First American Regent rises to power

Hello peeps, this is my first go at a Story Game, I've tried to be as precise as possible in my writings, please let me know if I'm forgetting something/doing something wrong.

For the first time I play on Regent, and this time I chose America.
The map is huge, consists of continents and has 60% water. All settings are on default, except for 'Culturally Linked Start', which I turned off to create some diversity. I chose 7 random opponents.

Starting location & minimap:






4000 BC - The beginning
The start position was very good, but before we decided to settle down, our scout and worker initiated an expedition to look for any extra food resources, like cattle or wheat. Unfortunately, nothing was discovered in the immediate surroundings, so we founded Washington.
Our wise men reckoned we should focus on reading and writing, and eventually (hopefully) get the Great Library - so I ordered them to look into letters, and hopefully invent a common alphabet we could use for communication.
We began training a scout in Washington - as knowledge of the world around us would be crucial for success, and we would also like to know if we were alone in this world.

3750 BC - Scouting
Our scout had returned with some very interesting discoveries - namely prosperous land, located just west of our position. The soil was rich in both cattle and wheat, and just north of these resources, he had spotted whales just off the coast, and also discovered mountains full of gold.
The same year, our second Scout unit was ready, and he headed east, towards a small tribal village we had spotted in the woods close to our capital. The Teoihuacan tribe residing there was very friendly, and offered us a free Settler! In addition to this, our newly trained Scout had just spotted a forest area full of game - so after eating and smoking the peace pipe with the friendly tribe, our settler quickly headed east, to found another city close to the game.

3650 BC - New York
Our civilizations second city was founded in no-time, and we had gotten a good basis for expansion. Seeing as our civilization was virtually defenseless, and we had heard rumours of vicious barbarians lurking in the woods, New York immediately started training a Warrior.
At the same time, our scouts had discovered only sea to the west, so our primary goal was now to head south, to look for more suitable terrain for our civilization.





3250 BC - Unrest in Washington
As our capital grew, we noticed a minor amount of unrest in the suburban areas. Our wise-mean had discovered, despite our warriors acting as military police, that if the population grew more now, a riot would probably occur - so we needed a way to make the citizens happy. Lucky as we were, we found a pergament in the basement of the Palace - written by our ancestors who once founded the capital - describing a luxury resource just outside Washington. Our worker strolled out to find the luxuries, and sure enough, the woods outside our capital was full of Dyes. A road was soon built, and the people was mesmorized at the sight of caravan after caravan arriving from the woods, loaded with Dyes. The people was happy again
At the same time, one of our scouts had stumbled upon a friendly tribe residing in the mountains just south of our territory - and they offered to teach us the secrets of Warrior Code. Thanks to the friendly tribe, we could now build offensive units, in case we'd have to counter attack any hostile civilizations or barbarians.





2800 BC - Boston
In the year of 2800, Washingtons settlers had finally reached their destination, and settled right next to the cattle-rich grassland. With all this surplus food, we would be able to equip many settlers from here, and made it a top priority to increase both production and food output in this city. In order to achieve this, Boston was ordered to produce a Granary.
The very same year, Washington completed his third warrior, and undertook a great project for the glory of our civilization - the Pyramids. Hordes of labor was gathered together, and it was an impressing sight for our citizens to see all the building activity in our capital. This was by no means an easy task, and it would probably take hundreds of years to complete this enormous project, but we were very determined to do it.





2630 BC - Gems
It had been a quite decade since our scouts reported back with any news, but in the year of 2630, one of our units reported that he had discovered mountains, rich in gems! We figured that this was another luxury that would keep our people happy, so we started planning how to get it. The problem was that these mountains was located far, far away from our empire, and it would take years and years to get there with a settler - let alone connect it to our capital by road. But there was more problems; founding a city that far from the capital would lead to horrendous waste and corruption.
We figured we'd leave the Gems alone for now, but try to 'build our way' towards them.





2350 BC - The new civilization
As our scouts and warriors (we had been given two trained warrior units from friendly tribes) ventured south, they suddenly came across a new civilization! We were immediately introduced to their leader, Tokugawa, who seemed quite annoyed with our visit. In order to lighten him up a bit, we offered him the secrets of Pottery plus 73 Gold pieces in exchange for the secrets of Bronze Working. He accepted immediately - and seemed to have a more cautious attitude with us





2230 BC - Philadelphia
Our Settler from New York had finally reached its destination, close to rich grasslands and a sea full of fish, and settled just south of Washington. Philadelphia was founded.
The Japanese had been nice enough to trade us Bronze Working, and we had learned how to train defensive units with spears. Philadelphia immediately started training a Spearman.
Another thing we had learned through the secrets of Bronze Working, was how to construct huge, colossal statues. We therefore started undertaking a great project in the city of New York; the Colossus, an enormous statue of Berrern, the Great American leader!

