Middle Ages in 775bc. No one else had any cash to buy techs so d'Tupace bought TM from everyone which gave her an almost-complete view of her continent.

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To celebrate she founded a new city.

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She now had 8 cities, enough for a FP should a suitable site ever be found.

She then abandoned Teotihuacan (back to 7 cities) and refounded the city of Avignon.

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d'Tupace had 10 swords now. Not many, but enough to risk another war. d'Tupace's advisors were horrified.

Military Advisor: How can you risk a war when we are 'weak' compared to everyone.
d'Tupace: Because we have 10 swordsmen.
Military Advisor: So what? That means nothing, they probably have 20, plus spears and horses! Our cities are defended by regular warriors for pity's sake.
d'Tupace: I don't care. If we don't risk we will not gain, yes we could lose and be wiped out but if thats the worst thing that happens to you in a day then consider yourself lucky.
Military Advisor: What could possibly be worse!?!?
d'Tupace: You've clearly never been to Rockhampton...

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The stack of swords charged at Izumo. Many people why target that city when it offered nothing over the city northwest (Nagoya) to it which would give France access to some horses. The reason was because the city beyond Izumo had wines. And d'Tupace was eager for a 3rd native lux.

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While d'Tupace's men healed the Zulu invented this strange idea of recording things in great volumes and storing them in Libraries. d'Tupace offered Shaka 30gp and the secrets of Currency for it and a world map.

Zulu: Currency + 30gp for Literature + WM.

A force of four newly trained swords attacked Nagoya from Rheims and finally d'Tupace had a pony!

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By leaving 1 sword in Nagoya and 1 in Izumo d'Tupace was able to divert 17 swords to attack Satsuma and get control of those grapes. Now d'Tupace could show the world that French Wine is the best!

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d'Tupace now felt like Japan had learnt its lesson for its earlier demands she so called up Tokugawa and offered him a very reasonable peace deal.

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With the trade lines now open again d'Tupace was able to sell some of her fine silks from Avignon to the Iroquois in exchange for some of their tasty spices and 30gp

Iroquois: Silks for Spices + 30gp

As d'Tupace had been paying Monty 1gpt as part of their peace treaty she was forced to sign on for another 20 turns when it came up for review

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Now d'Tupace had a pitifully small and weak empire with a deadbeat economy and was potentially only a turn away from losing the game.
Hey, things are looking up!

It has been 2 wars, horses, 2 luxuries and a good many years since d'Tupace last was able to do some consolidating. To start with the lands that once were Nagoya became the lands of Besancon and d'Tupace at last had her pony.

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d'Tupace also took another leaf out of her cousin Tupacius' book by donning the balaclava and suction cups of a master thief and toddled off to Kyoto to see what she could do.

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Now that d'Tupce knew about this Republic thing that had served Tupacius so well she decided to have a revolution as well.

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6 turns later she felt richer, happier and better all round.

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She then founded the city of Rouen north of Satsuma on the hill. Although she didn't know it then, founding on the hill would, in time, prove to be one of the smartest things that d'Tupace did in the entire game.

Then the world began to descend into war. And d'Tupace didn't even have a hand in it.

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There weren't even any MA's involved in it!

d'Tupace cash rushed a pike in Rouen. She saw the bab stack next to it and knew what was going to happen. The turn that the pike finished d'Tupace dialed up Hami and bought Monotheism and Engineering + 137gp for 91gpt.

She then demanded Hami leave and this happened.

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The lone pike then fends off 3 swordsmen and 5 Bowmen to hold the line magnificently. A reg pike, defence 3 fortified gives it 3.75 + the hill bumps its to 4.5. It should have died. It had no right to win that fight but it did. How? It was the magic of Tupac. Of course its redlined and with a bucketload more babs piling in d'Tupace knew that it would probably die next turn.

With the silks/spices deal having now expired d'Tupace called up Hiawatha and put those silks to good use.

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d'Tupace also noticed Baldy lacked Engineering so she offered to teach it to him and pay 36gp in exchange for Chivalry.

Germany: Engineering + 36gp for Chivalry.

Engineering, Chivalry and 80gp was enough to get the Zulu in against babylon and acquire Theology at the same time.

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Sastsuma was abandoned so that Rouen would be the sink for Bab troops, the settler refounded a city 1 tile SE. Walls were rushed in Rouen as well as all other cities along the bab border, these were followed up by pikes ot hold the line. All was looking good. d'Tupace could hold on until the alliances expired then take the babs for peace. If all went well she could even get a tech or something in the peace if she killed enough troops.

But then this happened.

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Can d'Tupace deal with 2 unwanted deity wars while defending her empire with bailing wire and scotch tape?

Woah you play fast, made it to middle ages in the second update already!

Ahhh yes, but it isnt to AD yet. It may be the middle ages but thats because on pangea deity the tech rate is ridiculously fast.

Awesome! Berraling in the updates! :goodjob:

Great!:thumbsup:

BTW, congrats conquer_dude for your 1200th post! I bet you will make 2000 faster than me. I should be ashamed that I don't post as much as I should. Keep it like this!:D

Edit: Worldmap (after the last wars)? Current year?

Can d'Tupace deal with 2 unwanted deity wars while defending her empire with bailing wire and scotch tape?

