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Heres two of my fonder tales. I might add more if I get time, but these stick out really well in my memory.
A Tale of Two Indias
Setting: stminionNES2: Because its Tight Like That. India is faced with one of the greatest threats of all its history. The subcontinent is divided into many nations, none of them particularly fond of each other... And then one merry day the Aryans suddenly came crashing in from the west. Overruning the ancient, advanced Harappans civilization in 100 years, they move on to sack the city of Delhi and seemed poised to take all of India.
North King (Calicut) organizes a grand alliance of the surviving states, and they manage to build defensive lines and hold off the Aryans for a hundred years... But then the Aryans raged forward even more, breaking through the Suparakan defensive lines. They threatened to overrun another of Calicuts allies, and thus would be one step closer to overrunning India...
And so Virjay, Tyrant of Calicut, made a famous speech that would ring through India, and marched to meet the enemy that menaced their allies.
Virjay adressed his assembled troops in the middle of the intrusion into former Delhi (of course, not close to all of them were there, just an impressively representative bunch). They were of all nationalities, all here to defend versus the Aryans.
"Men, we assemble here today in a time of war. A war that will decide the fate of India.
"Over two hundered years ago, the Aryans attack us. They had no provocation. No reason, other than to steal what was ours. They saw our lands, our beautiful lands that the gods gave us. Each city, ruling its lands by divine right. Bountiful lands, as reward for the hardships of long past, full of rice and cattle, that which we should thank the gods for, and I do."
Virjay murmured his own short prayer to Vishnu, under his breath.
"The Aryans attacked us, out of greed, and jealousy. Out of selfish pride and belief in their own right to rule the world. But we do not believe in their right, to rule the world, do we?"
A roar answered him. No. Of course not.
"Our families have farmed this land for generations, putting their backbreaking work into this land to make it produce, to give birth to the humble crops that feed us, and they wish to take the fruits of our labors. Will we let them!?"
Another Roar of No.
"They will slaughter our people, sack our villages, rape our daughters, will we let them!!?"
"No!"
"They wish to take everything we own and cherish, and claim it as their own! Will We Let Them!!?"
"NO!!"
"Then you must not take a step back, must not quail from danger! You must not live in fear, give into panic, must not let yourself flee from these savages! Will you!?"
"NO!!!"
"Right! For you shall not flee! Your homes depend on us. Your people depend on us! Your Families Depend on us! India Depends upon us! And We Must Not Let Them Win!!!"
A Roar of approval followed, and the soldiers went back to their respective companies, spreading the word. They must fight, for India was at stake.
Thus, the morale of Calicuts own troops was raised significantly, however, Virjay was not confident that the Suparakans would hold on, and so he sent messengers to the nation, in a call of desperation.
To: Suparaka
Suparaka! You must fight for your lives! encourage your men to fight for their people and families! The cities, everything will be destroyed if the Aryans conquer us! We must fight! Your people must understand that they cannot leet the enemy past, if they do, it is certain death for them and their loved ones! So deliver the message to your people:
Hold on! Hold on! For the armies of India shall ride to the call of battle! The Armies of a united India will drive back the Aryans and crush them! For India you must fight and stand! For everything you love and dream about! Your family, relations, your home, everything shall be ruined if the Aryans break you! But together, we are too strong to break! Together, India shall not fall!
With these essentially speeches made, Virjay gathered his men and marched to battle.
The end result?
On the other side of the Aryan world, the fight against the Dravidians rages on. The battle is waged on 3 fronts; the Suparakan, the Delhi, and the North Calicutan. In Suparaka, the Aryans charged against the city of Mumbai, to be met with a large army of men from Hoysalas, Suparaka, and even Sinhala. The result is a sound victory for the Dravidians. As the Aryans try to retreat, they find that their retreat route has been sealed off by the Calicutan armies to the North, who promptly finish them off. Elsewhere, the Calicutans try to expand slowly to the North, but here the Aryans are very well established and the battle is difficult. Neither side makes any major gains.
Casualties: 600 Aryans, 200 Suparakans, 100 Hoysalans, 50 Sinhalans, 50 Calicutans
Thus, the armies of the Aryans were halted, the nation of Suparaka was saved, and the men of Calicut went on from victory to victory, driving the Aryans from India.