2190 BC - Hammurabi
In the year of 2190, our scouts stumbled upon yet another civilization, the Babylonians. Their leader Hammurabi was obviously annoyed with us, and didn't respect us the way we wanted. We wanted to trade with him, but he informed us that they have no technology that we haven't discovered yet. Since we want to be friends with our neighbors for now, we offered him a gift of 10 Gold Pieces, and all of a sudden he was much more welcoming towards the American people.
Unfortunately, the Babylonian territory was quite close to the gem deposits we had discovered in the mountains. We had discovered mountains rich with gems within his territory aswell, but Hammurabi seemed like a greedy, untrustworthy leader, so we expected him to do everything he could to found a city or colony on the gems WE had discovered. Our only solution was to send a Settler to the Gems. Luckily, Boston would have completed its Granary in only 5 turns, so a settler would soon be ready.





2070 BC - Disaster in the south!
Our scout unit had bumped into an Aryan Barbarian warrior, but was unfortunately too tired to get away from the skilled Barbarians. The result was catastrophous - our scout was killed. We now knew about barbarians lurching in the southern woods, making it dangerous for scouts to enter that territory.


...To be continued

nice start so far... hope u continue your story

Thanks

Yeah I'll continue my game & story today after work!

good starting location for your capital, one of the most balanced i've seen (fresh water/luxury/gold).

good luck getting those gems!

i hope you'll finish this game, its nice

the land where you capital and new york is, is that an island? it looks so on your mini map

I played until around 1000AD yesterday (!), but I didn't get to finish the story (as I played to 3am, while work started @ 7 ) cause I needed sleep.

Will type up the story and post it after work today!

Originally posted by gunsnroses
the land where you capital and new york is, is that an island? it looks so on your mini map

Click to expand...

No, it's a peninsula, with a 1-tile connection to the mainland

ah! you're very lucky! i just played my first regent game and there it was a small island!

Ok, let's continue the show!
I will now refrain from using smilies, as they count as images - and we are only allowed 10 images per post (I need those 10 'slots' for my screenshots).

PART TWO


1870 - Wines and Barbarians
Our warrior had came across fertile fields of wine grapes, but unfortunately they were heavily guarded by Barbarians. We decided to leave this area alone for now, as the Barbarians would probably keep the Babylonians from taking their Wines.
When we'd get enough offensive units, we could take out the Barbarians - so our Warrior fortified himself close to the Barbarian village. We'd hoped that the fortification was enough to keep the Barbarians at bay, but alas, the next turn, they destroyed our Warrior.





1700 BC - Gem-rush
Boston had finally completed its first Settler, and we immediately sent it towards the Gems. We had found a nice spot to settle in, with Whales, mountains full of Gold (and Gems), and Wheat growing in nearby plains - so we gave him the directions, and off they went. Unfortunately, it would take 24 turns to get there, so our entire civilization crossed its fingers, hoping we'd beat the Babylonians to this valuable resource.





1325 BC - Colossus
In the year 1325, after decades of sweat, blood and tears due to the dangerous construction project, The Colossus was finally finished. An enormous statue had raised itself near our coastline, symbolizing the great craftsmanship of the American civilization.

1275 BC - Atlanta
The city of Atlanta was founded on the west banks of our peninsula. The plains rich in wheat would definitely come in handy for equipping Settlers.
At the same time our wise men discovered the secrets of Writing, and began researching Literature - so that we 'soon' could start constructing the Great Library to increase our civilizations knowledge base.

1225 BC - Revolt
Our military police in Washington reported of major riots in the city centre, and they were helpless towards the hords of demonstrants.
Our only solution to keep the people at bay was to increase the luxury tax, from 0 to 10%. This made more or less everyone happy, and the riots were history.

1150 - Battle of the Gems
Our Settler, sent out from Boston in 1700BC, finally reached its destination - but pretty much to no avail. The greedy Babylonians had already settled the town Akkad there, but luckily there was still a mountain, rich in gems, just outside their borders. Chicago was founded, and now the work of building a road through the jungle, grassland and forest areas - and eventually into our capital, began.





1100 - More cities
Our cities up north had been equipping Settlers for a while now, and as 2 units reached their destinations, San Francisco and Seattle was founded. San Francisco was built in the mountain-rich areas north of our capital, while Seattle was founded longer south, effectively protecting our peninsula from the main land.

1075 - Miami
On the coast just northwest of our capital, in the gold-rich areas north on our peninsula, Miami was founded.

975 BC - Riots
Only 25 years into the new Millennium, the riots took to the streets in Washington once again. Our old town had now became a large city, and the residents required more 'goodies' to keep them happy. They felt that me, their leader, disregarded their requests for more luxuries, so I had no choice but to increase the luxury spendings to 20%.
At the same time, the famous world traveller Gibbon, published a History book, detailing the different empires cities, landmass and culture ratings. Surprisingly for us, he had rated our nation as #1!