I have a hard enough time defending my empire with one civilization after me. At least Babylon does not share a big border with you. Keeping Japan happy at this point is very important.

d'Tupace looked at the mess before her. Her armies were divided and scattered and even that bailing wire and scotch tape was looking thin. She had to do something fast. She decided to chance the babylonian border. Troops would take too long to arrive so she bought walls and pikes in every city that could and would simply pray that they could hold. The Aztecs in the south however would be a more significant threat in that their armies had just 1 city between them and Paris. d'Tupace mustered all the troops she could spare and organised a potentially suicidal charge into Aztec territory. The plan was to deal them a blow so great they would lose their taste for battle and be willing to accept peace. 16 swordsmen made the long march, unsupported by catapults and unprotected by pikes, they arrived at the gates of Tenotchitlan.

16 swords charged, 8 survived and the last sword's victory was enough to take the ancient city, which held not only the great wall (crucial to holding the Babylonian border steady) but also the hanging gardens, which would be of great benefit to the whole empire.

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However as it was the last sword the redlined sword would have to pray it was not attacked. It was...

By an Elite knight...

And in an amazing result he killed the elite knight and was promoted to elite himself.

Another small force of swords moving out of Tours and attacked Xochicalco whose name translates to 'a dyslexic's nightmare'. The city fell but it would only be held until a settler could be produced from it to move the city onto the coast.

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d'Tupace called up Monty, success! The plan had worked and d'Tupace was able to get a very generous peace offer out of Monty.

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The town of Dijon replaced Xochicalco and with the Aztec border 'secure' d'Tupace was able to divert defences, and a force of 8 newly trained knights to the babylonian border. Those knights proved crucial as they cracked open the defences of Samarra without loss.

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The Iroquois made peace with Babylon to d'Tupace's dissapointment but it meant that d'Tupace had silks to trade again and happily took a straight swap for those lovely spices.

A new city (Amiens) was founded on the ruins of Samarra and pikes were moved in to defend it from Rheims, thus freeing up the knights to continue the attack to Zariqum.

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The Zulu made peace with the babylonians meaning that d'Tupace was free to do so as well. She dialed up Hami and was suprised to be able to get Invention for peace + 60gp. It was a deal too good to pass up.

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d'Tupace however was massivly behind in tech. As well as having a woeful economy and an army that was the laughing stock of the world. The second two could be easily rectified with markets and knights however the first was not easy. Without a strong economy d'Tupace could not self-research to parity, nor trade to parity. However what she could do, was don the balaclava once again...

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She was not at tech parity yet but she was much closer, she also discovered that Bismarck did not know how to bank yet so d'Tupace agreed to teach him in exchange for Gunpowder and Music lessons. She even threw in two luxs to make sure of the deal.

Germany: Banking + furs + Ivory + 40gp for Gunpowder + Music Theory.

Cherbourg was founded on the ruins of Zariqum, and Poiters between Cherbourg and Amiens.

Now d'Tupace waited, and waited. And built her economy and her army, and when 20 turns of peace had expired. She turned on Monty once again.

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Monty was more than a little suprised by the stack of 25 knights about to enter his territory :eek:

Too late for Japan. They already hate your guts

Woah-Cross update!

Mirc, thanks! :D

You've had great luck with the tech steals! How much is that costing you for each steal?

It costs about 470 gold doesnt it?

Well the steals in the update I'm about to post were costing me 1600gp for a safe steal. I used to risk immediate's but not anymore. They have an enormous failure rate so the double cost for a safe steal is more than worth it. I have to confess here I am using wat in GOTM or RBD would be regarded as an exploit. The fact that when you do steals if you steal the tech you are currently researching you can then say 'whats the big picture' when asked about what tech next and then you can steal a second tech.

Update coming soon.

d'Tupace began to orchestrate the assault on Aztecland, starting at the new capital of Calixtlahuaca. 25 knights rode through the city and suffered no losses.

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A settler then followed the road to the city, abandoned it and founded the city of Toulouse.

Several Pikes arrived in Tenotchitlan to relieve the swords from the last expedition, they then headed straight to Texcoco and d'Tupace smiled as she gained control of the third Aztec wonder

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Of course in such a hopelessly corrupt town it would never be of any use but still, it was nice to have it.

d'Tupace upgraded all her Pikes to Musketmen and defending the city of Avignon against a Longbow resulted in a victory for a musketman causing this to happen.

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Following the advice of an ancient sage known as Simple Monkey d'Tupace ordered the construction of a fishing village to the west of Paris 'by the wheat.'

d'Tupace tried to call up Monty but he didn't want to hear from her so she resolved to cause him some more pain. The knights riding out from Toulouse arrived at Tlatelco and Monty immediatly wished he'd built troops there instead of working Smith's Trading Company, if he had he might have been able to hold the city. Instead it wa yet another Aztec city that had fallen to the French onslaught.

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d'Tupace was suprised to learn she was still last in score by a mile and was in fact losing ground, she was also still weak compared to all nations including the Aztecs and Japan.

The first thing d'Tupace did next was check to see who the most advanced was. As far as she could discern it was Babylon and so she headed their with a little deviousness in mind.

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With knights coming out of Orleans and Paris every two turns due to the Golden Age it wasn't long before d'Tupace had a third force who could move down the west coast.

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d'Tupace was also intruiged to know where Monty was getting all his money from!

The Iroquois silk/spices deal was also up for reveiw and d'Tupace actually had to PAY 50gp now!

Continuing on from Tlatelco the knights attacked Tzintzuntzen and captured the city. Monty was on his last legs but still wouldnt talk.

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Not to be out done the swords moved out of Texcoco to Tlacoplan which was protected by spears and so fell very easily. And with that the Aztecs were removed from the East althogether.

