ITNES I - Interesting Times
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Spend one eco point on Military, the other on infrastructure. (those mercahants need two things protection and a system to move trade goods)
ok Culture and such stuff.
Create rubber from mixing the latex from Castilla elastica (a type of rubber tree) and The juice of a local vine, Ipomoea alba. This creates Rubber. This will be used in the creation of Rubber balls for the ball game of the Olmecs.
Olmec Art
Create Highly naturlastic art, again creating more jade statues of the Divine Jaguar, but don't forget the other local creatures too. Bird Figurines and so on.
Huge Giant Statues of people are to be built at crossroads and other meeting points. These will depict a very high accuracy in regard to Anatomical features. They will have however a slightly larger helmeted head.
The Olmec Rubber ball game
As might be expected with a game played over so long a timespan, details of the games varied over time and place, so the Olmec ballgame might be more accurately seen as a family of related games. Some versions were played between two individuals, others between 2 teams of players.
The games shared the characteristics of being played with a hard rubber ball in a sunken or walled linear court, sometimes with perpendiculars at the ends.
Across Olmec, ball courts were built and used for many generations, and their shapes and sizes do vary. Some sites had multiple ball courts, but others had only one. In some parts of Olmec ballcourts are found in most or all sizable population centres, while in other parts they are less common.
While the game was played casually for simple recreation, including by children for play, the game also had important ritual aspects, and major formal ballgames would be held as ritual events. The game between competing teams of players could symbolize the battles between the gods in the sky and the lords of the underworld. The ball could symbolize the sun.
Ok I have kept some of my research material back for later use.
Expand into Zaptoec Land, Since they are already growing as a civilisation on similar lines to mine, the extra boost given by our rule over there cities and lands should make it a LOT easier. (we compliment each other).
ok Culture and such stuff.
Create rubber from mixing the latex from Castilla elastica (a type of rubber tree) and The juice of a local vine, Ipomoea alba. This creates Rubber. This will be used in the creation of Rubber balls for the ball game of the Olmecs.
Olmec Art
Create Highly naturlastic art, again creating more jade statues of the Divine Jaguar, but don't forget the other local creatures too. Bird Figurines and so on.
Huge Giant Statues of people are to be built at crossroads and other meeting points. These will depict a very high accuracy in regard to Anatomical features. They will have however a slightly larger helmeted head.
The Olmec Rubber ball game
As might be expected with a game played over so long a timespan, details of the games varied over time and place, so the Olmec ballgame might be more accurately seen as a family of related games. Some versions were played between two individuals, others between 2 teams of players.
The games shared the characteristics of being played with a hard rubber ball in a sunken or walled linear court, sometimes with perpendiculars at the ends.
Across Olmec, ball courts were built and used for many generations, and their shapes and sizes do vary. Some sites had multiple ball courts, but others had only one. In some parts of Olmec ballcourts are found in most or all sizable population centres, while in other parts they are less common.
While the game was played casually for simple recreation, including by children for play, the game also had important ritual aspects, and major formal ballgames would be held as ritual events. The game between competing teams of players could symbolize the battles between the gods in the sky and the lords of the underworld. The ball could symbolize the sun.
Ok I have kept some of my research material back for later use.
Expand into Zaptoec Land, Since they are already growing as a civilisation on similar lines to mine, the extra boost given by our rule over there cities and lands should make it a LOT easier. (we compliment each other).
@das, so the other tribes are loyal to Mohenjo-daro as a whole right?
From: Empire of Mohenjo-daro
To: Magadha
Do not be frightened, but we hear rumor of Aryan movements in the north! It is clear that with thier defeats on our borders, they may be preparing to attack a nation they think will be unsuspecting. Unless of course, you ally with us and help us defeat them now before they can strike...a trade route could also be arranged if you want.
From: Empire of Mohenjo-daro
To: Magadha
Do not be frightened, but we hear rumor of Aryan movements in the north! It is clear that with thier defeats on our borders, they may be preparing to attack a nation they think will be unsuspecting. Unless of course, you ally with us and help us defeat them now before they can strike...a trade route could also be arranged if you want.
Communisto
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stalin006 said:
We agree to all! Let the age of the valliant warrior peoples of Sparta and Troy become apparent!
OOC: to those who need me on msn, i will be on soon around 6-ish my time due to some problems (ie: sister hogging the PC like a hoggy mcHog-hog)
Communisto
Condottiere
hey, im troy not tossi!
To: Clusian League
From: Rome
Our two nations have been having border clashes and other disputes for centuries. We think that two great Etruscan nations such as ours shouldn't engage in such petty infighting. How about we sign a non-aggression pact, an agreement not to attack each other, for sixty years? It'd be such a waste to drag each other into a war when we can ally and be stronger together....