925 BC - The Pyramids
In the year 925BC, our craftsmen had finally put their finishing touch on the enormous Pyramids raised in Washington. Their craftsmanship inspired our entire civilization - who built Granaries in every city on the continent.
Granaries in every city meant a huge surplus of food, ideal for equipping Settlers, so we ordered all cities to produce one. The artisans and carpenters in Washington felt like undertaking a new huge project; The Oracle. We really needed a place to better communicate with the gods, which in turn would make more people come to our cities' and towns' temples, meaning more happiness throughout our civilization.
Because of the enormous effect of the Pyramids, all of our cities got a boost in morale, and started producing more goods and gold. Our civilization had entered a Golden Age!
IBT Babylon completed The Oracle, which caused some unrest amongst the citizens in our capital. Our architects had began drawing up the plans for the Oracle a long time ago, and now they feared that Babylon was stealing our plans. Hammurabi told us that instead of suspecting him of such horrendous actions, we should admire 'the great power of the Babylon craftsmen'. Nothing more to do with this, but we promised ourselves that one day he'd pay for this!
We changed production in Washington from The Oracle to another huge project; The Great Library. Meanwhile, our hard-producing city of Boston started building an enormous tower - with a light on top - by the coast, which was meant to be a reference point for all our ships patrolling the American borders.

900 BC - Iron
Decades ago, our scouts had spotted mountains rich in a hard new metal, much harder and sturdier than our bronze.
In 900BC, Chicago reported heavy activity around these mountains, so we contacted Hammurabi of the Babylonians, to ask what was going on. He told us that his wise men had discovered the secrets of a new substance called Iron, and we asked him if he would consider selling it to us. He wanted one third of our nations treasury, but after he had shown us that we could build harder spears, and better armour for our troops with this new metal, we had no choice but to buy it. This technology was way too important to delay the purchase.
Unfortunately, we didn't have any Iron within our borders.





450 BC - Conquering the mainland
Our next settler had passed Seattle, the city guarding our peninsula, and founded Houston on the mainland.





390 BC - Buffalo
Shortly after Houston was founded, our Settlers founded another town just east - to build ourselves towards Chicago, our city with gems.

350 BC - St. Louis
Our galley, containing a Settler and Spearman, finally reached the small island just east of Seattle. They immediately landed and founded a new city; St. Louis.
At the same time, we discovered the secrets of Polytheism, who was rushed by using some of our excess gold for science. We now started looking into a new form of Government; Monarchy. Unfortunately, as I had to put the Science slider back one step (in order to avoid losing gold every turn), this new technology would take 30 turns to complete. This meant that we needed the Gems from Chicago ASAP - so we could cut back on the Luxury tax, and increase Science spending without going minus - so I ordered 3 workers to concentrate on connecting Chicago and St. Louis.





310 BC - Unrest in Washington
Washington was still growing, and in 310BC the riots started again. We couldn't afford more luxury spending from our treasury, so some of our farmers, now started entertaining people instead of harvesting food.

290 BC - Exploring the seas
Our galley, used for founding St. Louis, was filled up with another Settler and Spearman. Their goal was to explore the northern part of Babylonian territory, where we had spotted something that could be an island - maybe a new place for our people to settle?





230 BC - Babylonian expansion frenzy!
Just as our Settler unit had landed on the new island discovered north of Babylon, Hammurabi moved a lot of units towards Chicago. We thought it was an attempt to conquer our city, but the residents in Chicago reported that it was 'only' Babylonian Settlers searching for new, fertile land.
After taking a closer look at this envoy, we found out that they had no less than 3 Settlers heading towards our territory! 9 of our cities immediately started producing Settlers to counter Babylons moves.





210 BC - Detroit
Shortly after landing on the 'Babylon Island', our Settler founded Detroit. Our (now empty) Galley kept moving north, as it had already seen another island north of the one we had just conquered.





- More to come...

keep up the good work

i'm curious how you will make those island cities grow and how you 'll make them productive. I always got the problem of backward cities on island, due to the lack of rivers or lakes for irrigration and because i never have enough money to rush buy a harbor, but anyway i'm curious

Yeah that's normally a big problem for me aswell.. Huge amounts of corruption and waste makes them next to non-productive..

Moving in a couple of workers by ship normally works - if you can get the city to produce atleast 2 shields, you're saved

PART THREE

190 BC - New Orleans
New Orleans was founded, just west of Houston, in 190 BC. At the same time our workers connected Houston's horses to the rest of the world, enabling us to equip our soldiers with horses.

170 BC - Babylonians shreds our plans
By the time our Settler started to close in on Chicago, the expansion-eager Babylonians founded a city just southwest of Chicago. Our gem city was now isolated by Babylonian territory, and it was imperative to get a temple as soon as possible to expand our culture.
There was now only space for 1 more city between Chicago and Buffalo; and both us and the Babylonians had a Settler very near. The Settler race had begun!





