Mad's World: MAd Saladin of Arabia

Rebirth of the Cultural Holy Man

Saladin had won a grand Cultural Victory in his past life, loving all religions and all peoples even if he had to fight off numerous Zealots. He founded 6 of the 7 major religions and shrined them all, songs of praise were sung in majesticv Catherdrals, and the Arabs prospered throughout the worls.

But that has changed for the Holy Man



His skills at defending the Arab people have been multiplied in this new world, great generals will be aplenty. Meanwhile, the spiritual Arab people will spread their faith even faster than before. In addition the magical Camel Archers will now be able to withdraw from battle more often and of course the mighty Madressa remains the stoic symbol of Arab culture and priest general (we must build the carab coffers you know).

Saladin starts on the shore and wonders what new challenges face his people.



ENTER MAD SCIENTIST

Ok people, we have a new type of game and I open for suggestions on how to play it both from a strategic aspect and also an RPC aspect.

First idea, do we exploit his defender of the faith aspect and try to religion hog again? DO we Crusade, kill the unbeleivers? Do we skip religion altogether and play opposite and become the rational minded Atheist?

Or do we make this up as we go along???

Settings

Emperor difficulty (this may change over time with these games).
Random standard sized map without Pangea or Archeopolego
Epic speed.

EXCELLENT!

All is well on CFC.

Shame about the start... Eh, go for crusades. That's always fun.

Crusade it. Should be fun.

Glad to see Julian isn't your avatar anymore, he was starting to freak me out.

Crusades are indeed fun. I like knights in the game and think they have a bad rap on the forum. So a guilds beeline for camel archers is my vote.

Also, since this is epic. It might be advisable to wander around a few turns, a la jesusin, and try and find some better food. SIP looks like death, .

Same thing about the avatar. Please note this start lacks crabs

Seen too many MAd crusades. I want 7 shrines religions this time.

Do you get an extra commerce if you settle on riverside silk? That would help toward early religions.

Welcome back!

Hasn't he done that too?

Play it on a low difficulty, but play against an AI team of England/France/Spain/Holy Rome/Germany. With raging barbs on, always war.

Keep with the crusades idea, but you're the defender!

now thats a cool idea ... vs a team of european civs (wouldn't take both HolyRome and Germany through, since there is a fair ammount of overlap between the two, and what's called Germany in the game, really is the geographafical successor from HolyRome, based in Prussia) ...

a team of England/France/Spain/HolyRome/Byzans vs you

That IS a good idea, an AW RPC!

Mad is back, yeah. The start is mediocre to say the least. If you want a challenge go for the holy man challenge. This means every city you own must have a great priest. So if you want to settle a second city you need a GP first. This would result in getting only GP wonders like stonehenge, oracle, angkor wat etc.... This would also be a sort of priest economy. See the GP as a iman for every city.

Holy crp, that start Best of luck.

I was thinking of an early religion using the river silk and perhaps take an early stab at Stonehenge. Poor food but decent production.

Also let's see how fast we can spread a religion with those cheap missionaries. Perhaps Polytheism/Monotheism early on???

Sian said:

now thats a cool idea ... vs a team of european civs (wouldn't take both HolyRome and Germany through, since there is a fair ammount of overlap between the two, and what's called Germany in the game, really is the geographafical successor from HolyRome, based in Prussia) ...

a team of England/France/Spain/HolyRome/Byzans vs you

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The Earth 1000 AD map might be fun for this. IIRC, Arabia plays on Diety, while their European opponents (land-constrained and with horrible dot-mapping) play on Chieftain.

This game should definitely be called "Saladin and the plains cow glitch" where Saladin, enraged by the ridiculously food poor start which the map generator deems acceptable to give him, goes on a rampage of vengeance against the games programmers, killing all the AI's which they spent so long programming to put them to shame!

MAd Saladin: The Founding

The new Arab tribe were very upset. There were cries of too little food, too little commerce, too little production, and worse the impending feeling that they were being manipulated by some greater and somewhat unstable being.

Saladin was unperturbed, "You merely need guidance and faith. Settle good people in place, for the hill will provide protection while we reflect on a higher power."

SO the Arabs settled in place



And began building a warrior while working the riverside silk hiding within the forrest and contemplated the concept of multiple dieties.

THe Arabs looked eagerly at the surrounding area, loyal to their leader yet still hungry and found



Not much offering in the immediate neighborhood, so they trained and prayed.

Soon they met another tribe, led my a matriatrical woman.



While the dame used to be an agressive settler and military leader she now commands a massive naval instrinct whiel retaining he ability to maximize the lands. IN another works she is Financial and SeaFaring and can harvest commerce from the coast or land. Saladin treated the lady respectively and sent her warrior back northeast and prepared a settler immediately after the warrior to cut her off from proper Arab lands.

From he south the NAtive Americans visited Saladin



Now being Expansive and Protective, SB can properly harvest the lands for health.

Next Saladin meets



An Indian Holy man who is still Organized and Spiritual and Saladin grimaces at the prospect of losing his early religion.

Next we meet



Who is still Oragized and FInancial.

The concern over Indian Theology was unnecessary as the Arabs discovered the presence of multiple gods



They had many names, CHEESE! and General Olaf. The was the gods TheMeInTeam, Benginal, LuCiver, and Joe Hollywood. Yet more were looking upon the Arabs in SIan, KillRoyan, Coffee Mug, Ahcos, and Bobbyboy29. All seamed well as Saladin begn researching hunting and animal husbandry to keep the people.

However, soon the goods resorted to complaining and bickering amongst themselves, most plotting how they can lead the ARabs into much warfare and conquest to entertain themselves.
Saladin avoided military and researched Masonry as the people of MEcca worked on a settler and worker.

Soon the settler was created and sent off to the coast



With the fast border pop from the gods Victoria was cut off from expanding south.



Work was started on another warrior as Mecca built the worker followed by Stonehenge.

Another leader was met



Notice the horse resource north of Medina.

Ragnar is a mighty sailor, being both agressive and seafaring. That means 2 promotion warships out of all cities, plus the navigation bonus from the UB (holy smokes what has Mad done).

Speaking of which, Saladin observed the problem with the multiple god thing and decided to research Monotheism.



The god MadScientist showed himself to Saladin and the arab leader that the other gods have no real power, they are illusions and that only MAdScientist has the power of life and death for the Arab people. However Saladin wisely waited to switch to Judaism, because he swapped civics



Which sped along



Statues of Saladin magically appeared throughout the empire awaiting only settlers to find them a home, which both MEcca and Medina are building.

We saved here to decide where to build the new cities



SO Saladin has some settlers underway, is researching archery, and deciding what to do with those close NAtive American and English neighbors!

My guess is to capture the corn/double gold area on the lake, then press Sitting Bull down south.

bobbyboy29 said:

This game should definitely be called "Saladin and the plains cow glitch" where Saladin, enraged by the ridiculously food poor start which the map generator deems acceptable to give him, goes on a rampage of vengeance against the games programmers, killing all the AI's which they spent so long programming to put them to shame!

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yes, the god of WorldBuildering should take pity on Mad and give him something nice in exchange for a cow glitch start. Also, mad, could you put the Mad's world mod in a zip folder?

GGracchus said:

yes, the god of WorldBuildering should take pity on Mad and give him something nice in exchange for a cow glitch start. Also, mad, could you put the Mad's world mod in a zip folder?

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I believe it's atached in the MAd's World summary, linked in my signature

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