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Light-Giver
Dec 21, 2007, 11:50 PM
NOTE: No pictures till tomarrow when i get on my dads acount to upload them to here. I forgot to save them to the shared documents folder.
This map is a special map from the PTW expanshion of my civ III complete edition (thats both PTW and Conquest)

This story starts out in the middle of the story of the Greeks rise to power and will continue to follow the greeks through modernization and conquest. This also will reveal the forbiden past to the people and add a nice twist to the story.

Basic layout 6 islands 3 on each side (but the world raps around the X-axies so were all neighbors)which 1 civ per island responds, this land is a mix of desert, hills, grassland, and plains with no natral resources. A chain of mountains comeing out of the ocean looping around in a wide rectangle like shape with no land to settle on, there are a few open spots for ships to get in, a loop of small island inside the 1st mountain chain they have just tundra and some forests in it, another chain of islands inside the first chain, and finaly the meat a nice huge contenent connected by small 1 square wide by 3-5 squares long land briges conecting this island to the inner mountian chain. This land has all of the resouces, mountians, plains, fertile grassland, jungles, and some desert. Without some type of clame to this land you will never get luxury or natural resources.
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I played with diplomatic, cultural, space race, conquest, and victory point scoring victorys.

The Pre-Story (to tell ya where were starting)

The year is 1745 AD anarchy has bestowed the greek civilization for what seams like 20 years. . The old Goverment of king Alexandrier's bloodline has perished and the new 1 party Democracy has formed. Greeks have never been all to good at keeping libraries of their past, shure the capital has the Great Library the greatest achivement of the anchent Greeks along with the colonization of most of the supercontenant, but the supercontenant has only recently been keeping records, the earlyest are just 100 years old, the oldest is just 320 years old. Whatever history there was ,was destroyed or lost during this time of crisise of the Greeks. The goverment burnt all the books of our past and now have the Great Library under military controle. They have something to hide from the common man but it isnt a major consearn for most fokes who are liveing in the present, not the past or future.

Constant wars are common for the Greeks, the only time when they were not in a war was in the latter half of the Anarchy period lasting for only 10 years. This is 1 part of the Greek history people know because it hard to hide the scars of war. The country is going under a period of modernization, The eastern half of the contenent is now building factories, coal plants, colusiums, cathedrals, and alot of other stuff, at the same time it is pumping out the defence of the contenent and the home island, riflemen. The western part of the contenent is suffering from the effects of recent conquest and corruption, it is trying to modernize a bit and add some culture by building temples and libraries, the goveners are trying to limit corruption too by hurrying the production of corthouses and are trying to increase the population by commisioning modern day aqueducts. The Home island is trying to modernize too, it has ben for a long time its the center of the nation with its many wonders but is slowing down in importance and wealth compared to the booming east.
A recent war has created the opertunity yet again for the army of crusaders to espand the Greek way of life to German and Carthenian islands in the north, They cannot toch the home island because their heavely defended but a lesser island has no mach of withstanding a seige for no more than 2 years before it falls. This army is obsolite but is faceing inferier and techlogicly chalanged civilizations which have no iorn or saltpeter. This army is also the only army and its commander has a major impact on the goverments decisions.
There is also a uneasy alliance with the Chinese aganced the wiked Carthenians and Germans, even though there is no writen evidence of a past war with china some Greek citys on the farmost eastern parts of the country have some Chinese blood in them when there are no new imergrants from China, Also there is a fealing of distrust in the goverment who is fuleing propaganda that is anti-Chinese but has even more Anti-Carthenian and German propoganda as well.

Our story starts of following Old Charley from the Greek city of troy and his family's experiance under the rule of the Demorcradic dictatorship of the crusaiders.

Duble note: I will iorn this out tomarrow its 1:00 Am here so im gona hit the sack, sory for any spelling errors i will fix that later in a edit.

Light-Giver
Dec 22, 2007, 10:01 PM
And now for the story, This is in a form of a family diary...


Entery #1
December 1745:

Hellow anyone who reads this later on in the future, my name is Charley Gegens from Troy, this jornal is about my military servace in the Greek army as a Hoplite garding the city state of Troy. Life is extreamly borring, all we do is goof around and mabe terrorize a few bumbs for money. There is no wars being fought and no money being spent on the military. There are new inventions being made but no money to equiped us with them.