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Now Monty would talk, and he was willing to give plenty for peace.

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Some more diplomatic work was going around. As Babylon recruited Russia in a Military Alliance against Zululand.

d'Tupace wanted to continue warring while in her golden age so she sent her clumsiest spy to Kyoto.

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d'Tupace might not have had any sort of a break from warring but her Republic was holding up well without the need for the lux slider and she was still yet to lose a war.

Worldmap ?

Ask and ye shall receive :)

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Is the yellow civ Egypt?:egypt:

Btw, great job on the wars.:goodjob:

Thank you! Great job!

:hammer:em down!

BTW how can you be last in score!? :dubious:

Last? I didn't notice that.

He said he was last by miles didnt he?

Score doesn't mean much, it is power that counts. Score is determined mostly on territory, while power is on your military.

I have 730-odd for score the next worse is Japan who have around 1200. I am in fact losing ground on all civs including Aztecs and Japan in the score stakes. Not quite sure how but I find it very interesting. I also keep fluctuating from 1st to 2nd and vice versa in the demographics for Mfg. Good and GNP.

@Ansar: The yellow civ is Zululand, looks like I'll get the chance to lay some :hammer: :hammer: down on Shaka affter all :D

Yes, but it happened to me to have the same score (or something) with a civ 1/4 of my territory!

I'm sure you will beat them after all.

BTW, your sig is too long for the forum rules.

Great to see a member of the Tupac family destroy more empires!

Updates???

d'Tupace had planned this war, although to outsiders it looked undesired she had handpicked the spy to be caught. First thing was first though, she didn't want any pesky attack 4, defence 4 Samuari running around making life difficult for her so the first thing was to roll a catapult next to their iron mountain and.

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They took 2 turns to arrive at the gates of Nara but d'Tupace's knight stack was able to best the 2 samuari defending the city and the pike and captured the strongest cultural city in Japan.

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But the plan was only to hold it long enough for a settler to arrive to found a loyal French city.
A quick glance from above revealed Japan had a source of iron at a city covered by Aztec culture. d'Tupace didn't want that iron going through Aztec territory and back to main Japan, so d'Tupace called up Monty and offered him so brand new horses if they would deal with that city for them.

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They only had to deal with one city, that not too much to ask is it?

d'Tupace noticed that the year was 590AD, the same year that the Legendary Zerksees took power of Japan on another world and guided a hopelessly weak nation to conquest victory from what seemed to be certain defeat. Unfortunately for Japan there was no Zerksees to save them now, the only one with the brain for that on this world happened to be leading the French right now.

d'Tupace, that leader with a brain, decided that the Aztecs wouldn't mind if she paid another 'diplomatic visit' to their research facilities. She got caught at first but quick talking, and a reminder that they were in an alliance and needed France's horses, meant she was able to keep out of trouble. Once everyone had left she had another go and had better luck.

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Note to self: ALWAYS use 'Safe' steal never 'Cautious'! Thats the first steal I've failed in this game...

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Then Japan fell into a lot more trouble than she was before.

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Ouch... poor Tokugawa.

Then Japan did something very silly...

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Tokugawa doesnt like life does he?

d'Tupace called up her now somewhat beleagured friend Shaka and offered to sell him physics, who knows he might get something good from it?

Zulu: Physics for Printing Press + Monarchy + World Map

The Aztecs then joined Japan against Zululand

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d'Tupace then watched a Bab cavalry ride past.
And its still only 610AD!

d'Tupace realised after a quick check of the Bab's tech list that this was the best chance to get to tech parity. She disobeyed her own personal rules on steals and risked an immediate steal (not enough cash for a safe) and was delighted to see it work!

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d'Tupace now knew every tech that anyone knew. It made her feel smart.

d'Tupace continued in the war as Toky had no intention to discuss peace and d'Tupace still had an alliance with the Aztecs to honour. While clearing the area around what was once Nara a lad by the name of Napolean came to her attention.

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Despite hearing stories of his exceptional generalship d'Tupace thought he would be put to better use being worked to death on her summer house in Osaka. d'Tupace likes summer houses, and shoes, and ivory jewellry, and helmets. Not sure why she likes helmets but she has a bit of a thing for them. Maybe soon she'll get over it and go for a nice uniform or something.

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Monty then persuaded Hami to get in on the act with japan. I guess Hami wanted to get a piece of Japan before d'Tupace got it all.

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d'Tupace was greatly saddened to learn that historians no longer considered France to be in a Golden Age, merely a 'boom period'. :cry: It was too soon to be gone!

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Those new cavalry proved to be quite the luvliest of attackers.

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Japan was now reduced to just two productive cities.

Unfortunately due to time constraints d'Tupace was forced to go to bed, :sleep: she had some silly legal exam on the next day. Why is d'Tupace doing a legal exam? She IS the law! :queen:

BTW, your sig is too long for the forum rules.

Ay?? What do you mean?? :confused:

Its more than 5 lines long.:scan:

However, with small characters you are allowed to have a 9 lines long sig.

Japan will now be forever known as popular. Everone wants to declare war on em.

You meen Zulu. Interesting Japan declared war on them twice without peace in between. :hmm:

Oh, and AFAIK you should name her "Joan de Tupace", because d' appears only when there's a vowel in the beggining of the next word (like in Joan d'Arc).

Why would he bother to make peace and then declare again? Just declare twice!:lol:

Oh, and i didn't comment on your update! Very nice, even if the GA is over!

