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Apr 15, 2004, 01:47 PM
Last weeks, I have read a lot of stories here in this forum. Last monday i decided to write own on my own. I hope you like it, comments are welcome ofcourse! happy reading...
Characteristics:
Map : standard - continents 70% water - no barbarians (hate them) - temperate - normal - 4 billion years old
Options: diplomatic victory disabled - no culturally linked starting position
Level : regent, 7 AI
This week i've played GOTM30, thought the conquest class would be quite my level, since a few weeks i've played at Monarch, winning diplomatic most of the times. With that GOTM however, I've lost my faith. Spain was a backward civ and could nothing do... Let's try it agian at regent level...with Egypt...
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Cleopatra's Piece of Gambling
After years of arguments a woman was chosen to lead the Egyptian people. She was seen as a kind of a compromise between the several Egyptian clans. Each of them thought she would be easy to manipulate. History has shown them to be wrong...
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/TVG_01_copy.jpg
The first thing Cleopatra did, was already a nice piece of gambling: instead of walking around the globe, she ordered to build a city near a great lake and a jungle. "The jungle," she said, "would give us everything we need through the year. We will build a city here, named after the my son, Thebes." Ofcourse, a lot of Egyptian clan chiefs had another point of view, but Cleopatra did not give way to them.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/TVG_04.jpg
In the years after the settlement, everything went quite well for Cleopatra. The Jungle of Mother Nature gave a flood of fruits and at the beaches of the Holy Sea several kinds of fish were regularly washed ashore. In spite of a booming economy, thanks to the neighbourhood of incense and gold at the Capital Hills, Cleopatra had difficulties to keep the budget out of the red...
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/TVG_05.jpg
After sending out a team of exploration warriors, who found a second source of incense, a lot of clan chiefs claimed for a second city, more at the east of the Jungle of Mother Nature and next to the discovered sources of incense. This second city was meant as a place were the elite of the Egyptian people could gather. In order to silence the clan chiefs politically Cleopatra gave them their city. Cleopatra herself, however, stayed at the city of Thebes.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/TVG_06.jpg
At 2750, Memphis is finally founded. The most of the chiefs moved their house to Memphis, even if they had to walk fifteen days and nights. Cleopatra was thinking of building a road through the Jungle of Mother Nature to Memphis. That way she was able to control a little bit the chiefs. Meanwhile the exploration warriors explored another forest, which they spontanuous named the Cleopatrian Forest. They decided to continue their exploration mission to the north...
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/TVG_07_copy.jpg
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/TVG_08.jpg
The plans of exploration had changed. A few years after the exploration of the Cleopatrian Forest, the exploration warrios saw a huge desert, which they called the Desert of Rivall. They changed the direction to the west to take a jump in the lakes of Mirala...
Characteristics:
Map : standard - continents 70% water - no barbarians (hate them) - temperate - normal - 4 billion years old
Options: diplomatic victory disabled - no culturally linked starting position
Level : regent, 7 AI
This week i've played GOTM30, thought the conquest class would be quite my level, since a few weeks i've played at Monarch, winning diplomatic most of the times. With that GOTM however, I've lost my faith. Spain was a backward civ and could nothing do... Let's try it agian at regent level...with Egypt...
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Cleopatra's Piece of Gambling
After years of arguments a woman was chosen to lead the Egyptian people. She was seen as a kind of a compromise between the several Egyptian clans. Each of them thought she would be easy to manipulate. History has shown them to be wrong...
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/TVG_01_copy.jpg
The first thing Cleopatra did, was already a nice piece of gambling: instead of walking around the globe, she ordered to build a city near a great lake and a jungle. "The jungle," she said, "would give us everything we need through the year. We will build a city here, named after the my son, Thebes." Ofcourse, a lot of Egyptian clan chiefs had another point of view, but Cleopatra did not give way to them.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/TVG_04.jpg
In the years after the settlement, everything went quite well for Cleopatra. The Jungle of Mother Nature gave a flood of fruits and at the beaches of the Holy Sea several kinds of fish were regularly washed ashore. In spite of a booming economy, thanks to the neighbourhood of incense and gold at the Capital Hills, Cleopatra had difficulties to keep the budget out of the red...
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/TVG_05.jpg
After sending out a team of exploration warriors, who found a second source of incense, a lot of clan chiefs claimed for a second city, more at the east of the Jungle of Mother Nature and next to the discovered sources of incense. This second city was meant as a place were the elite of the Egyptian people could gather. In order to silence the clan chiefs politically Cleopatra gave them their city. Cleopatra herself, however, stayed at the city of Thebes.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/TVG_06.jpg
At 2750, Memphis is finally founded. The most of the chiefs moved their house to Memphis, even if they had to walk fifteen days and nights. Cleopatra was thinking of building a road through the Jungle of Mother Nature to Memphis. That way she was able to control a little bit the chiefs. Meanwhile the exploration warriors explored another forest, which they spontanuous named the Cleopatrian Forest. They decided to continue their exploration mission to the north...
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/TVG_07_copy.jpg
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/TVG_08.jpg
The plans of exploration had changed. A few years after the exploration of the Cleopatrian Forest, the exploration warrios saw a huge desert, which they called the Desert of Rivall. They changed the direction to the west to take a jump in the lakes of Mirala...