Role Play Challenge, TNG: The Prophet M, Islamic Jihad!

Boy, I always suffer when I go to Epic speed. I feel really lost for the first 100 turns or so. Either way, my objective here was to found Islam as soon as possible and go on a purifying holy war to cleanse the world of the heathens. I did the first part well, the second one... You'll see for yourself.

I had luck with the lucky huts in the beginning.



That allowed me to get a fast start to my plan, because



Monarchy is a pre-requisite for Divine Right and I'd need two prophets: one to bulb Theology and another one to bulb DR itself. But first, let us improve our GP pool.



Needless to say, I did get an early prophet. The problem was waiting for the AIs to self-research Theology and be able to bulb. Zara eventually did.



Then I was able to part bulb DR, but, as you certainly noticed, my economy was going really slow. In fact, it is still slow, but now it's manageable. Becoming a muslim made me insta worst enemy of Isabella and made Zara declare on me. BTW, he already had Engineering. Fortunately, events are on and the rng gods decided to cut me some slack.







Well, we're going to be an islamic country so let's do it right. Monasteries and temples everywhere and places for the students of the word of Him to gather from all over Arabia and learn more.



Then it was time to make the heathens understand that our faith is strong and we can't be bent by bullies or anything. Heaven is our aim and there we shall go. We beelined Engineering for Trebuchets and also for Pikemen to deal with the Ethiopian Knights. We were just waiting for a signal to put the plans into motion and the signal was given by Mohammed Shah.



We whipped the heck out of our 7 cities to get Pikes, Trebs, Camels and Maces. That, along with what we already had, allowed us to split the mujahideen in two stacks.

Meet the small stack:




Say hello to the big stack:




BTW, did you notice that Zara had his Oromo Warriors ready for war? Tell you what - they suck against Camels! I'd very much rather face a whole army of whatever muskets you name than a huge pile of Longbowmen behind city walls. Even the beloved Janissaries.

Christian holy city, burn!



Confucian holy city, burn!



Good-bye Zara, enjoy hell!




Now I need to whip some twenty Trebuchets and rid our holy continent of the contact with the jewish religion. We've tried over and over to tell Isabella that, although it was the first revelation, they should accept the final revelation made by the Lord. She just wouldn't hear us, now would she?


Well, a while later our war machines were ready to go and had not much trouble cleaning our continent. We were blessed with the opportunity of razing the Jewish holy city too. After that, it was farewell Isabella.





I have a flaw: when I get too many cities, I find it hard to keep up with the micro so I just automated all of my workers and started to build infrastructure. We weren't as learned as the rest of the world so we had to take our time rebuilding to demonstrate the glories of submission to Allah's will. In the meantime, the evil Byzantines declared war on us. At that moment, I thought it would be better to stop playing because he already had Riflemen. I set the slider to 100% gold and told all cities to build Cuirassiers. Meanwhile I also upgraded our old Camels to Cuirassiers.



You see, the rest of the world was a Hindu happy family. Charlemagne, the Buddhist had been destroyed Aeons ago and we were the only righteous in the land. The heathens showed that they could also work together.





But, at that moment, we had passed the need to fear for our safety.



Another proof of the falsehood of their religion was presented. They all started to kill each other instead of uniting.



We were happy enough to get peace treaties with the infidels while we prepared the faithful for one last push. Our gentle missionaries would have to be escorted by our hardy warriors for none of the heathens was reasonable enough. This was the first step in our progress.



Besides completing the Pentagon, we also built Factories and Coal Plants in every single city, even the frozen ones (told you I can't keep up with the micro). A while later, we learned how to bring the word from the skies to terrorize the infidels and make them repent for their sins. This is where we are now:







And this is the first wave of true believers:

Well, as of the last save, the righteous ones were preparing for war against the infidels. We had a slight problem, though - how to crush the heathens without going beyond the domination threshold. That would suck because, if I understood the rules, we are required to convert the whole world before we can win. So my plan was to destroy Justinian, the smallest and the only one I could conquer without approaching the limit too much, get a foothold in the other continent, convert all their cities and crush whoever refuses to convert, namely Suryavarman.

We began by setting a corporation to better use the raw materials in our factories.



We then moved on to destroying the nasty Byzatines, who had dared to step on holy Arabian soil wearing their demonic boots. This is the stack we used. There was another one, just like this moving to their overseas lands.



We didn't encounter much resistance.



We then proceeded to converting the Aztecs because they had less cities and also because they are not the founders of any religion so we can expect them to come into their senses. With some hashish and small talk, we sponsored a miliitary coup of the true believers.



Then, this is where we're slogging. There are just too many Khmer cities to convert. Our army stands ready to crush them, but we have to make sure their citizens will be able to understand the reasons for our liberation war.





Make no mistakes. When I say the army stands ready, I mean it. Prophets don't lie!



After a loooong while, we finally managed to get all Khmer cities with Islam.



It was time for war. I just had to upgrade my 90 Fighters to Jet Fighters. Do you know how expensive that is? My original plan was to go to both Hindu and Taoist holy cities in the first turn of war to put a dent to Suryavarman's GNP. However, I faced a little problem:



Yes, as you can see, Suryavarman had:

11 Infantries;
6 SAM Infantries;
3 Marines;
13 Paratroopers;
11 Mechanized Infantries (the first one comes before the Destroyers);
14 Cavalries;
6 Tanks;
1 Machine Gun;
4 Artilleries; and
8 Mobile Artilleries.

Wow, 77 divisions in Constantinople! Took me three turns to take it. But it finally burned (it was a shame, though. Such a nice city).



That was in July of 1958. I only managed to grab the Taoist holy city in January of 1961 (Another nice city. Makes me sad it burned). Suryavarman had already gotten himself Modern Armors and I feared for a moment, but my old Camels, which got upgraded to Cuirassiers, which got upgraded to Cavalries, had gotten upgraded to Gunships so I could field a decent army. I built no single Artilleries. In Jet Fighters we trust.






After healing a bit, we could assemble two more stacks. CFC, meet the Prophet's big stack:



And the small one:



Eleven years after the start of the war, we were able to capture the last holy city of all, the former Holy Roman capital. It also burned to the ground. Islam was supreme!





As you can see, all the cities in the world had Islam, even the two cities Monty founded during the war.











This was a very decent shrine for a standard map. The funny thing is that the corporation was more profitable than the most popular religion in the world.



In July of 1970, twelve years after the war started, the world bowed before our feet.



Now, this is what made my victory:



When you have such a big production advantage, you can absorb your losses much better than your enemy. The troops I had in the beginning of the war were in a very bad shape after attempting to capture Constantinople.

Troops built:



Troops killed:



Polaroid of the prophet's greatest general. (Not the best domination score, but we had to convert each and every city to Islam, so...)