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Setting: stJNESX: From Bad to Good. Gujarat (led by North King) is a proud, but rather small nation in India. With a long history of fighting for their survival, the nation is weak and poor. Just a few hundred years ago, Persia had invaded without warning, and despite excellent strategy on the Gujarati kings part, the kingdom had been brought to its knees.
From then forward, Gujarat had thirsted for revenge... Their opportunity came as the king of Persia was forced to put down some quarrelsome vassals, and the Persian conquered province of the Indus, taken from the Gujarati, rebelled against their former masters. The Gujarati king, to protect his peoples honor, declared they would not let this rebellion destroyed without a fight...
However, Persia had allies, that of Akkadia and Canaan. Together the allies outnumbered Gujarat three to one. The Gujarati king begged for help from fellow Indians, declaring it a war between that of India and the invaders, saying they would not stop with Gujarat, and would continue on. The Dravidians said they would help, but not how...
Skandagupta, King of Gujarat, sat in his throne, pondering.
Four hundred long years the Gujarati People had waited for revenge. Four hundred long years since the Chandragupta dynasty had fallen and so had the Gujarati nation. Four hundred long years since the Persians had stolen their land.
And the Gujarati people still burned with revenge. They wished to visit the wrath of Kali upon these evil, land-stealing people. They had taken away the Gujarati Land, humiliated the Gujarati people, and slaughtered the Gujarati Army. They would pay.
He smiled, tapping his fingers absently on the arm of the chair. Yes, they would pay.
Men of Gujarat! Men of India! cried Skandagupta, mounted on horseback on the banks of the Indus river. Today we begin the revenge that our people have longed for! Today we take our land back!
Soldiers of Justice! Rich valleys, massive markets, bountiful farmland, all await you in the midst of the Indus Valley! Rightfully they our ours. By right and fate they are ours! The Persians have stolen them from us, four hundred long years ago. They stole our lands, and have drawn themselves into battle, and they will regret it. Soldiers of India! I will lead you! Will you be lacking in courage or valor, when the enemy longs to destroy us all?
Their own official government has proclaimed that they will attempt to stamp us out as a nation, attempt to wreck our lives, our people, and our families! These desert nomads know nothing of civilization! They may have cities and citadels, sure enough, but they have corrupted the ideals of civilization into a cult whereby they believe they have a right to take away from others what they want!
This selfish greed of theirs cannot, no, MUST NOT, come to prevail. We will not let their greed rule India. We will let justice rule us. Soldiers of India, fight to keep your families free from greed. Fight to keep your cities free from corruption. Fight to keep Gujarat free from this threat! Fight to keep Justice ruling over India! We cannot, no we must not let this evil come to pass! Follow me, and we shall finish this threat off once and for all!
Justice for India! he cried, setting his horse off at a trot for the nearest ford. Cheering, his men followed. They would march to glory, they would march to fame.
Unfortunately, the diplo that followed soon made the Gujarati fearful... The enemy would come in greater numbers than they could hope to muster.
Akkadia:
The Foreign Affairs minister bursed into the throne room of the Emperor Suliemann IX. "The Persian Empire our glorouis allies to the East have declared war on the Gurjati.!"
'Ready the troops' the Emperor decalred. 'We shall ride out and meet the Grujati in the throes of battles and thus our colonial empire shall have begun!
'Of course my liege the troops shall be redied. Should we however abandon our attempts to found Madika then?"
"Of course our superior navy shall destroy the puny Gurajati force"
"We sail tommorrow!"
To Gurdjat
From the Akkadian Emperor
We hereby declare war on you in favour of our Persian allies
To Cannan
From the Akkadian Emperor
We ask for your assitance in the war against Gurjat. Many lands are to be found in India and I believe we can all profit from this endevour
This diplomacy, however, was unfortunately public, and the Gujarati emperor capitalized on it, perhaps tipping the rest of India into aiding them...
To: Rest of India
From: Gujarat
Now we see them reveal their true colors:
Quote by Akkadia:
Many lands are to be found in India and I believe we can all profit from this endevour
They seek to destroy us and invade our lands, take our cities by forces, enslave our people. Nations of India, we face troubled times. The time has come; a great conflict is arising between the greedy and the just. You have seen them reveal their true colors.
