GOTM38 - The Penitent Persians
"Oh great, immortal god Xerxes! We bow before Your wisdom and beg for Your mercy! Return Your favor upon us, for we are sore oppressed!"
The thunderous wave knocked Nehem off his feet, while the rest of the Persians fell flat on their faces:
"OH YOU PUNY, MORTAL IDIOTS! DID I NOT WARN YOU ABOUT CROSSING THE GREATEST GOD, ALMIGHTY "DooM"? NOW YOU HAVE INCURRED HIS WRATH UPON MY PEOPLE, HIS CURSE UPON OUR NASCENT CIVILIZATION! I TOLD AHDAHM AND EHVIE NOT TO RAISE ANY ALTAR TO THE FALSE GOD "Marco Polo", BUT THEY DID NOT LISTEN! LOOK TO THE BLASTED WRECKAGE OF THEIR SIN, AND LEARN THIS LESSON FOREVER!"
"Great Xerxes, we humbly repent of the sin of our cursed forefathers! Have mercy upon us!"
"HAD AHDAHM SURVIVED I MIGHT HAVE HAD SOME SATISFACTION IN DEVISING HIS PUNISHMENT, BUT THAT IS NOT TO BE! LISTEN NOW TO THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS INFAMOUS SIN, AND LET IT BE TAUGHT TO ALL OF YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN - IF YOU SURVIVE TO HAVE ANY! 'DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF AHDAHM!' SHALL BE INSCRIBED ABOVE EVERY ENTRANCE OF EVERY HOME YOU BUILD, AND 'OBEY THE LAW OF DooM!' ABOVE EVERY FIREPLACE!"
"It shall be as You command, O immortal Xerxes! Return Your favor upon Your penitent people!"
"NEHEM, YOU SHOW GREAT COURAGE APPROACHING ME WHILE THAT VILE ALTAR STILL SMOKES! FOR THIS YOU SHALL BEAR THE MANTLE OF YOUR FOREFATHER AHDAHM, MAY HIS NAME BE CURSED FOREVER! REMEMBER HIS FATE, FOR YOU SHALL JOIN HIM IF YOUR OBEDIENCE WANES!"
"What is Your first command, O Xerxes? We will obey, to the ends of the earth!"
THAT MAY COME, IN TIME, NEHEM! FOR NOW, MARK A CIRCLE AROUND THAT WRECKAGE - IT SHALL STAND FOR ALL TIMES AS A MEMORIAL TO YOUR STUPIDITY AND SINFULNESS! PREPARE THE PEOPLE TO SETTLE ON THIS SPIT OF LAND, BUT FIRST SEND THE WARRIORS OUT TO INVESTIGATE THAT HUT TO THE SOUTHEAST! YOU SHALL BECOME FISHERMAN UNTIL YOU DOUBLE IN SIZE, THEN YOU SHALL BECOME FORESTERS UNTIL YOU CALVE OFF ANOTHER GROUP OF SETTLERS TO FORM A SECOND SETTLEMENT! YOU SHALL NOT BE BOTHERED BY BARBARIANS FOR SOME TIME TO COME, SO YOU SHALL FORM ONLY ONE ADDITIONAL BAND OF WARRIORS, WHO SHALL EXPLORE TO THE WEST WHILE THE FIRST EXPLORES TO THE EAST! INSTRUCT THEM DILIGENTLY, NEHEM, TO SEEK ANY SIGNS OF THE GREATEST FISH CLOSE TO THE COAST!
"It shall be EXACTLY as Thou commands, O mighty Xerxes!"
"SPREAD OUT ACROSS THIS MISERABLE, SWAMP-INFESTED ISLAND THAT ALMIGHTY "DooM" HAS EXILED YOU TO, NEHUM! LET EVERY HOME BRING FORTH BOUNTIFUL FRUIT, FROM THE WOMB AS WELL AS THE LAND! NEGLECT THE MILITARY ARTS FOR NOW, AS I SHALL PROTECT YOU AND WATCH OUT FOR YOU! LEARN TO WRITE, AND TO MAKE LAWS, AND RETURN TO ME WHEN YOU ARE PREPARED TO ENTER INTO THE BLESSED STATE OF MONARCHY WITH YOUR GOD!"
"By Thy command, O merciful Xerxes!"
BLOODLUST!
