NewWaver
Special Agent
EXPANSIONIZATION
Possibly one of my best games as the Babylonians, as there's lots of expanding through the Middle East. I started this game using Marla Singer's Earth Map, and relocating all Civs to their 'real' starting positions - the way the game should be, as far as the Earth map is concerned. The Babylonian tale isn't finished at this point (still playing it to this day, so I might update this in the near future), so I'll just tell about what's been happening so far.
Note: In this game, the only Civs that aren't in the game are the Iroquois and the Persians.
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In the beginning, I built my capital along the Tigris River, as Baghdad. Almost immediately, I sent my Warriors to key points - Caucasus Mountains, Sea of Marmara (Istanbul), Suez Canal, and eastern Persia. The reason I formed these blockades was because I already had the vision of what areas I wanted to control...before taking the world by storm.
My first Settler was sent to build Istanbul. By this time I had already met the Greeks. I encountered a minor problem when building the city. By the time my Settler reached its location, the location was within the Greek borders. I decided to risk it and built Istanbul within Greek territory. Obviously, this triggered a war (my first). Unfortunately, for both the Greeks and I, we had a pitiful army. If not, none at all. So, even though there was a war, no battles took place. After a while, the Greeks signed a peace treaty without demanding Istanbul become theirs. My first risk became a success.
The eastern blockade met the next problem - India. Because I wanted to build in specific locations, and would stop at nothing to get my way, I did my best to keep 'all' opponents out of my building area, and borders. The Indians, however, became an annoyance as their Warriors kept moving in. And it wouldn't be too long before they attempt to build there. So I moved my troops with the Indian intruders to try and push them back to where they were 'allowed' to go.
It was about the time of meeting most of the European Civs when I had my first 'real' war. The Indians had crossed the line. I had already started to build in Persia (Iran), when the same Warrior decided to move into my border. Immediately, my blockade units attacked the scum. After winning the battle, I moved my units to the east towards India, attacking any units in my path. During this time, the Indians formed a military alliance against me with the Romans. So at this point, I took units from my western cities and moved them towards Rome. Luckily for me, I managed to bring the Greeks into the war against both Rome and India. When reaching the first Roman city, I spread my Horsemen around the city, surrounding it. But moments before the actual attack, a counterstrike from the Romans took place, as they brought in a Roman Legion unit from the south. This attack caused my Horseman to retreat. The attacks on the city itself weren't as glamorous. At the point where I now had damaged Horsemen left, I retreated. Just to save my own life, I signed a peace treaty with the Romans as I headed back to Istanbul. The war in the east, however, proved more of a success than the west. After destroying all Indian units standing in my way, I entered their borders and approached Delhi. Exactly at the point of where I was on the outskirts of Delhi, Gandhi wanted to speak with me. He wanted to sign a peace treaty! So it goes to show that sometimes a Civ will be brought to its knees if it has a pitiful army, and you're approaching the capital city. I decided to be nice this time, and made peace with them. For the record, no Indian unit entered my building area since that war.
After the war, which I will now label 'The Stone Wall Campaign', it became a time for expansion. Not many wars happened at this point, so this gave me time to build up - and build up big. My borders now spanned from Istanbul to East Iran, Caucasus Mountains to Persian Gulf. I'd built the cities of Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Aden (Yemen), and Masqat (Oman), but because of growth problems, being almost surrounded by desert, the borders of those 3 cities are yet to expand and connect to the rest of Babylonia.
Around this time, I made a decision to make the Suez Canal. I moved a Settler in the best location for the city of Suez, and built it. But then, I decided to make an investment out of it, and sold it to Egypt.
So now I had control of Iraq, Iran, Israel, Syria, Jordan, The Lebanon, Kuwait, Turkey, the city of Mecca, and most of Oman and Yemen.
Now some more problems arose...
Egypt decided to built a city in between the cities of Mecca and Aden. I didn't realise the Egyptian Settler had been there until I saw a Galley move away from the shaded location. I moved my Pikemen towards the inferior city (I was replacing my Pikemen with Musketmen anyway). They demanded that I leave their territory or face war. So war it was. After weakening the defenses, I took the city. Due to the fact that I didn't plan to ever build a city there, I chose to raze it. In its place, I took a Worker unit and built a Fortress, guarded by a Pikeman.