Quote by Akkadia:
we can all profit from this endevour
There is no questioning what they are attempting. They are trying to steal our lands with force. Nations of India, we must not let this greed come to rule the Earth.
For the sake of the future, for the future of all our nations (note they do not discriminate between Gujarat and India, they wish to conquer us all), we must not falter, we must unite and face this threat. We suggest all of the nations of India send their combined fleets to stop the Akkadian Invasion. For India! For Freedom!
Good news did come; The Canaanites would not be in the fight... yet.
From: Canaan
To: Akkadia
We will support you in this war. But only if you support us in a war of our own later on, when we see that the time is right to call for your aid. Agreed?
Our troops are currently busy, fighting on Crete. But once the wretched Minoans are crushed, rest assured that a Canaanite will fight shoulder to shoulder with an Akkadian and a Persia.
And finally, it all came down to the clash of swords.
The Battle of Bella, Persian and Akkadian forces vs. Gujarati and Dravidian forces
It was the most decisive, most enthusiastic, largest and most glorified battle that ever took place in the world to the date. Persian General Darius goes head to head with the Gujarati King, Skandagupta, and his fervent army. Darius first led the invasion, heading straight through the rebellious provinces and into the Indus Valley of Gujarat. Skandagupta responded with a head on attack, to intercept the invading forces and annihilate them. Unfortunately, the largest mistake was not stopping the invaders at the river. Instead, the battle was fought overland, with the Gujarati at a severe numerical disadvantage.
It was 10:00 AM in the morning with the two forces met. Darius commanded a larger swordsmen, chariot, and cavalry force, while Skandagupta had command of more clubmen, archers, and spearmen. The numbers were nearly equal.
Darius was first to send his forces. Crossing over the grassy lands, they fell easily to booby traps and caltrops, which greatly affected the troops and their moral. At the same time, Skandagupta gave order for the huge amount of archers, nearly eight hundred in all, to open fire upon the slowed forces. Weakening and evening out the numbers, he then ordered an advance with spearmen. At this point, Darius surprisingly withdrew his forces, and swung his cavalry around the battlefield to attack the rear of the spearmen column. Unnoticed to him was the huge swordsmen reserve that was stationed behind the spearmen. Not affective against chariots and horsemen, the swordsmen only delayed the slaughter until the spearmen could make an about face, and then Skandagupta sent his chariot forces to take care of the rest of Dariuss men on the field with the caltrops. Angered, Darius quickly drew his horsemen and chariots into formation again, giving Skandagupta a chance to also regroup his swordsmen, refortifying them on the flanks and behind the spearmen, while the archers remain on the sides, continuing to fire into the horsemen and cavalry column. Darius charged, aiming to piece the spearmen. And pierce he did, however, as soon as the forces were in, Skandagupta ordered the swordsmen from the sides to envelop Darius, and surround his forces. The battle was over, Gujarat had won. Darius is held in captive, as much of his forces retreat. The Persian supply route was also cut by the Vishnu Warriors, a huge impact in the battle and a reason for the poor performance of some of the elite forces of Persia and Akkadia, as they had to repair weapons on site (they had food, since most of it comes from the Indus Valley anyways).
Gujarati forces, in coordinance with militia forces funded for and raised by Gujarati economy, continue to advance into the Persian Indus Valley, welcomed with parades by the people.
Losses:
Dravidian 1,000 swordsmen, 150 chariots
Gujarat 1,000 swordsmen, 150 clubmen, 100 archers, 100 spearmen
Akkadian 1,000 swordsmen, 230 charioteers
Persian 2,300 swordsmen, 50 archers, 100 spearmen, 50 horsemen, 400 Royal Cavalry.
The Gujarati king was successful, and managed to inflict a defeat that put the Persian and Akkadian forces out of the war for most intents and purposes.
However, with his own army destroyed for the most part, he was forced to eventually negotiate a peace, which was on relatively neutral terms. India had been saved from the foreign menace, even if Indus did remain in Persian hands.
