Adventures of the Vietnamese (III)

Hmm... the Egyptian are our friend... If Le Loi wants some of their dishes he can just ask (or pay for, why not? :)) Same with the Persian, but nowadays Cyrus is so poor and underdeveloped he hasn't been able to offer any 'dishes' for exchange :crazyeye: (doesn't have any Khoresht atm :p) And our leader's patience is dropping gradually :rolleyes: ...
About the Chinese cuisine? Really tempting - but really expensive for now :mischief: The Vietnamese will have to stock some 'money' in order to 'buy' them in the not far future ;)
However, Tsukidashi seems to be a perfect choice for a start now :D We can have sushi or ramen or whatever else next... Or Japanese styled grilled lamb - they have a rare source of sheep there!! Unique in the world... Will be very delicious... :cool:
 
Hmm... the Egyptian are our friend... If Le Loi wants some of their dishes he can just ask (or pay for, why not? :)) Same with the Persian, but nowadays Cyrus is so poor and underdeveloped he hasn't been able to offer any 'dishes' for exchange :crazyeye: (doesn't have any Khoresht atm :p) And our leader's patience is dropping gradually :rolleyes: ...
About the Chinese cuisine? Really tempting - but really expensive for now :mischief: The Vietnamese will have to stock some 'money' in order to 'buy' them in the not far future ;)
However, Tsukidashi seems to be a perfect choice for a start now :D We can have sushi or ramen or whatever else next... Or Japanese styled grilled lamb - they have a rare source of sheep there!! Unique in the world... Will be very delicious... :cool:

Japanese imported Lambchops it is :p :yumyum:
 
Japanese imported Lambchops it is
No they're their own domestic products :p However, Tokugawa keeps that delicious food to himself, as always :mad: Cannot be tolerated... :rolleyes:
Time for some Hors'doevures!
Yes! Oh, but it seems that Le Loi has forgotten to mention one more healthy cuisine of the world: the Italian and their pizzas, spaghetti and cheese! Now that they're listed, our leader feels a sudden crave for those tasty serves... :mischief: How about paying a visit to Caesar's tiny palace and order him to prepare some dishes, of course not self-made salad for sure :)
 
Montezuma is no longer on this planet, but his Confucian way is being continued by Julius Caesar. With the intent to make this heathen faith disappear, at least as a state religion of someone, Le Loi prepared for an assault onto the only Roman city left:
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As said before, Caesar has been sent back to the start. With a capital lacking of food resources like this, it will take him hundreds of years to make a single worker in order to improve his land and mine the iron source (finally, something the Roman leader can use to produce his fearful legions of Praetorians! :crazyeye:). Indeed, the turn our troops lands onto his island is the turn this city finishes its first labor force. Look, Caesar will need another galley just to send this newly created guy across the tiny channel to that wine tile. A lot of works awaits him! Sadly, Ravenna will never find its time to do all of them, since the Vietnamese knights are bringing the end to its fate. In 1226AD, after defeating the last two archers in the city, Le Loi's men find the Roman leader in his palace and stab him to death, ending one of the puniest life on earth. Goodbye, Caesar, it's your own Praetorians' reputation that killed you! :rolleyes:
On the very right of the picture, you can see another city of the Aztecs that we have captured, but couldn't mention in the previous chances. Xo Chi Can Co (Xochicalco some turns before) is on the verge of expanding its boundary for the first time, and will provide us with the bananas, the sole resource of this kind of the planet! :goodjob: Getting rid of those jungles everywhere requires lots of labor forces, but thanks to all the workers we received during Le Loi's campaigns, the Vietnamese will make it on time! :)
 