At the same time I declared war with Egypt, Greece stepped in as military allies against me. So I found myself moving my troops through Istanbul and Jerusalem, ready to take out the Egyptian/Greek scum. Looking for allies of my own, I went far and wide. Unfortunately, I had no embassies with European Civs, yet. But I did have one with China. I managed to get them into a war against Egypt and Greece. Shortly after, they had the rest of Europe and Asia against them.
This became the longest war in Babylonian history (so far). It took a while to seize the Suez Canal. After I did, I moved my troops to the Egyptian capital, which became even harder to take. After moving these troops into Egypt, I sold Suez again. This time, I sold it to Rome. The war in Greece was just as difficult. It took ages before I took out a few Hoplites (this was just in Athens alone). Fortunately, a Greek city to the north (located near real-life Sevastopol, Russia) was easier to bring down. I razed it on entry. As I moved the successing units in the north towards Athens to help the struggling troops in the south, the Romans built their own city in the same location the Greeks had theirs.
After a very long siege with Horsemen, Catapults, Knights, Swordsmen, Longbowmen, and Musketmen, Athens finally fell to me. I didn't raze this city, as I thought I would make money off the Greeks later on. It was after Athens fell when I signed a peace treaty with Greece. The Egyptian war stopped shortly after, as I found that my attacks were heading nowhere. I moved my troops out of Egypt, passing Roman controlled Suez. Egypt, still at war with Rome, took the city back soon after I'd left the scene. However, the city rebelled and became mine a while later. I then decided to sell it back to Rome.
In conclusion, for now, I've been able to prove that Babylon is a fortress. With the dawn of discovering Metallurgy, I am now modernizing my army, disbanding 'all' units out-of-date. There will be no Horsemen or Knights. No Pikemen or Catapults. With my Gunpowder-based weaponry, I will become a force the world will think twice about swindling with. Just wait until I get Nuclear Weapons...
Watch this space!!!
Possibly one of my best games as the Babylonians, as there's lots of expanding through the Middle East. I started this game using Marla Singer's Earth Map, and relocating all Civs to their 'real' starting positions - the way the game should be, as far as the Earth map is concerned. The Babylonian tale isn't finished at this point (still playing it to this day, so I might update this in the near future), so I'll just tell about what's been happening so far.
Note: In this game, the only Civs that aren't in the game are the Iroquois and the Persians.
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In the beginning, I built my capital along the Tigris River, as Baghdad. Almost immediately, I sent my Warriors to key points - Caucasus Mountains, Sea of Marmara (Istanbul), Suez Canal, and eastern Persia. The reason I formed these blockades was because I already had the vision of what areas I wanted to control...before taking the world by storm.
My first Settler was sent to build Istanbul. By this time I had already met the Greeks. I encountered a minor problem when building the city. By the time my Settler reached its location, the location was within the Greek borders. I decided to risk it and built Istanbul within Greek territory. Obviously, this triggered a war (my first). Unfortunately, for both the Greeks and I, we had a pitiful army. If not, none at all. So, even though there was a war, no battles took place. After a while, the Greeks signed a peace treaty without demanding Istanbul become theirs. My first risk became a success.
The eastern blockade met the next problem - India. Because I wanted to build in specific locations, and would stop at nothing to get my way, I did my best to keep 'all' opponents out of my building area, and borders. The Indians, however, became an annoyance as their Warriors kept moving in. And it wouldn't be too long before they attempt to build there. So I moved my troops with the Indian intruders to try and push them back to where they were 'allowed' to go.
