Adventures of the Vietnamese (III)

Vietnam reaches from one coast to another! MANIFEST DESTINY!
"All the season coast to coast, find the place I love the most" (and Athens seems to be a lovely place for fishing and mining...) - you know, some modern musical band just takes the inspiration for their songs from history :lol:
wrong. It is the destiny of vietnam to rule the world.
Tks. It's just what the Hinduism gods are telling Le Loi after his capture of the holy city :)
Wrong again. It is the destiny of vietnam to rule the universe.
Uhm, we'll need a lot of spaceship techs to do that - which may seem too long for this world :p
No, everything. Including the very universe we live in...how would that work?
And this requires the tech of modern astronomy... Is it available? :crazyeye:
 
"All the season coast to coast, find the place I love the most" (and Athens seems to be a lovely place for fishing and mining...) - you know, some modern musical band just takes the inspiration for their songs from history :lol:Tks. It's just what the Hinduism gods are telling Le Loi after his capture of the holy city :)Uhm, we'll need a lot of spaceship techs to do that - which may seem too long for this world :p And this requires the tech of modern astronomy... Is it available? :crazyeye:

Actually it require just about every tech in the galatic era in the caveman to cosmos mod.
 
Actually it require just about every tech in the galatic era in the caveman to cosmos mod.
Now we're only limited by our mod! :crazyeye:
When Athena, along with the Hinduism gods, decided to abandon Alexander the Insignificant and to bless their new, more deserving hero – Le Loi of the Vietnamese, the Greek leader had no option but to flee into his last citadel of Thermopylae in the hope to crush our army with its harsh climate, difficult mountainous entrance, walls and 7000 men (to be more specific, two archers and a phalanx ;)):
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Oh, and they might be able to use silver to make some armor, but too bad Alex haven't mined the resource yet. Maybe some shields made from ice (there is plenty of it :p) will be used against the Vietnamese in the upcoming battles, and we don't know for sure :)
However, let's put things in order. After the fall of Athens, two wandering Greek archers were immediately killed by our just healed units from the ruined Sparta. Then Le Loi regrouped his men in the former palace of Alexander, treating the wounds and packing things up before heading into the dangerous, icy cold region where the Greek leader was seeking for shelter. And at Thermopylae, the final stand to decide who is truly great has started! Our hero has eight units with him. You can see only seven, because a veteran swordsman was defeated by the opponent's phalanx (at least Alex and his unique troop will have this deed to be a little proud in hell). That's the second battle. For the first attack, Le Loi used a No lien chau and he succeeded against an archer. The third attempt is done by our CR2 catapult, killing another Greek archer. And lastly, the injured phalanx is seeing his doom in his archenemy – the Vietnamese axeman. Goodbye, Alexander, and next time don't build work boats in Thermopylae!!! :lol:
 

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You can build work boats in that city? Well, that's a stupid AI. Also, imagine if all your troops got destroyed attacking Thermopylae.
Well, some sub-work-boat might be able to do the job. Unfortunately, Alexander seemed to forget the important first word :D Also, be informed that Le Loi paid quite some attention in the history class :) Such an event in the ancient time just can't happen with the Vietnamese under the lead of this guy :king:
Keep a close eye on Caesar, just because he's banished to the sea does not mean he can rebuild.
Yes that's absolutely right :lol:, he can't rebuild! :mischief: We've sent the Romans back to their start in the late stone age :crazyeye: However, he'll be finished for our good, sooner or later ;)
 
Yes that's absolutely right :lol:, he can't rebuild! :mischief: We've sent the Romans back to their start in the late stone age :crazyeye: However, he'll be finished for our good, sooner or later ;)

they can still build cities. and if they do well enough, come back. so do be careful, and finish them for good.
 
