The terrain-unwise Romans

Wow, have I had an eventful chapter. In 1762, I got Sardica, Vitcos, and Varna easily. This was followed by some victories on the defense and a double palace expansion. Then followed some somewhat bad RNG Luck, and tugs-of-war over some of my cities. Also, the Maya made their first move in their war with Babylon and captured their capital.

The full account of what happened will be when I post Chapter 24...

Tomorrow.

Sorry, but it's getting late in my timezone.

Chapter 24: Red vs. (Light) Blue

Roman Cavalry were ready to charge in 1762. After Caeser got Theodora to sign a Mutual Protection Pact with him and an Embargo vs. America (Just because I could), to get her on his side...



...They started their charge. 2 units of them were enough to defeat the 2 musketmen garrisons in Vitcos.



This city sure has the right to be called "Tug-of-War City". It has been Inca, then Roman, then Inca again, then Roman again, then Inca a third time, then Roman a third time, then Byzantine, then American, and now, for the fourth time, Roman (In other words, this city has been captured by various people 8 times!!).

Another single Cavalry unit defeated the Riflemen in Sardica, and 3 inca workers that America had captured were now Roman.



Then, came the attack on Varna. Cavalry killed 1 American Cavalry unit and 4 American Longbowmen units outside the city, and one Byzantine and one Inca worker that had been enslaved by America were captured. This was followed by Cavalry attacking Varna itself. The first charge easily killed the pitiful Musketmen garrison, although the second charge lost to American Cavalry. The 3 pitiful Cavalry units defending the city were subsequently destroyed by the third, fourth, and fifth charges. Varna now belonged to Rome.



After that, 2 Roman Cavalry units killed 2 American Cavalry units, one near Seattle, one near Atlanta. Then, came the American counter-attack.

The first attack came out of Adrianople. American Cavalry attacked the Roman Cavalry and Vitcos. This immediately recieved a declaration of war from the Byzantines...



And, miraculously, the Roman Cavalry won.

Not so lucky were the two Cavalry units near Seattle and Atlanta. They had fallen easily to American Cavalry.

At Byzantium, American Cavalry attacked the Roman Riflemen, and were easily defeated. There was no doubt, the rifle was a powerful weapon.

At Sardica, another miracle happened. 2 Cavalry units were in the city. The first lost to American Cavalry, but the second, although heavily injured, managed to stand their ground against American Riflemen!! A true "" victory, according to an odd person who had mysteriously appeared out of nowhere, that had gotten a double palace expansion for Caeser from the people. He now had a fourth floor, and a second floor or his right wing.



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1764 came and Roman Cavalry attacked again. After an American Cavalry was killed somewhere (it wasn't in a city, that's all I remember), and 8 Roman Cavalry units charged at Adrianople. Here, they failed miserably. 3 were lost, and 4 were forced to retreat. Only one of the Roman Cavalry units succeded in destroying one of the American Rifle garrisons.

Bad News followed at Sardica in 1765. 3 American Cavalry units charged. The first won against Sardica's Cavalry defenders. The second lost, but the third succeded and captured Sardica.



There was also bad news for Babylon. Mayan forces had made their first successful attack of their war, and they had captured the city of Babylon. Hammurabi and the rest of the Babylonian government have moved west to Ashur.

This was followed by good news, though. Another discovery by Roman scientists, in 1766.



"So, explain to me, one last time. Just what is this?" asked Caeser.
"Well," answered one of the scientists, "We are now be able to build Factories and Power Plants. These will greatly increase the production of our cities- at a cost, which we are not quite sure about yet."
"Okay," said Caeser, "and no one else discovered it 2 years ago, right?"
"Well..." said the scientist, "Sort of. No one had it 2 years ago, but the Chinese and Mayans mysteriously discovered these secrets one day after we did." (I hate it that China is CONSTANTLY DOING THIS. When/If the time comes to conquer the other continent, they are SOOOOO my first target.)

Back at Sardica that same year, Roman Cavalry defeated the few American Cavalry still remaining to garrison the city and recaptured it.



To the south of the city, Roman Cavalry failed to defeat the American Cavalry that were lignering there. Roman Riflemen nearly beat them, but the Cavalry retreated.

Egypt started taking America's side in the war, as in 1767, they allied against Babylon and embargoed against Rome.



