The Conquests
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Mostly it's just cause I have about 15-20 pics in every update while your story has around 2 in every update, and clicking "Show Spoiler" every few lines 20 times per update would get annoying. Also, my internet connection doesn't lag from it, so I don't really notice if there's too many pics and slowing people down. Sorry if it's doing that to you. 
Chapter 3: The Bronze Age
Hat thought for a while what she would do with Ptolemy. He could build something or usher in a new Age of Science. She soon realized the Age of Science was useless. So, she decided she'd have him build something. But what to build? Her available choices were a Statue of a God, and a Statue of a different God sitting in a Temple to that God. Her advisors said they'd soon come up with a way to build a Temple to an entirely different God, minus the Statue. She wondered if anyone would ever come up with something big to build that wasn't built for a God, or if she could wait for something new to be able to be built.
In the end, she decided to build the Statue of Zeus, as she decided it would provide the most benefit and could be built soon. As to where to build it, she just decided it could be whatever city was first finished with what it was currently doing. All cities were currently in the middle of something. The first to finish was Heliopolis in 2145 BC, which finished building a temple. So, it would be the location of the Statue. Ptolemy had earlier arrived there and would soon help them with it.
Also, some Harappan Warriors appeared to the west of Thebes that same year. Hat wonders if these are the same Warriors that ran away from the village to the West all those years ago. Their presence meant that the Archers in Thebes would have to cross the Nile River so that they could move to kill them if the Harappans decided to threaten the workers clearing the marshes there.
In 2130, shortly after the Archers crossed the river, Ptolemy, using his great scientific knowledge, sped up the construction of the Statue of Zeus. Nobody knows how this worked, they just go with it. And so, 15 years later, the Statue of Zeus was completed.
For some reason, this made living spaces for the soldiers spontaneously appear in every city in Egypt, and need no money to keep up. The Gods are strange.
Also, the Harappan Warriors moved to the Southeast. Hat wonders what they were trying to get to, but that is something nobody will ever know. They were close enough to the road network for the Archers to easily be able to reach them, and so the Archers went west and rained death upon the Harappan Warriors. There were no Harappan survivors, and the Archers took no damage. They would return to Thebes as soon as they could.
In 2070, Hat observed that the Medes had developed a new system of government, an Oligarchy. Hat looked at it and decided that, unlike Tribal Council, it was superior to Despotism, probably why they were in the process of switching to it. And so, she'd try to get it, but the Medes wouldn't trade it to the Egyptians for everything Egypt had. It could wait, then...
She also saw that the Phoenicians had FINALLY built two new cities, Berytus and Ugarit. 4 cities brings them up to about what most people had a millennium ago. One is built on the Sinai peninsula near some resources, the other on top of a Hill with stone on it across the Gulf of Aqaba. Hat questions the wisdom of building cities on top of resources, which makes them not quite as useful. She also notes they built Tyre on top of a herd of Cows. Stupid Phoenicians. She also looks at some of the other civilizations, and worries she is starting to fall behind in the city race. On the other hand, it's not like there's many good places to build a city in the freaking desert, and notes that probably more than a few of Babylon and Sumeria's cities, at the very least, are just as worthless.
They built a 5th city in the north sometime between 2040 and 2010, putting them... still far in last place. There were also some new techs developed that year. Babylon had developed an advanced form of Diplomacy, to negotiate some new agreements. The Medes had new advances in Polytheism, which they could use to build a big Temple and get more smaller temples for free. Hat wanted these, but could not get them. Oh well, she could get them soon.
For, in 1995, her scientists finished figuring out how to ride Horses. Why that took a crack team of scientists almost 200 years to figure out is anyone's guess. But, it could be traded, and knowing how to ride Horses would let them have soldiers even slightly stronger than the War Chariots (3/2/2 as opposed to 3/1/2), and also that could go through difficult terrain without being bogged down. The War Chariots were still useful and would still be built, though.
And so, in 1980, the knowledge of how to ride a Horse was traded, along with Astronomical knowledge of some stars, to the Babylonians in return for their Diplomatic technology and some gold.
This new Diplomacy, along with the knowledge of how to ride Horses, was then traded to the Medes so that Egypt could have this religious knowledge of Polytheism.
Some new Gods were revealed to Egypt, and they could now build a big Temple to a God named Artemis, and get some smaller Temples. Hat decided this sounded good, and would build it in Thebes in 1950 when it was free to do so. If nothing else, it might be useful to change to something else later.
Before that happened, in 1965, Hiram of the Phoenicians arrived with a demand of a technology.
Hat thought about this for a while, then decided to say, "You're smaller, you're weaker, you're more backwards, you're poorer. What possible threat can you be to us? Go take this demand back to Tyre, and shove it..."
"All right, All right. I, uh... admire your courage in calling our... uh... bluff. You impress us. Pray you don't impress us again!" Hiram left hurriedly after saying this.
It seemed to be "Demand things from Egypt Century", for, in 1935, Cyaxares also demanded a technology.
"Oh, sorry," said Hat. "I assume you can get a bunch of soldiers the thousand miles distance between our countries, and go through a few other nations to get here? You don't have the ability to do that. You may be stronger than me, but not by much, and I doubt you can even get that army over here."
"Meh," said Cyaxares. "You're right, I won't come over here. Your pathetic civilization isn't even worth destroying anyway."
Hat was tempted to get revenge for that comment, but then decided that she could do that later.
This was followed by nothing happening for a while, although Hat noticed some other civilizations getting Oligarchy. Sumeria got it in 1860, and Babylon in 1830. She finally decided it was time to trade for it. Babylon and Sumeria were more backwards than Media, so she had more to trade to them. She decided to go with the Sumerians, who she could trade Mining and Polytheism to. This would still require more gold than she had. But then she realized: She could give them Mining first, then trade them Bronze Working. Since they had nothing at all to trade for Mining, she just decided she'd give it to them for free as a gift.
They happily accepted this gift, and seemed to like the Egyptians a bit more now. Then she traded them Bronze Working and Polytheism for the new government of Oligarchy. This still cost some gold, but considerably less.
Unlike them, she wouldn't switch to this new government away from Despotism just yet. But soon, whenever a good time was, the government would restructure and become an Oligarchy.
In the meantime, in 1830, a couple of Phoenician and Egypt workers had been building roads, and a little irrigation, in the past, and now they both finished some roads. A continuous road now connected Tyre to Giza, and, by extension, to the rest of Egypt. News on whether other Phoenician cities are connected to this network has yet to be determined.
Sadly, Phoenicia has no resources to trade along this network. They have only enough Dyes for themselves, and they seem to be seriously lacking some other resources. They also seemed to be annoyed at the worker in their territory, and asked him to leave. That was fine by the Egyptians, the worker was about to leave anyway.
In 1815, Egyptian scientists discovered how to build bigger things out of stone, which they call Masonry. The only real practical use of this is to build giant "Aqueducts", as they call them, to bring fresh water from elsewhere to cities far away from the Nile River with no access to fresh water. Or outposts to get some knowledge of the terrain, but most people consider that to be useless.
2 Warrior groups in the west, having little else to do, had spent a lot of the recent past exploring the desert. In 1800, they ran into some people who called themselves the Libyans, and rode on Horses. The Warriors will likely not be able to fight against these strong Libyan Horsemen, especially since they don't know where their camp is so they can destroy it.
Hat talked to her advisors and some other top government officials. The subject of the meeting was if now was a good time to reorganize the Government as an Oligarchy. There were obvious benefits, namely lowering corruption, and making some of the more productive areas stop being wasted by the harshness of some of the more corrupt Despotic government officials. A disadvantage would be the small cities would be less able to support the military until they got bigger, so money would have to be spent keeping the military up.
Several different factions in this group argued over what to do. The largest group argued that yes, Egypt needed to become an Oligarchy now, with members of it having varying reasons for why. "It will improve production!" "It will give people more freedom that they deserve!" "We cannot allow others to use a more efficient form of government while we languish behind in Despotism any longer!" Hat seemed to be leaning their way, but would listen to others. Another group of people wanted to wait to switch to Oligarchy, and do something first. For a few it was build a few more cities, more military, and just more stuff, some goal they wanted to reach before they made any changes. A few wanted to finish work on the Temple of Artemis before this happened, but most of them soon went to the "Change Now" group, after it was pointed out that any lost production during the probably brief change period would be made up for afterwards, when the production would be massively sped up.
A third group wanted to wait for a different form of government, deciding that Oligarchy wasn't good enough to be worth the switch. It was the second-largest group after the group that wanted to change now. The last few people didn't seem to care, or even seemed to prefer staying in Despotism forever. Hat noted who these people were, and had her advisors look at their records. They were nearly all corrupt people that were benefiting under the current system at the cost of everyone else. For that matter, so were many who wanted to wait for a different government to switch. After firing all of them, she decided it would be good to switch to Oligarchy now.
Towards the end of 1800, Hat, her advisors, and top officials who also wanted to switch to Oligarchy, decided they would announce the switch and make it official. The announcement was made shortly before some celebrations of the new year, and new century (many disagreed on whether the 1800's-1700's BC century should begin in 1800 or 1799, so they just decided to celebrate both times). Hat spoke to a crowd of many. "People of Egypt! This country his stagnated and suffered under this corrupt Despotic System for more than Two Thousand Years now. No more! For we will restructure the government into an Oligarchy, and remove the rampant corruption, and bring it down to manageable levels. I fear we can never eradicate it completely, but this should be good enough. The Old Kingdom is at an end, and a New one shall be here soon, and it will make life better for all. Hopefully, this change will be done quickly and painlessly. We will get to making these changes right now. Thank you, bye!" The crowd cheered, and they left to make the changes. Sadly, it would not be quick and painless, for as long as there were people around to abuse the current system for power, they would fight to defend it. And so, they massed an army and attacked the capital. They were repelled, but many of their supporters still remain in the city, and battles have erupted everywhere. No work can be done, no money can be made, people just survive. Everything is in anarchy.
Some citizens everywhere were turned into Tax Men to both prevent riots, and allow some gold to flow into the government's coffers- or what there was of the government- during this period.
In 1785, the Babylonians came to Egypt, with offer of an alliance. They would be able to freely pass through each other's territory, and would defend each other if attacked. It seemed like a tempting offer, but it had a downside- they required some money be paid to them, and Hat decided she couldn't afford that while Egypt was in the middle of Anarchy. Also, it might complicate things somewhat, with all the anarchy and all. So, she politely said no, and said she might think about it at some later point.
In 1785, the Lybian Horsemen charged at one of the two Warrior groups. The Battle was over quickly, the Warriors never had a chance against the mass of Horsemen charging at them with spears. The Libyans suffered no casualties. Unable to charge the other one, they simply held position in the desert.
And yet, that did not save them. The other Warriors attacked and killed them in 1770. They simply aren't near as good at defending as they are at attacking, and that cost them all their lives. This time it was the Egyptians who took 0 casualties.
Meanwhile, the country remained in anarchy. The forces on Hat's side trying to restore order and create an Oligarchy were gradually winning and bringing more of the country under their control, but it would not end for a while. In 1740, some citizens headed East to the Red Sea, near some Forests, Hills, Ivory, and an interesting thread called Silks that they really liked. They built a city there, called El-Amarna.
They hoped Anarchy would not follow them there, and yet it did. Some blame this on the nice location that many people wanted. Others blame it on the only road to the city going through Pi-Ramesses, the city that was the de facto Capital of the Despotic forces and one of the most dangerous places in the country at the time, and also the close proximity to said city.
And yet, that might have helped the Civil War between the various forces who wanted control of the government to end. There had been many of these, but Hat and the supporters of Oligarchy had wiped most of them out after all those years of war. Finally, only the former Corrupt Despots were left. A large assault on Pi-Ramesses was finally able to push them out, and after they ran to El-Amarna, they were quickly attacked again before they could regain any strength. A few escaped by boat, though where they got the boats nobody knows. Most died. One final battle against the remainder of the Despotic forces happened in 1700, in the desert East of Thebes. They were finished off, and the century of war finally ended. The Anarchy could now end, and the Oligarchy could finally come into being. In 1695, the transition was finally complete. Took about a century longer than it needed to.
Hat spoke again. "Sorry about that century, let's not do that again. Well, bye, here's to the next century not being a long anarchic war!"
A few adjustments needed to be made in 1680, mainly returning tax collectors to work and moving people around. But it was complete. More food, more production, more gold being accumulated than under Despotism. Yet, Egypt still lost some money, as they had to pay the military more now. They needed to grow their cities bigger to prevent this, and maybe build some more. The Temple of Artemis, meanwhile, was getting done way faster than before, and scientists started working again.
Meanwhile, in the north in 1650, near the Hittites Southeasternmost city, some Warriors happened to come across a village of people on a hill. They were a little surprised. They had thought that all of these villages would be gone by now. They found it strange, but liked the opportunity, and went in. They found that the people living there were the Nubians, the old barbarian enemy of Egypt. And yet, these people were peaceful. They were different from the other Nubians who only wished to fight. They even taught the Egyptian Warriors how to build some really, really, really big things.
They could build massive Pyramids with this. It was quickly decided, though, that that was a bit of a waste of time, that it would be better to only build one giant building at once, at least for now. And they decided the Temple of Artemis would be more useful to them than the Pyramids, for varying reasons.
That same year, the Warriors in the West found the Libyans' Camp from which they strike. In it are some Warriors who are on foot, and some who ride Horses. They probably will not survive this encounter, especially if they aren't the ones who attack. But they will try.
And so, in 1635, the Libyan Horsemen attacked the Warriors. It seemed like it would be an easy victory for them. And yet, the Warriors braved the charge and were able to avoid being skewered by spears, and took them all down, without even losing many of their own men. They still lost quite a bit, though, so they will hold at their current position to the South of the Libyan Camp until they can get back to full strength.
Also, that year, a boat was finally completed in Giza, called a Curragh. It will head North to explore the Mediterranean Coastline. It headed out in 1620, at a slow pace. The Phoenicians seemed to be annoyed at it going through their waters, and harrassed the Egyptians to ask them to leave. Hat said they would, but still had to go through those waters. The Curragh could not safely venture far from shore.
