The Giant Thread of War!

[Sonereal]

Bumping. I could just talk about the war or I could totally make a spectacle of it with a story. Without further adieu, this:


Sometime around the year 1400 BC, the war that would be clouded in Abyssinian mythology began when the Aryan King imprisoned the legendary Abyssinian leader, Menelik and the demanded the King of Addis Ababa to pay handsomely for his random. This alone didn't cause the war. What caused the war was the actions of the Aryan messenger at Addis Ababa.

Legend has it that the Messenger entered the city with an Aryan escort including a translator and instead of heading directly to the King's palace, he instead headed to the city market and gloated about the "fall" of the Legendary Hero. By the time the Messenger had made it to the palace, riots had broken out in his wake.

The Messenger would never gain an audience with the King, who ordered soldiers to kick the messenger and his escort out of the city with a declaration of war. Word quickly spread through Abyssinia of the declaration and the Kings of Roha and Yeha came to the aid of their ally. Yeha's contribution to the war party were dreaded Abyssinian Archers while Roha provided ships so that Addis Ababa would have no need to march troops across rough terrain.

Legend has it that 300 galleys left from Addis Ababa sailing up the South American coast. As the fleet stopped by Axum to supply before heading off, the King of Axum, who as the legend goes had engineers designing a giant wall around the territory, offered 200 more ships and Axum troops. By the time the fleet left Abyssinian waters, the fleet had reached 500 ships and 10,000 troops.

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As the fleet sailed up the coast, they asked a neutral city-state, Shangian, if they would like to offer any supplies. The King of Shangian spat on the envoy and warned them that Aryan had many allies in South America.

The King of Addis Ababa ordered Shangian made an example of and so, the Abyssinians destroyed the city and captured 1000 prisoners.

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Following this, the troops made camp for the night and then, with the prisoners of war, sailed further north. Aryan, unlike Shangian, was further into the interior of the continent and so, the war party landed outside the territory of the city-state and marched northwest.

The battle was one sided. Abyssinian archers were fierce in the city-fighting and in the end, Abyssinia lost few troops and destroyed the city. 2000 prisoners were taken along with the King.

All the prisoners except the thousand of Shangian and the King were freed. The Shangian prisoners were sold into slavery in Axum and the Aryan King was executed in Addis Ababa. The war lasted only three years.

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[georgel123]

I have no pictures. Sorry bout this, my computer is acting very buggy.
Anyways, I was trying Ragnar for the first time. Continents, warlord difficulty, duel map and 3 AI. Yes I know, I'm a wuss. When we started, I shared the continent with the french. I quickly zerk rushed him with like 10 zerks in the early game and burn all but Paris. Eventually, my caravel finds the german and the greek. They were constantly at war. At this point i had over 10k in gold since i run cottage economy. I upgrade my zerks to infantry and the best part is, I keep the amphibious promotion. I grab some transports then invade the germans. I burn all but Berlin. Alexander feels threatened and declares war on me. Big mistake. I have 30+ infantry on the continent and I take out all his 7 cities real quick. Probably the most extenseive naval assault i ever did. I know, it's sad.

 

[Sonereal]

I have no pictures. Sorry bout this, my computer is acting very buggy.
Anyways, I was trying Ragnar for the first time. Continents, warlord difficulty, duel map and 3 AI. Yes I know, I'm a wuss. When we started, I shared the continent with the french. I quickly zerk rushed him with like 10 zerks in the early game and burn all but Paris. Eventually, my caravel finds the german and the greek. They were constantly at war. At this point i had over 10k in gold since i run cottage economy. I upgrade my zerks to infantry and the best part is, I keep the amphibious promotion. I grab some transports then invade the germans. I burn all but Berlin. Alexander feels threatened and declares war on me. Big mistake. I have 30+ infantry on the continent and I take out all his 7 cities real quick. Probably the most extenseive naval assault i ever did. I know, it's sad.

I have so much love for the very concept of amphibious landings. They were sorta anti-climatic in CivIV until I started playing a mod with xUPT.

CivV landings should be awesome.

Vikings are awesome.

 

[Gruekiller]

Sadly, I didn't think to screenshot this war as it happened... I was having too much fun winning. This was played in some sort of mod, but I forget exactly which. I'll find out later.

I was playing as the Moors on a Fractal map, and the Incans were starting to tick me off. Y'know. Demanding tribute. So I built up an army primarily made up of swordsmen and catapults, loaded them onto galleys, and sent 'em off across the shallow sea to some small, northern peninsula of their continent. I overwhelmed their city there and took it over, before finding, to my displeasure, that the Incans had war elephants.

From there, I beelined across their country to their sources of elephants (there were 3!) to pillage them and stop the elephants. That was the turning point, and most of their cities fell quickly. I left them one city in the far south and signed peace, leaving my armies toward the extreme portion of the empire, where they stopped fighting, to heal up. Sadly, they didn't have much time to spare, as almost immediately, Viking horse archers (!) started pouring across the English border. Ragnar was Huayna's friend, apparently.

Thankfully, by the time the war with Inca was over, I'd built plenty of spearmen in the newly-conquered Incan cities, and I put these at chokepoints at the English border, and Ragnar just poured walls of horse archers into them with little rest. He kept this up so long, that eventually the spearmen were pikes and I had crossbow medics supporting 'em!

Eventually I just loaded up elephants onto the galleys and took out his cities. I was happy when my allies, Troy, sent a huge stack in to help me. I burned down the Viking's capital and let the Trojans gobble up the rest.

These wars were good for exploration, as they helped me discover that I wasn't on a different continents than the Incans at all: my continent was almost ring-shaped, with a huge inlet of the ocean on the inside. Currently, this game is in the late Renaissance, and colonization is rampant. This is odd, since I don't usually see AIs doing very much colonizing. (compared to me, at least)

 

[Sonereal]

I love wars fought over colonies even though the AI doesn't do it often. For instance, my German game's final war (before the save messed up) was fought over German colonies. There's a map showing off that Germany and Spain were literally only separated by only a few tiles of coasts and ocean. As a matter of fact, our core cities were close but instead of fighting it out there, we fought it out on a continent a distance away from the mainlands.

 

[Gruekiller]

Just loaded it up. It's Rise of Empires. xD What surprised me is that the Vikings used so much cavalry. I usually just get waves of Berserkers sent after me instead. It certainly made the job of my elephants and spearmen easier.