150 BC - Running out of land
For every year that went by, the 'free' landmass got smaller and smaller, as both the Babylonians and Japanese were settling towards my territory. I had 6 settlers in the field already, but there was only space for maximum 4 more cities - seeing as Babylon also had some Settlers out there.
I ordered all cities to build only 1 more settler, and was hoping for our four galleys to find some more land. The crew on some of these ships had offered themselves to sail away from the coast, in hope to find new land. We all knew that if they didn't find any land very soon, the galleys would most likely sink.

130 BC - Denver
We won the Settler race against the Babylonians, and founded Denver between Buffalo, Chicago and Shuruppak. Cincinnati was also founded, just south of Buffalo.
At the same time, Washington completed the Great Library. Our people expected faster research and a higher percentage of literacy throughout the population.
An envoy from the Russians arrived, telling us that they had completed a Great Wall in the city of Moscow.





90 BC - First suicide galley
Our first 'suicide galley' left the coast of Atlanta. Unfortunately, he didn't find any new land, and our Galley was lost in the treacherous waters.
Our wise-men had just discovered Map Making, so we wanted to trade maps with Babylon and Japan.
We bought 20 gold pieces plus the World Map from the Japanese, and gave them our Territory Map in exchange.
Babylon gave use their World Map in exchange for our Territory Map plus 4 gold pieces.
We now had a clear map over our entire continent (look at the minimap in the screenshot), and noticed that there was a lot of unused land south of the Japanese territory. It was terrifying that the Japanese had so much landmass for themselves; they were going to end up as a superpower for sure! In order to halt the Japanese expansion, we built Galleys in 3 cities, to transport some Settlers down south. If we could grab some land down there, we'd be able to sandwich the Japanese if we ever were to go to war with them.





70 BC - Dallas
In the year 70 BC, Dallas was founded southwest of Detroit.

50 BC - Island race
Our newly acquired world map showed that there was an island just west of the Japanese territory, so in 50 BC we sent out two Galleys with Settlers to hopefully reach this island before the Japanese.
One of our Galleys was suddenly attacked by a Barbarian ship, but our mighty bowmen aboard managed to sink them. However, our ship was in need of repairs, and since there was more Barbarian naval activity down south, we sent the ship back to Seattle.
The same year, Babylon gathered a lot of units around Cincinnati, and we feared that them running out of landmass, and being such expantionists, we feared an attack. We contacted Hammurabi, who was rather cautious in his approach. We bribed him with 19 gold, which made him polite. The last thing we wanted now was a war, so we had to keep our neighbours happy.





30 BC - Right of Passage
Troop movement between Chicago and Denver proved to be very difficult with the Babylon city of Shuruppak blocking our roads. We established an embassy in the Babylon capital, which enabled us to get some special agreements with them. We contacted Hammurabi and asked for his thoughts about a Right of Passage agreement. He told us that he'd agree to a ROP agreement if we gave him 4 gold pieces. 'No problem', we said, paid up - and started moving troops into Chicago to protect our valuable gem city.





50 AD - Great Lightouse
Boston completed The Great Lighthouse in 50 AD, which proved to be an invaluable asset for our naval activities. The ships could now use this massive tower as a point of reference, meaning they could navigate further off the coast.





150 AD - Japanese territory
Our first Galley reached the island just west of Japanese territory, and Memphis was founded. Finally we had gotten a foothold on the unused island!





170 AD - Exploration of the Seas
Seeing as the Great Lighthouse had given our ships better ability, we launched another suicide galley from Atlanta. Unfortunately, he didn't find any land either, and we never heard from the crew again. They probably sank in the open sea.





...To be continued

PART FOUR

210 AD - Invading Japanese territory
We had spotted both wine ranks and gems on the land south of Japan, and in the year 210 AD, our galley finally reached its destination. One settler was sent for the gems, while the other founded Cleveland close to the wine ranks, a couple of years later.



250 AD - Babylonians settling
As a new Galley with a Settler approached the northern island (north of Babylonian main territory), the Babylonians founded 2 cities there. We decided that our Galley should keep exploring instead of settling here - after all, the remaining land wasn't that tempting.



270 AD - Cleveland
Our second city - Cleveland - on the island west of the Japanese, was founded.

280 AD - Anarchy!
Our wise men had recently learned the secrets of Monarchy, and as New York had spit out its last Galley for a while, our civilization overthrew our government. They were yearning for better times, and obviously, Despotism wasn't the answer. America slip into Anarchy.

290 AD - Kansas City
Kansas City, our second city south of the Japanese, was founded.

320 AD - Monarchy
Decades of anarchy finally ended, and our civilization began a period of Monarchy!

330 AD - New land?
Our Galley, that had ventured east when it discovered that the Northern Babylonian Island was already taken, had spotted shores east of Babylonian territory. Was this the land of another civilization?
After landing and exploring, it turned out that this was an empty island, with room for about 4 cities. We immediately dispatched some Settlers from our mainland, and put them in Galleys, to head towards this new landmass.





