[BTS] [RFC] The Rise of Carthage
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mechaerik
Tuturuu!
Its the Cool Story Bro guy!
Oh well, spoilered.
Oh well, spoilered.
Danger Bird
gravity's angel
Great story.
Time to get to work on a Carthaginian/Phoenician Mediterranean. Leave Spain till last.
Time to get to work on a Carthaginian/Phoenician Mediterranean. Leave Spain till last.
I'll have to take out the Egyptians and Arabs for that, but it's doable. Greece should collapse before long.
Can't make another update after this for a few days, but after that I have essentially the whole summer...
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As the proverbial dust settled following the collapse of Rome, new countries filled the void left by the Empire's collapse. From the lands formerly called Gaul, a Germanic tribe speaking a Latin tongue formed a nation, which they called France. Emissaries from France crossed the Mediterranean to open up trade routes. As both French and Spanish flowed into Carthaginian ports between the 8th and 10th centuries, the words their merchants brought eventually became part of the Carthaginian language. Eventually, the language spoken by the Punic people would be unrecognizable to the people of old Phoenicia, becoming a hodge-podge of Semitic, French, and Spanish words.
Carthaginian ships had rarely ventured past the Pillars of Hercules for a period of centuries. But when they did, it revealed a world much larger than the Mediterranean rim. The first contact that symbolized the beginning of the great Carthaginian naval expeditions was with the Saxon people who called themselves English, and dwelled on a large isle north of France. Trade was established with these people, extending Carthage's trade networks to cross all of the Mediterranean and western Europe.
The latest contact during this three-century-long period of European discovery was with yet another Germanic people who lived in the land the Romans had called Gaermania. Called Deutsch in their native tongue, their empire was found to extend over an area of Central Europe just to the east of France.
These three nations were all certain to adopt the faith of the ancient Romans. (In fact, it seemed the French held the Christian holy city.) The sides were set to divide Europe in two, with the division between the Christian and Muslim worlds extending from the cities of Dalmatia south to the Carthage-Egyptian border. It was not a question of if there would be war.
It was a question of when.
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You'll also notice Egypt steadily collapsing in the face of barbarian-fail.
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New Faces From the North
As the proverbial dust settled following the collapse of Rome, new countries filled the void left by the Empire's collapse. From the lands formerly called Gaul, a Germanic tribe speaking a Latin tongue formed a nation, which they called France. Emissaries from France crossed the Mediterranean to open up trade routes. As both French and Spanish flowed into Carthaginian ports between the 8th and 10th centuries, the words their merchants brought eventually became part of the Carthaginian language. Eventually, the language spoken by the Punic people would be unrecognizable to the people of old Phoenicia, becoming a hodge-podge of Semitic, French, and Spanish words.
Carthaginian ships had rarely ventured past the Pillars of Hercules for a period of centuries. But when they did, it revealed a world much larger than the Mediterranean rim. The first contact that symbolized the beginning of the great Carthaginian naval expeditions was with the Saxon people who called themselves English, and dwelled on a large isle north of France. Trade was established with these people, extending Carthage's trade networks to cross all of the Mediterranean and western Europe.
The latest contact during this three-century-long period of European discovery was with yet another Germanic people who lived in the land the Romans had called Gaermania. Called Deutsch in their native tongue, their empire was found to extend over an area of Central Europe just to the east of France.
These three nations were all certain to adopt the faith of the ancient Romans. (In fact, it seemed the French held the Christian holy city.) The sides were set to divide Europe in two, with the division between the Christian and Muslim worlds extending from the cities of Dalmatia south to the Carthage-Egyptian border. It was not a question of if there would be war.
It was a question of when.
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You'll also notice Egypt steadily collapsing in the face of barbarian-fail.
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The Age of Carthaginian Discovery
Between the 10th and 13th centuries, Carthage funded many expeditions which ranged far outside their borders. The city continued to grow large and wealthy, eventually merging the nearby city of Utica into itself as a suburb. Men armed with a perfected kind of bow called a longbow were tasked with protecting Carthaginian cities from outside menaces.
Carthaginian traders were always eager to find new civilizations to trade with. Their ships discovered no less than five civilizations in the Old World, within a short period of one another: the Chinese, the Japanese, the Khmer, the Dutch, and the Portuguese were all contacted around this time.
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mechaerik
Tuturuu!
You should annex egypt.
The Shofet takes this request under consideration...
I don't typically annihilate nations in my games. But then again, I have already destroyed Rome... 
DroopyTofu
Double Bass Double Bass
Nice story Gruekiller. This looks like it will be good! 
And you need to make sure you get a few more good wars into this.
And you need to make sure you get a few more good wars into this.
Welp, I lost the save file. Here's a summary:
*Caravels
*Vassalized Maya
*Met Aztec and Inca, didn't care
*Got DOWed on by Portugal
*Game crashed
*Caravels
*Vassalized Maya
*Met Aztec and Inca, didn't care
*Got DOWed on by Portugal
*Game crashed
Bobbtjoe
Emperor
Autosave?
CivRulesAll
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Does this mean the story ends? 
Hopefully not. Good luck there.
Hopefully not. Good luck there.
I'll check the autosaves in a bit. Doing Cahokia atm.
DroopyTofu
Double Bass Double Bass
Well if you've started another game then you probably have lost the save files for good.