It was about the time of meeting most of the European Civs when I had my first 'real' war. The Indians had crossed the line. I had already started to build in Persia (Iran), when the same Warrior decided to move into my border. Immediately, my blockade units attacked the scum. After winning the battle, I moved my units to the east towards India, attacking any units in my path. During this time, the Indians formed a military alliance against me with the Romans. So at this point, I took units from my western cities and moved them towards Rome. Luckily for me, I managed to bring the Greeks into the war against both Rome and India. When reaching the first Roman city, I spread my Horsemen around the city, surrounding it. But moments before the actual attack, a counterstrike from the Romans took place, as they brought in a Roman Legion unit from the south. This attack caused my Horseman to retreat. The attacks on the city itself weren't as glamorous. At the point where I now had damaged Horsemen left, I retreated. Just to save my own life, I signed a peace treaty with the Romans as I headed back to Istanbul. The war in the east, however, proved more of a success than the west. After destroying all Indian units standing in my way, I entered their borders and approached Delhi. Exactly at the point of where I was on the outskirts of Delhi, Gandhi wanted to speak with me. He wanted to sign a peace treaty! So it goes to show that sometimes a Civ will be brought to its knees if it has a pitiful army, and you're approaching the capital city. I decided to be nice this time, and made peace with them. For the record, no Indian unit entered my building area since that war.
After the war, which I will now label 'The Stone Wall Campaign', it became a time for expansion. Not many wars happened at this point, so this gave me time to build up - and build up big. My borders now spanned from Istanbul to East Iran, Caucasus Mountains to Persian Gulf. I'd built the cities of Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Aden (Yemen), and Masqat (Oman), but because of growth problems, being almost surrounded by desert, the borders of those 3 cities are yet to expand and connect to the rest of Babylonia.
Around this time, I made a decision to make the Suez Canal. I moved a Settler in the best location for the city of Suez, and built it. But then, I decided to make an investment out of it, and sold it to Egypt.
So now I had control of Iraq, Iran, Israel, Syria, Jordan, The Lebanon, Kuwait, Turkey, the city of Mecca, and most of Oman and Yemen.
Now some more problems arose...
Egypt decided to built a city in between the cities of Mecca and Aden. I didn't realise the Egyptian Settler had been there until I saw a Galley move away from the shaded location. I moved my Pikemen towards the inferior city (I was replacing my Pikemen with Musketmen anyway). They demanded that I leave their territory or face war. So war it was. After weakening the defenses, I took the city. Due to the fact that I didn't plan to ever build a city there, I chose to raze it. In its place, I took a Worker unit and built a Fortress, guarded by a Pikeman.
At the same time I declared war with Egypt, Greece stepped in as military allies against me. So I found myself moving my troops through Istanbul and Jerusalem, ready to take out the Egyptian/Greek scum. Looking for allies of my own, I went far and wide. Unfortunately, I had no embassies with European Civs, yet. But I did have one with China. I managed to get them into a war against Egypt and Greece. Shortly after, they had the rest of Europe and Asia against them.
This became the longest war in Babylonian history (so far). It took a while to seize the Suez Canal. After I did, I moved my troops to the Egyptian capital, which became even harder to take. After moving these troops into Egypt, I sold Suez again. This time, I sold it to Rome. The war in Greece was just as difficult. It took ages before I took out a few Hoplites (this was just in Athens alone). Fortunately, a Greek city to the north (located near real-life Sevastopol, Russia) was easier to bring down. I razed it on entry. As I moved the successing units in the north towards Athens to help the struggling troops in the south, the Romans built their own city in the same location the Greeks had theirs.
After a very long siege with Horsemen, Catapults, Knights, Swordsmen, Longbowmen, and Musketmen, Athens finally fell to me. I didn't raze this city, as I thought I would make money off the Greeks later on. It was after Athens fell when I signed a peace treaty with Greece. The Egyptian war stopped shortly after, as I found that my attacks were heading nowhere. I moved my troops out of Egypt, passing Roman controlled Suez. Egypt, still at war with Rome, took the city back soon after I'd left the scene. However, the city rebelled and became mine a while later. I then decided to sell it back to Rome.
In conclusion, for now, I've been able to prove that Babylon is a fortress. With the dawn of discovering Metallurgy, I am now modernizing my army, disbanding 'all' units out-of-date. There will be no Horsemen or Knights. No Pikemen or Catapults. With my Gunpowder-based weaponry, I will become a force the world will think twice about swindling with. Just wait until I get Nuclear Weapons...
Watch this space!!!
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