The Indian war V: Changing plans, Part 2
In 635 AD Georg Patton, another retired Great General started to build another War Academy, this time in London, by laying down the cornerstone himself. London and Coventry were both building now a Grenadier every 4 turns, preparing the English army slowly to face riflemen. Sill, another project in Coventry had to be to get a forge built there, because thanks to Mercantilism, they were running a free scientist there so far (which was pretty useless for the main English production city) and with the production bonus from the forge combined with the engineer they would be able to run then would probably allow to could cut down the production time of Grenadiers to 3 turns.
The same year, the English army reached another major milestone and Bombay fell.
The General in charge and some soldiers:
And you really have searched the whole city?
Yes sir, we have.
And you are absolutely sure it isnt there?
Yes, we are.
Search it again.
12 days later, same General, same soldiers:
We have finished searching the city again.
And?
Same results, not there
Oh my god how am I supposed to tell Don Deity that one of the main objectives of our quest was to capture the Hindu holy city founded 4000 years ago and it doesnt have the HINDU HOLY SHRINE search the city again
Another 12 days later :
Still not there
Argh Im dead I will never survive the meeting with Don Deity
But we have found something else the Indians call it Versailles it is said to reduce the city upkeep in Bombay greatly might even help reducing the upkeep in neighbourhood cities
And it really turned out, that brickhead Ash never bothered building the Holy Hindu Shrine after he converted the whole continent of France to Hindu (like 50+ cities) but he had apparently decided to build the Versailles during the war for Don Deity, to compensate on a side note, from the author: Ash, after this war, you can consider yourself as my private hero, honestly.
After having lost Bombay, Ash also was willing to capitulate but Don Deity decided to finish the attack on Ligurian first and to advance on Calcutta, like planned, because not much Indian resistance was supposed to be left. And with a little timing, it should even be possible to take Ligurian and Calcutta at the same time (=turn) to prevent Ash vassalizing himself to Alex
And in 665 AD finally, Ligurian and Calcutta fell easily and like planned around the same time, and Ash was accepted as Englands first vassal. And England should be known from then on as the United States of England. During filling out all entry forms necessary for this complicated bureaucratic process, it also became obvious, that Ash had researched exclusively economical technologies, despite the war. He had Economics, Constitution, Printing Press and Corporation on Don Deity and was currently working on Replaceable Parts (7 turns remaining), so he was in fact nowhere near Rifling all those worries about him reaching Rifling soon had apparently been for nothing
Don Deitys palace in London, Don Deity and the mayor:
And you REALLY want to have Ash as vassal? Hes a complete idiot
Yes, I know, but I assume it to be generally saver to vassalize Ash, then to carry on the war with him, like I already have pointed out before. And besides, I have a cunning plan, and to make sure we keep the timeline for that plan, its easer if we take Ash as vassal now
Will you tell me what this cunning plan is?
Yes.
Would you tell me NOW what this cunning plan is?
Yes, off course
Then tell me NOW what this cunning plan is!
Have you noticed that we switched from producing grenadiers to trebuchets some time ago?
Yes.
Have you also noticed that we are researching Steel right now?
Yes.
And that doesnt ring a bell to you?
No.
ARGH OK then, Ill explain it to you in more detail only thing we need to do now is to find an English shaman, who will turn all the trebuchets we already have or are just about to produce into cannons, once we have finally solved the mystery of Steel then we are going to whip some cannons more and then we are going to backstab Alex and we are going to do this, BEFORE he has anything else then riflemen to oppose to our glorious army and take out his whole offensive army in one quick strike after that it doesnt really matter what technologies he researches, because we simply will overwhelm him with numbers, once his main army is defeated MUAHAHAHA
Wow, this is a TRULY EVIL plan but it really could work out
Later the same day, the final meeting between Ash and Don Deity, with Ash signing the vassal contract:
Im happy that we have finally been able to settle our minor differences Don Deity you know youre still my best friend after all
So youre not mad at me for taking 2/3 of your cities and slaughtering millions of Indian civilians?
Youre a good person Don Deity and thats all that matters
Umh well yes I think so you are right of course umh have you ever heard of a disease called brain tumour?
