madscientist
RPC Supergenius
Welcome to a replay of the next Role Play Challenge, The Rebirth of Israel and the search for the Promised land! The first game was a bitter loss as our land was terrible and our Neighbor the Persians were even more terrible. These games are meant to be educational and fun and are a different slant from the Classic RPC as we do not focus on one of our beloved 52 leaders.
Here we turns our eyes to the forgotten people of Civilization, the Jews. Yes friends, the poor Jews have been thrown aside with no respectable leader, oh Sid why have your forsaken them! But do not fear friends, for I am here to bring them respect (well that remains to be seen) and lead them to the promised land (Just what is that anyway?).
And I am playing as ISRAEL, for truely friends what one Jew can serve this people from the many that history has given us. In the spirit of the Gupta's (and let's hope the Jews fair better than the inept Indians) we shall have a new Jew leading Israel every segment!
We start with the founding Father of Israel, the Prophet Abraham. And of couse we do need to use some Civilization and leader, thus this time around we sill try Mansa Musa who is Financial and Spiritual with a gold producing UB, very proper for the Jewish people I think. There are no extreme rules here, this is more a true Role Play game to have fun with Israel and play it up! The last game was a Mod and frankly the RPC angle fell off a bit, so I will make it up here.
Game Settings
Epic Speed, Emperor difficulty
Large Continents Map because frankly the Jews will spread all over and they need land
Arid map for Palestine flavor
There are 9 preselected leaders who repressed the Jews, and it's true I could use a 34 leader mod here but for simplicity let's stop at 9.
The Leaders
Alexander: For the cursed hellinistic culture that corrupted the true Jewish religion
Bismark: Need I say why?
Isabella: For the Spanish Inquisition that killed more Jews than Muslims.
Hammurabi: Read the bible man!
Cyrus: OK, someone who actually helped the Jews, we can backstab him.
Saladin: Because the Arabs hate the Jews.
Ramesses: Because he just couldn't let those people go.
Agustus: Well we need some Roman for Burning the Temple down.
Stalin: For the Russian Jews, for the Russian Jews.
The Rules:
1) We must found Judaism obviously. We also need to build the Temple fop Solomon and stay in either Organized religion or Theocracy. We cannot found another religion.
2) The Jews MUST secure the Promised land, meaning they must control the entire continent they start on. And I mean CONTROL, no Vassals allowed for the Jews.
3) The Apostalic Palace is an abomination to the Jews and cannot be built. If captured it must be razed. All AP votes, if we get the religion, must be defied. The exception is if the AP happens to become Jewish, then we can simply vote NO.
4) Jewish traditional Flavor should be added. Example we cannot pasturize pigs because of the Kosher thing. On the other hand I say we should definitely beeline and build Broadway/Rock and Roll/Hollywood because frankly friends the Jews excel here.
5) Otherwise we can play as we see fit. I chose no trade restrictions, we are Jews and can trade for what ever benefits us Jews. All victory conditions ar eopen except obviously the AP diplomatic win.
Now onto our Founding Father
Abraham, a rather fire and brimstone type of guy!
Our leader
The Entire Nation of Israel.
And the start
OK a few comments here. Mansa offers us a very strong leader, especially early on. However, he does NOT start with Mysticism! We do have great land though and start with mining, so I say we go along the path mysticism/masonry/Polytheim/Monotheism. With a little luck of benevolence from the almighty we should still be able to found Judaism!
I opted for keeping the Arid map as it really plays with ancient Israel best, and assuming floodplains Mansa's traits/UB can really leverage that well.
Here's to a more successful Israel!
Here we turns our eyes to the forgotten people of Civilization, the Jews. Yes friends, the poor Jews have been thrown aside with no respectable leader, oh Sid why have your forsaken them! But do not fear friends, for I am here to bring them respect (well that remains to be seen) and lead them to the promised land (Just what is that anyway?).
And I am playing as ISRAEL, for truely friends what one Jew can serve this people from the many that history has given us. In the spirit of the Gupta's (and let's hope the Jews fair better than the inept Indians) we shall have a new Jew leading Israel every segment!
We start with the founding Father of Israel, the Prophet Abraham. And of couse we do need to use some Civilization and leader, thus this time around we sill try Mansa Musa who is Financial and Spiritual with a gold producing UB, very proper for the Jewish people I think. There are no extreme rules here, this is more a true Role Play game to have fun with Israel and play it up! The last game was a Mod and frankly the RPC angle fell off a bit, so I will make it up here.
Game Settings
Epic Speed, Emperor difficulty
Large Continents Map because frankly the Jews will spread all over and they need land
Arid map for Palestine flavor
There are 9 preselected leaders who repressed the Jews, and it's true I could use a 34 leader mod here but for simplicity let's stop at 9.
The Leaders
Alexander: For the cursed hellinistic culture that corrupted the true Jewish religion
Bismark: Need I say why?
Isabella: For the Spanish Inquisition that killed more Jews than Muslims.
Hammurabi: Read the bible man!
Cyrus: OK, someone who actually helped the Jews, we can backstab him.
Saladin: Because the Arabs hate the Jews.
Ramesses: Because he just couldn't let those people go.
Agustus: Well we need some Roman for Burning the Temple down.
Stalin: For the Russian Jews, for the Russian Jews.
The Rules:
1) We must found Judaism obviously. We also need to build the Temple fop Solomon and stay in either Organized religion or Theocracy. We cannot found another religion.
2) The Jews MUST secure the Promised land, meaning they must control the entire continent they start on. And I mean CONTROL, no Vassals allowed for the Jews.
3) The Apostalic Palace is an abomination to the Jews and cannot be built. If captured it must be razed. All AP votes, if we get the religion, must be defied. The exception is if the AP happens to become Jewish, then we can simply vote NO.
4) Jewish traditional Flavor should be added. Example we cannot pasturize pigs because of the Kosher thing. On the other hand I say we should definitely beeline and build Broadway/Rock and Roll/Hollywood because frankly friends the Jews excel here.
5) Otherwise we can play as we see fit. I chose no trade restrictions, we are Jews and can trade for what ever benefits us Jews. All victory conditions ar eopen except obviously the AP diplomatic win.
Now onto our Founding Father
Abraham, a rather fire and brimstone type of guy!
Our leader
The Entire Nation of Israel.
And the start
OK a few comments here. Mansa offers us a very strong leader, especially early on. However, he does NOT start with Mysticism! We do have great land though and start with mining, so I say we go along the path mysticism/masonry/Polytheim/Monotheism. With a little luck of benevolence from the almighty we should still be able to found Judaism!
I opted for keeping the Arid map as it really plays with ancient Israel best, and assuming floodplains Mansa's traits/UB can really leverage that well.
Here's to a more successful Israel!
