Ok, here's the background of my story. The Spanish and Italians fought a vicious war in the 800s. In the beginning of the war, the Italians deployed multiple soldiers against Spain but the Spanish repelled the attacks. But around 850, the Italians discovered gunpowder. Following this they launched an army of twenty musketman against Spain. The Italian soldiers captured Valencia and Murcia, and then forced Spain to sign a peace treaty giving the Italians all their treasury and most of their income. The Spanish would never forgive Italy for this.
The Italians resumed their status in the world as a neutral nation. A war between Germany to the north and Russia to the south around 1000 gave Italy a chance to sell the secrets of gunpowder, mettugalry (or however you spell it), and military tradition to both sides in exchange for various resources and a ton of money. With this money the Italians invested further in an army, exploration, and science.
Throughout the 11th and 12th centuries, Italy explored the world, discovering the Netherlands, Portugal, France, and England. And Italy kept building up its army and funding massive research.
Then came the year 1200. Scholars all around the Italian Kingdom had agreed, it was that Italy entered a new age of scientific discovery-the Industrial Age. Immediately, Italy researched nationalism. The Italians were craving to discover new units, but first wanted the ability to draft citizens and some other things.
Soon, the Italian monarchy began to want more and more power. They began to ignite a series of new bills to tighten government control of the economy. With ending research on fascism in 1260, a revolution broke out. Peasents, merchants, and minorities supported the monarchy, as the fascists threatened to murder many minority groups, like the Spanish living in Murcia and Valencia. But the military, religious groups, and most of the public all together agreed after a thirty year war that fascism was right.
Now that there was a fascist party in control of the country (and surprisingly the old king supported the fascist party, and became Italy's first fascist premier in 1290) and built its army up more, drafting many citizens, especially in cities near Rome, where the majority group's hub was, and in Sicily, a series of cities east of Germany in the northeastern peninsula on the continent.
In 1330, Germany offered a mutual protection pact with Italy. Most liberals didn't want this, as they thought it would draw Italy into a war. But most liberals were behind bars or six feet under, and the fascist party agreed that Germany's proposal was appropriate.
In 1350, the country gave the idea of fascism to Germany. Germany immediately converted to the new government type. Also, Italy signed a mutual protection pact with Russia. However, Italy only wanted Russia as an ally because it was strong and Italy wanted a second Italic-Spanish War, and needed the help of the Russian Steamroller. From 1350-1400, Italy tried to trade fascism to Russia, but the Russians wanted to stick with communism. Finally in 1400, Russia accepted fascism and surprisingly converted, and Italy declared Germany, Russia, and itself were the "Fascist Three." That same year, Italy declared war on Spain, bringing its allies into war.
Italy seemed fit for a major war and sent many rifleman across the small strait between Italy and Spain and attacked Barcelona. Italian soldiers at Barcelona were repelled back to Murcia and Valencia. Soon enough, it came in the distance that Spanish soldiers were advancing on the two Italian cities. So Italian cannons destroyed all routes to Spain, disbanded all of its workers in the countryside that could've been captured and forced to work for Spain. But Murcia and Valencia were attacked and both taken by 1440, as Italian reinforcements and allied reinforcements were on their way. What will happen next...no seriously even i don't know i'm gonna have to play and find out.

This is my first (well technically second) posting of a story. Feedback is MANDATORY

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Metallurgy ;)

Keep posting, I'll be following don't worry :D

kinda cramped, try more paragraphs

btw I know how unsuccessful story writing feels, I did one on communist Germany, called the Fourth Reich, check it out at own risk and take pointers

Screenshots would be nice too

idk how to do screenshots i would though. and anyway, i'm gonna try to play tonight so i'll post more soon :)

1430 AD
Northwest Italy

The Fascist Three and Spain have been at war thirty years now, although the war had virtually come to a halt. Italy was building up a huge army near Salerno, and ships were ready to transport them for the past thirty years. Now, in 1430, the ships were ready to leave for a major offensive on Valencia.

Duce Benito Mussolini knew that the attack on Valencia would be difficult, after the city fell to Spain thirty years prior it was garrisoned with at least ten of Spain's strongest and most advanced soldiers. Mussolini also knew that after Spain retook Murcia and Valencia, the people of Spain were motivated to fight the war further.