In 1590, the full strength Warriors charged into the Libyan camp, and killed the remaining unmounted Warriors defending it. For Warriors who'd already taken out Horsemen, it was an easy battle. They killed them all, destroyed the camp, took the gold, blah blah blah. They have become veterans of combat after many battles. (dozens of battles against barbarians, and this is the first time I FINALLY get a unit to promote from regular to veteran...)
It was also noticed that some people had come into contact with a new civilization (Seriously, it took more than 60 turns for them to find anyone, even the Hittites?), called the Mycenaeans. Hat wants to meet them, so she gave the Phoenicians Mining in return for contact with them and some gold.
She went to meet the Mycenaeans. They were led by a guy named Agamemnon. They were very backwards, more so than even the Phoenicians and Hittites, although they weren't behind in size, and they were richer than anyone else. That last one soon changed, as Hat noticed they didn't know Babylon yet, and decided to trade contact to Babylon for some of their money.
Some of this money was used to fund the building of an Egyptian Embassy in Mycenae. It was in the Far Northwest and had 18,888 people, some Wheat, Cows, and Fish nearby, had water to the North and East of it, and was rather hilly. It was blocked off from fresh water by those hills. On the other hand, they had many luxuries keeping people happy.
Now everyone knew everyone, and Egypt had an embassy with everyone, assuming there weren't any more civilizations out there than these 7. Given there isn't that much more space, there's no reason to assume there are more people out there.
Shortly after all the hubbub of everyone knowing everyone was over, nothing much happened for about a century. The Curragh discovered an island just to the west of the Phoenician city of Byblos, which they call Cyprus. So far, all they can see of it is some Hills with wines. Hat also got messages that Medes and Sumeria were also working on the Temple of Artemis, and Sumeria was working on the Pyramids. It doesn't concern her, they will likely not finish the Temple before here with the massive head start and she has and large, productive city she's building it in, but it looks like she can't get the pyramids. Oh well, you can't have everything.
The scientists appeared as happy as ever in 1485 when they had a new tech researched. "We have discovered advanced Construction!" one of them said. "We can build big forts and barricades for defense, we could build a new palace elsewhere if that was ever deemed convenient."
Hat seemed unimpressed, but asked them to go on.
"We can also build bridges with our roads, so people will no longer be slowed down when crossing the Nile River!"
This was very good. Now that they could just walk across the bridges everywhere along the Nile without stopping, it would speed up travel a lot. For that matter, if they ever had any other rivers, they could build bridges there, too. Ha. Fat Chance, but still nice.
"Okay, you've told me about this. Got anything else to say?" said Hat.
"Yes. We think that the Bronze Age is over now. We have finished every technology in it, and we believe that we have now reached a distinctly new age in our development!"
Hat wonders what they mean by this. She doesn't notice much of a difference in things, but is glad that they seem to be working on far more advanced-sounding things now, whatever it is they're doing.
She was also glad that most of the Marshes had been cleared from the Nile Delta. Some settlers were now in the area in 1470, to build a city in what previously would have been terrain too wet to build in. It was on the coast, and the River, and had some fish. It would be able to grow very big and be very productive. It was called Hieraconpolis.
With 9 cities, Egypt was still a little behind other people. Most of them had 10 or 11 cities. Sumeria was well ahead, with 14. She wondered how there was space for all of these cities, but sadly lacks a map of anything but Egypt and Phoenicia. The Phoenicians are still behind with 5 cities, and, as they become enclosed by the Babylonians and Hittites, don't have many more places to expand to. She looks at the map of Egypt and Phoenicia she has, and is happy at how big it is getting.
She wonders if she could ever get some of the things Phoenicia owns...
Hat thought for a while what she would do with Ptolemy. He could build something or usher in a new Age of Science. She soon realized the Age of Science was useless. So, she decided she'd have him build something. But what to build? Her available choices were a Statue of a God, and a Statue of a different God sitting in a Temple to that God. Her advisors said they'd soon come up with a way to build a Temple to an entirely different God, minus the Statue. She wondered if anyone would ever come up with something big to build that wasn't built for a God, or if she could wait for something new to be able to be built.
In the end, she decided to build the Statue of Zeus, as she decided it would provide the most benefit and could be built soon. As to where to build it, she just decided it could be whatever city was first finished with what it was currently doing. All cities were currently in the middle of something. The first to finish was Heliopolis in 2145 BC, which finished building a temple. So, it would be the location of the Statue. Ptolemy had earlier arrived there and would soon help them with it.
Also, some Harappan Warriors appeared to the west of Thebes that same year. Hat wonders if these are the same Warriors that ran away from the village to the West all those years ago. Their presence meant that the Archers in Thebes would have to cross the Nile River so that they could move to kill them if the Harappans decided to threaten the workers clearing the marshes there.
In 2130, shortly after the Archers crossed the river, Ptolemy, using his great scientific knowledge, sped up the construction of the Statue of Zeus. Nobody knows how this worked, they just go with it. And so, 15 years later, the Statue of Zeus was completed.
For some reason, this made living spaces for the soldiers spontaneously appear in every city in Egypt, and need no money to keep up. The Gods are strange.
Also, the Harappan Warriors moved to the Southeast. Hat wonders what they were trying to get to, but that is something nobody will ever know. They were close enough to the road network for the Archers to easily be able to reach them, and so the Archers went west and rained death upon the Harappan Warriors. There were no Harappan survivors, and the Archers took no damage. They would return to Thebes as soon as they could.
In 2070, Hat observed that the Medes had developed a new system of government, an Oligarchy. Hat looked at it and decided that, unlike Tribal Council, it was superior to Despotism, probably why they were in the process of switching to it. And so, she'd try to get it, but the Medes wouldn't trade it to the Egyptians for everything Egypt had. It could wait, then...
She also saw that the Phoenicians had FINALLY built two new cities, Berytus and Ugarit. 4 cities brings them up to about what most people had a millennium ago. One is built on the Sinai peninsula near some resources, the other on top of a Hill with stone on it across the Gulf of Aqaba. Hat questions the wisdom of building cities on top of resources, which makes them not quite as useful. She also notes they built Tyre on top of a herd of Cows. Stupid Phoenicians. She also looks at some of the other civilizations, and worries she is starting to fall behind in the city race. On the other hand, it's not like there's many good places to build a city in the freaking desert, and notes that probably more than a few of Babylon and Sumeria's cities, at the very least, are just as worthless.
They built a 5th city in the north sometime between 2040 and 2010, putting them... still far in last place. There were also some new techs developed that year. Babylon had developed an advanced form of Diplomacy, to negotiate some new agreements. The Medes had new advances in Polytheism, which they could use to build a big Temple and get more smaller temples for free. Hat wanted these, but could not get them. Oh well, she could get them soon.
For, in 1995, her scientists finished figuring out how to ride Horses. Why that took a crack team of scientists almost 200 years to figure out is anyone's guess. But, it could be traded, and knowing how to ride Horses would let them have soldiers even slightly stronger than the War Chariots (3/2/2 as opposed to 3/1/2), and also that could go through difficult terrain without being bogged down. The War Chariots were still useful and would still be built, though.
And so, in 1980, the knowledge of how to ride a Horse was traded, along with Astronomical knowledge of some stars, to the Babylonians in return for their Diplomatic technology and some gold.
This new Diplomacy, along with the knowledge of how to ride Horses, was then traded to the Medes so that Egypt could have this religious knowledge of Polytheism.
Some new Gods were revealed to Egypt, and they could now build a big Temple to a God named Artemis, and get some smaller Temples. Hat decided this sounded good, and would build it in Thebes in 1950 when it was free to do so. If nothing else, it might be useful to change to something else later.
Before that happened, in 1965, Hiram of the Phoenicians arrived with a demand of a technology.
Hat thought about this for a while, then decided to say, "You're smaller, you're weaker, you're more backwards, you're poorer. What possible threat can you be to us? Go take this demand back to Tyre, and shove it..."
"All right, All right. I, uh... admire your courage in calling our... uh... bluff. You impress us. Pray you don't impress us again!" Hiram left hurriedly after saying this.
It seemed to be "Demand things from Egypt Century", for, in 1935, Cyaxares also demanded a technology.
"Oh, sorry," said Hat. "I assume you can get a bunch of soldiers the thousand miles distance between our countries, and go through a few other nations to get here? You don't have the ability to do that. You may be stronger than me, but not by much, and I doubt you can even get that army over here."
"Meh," said Cyaxares. "You're right, I won't come over here. Your pathetic civilization isn't even worth destroying anyway."
Hat was tempted to get revenge for that comment, but then decided that she could do that later.
This was followed by nothing happening for a while, although Hat noticed some other civilizations getting Oligarchy. Sumeria got it in 1860, and Babylon in 1830. She finally decided it was time to trade for it. Babylon and Sumeria were more backwards than Media, so she had more to trade to them. She decided to go with the Sumerians, who she could trade Mining and Polytheism to. This would still require more gold than she had. But then she realized: She could give them Mining first, then trade them Bronze Working. Since they had nothing at all to trade for Mining, she just decided she'd give it to them for free as a gift.
They happily accepted this gift, and seemed to like the Egyptians a bit more now. Then she traded them Bronze Working and Polytheism for the new government of Oligarchy. This still cost some gold, but considerably less.
Unlike them, she wouldn't switch to this new government away from Despotism just yet. But soon, whenever a good time was, the government would restructure and become an Oligarchy.
In the meantime, in 1830, a couple of Phoenician and Egypt workers had been building roads, and a little irrigation, in the past, and now they both finished some roads. A continuous road now connected Tyre to Giza, and, by extension, to the rest of Egypt. News on whether other Phoenician cities are connected to this network has yet to be determined.
Sadly, Phoenicia has no resources to trade along this network. They have only enough Dyes for themselves, and they seem to be seriously lacking some other resources. They also seemed to be annoyed at the worker in their territory, and asked him to leave. That was fine by the Egyptians, the worker was about to leave anyway.
In 1815, Egyptian scientists discovered how to build bigger things out of stone, which they call Masonry. The only real practical use of this is to build giant "Aqueducts", as they call them, to bring fresh water from elsewhere to cities far away from the Nile River with no access to fresh water. Or outposts to get some knowledge of the terrain, but most people consider that to be useless.
2 Warrior groups in the west, having little else to do, had spent a lot of the recent past exploring the desert. In 1800, they ran into some people who called themselves the Libyans, and rode on Horses. The Warriors will likely not be able to fight against these strong Libyan Horsemen, especially since they don't know where their camp is so they can destroy it.
Hat talked to her advisors and some other top government officials. The subject of the meeting was if now was a good time to reorganize the Government as an Oligarchy. There were obvious benefits, namely lowering corruption, and making some of the more productive areas stop being wasted by the harshness of some of the more corrupt Despotic government officials. A disadvantage would be the small cities would be less able to support the military until they got bigger, so money would have to be spent keeping the military up.
Several different factions in this group argued over what to do. The largest group argued that yes, Egypt needed to become an Oligarchy now, with members of it having varying reasons for why. "It will improve production!" "It will give people more freedom that they deserve!" "We cannot allow others to use a more efficient form of government while we languish behind in Despotism any longer!" Hat seemed to be leaning their way, but would listen to others. Another group of people wanted to wait to switch to Oligarchy, and do something first. For a few it was build a few more cities, more military, and just more stuff, some goal they wanted to reach before they made any changes. A few wanted to finish work on the Temple of Artemis before this happened, but most of them soon went to the "Change Now" group, after it was pointed out that any lost production during the probably brief change period would be made up for afterwards, when the production would be massively sped up.
A third group wanted to wait for a different form of government, deciding that Oligarchy wasn't good enough to be worth the switch. It was the second-largest group after the group that wanted to change now. The last few people didn't seem to care, or even seemed to prefer staying in Despotism forever. Hat noted who these people were, and had her advisors look at their records. They were nearly all corrupt people that were benefiting under the current system at the cost of everyone else. For that matter, so were many who wanted to wait for a different government to switch. After firing all of them, she decided it would be good to switch to Oligarchy now.
Towards the end of 1800, Hat, her advisors, and top officials who also wanted to switch to Oligarchy, decided they would announce the switch and make it official. The announcement was made shortly before some celebrations of the new year, and new century (many disagreed on whether the 1800's-1700's BC century should begin in 1800 or 1799, so they just decided to celebrate both times). Hat spoke to a crowd of many. "People of Egypt! This country his stagnated and suffered under this corrupt Despotic System for more than Two Thousand Years now. No more! For we will restructure the government into an Oligarchy, and remove the rampant corruption, and bring it down to manageable levels. I fear we can never eradicate it completely, but this should be good enough. The Old Kingdom is at an end, and a New one shall be here soon, and it will make life better for all. Hopefully, this change will be done quickly and painlessly. We will get to making these changes right now. Thank you, bye!" The crowd cheered, and they left to make the changes. Sadly, it would not be quick and painless, for as long as there were people around to abuse the current system for power, they would fight to defend it. And so, they massed an army and attacked the capital. They were repelled, but many of their supporters still remain in the city, and battles have erupted everywhere. No work can be done, no money can be made, people just survive. Everything is in anarchy.
Some citizens everywhere were turned into Tax Men to both prevent riots, and allow some gold to flow into the government's coffers- or what there was of the government- during this period.
In 1785, the Babylonians came to Egypt, with offer of an alliance. They would be able to freely pass through each other's territory, and would defend each other if attacked. It seemed like a tempting offer, but it had a downside- they required some money be paid to them, and Hat decided she couldn't afford that while Egypt was in the middle of Anarchy. Also, it might complicate things somewhat, with all the anarchy and all. So, she politely said no, and said she might think about it at some later point.
In 1785, the Lybian Horsemen charged at one of the two Warrior groups. The Battle was over quickly, the Warriors never had a chance against the mass of Horsemen charging at them with spears. The Libyans suffered no casualties. Unable to charge the other one, they simply held position in the desert.
And yet, that did not save them. The other Warriors attacked and killed them in 1770. They simply aren't near as good at defending as they are at attacking, and that cost them all their lives. This time it was the Egyptians who took 0 casualties.