Meanwhile, to the Northeast of Sardica, American heavily injured Cavalry defeated Roman heavily injured Cavalry and killed the Inca slave workers they were guarding.
Also, Carthage made their first move in their war with the Dutch and captured Yamama (who is so fat, her gravity can move the sun! (Sorry, I couldn't resist doing that)), an ex-Arabic city in the far north that was famous for its precious gemstones.

Roman Cavalry got revenge for the Inca workers in 1768 by killing the American Cavalry that had killed those workers. Also, Caeser got two lux deals with the Chinese (For some reason, he wouldn't agree to one... although I didn;t use Lump sums in the one deal, I guess that's why?)



American Cavalry attacked again in 1769. They defeated two riflemen garrisons in Sardica (WTF?), although the city still held thanks to Roman Cavalry.
On the other hand, the folks at Syracuse weren't so lucky. American Cavalry defeated the Cavalry defending it. Syracuse is now occupied by the Americans.



But not for long, as it was recaptured by Roman Cavalry in 1770.



Back at Sardica, Roman Cavalry defeated the American Cavalry that were hanging around outside the city.

Syracuse appeared in a dire situation. Caeser needed more troops. But how?
Then an idea came. Of course, The draft, he thought to himself. He could instantly create a new, although poor, riflemen divison. But then he realized that Syracuse was too small. But, Brundisium, just to the south, was not. So he drafted Riflemen there. They could not reach the city this year, though, so, he decided to use one of them to kill the American Longbowmen outside Syracuse, since he had nothing to lose but the Riflemen. The Riflemen won their battle.

Now, at Adrianople, Cavalry finally renewed their attack. The first unit was lost to the American Riflemen garrisons, but the second and third succeeded in their fights. The fourth had to retreat, unfortunately. There still remains Riflemen in Adrianople. Caeser couldn't get much luck...
...But he could get more friends! Of course. He could sell the secrets of Industrialization to get money and alliances!

He sold it to the Dutch and Carthaginians to get money, luxuries, an alliance against America, and an embargo against Egypt, the latter of which was for revenge for the embargo Egypt had against them.

[NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: I'm not sure what else was in the Dutch deal, but I'm guessing I got Incense from them, since I have it later and don't know where else I could have gotten it from]





He did the same thing with Babylon, minus the Alliance against America, which had already been signed, and the luxuries, which they lacked. (Also, note. The Embargo against Egypt was actually unnecessary, since Babylon was already at war with them, but I didn't realize that at the time... )



Then, he contacted Cleopatra.

"What do you want, Caeser?" she asked, "We have embargoes against each other, so how could we possibly trade?"
"It only prevents us from trading resources, not gold and technology. I well teach you the secrets of Industrialization." said Caeser.
"Okay, done, but I think we should keep this deal to ourselves. We wouldn't want our 'allies' thinking we were aiding an enemy, would we?"
"Okay, it's our secret. If anyone asks, you got Industrialization from the Maya. If the Maya ask, you got it from China."

[NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: No real clue what was in this deal, probably a bunch of money? I imagine if I'd gotten a tech from Egypt I would have noted it in the discussion between Caesar and Cleopatra]



And thus, another chapter ends with a cliff-hanger. Hahaha.

Nice story, I've read it from the beginning (and that took away a lot of my spare time ) but I like it! Keep up the good work !

Thanks. Chapter 25 comes after I get out of school...


LAST DAY OF SCHOOL, BTW!!!

I get out early because off that. You'll know when "early" is, because I'll post a celebratory post in this thread.

ALL RIGHT!!! SCHOOL IS OVER!!!

Actually, I've been home for about 2 hours, but haven't been able to get on the computer.

Okay, I admit it, I've been procrastinating from writing the update. I'll start now.

OKay, forget it. Something is wrong with ImageShack's server, as it won't allow me to uplaod my jpg images.

All Right! ImageShack's server isn't being ******ed any more!

Chapter 25 now being written.

Chapter 25: The Rampaging Romans

Hannibal and Theodora both pulled the same evil trick in 1771. They both forced a renewed peace. This deal was unhaggaleable, so they both were getting it for free when they probably should have been paying quite a bit. Caeser had to accept, as declining would have been the same thing as a declaration of war.