XE_rxes of Persia=Cyan/#5
Prince level= 4 content (ICS below size 5!)
1 settler, 1 warrior
TOP5: Celt/Jap/Viking/Spanish (+Greek/Mongol)
(additional "augmentation"?)
MAP: 60x80 Round (Med-Large)
start (54,20) cont#7
MapEd draw: seed 4 (Fish band just south) or 36 (mixed band)
(53,23) is hidden special
one Hut visible, two more five tiles away
Tech freebies: Bronze & CerBur
Tech Path Options:
Alp/Wri/CoL/MON/Map/Cur/TRA/Wri/Lit/Mys/PHI-Hor/PT./REP/MT
Hor/Alp/CoL/MON/PT./Map/Cur/TRA/Wri/Mys/Lit/REP/PHI-MT
War/Alp/CoL/MON/Map/Wri/Cur/TRA/Feu/Hor/Chi/Lit/Mys/PHI-
4000bc: Settler wait, Warrior south
3950bc: Hut(55,23): 50g (sigh)
...PERSEP(54,20)+2F,1T,2Sh: start Warrior
start Alph
3900bc: 50g,1b,10t/10b
(TOP5: #5=Kells- Celts had 2 settlers!)
3850bc: 50g,2b,10t
...(59,25) is Silk! Seed=36
3800bc: 50g,3b,10t
...Hut(61,23): AT! PASARG+2F,3T,1Sh: start Warrior
3750bc: 51g,6b,4t@3b
3700bc: 52g,9b,4t
...1st Warrior from PERSEP; chg to Settler
...chg T60S40
ALPHABET; start Write
3650bc: 55g,0b,18t@1b
...chg T40S60 6t@3b
3600bc: 56g,3b,6t
...Hut(49,21): Archer(PERS)
...PRB 1r PERSEP 13g
3550bc: 44g,6b,6t
(TOP5: Trond(Vik) size 2)
...PRB 1r PASARG 11g
3500bc: 34g,9b,6t
...1st Warrior from PASARG
3450bc: 35g,12b,6t
...PERSEP FBF
...Hut(47,27): HORSEBACK(@#$%!) tech now 8t/24b
3400bc: 37g,16b,6t@4b
...PERSEP size 2, #3 in TOP5 behind Trond and Madrid!
...PRB 2r PERSEP 11g
3350bc: 28g,20b,6t
WRITING; start CodeLaws
3300bc: 30g,0b,8t@4b/32b
...PASARG FBF
...PRB 3r PERSEP 13g, 1r PASARG 13g
3250bc: 6g,4b,8t
...PASARG size 2, chg to Silk
3200bc: 9g,8b,9t@4b/36b
3150bc: 12g,12b,9t
...PRB 2r PASARG 4g
1st Settler in PERSEP
3100bc: 10g,15b,12t@3b
...disband 1st Warrior
3050bc: 12g,18b,11t@3b/32b
...PRB 3r PASARG 8g
3000bc: 6g,21b,11t
2950bc: 8g,24b,11t
...SUSA(54,26)+2F,1T,3Sh: start Horse
2nd Settler PASARG
2900bc: 9g,28b,8t@4b
CODE LAWS; start Monarchy!
2850bc: 10g,0b,10t@4b/40b
...PRB 1r PERSEP 6g
2800bc: 5g,4b,10t
(TOP5: Trond size 3)
...PERSEP FBF
2750bc: 7g,9b,8t@5b
...PERSEP size 2 again
...ARBELA(61,27)+2F,3T,1Sh: start Warrior
2700bc: 10g,16b,7t@7b/45b
...PRB 2r PERSEP 6g
...chg PASARG Fish to GS 8t@6b
2650bc: 6g,22b,8t
...PRB 1r PASARG 6g
2600bc: 2g,28b,8t
...1st Horse in SUSA; start Settler
...bypass Hut to west till Monarchy done...
(Livy MOST PWRFUL: #6=Pers)
2550bc: 4g,34b,8t
2500bc: 6g,40b,8t/45b
...continent #7 coastline complete
...PASARG FBF
MONARCHY; start Maps
IMMED REVOLT: Monarchy! T30S70 8t
2450bc... the saga continues
Actually if you compare the number of cities when I finished this game to where I was at the same point in that game, this is probably a more aggregious...er, I mean aggressive sleaze.
errr, what are those? (I never play scenarios if that explains anything)