350 AD - New civilization!
A new 'suicide galley' had been launched from the coast of Japanese city Hakodate. At the end of the turn, we spotted borders on an island! Unfortunately, the galley was lost at sea, before it could make contact with the new civilization.
Las Vegas was founded on the island east of the Babylonians.

420 AD - Magnificent Iroquois?
Word of mouth had it that the Iroqui city of Salamanca had completed a magnificent great project; the Hanging Gardens. Craftsmen in Washington was upset as they were only a few years away from finishing the exact same construction.

500 AD - World Map
Our Galleys had been working hard at exploring - as far as possible away from land - for decades.
The American mapmakers had finally finished our World Map as of 500 AD.





510 AD - Culture Flip?
Richmond, our Iron city south in Japan had just been founded and expanded by 2 settlers and a warrior. The city was surrounded by Japanese borders, and our people feared that a culture flip might occur. We switched production to Temple, and hurried it as soon as we had the money. Culture was very important in this area of the world.





530 AD - A new Era
Our wise men had finally completed the research of Currency, and our civilization entered a new age! We immediately started researching Feudalism, to learn how to build the Sun Tzu wonder.
Another landing party, consisting of a Settler and Spearman, was landed on the southern part of the Japanese island. Hopefully, we could get enough Settlers here in time to control the entire island.





590 AD - The New World (scr x2)
After venturing the oceans for centuries, one of our galleys could finally rest when they reached the coasts of a new island. Through their primitive binoculars, they had spotted a new civilization, the Germans! Our expeditionary was taken to Bismarck, the German furious leader. The Germans had a lot of interesting stuff to trade; contact with England, Russia, France, Iroquois - and some technologies, namely The Republic and Monotheism. We bought contact with England, Russia, France and their Territory Map - in exchange for our World Map, Monarchy, contact with Japanese and Babylonians - plus 96 gold. Bismarck was still annoyed, so we tried to bribe him with 15 gold, and that seemed to lax his attitude towards a much more cautious approach.
We contacted France, and were taken to their leader, Joan of Arc. She gave us their World Map and Monotheism in exchange for contact with the Japanese and Babylonians, our World Map and 5 gold pieces. She seemed rather annoyed with us, so we offered her 10 gold pieces, but it didn't seem to help much.
Next on the list was England, and their leader, the cautious Elizabeth. We got World Map, Feudalism, contact with the Iroquois and 10 gold - in exchange for our World Map and contact with Babylon. We then bribed them with contact with Japan, and Elizabeth was polite towards us.
We now had 2 nations left to contact; Russia and Ioquois.
We chose Russia first, and spoke with Catherine the annoyed. She offered us Chivalry and World Map for our World Map and contact with Japan and Babylon. We then gave her 20 gold pieces, which resulted in her being cautious towards us.
Iroquoi leader Hiawatha was also annoyed with us. We got The Republic, World Map and 13 gold pieces in exchange for our World Map and contact with Japan and Babylon. We then bribed Hiawatha with 20 gold pieces, which made him cautious.
We also went to Babylon, and gave them our World Map in exchange for their World Map and delicious Wines.
Our wise men started researching towards Democracy, and since we got Theology and Education through the Great Librarby, the next technology in line was Banking.
The new American World Map was massive!







620 AD - Japan expanding
The Japanese founded on the island west of their territory, at the same time as my Settler was completed in Memphis, an American city on the very same island. Good thing we had a Right of Passage agreement with the Japanese!





690 AD - Russian aggression
In 690, the Russians finished the great military project Sun Tzu's Art of War. We were beaten to another great wonder which really would've been handy for us.





720 AD - Albuquerque
Albuquerque, our third city on the Japanese island, was founded in 720 AD. The Japanese had now built 2 cities there, and there was only room for 1 more Settler. Luckily, our last Settler on the island would soon reach this destination.

PART FIVE

750 AD - Portland
Portland, our last city on the Japanese island, was founded in 750 AD.
Las Vegas, our first city on the island east of the Babylonians, had produced a Settler, who headed south. There was already a warrior securing the territory where Minneapolis was going to be founded 70 years later.





770 AD - New land
Our Galley had discovered a new island, just north of the Iroquoi borders. Unfortunately we were short of Settlers, and had no time to build and transport any units there, as it was so far away. At least we could sell this information in our World Map, and perhaps trade it for something valuable at a later time.





900 AD - Sistine Chapel
Washington completed the Sistine Chapel. The belief in this Great Wonder resulted in twice as many people cherishing the gods and attending the Cathedrals - which would help considerably with happiness.