I have never EVER successfully stolen a tech except at "safe" levels of expenditure. And usually that option is so expensive I can only afford to use it by very late in the game--by which time I'm usually ahead of everyone else anyway. It's good to see that someone is getting some use out of this option. For me, it's just a cheap way to provoke a war when I want to take someone else down a peg or throw off their upgrades.

She started out last because she started with such a poor start - no food bonuses, so couldn't grow.

I assume she's losing ground, even though she is more productive, because the AI's all have temples/Cathedral/coluseums/marketplaces, so their citizens are all jumping for joy.

d'Tupace had taken a short break to work some of her other assignments when she returned once again to the throne of France. She had reached an interturn and was thus unable to do... well anything really.

While she watched the world unfold she noticed that the Zulu, her allies against Babylon, were starting to get into real trouble.

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Then Hiawatha marched into Paris and demanded a trade. Furs and silks from France in exchange for spices and 7gpt from the Iroquois. d'Tupace wasn't completely satisfied considering that she had once been able to get a luxury and then some for silks not that long ago, but she accepted anyway.

Then d'Tupace's advisors informed her she was again allowed to give instructions to her troops. The instructions were pretty simple, after all the sheeple can only understand simple things, thats why ruling is left to d'Tupace.
Kagoshima was the target and capture, the instructions.

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The army was then given the same orders, but with Tokyo the target. However some of the members of the army had real difficulty in keeping together

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Then Babylon pulled Germany into the Zulu war as well

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d'Tupace was really starting to feel sorry for the Zulu, after all getting them into a war with Babylon was her fault in the first place... oh well what can you do?

d'Tupace's cavalry had to head south after Tokyo as Monty the useless had failed to take that 1 Japanese city... how hopeless can you be??

Still it proved no problem for d'Tupace.

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Oh... sorry Tokugawa, looks like you drew the short straw in starting next to a member of the Tupac family!

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d'Tupace noticed that every civilization save hers, the Zulu and the Russians had entered a distinctly new age in tehir development.... she had to catch up, yet again.

She started by calling on a favour from a 'friend'

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Then she took her home-research-stealing kit with her to Berlin, the most advanced city in the world.

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She was now not only on par with the leaders (Babylon and Germany) but ahead compared to most others. d'Tupace was feeling so happy she agreed to teach the beleagured Zulu's a trick or two... ok one.

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Not that Democracy would do them any good!

d'Tupace also decided that the time had come for Monty to be put out of his misery. And pay for his failure in the alliance!

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d'Tupace wondered, what is that like the fifth time she'd been at war with the ugly aztecs?

d'Tupace showed so little regard for the aztecs she didnt even bother with a plan of attack, instead just changing in everyone and anyone. It worked though, and was mercifully quick.

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And so now 2 of France's 3 old enemies were gone. Dead. Finito. Kicked the bucket. This left d'Tupace in a position to purse revenge on the 1 remaining nation who needed be brough to justice. Babylon, however as d'Tupace's military advisor regretfully informed her, France was 'weak' compared to Babylon.

The zulu were still alive, although struggling slightly so d'Tupace decided to help them out of their little mess. Well not really, but it sounds nicer than, robbing a dying man blind.

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She also contacted baldy and made arrangements to get some of his wonderful dyes for use in her hair. After all its not like he's ever going to need to use them!
d'Tupace had to give him furs and wines in order to get the dyes but she had plenty of both so was more than happy to trade. The people were pretty happy too.

d'Tupace then decided to teach Cathy about Gravity, and how if she didn't get her weight under control gravity would permenantly stick her to the ground.

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d'Tupace didn't like Cathy very much, and nor did Cathy like d'Tupace very much, especially after comments like that.
Then Zululand got a double break.

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d'Tupace had spent some time now learning how to make sick people better while Baldy, the silly man, had been learning how to give his power away to the sheeple. Imagine!

Still d'Tupace didn't realise how useless it would be to her until after they'd swapped.

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Hammi then paid through the nose, and up front, to get his hands on French medicine

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And Hiawatha, the silly man, did likewise to learn about giving away power!

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d'Tupace would never understand men who did things like that, for as long as she would live. Or more accurately, as long as they would live.

d'Tupace signed a Mutual Protection Pact with the Iroquois, Hiawatha thought it odd as neither of them really needed protection at present. But he didn't know what d'Tupace had planned...

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Nice update!:clap:

You have a worldmap we all could peruse?

Wow! You have the help of the Iriquios on your side! :rolleyes:

World map?

France, Irriqois, Babalon. Lovley lookig war!:)

Needs more though. World war. :evil:

d'Tupace started her war with Babylon in the same fashion as against Japan. By nullifying resources. This time the key resources were saltpeter and horses that allowed the babs to train cavalry. So d'Tupace sent one of her own cavalry, in the first turn of the war, to shut off Hammurabi's horses.

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Now d'Tupace would need only worry about the cavalry that had already been trained.

As d'Tupace looked to her next move the Iroquois joined the fighting.

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d'Tupace also finshed her project on Wall Street which would allow her to earn a return on her investments.

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d'Tupace sent her cavalry north. The battle plan was simple, d'Tupace's impressive cavalry army

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Would follow the path traced by d'Tupace's military advisors. In a similiar fashion to Tupacius' first great war with the Iroquois for the lands of America, d'Tupace would seek to severe the colonies from the central Babylon.

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And it worked a treat.

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At Nagasaki France's generals decided upon a joint attack on the last of Babylon's colonies and they fell with little resistance.

