I have been playing my third game of Civ3 for several days now, on and off (dragging myself kicking and screaming to work:D ) as the Germans (ofcourse!). I am on a huge map, and share a large continent with the English, French and Russians.

Fortunately, there is a choke point, which is held by an elite swordsman on a mountain, water on both sides, that separates the Germans from the other civs, and gives me 1/3 of the land without any interference from their settlers. Until they open a sea route, ofcourse, but I'm slowly eating up all the land area with my cultural borders. Too bad for them!:p

Much to my horror, a barbarian uprising occured near this swordsman, and 15 enemy horsemen began closing on him. The nearest friendly units were 12 squares away through dense jungle, at my three wine colonies, which I wasnt about to leave unguarded anyway. He would stand alone...:eek:

They came in two waves, 6 in the first. Defending from the mountain gave him the advantage, but my expectations were not hopefull. He sustained 3 points of damage (of his 5) fending off the half dozen marauders. The rest closed in like hungry sharks...

The next turn, after regaining 1 hit point, the remaining 9 mounted "goths" attacked one after the other, hurling themselves up the mountain to be cut down by German iron. After the first 4, incredibly, the swordsman still held, with only 1 hit point left! 5 more to go!:hammer:

I thought for sure he was doomed.:cry: :mad:

Unbelievably, with 1 hit point remaining, and the "back door" of the entire German Fatherland at stake, with France, Russia and England watching for their opening, the little bastard fended off and slaughtered 5 horsemen!!! Amazing!!!

I actualy was cheering for him! I had to stand up and raise my fists like an idiot! GO! YEAH! WOO-HOO![dance] It was rather inspiring at the time. :D

The only sad part is he was not rewarded with the creation of a "great leader". However, I have developed a theory that GLs only occur when fighting another civ, never against barbarians. Anyone have experiences to contradict this? I would like to know.

Oh well, for his heroic actions on the mountain, he will be relieved by gunpowder units soon, and be returned to Berlin to fortify for the rest of the game. For sentimental reasons, I will not disband him, no matter how obsolete he becomes. He will just be a cultural icon, a historic guard, like at Buckingham Palace.:D

I salute The Greatest Swordman in Germany.:beer:

I'm moved ;)

Isn't it cool having units like that? I remember playing Civ 2 one dark and stormy night :D and having a lone elephant that just ran wild in the fields of the Persians rocking veteran phalanx all over the place and conquering like four cities on his own before the backups arrived :cry: Makes a man proud.

This guy is a fanatic!

After being relieved from the mountain and journying across Germany's northern forests to Berlin, the Great Swordsman came across 3 barbarian horsemen, 2 warriors and an encampment.

He smashed them all, bringing his kills to 21. :hammer:

He now is retired comfortably in Berlin, spending his days drinking lager and recounting tales to busty Bavarian women.:D

i had a similar experience with an elite archer, there was a sudden band of about 28 horsemen coming down, and the archer fended them all off

A story about one warrior, who did the impossible (taken from my "My first game...WOW!" thread)

This warrior was built in Rome, he explored our general surroundings then went North. When he reached the sea he went East. Along his journeys he discoved a Hittite (barbarian)band of 2 wariors. The first warior attacked and lost without doing any damage, in turn Making my warior a veteran. The second warior attacked and met the same fate. Death at the hands of my uber warior. I also discovered that this hardy band of Rag-tag Militia was now the strongest unit in the Known world. They continued up and soon met Egypt. While Cleo and me argued over how much the wheel is worth my warriors continued there adventure. However my super-warior "accidently" wandered in to the area around Thebes (There capital, I might be wrong on the name though). Mrs. Cleo soon came a-whining. I found it rather amusing that my soldiers had been "Fondling the chickens and hurrasing the women" of Thebes. I soon left there borders and wondered around discovering stuff. Suddenly I got reports that Thebes, the most important Egyption city, had just been ransacked by barbarion wariors. My troops simply wandered into the city and, with no resistance, officially ripped Egypt a new hole. The city was small however, and it probably had BAD coruption (To far away from my cap) so my troops were givin the most disgusting orders man has yet to be givin. They waited till all 10,000 Egyptions were asleep, then simply poisoned the water supply with the most disgusting mush of larva from the river outside Rome... The next day 10,000 people were dead and Egypt had to rebuild there capital (not an easy task). This, for some crazy reason, caused Egypt to go to war with me and there first target was my band O' Uber troops . I marched up towards there second city with these guys and met them on a battle feild outside it. My troops wooped theres but not before Egypt kiled 2\5 of my warriors. My troops retreated for some rest. They fortified on a Mountain now called "Vengence pass" because of the battle that happened there. A regular Egyption Warior attacked and defeated my troops, I later found out there families had been in thebes... And so ends the story of my Uber warior.

