Hiawatha, Emperor of the Iroquois

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It is the year 4000BC. Your ancestors were nomads. But over the generations your people have learned the secrets of farming, road-building and irrigation, and they are ready to settle down. Hiawatha, your people are Commercial and Agricultural and have recently mastered Pottery and Alphabet. The people have vested absolute power in you, trustong that you can build a civilization to stand the test of time!

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The Iroquois were very happy for the next 399 years. Unfortunately in 3600BC, 2 Hoplites showed up uninvited outside Salamanca's borders.

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Hiawatha wasnt worried though, because he knew that the Greeks tend to be a very peaceful civilization. Hiawatha was slightly worried about the number of Greek troops he had seen though. In 3450BC, he saw a Greek warrior. The total known presence of Greek military was now 2 Hoplites and 1 warrior. Hiawathat wasnt too worried though, until he saw the 2 Hoplites waltz right iinto Salamanca's borders!

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Fortunately, they left Salamanca the very next turn. Hiawatha decided he would trade with the Greeks to get them happy. Unfortunately, Alexander didnt particularly like Hiawatha's proposal.

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In 3050 BC, the Greeks were taught Pottery from a friendly barbarian tribe, but the Iroquois had gained some knowledge of Greek lands.

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3000BC showed the conscript explorer a Greek settler moving North towards Salamanca. In 2950 BC the first settler was built in Salamanca. The city then started to build some warriors for defense.

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The settler was then sent off towards the wheat NW of Salamanca. Hiawatha was slightly worried of the placement of Sparta to the south, but then a though occured to him. What if Greece can only expand North? They wont be able to get past Salamanca! :lol: They dont have a chance! To the south, the conscript warrior was patrolling the borders of Athens. He saw his chance to spy directly on Athens. He would stand on that hill to the east. It was a brilliant plan, and if he retreated quick enough, he wouldnt have to fight any hoplites. Interesting, he thought to himself...

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50 years later, Niagra Falls was founded, which immideately started work on training a warrior.

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The Wheel was learnt 50 years later, and the scientists proposed to work on a way of using their alphabet, called Writing. Hiawatha became very scared when he saw 2 German spearman fortified fairly near salamanca. And they werent moving. Must be a chokepoint thought Hiawatha. In 2550 BC, the volcano eruputed, and the new settlers considered themselves lucky not be have left Salamanca earlier. They moved towards the suspected chokpoint, to try and get rid of those spearmen. A nearby warrior escorted them to their destination, to protect them from the Germans should the try anything. Then Niagra Falls finished training a warrior, who was used as a garrison in the city. Then the people started to train a worker. Meanwhile, the Germans kept acting suspicious... :satan:

In 2470 BC, Grand River was founded.

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Will this new town annoy the Germans?
Will i be able to keep Greece contained?
Do i have enough land?

Find out next time!:king:
 
conquer_dude said:
Goodjob. Nt a bad starting position either!

Position = Good
Neighbours = Bad

It will be hard to get a good balance since i have the very aggressive Germany to the ENE, and the very defensive Sci Powerhouse Greece to the South. And im already down 3 techs...
 
Is this emperor?

a bigger issue than the neighbors is what looks to be a lack of horses. Iroquois without horses is like Persia without iron... what's the fun of that???
 
AutomatedTeller said:
Is this emperor?

a bigger issue than the neighbors is what looks to be a lack of horses. Iroquois without horses is like Persia without iron... what's the fun of that???

Its not as if i'm going to be able to do much with mountie, since Germany will be building a huge AA army and the Greeks will have tons of Hoplites.
 
Well, you could counter attack them while they are building up. :evil:

And you could get horses from a neighboring civ if needed.
 
Last time, we ended with Hiawatha building a city very close to a German Spearman. Hiawatha's wife noted that the spearman was very ugly. Hiawatha was very worried about the German reaction, but his fears werent nessecary as the Germans ran away when Grand River was built. Niagra Falls trained a worker a short time later, and he immediatly moved to the wheat and mined it. He stayed away from the forest, since it was suspected that there was some uranium.

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It was around that time that a settler was built. He really liked shiny things, so whe i told him to go north to the hill NW of the cows, he ignored me and went straight to the hill 1 N of the gems. I took advantage of this and sent him south to get some wheat and the gems, which made him happy. Meanwhile, a warrior found a southern tip of the continent and named the hill "Southern Hill". He wasnt the most creative warrior. Meanwhile, Greece and Germany were increasing their tech lead. Fortunately, i am pretty powerful.

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The volcano didnt like Greece's new town, Thermopylae, since when it was built, the volcano started smoking. Fortunately, my shiny thing obsessed friend wont be hurt. Salamanca was being struck with disease at this time, causing many people to be killed. At least Allegheny hadnt been affected.