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The Iroquois - Babylon front had not shifted so d'Tupace suspected they had nullified each other, certainly the Iroquois had proven their worth, France had not suffered any counter attacks and so she assumed (reasonably) that France was tied up with the Iroquois.

However the proud Zulu were finally overcome.

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d'Tupace was so proud of her new position of strength she happily traded away some of her new fangled lead in technology. Of course for deals like this why wouldnt you?

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d'Tupace also convinced Bismarck to part with all that remained of his treasury in exchange for wines and furs, of course he didn't have enough so d'Tupace graciously allowed him to pay for some of it on credit.

Please let me know what you think of the battle plan pictures. They are my first attempt at that sort of thing and I'd really like to learn how to make them goodly

d'Tupace began her new plans with the news that the Iroquois and Russia had signed a Mutual Protection Pact, thus forcing Russia into the war with Babylon. Only Germany remained seperate from the war.

Then the news filtered through that the Iroquois had made peace and withdrawn from the fighting. d'Tupace laughed as a Babylonian frigate sailed into French waters and bombarded Lagash thus forcing the Iroquois back into the war.

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d'Tupace then passed on her secrets of Industrialization to the Iroquois, after all if she didn't Germany probably would.

She threw some of the excellent French Wines into the bargain and was able to extract from Hiawatha: a fully up to date WM, Incense, Gems and 39gpt.

Iroquois: Indutrialization + Wines for WM + Incense + Gems + 39gpt.

d'Tupace then struck Babylon a double blow, razing two of her front line cities and leaving the road to Babylon wide open...

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French cavalry then rode into Ur and seized the city, they would have torched the city were it not for the presence of the legendary inventor Leonardo.

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And finally the French Cavalry charged to Babylon, the Cultural Centre of the World. It was Paris on speed, it was where things happened first. Of course there would be few places in the world more French once d'Tupace was through with it.

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d'Tupace's generals gave their orders and the Cavalry divided as ordered.

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d'Tupace had won, Ashur remained in Babylonian hands but d'Tupace wanted Babylon to remain alive in order to slow the tech rate. So she made peace taking from Hamurabit everything that he still owned.

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Of course it didn't do Hami any good

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So much for slowing the tech rate!

d'Tupace began a new period of consolidation. Electricity was common throughout France yet existed nowhere else in the world. d'Tupace decided to bestow this great convenience to lesser peoples of the world. Starting with Germany.

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Of course Germany never were very gracious. Almost immediately after these trades were completed foolish baldy, the silly bugger signed his own death warrant.

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Oh dear Bismarck, that was not the cleverest thing to do. Why? Because you will have to answer to d'Tupace! :mad:

This won't make things any easier for you.

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Whereas this will help d'Tupace

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and her allies

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Just to show everyone what Bismarck has gotten into here are two pictures, one showing the current scores and demographics, the other showing the glorious empire of d'Tupace!

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Is it even worthwhile to have Russia involved in this war? From what I can tell from the minimap, it seems like they will just add three free cities to Germany, who will only get stronger as a result.

I didnt bring them in, Germany sneak attacked me which activated my MPP with Iroquois who have a MPP with Russia. I assume that the german cavalry, who came from Iroquois territory, had a ROP with Iroquois and when the Iroquois got brought in the German Cavalry attacked the Iroquois, and already being in their territory they activated Russia's MPP with the Iroquois. This is the first unplanned war since the Aztecs sneak attacked me with a Jag so long ago. And I could see that coming as it didnt have enough mp to attack in the turn it reached my territory.

Great update!
Do you sign MPP's often? It will just bring world wars... Are they good for anything?

I hate it when that happens

:sniper: http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/5574/4cavalrystack3us.jpg :wow:

Why, that's an awesome attack force. :wow: That was his stack, dude.

:hammer: them Germans!

Nice little veteran wariror you have there guarding size 15 Marseiles

Don't you think he would have retired by now? :lol:

Well, go kill Germany! That will just about win the thing for you.

and why did you burn Shakespears?

@fascistrepublic - Germany won't win it for me as I'm going for conquest. My plan is to capture key cities, raze the rest then turn on the Iroquois and we'll see what happens then.

and why did you burn Shakespears?

Why wouldn't you? Its not good for anything. Its no.1 on my list of 'wonders no1 in their right mind would ever build'

Yeah, I guess Iroquios are next then?

Woah! Slow down cowboy! I havent even dealt with Germany yet!

Why wouldn't you? Its not good for anything. Its no.1 on my list of 'wonders no1 in their right mind would ever build'

Braging rights of cource! Eh, it was your decision.

Kill them Germans!:)

d'Tupace now set out to begin her last great campaign. She had with her an infallible plan, the greatest brain in France and of course, a bucketload of cavalry.

First things first she had to finish off the last of her vital infrastructure. First up was Theory of Evolution

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The elite cavalry and veterans from the Babylonian war would lead the attack on the Western borders of Germany from the Iroquois lands.

The French commanders detailed this attack order for the troops to follow.

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The first battle was at Ulundi and was a resounding success for the French cavalry. d'Tupace's intructions were that these cities were to be held, then rush a rifleman followed by a temple, another rifle then walls. These lands needed to be protected.

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The same instructions were given at Isandhlwana

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and Smolensk.

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Of course by the time her lads had reach Smolensk the Iroquois had messed up the battle plans by capturing one of the cities. Naughty, naughty Iroquois!

Running at minsci d'Tupace had the cash to rush factories and hospitals in all major cities.