Meanwhile, the country remained in anarchy. The forces on Hat's side trying to restore order and create an Oligarchy were gradually winning and bringing more of the country under their control, but it would not end for a while. In 1740, some citizens headed East to the Red Sea, near some Forests, Hills, Ivory, and an interesting thread called Silks that they really liked. They built a city there, called El-Amarna.
They hoped Anarchy would not follow them there, and yet it did. Some blame this on the nice location that many people wanted. Others blame it on the only road to the city going through Pi-Ramesses, the city that was the de facto Capital of the Despotic forces and one of the most dangerous places in the country at the time, and also the close proximity to said city.
And yet, that might have helped the Civil War between the various forces who wanted control of the government to end. There had been many of these, but Hat and the supporters of Oligarchy had wiped most of them out after all those years of war. Finally, only the former Corrupt Despots were left. A large assault on Pi-Ramesses was finally able to push them out, and after they ran to El-Amarna, they were quickly attacked again before they could regain any strength. A few escaped by boat, though where they got the boats nobody knows. Most died. One final battle against the remainder of the Despotic forces happened in 1700, in the desert East of Thebes. They were finished off, and the century of war finally ended. The Anarchy could now end, and the Oligarchy could finally come into being. In 1695, the transition was finally complete. Took about a century longer than it needed to.
Hat spoke again. "Sorry about that century, let's not do that again. Well, bye, here's to the next century not being a long anarchic war!"
A few adjustments needed to be made in 1680, mainly returning tax collectors to work and moving people around. But it was complete. More food, more production, more gold being accumulated than under Despotism. Yet, Egypt still lost some money, as they had to pay the military more now. They needed to grow their cities bigger to prevent this, and maybe build some more. The Temple of Artemis, meanwhile, was getting done way faster than before, and scientists started working again.
Meanwhile, in the north in 1650, near the Hittites Southeasternmost city, some Warriors happened to come across a village of people on a hill. They were a little surprised. They had thought that all of these villages would be gone by now. They found it strange, but liked the opportunity, and went in. They found that the people living there were the Nubians, the old barbarian enemy of Egypt. And yet, these people were peaceful. They were different from the other Nubians who only wished to fight. They even taught the Egyptian Warriors how to build some really, really, really big things.
They could build massive Pyramids with this. It was quickly decided, though, that that was a bit of a waste of time, that it would be better to only build one giant building at once, at least for now. And they decided the Temple of Artemis would be more useful to them than the Pyramids, for varying reasons.
That same year, the Warriors in the West found the Libyans' Camp from which they strike. In it are some Warriors who are on foot, and some who ride Horses. They probably will not survive this encounter, especially if they aren't the ones who attack. But they will try.
And so, in 1635, the Libyan Horsemen attacked the Warriors. It seemed like it would be an easy victory for them. And yet, the Warriors braved the charge and were able to avoid being skewered by spears, and took them all down, without even losing many of their own men. They still lost quite a bit, though, so they will hold at their current position to the South of the Libyan Camp until they can get back to full strength.
Also, that year, a boat was finally completed in Giza, called a Curragh. It will head North to explore the Mediterranean Coastline. It headed out in 1620, at a slow pace. The Phoenicians seemed to be annoyed at it going through their waters, and harrassed the Egyptians to ask them to leave. Hat said they would, but still had to go through those waters. The Curragh could not safely venture far from shore.
In 1590, the full strength Warriors charged into the Libyan camp, and killed the remaining unmounted Warriors defending it. For Warriors who'd already taken out Horsemen, it was an easy battle. They killed them all, destroyed the camp, took the gold, blah blah blah. They have become veterans of combat after many battles. (dozens of battles against barbarians, and this is the first time I FINALLY get a unit to promote from regular to veteran...)
It was also noticed that some people had come into contact with a new civilization (Seriously, it took more than 60 turns for them to find anyone, even the Hittites?), called the Mycenaeans. Hat wants to meet them, so she gave the Phoenicians Mining in return for contact with them and some gold.
She went to meet the Mycenaeans. They were led by a guy named Agamemnon. They were very backwards, more so than even the Phoenicians and Hittites, although they weren't behind in size, and they were richer than anyone else. That last one soon changed, as Hat noticed they didn't know Babylon yet, and decided to trade contact to Babylon for some of their money.
Some of this money was used to fund the building of an Egyptian Embassy in Mycenae. It was in the Far Northwest and had 18,888 people, some Wheat, Cows, and Fish nearby, had water to the North and East of it, and was rather hilly. It was blocked off from fresh water by those hills. On the other hand, they had many luxuries keeping people happy.
Now everyone knew everyone, and Egypt had an embassy with everyone, assuming there weren't any more civilizations out there than these 7. Given there isn't that much more space, there's no reason to assume there are more people out there.
Shortly after all the hubbub of everyone knowing everyone was over, nothing much happened for about a century. The Curragh discovered an island just to the west of the Phoenician city of Byblos, which they call Cyprus. So far, all they can see of it is some Hills with wines. Hat also got messages that Medes and Sumeria were also working on the Temple of Artemis, and Sumeria was working on the Pyramids. It doesn't concern her, they will likely not finish the Temple before here with the massive head start and she has and large, productive city she's building it in, but it looks like she can't get the pyramids. Oh well, you can't have everything.
The scientists appeared as happy as ever in 1485 when they had a new tech researched. "We have discovered advanced Construction!" one of them said. "We can build big forts and barricades for defense, we could build a new palace elsewhere if that was ever deemed convenient."
Hat seemed unimpressed, but asked them to go on.
"We can also build bridges with our roads, so people will no longer be slowed down when crossing the Nile River!"
This was very good. Now that they could just walk across the bridges everywhere along the Nile without stopping, it would speed up travel a lot. For that matter, if they ever had any other rivers, they could build bridges there, too. Ha. Fat Chance, but still nice.
"Okay, you've told me about this. Got anything else to say?" said Hat.
"Yes. We think that the Bronze Age is over now. We have finished every technology in it, and we believe that we have now reached a distinctly new age in our development!"
Hat wonders what they mean by this. She doesn't notice much of a difference in things, but is glad that they seem to be working on far more advanced-sounding things now, whatever it is they're doing.
She was also glad that most of the Marshes had been cleared from the Nile Delta. Some settlers were now in the area in 1470, to build a city in what previously would have been terrain too wet to build in. It was on the coast, and the River, and had some fish. It would be able to grow very big and be very productive. It was called Hieraconpolis.
With 9 cities, Egypt was still a little behind other people. Most of them had 10 or 11 cities. Sumeria was well ahead, with 14. She wondered how there was space for all of these cities, but sadly lacks a map of anything but Egypt and Phoenicia. The Phoenicians are still behind with 5 cities, and, as they become enclosed by the Babylonians and Hittites, don't have many more places to expand to. She looks at the map of Egypt and Phoenicia she has, and is happy at how big it is getting.
She wonders if she could ever get some of the things Phoenicia owns...
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Cmon CxC the desert! 
I've got an update ready for posting, and it shall be posted, soon. There might be a long gap between updates after that, since I'll be out of town from the 9th to the 12th and unable to play the game, although I'll probably have internet access. I'll try to get some more turns done and have an update on the 8th so you don't have to wait as long between updates.
Chapter 4: Fighting the Barbarian Hordes
The various tribal groups in the Western Desert had given Egypt much trouble from time to time, although by 1470 BC they were believed to be mostly gone. Well, yes, most of the tribes were gone by that point, but the remaining ones would be much stronger than the others, as they now had Horses, and plenty of them.
The races to various wonders continued in 1455, with Babylon beginning the Temple of Artemis and Sumeria beginning the Colossus. Hat was confident that she could get the Temple before anyone, for the simple reason that the other civilizations didn't have very big cities, and couldn't build things fast in their small cities. Thebes, on the other hand, was probably the largest city in the world, and had the ability to produce things very quickly.
The Sumerians came to Egypt in 1425, demanding the technology of Construction so that they could advance into the Iron Age like Egypt had.
Hat thought about this for a few minutes. She then said, "So, you want Construction? Alright, come over to Egypt and take it, then. That's the only way you're getting it, cause I'm not giving it away for free."
Gilgamesh must have decided not to come and take it, as he left shortly after that, and didn't come back with an army.
In 1410, the Warriors in the Western Desert came across a village, that they would later enter. The Warriors exploring the Mountains around the Hittites found one there, to, to their surprise. They wondered why the Hittites hadn't entered it yet. Their loss, they supposed. The Curraghs exploring the island of Cyprus also found another village on the island, although they had no way of actually entering that, as there was nobody on board but the crew.
1395 came with the news that the Medes and Babylonians were forming an alliance, and had signed an agreement stating that they would protect each other and allow each other access to the other's territory.
Hat has ignored this, as she didn't plan to fight either one of them anyway, and doesn't think most people would want to fight them either.
However, something else happened that was more serious. Hat's military advisor rushed into her throne room and said they had heard reports of a massive uprising of barbarians, somewhere near El-Amarna. Hat isn't that concerned, as his earlier warnings of barbarian tribes near El-Amarna turned out to be the Arabs on the other side of the Red Sea, and she assumes this to be the same. She is, however, worried that there might be more barbarians elsewhere, in the Western Desert, that he doesn't know about.
And there certainly are some barbarians. The Warriors both entered the villages they found in 1380. The Warriors in the Desert were met by the hostile Sarmatian Warriors to the South, West, and Southwest, and the Warriors in the Mountains found Cuman Warriors, also the South, West, and Southwest. Hat finds this to be a strange coincidence, but doesn't particularly care.
What is strange is that in both cases, in 1365, these Warriors moved around and fortified, but did not attack. And a new barbarian tribe appeared in the desert: The Arabs, which Hat had thought lived across the Red Sea, but apparently they are elsewhere like the Nubians. And the Arabs had Horses. That doesn't look good for these Warriors, even if they had been able to defeat Libyan Horsemen in the past.
In 1350, the Warriors, knowing they would have a bigger advantage on offense than defense, attacked. The Southern Warriors killed 1 of the 3 Sarmatian Warriors, the ones that were in the same area as the Arab Horsemen, but took light wounds, and will now probably be killed by the Arab Horsemen. Likewise, in the Mountains near Hittite territory, the warriors killed the Cuman Warriors on the Mountains to the south west, but took heavy damage, and one of the other groups can kill them now, although the third is out of range at the moment.
And yet, again, in 1335, the Barbarians did not attack, they moved around. The Cuman Warriors appeared to be headed for one of the Hittites' cities, and the Sarmatians and Arabs didn't seem to have any particular goal on mind, though more Arab Horsemen appeared.
The Warriors in the Mountains decided to heal in 1320, but the Warriors in the Desert decided to attack, or they wouldn't get any more chances. They successfully attacked and killed one of the Arab Horsemen groups, the one where the Sarmatian Warriors used to be. But there are still many barbarians in the area. Some Egyptian Horsemen recently built in Alexandria are going west to fight the barbarians, but do not expect very much success against all of them, though they will certainly be stronger than Warriors.
And, indeed, the Warriors in the desert were killed by Arab Horsemen in 1305. There still remain vast numbers of Arab Horsemen in the area, and two groups of Sarmatian Warriors. The Cumans, mysteriously, did not attack. Perhaps the healing warriors being fortified on a mountain had something to do with that, but Hat had never seen the barbarians having much in the way of brains.
The Medes signed another alliance for protection that year, with the Mycenaeans. There was also an agreement to allow the other passage through each other's territory, although, seeing as they are on opposite sides of the world, this will likely not matter that much.
Babylon and Mycenae have yet to sign any agreement of alliance, though it's likely they'll be close allies because of both being close allies with the Medes. This is one alliance group that is getting fairly large.
In 1290, the city of Abydos was built on the coast of the Gulf of Suez by a hill with gold, filling in what had previously been a large gap in Egyptian territory between Elephantine and Pi-Ramesses.
There still remain a few gaps, though that is largely because most of the cities in Egypt don't have the culture to fill the gaps. Hopefully, the Temple of Artemis will resolve that issue.
The Cumans finally attacked the Warrior on the Mountain in 1275, who by that point was healed enough to take them down with little effort. The final group of Cuman Warriors also made an attack that turn, on a Hittite city that was beyond what Egypt could see and know. The Warriors later movements over the next 40 years would reveal the name of the city to be Tuwana. Whatever it was called, the defenders of the city easily defeated the Cuman attackers.
Hat was visited by the scientists in 1275, who told her that they had developed the first technology of the Iron Age, a government system called Monarchy.
Some argued that Egypt should adopt this system of government, although most agreed that Oligarchy was probably a better system, due to lower corruption. Although a Monarchy could eliminate citizens being unhappy about war, and rush-build things with money rather than slave labor, it was decided that the benefits of Monarchy didn't outweigh the benefits of Oligarchy, and the time in Anarchy certainly wasn't worth it.
Bad news in 1260 was that the Horsemen from Alexandria ran into many more Arab Horsemen in the desert. They cannot do nearly as well on defense as they can on offense, and they are outnumbered. They think they will probably not survive this encounter.
And yet, they did. The 2 Arab Horsemen groups they ran into attacked in 1245, and the Egyptian Horsemen prevailed against both, albeit at the cost of a little less than half of their unit. They would have to hold position there in 1230 and hope to not be attacked again, as more Arab Horsemen were spotted moving around.
Nothing happened in the desert for a few more years, worrying them that the Arabs were up to something. For that matter, nothing at all happened for a while, except news that the Babylonians and Medians were building the Pyramids. Finally, in 1190, they were attacked again. Luckily, they had healed enough to survive the attack and defeat the Horsemen attacking them.
In 1180, Hat noticed that most of the rest of the world had now entered the Iron Age, too, the exceptions being the Mycenaeans and Hittites. The Babylonians had had even gotten a new Iron Age tech, seemingly out of nowhere for free (they're scientific, they get a free tech). They called this technology City Planning, that would allow them to build massive gardens, or smaller city parks that would keep people happy and let cities grow bigger (yeah, City Parks let cities grow above Size 12... doesn't make much sense to me, either, but oh well). Hat wanted this, so she traded the new government of Monarchy, which nobody else seemed to like either, since nobody switched to it, to Babylon for City Planning, and then traded it Sumeria for some gold so Babylon couldn't. She probably should have traded it to Media and Phoenicia too, since Babylon then just did that anyway, but oh well.