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yes, fear of roman Praets resulted in Caesers end. Huzzah
Yeah, it's not the best to have the best units :rolleyes:
Just when the former Aztecan cities came out from resistance and performed some emergency unhappiness countering whips, is the time Le Loi started his second crusade to punish those who don't believe in the superiority of Hinduism. This time, the victim is Tokugawa and his faith in Christianity.
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The above picture shows the campaign in its progress. The first city to fall was Tokyo or something like that (it doesn't appear on the map any more, so... :mischief:) - in the initial moments of the war, four of our knights rushed from the Egyptian land across a tundra tile, not occupied by forest at the time, and right into the city. One failed, but the others were able to take out the defense, and with a fuse, one Japanese settlement has become history! In the mean time (and also the same time with the finish of Caesar and the Romans) Osaka was under siege by our foot soldiers. Quite some open field battles have happened, but Tokugawa and his inferior units didn't pose much difficulties to the Vietnamese. After being brought down its defense, Osaka was captured by an overwhelming force. At that very moment, when our knights at the north front were healing from the last fights, an escorted settler came out from the fog and founded another city – Kagoshima – on the burning ruins of Tokyo :eek: Seemed like Toky hasn't learned his lessons yet :lol: So Le Loi once again razed this infant settlement and earned one or two souvenir coins for his treasure :crazyeye: While that event was occurring, the unhurt Vietnamese troops were marching and besieging the Japanese capital in the southern front. Tokugawa has proved himself a utter fool by upgrading the archers in Edo to longbows first and leaving those in Kyoto unchanged. Well, to be honest, in the very last moment one guy was upgraded. Still, the result was just the same... :)
 

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With the fall of Kyoto, Tokugawa has stepped over his 'threshold' – from then he just can't make a comeback, even if Le Loi let him live. However, as the heathen Christianity is still out there, the Vietnamese leader simply can't stop his campaign:
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Two cities were under siege by our army: Satsuma and Edo, at the same time. The Taoism holy city was assaulted by four of Le Loi's knights. Two died honorably in the quest of crusading, leaving easy targets for the others. Once captured, Satsuma was burned outright. It was founded on a couldn't-be-worse location, thus another good reason for our holy city razing actions :nuke: The longbow defended settlement of Edo is quite another hard nut to crack. The Vietnamese had to sacrifice one of their unique No lien chau in order to collaterally damage the units there, and it took us nearly all of our attacking attempts just to kill the forces there. Finally, when all others have been wiped down, the last Japanese catapult meets its doom by another of our No lien chau – Le Loi chooses him as an act of memorial to the one who laid down his life for the cause of this great termination :goodjob: Now, goodbye, Toky, and next time – yeah, the second next time :) – please open borders with us :lol:
This year of 1286AD is also a big milestone in the world's history. Now there are only two blocs of religions left: Hinduism and Buddhism – hereon will come really big crusades!! :mischief: More than half of the opponents have gone. And the Chinese has officially taken the second place on the score table from the Egyptian! Thanks to the Collosus built in Beijing, now Mao Zedong are not too far behind us in term of military techs... :eek:
 

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With Tokugawa the founder of two religions becoming history, his neighbor and also the founder of another two, Isabella, must have felt quite uneasy with it. Well, it turned out to be a good concern, because Le Loi has decided to let his army stomp the Spanish land:
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Ooh, we have to admit that Izzy's land is somewhat weirdly screwed. While Madrid is Buddha-blessed with an incredible amount of food and almost no food poor tiles, the land surrounding it is just bare desert. Thus, founding any other city would be a challenge: settle it too near and accept severe overlap, or go far far away and carry a deadweight on your budget. If possible, she should have entered the OCC in order to become a superpower! :crazyeye: But that's not the choice, so Isabella did found Barcelona on the ruins you can see now. That city was a big fail of hers: instead of going just one tile north and enjoying the supply of a copper source, she stuck her ass to an oasis (maybe the Spanish was so busy discovering new religions way back then, and weren't able to see that lovely metal just right there :rolleyes:). That's why they had to settle one more city further into the desert to claim another copper. Anyway, Barcelona is considered an utter crap to be a holy city, and Le Loi destroyed it without hesitance. No more Judaism on earth! That poor religion, it was shadowed by all others and didn't make a single significant effect in the world's history. Well, but the Buddhism spot is another story. According to Le Loi's bean-counting, Madrid can support eleven specialists on its own!!! Perfect for a 21-sized city. It's some pity the Vietnamese don't have a site like this sooner in a game we chose to run the SE :( Still, capturing the holy city will provide us with some benefits in one aspect or another...
 