Then the big news came through

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d'Tupace's Mfg. Goods nearly doubled. This increase in production meant that the last of the crucial infrastructure was in place and d'Tupace did something her cousin plain forgot to do.

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The effect was remarkable, d'Tupace now had a dozen cities pumping out a cavalry every turn, with that she felt supremely confident in this war now.
Not that she was lacking in it earlier.

The first battle under Mobilization resulted in this

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It took close to 5500 years to get just 2 leaders. d'Tupace was not impressed. de'Gaulle formed a cavalry army.
The victory was crucial in seizing Kiev.

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With the bulk of d'Tupace's forces concentrating on the German front she decided to send an elite strike force of 11 cavalry and 1 infantry, on 3 galleons, into the very heart of Germany.
There they attacked and seized, and subsequently held, Berlin.

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:clap:
Excelent!

d'Tupace now felt supremely confident in her power, so confident that she felt able to take on the world... with only the might Russia to back her!

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That was a big mistake Hiawatha!

d'Tupace began this new campaign by seizing instantly reachable Iroquois cities.

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d'Tupace now had to be wary of the Domination limit so she sent the orders to her generals...

'All Cities are to be Razed unless otherwise noted.'

Yakutsk was unlucky first.

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And the ancient Iroquois city of Grand River could not be saved by the Sistine Chappel. d'Tupace cared not for Temples or Cathderals when she had luxs and luxury sliders! The awe-inspiring cathederal, and everything around it, was destroyed.

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To celebrate d'Tupace completed her Heroic Epic in Paris

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and Battlefield Medicine in Marseilles, thus giving her a complete set of small wonders aside from Pentagon, Military Academy, Apollo Program and Intelligence Agency... wait a minute.. what small wonders has she actually got!?

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d'Tupace also gave the orders for all German cities near Berlin to be destroyed, she didn't want Berlin coming under any cultural pressure.

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Stuttgart to the North was also destroyed, not because of its effect on Berlin. d'Tupace had found she just didn't like these Germans!

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Back in Iroquoisland the French artillery stack of 40 had reached near enough to Salamanca to open fire and after suffering a withering barrage of artillery fire the city cracked open like an eggshell and the French Cavalry had no problems seizing the city. d'Tupace kept it as he was quite keen on this Adam Smith fellow...

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The troops then headed West to Allgheny where another powerful artillery barrage levelled the city, making its destruction a mere formality.

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Seems like a quick wrap-up to this game is already in the works...

:goodjob:

Size 1 on Salamanca and Smith's Trading company. :rotfl:

d'Tupace had the world by the throat. She no longer believed defeat was even possible. She stood proudly and defiantly against the last major powers of the world and she declared fiercely
'We are France! We are the Children of Tupac the almighty! And we shall rule this world alone!'

The proclomation was made, the die was cast as it were. Conquest it would be.

d'Tupace started her continuing advances in Germany by attacking Frankfurt, a large German city, from the military base in Berlin. Travelling along the rails her troops reached the city in a single turn and the two rifles defending the city were no match for d'Tupace's seemingly unstoppable cavalry.

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d'Tupace positioned troops strategically in Iroquoisland. The next turn would be huge from her.

She watched the pitiful counter attacks from the Germans and Iroquois and then with glee she began her next turn. The cavalry divisions being trained back home (roughly 20 a turn) had reached the front by travelling along the railways constructed by the slaves from the destroyed cities. They were split into 7 groups of 15 cavalry, although without Artillery support. And the attacks took place at Centralia...

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St. Regis (an odd name for an Iroquois city)...

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Oil Springs...

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Niagra Falls...

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Kish (an old Babylonian city)...

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and Tonwanda

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All of those cities fell in a single turn. d'Tupace knew the Iroquois were finished. It was now just a case of cleaning up the mess.

Back in Germany the cavalry attacked and destroyed Leipzig, finally freeing Berlin from cultural pressure.

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d'Tupace was delighted with that turn. She smiled, she knew the next turn would be another profitable one.

And indeed it was. The cleanup began well, with only the uninjured cavalry to work with (approximately 30 cavalry were last last turn), Mauch Chunk fell without a hitch.

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Hlobane's defences vanished without a trace.

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And the defences at Intombe? The French cavalry walked straight through them, which is a shame because to stop that sort of thing is precisely why the defences were there in the first place.

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d'Tupace knew there was not much to do now. But the finale would have to wait until she returned from cricket, an odd game with no connection to France. Still d'Tupace was a big fan of the game, and quite a talented opening Bowler, even if she did say so herself.

World Map at end of Update.

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d'Tupace was looking to wrap things up quickly. She had more cavalry then she knew what to do with. She had more cavalry than shoes, handbags and clothes combined! So she didn't care whether or not one incy cavalry died and thus was perfectly happy to send every cavalry into battle every turn, knowing full well that it would simply be replaced the next turn by a newer, fresher cavalry. The Iroquois were as good as dead and Germany had nothing left to throw either. Moving out of Berlin two dozen cavalry attacked the city of Cologne. There were no survivors.

German survivors that is.

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Now d'Tupace's men up in Iroquoisland had a job to finish and they did it with panache.

Bapedi was the first to go, downed in a sea of horses and blackpowder.

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Then Mpondo... poor guys, never had a chance.

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Then Zimbabwae. Did you know that the Zulu never built a single wonder? Thats quite unusual for a deity AI.

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/1374/4zimbabwae8hl.jpg

Ngome was a nothing city even before the French got there. After the French had been there it was actually nothing.