1170 BC was a very happy year in Thebes. For they had finally finished construction of the Temple of Artemis that they had been working on for the past few centuries. It looked quite marvelous, and made Temples spontaneously appear in every city in Egypt. The ones that already had temples didn't seem to cost anything anymore.
This was followed by every other civilization shuffling around what they were building, now that they could no longer build the Temple of Artemis. The Mycenaeans began the Colossus, as did the Phoenicians. The Babylonians began building both the Pyramids and the Hanging Gardens. The Sumerians and Medes also began building the Pyramids. Everyone seems to have to cascade to a new wonder every time one is built.
Babylon and Sumeria both had researched a new technology in 1160, of how to work a new metal called Iron, and find where Iron was. Hat is disappointed, as she has nothing to trade for this new technology at the moment, but she hears the scientists are very close to a new one.
And so, they were, for in 1150, they had finished research of a new tech. They called it Cartography, and explained it as making maps. Hat said she already had a map of the known world, and wondered what this could do. They said they could make the map better, trade for other civilizations' world maps, and also navigate the sea more easily, allowing them to trade through the entirety of the shallow and deeper seas of the Mediterranean, Red, and probably others that there are. It would also let them build harbors to shelter ships and trade across water, although Hat didn't see how that was related to Cartography at all.
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There was also some notifications of people building wonders and... honestly, Hat isn't keeping track any more.
In 1140, Now that she had something to trade, Hat decided she wanted Iron Working. She went to Hammurabi and told him that she would trade him Cartography for Iron Working and all his gold. While she was at it, she decided to include a World Map Trade in the deal, to try out this new ability and see more of the world.
She now had a complete map of all of Babylonian territory, and a good deal of Sumeria and Media, and some empty land. She wanted more. So, she decided to trade World Maps with the rest of the world, collecting the knowledge of what they explored and some gold in return for what she knew. Except Phoenicia, who had such a small map that Hat merely paid 5 gold for it. She now had the complete map of every other civilization, and everything they had explored. It looked like this (Actually, this is the world map of a few turns later, I just forgot to take it immediately):
She notices that they're all bigger than her, except Phoenicia. They're also all spread our more, for reasons she doesn't know. Then again, they have more useful land, and she has mostly desert. She also notices 5 more seas in addition to the 2 she already knew about- the Persian Gulf that was on Sumeria's east coast (she wonders why they call it a gulf, exactly), the Black Sea North of the Hittites, the Caspian Sea North of the Medes, and the Ionian and Aegean Seas West and East of the Mycenaeans, although she wonders why they are considered to be separate from the Mediterranean. Oh well. She also notices that there are two villages of people that others have obviously found, or they would not be on the map, but strangely haven't walked into. One is North of the Medes, and the other lies curiously just outside of the borders of the Sumerian City of Kisurra. She questions why they did this, they usually give something nice. She also notices, to her dismay, that all of them have Iron, but she doesn't. Granted, several of them don't yet know they have Iron, but still have it. There are two sources of Iron located in the Hills to the West, though, so she will hopefully be able to claim them quickly.
Speaking of the west, The Horsemen killed some Arab Horsemen in 1140 that they ran into. Hopefully this madness will end soon. But, this attack put them next to some Warriors, either Arabs or Sarmatians, nobody bothered to check. At any rate, they attacked in 1130. Luckily, Horsemen are better at defense than Warriors are at Offense if the advantage of the terrain is included, and so the Egyptian Horsemen won this battle, though continued fighting was beginning to take its toll on them.
Yet they continued moving West, and, in 1120, found the Arabs' camp, defended by only one group of Warriors. They couldn't resist this opportunity to defeat the Arabs finally, and obviously charged in, killed the Warriors, and destroyed the camp. No more Arabs can appear, although there's still plenty more out there just wandering the desert, and the Horsemen are at a unit strength of only 40% now.
And that would be the end of them, for Arab Horsemen appeared in 1110, and finally killed the Egyptian Horsemen that had fought and killed so many before, even if the Arabs only won barely. There still remain at least a few Arab Horsemen and Sarmatian Warriors wandering the desert somewhere, though, as long as they remain in the far west, they are of no concern.
1090 was a rather joyous occasion for many, as the Temples that the Temple of Artemis had spawned had slowly added culture to every city in Egypt, and every city in Egypt now expanded its borders as a result of that culture.
The military is also pleased at this. The Expansion of Giza brought the border closer to to the Phoenician capital of Tyre- it's now only a few miles from the border, in fact. The War Chariots in Giza could now reach the city in a single year without giving the Phoenicians any time to react. Some want to start a war against Phoenicia now, as it would be easy to take. Most thought that the force in Giza was not yet large enough to assault Tyre, and after it was decided that the city should be investigated in 1080, they were proven right.
There were 2 units of the Tyrian Guards defending the city, and also some curraghs in the harbor. Although they were not any better at defense than other Spearmen- they had more skill in offense- and the War Chariots in Giza outnumbered them by one unit, they were still too good at defense to risk an assault on Tyre right now. Some more War Chariots and Horsemen would be built soon, though, and they could add to this force, along with some Archers hanging around various places, and it would then be strong enough to mount a successful assault on the city.
Thebes seemed to be just plain happy about luxuries, buildings, and other things keeping things happy, and celebrated "We Love The Queen Day!" in 1070. Hat thought that was nice of them. It seemed the new City Park that had been built had prompted their happiness.
The Medes came offering a trade of World Maps in 1050. Hat wondered why, there had just been a massive map trade, but decided, "Eh, why not" and traded the maps, which let her see a bit more of the area East of the Caspian Sea. Meh.
Shortly after that, the scientists came, announcing a new discovery. "We call it Sanitation. We can clean up any messes left by people in either big cities or buildings that make messes!" Luckily, nobody had polluted anything before that, or there would have been a world of hurt from nobody being able to clean it up.
As nobody else had researched anything recently, this was followed by a few decades of nothing at all happening.
In 1000 BC, amidst many celebrating another millennium beginning (so far, they'd lived through three, most expected another 3, probably), a new city, Asyut, was built on the Nile River, to the South of Heliopolis on about the Southern Edge of the Known World. It is unlikely there will be more room for any other cities on the Nile River, but 5 is quite a lot.
In 990, Thebes finished Construction on some Worker Housing, that would vastly improve production in the city, though it may cause some pollution. Luckily, Workers are around to clear any that happens. Now that it has done that, it is beginning construction on a new wonder, some Terraced Gardens with plants that Hang everywhere. Or the Hanging Gardens, for short.
In 980, it was noticed that Babylon and Sumeria again had a new tech. They're almost on par with Egypt for speed of tech advancement. It was some Advanced Military Training for training Infantry, even tougher than the Swordsmen that could already be built, if only Egypt had Iron. But they were getting close to acquiring it, and they could still use the tech. So they traded Sanitation for it from Sumeria. Neither tech was particularly useful at the moment to the ones who received it, but both would later probably become useful.
In 960, the goal of getting the Iron in the west came closer to being achieved. Roads had steadily been built from Hieraconpolis to the West, and now, the city of Avaris was built, in the desert around half-way between Hieraconpolis and the Iron.
They would soon be able to get the iron, either by building a city there or just putting a colony on top of it. And the army in Giza was almost ready to go, assuming there would be no complications, the War against Phoenicia could begin, very soon.
Of course, that meant there had to be complications. The Hittites came to Egypt in 950, with a demand. They wished to know how to work Iron.
Hat looked at this offer and it didn't take much thinking to say the response. "No, Mursilis. I've dealt with a bunch of other demands for this tech or that tech before. The empty threats are getting old, and they're totally just empty threats that nobody can or will follow up on. Get out of here."
"Oh, I'm sorry," said Mursilis, "Were you operating under the delusion that my threats were EMPTY? Well, here, I think I'll help you with that delusion. Generals, get the Chariots ready, we're going to war to teach those weak Egyptians that when we make a threat, we mean it."
In better news, the Scientists researched Alchemy the same year. It would apparently let them turn lead into gold, or at least tried to. Most dismissed it as pseudoscience, but hoped it would work anyway. At the very least, they might discover things faster either intentionally or accidentally.
In 940, Hat met with Egyptian generals to discuss this new turn of events.
"Well, this complicates things somewhat," said Hat. "The Hittites may be too far away to reach us, but they're right next to the Phoenicians. If we invade Phoenicia, we will certainly have to fight them, and that makes the invasion a lot more difficult."
They thought about what to do. They could postpone the invasion until Mursilis was willing to talk, but that would allow Phoenicia to build up more defenses. They could declare anyway, but that risked just losing all of Phoenicia to the stronger Hittite forces. Finally, one of them came up with a great idea.
"We should get someone else to declare war on the Hittites. They can keep the Hittites busy while we're crushing the Phoenicians. We can still have our cake and eat it too, even with this Hittite War Declaration complicating things a little bit."
Everyone agreed this was a nice idea. They then discussed who to ally with. Their thoughts immediately turned to Babylon, who was between Egypt/Phoenicia and the Hittites, if only with a small border. They could easily fight the Hittites for a while. It would also get the Medes and possibly Mycenaeans in if and when the Hittites did attack. So, Hat went to Hammurabi, and tried to figure out what it would take to convince him to help her fight the Hittites. They quickly arrived at the conclusion that the only fair thing to trade would be Egypt's new tech, and added some gold into the mix.
With that said and done, Hat realized that Babylon would then just trade Alchemy to Sumeria, like they always did, so she might as well get them in on an alliance. She traded them the technology for them to declare war on the Hittites, although she needed to throw some gold in to sweeten the deal and make them agree to it.
After that, there was nobody to trade to- the Medes would certainly get involved because of the Babylon-Median alliance, and didn't have anything to trade for Alchemy anyway, the Phoenicians were someone Hat was just about to go to war with, and the Mycenaeans were still far behind, still in the Bronze Age.
She looked at the assault force in Giza that was going to attack Tyre and other Phoenician cities soon.
She thought about the current situation. Undersized military. Still no Iron. Just started a massive war.
What else could go wrong?
The various tribal groups in the Western Desert had given Egypt much trouble from time to time, although by 1470 BC they were believed to be mostly gone. Well, yes, most of the tribes were gone by that point, but the remaining ones would be much stronger than the others, as they now had Horses, and plenty of them.
The races to various wonders continued in 1455, with Babylon beginning the Temple of Artemis and Sumeria beginning the Colossus. Hat was confident that she could get the Temple before anyone, for the simple reason that the other civilizations didn't have very big cities, and couldn't build things fast in their small cities. Thebes, on the other hand, was probably the largest city in the world, and had the ability to produce things very quickly.
The Sumerians came to Egypt in 1425, demanding the technology of Construction so that they could advance into the Iron Age like Egypt had.
Hat thought about this for a few minutes. She then said, "So, you want Construction? Alright, come over to Egypt and take it, then. That's the only way you're getting it, cause I'm not giving it away for free."
Gilgamesh must have decided not to come and take it, as he left shortly after that, and didn't come back with an army.
In 1410, the Warriors in the Western Desert came across a village, that they would later enter. The Warriors exploring the Mountains around the Hittites found one there, to, to their surprise. They wondered why the Hittites hadn't entered it yet. Their loss, they supposed. The Curraghs exploring the island of Cyprus also found another village on the island, although they had no way of actually entering that, as there was nobody on board but the crew.
1395 came with the news that the Medes and Babylonians were forming an alliance, and had signed an agreement stating that they would protect each other and allow each other access to the other's territory.
Hat has ignored this, as she didn't plan to fight either one of them anyway, and doesn't think most people would want to fight them either.
However, something else happened that was more serious. Hat's military advisor rushed into her throne room and said they had heard reports of a massive uprising of barbarians, somewhere near El-Amarna. Hat isn't that concerned, as his earlier warnings of barbarian tribes near El-Amarna turned out to be the Arabs on the other side of the Red Sea, and she assumes this to be the same. She is, however, worried that there might be more barbarians elsewhere, in the Western Desert, that he doesn't know about.
And there certainly are some barbarians. The Warriors both entered the villages they found in 1380. The Warriors in the Desert were met by the hostile Sarmatian Warriors to the South, West, and Southwest, and the Warriors in the Mountains found Cuman Warriors, also the South, West, and Southwest. Hat finds this to be a strange coincidence, but doesn't particularly care.
What is strange is that in both cases, in 1365, these Warriors moved around and fortified, but did not attack. And a new barbarian tribe appeared in the desert: The Arabs, which Hat had thought lived across the Red Sea, but apparently they are elsewhere like the Nubians. And the Arabs had Horses. That doesn't look good for these Warriors, even if they had been able to defeat Libyan Horsemen in the past.
In 1350, the Warriors, knowing they would have a bigger advantage on offense than defense, attacked. The Southern Warriors killed 1 of the 3 Sarmatian Warriors, the ones that were in the same area as the Arab Horsemen, but took light wounds, and will now probably be killed by the Arab Horsemen. Likewise, in the Mountains near Hittite territory, the warriors killed the Cuman Warriors on the Mountains to the south west, but took heavy damage, and one of the other groups can kill them now, although the third is out of range at the moment.
And yet, again, in 1335, the Barbarians did not attack, they moved around. The Cuman Warriors appeared to be headed for one of the Hittites' cities, and the Sarmatians and Arabs didn't seem to have any particular goal on mind, though more Arab Horsemen appeared.
The Warriors in the Mountains decided to heal in 1320, but the Warriors in the Desert decided to attack, or they wouldn't get any more chances. They successfully attacked and killed one of the Arab Horsemen groups, the one where the Sarmatian Warriors used to be. But there are still many barbarians in the area. Some Egyptian Horsemen recently built in Alexandria are going west to fight the barbarians, but do not expect very much success against all of them, though they will certainly be stronger than Warriors.