Speaking of Carthage, they made progress in their war with the dutch by capturing Huamanga, one of two Dutch, Ex-Byzantine, Ex-Inca (and Huamanga was also Roman for a couple of turns...) cities in the far north of the Old World (The other is Tiwanaku, just to the east of Huamanga). Counter-balancing that, The Dutch have recaptured Yamama. And, on the topic of war, Ashur, the Babylonian capital, was captured by Mayan forces. Hammurabi and the government fled to Uruk, where they were escorted by boat to set up a capital at Nippur, which is located on an island nearby, and shares the island with the Chinese city of Tatung.

Caeser's people seemed to be happy with the luxuries they were getting from Carthage and the Netherlands, as they built Caeser's left wing a second floor, and they also built an archway around Caeser's door and some stone things just outside (This was only 2 expansions, BTW).



1772 Came and Caeser found himself preoccupied with killing the Longbowmen that Lincoln kept foolishly sending into his territory. The drafted Riflemen that had not been sent into combat 2 years earlier were sent to match the accomplishments of the ones that had (That is, I sent the conscript rifle to kill an American LBM). At this, they failed. Cavalry finished the job.

Speaking of Cavalry, they were put into great use at the Battle of Adrianople. After cannons bombarded the city, it took only one unit of them to finish off what was left of the American riflemen defending the city.



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In 1773, The Americans gained some, and lost some, but lost more than they gained. First, they lost a battle which gave the Byzantines control of Machu Picchu. Then, American Cavalry defeated Roman Riflemen at Syracuse, but luckily, the city is still Roman as there were more defenders.
What was left of that American Cavalry unit was defeated by Roman Cavalry in 1774.

And then came something that is only known as "the WTF battle". Roman Cavalry attacked American Longbowmen near Sardica. It should have been an easy win (The chances of me winning were something like 98%), but the longbowmen won. It appeared that the mighty "God of Randomness" had caused nearly all of the Cavalry's shots to miss, but all of the Longbowmen's to hit. This caused Caeser to destroy several of his very valuable treasures in his rage. "Oh, well, I have a thousand more, don't I?" He would sometimes say afterward. He later took out the rage on annoying people who happened to be in the room.
Anyway, Cavalry defeated the invincible American Longbowmen soon after.

July 4, 1776. Americans were randomly celebrating. No one knows why.
July 5, 1776. Roman Cavalry attacked and defeated an American Riflemen unit and three American Longbowmen units in the Battle of Syracuse, none of which was actually fought in Syracuse. It was fought to the Southwest of Syracuse. Now, Americans are depressing and Romans are celebrating (Not really- both of us are in Monarchy right now, so battles can't affect WW)

A journal was found several years in the future near Tiwanaku. It was the account of a Carthaginian soldier that had fought in the battle there (Yes, I did make this battle up, I don't know what really happened).

January 6, 1777
I look around at the camp before me. We have been fighting against the stinky Dutch (Yes, I shamelessly stole that from Monty Python and the Holy Grail) here for a while now. But I wish the camp had better conditions.
January 28, 1777
We were in a minor barrle today. We attacked at Tiwanaku fiercly, and won against some of the defenders. But we must regroup and wait for another chance.
March 15, 1777
We are so close to capturing Tiwanaku. 1 half of the city is free of Dutch garrisons. We just have to defeat the remaining ones and then the city is ours. I even slept in a bed tonight.
April 23, 1777
Victory! By a sneak attack, we defeated the remaining garrisons. The city is now Carthaginian and a governor is on his way right now. Now there's just the resistance to deal with.

Speaking of battles, Uruk fell to Mayan forces on July 25 of the same year. Babylon is down to their last city, Nippur.

In late November of 1777, American riflemen attacked Roman Cavalry that were defending a hill to the southwest of Sardica that had iron. They hoped to gain control of that hill and destroy one of Rome's iron supply routes. Fortunately, the Roman Cavalry proved victorious. Another riflemen unit occupies the hills to the Northwest of Sardica, but they were defeated in January of 1778 by cannon bombardment and then, Cavalry.

Although the Dutch had lost control of their territory in what was once Incaland, they still had resistors there. In 1779, they overpowered the Carthaginian garrisons in Huamanga and returned control of the city to the Dutch. Dutch forces that had just appeared in the area were now prepared to attack Tiwanaku.

[NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: Not really about a missing pic this time, just not sure why past-me was sure the Dutch got this city back from a resistance flip, which given the short length of time they actually controlled this city, doesn't make as much sense as them just recapturing it militarily... but maybe I just got to see it and forgot about it? I don't know]

And speaking of attacks, in 1780, Roman Cavalry attacked Riflemen near Sardica and won. Then, the Roman forces attacked outside of their territory for the first time since the Battle of Adrianople, at the American city of Atlanta. 4 Units of Cavalry attacked the city's pitiful Riflemen garrison. The first attack was successful. The second fell to American Riflemen. The third was forced to retreat. Luckily, the last attack defeated another riflemen garrison, but there are still some riflemen left to defend the city.

Cuzco was somewhat popular to Roman tourists. There appeared to be no war in the city in 1780. However, when tourist season started there in August of 1781, Tourists looked at the city...
... and saw nothing. There was just rubble and debris strewn everywhere. The city had been completely destroyed. It is not known who did it. The Byzantines, Carthaginians, and Dutch all have military in the area, and any of them could have done it.



(If you look at the minimap, you'll notice something odd about the center of the continent. Like, an empty spot? Yes, that means...)

Roman Cavalry marched on Atlanta once again in 1782. The first Cavalry unit was forced to retreat, but the second caught the American riflemen off-guard and wiped out all that remained of the city's garrison. Atlanta had fallen, and Caeser ordered it burned, as it was badly placed away from rivers and resistance there would have been a b!tch. But slaves can't resist, can they? This was America's first non-foreign city loss. The other losses were all Byzantine and Inca cities at one point.



Little happened in 1783, with the exception of a Dromon, a Byzantine Galley that was upgraded with something called "Greek Fire", being seen bombarding Houston. Roman Riflemen and Cannoneers watched this from the mountain to the east of Houston.

And speaking of bombarding Houston, Roman cannons rained death on the city in the spring of 1784, killing many of the city's defenders. It was an easy task for Riflemen to finish the job and kill the musketmen remaining in the city. remnants of a pikemen garrison and a longbowmen garrison are all that is left to keep the city for America. Roman Cavalry are already on their way to help.

In the summer of 1785, the Dromon bombarded Houston again, and Thoedora came to Caeser with a request for a trade of world maps. Caeser accepted, as he was trying to stay friendly, but not before making them pay some gold.



In January of 1786, Rome's citizens felt nice and built a stone hallway in Caeser's Palace between the main palace and the left wing. No more running through rain between the two! Not there is much rain in Rome, anyway, though.



Later, at Houston, cannons bombarded the city again. Thus, the pikemen and Longbowmen in the city were easy prey for the Roman Cavalry and Riflemen attacking, and the city fell. It was also destroyed, as it was placed away from the river. Caeser could rebuild it on the river and the city would still be coastal.



As things are destroyed, they are usually rebuilt. Decades ago, the Babylonian city of Eridu was destroyed. In 1787, China built Anyang on its ruins.

1788 came and the unstoppable Roman Cavalry juggernaut descended on New York, a city just to the west of Neapolis. Here, they faced some defeats, though. The first 2 attacks in the winter caused a loss and a retreat. However, there was then good news. An excellent commander led the third attack to victory. Caeser was so impressed that he went there in person and asked for the name of the commander. "I am Hadrian," he answered. "Hadrian," said Caeser, "I am impressed with your victory. We could use more great leaders like you. You should lead an even bigger army than this! Come with me to Neapolis, and we will talk that over."



The unit Hadrian had led to victory was renamed to "Cavalry I", to keep track of how many great leaders like him that had shown their talent. Meanwhile, Hadrian is going back to Neapolis. Also, Cavalry captured workers near New York, as it was known that there was not a good enough force to take the city right now.