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If Hiawatha had harboured ambitions of achieving something with this tiny town a million miles from anything he was sadly mistaken. d'Tupace wouldnt even countenance its existence.

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And finally to Cattaraugus where the Iroquois were finally, irrevocably... dealt with.

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Back to Germany now where the might cavalry were also rushing through cities like there was no tomorrow.

Goodbye Hamburg,

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Sevestopol

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and Sverdlovsk in a single turn.

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d'Tupace was not impressed by his opponenets so decided to take on Russia too.

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Like they would be able to do anything!

d'Tupace decided to deal with pesky 'mother' Russia first.

Moscow d'Tupace decided to keep. Those big pointy granaries were something she had wanted for Millenia and although it was too late to make use of them, she wanted to have them anyway.

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3781/13moscow7rz.jpg

Tblisi was protected by SPEARMEN! Spearmen, of all things! d'Tupace laughed so hard she felt sick. Ugly Cathy thought that SPEARMEN could stop d'Tupace? She was a very stupid woman. And d'Tupace showed her so.

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/318/14tblisi5ye.jpg

St.Petersburg (a German sounding name if you ask d'Tupace) was also destroyed.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3826/15st8dx.jpg

And d'Tupace thought she was done with Russia... but no! They were still around, but where. Oh. Aha I see, that tiny town of Minsk, well thats no problem.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8080/16minsk4ol.jpg

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4314/17deadrussia1ur.jpg

'Ok baldy, its just you and me now...' thought d'Tupace.

You rebuilt Munich ay... well like father city-like son city.

Bubye

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/9311/18munich5dw.jpg


Nuremberg? There won't be any war crimes tribunals in this world. d'Tupace does what d'Tupace feels like!

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/2130/19nuremberg3lw.jpg

And now to cut Germany onto a small little peninsula. Once Konigsberg is gone that will be all they have. Oh look. Its gone!

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/3782/20konigsberg1nl.jpg

Heidelburg was the new capital. It was also a new pile of ashes.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6471/21heidelburg9hn.jpg

On to Bonn! Alas for Germany! Baldy really is no match for the superior wits of Joan d'Tupace! Bonn became a bonn-fire

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9104/22bonn2tr.jpg

Hannover was the next target, it was also the home of the brilliant scientist Issac Newton. He had to die. Shame, he was a smart kid but he threw his lot in with the wrong people.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3904/23hannover6mx.jpg

And finally to Salzburg. The city was razed and...

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/2020/24salzburg0jl.jpg








d'Tupace ran out of picture space...

... so d'Tupace had to make a new post.

This is what happened once Salzburg was destroyed.

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/6893/25deadgerm1ij.jpg

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/7014/26victory1nn.jpg

d'Tupace smiled.

She had a look at the Demographics,

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6461/27demos8ma.jpg

I was top in Mfg. Goods, GNP and Productivity from about the beginning of the 2nd Babylonian war and as I say, once you are top in those you will not lose militarily. Period.

Aha! Tupacius hadn't been first in everything had he! But she was dissapointed to see the score.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1185/28score9us.jpg

My score just rose and rose throughout the game as I was almost always warring against someone.

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/6972/29power4ff.jpg

and the same can be seen in the powergraph as well

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/5840/30culture4vl.jpg

This was actually one of my lowest culture scores ever! A mere 4000-odd culture at the end

She had been pipped by Tupacius in score. However her mood lifted slightly when she was proclaimed d'Tupace the Magnificent! (ok d'Arc but Arc is really Frenche for Tupace... honest)

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/5809/31themagnificent6wq.jpg


So d'Tupace had to wonder. What next for a member of the Tupac family? What was the next challenge for them to take on?

That my friends, is up to you...

Well done! And wow, 4000 culture on a map this big is nuts.

I'll be looking forward to your next story, whether you play Tupacgawa, Tupacdora, or Montupacma :)

So d'Tupace had to wonder. What next for a member of the Tupac family? What was the next challenge for them to take on?

That my friends, is up to you...

Of course by that I mean, tell me what challenge you would like to see me undertake and if its reasonable (i'm not doing a OCC DAW Pangea Space Race with a bad start, for example) and I'll have the time (a huge map might not be an option) then I'll have a crack at it!

Some suggestions are

A PhoenixRising Game.
A DAW
Some other crazy variant (so long as its not too crazy ;))

So if you've got a bit of a challenge you want to see the Tupac family take on then post in this thread or PM me. If enough people take an interest in seeing me tackle a big challenge then I'll just have to have a crack at it :)

@Sima - Nice work with the names! :lol: I'll have to remember to use them if I end up with the relative civ.

Tupacmesh, Tupacagawa

How about a variant I've been pondering for a while: Supreme Nationalists. This is for the ultimately arrogant, dominating, aggressive civ.

Pretty similar to defiant:

1. No foreigners are tolerated within your borders. They must be told to leave as soon as they're spotted. Repeat until the offenders go or declare.

2. No per turn trade agreements or treaties. Workers and techs may be purchased for straight cash, but that's it. No alliances or gpt deals.

3. Peace treaties are allowed, but only if the other side is giving more than you are.

4. No giving in to extortion. Ever. All such demands must be refused.

5. All conquered cities are razed. No exceptions. They are inferior.

And here's the kicker:

5. Your civ is too proud to let its own citizens work. No workers may be built after the first foreign slave is taken. As soon as you start taking foreign slaves, you must rejoin any existing native workers back into your cities on a 2:1 basis (i.e. for every two slaves you take, you return 1 native worker to being a citizen). Soon the only labor in your empire will be slave labor.