And, indeed, the Warriors in the desert were killed by Arab Horsemen in 1305. There still remain vast numbers of Arab Horsemen in the area, and two groups of Sarmatian Warriors. The Cumans, mysteriously, did not attack. Perhaps the healing warriors being fortified on a mountain had something to do with that, but Hat had never seen the barbarians having much in the way of brains.
The Medes signed another alliance for protection that year, with the Mycenaeans. There was also an agreement to allow the other passage through each other's territory, although, seeing as they are on opposite sides of the world, this will likely not matter that much.
Babylon and Mycenae have yet to sign any agreement of alliance, though it's likely they'll be close allies because of both being close allies with the Medes. This is one alliance group that is getting fairly large.
In 1290, the city of Abydos was built on the coast of the Gulf of Suez by a hill with gold, filling in what had previously been a large gap in Egyptian territory between Elephantine and Pi-Ramesses.
There still remain a few gaps, though that is largely because most of the cities in Egypt don't have the culture to fill the gaps. Hopefully, the Temple of Artemis will resolve that issue.
The Cumans finally attacked the Warrior on the Mountain in 1275, who by that point was healed enough to take them down with little effort. The final group of Cuman Warriors also made an attack that turn, on a Hittite city that was beyond what Egypt could see and know. The Warriors later movements over the next 40 years would reveal the name of the city to be Tuwana. Whatever it was called, the defenders of the city easily defeated the Cuman attackers.
Hat was visited by the scientists in 1275, who told her that they had developed the first technology of the Iron Age, a government system called Monarchy.
Some argued that Egypt should adopt this system of government, although most agreed that Oligarchy was probably a better system, due to lower corruption. Although a Monarchy could eliminate citizens being unhappy about war, and rush-build things with money rather than slave labor, it was decided that the benefits of Monarchy didn't outweigh the benefits of Oligarchy, and the time in Anarchy certainly wasn't worth it.
Bad news in 1260 was that the Horsemen from Alexandria ran into many more Arab Horsemen in the desert. They cannot do nearly as well on defense as they can on offense, and they are outnumbered. They think they will probably not survive this encounter.
And yet, they did. The 2 Arab Horsemen groups they ran into attacked in 1245, and the Egyptian Horsemen prevailed against both, albeit at the cost of a little less than half of their unit. They would have to hold position there in 1230 and hope to not be attacked again, as more Arab Horsemen were spotted moving around.
Nothing happened in the desert for a few more years, worrying them that the Arabs were up to something. For that matter, nothing at all happened for a while, except news that the Babylonians and Medians were building the Pyramids. Finally, in 1190, they were attacked again. Luckily, they had healed enough to survive the attack and defeat the Horsemen attacking them.
In 1180, Hat noticed that most of the rest of the world had now entered the Iron Age, too, the exceptions being the Mycenaeans and Hittites. The Babylonians had had even gotten a new Iron Age tech, seemingly out of nowhere for free (they're scientific, they get a free tech). They called this technology City Planning, that would allow them to build massive gardens, or smaller city parks that would keep people happy and let cities grow bigger (yeah, City Parks let cities grow above Size 12... doesn't make much sense to me, either, but oh well). Hat wanted this, so she traded the new government of Monarchy, which nobody else seemed to like either, since nobody switched to it, to Babylon for City Planning, and then traded it Sumeria for some gold so Babylon couldn't. She probably should have traded it to Media and Phoenicia too, since Babylon then just did that anyway, but oh well.
1170 BC was a very happy year in Thebes. For they had finally finished construction of the Temple of Artemis that they had been working on for the past few centuries. It looked quite marvelous, and made Temples spontaneously appear in every city in Egypt. The ones that already had temples didn't seem to cost anything anymore.
This was followed by every other civilization shuffling around what they were building, now that they could no longer build the Temple of Artemis. The Mycenaeans began the Colossus, as did the Phoenicians. The Babylonians began building both the Pyramids and the Hanging Gardens. The Sumerians and Medes also began building the Pyramids. Everyone seems to have to cascade to a new wonder every time one is built.
Babylon and Sumeria both had researched a new technology in 1160, of how to work a new metal called Iron, and find where Iron was. Hat is disappointed, as she has nothing to trade for this new technology at the moment, but she hears the scientists are very close to a new one.
And so, they were, for in 1150, they had finished research of a new tech. They called it Cartography, and explained it as making maps. Hat said she already had a map of the known world, and wondered what this could do. They said they could make the map better, trade for other civilizations' world maps, and also navigate the sea more easily, allowing them to trade through the entirety of the shallow and deeper seas of the Mediterranean, Red, and probably others that there are. It would also let them build harbors to shelter ships and trade across water, although Hat didn't see how that was related to Cartography at all.
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There was also some notifications of people building wonders and... honestly, Hat isn't keeping track any more.
In 1140, Now that she had something to trade, Hat decided she wanted Iron Working. She went to Hammurabi and told him that she would trade him Cartography for Iron Working and all his gold. While she was at it, she decided to include a World Map Trade in the deal, to try out this new ability and see more of the world.
She now had a complete map of all of Babylonian territory, and a good deal of Sumeria and Media, and some empty land. She wanted more. So, she decided to trade World Maps with the rest of the world, collecting the knowledge of what they explored and some gold in return for what she knew. Except Phoenicia, who had such a small map that Hat merely paid 5 gold for it. She now had the complete map of every other civilization, and everything they had explored. It looked like this (Actually, this is the world map of a few turns later, I just forgot to take it immediately):
She notices that they're all bigger than her, except Phoenicia. They're also all spread our more, for reasons she doesn't know. Then again, they have more useful land, and she has mostly desert. She also notices 5 more seas in addition to the 2 she already knew about- the Persian Gulf that was on Sumeria's east coast (she wonders why they call it a gulf, exactly), the Black Sea North of the Hittites, the Caspian Sea North of the Medes, and the Ionian and Aegean Seas West and East of the Mycenaeans, although she wonders why they are considered to be separate from the Mediterranean. Oh well. She also notices that there are two villages of people that others have obviously found, or they would not be on the map, but strangely haven't walked into. One is North of the Medes, and the other lies curiously just outside of the borders of the Sumerian City of Kisurra. She questions why they did this, they usually give something nice. She also notices, to her dismay, that all of them have Iron, but she doesn't. Granted, several of them don't yet know they have Iron, but still have it. There are two sources of Iron located in the Hills to the West, though, so she will hopefully be able to claim them quickly.
Speaking of the west, The Horsemen killed some Arab Horsemen in 1140 that they ran into. Hopefully this madness will end soon. But, this attack put them next to some Warriors, either Arabs or Sarmatians, nobody bothered to check. At any rate, they attacked in 1130. Luckily, Horsemen are better at defense than Warriors are at Offense if the advantage of the terrain is included, and so the Egyptian Horsemen won this battle, though continued fighting was beginning to take its toll on them.
Yet they continued moving West, and, in 1120, found the Arabs' camp, defended by only one group of Warriors. They couldn't resist this opportunity to defeat the Arabs finally, and obviously charged in, killed the Warriors, and destroyed the camp. No more Arabs can appear, although there's still plenty more out there just wandering the desert, and the Horsemen are at a unit strength of only 40% now.
And that would be the end of them, for Arab Horsemen appeared in 1110, and finally killed the Egyptian Horsemen that had fought and killed so many before, even if the Arabs only won barely. There still remain at least a few Arab Horsemen and Sarmatian Warriors wandering the desert somewhere, though, as long as they remain in the far west, they are of no concern.
1090 was a rather joyous occasion for many, as the Temples that the Temple of Artemis had spawned had slowly added culture to every city in Egypt, and every city in Egypt now expanded its borders as a result of that culture.
The military is also pleased at this. The Expansion of Giza brought the border closer to to the Phoenician capital of Tyre- it's now only a few miles from the border, in fact. The War Chariots in Giza could now reach the city in a single year without giving the Phoenicians any time to react. Some want to start a war against Phoenicia now, as it would be easy to take. Most thought that the force in Giza was not yet large enough to assault Tyre, and after it was decided that the city should be investigated in 1080, they were proven right.
There were 2 units of the Tyrian Guards defending the city, and also some curraghs in the harbor. Although they were not any better at defense than other Spearmen- they had more skill in offense- and the War Chariots in Giza outnumbered them by one unit, they were still too good at defense to risk an assault on Tyre right now. Some more War Chariots and Horsemen would be built soon, though, and they could add to this force, along with some Archers hanging around various places, and it would then be strong enough to mount a successful assault on the city.
Thebes seemed to be just plain happy about luxuries, buildings, and other things keeping things happy, and celebrated "We Love The Queen Day!" in 1070. Hat thought that was nice of them. It seemed the new City Park that had been built had prompted their happiness.
The Medes came offering a trade of World Maps in 1050. Hat wondered why, there had just been a massive map trade, but decided, "Eh, why not" and traded the maps, which let her see a bit more of the area East of the Caspian Sea. Meh.
Shortly after that, the scientists came, announcing a new discovery. "We call it Sanitation. We can clean up any messes left by people in either big cities or buildings that make messes!" Luckily, nobody had polluted anything before that, or there would have been a world of hurt from nobody being able to clean it up.
As nobody else had researched anything recently, this was followed by a few decades of nothing at all happening.
In 1000 BC, amidst many celebrating another millennium beginning (so far, they'd lived through three, most expected another 3, probably), a new city, Asyut, was built on the Nile River, to the South of Heliopolis on about the Southern Edge of the Known World. It is unlikely there will be more room for any other cities on the Nile River, but 5 is quite a lot.
In 990, Thebes finished Construction on some Worker Housing, that would vastly improve production in the city, though it may cause some pollution. Luckily, Workers are around to clear any that happens. Now that it has done that, it is beginning construction on a new wonder, some Terraced Gardens with plants that Hang everywhere. Or the Hanging Gardens, for short.
In 980, it was noticed that Babylon and Sumeria again had a new tech. They're almost on par with Egypt for speed of tech advancement. It was some Advanced Military Training for training Infantry, even tougher than the Swordsmen that could already be built, if only Egypt had Iron. But they were getting close to acquiring it, and they could still use the tech. So they traded Sanitation for it from Sumeria. Neither tech was particularly useful at the moment to the ones who received it, but both would later probably become useful.
In 960, the goal of getting the Iron in the west came closer to being achieved. Roads had steadily been built from Hieraconpolis to the West, and now, the city of Avaris was built, in the desert around half-way between Hieraconpolis and the Iron.
They would soon be able to get the iron, either by building a city there or just putting a colony on top of it. And the army in Giza was almost ready to go, assuming there would be no complications, the War against Phoenicia could begin, very soon.
Of course, that meant there had to be complications. The Hittites came to Egypt in 950, with a demand. They wished to know how to work Iron.
Hat looked at this offer and it didn't take much thinking to say the response. "No, Mursilis. I've dealt with a bunch of other demands for this tech or that tech before. The empty threats are getting old, and they're totally just empty threats that nobody can or will follow up on. Get out of here."
"Oh, I'm sorry," said Mursilis, "Were you operating under the delusion that my threats were EMPTY? Well, here, I think I'll help you with that delusion. Generals, get the Chariots ready, we're going to war to teach those weak Egyptians that when we make a threat, we mean it."
In better news, the Scientists researched Alchemy the same year. It would apparently let them turn lead into gold, or at least tried to. Most dismissed it as pseudoscience, but hoped it would work anyway. At the very least, they might discover things faster either intentionally or accidentally.
In 940, Hat met with Egyptian generals to discuss this new turn of events.
"Well, this complicates things somewhat," said Hat. "The Hittites may be too far away to reach us, but they're right next to the Phoenicians. If we invade Phoenicia, we will certainly have to fight them, and that makes the invasion a lot more difficult."
They thought about what to do. They could postpone the invasion until Mursilis was willing to talk, but that would allow Phoenicia to build up more defenses. They could declare anyway, but that risked just losing all of Phoenicia to the stronger Hittite forces. Finally, one of them came up with a great idea.
"We should get someone else to declare war on the Hittites. They can keep the Hittites busy while we're crushing the Phoenicians. We can still have our cake and eat it too, even with this Hittite War Declaration complicating things a little bit."
Everyone agreed this was a nice idea. They then discussed who to ally with. Their thoughts immediately turned to Babylon, who was between Egypt/Phoenicia and the Hittites, if only with a small border. They could easily fight the Hittites for a while. It would also get the Medes and possibly Mycenaeans in if and when the Hittites did attack. So, Hat went to Hammurabi, and tried to figure out what it would take to convince him to help her fight the Hittites. They quickly arrived at the conclusion that the only fair thing to trade would be Egypt's new tech, and added some gold into the mix.
With that said and done, Hat realized that Babylon would then just trade Alchemy to Sumeria, like they always did, so she might as well get them in on an alliance. She traded them the technology for them to declare war on the Hittites, although she needed to throw some gold in to sweeten the deal and make them agree to it.
After that, there was nobody to trade to- the Medes would certainly get involved because of the Babylon-Median alliance, and didn't have anything to trade for Alchemy anyway, the Phoenicians were someone Hat was just about to go to war with, and the Mycenaeans were still far behind, still in the Bronze Age.
She looked at the assault force in Giza that was going to attack Tyre and other Phoenician cities soon.
She thought about the current situation. Undersized military. Still no Iron. Just started a massive war.
What else could go wrong?
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Okay, I have the next chapter played and ready to go, which, like I said, will probably be my last for about a week. The next chapter shall be up shortly. In fact, it will be split into 2 chapters, because I have one or two more than 30 pictures. 
And you guys CAN post, you know, to put some space between the updates and make less pictures on one page to reduce the load times.
And you guys CAN post, you know, to put some space between the updates and make less pictures on one page to reduce the load times.
Chapter 5: Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The date was 940 BC. The alliances to keep the Hittites busy had just been signed. The military force in Giza was perfectly ready to attack Phoenicia now. Some urged slight caution, though, as they saw Phoenician Warriors and Archers going North and wanted to see if Tyre had been reinforced, or if the Iron and Stone near Ugarit had been connected. So, they were cheaply investigated, and the Egyptians were pleased to see that Tyre had no more defense than it had a while ago, and Ugarit remained unconnected, as did the resources within.