In 1789, Hammurabi desperately started asking for peace. He needed to get out of all his wars if he wanted to survive. He started with Egypt:



A ship headed towards Amsterdam in the fall of 1789. It carried Carthaginian prisoners of war from the recently recaptured city of Tiwanaku. This journal was taken from one of them (I also made this battle up):

August 9, 1789
I am rather enjoying my life here in Tiwanaku. The weather is nice, and everything is fine. The Dutch are attacking, but they cannot break through.
August 23, 1789
Arrows fly outside my window. The Dutch sneak-attacked the guards last night and gained entrance to the city! I must leave quickly.
September 7, 1789
I am hiding in the desert outside the city. I must escpae quickly. Tiwanaku has already fallen to the Dutch. I must- wait, what was th...
*Ink is blurred because the POW was captured at this point*

And speaking of recaptures, American Cavalry snuck along the neutral rail lines and captured Sardica, which was undefended due to the Cavalry there leaving to attack New York. Caeser had overlooked this possibility. It certainly wasn't a good thing.



There are no Cavalry in the area currently able to recapture the city. For now, it is American.
In better news, Roman scientists had another discovery in 1790. Again, it had been earlier discovered by China (Caeser desperately wants to knock that stupid smile off of Mao's stupid face right now). Well, anyway, the discovery. They had learned to make and harness the power of electricity, a thing that was commonly seen in lightning storms. Who knows what good will come from this? Only time will tell.



Also in good news, Hadrian reached Neapolis in 1790. He was greatly welcomed by the citizens, and Caeser created an Army for Hadrian to lead. Currently, though, there is no one in that army.



Babylon continued frantically signing peace in 1791, when they signed peace with the Maya. And speaking of the Maya, they signed an Embargo with America against Rome soon after signing peace with Babylon. Caeser is annoyed.



In 1792, Roman Cavalry were ready to attack Sardica. One unit was there to wipe out an American Cavalry garrison, only to find another taking the previous one's place. No more Cavalry remain to fight it, but Hadrian's Army was able to do so! It was made out of heavily injured Cavalry, but that didn't stop Hadrian from leading them to victory and recapturing Sardica.



Caeser has five cities planned to be built in the neutral area were Atlanta and Houston used to be. The first of these, Tarentum, was built just to the south of where Atlanta once stood after Sardica was recaptured.



Four remain to be built, and America has 12 more cities to be captured.

Here are some screenies from the game. First, pictures of the area I call "The Slugfest Zone" in 1770 (Beginning of Ch. 25) and in 1792 (End of Ch. 25)





It probably won't be a central area for fighting much longer, though, seeing as I now completely control it. Most of the fighting is now likely to move to "Incaland" or to the Northern areas of America.

Here is a greatly enlarged screenie of the minimap, along with added country names like Quintillus' World Maps, and the names of Colonies (Russadir island and the one-tile island outside of Carthage's Hadrumetum's Harbor (oops, wrong city ) are too close to Carthage to be called colonies, same with Medina and the Netherlands, which is why I didn't label them) that I made up! I've also shown capital cities with Stars. Circles are the capitals of the civs that have already been destroyed, except for Cuzco, which no longer exists. A Square shows it's ruins. Also, a triangle shows Babylon's original capital. Seeing as they are still alive, it's not the same as the circle.



And here, spoilered, is the gigantic World Map, divided in half again to bypass imageshack's resizer (I still haven't comletely fixed the mid-map dividing line...) (except not anymore this time because re-uploading to imgur: )

OMG!! There is no post from CivRulesAll!!! He always posts!!!

Anyway, Chapter 26 to come after I eat lunch.

Oh, and before I say anything else, I have changed naval combat. Instead of fleets of ships fighting, there will only be one ship per unit. One frigate in the game means one frigate in the story, but land combat remains the same. Also, the ships now have names. These are what the prefixes mean:

RS: Roman Ship
USS: US Ship
BS: Babylonian Ship
BZS: Byzantine Ship
ES: Egyptian Ship
CS: Carthaginian ship
CHS: Chinese Ship
DS: Dutch Ship
MS: Mayan Ship
PS: Pirate Ship (Used for privateers)

See if you can figure out who owns what ship.
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Chapter 26: The American War Continues

And, it was the only war to happen in this chapter. In 1793, The war between the Dutch and the Carthaginians ended. Now only the war against America (Rome, Babylon, Dutch, Carthage, Byzantines vs. America) remained.



Byzantine spearmen occupied a mountain pass 300 miles northeast of San Francisco. They were attacked several times by Americans, and held the location each time. It is not known what all of the attackers were, but at least one was an American Cavalry unit. The spearmen are pictured here, along with mysterious messages on small wonders:



Little was done in 1794, and in several other years in this chapter, by Rome against America because R&R was needed by Roman Cavalry. This shall be the only time this will be mentioned.