960 AD - World Trades
We discovered Printing Press, and started researching Democracy, which would take as much as 40 turns!
The Russians had built a city on 'our' eastern island, so we only had room for 1 more city. The last American Settler was built in Minneapolis in 960 AD.
With the new technology in hand, it was time for some trades:
Bought World Map for 42 gold from Germany.
England gave us Music Theory, Engineering and 32 gold - in exchange for Printing Press and our World Map.
Catherine of the Russians was willing to trade Invention in return for our World Map, Printing Press, 172 gold and 5 gold per turn.
The Japanese was willing to sell their World Map to us for 1 gold; obviously they hadn't been concentrating much on exploration!
Hiawatha was annoyed, and not easy to deal with. We knew that he had Astronomy, a technology our people craved for. He wanted as much as Printing Press, World Map, 113 gold and 19 gold per turn! The technology was too important to miss out on, so we agreed to his absurd demands. One day he'll pay for his disrespect, mark my words!
Appaerently the newly discovered technologies didn't come cheap, as France wanted Printing Press, our World Map, 142 gold and 20 gold per turn for Gunpowder. Gunpowder meant excellent defenders for our cities, so we agreed.
After all these trades we paid 44 gold per turn to other civilizations, which was a lot. However, we were making 96 gold per turn before the trades, so we could definitely afford it. We adjusted the science spending with 10%, which meant Democracy in 19 turns.
Washington started building Leonardo's Workshop, while Seattle built the JS Bachs Cathedral.
The discovery of Gunpowder had introduced a new resource, Saltpeter. Unforunately, we didn't have a single source in our entire empire.





980 AD - Copernicus
The French city of Chartres completed Copernicus's Observatory, a great Science Wonder.

1000 - Pittsburgh
Our last Settler founded Pittsburgh on the last piece of land we were able to conquer.

1120 AD - Lovely scientists!
Our scientists had discovered the secrets of Democracy, and our civilization descended into anarchy! With the new technology in hand, it was time for more trades:
We bought Germany's World Map for 12 gold.
England gave us Economics, World Map, 31 gold pieces and 12 gold per turn in exchange for our World Map and Democracy.
Both Russia and the Iroquois had all the technologies we had, in addition to Chemistry and Navigation, which we had no chance of affording.
Again, Japan sold us their World Map for 1 gold piece!
France gave us Navigation in exchange for Dyes and 16 gold.
Cincinnati started building Smith's Trading Company, while the construction of The Magellan Expedition started in Atlanta.

1190 AD - American Democracy
After almost a decade of famine, decease, hunger, riots and razings, the American Anarchy finally came to an end. Berrern was throned as President of the new American Democracy!

1230 AD - Science
Thucydides' accurate Historic publishments told that we were the 5th most advanced civilization in the world.





1250 AD - Wonders of the World
The English capital, London, completes JS Bachs Cathedral. Lyon, France, completes Newton's University.

1255 AD - Leonardos Workshop
Washington finally finishes Leonardos Workshop - a great asset for our civilization when it comes to upgrading obsolete military units.
Salamanca, Iroquois, completes Smith's Trading Company. A few years later the Russian city of Minsk completes Shakespeare's Theater.


1285 AD - Trades
France gave us Free artistry for our World Map.
We also bought Metallurgy from the Russians, in exchange for World Map, Dyes, 177 gold pieces and 10 gold per turn. Expensive, but necessary to keep up in the technology race.
Richmond, our Iron-city in the southern Japanese territory, had been connected to the mainland by roads and harbours. We can now build better military units!

1325 AD - WAR!
Japan, totally out of the blue, attacks Portland, our city on the island we share with them. We are at war!
Our brave spearmen on the island defended our cities from the Japanese Swordmen without any losses.
Nineveh in Babylon completed Magellans Expedition.
Japan had a much better military than us, so it would be difficult with a long-term war. Either way, our best hope was an alliance with the mighty Babylonians. After considering our suggestion for a while, Hammurabi finally agreed to attack Japan with everything he had, in exchange for 103 gold pieces and 4 gold per turn.

1335 AD -
Our gem city Richmond comes under attack by a Japanese Archer, who kills our Spearman. More japanese units moves into the city's vicinity, who is now only protected by a regular Warrior.
The next turn they took the city, our Warrior had no chance against their Swordman.
Our only Iron supply was lost, so we contacted Hammurabi and asked him if he was willing to sell us some of his excess Iron. He wanted Democracy, Metallurgy and 81 gold! In any other circumstances I would have spit in his face and left, but at the moment we had no choice. Iron was imperative for our success, as it was needed for military units.





1345 AD - Reinforcements
The Babylonians sends in reinforcements, who heads towards the Japanese city of Nagoya, a city rich in Dyes. Hopefully the Japanese will get distracted now, and leave my cities in the south alone! Unfortunately, the Japanese attacked us again with Samurais, who easily destroyed our spearmen in San Diego. Another city lost, only 2 left on the Japanese soil.