That was good. The War could begin immediately. Hat went to deliver the news of this war to Hiram.
"What say you, Hatshepsut?" asked Hiram. "Is there a war somewhere I have not been made aware of?"
"Yes. There's that war the Hittites just started, and there's also a war between Egypt and Phoenicia you have not been made aware of. Well, goodbye, see you later if I feel like signing a peace treaty." Hat left before Hiram could respond to this.
Shortly after this, the War Chariots in Giza moved out and descended upon Tyre. The first unit of Tyrian Guards to fight against them barely even put up a fight, and were destroyed easily. Seeing their unique War Chariots win in battle for the first time in their first battle of the first war against a non-barbarian civilization has created a Golden Age in Egypt that will push them forward to many more victories and a great age is ahead in Egypt.
Sadly, the same would be true for Phoenicia. The next War Chariot unit to attack the remaining unit of the Guards in Tyre resulted in a victory for the Tyrian Guards, albeit a narrow one. But it should not do the Phoenicians much good. They languish behind in tech, have very small cities, a small military, fewer people... the list goes on. Egypt will benefit more from a Golden Age then Phoenicia, and Phoenicia might not even live to see the end of theirs.
And the city of Tyre certainly would not remain in their hands. The Horsemen that weren't pulled by Chariots then assaulted the city and finished off the remaining Tyrian Guards. The Curraghs in the city's Harbor were sunk, the city was looted, especially the palace, although there wasn't really anything to take. The palace ended up being burned to the ground. The inhabitants escaped long before, though, somehow, and now the Phoenician Government has set up a new capital in Ugarit to the east. A curious choice for a capital city, as it is disconnected from the rest of the country. Perhaps they think it will be safer from Egyptians there? Who cares, Egypt would take it anyway.
Other inhabitants of the city weren't so lucky, and it is estimated that more than 45,000 of Tyre's citizens- around 3/5 of the population of the city- died. None felt like resisting at that point, luckily for Egypt. And so, the city was theirs.
The War Chariots and Archers that did not participate in the Battle of Tyre now advanced on Berytus and Acco on the Sinai peninsula. They were able to capture some workers cutting down the trees to the west of the city.
In 930, it was the Phoenicians' turn to counter-attack. But they could not mount anything in the way of a counter-attack, they simply sent a unit of Archers to occupy a hill East-South-East of Tyre. The Egyptian military was in agreement that the Phoenician military was totally pathetic.
The Archers in question were easily wiped out by Egyptian War Chariots in 920. The Phoenician units just can't even come close to winning. Some more Archers and a Curragh were spotted near Ugarit by these Chariots, the purpose of which is unknown.
Meanwhile, the Archers moved into a Forest near Berytus, putting them within range of the city. The War Chariots, waiting for their help in taking the city down, occupied a Hill to the Southwest.
In 910, the Phoenicians moved around some more, and they also attempted to create an escape for themselves, should the rest of their cities in the area around Tyre fall. They built the city of Kition in the North, surrounded on 3 sides by Hittite borders. Egypt obviously cannot get them up there, so it appears that they will survive, unless someone else decides to take out this new city.
The Archers and War Chariots were ready to attack Berytus in 900. The Battle of Berytus began with all of the Archers attacking the Tyrian Guards defending the city. This proved to not be a great move, as they were mostly destroyed. The first two of the three archer units barely even caused any damage to the wall of Tyrian Guards they ran up against. The third finally managed to bring the first unit down, but just barely survived the battle. Now the War Chariots attacked. One unit of War Chariots was all that was necessary to bring down the remaining Tyrian Guards defending the city. Due to the small size of the city, there was almost nothing left of it after the fighting was done, and the few things that still somehow stood were immediately destroyed by the War Chariots.
The remaining unit of War Chariots that didn't participate in the battle advanced on Acco now.
There were a few Archers and Warriors approaching Tyre. Although they posed no threat, it was decided they should probably be attacked and killed, as that would be easier to do on offense. But, with their current position, they could not be attacked by the units in Tyre without leaving those units exposed to a counterattack, so it was decided they should wait. So they did, and sure enough, the Phoenicians moved closer in 890.
In 880, the War Chariots were told of their mission. They were to go a little to the East, where some lone Phoenician Archers occupied a desert. They had fought several battles prior to this, and had since become the most Elite unit in the Egyptian Army. They proved to have earned that title. The leader of the Elite War Chariot Unit, Cheops, proved to be a brilliant great leader through the use of amazing tactics that destroyed the Phoenician Archers with few War Chariot losses, not that that really required much in the way of great tactics.
The new high-ranking General Cheops was sent away from combat, to lead a far larger army.
Meanwhile, the War Chariots outside of Acco wiped out the newly trained Tyrian Guards in the city with little effort. Only a unit of Archers remains to defend the city, and Archers are hardly good defenders.
The Phoenicians were clearly scared at this point. They had lost two cities, including their capital. They would very soon lose Acco as well. It was likely that the rest of the nation would not stand very much longer than that. Seeing they were doomed, they decided to send an envoy to Thebes to try to negotiate a peace treaty in 870.
Hat quickly rebuffed this offer. "Why sign peace now, when I can easily grab more of your territory? Maybe some other time. Ask me after I have the rest of your Empire."
And so, the Phoenician Envoy left, disappointed, but lucky to escape with his life.
The citizens of Acco would not be so lucky.
But that didn't happen yet. Slightly to the North was the small Babylonian city of Shurrupak, which was near three Phoenician cities, and even bordered the city of Arvad. But it would not be Babylonian anymore, for the Hittites marched in and captured the city. The Medes did not declare war, as their alliance with Babylon had expired. Hat cannot help but wonder why the Hittites attacked Shurrupak first, when Zariqum and Sippar are closer to them and even a little in the way of Shurrupak. Oh well.
870 also saw the construction on the Hanging Gardens finish in Thebes, after many long years of... actually, it wasn't really that long. They were good for keeping people happy everywhere in Egypt, but especially in Thebes.
Then the scientists came to Hat again. "Hey, you know all that annoying disease that ravages all the floodplains around the Nile?" Hat didn't really know, there was plenty of disease spread by biting insects but no significant number of people had ever actually died from it. "Well, we've invented Medicine, to eliminate all that disease!"
Also, the culture of Avaris expanded from the Temple of Artemis's Temple, and Arab Horsemen were spotted to the Southwest. Meh. They were no threat.
Cheops Arrived in Elephantine in 860, and a new army was created, which he would lead. So far, nobody has joined this army, although the Infantry that will be created as soon as Egypt can get Iron will join it as soon as they can be created.
And now, the story returns to Acco. The Archers defending the city were simply no match for the Egyptian War Chariots. They were all killed, as were the city's inhabitants, and the city burned to the ground. Phoenicia had now been evicted from the Sinai peninsula, and Egyptian settlers would soon be around to claim the luxuries that were there- The Gems on Mount Sinai, and the Dyes located in the rubble of where Acco used to be.
In the Desert East of Tyre, A unit of Warriors and another of Archers appeared, belonging to Phoenicia. Then the Egyptian Army showed up to destroy them. The Warriors were killed by Horsemen, and the Archers were killed by War Chariots.
The Hittite War grew larger in 850. The Sumerians convinced the Mycenaeans to declare war on the Hittites. This meant that the Hittites would now be forced to fight a war on two fronts, to the East and West, rather than just one front. Sadly, the Medes would not be joining, as their alliance with the Mycenaeans had also run out, just like the Babylonian one.
This was followed by a long period of nothing happening. The Egyptian and Phoenician units moved around and plotted their next respective moves. Finally, in 820, the Egyptians would gain a massive advantage. A colony was built on the Iron West of Avaris, allowing the Egyptians to have Iron. They could now build strong, Companion Infantry to fight along with the Archers, War Chariots, and Horsemen they had already sent. The remaining few vastly outdated Stone Age Warriors were instantly upgraded to these new Infantry.
The Arab Horsemen may pose a threat, but as it is defended well by Spearmen on a hill, they will likely not be able to destroy the colony.
Elsewhere, a unit of Warriors and 2 of Archers had appeared to make another pathetic counter-attack. The War Chariots and Horsemen made plans to wipe all of them out. And yet, the first War Chariot attack was defeated. By Stone Age Warriors. And they all died while doing little damage to the Warriors. It was just as well- had they survived, they would have most likely been executed for losing such an easy battle. Oh well. The remaining attacks by the War Chariots and Horsemen wiped out all of the Phoenician Archers and Warriors with little trouble, although some units have been damaged a lot.
810 saw a Phoenician Curragh that had been sailing towards Egyptian shores for a while stop at a place near El-Amarna and Abydos and unload a single Archer. This was quite a pathetic attack force, although they would threaten the workers there, or destroy improvements to the land. The Spearmen defending the surrounding cities would need to attack and wipe them all out before they could attack and cause some damage.
Elsewhere, the Median City of Mardin, a large city to the west of Agbatana, completed the Great Pyramids, the first Wonder to be completed outside of Egypt.
Back to the Archers, in 800, the Spearmen from Abydos Attacked them first- and died, although they brought them down quite a bit. The Spearmen from Pi-Ramesses finished the job.
It was noticed that some other civilizations had attained a new technology, a Currency for trading things. Hat wanted this, so she traded away Medicine to the Medes and Babylonians to get it, and a bunch of their gold.
The various militaries fighting each other continued to move around in 790. A Tyrian Guard moved out of Sidon to the Dyes North of Tyre. They were clearly intending to destroy the road to the dyes to deprive Egypt of them. Well, Egypt would not let that happen.
The Mycenaeans asked Egypt for a trade of Territory Maps. Hat said, "Sure, why not, they might like us more," and agreed.
The Median-Babylonian protection alliance was re-created in that year also. It might be beneficial to many, and it would certainly drag the Medes into the Hittite War.
And indeed, they would join at the end of the year, as the Hittites ended a year with units in Babylonian Territory, which triggered the alliance.
In the time between those two events, the Arab Horsemen inexplicably attacked the Spearmen defending the Iron Colony, with the entirely predictable result of a lot of dead Arab Horsemen. Also, the Egyptian Scientists had invented Mathematics, a way of adding up amounts of things and maybe describing the world a little.
Also, the Babylonian city of Ashur, a somewhat large Babylonian city to the Northeast of Babylon on the Sumerian border, had been working on the Pyramids for a while, and no longer could, as Mardin had built the Pyramids. So it switched to a different wonder, the Mausoleum of Mausollos, and completed it instantly. A shame, Thebes could have built it in 80 years (4 turns (!)).
Elsewhere, in 780, War Chariots killed Archers East of Tyre, and the Tyrian Guards that were menacing the Dyes were killed by more War Chariots.
The Egyptians are clearly winning this war. They have taken 3 cities, 2 of which were burned. The Hittites are no problem while they're at war with everyone. Things are really looking up, and it seems they can only look better. Hat smiles at that thought, and tries to think of something that could somehow make this better.
The date was 940 BC. The alliances to keep the Hittites busy had just been signed. The military force in Giza was perfectly ready to attack Phoenicia now. Some urged slight caution, though, as they saw Phoenician Warriors and Archers going North and wanted to see if Tyre had been reinforced, or if the Iron and Stone near Ugarit had been connected. So, they were cheaply investigated, and the Egyptians were pleased to see that Tyre had no more defense than it had a while ago, and Ugarit remained unconnected, as did the resources within.
That was good. The War could begin immediately. Hat went to deliver the news of this war to Hiram.
"What say you, Hatshepsut?" asked Hiram. "Is there a war somewhere I have not been made aware of?"
"Yes. There's that war the Hittites just started, and there's also a war between Egypt and Phoenicia you have not been made aware of. Well, goodbye, see you later if I feel like signing a peace treaty." Hat left before Hiram could respond to this.
Shortly after this, the War Chariots in Giza moved out and descended upon Tyre. The first unit of Tyrian Guards to fight against them barely even put up a fight, and were destroyed easily. Seeing their unique War Chariots win in battle for the first time in their first battle of the first war against a non-barbarian civilization has created a Golden Age in Egypt that will push them forward to many more victories and a great age is ahead in Egypt.
Sadly, the same would be true for Phoenicia. The next War Chariot unit to attack the remaining unit of the Guards in Tyre resulted in a victory for the Tyrian Guards, albeit a narrow one. But it should not do the Phoenicians much good. They languish behind in tech, have very small cities, a small military, fewer people... the list goes on. Egypt will benefit more from a Golden Age then Phoenicia, and Phoenicia might not even live to see the end of theirs.
And the city of Tyre certainly would not remain in their hands. The Horsemen that weren't pulled by Chariots then assaulted the city and finished off the remaining Tyrian Guards. The Curraghs in the city's Harbor were sunk, the city was looted, especially the palace, although there wasn't really anything to take. The palace ended up being burned to the ground. The inhabitants escaped long before, though, somehow, and now the Phoenician Government has set up a new capital in Ugarit to the east. A curious choice for a capital city, as it is disconnected from the rest of the country. Perhaps they think it will be safer from Egyptians there? Who cares, Egypt would take it anyway.
Other inhabitants of the city weren't so lucky, and it is estimated that more than 45,000 of Tyre's citizens- around 3/5 of the population of the city- died. None felt like resisting at that point, luckily for Egypt. And so, the city was theirs.
The War Chariots and Archers that did not participate in the Battle of Tyre now advanced on Berytus and Acco on the Sinai peninsula. They were able to capture some workers cutting down the trees to the west of the city.
In 930, it was the Phoenicians' turn to counter-attack. But they could not mount anything in the way of a counter-attack, they simply sent a unit of Archers to occupy a hill East-South-East of Tyre. The Egyptian military was in agreement that the Phoenician military was totally pathetic.
The Archers in question were easily wiped out by Egyptian War Chariots in 920. The Phoenician units just can't even come close to winning. Some more Archers and a Curragh were spotted near Ugarit by these Chariots, the purpose of which is unknown.
Meanwhile, the Archers moved into a Forest near Berytus, putting them within range of the city. The War Chariots, waiting for their help in taking the city down, occupied a Hill to the Southwest.