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In the (quite recent) past, each time Le Loi launched a campaign to exterminate one religion, it was wiped out in about one or two hundreds of years. This time we are crusading against the Buddhists, and have somewhat crippled Isabella to her 'threshold' :mischief: So why not start another simultaneous war with the Chinese? With that in mind, let's take a look at the empire of Mao Zedong and figure out if the Vietnamese can do it or not:
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The Chinese have a lot of cities, but there are only four inland. The majority of them are out there in the southern islands (well, at least six – Mao deserves the title of “Man of the sea”! :goodjob:). Of the four land settlements, Beijing is clearly the star. Two clams sources and a bunch of floodplains to boost its population to 10. Copper, hill and some forests contributed to its wonders: the Hanging garden and recently, the Colossus – they're the reasons this capital has secured a solid place in the top 5 cities. Shanghai is doing pretty well with only one pop less, but its position poses a big question: why not settle just one tile east? :confused: That's like a no-brainer: you trade three desert tiles for another three of just nearly the same: desert, but this time with rivers around them, thus floodplains :p So Le Loi considers Shanghai to be a sub-par target for his SE. Mao was so obsessed with making silk clothes for his luxury life (sigh). Guangzhou, on the other hand, manifests his big time failure in choosing settling sites: the size of 4 speaks for itself. In this example, maybe the Chinese leader was again so obsessed, but this time with his expanding ideal, so he turned a deaf ear to his people's cry for food. Now for Nanjing, as a fishing village and space filler, it's a very decent candidate, but as an mainland hub of power and prosperity? Meh... :crazyeye:
 

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NOOO! You fool. Don't start a two front war. RULE 1 of civ any version war: if possible, fit one guy and one guy only at a time.
If you can't avoid a war with multiple nations, get help. Even if your strong enough to take both on. You might be larger, but all it takes is you to mess up enough, and they all declare war. Ifyou mess up the beginning of the Chinese invasion, it will not go well, as they are nearly as advanced as you. You only have bulk on your side. Wait until you can be certain no one is going to get in your way. Conquer spain, build a large force, THEN invade. You have to be more careful when your enemy has technological parity with you, especially at higher levels.
 
NOOO! You fool. Don't start a two front war. RULE 1 of civ any version war: if possible, fit one guy and one guy only at a time.
If you can't avoid a war with multiple nations, get help. Even if your strong enough to take both on. You might be larger, but all it takes is you to mess up enough, and they all declare war. Ifyou mess up the beginning of the Chinese invasion, it will not go well, as they are nearly as advanced as you. You only have bulk on your side. Wait until you can be certain no one is going to get in your way. Conquer spain, build a large force, THEN invade. You have to be more careful when your enemy has technological parity with you, especially at higher levels.
Eh... we've started it already :mischief: You know, my playing is several turns ahead of the story, so... :crazyeye: Anyway, you might not know as it's never displayed on the main screen, but the Vietnamese are indeed having help from the Egyptian just as your advice: they're warring against the Chinese! About the tech parity, Mao is not on our level, but he may be getting nearer and nearer with the help of the newly built Colossus - so why letting him to catch up with us after a long time? Le Loi is having both the technology and production advantage, and attacking now is somehow better than waiting. Besides, one big reason to run two wars is that we can take advantages of the Spanish land and conduct sudden assaults into the Chinese land right once declared. If our leader finishes Isabella first, Mao's border will expand very far filling all the tiles, and the Vietnamese army will have to crawl all that way - which is quite bad :rolleyes:
The analyzing has led Le Loi to a conclusion: we can afford a war with the Chinese :goodjob: Using Isabella's very own land as the springboard for a surprise attack, the Vietnamese army besiege the city of Nanjing right in the turn of declaration. Our catapults have been waiting to toss a bunch of rocks into its walls, and after that our troops stormed the city with overwhelming numbers, wiping all men obstructing their way. Le Loi decided to let this settlement survive, since it will help connecting Madrid the Buddhism holy land with our core, and prevent barbarians from threatening the former Spanish capital from one direction. Meanwhile, the freshly trained Vietnamese units from the East were also penetrating the border and assault Mao's city of Guangzhou. This battle introduced our newest force: the unrivaled cavalries. Thus, despite a whooping defense of 65% (it got boosted by the Chitchen Itza, just completed in Shanghai about a dozen years before), Le Loi's riding gunmen succeeded in breaking into the city. Once in, they set fire on everything, and Guangzhou is now just a pile of brick on the world's surface.
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When things were getting 'hot' in the east, our western flank made their second move, too. This time, Seville the new palace of Izzy is the victim. With the defenders even weaker than the Chinese's, the Spanish city fell quickly. An act of mercy from Le Loi – he helped Isabella avoid such a hot and dry desert place by adding some heat to it and let the high temperature do the rest :p And from there, our leader headed for Shanghai. It could have been a tough battle there, but with a brilliant-to-the-Vietnamese move by Mao Zedong (see that stack-of-going-to-be-doomed right in the middle of our army?), the city is now meeting its fate...
 