I also had one hardy swords man lead the assault on Babylon, only to fall outside the city itself in a heroic charge... I raise entire cities for these guys:D as a symbolic gesture (and because im insane, but thats besides the point):crazyeyes

I've just had a similar experience to this.. though it was actually two units and they were garrisoned within a town (which didnt have city walls at the time.)

24 anasazi horsemen were bearing down on my newly acquired city of Niagra falls. Only two elite jaguars (which only had 1 point of defense to the horseman's 2) defended it. I thought for sure that the horsemen would pillage the city mercilessly, and perhaps send about ten of their number down south to cut down some more of my jaguars which were stationed in cities (I only used two jaguars per city to defend them. No spearmen. The enemies were too busy defending against my rapidly breeding jaguar warriors to send any serious counter attacks.)

To my surprise, only one of my jaguars died, with the other one reduced to one hit point. The next turn, a large contingent of reinforcements arrived and easily dispatched the one remaining horsemen. I dont have any special plans for the jaguar, as I would probably get him confused for any of my other hundred jags.

I am at war with China now, over a silk colony ( I was there first!).

Having musket armed footmen, knights and cannons against their riders is almost a joke, except for the attrition they can inflict while manouvering into attack position. They seem to build alot of them, as its quite a bee-hive around Hangchow.

Not to be left out of opportunity for glory, the Great Swordsman is enroute to Vilnius (my colony) via caravel as we speak!:D

New tales of Teutonic might coming soon! (I hope)

Originally posted by joespaniel

Not to be left out of opportunity for glory, the Great Swordsman is enroute to Vilnius (my colony) via caravel as we speak!:D

New tales of Teutonic might coming soon! (I hope)

Don't push your luck...

Please push it! I love reading about this :lol:

I can remember the good old days of playing civ2 at higher dif's. I started to get a habit of keeping a large arsenal of nukes just in case I was going to loose the game. Hammered down to my last city ready to perish, I unleashed nukes from sleeping subs around the world attacking units next to cities thereby killing even though they had the proper defences. Defeat came with a sweet taste :nuke: Later when I think back upon it I seem to remember those games better where I continued to play even though a loss was undenieable ... perhaps it has got something to do with having the last word :D

Back to your swordsman ... :ninja:

Originally posted by Partisan


Don't push your luck...

Oh, that wouldnt be any fun then, would it?:D

Well see what happens after work today.:eek: ;)

Good luck there Joe and although I generally play the French lets hope that the commander pulls off some amazing feat against the Chinese riders and wins the acclaim that he deserves so that his fellow Germans will revere him as a great leader!

Thats what Im hoping for, Frenchie!;) :D

If any unit deserves to be a Great Leader, its this guy.

What does Malys Faisent mean, btw. I work at an uppity French restaurant, so Im curious...

Message to the Iron Chancellor, joespaniel-

I would like to know if you would be willing to give your "Great Swordsmen" to my empire. I am always looking for amazing soldiers to add to my great empire. If you accept I will give you 50,000 gold pieces and my lovely domestic advisor, Quistis Trepe. Should you decline, my response will be less than enjoyable. Although, I'm sure it will not come to that.

Ruler of All Evil Empires,
Emperor Snefix

C'mon joe! I'm dying for an update ;)

Yeah Joe did he win? Did he fall valorously in mortal combat?

As to what I meant, heh, I'm not sure prolly just reading too much into the French/German rivalry :crazyeyes

No, I meant what does your user-name mean? :lol:

I am in big trouble. After attacking my silk cities of Kaunas and Vilnius, the Chinese must have bribed the Indians and French to attack me too. Im hanging on by my fingernails!