All the money is being sent to city improvements in corrupt citys wich will never change their ways. Dont i have a say in where our all wonderfull Democracy in where we all decide for the goverment, not the other way around. Oh well i guess things never change. I truly dont know why im even wrighting this Jornal.
I feal extreamly safe in this battlelion of the army because we are told to defend a city in the middle of Arginia from invaders. Its a wast but dont tell them that, the goverments is paranoid about attack from foreign nations, ever sence the cature of Sparta and some other city back in the "Main" islands long ago its ben a tradition of the military to wast time defending every city.
What do they expect us to do if were attacked, sit in a alleyway and jump out of a corner and stab a fully armored infentry (refering to medieval infentry), our spears may not even pearce their armor when were lightly armored with good old fashion bronze. Not to many nations are wealthy enough to afford iorn so insted were most likely to be shot by a longbowman's arrows, lucky us. But its unlikely we would be defeated in the front and have to defend this city.
Im gona store this jornal for later use under my bed. Ill wright in it if there is something good to wright about...

Entery #2
October 1800:
Boy things have changed during my grandfarthers last entery. My name is William Gegens, or just Will for short. Its ben 55 years and technology still hasn't changed for the military, Carthrage has declared war on us on some border dispute and draged Japan into war agansed us too.
About the change part, there has been some modernization in this city, the iornworks was build 2 years after my grandpa's entery and sence then we had a factory, a coal plant built to supply power to the city, Also scientist made a new theiry of Evolution, they spent years trying to convince people of this radical idea and its finaly acepted, but i still think its crazy.
The Army of the Crusaiders isout in action and took over a city wich bairs the Cathenian capitals name, Carthago Nova, a island city after just 2 years of seige and moved on to some other island, this boosted our morial big time. I wish we were equiped with swords or the new rifles but NO we are still stuck with traditional spears that presumibly helped conqure Arginia. The war is young and im not scared in the least.

Entery #3
January 1802

Im scared for my life for the first time, not only have the japanise captured our prized city of Carthago Nova but the Carthenians with a raiding party or longbowmen have captured SPARTA! The goverment is up in arms in this and still is questioning people for who is to blame, The citys there still have no power so a messenger was sent, somewere down the line word for backup for Sparta was lost and no reenforcements were sent (aka i clicked the next turn button too fast). This no upheavel but a fealing of insecurity and the urge to end the war quickly is a growing, what if we are next in this line of citys to fall? For all i know is im going to the local bar tonight to try and drink this off.


Just a entresting thing i saw happen that i took a picture for the next part of the story , i have a army of 15 hp with all crusadiers, and that their so close to defencive power with the 4 hp infentery that if i put some infentry in defence they are on top, but put it out of defence and take away that 5% defencive bonuse the crusader army apears on top, less than a 5% diffrence is between a defence value of 3 with 15 hp and a defence value of 12 with 4 hp.
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Im invading germany with a small stack of just 7 total counting the 3 in the army, a few infentry for defence, a army for offence, and a crusader to make a castle in 3 turns if the going gets rough i dont plan to take a city, if i do thats great, but im planing on cuting a path of destroyed roads straight through the middle of germany.

Quintillus
Dec 23, 2007, 07:06 AM
Nice beginning, but a detailed World Map could be quite helpful. At this point we still have no idea where Troy or Sparta is, though I'm guessing Sparta is on the original island.

It's actually a 25% defensive bonus. The Crusaders have 3 * 15 defense = 45; the Infantry have 10 * 4 = 40, or 50 when fortified. So it is quite a close contest in defense. I'm been known to use Hoplite armies rather than Infantry to defend in the Early Modern age; en masse Hoplites are still quite useful until Mech Infs. Though I wouldn't want to actually be one.

Light-Giver
Dec 24, 2007, 09:32 AM
right the game has ended do to a victory point win. and i will wright the story of him later on but right now its christmas, but first 1 more pic,
o wait i took another 1 over it, i just have print screen so i got 1 shot per time i play, oh well it was a pic of a infentry fighting a longbowmen, o and dont worry i made upgraded his unit before sending him to battle.

darski
Dec 24, 2007, 11:12 AM
http://www.simradar.com/File/2791/FSScreen_Version_1_1.html

You will find this program useful as it lets you take multiple pics with print screen.

And paradise is spelled with an S. If it matters to you