A Few Decades of Insanity
When we last left off, it was 560 A.D. and the Egyptian and Indian navies were fighting each other. Not much has changed. For 50 years, we sank each other's ships, while a three groups of modern armor and mech infantry tried to stab into India. The most eastern group failed spectacularly, getting caught up in the hordes of Indian mech infantry that was thrown at us. The group a bit further west had a bit of success gaining some ground before they too were stalled. But the greatest success came from the third group, the most western one. They sacked one city, then another (New Hyderabad), and were poised to drive into western India and split it in half.
Unfortunately, that came to an abrupt end as Egypt and India signed a peace treaty in 610 A.D., leaving the Babylonians to rot. The reason for this was that a Babylonian spy had been caught attempting to enter our capital. The Queen was furious and ordered his execution, then pulled out of the war.
In hindsight, that may not have been the best decision.
On the surface, peace reigned in Egyptian cities for 40 years. Underneath, however, a vicious cold war was being waged by Egypt and Babylon as Babylon was caught time and time again attempting to infiltrate Giza. In 650 A.D., when our Intel Agency had not caught a spy that year, they decided to expose the enemy spy using our own spy in Babylon. The operation failed spectacularly, and our own spy's cover was blown. He was executed on live television, with the Babylonian declaration of war having arrived to the Queen only minutes earlier.
Egyptian diplomats abroad moved quickly. Pretty sure we were being ripped off, we nonetheless acceded to India's conditions for a military alliance and forked over the knowledge of robotics, genetics, a world map, and a staggering $185,000,000,000 (185,000 gold). Now India was locked in a deadly and brutal war with the Babylonians for even longer, this time allied with a previous foe.
The Egyptian Empire mobilized quickly to conquer the Zulu cities Babylon had conquered hundreds of years ago. It was a piece of cake as Ibabanago, New Shuruppak, and Umfolozi was conquered by modern armor battalions.
Vicious, small skirmishes raged along the border for ten years, while the Imperial Egyptian Navy and the Red Navy dueled on the high seas. The Red Navy put up a valiant effort, but they were no match for the awesome power projection of the Imperial Navy. The next few decades would see the Red Navy decimated.
In 660 A.D., ten years after the war began, and thousands of years since the founding of the Egyptian Empire, a great military hero was forged from the fires of war. In a pre-emptive attack against a mechanized infantry army approaching a conquered Babylonian city, modern armour tank crews stepped up to the challenge and beat them back. In the process, Ramses was born, and shortly after created a veteran army of modern armour.
Shortly after Ramses created his army, the Queen received bad news: our Uranium source had been exhausted! No more nuclear weapons or nuclear subs. Even more troubling, we did not discover a new source afterwards. That left only one possible option - conquer more Babylonian cities to get uranium. Unfortunately, the nearest source is a long way away.
This is going to be a long war.
Ordered to Larsa, Ramses' MA army roared up to the gates. There stood a defiant mechanized infantry battalion, daring to challenge the lions of Egypt. Sadly, in a cruel twist of fate, the extremely skilled Babylonian mech infantry destroyed the enemy at the gates, barely suffering a scratch in return. There were no survivors from the massacre at Larsa.
Later that same year, in revenge for the death of Ramses and the destruction of our army, we blitzed and conquered the Babylonian city of Samarra. In the between, artillery from both sides across the border was pounding each other's roads and railways. Babylonian bombers were attacking with impunity, as for some reason our jet fighters have yet to intercept them, a baffling mystery.
In 670 A.D., another army of Babylonian mech infantry and tanks drove into Egypt, in an effort to liberate Samarra and other Babylonian cities. All their attempts failed, badly, and an Egyptian counterattack was mustered rapidly. In a brilliant military maneuver, Egyptian MA destroyed several mech infantry battalions guarding a whole division of Babylonian artillery. As a result of that stunning success, another great military leader was born, and it wasn't long before General Cheops was leading a MA army into battle. The gods were smiling on us that day, as with the help of other MA divisions, the Babylonian armies were routed and destroyed. In the wake of our victory, we captured Zariqum.
Before the years had concluded, we were writing the Heroic Epic of Cheops and building the Asyut Military Academy.
The next ten years saw a massive Babylonian air armada bomb the conquered countryside to bits. Where were our interceptors, we cried out in despair. The Queen answered our pleas, and two MA groups were sent to conquer Eridu, where the air armada was based. In a classic pincer movement, the dual MA groups cut off Eridu and smashed into the city gates, throwing aside and rolling over the defenders. Hundreds of Babylonian aircraft were destroyed in the airport.
It's been thirty years since war began with Babylon, and so far so good - no riots, no war weariness, and barely any setbacks. Here's hoping to another blissful thirty years of glory!
blush: ) cities. My capital held out for a turn before my last defence fell and i was humiliated. *cry* So i reset to the turn they declared war and pumped out as many swordsmen as I could. 
at the 4 Privateers. Against 57 enemy Battleships, the pirates are still going at it!