I have used a mountain chain as a fortification line, have 5 knights, 2 musketmen and the Great Swordsman against waves of riders and everything else theyre throwing at me. It doesnt look like I can hold for too long.

I have sailed 2 frigates around to Beijing in the hopes bombarding the capitol will force them to make peace. I did capture and raise 2 Chinese cities, small ones, to no effect.

I keep trying to advance into the open area by their cities, but dont have the brute force to do it. Reinforcing from Germany requires a 6 turn ocean crossing. The English and Russians refuse to help me. Its do or die time...

:ninja:

Eeeek! Good luck Joe!

As to Malys Faisent it doesn't really mean anything, just the name of a character of mine from a long running Amber campaign (a real bastard too) [pimp]

Im losing!!! :hammer:

Must...hang...on... Help...coming... !!!

I lost 4 knights, and have slowly retreated to Vilnius. They have lost about 30 units, 6 to the Swordsman who just stands on his rock and lets them come to him (God, I love this guy!), and I think they may be running out of steam.

I got flanked!!! The AI actualy flanked me!!! What the flank is going on??? They actually looked around and figured out where I was weak, and came around the mountains! Im impressed.

If their offense falters, I am building reserves up at Kaunas, all my spare units from Germany are en-route, plans are to unleash a great counter offensive against China.

And I wont be taking prisoners!!!:mad: All cities will be raised, all civilians pressed into labor. Then I will deal with treacherous France and India, heavy handedly!

If Beijing is capable of being bombarded, I assume it is near the sea... time for a devastating sneak naval invasion?

The bombardment didnt force them to the peace table. Sacking the city of Hangchow did!:D Germany's Greatest Swordsman led the attack into Chinese territory, helping end the war.

The Indians also fell in line...

However, the French mounted an all out attack on the German cities of Frankfurt and Dusseldorf, key cities in the incense trade. Most of the improvements were pillaged, and Frankfurt was nearly lost! German "nationalism" took hold and won the day, as new riflemen appeared and turned the tide.

All German reinforcements for China were diverted to France, and in a sneak attack from the sea, the French lost the capitol city of Paris! It was raized to the ground by angry, vengefull Teutons.

The German cavalry rampaged through the French countryside burning and looting all French towns and cities, all control of the army was lost! (According to the official explanation, ofcourse:D )

There are no French cities on Germany's map.:skull: They must have more somewhere, unknown to Germany.

While sailing to France, Egypt was discovered! Initialy friendly enough, then doing a 180 and making threats and demands. This would not do. Cavalry, cannons, musketeers and the Swordsman were loaded up and sailed to Egypt.

The opening battle of the new war went to the Swordsman, and he took a city singlehandedly, defended by spearmen.

STILL NO GREAT LEADER!!! :hammer: I swear I am cursed...

Four Egyptian cities fell to Teutonic might, they were spared due to their close proximity to Germany, and their possible usefullness to the German Empire.

All operations are suspeneded, to consolidate the gains. However the next phase of the campaign is alraedy planned. The Great Swordsman will spearhead another attack, this time on the Egyptian cities of Giza, Elephantine and Thebes.

If I dont get a GL after this, I will pull my hair out! :crazyeyes

If I dont get a GL after this, I will pull my hair out! :crazyeyes
I know what you mean, I'm in to the late 1800 AD having taken almost all of southern america on the huge earth map with 2 elite calvery units doing the offensive fighting ... no leader! :cry:

Joe, Figure odds on GLs. You'll get it eventually.
I'm using a pile of about 30-35 knights and just finished mopping up the Zulu. Sun-Tzu started them all as veterans so now about half are elites. After killing around 100 Zulus over the course of the war I've produced 3 GLs (Washington, Lee, & that dog Sherman). I try to use my elites to fight where I know they'll win (archers, Jag warriors who were stupid enough to escort Aztec settlers onto a battlefield, etc.), but if there's only one enemy to fight, the elite gets it. So maybe half of the fighting has been done by elite units since I started. That jibes with the official 1-in-16 ratio.
Two of them were within two turns of each other. Maybe the 'random' numbers you need to get them are bunched down at the bottom of the list so you'll get a couple or three in quick succession.

The Great Swordsman is becoming obsolete.:(

Sadly, with the advance of technology, his days are now numbered.