Sound like a worthy challange for the Tupac dynasty? I suspect that this would mean changing up a lot of strategies that have worked well for you in the past. Could be interesting.

Tupaxander- Greek AWE or AWD
Tupacibeth- English Sapce on Diety?!? :crazyeye:

How about a variant I've been pondering for a while: Supreme Nationalists. This is for the ultimately arrogant, dominating, aggressive civ.

Pretty similar to defiant:

1. No foreigners are tolerated within your borders. They must be told to leave as soon as they're spotted. Repeat until the offenders go or declare.

2. No per turn trade agreements or treaties. Workers and techs may be purchased for straight cash, but that's it. No alliances or gpt deals.

3. Peace treaties are allowed, but only if the other side is giving more than you are.

4. No giving in to extortion. Ever. All such demands must be refused.

5. All conquered cities are razed. No exceptions. They are inferior.

And here's the kicker:

5. Your civ is too proud to let its own citizens work. No workers may be built after the first foreign slave is taken. As soon as you start taking foreign slaves, you must rejoin any existing native workers back into your cities on a 2:1 basis (i.e. for every two slaves you take, you return 1 native worker to being a citizen). Soon the only labor in your empire will be slave labor.

Sound like a worthy challange for the Tupac dynasty? I suspect that this would mean changing up a lot of strategies that have worked well for you in the past. Could be interesting.
That looks too hard... for anybody.:crazyeye:

That looks too hard... for anybody.:crazyeye:

Too hard for deity, I'm pretty sure. Too hard for emperor? Not when a member of the mighty Tupac clan is in charge. :D Besides, tupaclives said he wanted a challenge. :mischief:

Too hard isnt a problem. Too easy is.

Too hard isnt a problem. Too easy is.
Sohard isn't a problem when you're down to 1 size on city with tanks surrounding your garrisoned spearmen?:rolleyes:

Too hard isnt a problem. Too easy is.

I usually make my variants easy enough that I can write an interesting story about it. Sending mountains of tanks and cavalry into enemy territory as soon as possible just doesn't quite cut it for me...

Good things come in threes!:goodjob:.Do then next one on a cultural civ, since you tend to go for conquest, and that will make it a chanlenge. Babalon and India come to my mind.

Good things come in threes!:goodjob:.Do then next one on a cultural civ, since you tend to go for conquest, and that will make it a chanlenge. Babalon and India come to my mind.
I thought it was bad things come in threes. :lol:
When do you plan to start, Tupac?

How about a variant I've been pondering for a while: Supreme Nationalists. This is for the ultimately arrogant, dominating, aggressive civ.

Pretty similar to defiant:

1. No foreigners are tolerated within your borders. They must be told to leave as soon as they're spotted. Repeat until the offenders go or declare.

2. No per turn trade agreements or treaties. Workers and techs may be purchased for straight cash, but that's it. No alliances or gpt deals.

3. Peace treaties are allowed, but only if the other side is giving more than you are.

4. No giving in to extortion. Ever. All such demands must be refused.

5. All conquered cities are razed. No exceptions. They are inferior.

And here's the kicker:

5. Your civ is too proud to let its own citizens work. No workers may be built after the first foreign slave is taken. As soon as you start taking foreign slaves, you must rejoin any existing native workers back into your cities on a 2:1 basis (i.e. for every two slaves you take, you return 1 native worker to being a citizen). Soon the only labor in your empire will be slave labor.

Sound like a worthy challange for the Tupac dynasty? I suspect that this would mean changing up a lot of strategies that have worked well for you in the past. Could be interesting.

Hot diggity! That sounds like one hell of a challenge! I've played with the two number 5's uv listed (;)) before and wasn't too hard, this game also taught me to learn to live without bach's or smiths my two favourite MA wonders by a mile.
The rest of it is pretty much just straight defiant, which I must admit I havent played before. You want to see defiant taken to extremes check out Goz8 - Silence is Golden. :eek:

A question about rule 2 though. Would I be permitted to sell techs for gpt? Or only straight cash? Also am I allowed to trade luxuries straight or is that a 'gpt deal'. What I'm asking is if it is purely a turn by turn thing (so wouldnt lose your rep if the deal was broken) am I allowed to trade? Also I think it would be reasonable to make them pay gpt for techs or the like (after all nationalists like having people constantly paying u money!)

That looks too hard... for anybody.:crazyeye:

That sounds like a wager to me ;)

Too hard for deity, I'm pretty sure.

Too hard for deity? You sure know how to make me want to give something a go! If someone says it cant be done then I'm going to try and prove them wrong. We'll see what I can do ay.

Not when a member of the mighty Tupac clan is in charge:D

Good to see people have faith though :lol:

Good things come in threes! :goodjob: Do then next one on a cultural civ, since you tend to go for conquest, and that will make it a chanlenge. Babalon and India come to my mind.

A cultural civ ay? That sounds like fun, might just have to give it a whirl... :mischief:

I've got cricket training now but when I get home I'll see about starting up a new game.

Deity - Supreme Nationalists - Cultural Civ

Lets see how much I can handle :)

The new story can be found here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=3806790). I've made a few changes to SimpleMonkey's original manifesto. Its now even harder, although I made the rules on gpt slightly easier.

The basic settings

Size: Standard
Landmass: Pangea (looks a pretty average start too... :crazyeye:)
70% Water
Random Temp, Climate and age
7 Random opponenents
Random Barbs
Deity, as the Iroquois.