China seemed to have a thing with rebuilding cities. In 1795, they built Shantung Southeast of- but this time, not on top of- the ruins of Cuzco.

Smoke-Jaguar had a request for Caeser soon after this. He asked for a Mutual Protection Pact and Right of Passage, plus a signifigant yearly tribute (They asked for 23 gpt- a total of 460 gold). Caeser wanted the pact, as he could use their help, but would not pay so high of a tribute, and he could only decrease the tribute by a small amount (I could decrease it to 21 gpt, or 420 gold total. Sorry, I don't really need their help all that much), so he declined.



The Roman Frigate RS Starling had been bombarding the rail lines near St. Louis and Seattle for a while now, without much sucess. And it would soon have nil sucess, as a sunken ship can't do much. It was sunk by the American Frigate USS Discovery.

The battle of New York began again with a surprise attack in 1796. A Roman Cavalry unit acted as shock troopers for the first attack, catching the Americans off-guard, although they managed to force the Cavalry to retreat. Hadrian had better luck, and his army defeated 3 American Riflemen garrisons before running out of steam. One barely alive riflemen garrison remained, which, unfortunately, proved to be strong enough to defeat attacking Roman riflemen. But it wasn't strong enough to defeat Roman Cavalry that arrived soon after.



The Americans launched a somewhat pathetic counterattack in 1797. Actually, it was not on the city itself, it was on a heavily injured Cavalry unit outside the city, which fell to American Cavalry easily. Nothing else was there to guard the cannons that had been there, so America now had a multitude of Roman Cannons.
Elsewhere, American Cavalry attacked Riflemen at Byzantium and retreated.

In 1798, Roman Cavalry defeated the Cavalry that had captured the Roman Cannons and the cannons were Roman again. Roman Riflemen then attacked the retreating Cavalry at Byzantium...
...and lost. Another battle. Oh well, other Riflemen defeated these so-called 'Invincible Cavalry'.
In the seas near Tatung island (that is, the island that contains Tatung and Nippur), the Roman privateer PS Nefarious was aching for a ship to loot. They came across the Babylonian Galleon BS Lighting and killed the crew, and captured the ship, which has been renamed to PS Lightning. No gold was found, but a lot of tasty food was.

Another pincemeal attack came in 1799. American Cavalry suicided themselves against the defenders of Sardica. They had more luck at Byzantium, though, and defeated Riflemen to the NW of the city.

The Roman railroads showed just how powerful they could be in 1800, as they allowed Hadrian's army to quickly move around Roman territory and kill American Cavalry near New York, then near Byzantium.

The American War shrunk slightly in 1801, when Carthage made peace with America:



Scoundrels. Not only did this lose an ally, it also lost some luxuries and gold.

And speaking of the war, America's pathetic attacks continued soon after with a failed Cavalry attack at Tarentum. This time, the riflemen counter against American Cavalry in 1802 succeded without retribution.

San Francisco was also attacked, and Hadrian's army fought valiantly against the riflemen in the city, but only defeated one garrison and suffered much injury. They must wait for artillery support before continuing.

Also in 1802, Caeser went to Hannibal and asked how much it would cost for those luxuries he was selling as part of the alliance to be returned. "A small fee... of 39 gold and some of your resources."
"Fine," said Caeser, who added under his breath, "a$$hole..."



On the bright side of money, Caeser's alliance with Babylon was now expired. They are not a useful ally, so Caeser cancelled the alliance. That was a major drain on the Roman treasury.

Speaking of Babylon, they asked for trade of world maps in 1803. Caeser sweetened the deal by asking for some gold and an embargo against the Maya:



America saw a weak spot at New York and attacked the city with two cavalry units. And yet, Roman Riflemen held against both. Caeser commends their bravery.

There had long been empty space in the center of Incaland. It was finally settled by the Byzantines in 1803. Brusa now exists in that somewhat hostile environment.

The Byzantines had a multitude of forces in the mountains near Sardica and Vitcos. In 1805, American Cavalry assaulted Byzantine Longbowmen at this position- and failed miserably.

The Babylonian citizens of Shurrupak had long been under the rule of China. They got tired of that in the fall of 1805 and held a revolt, and overthrew control of the city. But, the Mayan government staked a claim on the city, and theirs was more defensible than Babylon's claim. Shurrupak now belonged to the Maya.