Kills -

18 Goth Horsemen
4 Goth Warriors
9 Chinese Horsemen and Riders
2 Chinese Spearmen
1 Chinese Swordsman
4 French Horsemen
3 French Spearmen
1 French Galley (in port)
3 Egyptian Spearmen
1 Egyptian Chariot (special unit)

Now that pikemen and knights are appearing in numbers, he will be upgraded to a Rifleman, but I hope to get him back up to elite and use him to attack Egyptian cities ASAP.

Germany's Greatest Swordsman will become the Prussian Guard!

I don't think swordsmen can be upgraded. You can give guns to spearmen or pikemen but not swordsmen or bow guys.

Return your swordsman to Berlin. Let him do ceremonial duties, like changing of the guard, honor guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Teuton, and Veteran's Day parades. Sounds like he has earned it.

(I am keeping a similar elite samurai unit in my Japanese capital for sentimental reasons, even though we are well into the modern age. Make no mistake, though, that they would unquestioningly charge the enemy in a final Kamikaze attack if the palace were to ever come under attack.)

Great story, joe! Makes me really wish we can name individual units with special names like the Prussian Guard. :D Or can we? Can we name Armies, BTW?
Anyway, tough luck on the GL. I got mine way early in the game when my two (!) Chinese swordsmen conquered Tokyo. But that was after taking Kyoto, Osaka .....

I started a new game. I want to create an army, and go the military route to victory, so I need a great leader.

Donsig was right, you cant upgrade swordsmen.:(

Thus ends the saga of Germany's Great Swordman...

For now.:D

Have caravels and sent out an elite horseman, found the Iroqois and started some scism. Won one city, no GL. Won a second city, no GL. *sigh* The curse of joespaniel's Germans, never to get a great leader.

Maybe if I let my empire slip domesticly one would appear, to lift the peoples spirits or something.:rolleyes: ;)

I will keep at it with Teutonic intensity. I am wondering if the German civ has a lower % chance to get GLs, or if I am just one unlucky sonofabeach.;)

I have played a couple of games now, and no GLs. I suppose that's what makes them unique. Eisenhowers are not made overnight. It keeps you intrigued, though, doesn't it?

Awesome story, Joe.
I love the way the Civ titles can really draw you in.

- Stravaig

Well, I am playing my 4th game as non-militaristic Persia (my 2nd 'serious' game ;)) and I have gotten my GL too. You guys must be having really tough luck.
I got my GL when the Babylonians crossed Zululand using a right-of-passage treaty (who laid betw us) to attk me en masse (with like 50 units - longbowmen and the like). Hard to handle cos I ain't war-ready. Now have built a Maginot line across my entire long continental northern border with Zululand and pumping out def units. Bought the Babs off with money and 2 workers for peace. :(
One thing I have to say - even vet knights suck when attking longbowmen (!). Or am I missing something here? Luckily got saved by my newly formed army of knights and the trigger of my Golden Age also helps. Hew!
One thing bout Armies - form them only when you really gonna use them (to invade, not much point for def). Cos when you have loaded units onto Armies, can't unload them. They are effectively combined for the rest of the game. Also can't upgrade the units inside them.
Anybody got a different outcome fr trying to unload/upgrade units in an Army?

SKM - I didnt know that was you! Hey pal!

Once you form an army, thats it, its permanent. Be careful what you put in it too. Dont mix pikemen and knights, it slows its movement rate down. Just use knights! Armys are supposed to be offensive units, but I will experiment a little and see if a pikeman army does anything usefull.

I got a great leader attacking an Iroquois city with an elite knight, rushed him home by caravel and formed an army of three knights.

Imagine my surprise when the army wouldnt fit in a caravel! It was stuck on my home continent! So, I reasearched up and got Magnetism, and it would fit in a galleon, so off I went.

Once you have an army, enemy cities are like shooting fish in a barrel. Bam! One after another. After my first victory, I started building the military academy and heroic epic immeadiately.

So I finaly got to do it. I am celebrating by starting a new game...:D I began to realize I need to play on higher difficulty levels or there wont be anyone worthy to fight. I am graduating to "King", my favorite civ2 setting.