A Tale of Two Indias
Setting: stminionNES2: Because its Tight Like That. India is faced with one of the greatest threats of all its history. The subcontinent is divided into many nations, none of them particularly fond of each other... And then one merry day the Aryans suddenly came crashing in from the west. Overruning the ancient, advanced Harappans civilization in 100 years, they move on to sack the city of Delhi and seemed poised to take all of India.
North King (Calicut) organizes a grand alliance of the surviving states, and they manage to build defensive lines and hold off the Aryans for a hundred years... But then the Aryans raged forward even more, breaking through the Suparakan defensive lines. They threatened to overrun another of Calicuts allies, and thus would be one step closer to overrunning India...
And so Virjay, Tyrant of Calicut, made a famous speech that would ring through India, and marched to meet the enemy that menaced their allies.
Virjay adressed his assembled troops in the middle of the intrusion into former Delhi (of course, not close to all of them were there, just an impressively representative bunch). They were of all nationalities, all here to defend versus the Aryans.
"Men, we assemble here today in a time of war. A war that will decide the fate of India.
"Over two hundered years ago, the Aryans attack us. They had no provocation. No reason, other than to steal what was ours. They saw our lands, our beautiful lands that the gods gave us. Each city, ruling its lands by divine right. Bountiful lands, as reward for the hardships of long past, full of rice and cattle, that which we should thank the gods for, and I do."
Virjay murmured his own short prayer to Vishnu, under his breath.
"The Aryans attacked us, out of greed, and jealousy. Out of selfish pride and belief in their own right to rule the world. But we do not believe in their right, to rule the world, do we?"
A roar answered him. No. Of course not.
"Our families have farmed this land for generations, putting their backbreaking work into this land to make it produce, to give birth to the humble crops that feed us, and they wish to take the fruits of our labors. Will we let them!?"
Another Roar of No.
"They will slaughter our people, sack our villages, rape our daughters, will we let them!!?"
"No!"
"They wish to take everything we own and cherish, and claim it as their own! Will We Let Them!!?"
"NO!!"
"Then you must not take a step back, must not quail from danger! You must not live in fear, give into panic, must not let yourself flee from these savages! Will you!?"
"NO!!!"
"Right! For you shall not flee! Your homes depend on us. Your people depend on us! Your Families Depend on us! India Depends upon us! And We Must Not Let Them Win!!!"
A Roar of approval followed, and the soldiers went back to their respective companies, spreading the word. They must fight, for India was at stake.
Thus, the morale of Calicuts own troops was raised significantly, however, Virjay was not confident that the Suparakans would hold on, and so he sent messengers to the nation, in a call of desperation.
To: Suparaka
Suparaka! You must fight for your lives! encourage your men to fight for their people and families! The cities, everything will be destroyed if the Aryans conquer us! We must fight! Your people must understand that they cannot leet the enemy past, if they do, it is certain death for them and their loved ones! So deliver the message to your people:
Hold on! Hold on! For the armies of India shall ride to the call of battle! The Armies of a united India will drive back the Aryans and crush them! For India you must fight and stand! For everything you love and dream about! Your family, relations, your home, everything shall be ruined if the Aryans break you! But together, we are too strong to break! Together, India shall not fall!
With these essentially speeches made, Virjay gathered his men and marched to battle.
The end result?
On the other side of the Aryan world, the fight against the Dravidians rages on. The battle is waged on 3 fronts; the Suparakan, the Delhi, and the North Calicutan. In Suparaka, the Aryans charged against the city of Mumbai, to be met with a large army of men from Hoysalas, Suparaka, and even Sinhala. The result is a sound victory for the Dravidians. As the Aryans try to retreat, they find that their retreat route has been sealed off by the Calicutan armies to the North, who promptly finish them off. Elsewhere, the Calicutans try to expand slowly to the North, but here the Aryans are very well established and the battle is difficult. Neither side makes any major gains.
Casualties: 600 Aryans, 200 Suparakans, 100 Hoysalans, 50 Sinhalans, 50 Calicutans
Thus, the armies of the Aryans were halted, the nation of Suparaka was saved, and the men of Calicut went on from victory to victory, driving the Aryans from India.
