AS THE GREEK EMPIRE marched into war, it did so with a plan. The first
movement was due north to Rome, whose land was needed for an extended
core. As Rome had connected Iron and possessed some Legionaries,
strong in the defense, Swordsmen and some elite Horsemen made up the
centre force, while the flanks were guarded with other Horsemen. Rome
fell in 730 BC. It flipped back to Rome in 690 BC, and the Roman
nation was finally annihilated in 490 BC.
AFTER MOPPING UP the remains of the Roman so-called empire, the Greek
intended to progress according to the following plan: A strong army of
Horsemen and later Knights would attack Russia, China, America and
then Persia, following the coast of Mare Nostrum clockwise. A second
wave would take care of France and India and join the other troops in
Persia. They could from there be shipped over to Aztec lands if
needed.
GALLEYS, in the mean time, would be hoarded on the eastern coast of
Greece in preparation for a counter-clockwise invasion of the
Ottomans, the Celts, Spain, the Mongols, the Iroquois and the Aztecs,
the starting point of which was to coincide with the beginning of a
Golden Age during which a much higher production of troops would
suffice to support two fronts.
THE THIRD FRONT would towards the end be opened against Egypt in order
to make use of troops being produced in Greece at a time when the
first and second front were at such a far distance, that new troops
would never reach any of them on time.
FOR THE PRODUCTION OF TROOPS, the Greek planned to utilise the method
of connecting and disconnecting a source or Iron in order to be able
to build Horsemen, partly by short-rushing, and then upgrade them to
Knights for gold.
IN 730 BC, JUST AS ROME WAS CAPTURED by the military, Greek diplomats
were busy laying the grounds for the continued conquest. They were
able to purchase the knowledge of Currency and Construction from other
tribes, which caused Greek historians to proclaim the entry into a new
Age and Greek philosophers to discover the knowledge of
Engineering. In the wake of this progress, the knowledge of Monotheism
and Feudalism could be learned from other scientific tribes. But this
was not all.
THE FOREIGN OFFICE IN ATHENS immediately unleashed a devlish
plan. Embassies were established with all tribes on the other
continent. War was declared on the Ottomans, Spain and the Iroquois
and military alliances tied to peace deals were formed with the Celts
against the Ottomans, with the Mongols against Spain and with the
Aztecs against the Iroquois. In this way, the Greek Foreign Minister,
a certain Più Freddo, hoped to gain domestic popularity and support
for the wars the moment the allied nations sued for peace with the
common enemy.
DURING THE ROMAN CAMPAIGN, the construction of a Forbidden Palace in
the city of Pharsalos was finished in 610 BC. This would enable the
Greek nation to found a second homeland without losing the first
one. A Great Leader, Pyrrhus, emerged in 570 BC, but since no suitable
city had yet been captured for the construction of a new Palace, he
helped speed up the construction of Sun Tzu's Art of War instead. The
Greek could now sell all their old Barracks. In the same year, 530 BC,
a trade route for Ivory was opened and the art of Chivalry discovered.
Twenty years earlier the Celts had declared war on Greece, to the
greater merriment of the populace.
AS ROME WAS DESTROYED in 490 BC, Greece declared war on Russia. Since
Russia had build a Great Wall in Moscow, the Greek generals decided to
send troops over sea, using the Galleys being made ready for the
Ottoman campaign, directly to Moscow. Aztecs and Mongols declared war
in 230 BC, causing increased merriment and frollicking on Greek
streets, and in 210 BC Moscow was captured with its Great Wall, which
henceforth would protect Greek cities. The way was open to send troops
over land. The war with China began in 150 AD.
A SECOND GREAT LEADER emerged in 30 BC, who built a Palace in
St. Petersburg. This was not a perfect location, surrounded by Jungle,
Deserts and water as it was, but it was available. The first core
expanded from RCP3 to DCP5 and Shanghai and Moscow were productive
cities in the new core.
AS THE PALACE WAS READY in 10 BC, another Great Leader emerged on the
Chinese front. It never rains, but it pours, said Più Freddo, a field
marshal in the Greek army. He immediately made peace with China in
return for the knowledge of Invention. A mere twenty years later,
Leonardo's Workshop stood in Halicarnassus and war was redeclared on
China.
GREECE HAD NOW attacked the Ottomans overseas after having shipped
over Knights for some time to uninhabited parts of the Ottoman
peninsula and so opened the second front. Purposfully pushing outdated
phalanxes of Hoplites in the first line, the Greek generals were
hoping for yet another popular event for consumtion on the home
front.
FINALLY, in the year 110 AD, a Hoplite was involved in a fight, which
it didn't fail to win. For the next 270 years, Greece would enjoy a
Golden Age. In the same year, Persia declared war, China was destroyed
and the fourth Great Leader emerged in the Greek army. As the Greek
government was running out of options, they used his services to
construct a Marketplace in a core city.
THE LAST AMERICAN CITY was captured in 150 AD, but the American nation
lived on as boat refugees. The Greek decided to leave them in peace
until they set foot on land again, and made peace with America. Yet
another Great Leader built yet another Marketplace twenty years
later.
THE GREEK WAR PLAN UNFOLDED to its full extent. Great Leaders kept
coming but had no real impact. A brief extract of the annals follows:
250 AD Destroy America
250 AD Peace Ottomans
250 AD Learn Gunpowder
260 AD Flip Pasargadae with plenty of troops
260 AD Emerge Great Leader Ajax
280 AD Capture Paris with The Colossus and The Great Lighthouse
290 AD War India War Happiness!
300 AD Capture Madrid with The Oracle
320 AD Destroy Ottomans
320 AD Destroy Spain
330 AD AI discovers Chemistry
340 AD Destroy Celts
380 AD Destroy France
380 AD Exit Golden Age
390 AD Destroy India
390 AD Capture Karakorum with The Pyramids
390 AD Peace Mongols End War Happiness
400 AD Emerge Great Leader
410 AD Capture Persepolis with The Hanging Gardens
420 AD Destroy Mongols
430 AD Emerge Great Leader
430 AD Destroy Persia
450 AD War Egypt
470 AD Build Heroic Epic
470 AD Flip St. Regis
470 AD Capture Tenochtitlan with The Great Library
470 AD Learn Chemistry
470 AD Learn Theology
470 AD Learn Education
470 AD Learn Astronomy
470 AD Learn Banking
480 AD Emerge Great Leader
490 AD Build Sistine Chapel
490 AD Emerge Great Leader
490 AD Flip Teotihuacan
490 AD Flip El-Amarna
500 AD Build Copernicus' Observatory
IN THE YEAR 500 AD, Greece had reached an extended land area exceeding
2/3 of all known lands and most persons were indeed Greek. The
authorities now started razing unimportant cities in order to limit
the land area belonging to Greece. The last Iroquois city was
captured, but again boat refugees escaped the Greek army.
THE HISTORY OF THE AZTECS ended in 510 AD and that of the Egyptians
ten years later, at which time the Iroquois refugees were finally
located. An initial attack by a Caravel failed, but the Galley was
sunk ten years later perfecting the Greek Conquest of the World, which
was registered in 540 AD.
Firaxis score: 10137
Jason score: 11105
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