Speaking of the Maya, they had vulnerable ships near Lagartero's harbor in 1806. The PS Lightning attacked the Mayan frigate MS Itza, and, unfortunately, lost. And, on the topic of naval battles, the RS Dominator and the RS Crusher met up with the USS Discovery near Pisae. The Dominator provided bombardment while the Crusher attacked- and the Crusher lost. Naval battles are not on Rome's side this year.

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It's a good thing, then, that land battles are. Hadrian's army recovered enough to attack, and they defeated another riflemen garrison in San Francisco, but returned to the same level of injury is before they had started healing.

The second of the five cities Caeser has planned was built soon after this victory. It was named Seleucia, and it was located approximately 200 miles North-Northwest of what used to be Atlanta.



Very good news came in 1807. The embargo Egypt and America had against Rome was over. As soon as Caeser's embargoes ended in a few years, they could trade freely.



The Byzantines showed no mercy against the American Cavalry West of Sardica. The Longbowmen finished them off.

William came to Caeser with a... er... "request" later that year. "Caeser," he said, "My people have heard of your 'electic power' and wish it for themselves. Could I have the secrets?"
"What is your price?" asked Caeser.
"Nothing. Give it to me."
"I am outraged that you would ask..."
"I'm not asking. I'm telling. Give me Electricity, or else!"



"Or else what?" asked Caeser, "Will you declare war on me and break our deal, ruin your reputation, and prompt me to get everyone else to attack you?"
"Um... well... Grr. You win this round, Caeser!" was William's reply.

Speaking of Science, Roman scientists made another discovery. And for the first time in a while, they had a monopoly on it. It was a description of a scientific method for expirementation.



Meanwhile, at San Francisco, the artillery had arrived and it rained death on the city. Caeser finds this tactic to be extremely useful. Then, Roman Cavalry charged and defeated one of the garrisons with ease. Caeser is highly impressed with their performance, and asked the leader, Maximus, to come with him to Ravenna for something that is currently top secret.



Hadrian's Army defeated another of the city's rifle garrisons, allowing for Roman Riflemen to come in for the last battle. Which they won.



America's rapidly declining empire continued to get worse in 1809. Not only did their attack on San Francisco fail, but they lost another city in Incaland: Corihuayrachina was destroyed.

Rome also got some bad news. Two unrelated events in quick succesion caused great unhappiness in the Roman Empire. First, the silks for gold deal with China ran out, and Caeser saw it to be too expensive to renew. Heck, it couldn't cause that much unhappiness to lose silks, could it?

But something else could. Varna's citizens had long been fighting to return control of the city to the Byzantines, and in 1810, they won. This returned 2 soruces of Ivory to the control of the Byzantines. This doesn't seem so bad, but the other 3 are all being exported! The loss of two luxuries caused a bit of unhappiness, and 4 cities rioted because of it.



But, better news was to come. Caeser and Maximus' efforts in Ravenna had allowed for the creation of a Military Academy to train more leaders to lead armies. Maximus will teach them.



And, it is sure that 1810 will be an eventful year (I have not done anything in it yet- just the 1808-1810 interturn).

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Nice update, but where is the Arabian capital?? I can't see it on your world maps.

The now Chinese city of Mecca is located to the north of the far more obvious Dutch city of Medina. Can you find that?

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choxorn said:

OMG!! There is no post from CivRulesAll!!! He always posts!!!

Anyway, Chapter 26 to come after I eat lunch.

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I've been known to do that sometimes too...

Anyway, I have added an index! It took me an hour and a half, but it's there. However, I have noticed that some of the screenies in old updates aren't working. When I get around to it, I'll fix them.

Chapter 27 to come after I eat lunch. BTW, it will be a short update due to getting 10 screenies on the first turn!

Chapter 27: A Decade of (mostly) Diplomacy

Indeed, 1810 was quite the eventful year, as was 1811. But, This is chronological, so 1810 will come first.

Caeser had several problems to solve in 1810. How would he solve them? Simple: With diplomacy. He traded technologies and luxuries to get his citizens happy again and to get out of a deficit.

He went to Theodora, and after cancelling his earlier alliance with Theodora, as he didn't want it to get him into a war he didn't want...