1355 AD - Industry!
Our scientists had discovered Magnetism, and our civilization entered the Industrial Ages! We immediately started researching Steam Power, in order to improve troop movement.
The American city of Los Angeles - located south of Japan - was disbanded in order to send their Spearman and Warrior to Kansas City, for a better defense.

looks like a very tough war here!
too bad the AI beated you at some of the best wonders in the game (smith an Sun Tzu's). Hope you 'll make it!

wow i just noticed this. let's see if you can hold off the Japense

Oh no! From 1st to 5th to a surprise war! Great story, screenshots make it easy to follow.

Your start was amazing considering you got screwed on your starting position on that virtual-island NW tip. I wonder from there, though, will it be worth trying to beat the A.I. in expanding to the other islands across the world? All that crucial early production time (esp. when combined with the lost wonder gambles) of the extra settlers could have been infrastructure, defense or an attack force to take over the home continent mainland. Seems you could have attacked Japan with Babylon on your terms then, and gone island hopping later.

Anyway, keep it up, I look forward to seeing your military skills in action!

Zubie; yeah, I gambled in the beginning - hoping to find new land - and lost. Plus all the coast/ocean/sea tiles in all the peninsula cities resulted in low shield production. What looked like a great starting position, wasn't that after all!

Anyway, I'll continue:

PART SIX

1365 AD - The Battle of Kansas City
5 Veteran Samurais are in position to attack Kansas City, which is only being defended by a Pikeman and two Warriors. I hurry the production of a City Wall, at the expense of 80 gold pieces.
Our Pikeman killed two Samurais without losing any strength. A third Samurai slashed him to pieces, and the situation was now 2 Warriors vs 2 Samurais - and wasn't looking good.
Kansas City fell into Japanese hands, as the lethal Samurais invades the town. Our last foothold in the south was lost.





1375 AD - Peace?
Tokugawa finally agrees to acknowledge our envoy, and peace discussions can finally take place. Japan agrees to give a Peace Treaty 'for free', thank god!
The war between America and Japan, that had lasted for 50 years and had cost our civilization a lot of casualties, finally ended in 1375.
We had just broken a treaty with the Babylonians, but it was necessary, as our civilization was on the verge of a civil war due to all the war weariness. Babylon was now cautious towards us.

1390 AD - Continental Peace
Babylon and Japan signed a peace treaty.
We made 59 gold pieces per turn after the war, and hurried temples in all the island cities that didn't have one. Then they were set to train Spearmen or Pikemen.

1405 AD - Trades
With the discovery of Steam Power, coal would be useful for building steel vessels travelling on tracks. With our small land area though, we didn't have any sources of this resource.
We contacted other civilizations to trade:
Got Military Tradition and Saltpeter (!) from Japan, for Steam Power and 17 gold pieces.
Traded away Dyes for Furs from France.

1410 AD - Boosting income
We really wanted to buy some technologies, especially Nationalism to get Riflemen. The science spending was set to 0, which resulted in an income of 369 gold per turn.

1440 AD - Trades
1589 gold, time to trade! I get Nationalism from Babylon for my World Map, Steam Power and 1580 gold pieces.


1470 AD - WAR!
The Russians declare war on us by attacking Las Vegas with a lonely Warrior. Our Spearman defends the city. I hurry prouction of Barracks in all 3 cities on these island, to be able to upgrade my units. After completing the Barracks, all cities will build Cavalry to attack the Russian city on this island.
Wall Street is completed in Washington, and income per turn is increased to 435 (still running 0% science spending).





1475 AD - France and Japan enters the war
Russia persuaded France into a Military Alliance against us! It's a good thing neither of them have any cities on our continent!
Japan asks us to give them Territory Map and 100 gold - I tell him to shove it, and they declare war on us. I hurry production of Barracks in all cities on the Japanese island, in addition to the ones close to his borders. It's imperative to get these Spearmen upgraded asap!


1490 AD - The fall of Cincinnati
Our Rifleman in Cincinnati fought hard against the Japanese Cavalry and Samurais, but they were too many. The city was lost to the evil Japanese!
6 Cavalry units were stacked north of Cincinnati, within attack range of Houston, Dallas and Buffalo. We had nothing to counter them with, so we drafted Riflemen in both cities. All cities in the vicinity was set to produce more Riflemen.
At the same time, our Cavalry units attacking the Russian city of Astrakhan are killed. Only 1 survives, and manages to return to Pittsburgh.
IBT Dallas is captured by the Japanese. Units are drafted in all southern cities.





1495 AD - Embargo
France and England signs a trade embargo against us.

1505 AD - Japanese razing
The Japanese burns two of our cities to the ground! After having drafted and rushed Riflemen in all the other cities, we should have enough protection. None of the nations I'm at war with wants to talk to us.





1515 AD - Peaceful Russians
Russia finally agrees to talk to us, and is willing to accept peace in exchange for 260 gold pieces. We accept, because war weariness is problematic in every city. The need for higher luxury spendings is killing our economy. We are now making 90 gold per turn, as opposed to way over 300 before the war started.
We haven't seen France and the Iroquois do much in this war, except for some bombardment of our coastal cities terrain improvements. However, France suddenly lands 3 Cavalry units near Phoenix, our city on the souther Japanese island. The Rifleman defending the city faught bravely, but was overmanned in the end.