In 910, the Phoenicians moved around some more, and they also attempted to create an escape for themselves, should the rest of their cities in the area around Tyre fall. They built the city of Kition in the North, surrounded on 3 sides by Hittite borders. Egypt obviously cannot get them up there, so it appears that they will survive, unless someone else decides to take out this new city.
The Archers and War Chariots were ready to attack Berytus in 900. The Battle of Berytus began with all of the Archers attacking the Tyrian Guards defending the city. This proved to not be a great move, as they were mostly destroyed. The first two of the three archer units barely even caused any damage to the wall of Tyrian Guards they ran up against. The third finally managed to bring the first unit down, but just barely survived the battle. Now the War Chariots attacked. One unit of War Chariots was all that was necessary to bring down the remaining Tyrian Guards defending the city. Due to the small size of the city, there was almost nothing left of it after the fighting was done, and the few things that still somehow stood were immediately destroyed by the War Chariots.
The remaining unit of War Chariots that didn't participate in the battle advanced on Acco now.
There were a few Archers and Warriors approaching Tyre. Although they posed no threat, it was decided they should probably be attacked and killed, as that would be easier to do on offense. But, with their current position, they could not be attacked by the units in Tyre without leaving those units exposed to a counterattack, so it was decided they should wait. So they did, and sure enough, the Phoenicians moved closer in 890.
In 880, the War Chariots were told of their mission. They were to go a little to the East, where some lone Phoenician Archers occupied a desert. They had fought several battles prior to this, and had since become the most Elite unit in the Egyptian Army. They proved to have earned that title. The leader of the Elite War Chariot Unit, Cheops, proved to be a brilliant great leader through the use of amazing tactics that destroyed the Phoenician Archers with few War Chariot losses, not that that really required much in the way of great tactics.
The new high-ranking General Cheops was sent away from combat, to lead a far larger army.
Meanwhile, the War Chariots outside of Acco wiped out the newly trained Tyrian Guards in the city with little effort. Only a unit of Archers remains to defend the city, and Archers are hardly good defenders.
The Phoenicians were clearly scared at this point. They had lost two cities, including their capital. They would very soon lose Acco as well. It was likely that the rest of the nation would not stand very much longer than that. Seeing they were doomed, they decided to send an envoy to Thebes to try to negotiate a peace treaty in 870.
Hat quickly rebuffed this offer. "Why sign peace now, when I can easily grab more of your territory? Maybe some other time. Ask me after I have the rest of your Empire."
And so, the Phoenician Envoy left, disappointed, but lucky to escape with his life.
The citizens of Acco would not be so lucky.
But that didn't happen yet. Slightly to the North was the small Babylonian city of Shurrupak, which was near three Phoenician cities, and even bordered the city of Arvad. But it would not be Babylonian anymore, for the Hittites marched in and captured the city. The Medes did not declare war, as their alliance with Babylon had expired. Hat cannot help but wonder why the Hittites attacked Shurrupak first, when Zariqum and Sippar are closer to them and even a little in the way of Shurrupak. Oh well.
870 also saw the construction on the Hanging Gardens finish in Thebes, after many long years of... actually, it wasn't really that long. They were good for keeping people happy everywhere in Egypt, but especially in Thebes.
Then the scientists came to Hat again. "Hey, you know all that annoying disease that ravages all the floodplains around the Nile?" Hat didn't really know, there was plenty of disease spread by biting insects but no significant number of people had ever actually died from it. "Well, we've invented Medicine, to eliminate all that disease!"
Also, the culture of Avaris expanded from the Temple of Artemis's Temple, and Arab Horsemen were spotted to the Southwest. Meh. They were no threat.
Cheops Arrived in Elephantine in 860, and a new army was created, which he would lead. So far, nobody has joined this army, although the Infantry that will be created as soon as Egypt can get Iron will join it as soon as they can be created.
And now, the story returns to Acco. The Archers defending the city were simply no match for the Egyptian War Chariots. They were all killed, as were the city's inhabitants, and the city burned to the ground. Phoenicia had now been evicted from the Sinai peninsula, and Egyptian settlers would soon be around to claim the luxuries that were there- The Gems on Mount Sinai, and the Dyes located in the rubble of where Acco used to be.
In the Desert East of Tyre, A unit of Warriors and another of Archers appeared, belonging to Phoenicia. Then the Egyptian Army showed up to destroy them. The Warriors were killed by Horsemen, and the Archers were killed by War Chariots.
The Hittite War grew larger in 850. The Sumerians convinced the Mycenaeans to declare war on the Hittites. This meant that the Hittites would now be forced to fight a war on two fronts, to the East and West, rather than just one front. Sadly, the Medes would not be joining, as their alliance with the Mycenaeans had also run out, just like the Babylonian one.
This was followed by a long period of nothing happening. The Egyptian and Phoenician units moved around and plotted their next respective moves. Finally, in 820, the Egyptians would gain a massive advantage. A colony was built on the Iron West of Avaris, allowing the Egyptians to have Iron. They could now build strong, Companion Infantry to fight along with the Archers, War Chariots, and Horsemen they had already sent. The remaining few vastly outdated Stone Age Warriors were instantly upgraded to these new Infantry.
The Arab Horsemen may pose a threat, but as it is defended well by Spearmen on a hill, they will likely not be able to destroy the colony.
Elsewhere, a unit of Warriors and 2 of Archers had appeared to make another pathetic counter-attack. The War Chariots and Horsemen made plans to wipe all of them out. And yet, the first War Chariot attack was defeated. By Stone Age Warriors. And they all died while doing little damage to the Warriors. It was just as well- had they survived, they would have most likely been executed for losing such an easy battle. Oh well. The remaining attacks by the War Chariots and Horsemen wiped out all of the Phoenician Archers and Warriors with little trouble, although some units have been damaged a lot.
810 saw a Phoenician Curragh that had been sailing towards Egyptian shores for a while stop at a place near El-Amarna and Abydos and unload a single Archer. This was quite a pathetic attack force, although they would threaten the workers there, or destroy improvements to the land. The Spearmen defending the surrounding cities would need to attack and wipe them all out before they could attack and cause some damage.
Elsewhere, the Median City of Mardin, a large city to the west of Agbatana, completed the Great Pyramids, the first Wonder to be completed outside of Egypt.
Back to the Archers, in 800, the Spearmen from Abydos Attacked them first- and died, although they brought them down quite a bit. The Spearmen from Pi-Ramesses finished the job.
It was noticed that some other civilizations had attained a new technology, a Currency for trading things. Hat wanted this, so she traded away Medicine to the Medes and Babylonians to get it, and a bunch of their gold.
The various militaries fighting each other continued to move around in 790. A Tyrian Guard moved out of Sidon to the Dyes North of Tyre. They were clearly intending to destroy the road to the dyes to deprive Egypt of them. Well, Egypt would not let that happen.
The Mycenaeans asked Egypt for a trade of Territory Maps. Hat said, "Sure, why not, they might like us more," and agreed.
The Median-Babylonian protection alliance was re-created in that year also. It might be beneficial to many, and it would certainly drag the Medes into the Hittite War.
And indeed, they would join at the end of the year, as the Hittites ended a year with units in Babylonian Territory, which triggered the alliance.
In the time between those two events, the Arab Horsemen inexplicably attacked the Spearmen defending the Iron Colony, with the entirely predictable result of a lot of dead Arab Horsemen. Also, the Egyptian Scientists had invented Mathematics, a way of adding up amounts of things and maybe describing the world a little.
Also, the Babylonian city of Ashur, a somewhat large Babylonian city to the Northeast of Babylon on the Sumerian border, had been working on the Pyramids for a while, and no longer could, as Mardin had built the Pyramids. So it switched to a different wonder, the Mausoleum of Mausollos, and completed it instantly. A shame, Thebes could have built it in 80 years (4 turns (!)).
Elsewhere, in 780, War Chariots killed Archers East of Tyre, and the Tyrian Guards that were menacing the Dyes were killed by more War Chariots.
The Egyptians are clearly winning this war. They have taken 3 cities, 2 of which were burned. The Hittites are no problem while they're at war with everyone. Things are really looking up, and it seems they can only look better. Hat smiles at that thought, and tries to think of something that could somehow make this better.
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mythmonster2
BEC NOIR! RUN!
Seems your campaign is going great. More luxuries for Egypt! Are you planning on winning this by Wonder Victory or what?
Chapter 6: Phoenicia Delenda Est
Almost as soon as Hat tried to think of something that could make the current situation better, she got something, one of the best things that could happen. In 770, the Babylonians convinced the Phoenicians to declare war on the Hittites.
This was great in many ways. The Hittites were now at war with every single other nation. Egypt's two enemies were fighting. Most of all, the Hittites would easily destroy Kition in the North, meaning that Egypt could finish off Phoenicia. The Egyptian military counts down the days to their destruction.
The Hittites didn't move against them yet, though, as they were busy attacking the Babylonian city of Sippar. They succeeded in this battle, and the city was burned to the ground. The Hittites seem to be winning, despite fighting everyone.
Lastly, yet another wonder was completed, making it the 3rd to be complete in the past 60 years. This wonder was the giant bronze statue called the Colossus, and the city that built it was Kish, a Sumerian city on the Persian Gulf Coast near a bunch of fish.
The war front was then relatively quiet for a while, while the Egyptian Army advanced on Sidon and Ugarit. The next event was in 750, when a Tyrian Guard unit attacked an Egyptian Horsemen unit. And lost... badly.
Then it was the Hittites' turn to move. They first made the shockingly predictable move of burning the Phoenician city of Kition to the ground. They also made the predictable move of having a Curragh that had been visible for a while now unload a unit of warriors on Egyptian shores, just to the North of Elephantine. Said Warriors were killed by Egyptian Horsemen in 740.
The destruction of Berytus and Acco had left a large hole in territory on the Sinai peninsula. Egyptian settlers now moved to start filling this hole. The first step was to build the city of Lisht, on the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba. It was south of Phoenician Ivory, and, actually, a little to the north of where Berytus was, but not very far North.
To the North was the Phoenician city of Sidon, the oldest city in Phoenicia now that Tyre was Egyptian. It would now be soon Egyptian, too, or rather, non-existent, as it was too small to survive a battle. Leading the assault was the Infantry army of Cheops, with some War Chariots fighting with him. Right now, only one unit was available, although more would be ready soon. Cheops made the first attack. As his army was massive, there was little a single Tyrian Guard unit could do. He lost about a third of his army in the battle, but still took it down with many Companion Infantry to spare. They would have been able to attack again, if they had not already expended their energy walking to Sidon.
The Battle of Sidon continued when the War Chariots then attacked the remaining Tyrian guards in the city. They were confident it would fall. Overconfident, perhaps, and it probably led to their defeat. The Tyrian Guards almost fell, but Sidon would remain Phoenician for a little while longer.
Cheops' Army was able to attack again in 720, taking out the Tyrian Guards that remained in the city with no damage to themselves whatsoever. Sidon burned.
Also, somewhere, some Egyptian Archers killed some Phoenician Warriors. Why do these Phoenicians send Stone Age Warriors to fight us?
710 saw a bit more action in the Hittite War, which generally was quieter than the war between Egypt and Phoenicia. The city of Shurrupak, captured from Babylon a while ago by the Hittites, was recaptured- by the Sumerians. Sumeria now controls this formerly Hittite, formerly Babylonian city.
The Egyptian scientists continued to work fast. The Golden Age of Egypt got them a lot more money to research faster. In 710, their new invention was that they had invented Horsemanship, allowing better Cavalry, that used Iron Swords and some Iron weapons. They would be as strong as the Companion Infantry on the Offense, although they'd be weaker on defense. To make up for that, they were faster on account of riding Horses.
Shortly after that, in 700, most of the War Chariots and Horsemen were immediately upgraded to be these new, strong Cavalry, as War Chariots and Horsemen were now obsolete. The exception was a unit of War Chariots that was in the forest outside of Byblos, the last Phoenician city on the Mediterranean Sea Coast. It was obviously not in an Egyptian city and could not be upgraded. But that was soon to change, for they attacked and destroyed the only unit of Tyrian Guards defending the city. A Worker was captured, and the city with it. Like with Tyre, it was looted and a bunch of the civilians died. This time, though, the ones left alive resisted against Egyptian rule, determined to be Phoenician again. They would be quelled by the War Chariots soon.
A bit earlier, the second city had been built on the Sinai peninsula to the South: Named Buto, it was in between the Dyes and the Gems.
Ugarit could not be attacked yet, though there were a few units of various kinds massing outside of it. In 690, a Tyrian Guard unit inside Ugarit attacked the Archers outside the city. The result of this attack was the Archers winning, but taking some losses. An unexpected victory- even on hills, archers are terrible at defending, and Tyrian Guards are decent attackers.
A Curragh also unexpectedly unloaded an archer in the desert between Tyre and Ugarit. Why here was chosen is unknown. Whatever the reason, the new Cavalry wiped them out easily in 680. They were quite weak. And the Cavalry did pretty good on the defense, too, taking out some Phoenician Archers who attacked them in 670.
Farther to the North, Cheops Army slowly advanced on Arvad, the last Phoenician city that wasn't Ugarit. In 660, they found Archers in the Forest to the west of the city. They attacked and wiped them out, all of them. In 20 years, they will attack Arvad itself, and Arvad will burn to the ground.
Meanwhile, the Battle of Ugarit has begun. 2 units of Cavalry and 1 unit of Archers were available to attack in 660, with 2 more units of Cavalry on the way. The Cavalry, being better attackers, charged in first. The first unit did some damage to the Tyrian Guards, but was then heavily wounded and forced to retreat. The 2nd unit wiped out a different batch of Tyrian guards, with about half damage done to them. The original Tyrian Guard unit remained. The Archers attacked it... and were killed by the Tyrian Guards. This city WILL fall soon.
The Battle resumed in 640, with both sides getting reinforced. The other two Cavalry units arrived, and Phoenicia got a new unit of Tyrian Guards by forcing everyone in Ugarit to work Fast, killing many of them but getting the Tyrian Guards trained in time for the battle's new start. And yet, it would not save them. The 2 full-strength Cavalry units charged in with much success and wiped out all the Tyrian Guards in the city. Ugarit was captured, as was some workers. It was looted, although no civilians were killed, as there were hardly any civilians to be killed. The Phoenician Palace was, again, destroyed.