From: Rome
Our two nations have been having border clashes and other disputes for centuries. We think that two great Etruscan nations such as ours shouldn't engage in such petty infighting. How about we sign a non-aggression pact, an agreement not to attack each other, for sixty years? It'd be such a waste to drag each other into a war when we can ally and be stronger together....
alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
*raises hand*
With Wu's location on the yangtze's entrance into the Pacific, how come i dun have a single naval squadron and etc? And i also suppose i am much more rural then the other two northern chinese states right?
With Wu's location on the yangtze's entrance into the Pacific, how come i dun have a single naval squadron and etc? And i also suppose i am much more rural then the other two northern chinese states right?
Insane_Panda
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Update of Awesomeness!!
Unique Unit: The Lucan Charioteers
An example of a Lucan Charioteer
In the early years of the war against the Hittites, Lucan forces received heavy casualities. The Hittites were well-trained warriors and had strong iron weapons, but this is not why the warriors of Luca ran into trouble. The Hittites had chariots. Achae, Grand Vizier of Luca, had heard of these war machines in battle, but until then he had never actually seen one. Through sheer dicipline, the Hittites controlled the chariors with god-like manuevers.
After the war, Achae had saw it imperative that the Lucan army adopt these chariots as their own. He recruited many Hittites to train the Lucan men on how to use the chariots, and it was almost as if the greatest warriors of the Hittites had be re-incarnated and multiplied by a thousand fold. The Lucans had truly mastered the chariots as their defeated enemies once had.
The Lucans saw that the version of the chariot that the Hittites used in battle was quite flawed; and it was mostly because of these flaws that they were eventually defeated in battle. The first thing the Lucans did to the chariots was that they fixed the wheels so that they did not fall a part as easily as the Hittite version had. Secondly, they made sure that the chariot itself could hold the right amount of horsepower and not succumb to the horse's power. Third, they added a light armored coat to the horses moving the chariots. It was a light armor so that it would not make the horse much heavier, but it covered much of the horse and made it safer than it had been before. The Lucan chariots were much better than their Hittite predecessors.
Each charioteer was well-armored and had a sword on his back, and a bow in his hand. Each were trained for months and months on mobile combat. They were trained on how to control the horses, how to best take advantage of their higher elevation, and how to intimidate the enemy the most. This special training has made the Lucan charioteers the most feared warriors in all of the known world.
An example of a Lucan Charioteer
In the early years of the war against the Hittites, Lucan forces received heavy casualities. The Hittites were well-trained warriors and had strong iron weapons, but this is not why the warriors of Luca ran into trouble. The Hittites had chariots. Achae, Grand Vizier of Luca, had heard of these war machines in battle, but until then he had never actually seen one. Through sheer dicipline, the Hittites controlled the chariors with god-like manuevers.
After the war, Achae had saw it imperative that the Lucan army adopt these chariots as their own. He recruited many Hittites to train the Lucan men on how to use the chariots, and it was almost as if the greatest warriors of the Hittites had be re-incarnated and multiplied by a thousand fold. The Lucans had truly mastered the chariots as their defeated enemies once had.
The Lucans saw that the version of the chariot that the Hittites used in battle was quite flawed; and it was mostly because of these flaws that they were eventually defeated in battle. The first thing the Lucans did to the chariots was that they fixed the wheels so that they did not fall a part as easily as the Hittite version had. Secondly, they made sure that the chariot itself could hold the right amount of horsepower and not succumb to the horse's power. Third, they added a light armored coat to the horses moving the chariots. It was a light armor so that it would not make the horse much heavier, but it covered much of the horse and made it safer than it had been before. The Lucan chariots were much better than their Hittite predecessors.
Each charioteer was well-armored and had a sword on his back, and a bow in his hand. Each were trained for months and months on mobile combat. They were trained on how to control the horses, how to best take advantage of their higher elevation, and how to intimidate the enemy the most. This special training has made the Lucan charioteers the most feared warriors in all of the known world.
I have the port of Ostia, and I don't have a navy, either. Maybe, like in OTL, even nations that bordered the sea didn't really develop navies. Rome itself made its allies build ships during the wars with Pyrrhus, and later in that century, they had to make the Ostia shipyards from scratch to build a fleet that would crush Carthage's, and lose more men to the weather around Sicily than Hanno's ships. And that was in the 200s BC.alex994 said:
Insane_Panda
Deity
THE RIDERS OF PERSIA - The Parhae Asbaran
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A Horseman slowly trotted on the massive steppe. In his mouth, a peice of chewed leather - to stave off hunger. In his hands, a spear and a javelin, on his back - a quiver of arrows and bow. He wore a cuirass of iron scales and held with him a small shield of bronze. His men had spotted the Iranian tribesmen. Slowly they trotted towards their position, slowly and quietly. Accross the horizon a line of armored tribesmen formed. Their faces covered with robes and their hands holding spears.
Silence soon gave way to their warcries, belted horribly into the air.
Slowly they continued to trot towards their enemy.
The horseman, lifting his spear into the air, waved his men forward. And forward they surged. A tumultuous thunder echoed throughout the barren steppe, as the hooves of horses beat themselves into the earth.
