But Shaka failed to capture that city, and it generated a Great General for me. Yippie. I kinda expected a better attack than that, but my production machine was no match to his pathatic small attack. I will make him pay for crossing me, right now. For now I'm going make a big strong Strength III axeman to compliment my attacking power and send him to the front, which has been expanded around my borders with Shaka. I am fighting two wars right now, but they both seem to be weak powers.
Meanwhile my main stack continue to harrass Hatty by marching directly to her capital.
This is a BIG BLOW to Hatty, as her power center has been overthrown. You would want to keep her capital, because more than likely, it is thier best land, and with sheep and more copper, it's was a good starting point for her.
I expanded west (Gandhi seems to be stationed north/northwest of me). I might have to do something about that barbarian city thats dangeriously too close to it. For now it's time for me to teach Shaka a less not to challenge the Mayan War Machine.
I lost a few cities, but I got Ondini. I didn't mean to keep it though... it seems like one of those cities I'd scrap, but I spaced out a little, and now it's mine.
I also took Giza, and Hatty must be in her last leg right now.
Nongoma is gone, and Shaka must be regretting DOWing me.
GROOOOOOOWLLLLLLL!
Ok, now that I got that out of my system, let continue on taking over cities. By the way, I just got another GG. I'll dig him in and figure out what I should do with him right now.
I'm going to focus more on taking Hatty out, so I cut Shaka a deal and make a note to take him out in another time.
A crappy tech and some lump gold. Not much of a trade, but it gets Shaka off my back for now.
Well, I'm glad I decided to switch to Judism, because someone (I'm guessing Zara) completed the AP, and the AP leader dosen't matter with me right now, so I voted for Sully.
He got it the next turn.
Hmmm? Whats this? I left a city undefended and that upstart Hatty took it from me. Oh well.
On top of that I failed to capture Helipolis. Darn. The war machine is stopped for now.
I took Nongoma back, and trying to figure out what to do next. Meanwhile, Gandhi decided to beg for more techs.
It's more like a demand than a beg, and I promptly rejected him. Let's see him pray to Buddha for Machinery now.
I could use Monachy since I have a huge force, so I decided to trade to Sully for it.
And if getting demands from Gandhi wasn't bad enough, now I have a bigger, nascence to take care of:
THANKS ALOT, SULIEMAN, I VOTED FOR YOU, A-HOLE!
Excuse me... I'll be right back...
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Now that I have calmed down, let's move on. That backstabber wanted me to stop trading with Gandhi via AP, but since I'm not currently trading with him, I said yes.
I captured Helipolis with my main stack (by moving them north from Hatty's capitol), and torched it from pure rage from losing my secondary stack on this city (I should've kept it).
I took my second GG and created a great healer from it using a simple scout, and my main stack meets that turban wearing backstabbing <beep> Sully's main stack...
...and after a bloody battle, my defense prevails.
The Ottomans cannot stop the Mayan War Machine. The Ottomans WILL not stop the Mayan War Machine.
I continued to expand northeast towards the front with notes of defending it later on...
...with a certian event popped up, all begging with peace with Hatty:
I rejected it, and took Memphis instead.
Another turn of events forced me to make peace with Hatty. Only this time, it will make peace with Sully, too.
My ecomony is shot because of this lengthy 60 turn war, so I'm going to try to keep up with the rest of them as well as forcing peace with Sully (He probably activated it after that shameful attack attempt, and now he's reeling with regret). I accept it, and it passed a turn later, and that's pretty much the end of that lengthy Mayan/Egyptian/Zulu/Ottoman war.
So with that said, this is pretty much my land so far, the largest land in the world, and a sizable force that can pretty much take everyone out, dispite of that massacre in Helipolis. Hatty has maybe three cities, and I have no idea where the others is, though I'm guessing Shaka is due north, Gandhi is north/northwest, and Sully, far northeast of me.
Some things that is bugging me right now:
My diplomacy is shot. Zara dosn't like me, Hatty hates me (I'm taking over her cities), Gandhi hates me (because I'm in a different religion), Shaka hates me (for taking some of his cities), and last, but very least Sully hates me.
My Mayan War Machine dosen't seem to be as effective as it should be. I wanted to take Hatty out, but the distractions have slowed me down to a crawl. Should I continue to war after I recover?
My scientist ecomony seems to be sticking, but now I'm far behind in tech. What now?
It's true that I have left a dent into this world, but will be enough?
Stay tuned to
A Noob's Noble Game!