View Full Version : The Ottomans' Long and Winding Road to victory


earendil
May 19, 2003, 12:22 AM
Istanbul was founded in 400 B. C., in a region rivh with grass and cattle, and it have a small region of jungle to the north. It quickly expanded and its empire soon rivaled the Greeks' to the south. The Ottoman Empire existed on the Peloponese continent, and have a small isthmus named Corinthia connecting it to the other major continet, Attica, which contained the Russians, Babylonians, Aztecs, and Indians. Attica was much larger than Pelonesia. Fortunately the Ottomans gained control over Corinthia, and they settled a city in that location, before the Russian hordes could expand there.
The Age of Antiquity (Ancient Age) passed with relatively little bloodshed. During this era, the Ottomans excelled in the arts of philosophy, literature, and science, and to honor their great aceivements Sultan Osman erected a Great Library from which all other nations would send in their ideas and concepts writtten on Papyrus scrolls and the new book-style type of records. This helped the Ottomans a great deal in learning the many different kinds of sciences and arts, many of which came from Russia and Greece, who were rivalling the Ottomans in their quest of learning the true divinity of the universe. To the south the Greeks made a massive acheivement in their city of Athens. They called these strucures the Pyramids.
When the Age of Antiquity passed and local lords began demanding more power, the Age of Feudalism (Early Middle Age) had begun. No longer was peace guaranteed. The Ottomans, desiring more lands for themselves to govern, decided to attack Greece. The warlords reached an agreement that in order for the Ottomans to retain their economic and scientific dominance, they needed to capture the great tourist attractions of the Pyramids at Athens and the fair city of Thermopylae, both of which laid on the border of the Turks and the Greeks. The invasion force consisted of knights that came from the four houses of the great feudal lords, whose names were Calchas, Patroclus, Ajax and Chios (4 knight units basically). The strong city of Istanbul which was still under the complete control of the Maian Osman, supplied one company of longbowmen who were known as descendants from Paris, the one skilled with the bow. There were also 3 full companies of infantry (med infantry), who were of the three houses of the city of Lacedaemon, and who were the descendants of Atreus, Pelops, and Pheidippides, who were the sons of Achilles, the great warrior who lead the Turks to victory over the great barbarian hordes who invaded Turkey in Ages past, and founded Lacedaemon.

Sorry but I have to finish this later.

Ancient Grudge
May 19, 2003, 04:08 PM
very good start continue writing make it long as well please :)

earendil
May 19, 2003, 10:40 PM
As the great warriors of the Turks gathered in the rally point next to the border of the Greek city of Athens, 2 more hosts of infantry assembled in the camps. These were both from the populous city of Edreine, which was under the dominion of the faithful lord Patroclus, where a great number of soldiers were trained. The two hosts were from the great houses of Selepus and Peneleos. When the assault was all planned out and the the Turkish camps swelled with ranks of many brave men, the generals gave the order for the invasion. They bothered not to declare war, instead they simply marched their great armies toward the city of Athens, which was defended by the most feared soldier at the time, the hoplite. Now the Greek military advisors did not forsee an invasion by the Turks; they saw them as their freinds. And when reports of a great host burning villages and enjoying the spoils of war, with little opposition, they were frustated. The Turks did not know it but the Greek army was much bigger than they could have imagined. All they wanted was to take Athens and Thermopylae, and they thought that the internal struggles of Greece would leave it in a state of turmoil. So durign this time the Greeks' enjoyed their golden age stemming from pride over a small victory for them in the city of Athens. But the Turks simulataneously enjoyed their golden age, because the great musician Bach erected his large cathedral, and many people from far and wide came to hear his music.
But the Greeks did not intend to use their great armies on a long campaign with the Turks; they sought to destroy the Russians. So the Turks took Athens and Thermopylae with little ressistance, and Osman chose a hundred wives and a thousand pieces of gold from the cities to be taken to his palace, and he also took with him thirty concubines. When peace was made, and Athens and Thermopylae was laid under ottoman dominion, the Turkish peasentry gave reports of a massive Greek army of knights riding through their lands.
Now Osman was worried, for the knights appeared to be headed for the capital of Istanbul, and every time Osman told the Greeks to leave they would not. The demands of the Turks were slowly angering the Greek generals, so the Turks stepped down diplomatically. Osman hastily paid his peasants large sums of gold for them to join the ranks of pikemen, who would defend the city if it became under seige. But if the Greeks had decided to attack at that time, the Turks would have been entirely wiped out. Thankfully they were headed to the colony-city of Russia (forget the name), which the Russians had settled with their ships before the Turks could expand to that region of the Peloponese peninsula. They burnt the city to the ground, killed the males, sent the women back through the Turkish lands to become the Greeks' prizes, and allowed the young children to flee to the Turkish lands as refugees, and Ajax, the Turkish lord who ruled the area of the northern Peloponese, did a terrible thing. He enslaved all of the children, and he sold them to Aztec and Russian merchants hoping to make a profit. The boys who were too old of age he locked up in hs dungeons without food or water, and the guards made bets on who could live the longest. Ajax did this because he feared that the males wold want revenge on him when they were of age, for parting them with their borthers and sisters. This lead to a great hatred of Ajax by Osman and all of the rest of the Turkish lords, and it eventually led to the overthrowing of Ajax.
Well as the Russians received news of the atrocity done to them by the Greeks, they assembled their mighty army made up of their unique type of soldier, the Cossack. The Cossacks have mighty steeds underneath them, and were armed with the musket. The musket used a substance called gunpoweder that was made from saltpeter, and the Ottomans had just learned knowledge of the musket, and they trained many musketmen to defend their city in times of war. The Russians, however, had known of the musket for a muvh longer time,and they had fallen ahead in science and the cultural arts. Turkey was throughout considered a very conservative nation throughout the feudal age, as they refused to switch from their old political ways of the despotism. Thus they had lost their seat of power that they owned in the age of antiquity, but Osman was waiting until his planners had laid the plans for the new government form known as democracy. If successful, Osman's revolution would completey eliminate all of the old feudal systems, but Osman made sure that he would still have the ultimate authority. He had his long anticipated revolution when the Greek-Russian wars began.
Well as the Greeks and the Turks were now enemies, Osman let the Russians through the isthmus of Corinthia, so that the Russian Cossacks would destroy the Greeks utterly with their old knights. Well about 30-40 brigades of Cossacks and 10 brigades of musketmen constituted the invasion of Greece. This was overwhelming for the Greeks. The Russians also made a seires of alliances with other nations, and Arabia, which was from a newly dicovered nation that owned its own landmass to themselves. They were a backwards people, but they soon caugth up with the rest of the world in terms of science. The French was another nation that owned its own landmass, and indeed thiers was about as big as the Arabs.
From the Arabs the Turks learnt of Islam, and they chose to adopt that religion. But the French had no strong religion of their own so they chose to adopt the Russians' religion of christianity, and they formed their own church distinct and seperate from the Russian orthodox church; they formed the Catholic Church.
Well as the invasion of Greece passed rather quickly, the Russians were able to take all of their cities except for two, which were Sparta and Argos, which was taken from the seafaring Arabs. The Greeks eventually were able to sign a peace treaty with the Russians by the time they had one remaining stronghold, while the Arabs were at war with them far into the industrial age, when they were destroyed.

Thats the end of the first war in my story. It becomes much more interesting later on, when warfare becomes a much more common thing.