They quickened their pace, and the tribesmen braced themselves, then, charged forwards. Dust rode up into the air and the field soon obscured in a dense, yellow fog. Figures could be made out, two huge masses charging despeartely at one another. And then, when the masses of men seemed to be about to meet, all at once, the horsemen turned back. The huge, teeming mass ruptured and parted, fleeing back towards their original positions.
The horseman turned backwards - let go of his reins for a short second, pulled a bow from his quiver, aimed, and fired.
The sky filled with black streaks of death. The 'Parhae shot' was born.
~~~~~
Parhae was the first civilization to utilise horsemen, utilizing them to brutal effeciency.
A legacy of their nomadic origins, Asbaran translates literally into horseman, nothing more and nothing less. The formation of these units is the result of centuries wandering the pastures of central asia and the middle east - centuries spent hunting the wild beasts and honing their skill with both spear and bow, Javelin and arrow. From their aryan forefathers they inherited a natural ability with the horse. And from their legacy the world's first armored horsemen were created. The Asbaran.
The cavalry had been instrumental in conquering subject lands, and it retained its importance until the advent of mechanised armored units. The horseman was equipped more or less like the foot soldier; he carried one javelin and one spear, one for throwing and the other for fending. Also with him were a bow and arrow, the essential components of the possibly devastating 'Parhae shot' to which these men became of much reknown. The men wore metal helmets and padded linen corselets covered with metal scales. A Parhae document dated to the second year of Darius II lists the requirements of a horseman as follows: and bridle, a helmet, a cuirass of iron, a bronze shield, 120 arrows, a mace of iron, and two iron spears. There were also units of camel-borne troops, and some riding chariots and scythed-chariots, but these were very seldom effective against massed infantry and the Asbaran remained to the end the most devastating element of the Persian military machine.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Horseman slowly trotted on the massive steppe. In his mouth, a peice of chewed leather - to stave off hunger. In his hands, a spear and a javelin, on his back - a quiver of arrows and bow. He wore a cuirass of iron scales and held with him a small shield of bronze. His men had spotted the Iranian tribesmen. Slowly they trotted towards their position, slowly and quietly. Accross the horizon a line of armored tribesmen formed. Their faces covered with robes and their hands holding spears.
Silence soon gave way to their warcries, belted horribly into the air.
Slowly they continued to trot towards their enemy.
The horseman, lifting his spear into the air, waved his men forward. And forward they surged. A tumultuous thunder echoed throughout the barren steppe, as the hooves of horses beat themselves into the earth.
They quickened their pace, and the tribesmen braced themselves, then, charged forwards. Dust rode up into the air and the field soon obscured in a dense, yellow fog. Figures could be made out, two huge masses charging despeartely at one another. And then, when the masses of men seemed to be about to meet, all at once, the horsemen turned back. The huge, teeming mass ruptured and parted, fleeing back towards their original positions.
The horseman turned backwards - let go of his reins for a short second, pulled a bow from his quiver, aimed, and fired.
The sky filled with black streaks of death. The 'Parhae shot' was born.
~~~~~
Parhae was the first civilization to utilise horsemen, utilizing them to brutal effeciency.
A legacy of their nomadic origins, Asbaran translates literally into horseman, nothing more and nothing less. The formation of these units is the result of centuries wandering the pastures of central asia and the middle east - centuries spent hunting the wild beasts and honing their skill with both spear and bow, Javelin and arrow. From their aryan forefathers they inherited a natural ability with the horse. And from their legacy the world's first armored horsemen were created. The Asbaran.
The cavalry had been instrumental in conquering subject lands, and it retained its importance until the advent of mechanised armored units. The horseman was equipped more or less like the foot soldier; he carried one javelin and one spear, one for throwing and the other for fending. Also with him were a bow and arrow, the essential components of the possibly devastating 'Parhae shot' to which these men became of much reknown. The men wore metal helmets and padded linen corselets covered with metal scales. A Parhae document dated to the second year of Darius II lists the requirements of a horseman as follows: and bridle, a helmet, a cuirass of iron, a bronze shield, 120 arrows, a mace of iron, and two iron spears. There were also units of camel-borne troops, and some riding chariots and scythed-chariots, but these were very seldom effective against massed infantry and the Asbaran remained to the end the most devastating element of the Persian military machine.
alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
Dachspmg said:
1. Well, ostia isn't your capitol as like mine.
2. The Yangtze River and basin are some of the most fertile farmlands in china, if not in the world and my nation is situated around the bottom half of the river something your nation is not and it would make sense for the regime that controlled it to have a few warships to patrol the river looking for pirates and smugglers...
Insane_Panda
Deity
*throws stones at stalin*
Sportsmanship would have worked just as well.
You and your poor grammarmanship!
Sportsmanship would have worked just as well.
You and your poor grammarmanship!
MjM
Deity
Forget about what was here....
alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
stalin006 said:
I understand, but i mostly want to know why Yan has a navy but with little to nothing to do with their navy....
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