...He traded her the secrets of Electrical Power in return for the secrets of Sanitation, which would greatly reduce disease and trash in cities, plus the Byzantines' World Map and some of Varna's Ivory, which Caeser felt was rightfully his anyway:



He turned around and sold Sanitation to Egypt for some cash.



He still needed luxuries, though, so he re-opened the "silk route" with China by selling them Saltpeter:



In minor news, what was left of the American Cavalry force that had attacked San Francisco the previous year was completely destroyed by Roman Riflemen.

The third of the five "fill-in" cities was built in October of the same year. It was named Pompeii, and it was built between San Franisco and Seleucia, near a river and near an ominous mountain named Mt. Vesuvius (That's right, I finally have my volcano city!).



In other news, Horsetown got tired of having such a silly name and decided to rename itself to "Artaxata" after a famous mythical guy or something. It was not major news, so the exact details or forgotten (If you wish to know why I renamed Horsetown, the answer is in Chapter 5 when I originally built the city, I think).



More deals were made in 1811, almost always involving luxuries. An Ivory-for-Wines deal Caeser had with China expired, so Caeser renewed it (for a price)



And, the embargoes Caeser had with Babylon and the Dutch against Egypt ran out. He chose not to renew them, but sold each nation a technology:





A unit of Roman Cavalry was currently camped out Southeast of Seattle. So, America decided to do something about it and attacked with Longbowmen and Cavalry, one unit of each. The valiant Roman Cavalry were able to defeat the Longbowmen, but just couldn't stand up to the American Cavalry attack. It is fortunate, then, that the Roman Riflemen at San Francisco were able to stand up to American Cavalry.

Citizens of Rome awoke on January 12, 1812 to get the new book they had heard about. It was called The Heroic Epic, and it told of some of the epic and destructive battles that Hadrian and Maximus had fought in, written by an anonymous writer who asked them personally about their stories.



A quiet couple of years followed these two big years, but then there was some action. 1813 had ended with some American troops vulnerable in Roman territory. A unit of Longbowmen and a unit of Cavalry, to be exact, and they were both attacked by Roman Riflemen. Lincoln recieved some of their heads after Rome won these battles easily.

Realizing that there was no way to continue in the north without going through the American capital which was surely heavily defended, Caeser refocused his efforts at the south. He currently has a multitude of Cavalry, including Hadrian's Army, and some cannons, too, near Seattle. America tried to assualt a position to the southeast of the city (again?) in 1815, but one of their units of Cavalry was no match for a unit of Roman Cavalry this time. Seattle would soon fall.

But before it fell, In early 1816, The fourth fill-in city, Aurelianorum, was founded to the Southwest of Houston's ruins, by a river. One fill-in city remains to be built- in the desert west of Sardica.



But now, the Battle of Seattle (Hey, it rhymes!) began. The outcome was in little doubt. After bombardment from the cannons and the RS Dominator, The Cavalry were ready to attack. Two subsequent Cavalry charges defeated two riflemen garrisons in Seattle, one of these charges coming from the unit that Maximus had once led, and then Hadrian sent in his army to finish the job, killing two riflemen garrisons and one longbowmen garrison before the city fell, on June 30th. The USS Discovery was destroyed in the fighting.



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America lost another city in the spring of 1817. Buffalo, their nothernmost non-foreign city (Vilcas, their only remaining Inca city, is slightly farther north), fell to the Dutch. Lincoln was getting desperate. He needed some peace, so he started with the Byzantines.



Lincoln now only has to deal with Rome, Holland, and the one-city Babylonians. Or, rather, two-city Babylonians, as Ellipi, one of the cities they had lost in their war with the Dutch, had overthrown the Dutch governor and returned to Babylon soon after this deal.

The ensuing years were rather slow with respect to the war. All that happened in 1818 was the capture of an American worker by Roman Cavalry. Nothing happened in 1819. 1820 was slightly eventful, as San Francisco's rebellion defeated the Roman garrison and America regained control of the city on February 12...



...But Hadrian's army easily defeated the city's pitiful defense and recpatured the city one month later.



Normally, Caeser would have had the city burned for deposing, but seeing as this one wasn't instant, it had critical resources, and it cut into Washington's borders quite a bit, Caeser let the city be spared.

This time...