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I also knew that i needed a war to get Germany out of the choke point, since i had a very small area to build.

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It was also very fortunate that my shiny settler was off the gems, since the volcano spewed lava all over the gems. I also needed new settling plans. there wasnt enough room to stick a city 1N of the cow as i had originally planned. I had to stick a city 1 SE of the cow instead.

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By then, i had 2 cities building curraghs. And to regain the pop level in Salamanca, i was building warriors to guard my part of the choke. In 1910 BC, i got my first curragh., and by 1870BC, the Iroquois had tripled the importance of settlers. Then Hiawatha learnt how to write...

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Do Greece or Germany want my writing?
Will Germany continue to block the choke point?
Will I get Philosophy first?
Is there another civilization just beyond the horizon?

Find out next time! :king:
 
Excelent!! :goodjob:

Looks like a war with Germany will be necessary soon. Just to get that spearman out of the choke. :lol:
 
I love your border image, but it sorta makes it look like everyone in your country is in prison
 
Dang Germans, always being a pain, their archer-spearman start can be quite a pain, well, good luck.:) You probably want to research The Wheel anytime soon dont you? Or well, know where the horsies are for future planning.:devil:
 
Ansar_the_King said:
Dang Germans, always being a pain, their archer-spearman start can be quite a pain, well, good luck.:) You probably want to research The Wheel anytime soon dont you? Or well, know where the horsies are for future planning.:devil:
As in cavs?
 
Hiawatha decided he would talk to Greece to sell Writing. Alexander highly walued Writing and sold Hiawatha 3 technologies for it. After that, Hiawatha spoke to the disliked German leader, Bismark. he only sold 1 technology for Writing. But he was foolish enough to make it Warrior Code, granting Iroquois qith the knowledge of bows and arrows. This would most likely lead to a war. Hiawatha was pleased though, he had earnt himself all of the first teir techs

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The cities that had been built on the beach had been mking floaty things, which were named curraghs. Hiawatha never understood why they were called curraghs though, since he thought floatie thing sounded much cooler. Hiawatha was using this time to build up a small army to remove Germany from the choke point, which currently consisted of 3 regular warriors. Hiawatha was pleased they were regular, since he didnt want constipated warriors on the battlefield. Unfortunately, the Cultural Advisor was still in palace. She kept saying "Build the Pyramids! We'd be the envy of the world!" So she was given an axe and stuck on the frontline promtly. Even more unfortunately, the next culture advisor was more annoying, so Hiawatha gave up.

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The rich people started to get angry, because it turned out that no luxuries were connected.

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The foreign countries were jealous of Hiawatha's beautiful foreign advisor. (well, they thought he was beautiful)

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The military advisor was disappointed with my lack of military buildup compared to Germany.

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And the labourers were angry because i just put 5 screenshots in without giveing more map info :D

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It didnt take very long after that for a third floaty thing to start exploring, and at approx the sam etime, Oil Springs was built. Niagra Falls joined in the settler building party the next turn, and after only one more turn, the great city of Tonawanda was built. It was December in 1625BC when Hiawatha met a red coloured border. It turned out that the red border belonged to Hammurabi, the leader of Bablyon. He refused to trade the alphabet to Hiawatha so he gave him the finger and went on his way. But after only 25 years, Babylon had learnt Alphabet, and was willing to trade the secrets of Iron Working for Writing. Hiawatha apologised for his earlier actions, and a trade was made. Hiawatha was very disappointed when he found out he had no Iron, but he knew that all he needed for now was archers. It took very little time to find the Hittites, who were north of Bablyon. They were technologically inferior to the Iroquois, so their messenger was given a lethal dose of wheat to show the Hittites what cold-blooded monsters the Iroquois were. By then the Iroquois had figured out Philosophy, and since they were such great philosophers, they also learnt Literature. Finally we can read books to our children thought Hiawatha as they told him of the great news. He was told by his military advisor in the same meeting that the army was ready to attack the spearman. Excellent. It was WAR! 2 men died attacking that spearman, but the warrior who succeeded was promoted to veteran! This allowed the powerful Iroquois to control the chokepoint, provided that they could hold it for the duration of the war. St Regis had just been founded too. Centralia was founded in dangerous territory, but this wsa of no concern to our friend Hiawatha. He trusted in his warriors abilities.

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He was then shown some strategic maps by his chief mapper.

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And the most alarming of all, an orange border...

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Who is the orange border?
Will the German Army raze my newly founded city?
Will i ever get a strategic rsource?
Will someone kill me if i post 6 advisor pics again?

Find out next time! :king:
 
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