The same year heavy railroad construction occured in Northwest Italy. Of all the five (previously six) Italian provinces, the northwest was one of the least populated. Most urban areas were tiny towns. But the towns were used for military training and research. The railways connected each semi independent city to the rest of the country and after the railways ended there were still roads leading towards Berlin and Moscow, and to Palermo, the capital of a norhteastern province further than Germany.

In 1445, Italian troops landed near Valencia. There were five batallions of riflemen. They were all conscripts, more civilians with coats and guns than soldiers. When the battle outside of Valencia commenced, the Italian soldiers, again, performed very poorly, and were nearly slaughtered. Spanish knights came out of Valencia and from Murcia and Barcelona to butcher the Italian conscripts. To the world's surprise, one batallion of Italian riflemen survived and lead an attack on Valencia, which was sucessful, after all the Spanish soldiers left the city to attack the countryside.

"Duce, we've recieved word our assault on Valencia worked, at great cost. Four batallions, each with 1000 men, were killed. The battle was won and lost at the same time." said General Himmler, a German military expert who was working for the Italians.
"It was more a massacre then a battle..." muttered the foreign advisor Salvatore Colombo. He was always a liberal and was opposed to the war in the first place.
"Gentlemen, even though we've captured Valencia, its citizens do not want to come back to our fascist regime. They are striking. They are revolting. They destroyed the city's courthouse and have left two families* dead. Our soldiers can't hold out forever. We need to get more law enforcers over there." the domestic advisor, Maria Amato said.
"Then recruit one...no, two policeman over there. I want this rebellion over by the time of the next full moon." Mussolini said. And like that, their meeting broke up. All the advisors took the trains to their towns where they lived, mostly down in the southeast near Naples or northeast near Bari. Mussolini and Himmler stayed in Rome though. Mussolini wanted to stop the bloodshed and actually start winning the war.

"The party can't survive unless we win this war. Himmler, I want you to take Murcia back. At all costs. I mean anything you need to do to win, do it. Draft all the men in the country fit for war. I'll increase military funding as far as it can go. As long as we can win, I don't care what you do." Mussolini said.
"It will be done." Himmler replied. They walked their seperate ways down the bustling main street of Rome. Himmler headed toward the Collosses and the Great Lighthouse down in the harbor district, to go to Salerno and redirect the new troops for war, and Mussolini headed past the future sight of Newton's University to the courthouse where he began to propose pointless bills to the "parliament," which actually had no power. The "parliament" was created to make the public think they had freedom. But in reality, Italy was of the most Stalinistic opressed states on earth.

C'mon seriously if you read this reply i wanna know

C'mon I'm Waiting For A Reply

Very well done. I like how you have the history and all that. I've read some books like this and I would say this compares very well. Keep up the good work.

Very good indded. Keep up posting.:goodjob:

Not bad, keep posting.

WOAH!!! 2,200th post! :dance:

Yaaa! Italy. Do you have a mod? I'd love to play Italy in civ. I thought that maybe they weren't included because of Rome being in already.

Keep it up. I liked the dialogue in the last post.

Marsden-u asked if i had a mod and all that stuff because of rome. yeah i don't have a mod but in the beginning i changed rome from italy and named all the cities with their modern names. i wish there was a mod with italy thought it was one of the major european powers and most influential peninsulas of all time :)

When's the next update?

To answer your question, Sashie VII, now is.

1455

News reached Valencia that the Duce put the town under martial law. Two units of brutally trained fascist policeman came to the city on dark boats covered by metal. The townspeople, most running around the town looting and murdering at the time, froze for a moment and then panicked and ran inside their homes. Anyone outside was attacked and beaten by the fascist policemen. The policemen were armed with barbaric clubs and newly invented pistols. And in every unit there were two cannons. Sometimes entire buildings with rebels in it were bombed to the ground, and anyone who survived was 'left in their misory.'

Most of the people who didn't oppose the new martial law were women and children. They stayed inside their homes peering out the windows at the destruction. Some went on the rooftops to watch the onslaught. From their rooftops, to the southwest they could also see two units of knights advancing toward the city.