************************
Setting: stJNESX: From Bad to Good. Gujarat (led by North King) is a proud, but rather small nation in India. With a long history of fighting for their survival, the nation is weak and poor. Just a few hundred years ago, Persia had invaded without warning, and despite excellent strategy on the Gujarati kings part, the kingdom had been brought to its knees.
From then forward, Gujarat had thirsted for revenge... Their opportunity came as the king of Persia was forced to put down some quarrelsome vassals, and the Persian conquered province of the Indus, taken from the Gujarati, rebelled against their former masters. The Gujarati king, to protect his peoples honor, declared they would not let this rebellion destroyed without a fight...
However, Persia had allies, that of Akkadia and Canaan. Together the allies outnumbered Gujarat three to one. The Gujarati king begged for help from fellow Indians, declaring it a war between that of India and the invaders, saying they would not stop with Gujarat, and would continue on. The Dravidians said they would help, but not how...
Skandagupta, King of Gujarat, sat in his throne, pondering.
Four hundred long years the Gujarati People had waited for revenge. Four hundred long years since the Chandragupta dynasty had fallen and so had the Gujarati nation. Four hundred long years since the Persians had stolen their land.
And the Gujarati people still burned with revenge. They wished to visit the wrath of Kali upon these evil, land-stealing people. They had taken away the Gujarati Land, humiliated the Gujarati people, and slaughtered the Gujarati Army. They would pay.
He smiled, tapping his fingers absently on the arm of the chair. Yes, they would pay.
Men of Gujarat! Men of India! cried Skandagupta, mounted on horseback on the banks of the Indus river. Today we begin the revenge that our people have longed for! Today we take our land back!
Soldiers of Justice! Rich valleys, massive markets, bountiful farmland, all await you in the midst of the Indus Valley! Rightfully they our ours. By right and fate they are ours! The Persians have stolen them from us, four hundred long years ago. They stole our lands, and have drawn themselves into battle, and they will regret it. Soldiers of India! I will lead you! Will you be lacking in courage or valor, when the enemy longs to destroy us all?
Their own official government has proclaimed that they will attempt to stamp us out as a nation, attempt to wreck our lives, our people, and our families! These desert nomads know nothing of civilization! They may have cities and citadels, sure enough, but they have corrupted the ideals of civilization into a cult whereby they believe they have a right to take away from others what they want!
This selfish greed of theirs cannot, no, MUST NOT, come to prevail. We will not let their greed rule India. We will let justice rule us. Soldiers of India, fight to keep your families free from greed. Fight to keep your cities free from corruption. Fight to keep Gujarat free from this threat! Fight to keep Justice ruling over India! We cannot, no we must not let this evil come to pass! Follow me, and we shall finish this threat off once and for all!
Justice for India! he cried, setting his horse off at a trot for the nearest ford. Cheering, his men followed. They would march to glory, they would march to fame.
Unfortunately, the diplo that followed soon made the Gujarati fearful... The enemy would come in greater numbers than they could hope to muster.
Akkadia:
The Foreign Affairs minister bursed into the throne room of the Emperor Suliemann IX. "The Persian Empire our glorouis allies to the East have declared war on the Gurjati.!"
'Ready the troops' the Emperor decalred. 'We shall ride out and meet the Grujati in the throes of battles and thus our colonial empire shall have begun!
'Of course my liege the troops shall be redied. Should we however abandon our attempts to found Madika then?"
"Of course our superior navy shall destroy the puny Gurajati force"
"We sail tommorrow!"
To Gurdjat
From the Akkadian Emperor
We hereby declare war on you in favour of our Persian allies
To Cannan
From the Akkadian Emperor
We ask for your assitance in the war against Gurjat. Many lands are to be found in India and I believe we can all profit from this endevour
This diplomacy, however, was unfortunately public, and the Gujarati emperor capitalized on it, perhaps tipping the rest of India into aiding them...
To: Rest of India
From: Gujarat
Now we see them reveal their true colors:
Quote by Akkadia:
Many lands are to be found in India and I believe we can all profit from this endevour
They seek to destroy us and invade our lands, take our cities by forces, enslave our people. Nations of India, we face troubled times. The time has come; a great conflict is arising between the greedy and the just. You have seen them reveal their true colors.
