Recent content by Dave99

I've been reading your works on helmling.com. Have you really never been published? If so then there's absolutely NO hope for me.

Eventually the Aztecs, heavily reinforced, sallied from Detroit and, sure enough, aimed their spearhead at New York. The gunships tore us up, enemy artillery decimated us, their armor finished the job. In 2 turns, New York was gone. Even more devastating, our entire campaign force was...

Nagasaki was within our grasp. We could have held our position on the hills of the city and continued bombarding until it was ripe for our assault. But Tokugawa, ever shrewd, knew we were in trouble with the Aztec landing and conquest of Seattle. He contacted us with his most generous...

With a new potential threat to think about, the generals outside Okayama chose only to wait until one more infantry unit arrived before attacking. After the reinforcements arrived, we attacked the city in force. It was bloody. Though its fortifications were gone, wiped out by the navy...

What is "indy-mod"?

Really? Well...thank you. I've just finished catching up on Helmling's Philosopher Kings and he tells his story so much better than I do. I had been considering ending the game and starting a different one but since there seems to be a bit of a following, I guess I'll have to continue. It...

Will do, as soon as I know the rest of it. :D Yeah, it has been an interesting one. I really thought it was all over after Atlanta went down. The come back has been exhilarating.

The way things had been going, our army thought it was going to march right in to Edo in one turn and parade down its wide, colorful streets. Tokugawa, however, had other ideas. No less than three of his riflemen units defended glorious Edo. They were supported by two knights and one...

Osaka was a struggle to take and to hold. Japanese riflemen and knights fought tenaciously for possession of their native city and gave their lives to keep us out. But at the end of the day Osaka was ours and the few losses we suffered were more than replaced by the fresh infantry from...

During the struggle over Atlanta, 2 things occured. Having long since paid for peace with Asoka, we were once again flustered when both England and the Aztecs, neither of whom had we had much contact with, declared war upon us with opportunistic glee. Around the same time we developed the...

The liberation of Philadelphia was delayed as more harassing units appeared near Boston and Washington. Our brave riflemen, still limping from the Atlanta campaign, once again rose to the occasion and repelled the marauders while inching their way towards Philadelphia. It was decided...

The gun had kept the Japs at bay in our capital and our major cities. Now the gun was pointed at us. We defeated his single rifleman unit, along with knights, elephants, longbowmen, and others at Boston. But Tokugawa played his next hand very smart. He loaded up 2 galleons with rifleman...

The war was going well. Why the Indians attacked us I'll probably never learn. Sure, we'd never been exactly friends - Asoka and I tended to annoy one another whenever we got together for a state talk - but we'd never had any REAL problems. Oh, there were those trade issues I suppose...