Actualy, I started 6 or 7 times til I got a good starting location. And its a killer one this time, a huge continent with lots of resources and rivers, and only the Russians as neighbors, and they are not expanding quickly for some reason, nor exploring. :confused: Go figure. So I got to pop alot of goody-huts with my wandering warriors, and acquired ALOT of tech fast.

I plan to wait and eventualy get my great leader from fighting the Russians, when the time is right. (Fuedalism!) ;) Too bad for them, I have no plans to conquer Russia, I dont need to. I just need fodder, and they were unlucky enough to be my only neighbor!

:lol:

One interesting tidbit: I built a few swordsmen and sent them out on patrol for barbarian camps. One swordsman found one right away, like he could sniff out barbarians, and smashed it, becoming elite. ( I love when they roar!)

Could be a re-incarnation of the last guy.

Maybe this story isnt over yet...:eek:

:ninja:

The Swordsman Lives!

After moving the Barbarian slayer (Great Swordsman?) to the Russian frontier and waiting patiently, Russian expansion began in earnest with the movement of 2 settlers both escorted by warriors into the area between Leipzig and Essen.

I immeadiately contacted Catherine the great, demanding an explanation! No plausible excuse was given, a settlement was established on German built road and war was on!

A veteran horseman (now elite!) fired the first shot of the war, destroying Russian troops and capturing "POWs" who will work the area of Essen and Cologne as penitance for Russian arrogance.

The Great Swordsman force-marched to the new Russian town and proceeded to attack into enemy fortifications across a river and captured it! A Great Leader was created!!! Barbarossa!!!

Finally! The recognition he deserved so much has come to pass, and a new army of 3 swordsmen (including him) will be created in short order, to return to Russia for a "Heroic Epic".

*lights a cigarette* aaaaaahhhhh....

I love a happy story!:smoke:

The victorious German Swordsmen and their Great Leader Barbarossa arrived at Liepzig to meet 2 more "legions" of swordsmen, and a great army was formed.

To the beat of drums and fanfare of crowds and buglers, Barbarossa's army began its long march to the Russian capitol.

German warriors and horsemen had pillaged the Russian countryside, sowing chaos and breaking the Russian will to resist untill Barbarossa's return. Russia had little desire to continue, and I feared continuing the war would only lessen the esteem of the German people in the eyes of the world, so a peace was granted for 30 gold, just as Barbarossa arrived to attack Moscow.

Discouraged at the loss of opportunity for glory, the Great German Army began its march home without a "heroic epic" beneath its belt.

Out of the blue, a lone barbarian warrior appears from the woods in the path of the army. Blam! An encampment lies to the South. Smash!

A new monument stands in Berlin! :hammer:

A tribute to the Greatest Swordsmen in Germany and their Great Leader!

*Too bad, it took three games to get it right, but there it is.*

"SKM - I didnt know that was you! Hey pal!"

How can you not know it's me? I thought I made it very clear in my sig. Oh, my heart hurts ....... :o Maybe my liver.

"Once you form an army, thats it, its permanent. Be careful what you put in it too. Dont mix pikemen and knights, it slows its movement rate down. Just use knights! Armys are supposed to be offensive units, but I will experiment a little and see if a pikeman army does anything usefull."

I always put in the fastest units I have and also only when I go for war. Right now, I got 3 Armies sitting at my Military Academy, unloaded. So when war comes, will just form up tanks and attk. Now in modern age, so possibly can get out modern armor in time. I love the noise they make when moving.

"Imagine my surprise when the army wouldnt fit in a caravel! It was stuck on my home continent! So, I reasearched up and got Magnetism, and it would fit in a galleon, so off I went."

Yeah and the GL counts as one unit too, so a normal Army would be 4 units all together. 5 when you got the Pentagon.

"Once you have an army, enemy cities are like shooting fish in a barrel. Bam! One after another. After my first victory, I started building the military academy and heroic epic immeadiately."

Not really, I lost an entire Army of cavalry attking a size 7 city defended by a bloody conscript (!) rifleman. The correct way to attk (hmmph hmmph) is to send in a huge army of defenders and a huge no of artillery, bombard the city to weaken the defenders and then use something to take out the weakened defenders. Armies can better be used as the finishing blow and to pillage, deep inside enemy territory.

"So I finaly got to do it. I am celebrating by starting a new game...:D I began to realize I need to play on higher difficulty levels or there wont be anyone worthy to fight. I am graduating to "King", my favorite civ2 setting."