No, why do you ask?
Oh, doesnt matter and you are really sure that you are happy now, becoming my vassal because you have been THE SUPERPOWER before this war umh I mean our minor differences
Yes of course together we are strong and that is all that matters
You never even bothered to switch to troop production during our wa umh our minor differences nor have you ever bothered researching any military technologies at all
Why should I? I knew from the start that our differences would only be temporary and that even happens to BEST friends now and then and now events prove me right, see? We are at peace again and will continue to prosper we even are about to strengthen our relations
OK then thats it, sign here and here and here and here
Wouldnt it have been easier to make just one contract requiring only one signature Don Deity?
Thats not the way things work (at least not in Germany
)
sorry for that
and here
and here
and here
and here
45 minutes later:
and here.
My hand is hurting I can barley hold the pencil anymore
Good news is youre done now youre now officially one of the states in the newly created United States of England and do me a favour please
Yes, of course, whatever you whish my friend
Go see a doctor and do it quick
In the end, Ash and Don Deity decided to take the afternoon off, after all the contract and paperwork had finally been done and had two nice knitting games together. Off course Ash won both of them he still was THE knitting champion after all and later that evening the friends even agreed to trade Constitution, Printing Press and Economics and a No trade agreement with Alex & Bren (form Ash) for Astronomy, Chemistry, Military Tradition (from Don Deity).
Ash wasnt too happy about the No trade agreement, but after Don Deity had pointed out to him, that their own friendship would only be disturbed by the others, he was happy again. And Don Deity desperately needed this No trade agreement, with all his military technologies now also in Ashs hands it had to be prevented by all means that all precious English military technologies would disappear in direction Alex and Bren .Alex was already THE techleader by far at that point anyways, having on Don Deity Theology, Scientific Methods, Replaceable Parts and Rifling (and maybe even some more techs), and he was the priority one target for the next expansion anyways. Bren still was a little backwards but it better remained that way...
This is what the map of Indian-England looked in the end, with the newly agreed border marked in red:
With altogether 9 cities captured, containing quite some beautiful land and some already gown cottages, Don Deity had more then doubled his empire (of his own 9 cities, only 8 were build so far, thanks to the forgotten English hardcore campers ). And with peace all over France (Don Deity simply decided to ignore Bismarck/Odysseus for the time beeing) Don Deity deemed it a good time to fully switch to Cottage Economy. So all workers were sent out and ordered to build nothing but cottages.
Everything was going fine, but then Alex decided to annoy Don Deity by squeezing in a city between Old-England and India-England, cutting Bangalore, the most important Indian city captured, off from the rest of England:
He would pay for that soon but right now, with his power still being a tiny little bit too high for that and Don Deity scientists still working on Steel, it would have to be delayed, but only for a short time, because Don Deity had plans, brilliant plans which, at that time, still were valid (for something like 4-5 minutes real time more)
and then:
23. March, 680 AD, around noon, deep down in the cellar of Don Deitys palace:
Common Don Deity it is absolutely no solution at all to hide yourself in the cellar besides, youre down there now since almost two days arent you hungry or thirsty at all?
