Okay, so I was playing a game as the Dutch. Same old, same old, war, peace, war, kill, etc., launch spaceship. It wasn't exactly an exciting game, although I found something interesting about the terrain: No volcanoes, no floodplains, only one desert tile! So it gave me an idea for this variant. The varaint: My people do not know what volcanoes and flood plains are, for now at least. They think volcanoes are mountains and flood plains are desert (which isn't much of a handicap- I can't tell the difference between FP's and desert anyway ), at least for now. They will know what volcanoes are when one of them erupts in my territory and causes damage, and they will know what flood plains are if one of them causes disease, or I research Engineering (chosen just because I wanted it to be Engineering ), whichever comes first. I'm going to make sure I build at least one city that could be affected by this.
So, after I thought of the variant, I needed a civ to play it with. I soon thought of the Romans, which I think is historically accurate due to their knack of building cities next to volcanoes. Plus, they have the city name "Pompeii", which will be reserved for being built next to a volcano.
Settings:
To make things especially interesting, the world is Arid, Warm, and 3 billion years old. The other settings are as follows:
Land Mass: Continents
Water Coverage: 70%
Size: Large
Barbs: Roaming
AI: 11 Random opponents
Difficulty: Regent
Rules:
Default, minus Respawn AI and culture linked starts.
Preferred VC:
None. I can win by any VC, although I would prefer not to win by score.
Now, time to play the game and write the story!
Oh, and here is an index. If there was only one post for the chapter, there will be a link to that post on the name. If there was more than one post for the chapter, the name will be normal text and "Part One" will link to the first post, "Part Two" will link to the second, etc, although the max is currently 3.
EDIT FROM 2019:
So, if you're reading this now, you're probably going to notice that there's a bunch of images that don't work anymore. The reason for this is that when I first wrote the story back in 2007, I uploaded all my images past chapter 6 at this lovely ( ) website called ImageShack, which was a great place for image-hosting back in the day before they decided to stop allowing people to actually upload images to their website without creating an account, and then they became bad, and then they deleted all their anonymously uploaded images a few years later.
Luckily, between them banning image uploading and deleting all past images, I was able to save most of them- I say most, because it turned out there were a significant number that had mysteriously vanished in the years between me originally posting them here and me deciding to back them up, and most of them were images I hadn't saved anywhere else- so they're now gone forever. *grumbles*
I recently re-uploaded all the images that vanished when ImageShack deleted them all, and along the way, made some changes here and there to the story to try to describe what was happening in the missing images. Mostly, the changes were minor and you won't notice them much- but there's a few places where the image was very descriptive, and the narration wasn't, so I have a lengthier explanation, annotated "NOTE FROM THE FUTURE" that explains, as best as I can, what was in the original image- frequently there's some guessing on my part, but what can ya do. *grumbles at ImageShack again, the... *
So, after I thought of the variant, I needed a civ to play it with. I soon thought of the Romans, which I think is historically accurate due to their knack of building cities next to volcanoes. Plus, they have the city name "Pompeii", which will be reserved for being built next to a volcano.
Settings:
To make things especially interesting, the world is Arid, Warm, and 3 billion years old. The other settings are as follows:
Land Mass: Continents
Water Coverage: 70%
Size: Large
Barbs: Roaming
AI: 11 Random opponents
Difficulty: Regent
Rules:
Default, minus Respawn AI and culture linked starts.
Preferred VC:
None. I can win by any VC, although I would prefer not to win by score.
Now, time to play the game and write the story!
Oh, and here is an index. If there was only one post for the chapter, there will be a link to that post on the name. If there was more than one post for the chapter, the name will be normal text and "Part One" will link to the first post, "Part Two" will link to the second, etc, although the max is currently 3.
EDIT FROM 2019:
So, if you're reading this now, you're probably going to notice that there's a bunch of images that don't work anymore. The reason for this is that when I first wrote the story back in 2007, I uploaded all my images past chapter 6 at this lovely ( ) website called ImageShack, which was a great place for image-hosting back in the day before they decided to stop allowing people to actually upload images to their website without creating an account, and then they became bad, and then they deleted all their anonymously uploaded images a few years later.