Hiram and the rest of the government escaped again, to Arvad, the last city they could call their own, and set up their final capital there. It is unknown how exactly they got to Arvad, it's quite a long track through the desert, but it was their capital now. Not for much longer. Cheops' Army was already assaulting the city when they got there, and killed both of the two Tyrian Guard Units in the city. The entirety of the Phoenician military now consisted of one unit of Archers, defending one small town in the middle of the desert near some incense. Phoenicia would fall, and very soon.
On the Hittite War front, there was a surprise in 630. People started ending the war, and leaving on their own. Babylon and Sumeria both signed a peace treaty with the Hittites. Perhaps Babylon wished to cut their losses while they had the chance, and Sumeria saw no value in fighting such a far-off enemy. Whatever the reasons, they were at peace, which was kind of stupid in Babylon's position, considering their protection pact with the Medes would probably force them to declare war again.
Although Hat was slightly annoyed at Babylon and Sumeria cutting out of their alliances before the time on them was up, this meant that she also no longer had any alliances locking her into war with the Hittites- and no reason to be fighting with them at all. She would look into ending the war soon.
Also in 630, the scientists had a new discovery. "Hey, Hat, we've researched this thing we call Ballistics. Basically, it lets us track the movement of an object going through the air. Here, come out into the courtyard, we'll show you."
In the courtyard, they had created an odd contraption, which they called a "Catapult". Hat asked them to show her how it worked, and they obliged, putting a rock in something at the top, making calculations, and then cutting a rope that made the catapult spring forward and launch the rock at high speeds. "Impressive." said Hat. She was slightly less impressed when it hit the Palace's Outer Wall and knocked a few bricks out, but was still impressed it could actually do that.
Lastly, a book was released in Thebes that year. It was called the Heroic Epic, chronicling some of Egypt's past military victories, and the stories of the military general Cheops featured quite a bit.
Speaking of Cheops, his attack on Arvad resumed in 620. It goes without saying that his army quickly eliminated all the Archers in the city, and captured the workers. Then the looting began, along with the random killing people and setting things on fire. The city burned to the ground quickly, and all of the inhabitants of the city with it, including the Phoenician Palace, Hiram, and all of the Phoenician Government. The Phoenician civilization was ended here and now.
Now that one war was over, Hat looked to ending the other war she was involved in. She went to the Hittites, and they talked Peace. Neither side was asked to give anything to the other, the Hittites had nothing to trade and the Egyptians had probably come out on top in this war. So it was just a straight up Peace Treaty.
Both sides walked away, happy with this deal, and the Hittite War shrank more. Now only the Medes and Mycenaeans fought the Hittites, though Babylon might get dragged back in due to their alliance with the Medes.
With Egypt now back at Peace for the first time in 300 years, Hat looked at her new empire. She was in a Golden Age, the Empire had built much in the past few centuries, and things had never looked brighter, with the possible exception of the Sahara Desert's Sun, that was very bright. But... Well yeah, it was looking awesome right now.
There were holes in the territory she had conquered, but those would soon be filled. And Egypt would soon reign supreme. Muhahaha. Ha. Ha. Sorry about that.
Almost as soon as Hat tried to think of something that could make the current situation better, she got something, one of the best things that could happen. In 770, the Babylonians convinced the Phoenicians to declare war on the Hittites.
This was great in many ways. The Hittites were now at war with every single other nation. Egypt's two enemies were fighting. Most of all, the Hittites would easily destroy Kition in the North, meaning that Egypt could finish off Phoenicia. The Egyptian military counts down the days to their destruction.
The Hittites didn't move against them yet, though, as they were busy attacking the Babylonian city of Sippar. They succeeded in this battle, and the city was burned to the ground. The Hittites seem to be winning, despite fighting everyone.
Lastly, yet another wonder was completed, making it the 3rd to be complete in the past 60 years. This wonder was the giant bronze statue called the Colossus, and the city that built it was Kish, a Sumerian city on the Persian Gulf Coast near a bunch of fish.
The war front was then relatively quiet for a while, while the Egyptian Army advanced on Sidon and Ugarit. The next event was in 750, when a Tyrian Guard unit attacked an Egyptian Horsemen unit. And lost... badly.
Then it was the Hittites' turn to move. They first made the shockingly predictable move of burning the Phoenician city of Kition to the ground. They also made the predictable move of having a Curragh that had been visible for a while now unload a unit of warriors on Egyptian shores, just to the North of Elephantine. Said Warriors were killed by Egyptian Horsemen in 740.
The destruction of Berytus and Acco had left a large hole in territory on the Sinai peninsula. Egyptian settlers now moved to start filling this hole. The first step was to build the city of Lisht, on the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba. It was south of Phoenician Ivory, and, actually, a little to the north of where Berytus was, but not very far North.
To the North was the Phoenician city of Sidon, the oldest city in Phoenicia now that Tyre was Egyptian. It would now be soon Egyptian, too, or rather, non-existent, as it was too small to survive a battle. Leading the assault was the Infantry army of Cheops, with some War Chariots fighting with him. Right now, only one unit was available, although more would be ready soon. Cheops made the first attack. As his army was massive, there was little a single Tyrian Guard unit could do. He lost about a third of his army in the battle, but still took it down with many Companion Infantry to spare. They would have been able to attack again, if they had not already expended their energy walking to Sidon.
The Battle of Sidon continued when the War Chariots then attacked the remaining Tyrian guards in the city. They were confident it would fall. Overconfident, perhaps, and it probably led to their defeat. The Tyrian Guards almost fell, but Sidon would remain Phoenician for a little while longer.
Cheops' Army was able to attack again in 720, taking out the Tyrian Guards that remained in the city with no damage to themselves whatsoever. Sidon burned.
Also, somewhere, some Egyptian Archers killed some Phoenician Warriors. Why do these Phoenicians send Stone Age Warriors to fight us?
710 saw a bit more action in the Hittite War, which generally was quieter than the war between Egypt and Phoenicia. The city of Shurrupak, captured from Babylon a while ago by the Hittites, was recaptured- by the Sumerians. Sumeria now controls this formerly Hittite, formerly Babylonian city.
The Egyptian scientists continued to work fast. The Golden Age of Egypt got them a lot more money to research faster. In 710, their new invention was that they had invented Horsemanship, allowing better Cavalry, that used Iron Swords and some Iron weapons. They would be as strong as the Companion Infantry on the Offense, although they'd be weaker on defense. To make up for that, they were faster on account of riding Horses.
Shortly after that, in 700, most of the War Chariots and Horsemen were immediately upgraded to be these new, strong Cavalry, as War Chariots and Horsemen were now obsolete. The exception was a unit of War Chariots that was in the forest outside of Byblos, the last Phoenician city on the Mediterranean Sea Coast. It was obviously not in an Egyptian city and could not be upgraded. But that was soon to change, for they attacked and destroyed the only unit of Tyrian Guards defending the city. A Worker was captured, and the city with it. Like with Tyre, it was looted and a bunch of the civilians died. This time, though, the ones left alive resisted against Egyptian rule, determined to be Phoenician again. They would be quelled by the War Chariots soon.
A bit earlier, the second city had been built on the Sinai peninsula to the South: Named Buto, it was in between the Dyes and the Gems.
Ugarit could not be attacked yet, though there were a few units of various kinds massing outside of it. In 690, a Tyrian Guard unit inside Ugarit attacked the Archers outside the city. The result of this attack was the Archers winning, but taking some losses. An unexpected victory- even on hills, archers are terrible at defending, and Tyrian Guards are decent attackers.
A Curragh also unexpectedly unloaded an archer in the desert between Tyre and Ugarit. Why here was chosen is unknown. Whatever the reason, the new Cavalry wiped them out easily in 680. They were quite weak. And the Cavalry did pretty good on the defense, too, taking out some Phoenician Archers who attacked them in 670.
Farther to the North, Cheops Army slowly advanced on Arvad, the last Phoenician city that wasn't Ugarit. In 660, they found Archers in the Forest to the west of the city. They attacked and wiped them out, all of them. In 20 years, they will attack Arvad itself, and Arvad will burn to the ground.
Meanwhile, the Battle of Ugarit has begun. 2 units of Cavalry and 1 unit of Archers were available to attack in 660, with 2 more units of Cavalry on the way. The Cavalry, being better attackers, charged in first. The first unit did some damage to the Tyrian Guards, but was then heavily wounded and forced to retreat. The 2nd unit wiped out a different batch of Tyrian guards, with about half damage done to them. The original Tyrian Guard unit remained. The Archers attacked it... and were killed by the Tyrian Guards. This city WILL fall soon.
The Battle resumed in 640, with both sides getting reinforced. The other two Cavalry units arrived, and Phoenicia got a new unit of Tyrian Guards by forcing everyone in Ugarit to work Fast, killing many of them but getting the Tyrian Guards trained in time for the battle's new start. And yet, it would not save them. The 2 full-strength Cavalry units charged in with much success and wiped out all the Tyrian Guards in the city. Ugarit was captured, as was some workers. It was looted, although no civilians were killed, as there were hardly any civilians to be killed. The Phoenician Palace was, again, destroyed.
Hiram and the rest of the government escaped again, to Arvad, the last city they could call their own, and set up their final capital there. It is unknown how exactly they got to Arvad, it's quite a long track through the desert, but it was their capital now. Not for much longer. Cheops' Army was already assaulting the city when they got there, and killed both of the two Tyrian Guard Units in the city. The entirety of the Phoenician military now consisted of one unit of Archers, defending one small town in the middle of the desert near some incense. Phoenicia would fall, and very soon.
On the Hittite War front, there was a surprise in 630. People started ending the war, and leaving on their own. Babylon and Sumeria both signed a peace treaty with the Hittites. Perhaps Babylon wished to cut their losses while they had the chance, and Sumeria saw no value in fighting such a far-off enemy. Whatever the reasons, they were at peace, which was kind of stupid in Babylon's position, considering their protection pact with the Medes would probably force them to declare war again.
Although Hat was slightly annoyed at Babylon and Sumeria cutting out of their alliances before the time on them was up, this meant that she also no longer had any alliances locking her into war with the Hittites- and no reason to be fighting with them at all. She would look into ending the war soon.
Also in 630, the scientists had a new discovery. "Hey, Hat, we've researched this thing we call Ballistics. Basically, it lets us track the movement of an object going through the air. Here, come out into the courtyard, we'll show you."
In the courtyard, they had created an odd contraption, which they called a "Catapult". Hat asked them to show her how it worked, and they obliged, putting a rock in something at the top, making calculations, and then cutting a rope that made the catapult spring forward and launch the rock at high speeds. "Impressive." said Hat. She was slightly less impressed when it hit the Palace's Outer Wall and knocked a few bricks out, but was still impressed it could actually do that.
Lastly, a book was released in Thebes that year. It was called the Heroic Epic, chronicling some of Egypt's past military victories, and the stories of the military general Cheops featured quite a bit.
Speaking of Cheops, his attack on Arvad resumed in 620. It goes without saying that his army quickly eliminated all the Archers in the city, and captured the workers. Then the looting began, along with the random killing people and setting things on fire. The city burned to the ground quickly, and all of the inhabitants of the city with it, including the Phoenician Palace, Hiram, and all of the Phoenician Government. The Phoenician civilization was ended here and now.
Now that one war was over, Hat looked to ending the other war she was involved in. She went to the Hittites, and they talked Peace. Neither side was asked to give anything to the other, the Hittites had nothing to trade and the Egyptians had probably come out on top in this war. So it was just a straight up Peace Treaty.
Both sides walked away, happy with this deal, and the Hittite War shrank more. Now only the Medes and Mycenaeans fought the Hittites, though Babylon might get dragged back in due to their alliance with the Medes.
With Egypt now back at Peace for the first time in 300 years, Hat looked at her new empire. She was in a Golden Age, the Empire had built much in the past few centuries, and things had never looked brighter, with the possible exception of the Sahara Desert's Sun, that was very bright. But... Well yeah, it was looking awesome right now.
There were holes in the territory she had conquered, but those would soon be filled. And Egypt would soon reign supreme. Muhahaha. Ha. Ha. Sorry about that.
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Wonder Victory is sort of the only Victory on in this Scenario, aside from Victory Points- This scenario ends when either all 7 wonders are built, someone reaches 5500 VP, or after 150 (?) turns or so. Currently, The Great Lighthouse is the only wonder not yet built, and I'm beelining to the tech required to build it- the one after Ship Building, which I'm researching now. I'm also at about 4825 VP, so I'm going to win pretty soon- my plan is, like I said, to beeline to the tech required to build the GLH, which should take about 8 turns, then build it in whatever my most productive coastal city is, which should take a few more turns. If I don't have 5500 VP by the time I've finished building the GLH, I'll win by building the GLH. If I do have 5500 VP, then I win by VP. Either way, I win.
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BEC NOIR! RUN!
Ah, I had forgotten there was only Wonder Victory here. Odd, considering I just played through it a couple of days ago.
Lots of fun reading this. I just got back from vacation and was out of reading. Laugh out loud lines:
Several others too long to quote. Great work on the story telling. I would strongly recommend a brutal, bloody slaughter of several opponents before you waltz over to that victory points or wonders win. If there ain't a lot of pointless carnage, it just ain't Civ.
- They could build mines to go underground to get things that would aid in the production of things.
- "Pray you don't impress us again!"
Several others too long to quote. Great work on the story telling. I would strongly recommend a brutal, bloody slaughter of several opponents before you waltz over to that victory points or wonders win. If there ain't a lot of pointless carnage, it just ain't Civ.
Thanks.
I'd like to do something like that, but my military advisor tells me all my neighbors are stronger than me. 
Also, there probably isn't enough time left for a real war anyway.Don't worry, there can be a pointless carnage in the next few scenarios.
This has to be a violation of something. Calling all mods! Clean up on aisle 3!
On edit: offending spammage links replaced with picture of bunnies so darn adorable that I may still get kicked off of CivFan.
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