No, Im not Im beaming up to Chez Leon every now and then to have a little snack and some drinks but apart from that I will never ever leave my cellar again
Cheer up a little it wasnt that bad you only ordered a revolt from Hereditary Rule to Representation immediately when that stupid window popped up and the anarchy lasted 45 years (=3 turns) off course it would have been clever to have also switched from Mercantilism to Free Market, like planned long ago, to recover our research (which we desperately would have needed) and the anarchy would only have lasted 60 years then (=4 turns) but apparently you have forgotten complete when clicking on that damn Revolution now button and now you have to wait at least 75 years more (=5 turns) before you can change government again and it will take another 45 years of anarchy (=3 turns) and we dont EVEN know IF and WHEN well be able to afford another 3 turns of anarchy again and besides, we have now stupid Ash as vassal, and I fear we will never again get rid of him well after considering it you ARE right you messed it up big time better stay down there some more
Before this stupid revolution issue, the next English research project had been set to Steel, like said before, because Don Deity had decided before moving into his new office (=the cellar of his palace) that he would only need some slightly better siege machinery to start the war with Alex as soon as possible (with 21 battalions of highly promoted cavalry surviving the Indian crusade) so Don Deity had been starting to build some more trebuchets to have an English shaman upgrade them to cannons later (he had planned to upgrade about 10 trebuchets altogether and to whip about 10 cannons more), after he had finished building something like 6-8 grenadiers some time ago (to protect his advancing cavalry and cannons from riflemen assaults) this very likely would have done the trick to correct the continental power situation with Alex having only rifles to face cannons, grenadiers and cavalry but thanks to his stupid little Mercantilism problem, researching Steel (3 turns invested + 3 turns revolution + 10 turns remaining + 3 turns revolution form Mercantilism to Free Market) would simply take too long now to compete with Alex in warfare technology for sure (Alex was getting a new tech every 4-6 turns ) and besides, saving the money for upgrading 10 trebuchets to cannons WHILE running Mercantilism would be something completely impossible so Don Deitys plan was bound to go down the drain this time before he even was able to start with it
The same night, Don Deity couldnt find much sleep in his cellar. Too many thoughts were spinning around in his head what was he supposed to do now?
Should he still try invading Alex, like planned, at the risk of facing Greek cavalry and/or grenadiers, or should he now switch to invading Bren to use the small English techlead still remaining over the Celts and face their incredibly huge army while trying to conquer their (still) mainly crappy land, or should he even build up a fleet and start a (very long) journey and make a naval invasion on Bismarck, because Germany was something like 10 technologies behind England?
So many questions, but although Don Deity didnt find no sleep at all this night (in his cellar), he couldnt find any answers
...
Im happy for any feedback, suggestions, tips and hints concerning this game...
IMPORTANT NOTE:
If you want to play along or ahead feel free to pick any save you like. Only thing you REALLY should do is to use spoiler tags for anything AHEAD of the actual story.
The saves for this game can be found here (scroll to the end of the page)
YOU WILL NEED THE WARLORDS 2.13 PATCH TO OPEN THE LAST SAVES
...
See you Soon
Snaaty
In 635 AD Georg Patton, another retired Great General started to build another War Academy, this time in London, by laying down the cornerstone himself. London and Coventry were both building now a Grenadier every 4 turns, preparing the English army slowly to face riflemen. Sill, another project in Coventry had to be to get a forge built there, because thanks to Mercantilism, they were running a free scientist there so far (which was pretty useless for the main English production city) and with the production bonus from the forge combined with the engineer they would be able to run then would probably allow to could cut down the production time of Grenadiers to 3 turns.
The same year, the English army reached another major milestone and Bombay fell.
The General in charge and some soldiers:
And you really have searched the whole city?
Yes sir, we have.
And you are absolutely sure it isnt there?
Yes, we are.
Search it again.
12 days later, same General, same soldiers:
We have finished searching the city again.
And?
Same results, not there
Oh my god how am I supposed to tell Don Deity that one of the main objectives of our quest was to capture the Hindu holy city founded 4000 years ago and it doesnt have the HINDU HOLY SHRINE search the city again
Another 12 days later :
Still not there
Argh Im dead I will never survive the meeting with Don Deity
But we have found something else the Indians call it Versailles it is said to reduce the city upkeep in Bombay greatly might even help reducing the upkeep in neighbourhood cities
And it really turned out, that brickhead Ash never bothered building the Holy Hindu Shrine after he converted the whole continent of France to Hindu (like 50+ cities) but he had apparently decided to build the Versailles during the war for Don Deity, to compensate on a side note, from the author: Ash, after this war, you can consider yourself as my private hero, honestly.