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While the flames at Shanghai hasn't been put out yet, Le Loi and his troops were marching toward Mao Zedong's pride: his capital. And surprisingly, our friend Hatshepsut is heading there, too:
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What a nice help from the Vietnamese Hinduism brethren! :) While our catapults were busy bombing down the defense of those stubborn western cities and then facing some difficulties crawling through the Chinese culture to reach Beijing, an Egyptian pair of cat and crossbowman have been present for quite some dozens of years and have put down the city's defense, very slowly but steadily, to an extend where Le Loi can launch his attacks at favorable odds. In fact, our leader still had to wait one turn for his army to gather some more and for Beijing's walls to weaken a little more, before feeling the moment has come. And when it does come, the Vietnamese hero orders the all-out assault! :nuke: We have four cavalries and four No lien chau, for a total of eight units. The enemy has five: two longbows, two pikes and a maceman. A decent stack for all-around defending, which means Le Loi's troops doesn't get the upper hand from the start. So he decides to sacrifice some of our unique units in the quests to collaterally damage all the opponents. Our two attempts at extremely and very low odds failed, but they leaves a bunch of wounded soldiers in the opposite side. As a result, the Vietnamese third No lien chau succeeds in killing the first longbowman, and the next four cavalries display their power by winning the next four battles. Beijing the city of two wonders is ours now! :king: Should have been harder, if a Chinese catapult hadn't fled out of its capital. Well, moral is a big problem in wars: Mao couldn't raise it inside his army. And Le Loi can :cool:
 

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Doing good. You obviously are having fun.
Spoiler :
At least you don't have to deal with a world war. Which is what has basically started in IOT X. It's only turn 3...and it started on turn 1...because of a guy named Patriotic Fool deciding to move from the middle of nowhere( northern area of Russia. His nation was the USSR...can you guess where this is going) , and move to south Germany...when north Germany and Central France already are the starting places of two players. Guess what he calls his nation: Nazi Germany. It gets better. Does he expand into Austria and unclaimed regions of Germany. NOPE. He expands directly into Eastern France. He also tries to justify it with the fact that since France surrendered during WW2, he has a valid claim...when nazi Germany and its actions were as legal as genocide. Then Macedoia tries to push through the UN(completely organic one...the GM has decided next game will not have a organic UN), a nonexistent organization, since not enough votes of yes to support the most popular one exist(6 of 23 nations voted...total. Half only voted yes on the most popular...more would have voted yes...had Macedonia not tried to pass a mandate). The main alliance in the IOT manages to defeat it through the fact technically no UN exists yet. macedonia still tries to enforce it. We remind him that the mandate technically was not passed due to no orginatization to pass it. So he declared the conquered areas of France he has as part of the State of New Gaul. And is now moving to "free" the French from socialism...when said French nation he's invading is a democracy that has a socailist economy. Arabia invades for some reason...persumed to support Macedonia...and is going to annex the territory it conquers...not helping the arguments by said main alliance that they and the UN are trying to be imperialist...and scandinavia actually outright invades North Germany because of imperial ambition...yeh...fun.

so am i.:rolleyes:
 