1520 AD - Peace, at last!
Tokugawa requires 388 gold, and 13 gold per turn for a peacy treaty, which is all of our treasury, but we accept. We can't let this war go on when our military is so weak.
France agrees with peace aswell, in exchange for 15 gold per turn.
The Iroquois refuse to acknowledge our envoy.
After signing the peace treaties, the war weariness decreases, and we can remove most of the Entertainers in our cities. Our luxury tax was now at 20%, and science spending at 30. Income was 63 gold per turn, and Medicine would be finished in 10 turns. Most cities was ordered to build defensive units - I planned on putting 5 Riflemen in every southern city to avoid another catastrophe. When our defense was ready, the offensive units could be produced, and plans for the counter-attack against Japan could be planned.
Houston and Buffalo was ordered to build a Settler each, who build rebuild cities on the ruins of New Orleans and Baltimore.

1525 AD - Iroquois attacks!
The Iroquis lands 2 Cavalries and 2 Mounted Warriors next to Las Vegas, on the island that we share with the Russians. Hiawatha finally wants to hear us out, and accepts peace in exchange for 159 gold and 1 gold per turn. About time!
The only resource we have at the moment, is horses, so we can't build any good offensive units. We keep focusing on building Riflemen and city improvements, while saving up some gold.

1540 AD - New cities
New Orleans and Baltimore, razed by the Japanese about 30 years earlier, was now rebuilt.

1545 AD - Tribute
Iroquois asks us for our Territory Map and 30 gold to not destroy us. We comply.

1565 AD - Trades
France wants us to pay them 31 gold or suffer. We pay immediately.
We finish researching Medicine, and with 400 gold in the bank and 1 excess Dyes, we decide to try trading to us some resources - so that we can start building better units, and maybe even railroads:
We exchange World Maps with Germany, as they have nothing to offer.
England has Communism, Industrialization, Electricity and Sanitation, but I have nothing valuable to them. I buy their World Map for my World Map and 63 gold.
We trade World Maps with Russia, as we can't afford any of their technologies. Russia also has Iron, but no nations has excess Coal, so we wont start importing it just yet.
Japan had Saltpeter, which would enable us to build Cavalry, but they wouldn't consider a trade - they told us that we didn't have anything valuable to offer them. Iroquois, the only other nation who had excess Saltpeter, told us the same thing. In other words; we needed more gold before we could get this valuable resource.

The World Map was now complete, and all landmass occupied. See screenshot. What's funny is that we are ranked as the #1 civilization in the world!









1570 AD - War on our continent
In 1570, war breaks out between Japan and Babylon. The Babylonians, who had stacked up a few units outside the Japanese city Dallas, declared war and started the attack. However, the Japanese managed to defend the city.

1585 AD - France is rising
Lyons completes Theory of Evolution. Orleans completes Universal Suffrage. The entire French territory is now worked with improvements and railroad.
The war between Japan and Babylon was raging, but no cities was yet lost.
Germany demands Dyes. Bismarck's civilization is lowest ranked on the planet; they're an entire age behind the rest in technology. I tell him to shove his proposition where the sun don't shine, which he does.

1595 AD - Embargo
France and England embargo ends. Neither of them have anything interesting to offer, but Hiawatha steps forward and offers us Saltpeter in exchange for World Map and 80% of our treasury; 810 gold. We accept, and started building Cavalry in seven cities.
We had made a plan for an attack; we'd go for Babylon first. By taking two of their cities, we'd have both Iron and Coal, and could start building Railroads between our cities. The only problem with attacking them was that an optimal attack angle would be through Japanese territory, so we'd have to try to get a Right of Passage agreement with them.

1630 AD - Trade
Japan and Babylon signs a peace treaty - neither of them lost any cities during the 60 year long war.
Hiawatha offers us Sanitation in exchange for World Map, 403 gold and 29 gold per turn. We accept - in order to let our cities grow.
Japan gives us Industrialization and 16 gold pieces for Electricity, which we just discovered.
Hammurabi trades Espionage for our World Map, Dyes, 177 gold and 8 gold per turn. I'm still making +69 gold per turn, so it wont cripple our economy too much.

1660 AD - War breaks out
Tokugawa of the Japanese wants Sanitation for free. We tell him to shove it, and he declares war. Our southern cities are now protected with 5 Riflemen each, and we've got 15 Cavalries in the field, so we do stand a decent chance at getting Dallas and Cincinnati back!
3 Cavalries attacks Cincinnati, and the city is once again ours! Dallas was also re-captured, without losing a single unit!
IBT France completes Hoover Dam. No Japanese counter-attack.

Jeez, you can seem to catch a break! Great game so far though, keep it up

its indeed a great game!

only one question: where are your cannons? O wait, no srry you didn't have saltpeter, that would explain.