I am on regent now. Game sucks cos sharing a huge continent with 4 civs with the Babs stretching across like a Red Curtain across the far north and racing ahead in culture. I have built a 16 fortresses long def belt (and 2 layers deep in case of a breakthrough anywhere) fr coast to coast and leaving a small gap 3 spaces deep to bombard invading armies. Have 3 inf guarding each frontal fortress and one artillery piece. I find artillery very useful to break up invaders. And lots of reserve inf, tanks, artillery .....

"I have built a 16 fortresses long def belt (and 2 layers deep in case of a breakthrough anywhere) fr coast to coast and leaving a small gap 3 spaces deep to bombard invading armies. Have 3 inf guarding each frontal fortress and one artillery piece. I find artillery very useful to break up invaders. And lots of reserve inf, tanks, artillery ....."

Good Lord!:eek:

That makes the Maginot line look like a sheet of paper... :lol:

I posted a whole thread about bombarding cities before attacking them directly. I didnt have catapults initialy, but I do now! I got lucky early on, I wouldnt try it again.

My army of knights from my last game was going up against regular spearmen, and sliced them up pretty good. In retrospect, each attack cost roughly 3 or 4 hit points from the army, so a lone knight may not have been able to do the job and survive.

My game has slowed down alot, with no threat from the Russians anymore, I have focused on science and infrastructure, to great effect. Germany is building the Observatory in Berlin. Teutonic knights patrol the plains, and my lone army sits on a hill between Dusseldorf and Sverdlovsk, as a reminder to the Russians to behave themselves.

Built 4 galleys with a horseman on each, and started exploring. Ran into the Chinese first, they were a little icy, but bought contact with Persia. Then found France (that little Joan is so cute and polite) and bought contact with England, India and Japan.

After some wheeling and dealing, Germany has a fairly good world map. Scientists are now working on improved sea-transport. I would like to trade with the English as they have some spice and gems that Germany needs. ;)

Great story Joe. Keep it coming. :)

Monty Hall would be proud.:D

The German people now have many luxuries to keep them happy, and the new city of Bonn has been founded on the Russian frontier, to prevent their expansion into Germany. Barbarossa's army is stationed there, and the Forbidden Palace is under construction.

Many foriegn leaders have approached Germany about contact with the Russians, but Germany declined to cooperate. Some have a less benevolent attitude now, but keeping the untrustworthy Russians down is in Germany's best interest.

A small continent was discovered to the south, and another off Germany's eastern coast. The city of Kiel was founded in a narrow strip of land between two mountain ranges, allowing ships to make better time to China and Persia.

The Prussian Art of War was completed in Berlin, making German knights and pikemen the finest in the world. A new industry, Banking, is beginning to spread in earnest.

Germany is a robustly growing empire. Further tales of conquest will probably be of a "cultural" nature, for now, as the sturdy Russian peasantry wishes to attend our universities and libraries, or visit the Sistine Chapel in Cologne.

Due to Germany's uncharacteristic maritime activity, a man named Magellan has offered to begin a great voyage of discovery from the city of Bremen. We await his return, and hope that he does not decide to double-cross Germany and land in England.

Originally posted by joespaniel
"I have built a 16 fortresses long def belt (and 2 layers deep in case of a breakthrough anywhere) fr coast to coast and leaving a small gap 3 spaces deep to bombard invading armies. Have 3 inf guarding each frontal fortress and one artillery piece. I find artillery very useful to break up invaders. And lots of reserve inf, tanks, artillery ....."

Good Lord!:eek:

That makes the Maginot line look like a sheet of paper... :lol:Well, the Babs together with their Zulu allies did attk (3rd time in history), with bout 100-200 units, mostly cavalry. They walked right into my trap, inside my territory. Funny thing is the Bab advance cavalry (bout 20-30 units) got trapped cos the Zulu cavalry was directly behind them and they couldn't retreat. Picked them off using artillery and tanks.

They broke thru in 2 places but lost many units. I managed to get back my fortresses and reinforced them. And chased now weakened cavalry units before they galloped back to safety. All in all, I killed really a lot. And I got a new GL! Second in the game.

But starting a new game. Hard lesson #1 - never never never ever share a long continental border with other civs.