they can still build cities. and if they do well enough, come back. so do be careful, and finish them for good.
While that's true, remember about a threshold. Like when you overrex too much, you'll never be able to reach economic techs to recover from the bankrupting hole. In this case, as each turn passes the Vietnamese and others will leave the Romans farther & further behind. Think of him as a minor civ now :)
After seizing the Hinduism holy city, Le Loi now also carries the task of a 'messenger' for the gods. Upon receiving advices from them, he feels that all other religions can no longer be tolerated. Especially the Aztecan and their Confucian faith. In the recent years, Monty's attitude toward the Vietnamese has turned into furious, which means peace can't be maintained for long with this psycho. So why not take the first move?
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And that's our first move ;) Again, using a springboard (this time it's an Egyptian tile), Le Loi and his army crossed the border, initiating our sixth war, against the Aztecan. Oh, and it's not the only war on the world right now. Hatshepsut is fighting, too, but with three opponents(!:eek:!) Our leader has used Education to teach her that, the right way to please the Hinduism gods is to declare on those heathen Monty and Caesar (and learned the secret of Guilds from her civilization at the same time! :D). After some turns, someone (very likely to be the Aztec leader) bribed Tokugawa to join the war against Hatty, and now she has to face a 3v1 situation! :crazyeye: As a close friend, it's a duty for Le Loi to help his female brethren :p, thus the siege you saw. Teotihuacan – Monty's elephant raising field (maybe that's why it has walls around – for keeping the 'phants during nighttime, eh?) has been bombarded down to 0% defense. Our first maceman has done his good job, bringing the first victory for the Vietnamese in this war. The second one repeats the same process and burns the city into rubble in a blink. That was a bad site for a settlement – Montezuma was so obsessed with the dream of controlling all the elephants available out there, resulting in a size 2 city... :rolleyes:
 

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...and the Hordes of Vietnam shall pillage and burn, leaving a trail of destruction and rape in their wake.
 
...and the Hordes of Vietnam shall pillage and burn, leaving a trail of destruction and rape in their wake.
Rape?? Hmm, it's the 12th century in the Medieval time, so I guess it's ok :p Anyway, that Hordes depiction sounds more appropriate to the Mongolian and their bloodthirsty leaders, not us the peace-loving Vietnamese and their religious Le Loi :lol:
 
^^ :sarcasm: ^^
 
When the border city of Teotihuacan has been razed, the Aztecan capital became a border one itself. However, with powerful culture generated from the Stonehenge, the Vietnamese army still had to crawl tile by tile in order to reach it:
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And the defense of Tenochtitlan was not a joke, either. There were at least two 'phants and three more catapults in the previous turns, but somehow Montezuma has lost them in action :rolleyes: One of our spear was severely injured from a fight with a horse archer but still contributed to the war by luring a pair of an elephant and a cat toward, and even into the Egyptian land. Another Aztecan 'phant trampled a Vietnamese veteran axeman, only to be killed by our own ivory machine later. Two more of Monty's catapults tried their luck against Le Loi's No lien chau, but only one survived to flee back to the Aztecan city. Nevertheless, their hideout was bombarded to zero defense right after that, thus the situation you saw: five guarding units (one wounded) against an attack force of twelve (but sadly, three are also not at best health).
In 1130AD, the battle of Tenochtitlan started! A Vietnamese cat initiates the assault, but fails at nearly 95% odd! Anyway, it has done a good collateral damage so that the rest won't face the same fate. And things come exactly like that, our only swordsman kills an archer with ease, followed by a mace in a fight with the same opponent. An exposed spearman becomes a meal for our axe, and Le Loi's wounded No lien chau takes the revenge for his fellow catapult. Finally, a Vietnamese spearman enters the city after destroying the fled cat from the last turn, and Tenochtitlan is no longer a part of the Aztec!! :king:
 

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...hoo-rah
 
The losing of Tenochtitlan was a critical blow to Montezuma. From that point, the war can't be turned around by any means, and more Aztecan cities to be captured or burned is just a matter of time. And time itself doesn't stand by Monty's side:
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The settlement of Tlatelolco was run over by the Vietnamese forces just some dozens of years before. But it was not an easy cake: we lost a unique No lien chau there in the surrounding process. The attacks later went well, and Montezuma lost another city. It is a decent site, with rice, horse and two dye tiles for all of the three elements for development: food, hammer and commerce. However, the rice source will be quite tough for us to acquire once the city is out of resistance: it's occupied by strong cultures of both the Chinese and the Aztecan (though, one of them won't be out there for long :mischief:). None the less, Le Loi decided to keep it so that he can control more land for more power. The siege of Tlatelolco also introduced our latest and strongest units: the knights. Yet they didn't take parts in the fights: a spearman kept them from getting highest odds. So does the situation here at Texcoco – it seems that the AIs are just fond of the spears over the axes – a complete difference from humans, eh :crazyeye:? Well, maybe Le Loi will be able to find a good use of those knights somewhere else. For this place, he uses his good old veterans instead. And it turned out to be a bright decision: Texcoco is defeated without any casualties of the Vietnamese. But, after taking a stroll around the city, Le Loi the messenger of Hinduism saw that this founding city of Confucianism is not worth keeping – thus the first holy city destruction in the world!! :nuke:
 