Quote by Akkadia:
we can all profit from this endevour
There is no questioning what they are attempting. They are trying to steal our lands with force. Nations of India, we must not let this greed come to rule the Earth.
For the sake of the future, for the future of all our nations (note they do not discriminate between Gujarat and India, they wish to conquer us all), we must not falter, we must unite and face this threat. We suggest all of the nations of India send their combined fleets to stop the Akkadian Invasion. For India! For Freedom!
Good news did come; The Canaanites would not be in the fight... yet.
From: Canaan
To: Akkadia
We will support you in this war. But only if you support us in a war of our own later on, when we see that the time is right to call for your aid. Agreed?
Our troops are currently busy, fighting on Crete. But once the wretched Minoans are crushed, rest assured that a Canaanite will fight shoulder to shoulder with an Akkadian and a Persia.
And finally, it all came down to the clash of swords.
The Battle of Bella, Persian and Akkadian forces vs. Gujarati and Dravidian forces
It was the most decisive, most enthusiastic, largest and most glorified battle that ever took place in the world to the date. Persian General Darius goes head to head with the Gujarati King, Skandagupta, and his fervent army. Darius first led the invasion, heading straight through the rebellious provinces and into the Indus Valley of Gujarat. Skandagupta responded with a head on attack, to intercept the invading forces and annihilate them. Unfortunately, the largest mistake was not stopping the invaders at the river. Instead, the battle was fought overland, with the Gujarati at a severe numerical disadvantage.
It was 10:00 AM in the morning with the two forces met. Darius commanded a larger swordsmen, chariot, and cavalry force, while Skandagupta had command of more clubmen, archers, and spearmen. The numbers were nearly equal.
Darius was first to send his forces. Crossing over the grassy lands, they fell easily to booby traps and caltrops, which greatly affected the troops and their moral. At the same time, Skandagupta gave order for the huge amount of archers, nearly eight hundred in all, to open fire upon the slowed forces. Weakening and evening out the numbers, he then ordered an advance with spearmen. At this point, Darius surprisingly withdrew his forces, and swung his cavalry around the battlefield to attack the rear of the spearmen column. Unnoticed to him was the huge swordsmen reserve that was stationed behind the spearmen. Not affective against chariots and horsemen, the swordsmen only delayed the slaughter until the spearmen could make an about face, and then Skandagupta sent his chariot forces to take care of the rest of Dariuss men on the field with the caltrops. Angered, Darius quickly drew his horsemen and chariots into formation again, giving Skandagupta a chance to also regroup his swordsmen, refortifying them on the flanks and behind the spearmen, while the archers remain on the sides, continuing to fire into the horsemen and cavalry column. Darius charged, aiming to piece the spearmen. And pierce he did, however, as soon as the forces were in, Skandagupta ordered the swordsmen from the sides to envelop Darius, and surround his forces. The battle was over, Gujarat had won. Darius is held in captive, as much of his forces retreat. The Persian supply route was also cut by the Vishnu Warriors, a huge impact in the battle and a reason for the poor performance of some of the elite forces of Persia and Akkadia, as they had to repair weapons on site (they had food, since most of it comes from the Indus Valley anyways).
Gujarati forces, in coordinance with militia forces funded for and raised by Gujarati economy, continue to advance into the Persian Indus Valley, welcomed with parades by the people.
Losses:
Dravidian 1,000 swordsmen, 150 chariots
Gujarat 1,000 swordsmen, 150 clubmen, 100 archers, 100 spearmen
Akkadian 1,000 swordsmen, 230 charioteers
Persian 2,300 swordsmen, 50 archers, 100 spearmen, 50 horsemen, 400 Royal Cavalry.
The Gujarati king was successful, and managed to inflict a defeat that put the Persian and Akkadian forces out of the war for most intents and purposes.
However, with his own army destroyed for the most part, he was forced to eventually negotiate a peace, which was on relatively neutral terms. India had been saved from the foreign menace, even if Indus did remain in Persian hands.
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...You like Kal'thzar better than ME? NOOOO) and Panda, because he asked me to hate him.