Hey, is IOT kind of a paper game? :crazyeye: It's hard for me to imagine how people all over the world agree & disagree with each others through wars & peace, verbally :lol:
So, with the fall of Beijing, Mao Zedong has been forced out to the sea, just as his buddies Caesar and Montezuma. However, the difference here is that the Chinese leader has established pretty solid footholds on those islands, and finishing him will be a really long tough mission. But just that doesn't mean Le Loi will stop doing it:
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Chengdu is now under siege. Well, not really a siege – our catapults are somewhere inland :) Nevertheless, the results will be the same: those defenders are no match for our mighty cavalries. If the city was on hill and had 40% bonus, maybe there would be some problem. But that's not the case, so the Vietnamese army just run over their opponents: Chengdu falls in 1436. This year is also the last year of our people's golden age; during these turns the Vietnamese have been seeing massive and impressive changes throughout their glorious empire. We produces about ten times more than the next contender, our crop yield is about five times (don't remember exactly :p), and even the GNP of our Specialist economy blows pass the GNP of the neighbor creative Egyptian! You can see the effect of those splendid years at the technology bar. Printing press in about five turns, in epic speed! :cool: Our researching rate is so fast and so opposed to just the previous ten turns the Vietnamese are somewhat out of techs to choose! Now Le Loi has only technologies that lead to one drawback or another to his empire, things like obsoleting the Parthenon, for example :rolleyes: Making choices in golden ages are just as difficult as any time! :crazyeye: But still, what a sweet time! Thanks to the Taj Mahal built in Athens, the Vietnamese had a chance to taste a wonderful period that happens only once or twice in history... :king:
 

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With the war weariness spiking in all of our cities, Le Loi wants to finish the war as fast as possible. A lot of Chinese settlements were run over under the Vietnamese cavalries' horse-shoes, some were kept, others were burned. Not long after that Mao is left with his only hideout at Xian, a capital in the southern hemisphere:
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The city were defended by three longbows and a pikeman, but two were killed in trying to feel the taste of gunpowder powered bullets. Of course the Chinese leader doesn't like it at all – he's now at about -30 or more with Le Loi! :eek: Among those negative points, -10 is from “You declare war on our friends! :mad:”, another -10 is from “You razed one of our cities! :cry:”. One of the highest – oops, lowest :mischief: – attitude ratings I have received in my gaming history :( Well, haven't you learned anything from your faith of Buddhism, Mao? Don't hate others. If one slaps you in your left cheek, show your other cheek so he can slap the right side :cool: In this case, the Chinese leader loses five cities, but he isn't willing to give us the remaining five. Then Le Loi, despite of being the Hinduism messenger, has to give this guy a lesson of Buddhism itself. Let's suppose those cavalries are the missionaries ;) By finishing the two longbowmen left in Xian, the Vietnamese troops sets fire to the settlement and thus sends Mao Zedong to his realm of Nirvana, with boiling oil cauldrons and things alike :lol: Wish you peace there, my friend :D
Now the only heathen one left is Isabella – she's far up in the north practicing Christianity with a lot of fishes :) Getting to her is a pain in the butt, however Le Loi is on the verge of finishing this glorious quest... :king:
 

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Almost all of the heretics have been eliminated... What/Who shall the glorious Vietnamese conquer after this Crusade is completed?
 
Almost all of the heretics have been eliminated... What/Who shall the glorious Vietnamese conquer after this Crusade is completed?
How about creating new heretics? :mischief:
Mao Zedong has became history, the pangaea is now filled with only Hinduism. Isabella has some islands, but just some minor spots on the world map (the Vietnamese ships, with the aid from the circumnavigating bonus, have revealed it all). And we can finish her for good any week of the year :king: However, even by doing so, Le Loi and his powerful civilization still can't archive victory: we need more land to reach the limit :mad: So, either Cyrus or Hatshepsut must be our next victim. What a really, really tough decision :sad: All of them are the Vietnamese's long term friends. But wait, in the recent centuries the Persian leader has become more an more cautious toward us. At first there was -2 from razing his city in the war with Louis XIV (arrg, this guy still remembers it now?:crazyeye:?), now Cyrus feels some tensions in sharing borders with us. Besides, the Persian haven't been able to provide the Vietnamese with any techs or resources since the classical age :rolleyes: In other words, they're just worthless neighbors, not being able to leverage the advantages of the superior Hinduism. Cyrus needs to be wiped out :nuke: But not from the face of this world, as an acknowledgment of his loyal friendship Le Loi intends to leave the Persian leader with one or two islands to continue his existence until the end. For now, he's being expelled:
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Two cities have been blitzed by the speed of the Vietnamese cavalries. Cyrus' capital, however, is quite a tough nut and may cost us several cavs, so Le Loi sent his veteran catapults to do the rocking job first. Between turns, the Persian leader performed a retaliation with a war elephant attacking our cavalry, but he failed. That's all he could do. Next turn, our army storms the settlement with rains of arrows first, and bullets later. Persepolis is ours now! :goodjob:
 

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How do you not have the land requirement yet? You own what looks to be over 50%.
 
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