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The losing of Tenochtitlan was a critical blow to Montezuma. From that point, the war can't be turned around by any means, and more Aztecan cities to be captured or burned is just a matter of time. And time itself doesn't stand by Monty's side:
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The settlement of Tlatelolco was run over by the Vietnamese forces just some dozens of years before. But it was not an easy cake: we lost a unique No lien chau there in the surrounding process. The attacks later went well, and Montezuma lost another city. It is a decent site, with rice, horse and two dye tiles for all of the three elements for development: food, hammer and commerce. However, the rice source will be quite tough for us to acquire once the city is out of resistance: it's occupied by strong cultures of both the Chinese and the Aztecan (though, one of them won't be out there for long :mischief:). None the less, Le Loi decided to keep it so that he can control more land for more power. The siege of Tlatelolco also introduced our latest and strongest units: the knights. Yet they didn't take parts in the fights: a spearman kept them from getting highest odds. So does the situation here at Texcoco – it seems that the AIs are just fond of the spears over the axes – a complete difference from humans, eh :crazyeye:? Well, maybe Le Loi will be able to find a good use of those knights somewhere else. For this place, he uses his good old veterans instead. And it turned out to be a bright decision: Texcoco is defeated without any casualties of the Vietnamese. But, after taking a stroll around the city, Le Loi the messenger of Hinduism saw that this founding city of Confucianism is not worth keeping – thus the first holy city destruction in the world!! :nuke:

...it was worth keeping. Shrines always equal money. You should have kept it just so it could be a money making machine.
 
Yeah, that shrine would have been a blessing in disguise for your economy later. Once you start controlling the entire continent, those maintenance costs will be a real pain.
 
...it was worth keeping. Shrines always equal money. You should have kept it just so it could be a money making machine.
Yeah, shrines equal money... but if no shrine? :rolleyes: Even if there had been a shrine there, it couldn't have produced much coins since Judaism is so much inferior in the world...
Once you start controlling the entire continent, those maintenance costs will be a real pain.
Once we've got the entire continent, the Vietnamese will be celebrating their conquest or domination victory, and there will be no pain :lol:
 
Yeah, shrines equal money... but if no shrine? :rolleyes: Even if there had been a shrine there, it couldn't have produced much coins since Judaism is so much inferior in the world...Once we've got the entire continent, the Vietnamese will be celebrating their conquest or domination victory, and there will be no pain :lol:

ever heard of spreading Judaism. to a true CFC player, religion is a tool. a tool to start world wars with. and to make money. and to create culture. and to create happiness.
 
to a true CFC player, religion is a tool. a tool to start world wars with. and to make money. and to create culture. and to create happiness.
Well, maybe a tool is enough. And we're having Hinduism already :D
With all his mainland cities lost to Le Loi, Montezuma had to sail across the sea to find a shelter for his petty existence (and some thousands of slaves to slaughter – that's his all life hobby :p). But this war is not like the last time, when our leader let Caesar drag his life on due to ocean transporting difficulties. Now the Vietnamese have galleys to promote their power across the sea and right into the city of Calixtlahuaca. Two knights unleashed their strength in two amphibious attacks on this one tile island. The archers there – despite of being fortified well – were no match, and the first island settlement has become under the control of the Vietnamese! But not stopping at that spot, Le Loi proceed toward the second and last citadel of Monty way out in the sea:
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Tlaxcala is a decent site – by the standard of island cities – with two food sources and a copper tile to provide means to make the Aztecan leader's last stand more epic :) During our traveling from Calixtlahuaca to the new capital, Montezuma has somehow realize his fault in believing in Confucianism and convert to Buddhism. Maybe he thought Le Loi would call off the war when he change his belief? That's a petty idea, since any religion other than Hinduism will deserve to be punished. Maybe the people demanded him of doing so, now that their only idol is Buddha?Or it was an effort of the Aztecan leader to seek for some aid from his new brethrens, Isabella and Mao? Might be the case, seeing that a Spanish galley is sailing toward the island. But this reinforcement possibility is simply too late, Izzy is just going to observe the fateful event coming. The first Vietnamese knight has won the mace in a fierce battle. Our second knight, however, does his easy job very efficiently. Farewell, Monty, bon voyage into the sea! :cool:
 

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..And the Hordes of Vietnam crush the skulls of the their latest fetish. Savoring the taste of marrow and sinew dripping from the freshly conquered city of Tlaxcala :yumyum:. What shall be their next hobby, ordering chinese take-out or attempting to stomach an Egyptian delicasy?:mwaha::evil:
 
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