Luckily, between them banning image uploading and deleting all past images, I was able to save most of them- I say most, because it turned out there were a significant number that had mysteriously vanished in the years between me originally posting them here and me deciding to back them up, and most of them were images I hadn't saved anywhere else- so they're now gone forever. *grumbles*
I recently re-uploaded all the images that vanished when ImageShack deleted them all, and along the way, made some changes here and there to the story to try to describe what was happening in the missing images. Mostly, the changes were minor and you won't notice them much- but there's a few places where the image was very descriptive, and the narration wasn't, so I have a lengthier explanation, annotated "NOTE FROM THE FUTURE" that explains, as best as I can, what was in the original image- frequently there's some guessing on my part, but what can ya do. *grumbles at ImageShack again, the... *
Spoiler Links to all chapters :
Prologue
Chapter 1: The journey of 540 turns... begins with a single click
Chapter 2: The Cherokee's Insanity
Chapter 3: Perplexing discoveries
Chapter 4: A Long, Not-So-Perilous journey
Chapter 5: An unexpected turn of events
Chapter 6: Government and Law
Chapter 7: Rome vs. Anarchy (and lots of Barbarians)
Chapter 8: A new age Part One Part Two Part Three
Chapter 9: War returns to the Mediterannean
Chapter 10: Rome's Golden Age
Chapter 11: The already-won race to Sun Tzu
Chapter 12: The need for Ivory
Chapter 13: The road to somewhere
Chapter 14: The Ivory War Begins
Chapter 15: Stalemate
Chapter 16: The Age of Discovery Part One Part Two
Chapter 17: Clear Victors
Chapter 18: Betrayal
Chapter 19: World War I
Chapter 20: (Really) Dumb Diplomacy
Chapter 21: The rapidly-morphing war
Chapter 22: The war slowly ends Part One Part Two
Chapter 23: Babylon's Wars
Chapter 24: Red vs. (Light) Blue Part One Part Two
Chapter 25: The Rampaging Romans Part One Part Two
Chapter 26: The American War Continues
Chapter 27: A Decade of (mostly) Diplomacy
Chapter 28: America's Downfall
Chapter 29: The next target
Chapter 30: New Technology- and More War
Chapter 31: The Walls of Constantinople
Chapter 32: Welcome to the 20th Century
Chapter 33: Five Down...
Chapter 34: The Blitz
Chapter 35: The Russian Mountain Battles
Chapter 36: Escalation
Chapter 37: World War II
Chapter 38: The Fall of Egypt
Chapter 39: Another Two Bite the Dust
Chapter 40: A 2-Second World Peace
Chapter 41: Nuclear Secrets
Chapter 42: Advancing down the West Coast
Chapter 43: Conquest of the Carthaginian Island
Chapter 44: Scipio
Chapter 45: The Mayan Blitz
Chapter 46: Slowly Advancing
Chapter 47: Madness? THIS... IS...
Chapter 48: Scorched (and Nuked) Earth
Chapter 49: The Beginning of the End
Chapter 50: Yet Another Blitz
Chapter 51: Return of the Barbarians
Chapter 52: Into China
Chapter 53: Nuclear Summer
Chapter 54: And Here It Ends...
Some Endgame Pics
Chapter 1: The journey of 540 turns... begins with a single click
Chapter 2: The Cherokee's Insanity
Chapter 3: Perplexing discoveries
Chapter 4: A Long, Not-So-Perilous journey
Chapter 5: An unexpected turn of events
Chapter 6: Government and Law
Chapter 7: Rome vs. Anarchy (and lots of Barbarians)
Chapter 8: A new age Part One Part Two Part Three
Chapter 9: War returns to the Mediterannean
Chapter 10: Rome's Golden Age
Chapter 11: The already-won race to Sun Tzu
Chapter 12: The need for Ivory
Chapter 13: The road to somewhere
Chapter 14: The Ivory War Begins
Chapter 15: Stalemate
Chapter 16: The Age of Discovery Part One Part Two
Chapter 17: Clear Victors
Chapter 18: Betrayal
Chapter 19: World War I
Chapter 20: (Really) Dumb Diplomacy
Chapter 21: The rapidly-morphing war
Chapter 22: The war slowly ends Part One Part Two
Chapter 23: Babylon's Wars
Chapter 24: Red vs. (Light) Blue Part One Part Two
Chapter 25: The Rampaging Romans Part One Part Two
Chapter 26: The American War Continues
Chapter 27: A Decade of (mostly) Diplomacy
Chapter 28: America's Downfall
Chapter 29: The next target
Chapter 30: New Technology- and More War
Chapter 31: The Walls of Constantinople
Chapter 32: Welcome to the 20th Century
Chapter 33: Five Down...
Chapter 34: The Blitz
Chapter 35: The Russian Mountain Battles
Chapter 36: Escalation
Chapter 37: World War II
Chapter 38: The Fall of Egypt
Chapter 39: Another Two Bite the Dust
Chapter 40: A 2-Second World Peace
Chapter 41: Nuclear Secrets
Chapter 42: Advancing down the West Coast
Chapter 43: Conquest of the Carthaginian Island
Chapter 44: Scipio
Chapter 45: The Mayan Blitz
Chapter 46: Slowly Advancing
Chapter 47: Madness? THIS... IS...
Chapter 48: Scorched (and Nuked) Earth
Chapter 49: The Beginning of the End
Chapter 50: Yet Another Blitz
Chapter 51: Return of the Barbarians
Chapter 52: Into China
Chapter 53: Nuclear Summer
Chapter 54: And Here It Ends...
Some Endgame Pics
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