Here's my game. Sucks, doesn't it.

What can a man possibly say except... :nuke: Long live the Great Swordsman..! :nuke:

:goodjob:

The French-German War

Germany answers the French with steel

Chancellor Bismarck arrives from Berlin to meet with his "great leader" General Barbarossa. In the halls of the Forbidden Palace in Nuremberg, a decision is made to form a great army of swordsmen to march on Paris.

Greedy and opportunistic, Joan d'Arc of France attacks Germany in the Year of Our Lord 400 AD striking across the frontier with horsemen toward Salzburg and its furtile wine growing lands.

Germany, engaged in war already with India, and winning, is forced to give up its gains and redeploy its forces. While galleys of troops slowly return from India, a screen of horsemen are left to blunt the initial French onslaught with a lone swordsman.

Sensing Salzburg was the target, troops were aligned around it to spring a counter-attack on the invaders. French horsemen attacked the city, very nearly taking it. A regular swordsman held against four horsemen, becoming veteran, then elite. Then our horsemen closed the trap by attacking the French rear-guard, encircling them.

There were too many of them to hold back, and Salzburg fell.

Though gravely wounded, the swordsman attacked from a hilltop into the French at Salzburg and destroyed a unit three times its strength! A great leader was born in the fire of combat!

Barbarossa was quickly whisked away to Nuremberg, to hold council with the Chancellor, who was en-route from Berlin.

Bismarck, looking for an edge, contacted Russia and the Zulus, who for many years have suffered from French cruelty. They were both eager to side with Germany when approached about a military alliance. The Triple Entente was born, its sole pupose the defeat of France.

Having no illusions about the ability of its new allys to hurt the French in any real sense, Germany must now bring all its might to bear on Joan d'Arc and her minions.

Thus the Great Swordsmen will march, to Paris if need be.

Teutonic hordes invade France, and win the first battles. Two French spearmen destroyed.

Der Reich, my friends! Long live the swordsman!
Lets have a neverending party after the war for him!
[party]

Btw, will be there The Greatest Panzer Driver in Germany? :tank:

Originally posted by das
Btw, will be there The Greatest Panzer Driver in Germany? :tank:

I certainly hope so...;)

Barabarossa and his army accompanied by a host of (now elite) horsemen have destroyed four French cities, killed 9 spearmen, 3 archers, 3 warriors and captured 15 workers and a catapult! Four German horsemen have been lost.

The road to Paris is paved with French dead, and the German armies march on.

Halfway there.

Just for fun, I plan to split the French empire in two and see if it does anything (like in civ2 MGE).

Anyone tried that yet?

I split them in THREE! One more road to pillage, and their empire will be completely cut off from East to West.

Paris is no more.

In a desperate attempt to save their capitol, France attacked all along the "corridor" scythed by German horsemen. Nearly every German and French unit was destroyed except for Barbarossa's Army and a catapult. It was a massive battle, and the area should be renamed dead horse valley or something.

Fortunately, newly formed units of German knights arrived to end the battle, and help Barbie crush Paris. The City of Lights was burned to the ground. Paris is no more.

The Great Swordsmen then marched to the North Sea and attacked the last city connecting France from East to West. After bombarding once, the army went in at 75% strength.

Perhaps to emphasize the dire situation for the French, they defended tenaciously. One swordsman was reduced to 1 hp. Then another. I began to think it was the end of Barbarossa! The last French spearman just would not die!

With 2 hit points left, finaly the great army smashed the town to splinters!

The French empire is still connected by a single road beneath the feet of Barbarossa. For now. After the knights pillage it, we shall see what happens.

Lots of civil disorder going on now in France. I cant wait to see some riots!

But do you really leace in Kalingrad?

Originally posted by das
But do you really leace in Kalingrad?

:lol: No, I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its about as German as you can get outside of Germany though.

I just put that in my location because I like to play the Germans.

Now this is something new - giving actual place, but not the actual place of your location! I never saw that one before!:goodjob:

Oh well, back to SUPER SWORDSMAN!

I also like German Reich (not the Thousand Years Reich, but your (joe's) Six Thousand Years Reich). Well, actually I like Bismarck's Reich...;)

Back to our SWORDSMANNERHEIM!