"Attack!" yelled the people on the roofs frantically. The rioters, while the policemen were distracted, ran away to their homes or to dark allys where they were safe from the police for the time being. The fascist police marched to their assigned post in the center of the town. The army activated and moved south to attack the Spanish knights. Most riflemen went onto the walls of the city and shot at the horses rather than the knights. The actual people on the horses were so heavy with metal that if they fell, their own weight would crush them, or send them off a nearby cliff into the ocean, where they would drown. The city's defenses held up moderately well, until the knights began to retreat. When they retreated, a message from General Himmler was recieved. "Don't let them leave. Follow them to where they're going."

The riflemen gathered in their batallion and subdivisions and ran, not marched but ran along the destroyed road following the veteran knights. It was hard for them to keep up, but it was easy to see where the knights were as the path was along a flat open field. Finally the riflemen purposely slowed down. The knights kept running a few miles ahead and made camp at a fort near Salamanca. That night, the riflemen besieged the fort and shot the knights in their sleep. Even in the dark, it was obviously another massacre in the bloody war.

When Mussolini recieved word of the victory over the Spanish knights, he was in a meeting with parliament, discussing a new law about "railroad taxation." Through Mussolin's mind flashed the words DOESN'T MATTER. When he was in front of the parliament, a man ran up the aisle and slipped him a note. Mussolini opened the note, read it thoroughly, and had a small grin and said to himself softly "Good job Himmler."

Now that's what I call a "Quick Reply" :)

Screenshots still unavailable? :(

1455
Salerno

Despite the vicious war raging on about 500 miles to the east of Salerno's beaches, Himmler was celebrating his awesome leadership when attacking the knights. Mussolini attended the party, and was obviously the center of attention, but Himmler didn't care. The party was actually thrown by Mussolini because Himmler was his friend as well as his top general.

After the party, everyone half-drunk, Himmler rode his horse outside the city to where at least ten batallions of riflemen and two cannons were camped. Barely able to stand up at four in the morning, Himmler adressed the soldiers. His speech was encouraging and gave the Italians faith that victory was their destiny. Arisin from this speech was the term Himmlerism, when a country is so determined to win a war they think it is god's destiny.

The next morning, with Mussolini still in town, a humungous 'We love the duce' day was held. Mussolini was awoken by the sounds of firecrackers around eight at night. He had slept the whole day and was actually mad at first when he heard the noises. But he slapped on a robe and walked to his balcony where he saw people marching with signs saying 'We love Benito' and 'Duce forever.'

The celebrations spread to other cities. From Rome to Nice to Palermo, there were celebrations in honor of the Duce. Himmler could've felt the least bit of jealousy, but didn't. He was too preoccupied with the attack on Murcia that Mussolini demanded. There were not routes open to attack the city, all the roads in the region were now run by the Spanish. Himmler stayed up two days straight trying to figure out a plan but there was no sucess. And finally he collapsed at his desk. His candle blew out the second he fell. And he had missed the greatest celebration in Italy's history.

idk how to get screenshots i'm telling you!

oh and just to let you know i'll probably update once or twice a day sometimes three times if there's a lot. Keep reading the story tho and post feedback/suggestions or wutever.

You know, there's the 'print screenshot' button somewhere on your keyboard..or an acronym at least (mine's "prt sc")..then you just open Paint or something and paste it

oh ok thnx ill du tht

Yea, pictures wouldn't be bad. But again, great story.

Come on post

You know, after such a long time of absence from the forums I thought I'd have loads to catch up on this thread

Post already, we want more :cry:

I think you mean you don't know how to get screenshots?

There is a something on it somewhere on this site.

You can make a screenshot easily - just hit ctrl-alt-printscreen - that takes a screen shot - then you can paste it into paint, crop off the stuff you don't want, and save it.

Uploading I'm not so good at.

ok srry 4 the loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong not being here. civ3 crashed on my computer and i had 2 reinstall the game. but unfortunately with this i lost all my saves :( :( :( :( :( really srry guyz

i am going 2 start a new story tho soon

ok 2nite i'm gonna start posting a new story about the age of discovery. its taken from the scenario age of discovery, but still check it out. i will have screenshots if i can i promise :0

my new story is called france's age...read that post feedback stuff like tht