After having lost Bombay, Ash also was willing to capitulate but Don Deity decided to finish the attack on Ligurian first and to advance on Calcutta, like planned, because not much Indian resistance was supposed to be left. And with a little timing, it should even be possible to take Ligurian and Calcutta at the same time (=turn) to prevent Ash vassalizing himself to Alex
And in 665 AD finally, Ligurian and Calcutta fell easily and like planned around the same time, and Ash was accepted as Englands first vassal. And England should be known from then on as the United States of England. During filling out all entry forms necessary for this complicated bureaucratic process, it also became obvious, that Ash had researched exclusively economical technologies, despite the war. He had Economics, Constitution, Printing Press and Corporation on Don Deity and was currently working on Replaceable Parts (7 turns remaining), so he was in fact nowhere near Rifling all those worries about him reaching Rifling soon had apparently been for nothing
Don Deitys palace in London, Don Deity and the mayor:
And you REALLY want to have Ash as vassal? Hes a complete idiot
Yes, I know, but I assume it to be generally saver to vassalize Ash, then to carry on the war with him, like I already have pointed out before. And besides, I have a cunning plan, and to make sure we keep the timeline for that plan, its easer if we take Ash as vassal now
Will you tell me what this cunning plan is?
Yes.
Would you tell me NOW what this cunning plan is?
Yes, off course
Then tell me NOW what this cunning plan is!
Have you noticed that we switched from producing grenadiers to trebuchets some time ago?
Yes.
Have you also noticed that we are researching Steel right now?
Yes.
And that doesnt ring a bell to you?
No.
ARGH OK then, Ill explain it to you in more detail only thing we need to do now is to find an English shaman, who will turn all the trebuchets we already have or are just about to produce into cannons, once we have finally solved the mystery of Steel then we are going to whip some cannons more and then we are going to backstab Alex and we are going to do this, BEFORE he has anything else then riflemen to oppose to our glorious army and take out his whole offensive army in one quick strike after that it doesnt really matter what technologies he researches, because we simply will overwhelm him with numbers, once his main army is defeated MUAHAHAHA
Wow, this is a TRULY EVIL plan but it really could work out
Later the same day, the final meeting between Ash and Don Deity, with Ash signing the vassal contract:
Im happy that we have finally been able to settle our minor differences Don Deity you know youre still my best friend after all
So youre not mad at me for taking 2/3 of your cities and slaughtering millions of Indian civilians?
Youre a good person Don Deity and thats all that matters
Umh well yes I think so you are right of course umh have you ever heard of a disease called brain tumour?
No, why do you ask?
Oh, doesnt matter and you are really sure that you are happy now, becoming my vassal because you have been THE SUPERPOWER before this war umh I mean our minor differences
Yes of course together we are strong and that is all that matters
You never even bothered to switch to troop production during our wa umh our minor differences nor have you ever bothered researching any military technologies at all
Why should I? I knew from the start that our differences would only be temporary and that even happens to BEST friends now and then and now events prove me right, see? We are at peace again and will continue to prosper we even are about to strengthen our relations
OK then thats it, sign here and here and here and here
Wouldnt it have been easier to make just one contract requiring only one signature Don Deity?
Thats not the way things work (at least not in Germany
)
sorry for that
and here
and here
and here
and here
45 minutes later:
and here.
My hand is hurting I can barley hold the pencil anymore
Good news is youre done now youre now officially one of the states in the newly created United States of England and do me a favour please
Yes, of course, whatever you whish my friend
Go see a doctor and do it quick
In the end, Ash and Don Deity decided to take the afternoon off, after all the contract and paperwork had finally been done and had two nice knitting games together. Off course Ash won both of them he still was THE knitting champion after all and later that evening the friends even agreed to trade Constitution, Printing Press and Economics and a No trade agreement with Alex & Bren (form Ash) for Astronomy, Chemistry, Military Tradition (from Don Deity).
Ash wasnt too happy about the No trade agreement, but after Don Deity had pointed out to him, that their own friendship would only be disturbed by the others, he was happy again. And Don Deity desperately needed this No trade agreement, with all his military technologies now also in Ashs hands it had to be prevented by all means that all precious English military technologies would disappear in direction Alex and Bren .Alex was already THE techleader by far at that point anyways, having on Don Deity Theology, Scientific Methods, Replaceable Parts and Rifling (and maybe even some more techs), and he was the priority one target for the next expansion anyways. Bren still was a little backwards but it better remained that way...
This is what the map of Indian-England looked in the end, with the newly agreed border marked in red:
With altogether 9 cities captured, containing quite some beautiful land and some already gown cottages, Don Deity had more then doubled his empire (of his own 9 cities, only 8 were build so far, thanks to the forgotten English hardcore campers ). And with peace all over France (Don Deity simply decided to ignore Bismarck/Odysseus for the time beeing) Don Deity deemed it a good time to fully switch to Cottage Economy. So all workers were sent out and ordered to build nothing but cottages.
Everything was going fine, but then Alex decided to annoy Don Deity by squeezing in a city between Old-England and India-England, cutting Bangalore, the most important Indian city captured, off from the rest of England:
He would pay for that soon but right now, with his power still being a tiny little bit too high for that and Don Deity scientists still working on Steel, it would have to be delayed, but only for a short time, because Don Deity had plans, brilliant plans which, at that time, still were valid (for something like 4-5 minutes real time more)
and then:
23. March, 680 AD, around noon, deep down in the cellar of Don Deitys palace:
Common Don Deity it is absolutely no solution at all to hide yourself in the cellar besides, youre down there now since almost two days arent you hungry or thirsty at all?
No, Im not Im beaming up to Chez Leon every now and then to have a little snack and some drinks but apart from that I will never ever leave my cellar again
Cheer up a little it wasnt that bad you only ordered a revolt from Hereditary Rule to Representation immediately when that stupid window popped up and the anarchy lasted 45 years (=3 turns) off course it would have been clever to have also switched from Mercantilism to Free Market, like planned long ago, to recover our research (which we desperately would have needed) and the anarchy would only have lasted 60 years then (=4 turns) but apparently you have forgotten complete when clicking on that damn Revolution now button and now you have to wait at least 75 years more (=5 turns) before you can change government again and it will take another 45 years of anarchy (=3 turns) and we dont EVEN know IF and WHEN well be able to afford another 3 turns of anarchy again and besides, we have now stupid Ash as vassal, and I fear we will never again get rid of him well after considering it you ARE right you messed it up big time better stay down there some more
Before this stupid revolution issue, the next English research project had been set to Steel, like said before, because Don Deity had decided before moving into his new office (=the cellar of his palace) that he would only need some slightly better siege machinery to start the war with Alex as soon as possible (with 21 battalions of highly promoted cavalry surviving the Indian crusade) so Don Deity had been starting to build some more trebuchets to have an English shaman upgrade them to cannons later (he had planned to upgrade about 10 trebuchets altogether and to whip about 10 cannons more), after he had finished building something like 6-8 grenadiers some time ago (to protect his advancing cavalry and cannons from riflemen assaults) this very likely would have done the trick to correct the continental power situation with Alex having only rifles to face cannons, grenadiers and cavalry but thanks to his stupid little Mercantilism problem, researching Steel (3 turns invested + 3 turns revolution + 10 turns remaining + 3 turns revolution form Mercantilism to Free Market) would simply take too long now to compete with Alex in warfare technology for sure (Alex was getting a new tech every 4-6 turns ) and besides, saving the money for upgrading 10 trebuchets to cannons WHILE running Mercantilism would be something completely impossible so Don Deitys plan was bound to go down the drain this time before he even was able to start with it
The same night, Don Deity couldnt find much sleep in his cellar. Too many thoughts were spinning around in his head what was he supposed to do now?
Should he still try invading Alex, like planned, at the risk of facing Greek cavalry and/or grenadiers, or should he now switch to invading Bren to use the small English techlead still remaining over the Celts and face their incredibly huge army while trying to conquer their (still) mainly crappy land, or should he even build up a fleet and start a (very long) journey and make a naval invasion on Bismarck, because Germany was something like 10 technologies behind England?
So many questions, but although Don Deity didnt find no sleep at all this night (in his cellar), he couldnt find any answers
...
Im happy for any feedback, suggestions, tips and hints concerning this game...
IMPORTANT NOTE:
If you want to play along or ahead feel free to pick any save you like. Only thing you REALLY should do is to use spoiler tags for anything AHEAD of the actual story.
The saves for this game can be found here (scroll to the end of the page)
YOU WILL NEED THE WARLORDS 2.13 PATCH TO OPEN THE LAST SAVES
...
See you Soon
Snaaty
I have Deutschkurs ... will have to wait 'till night.
