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I just felt like documenting a normal game of mine. This is one of my few Deity level games... I usually play on King. So don't be overwhelmed at my suckage. It's all totally factual, I just added a story line to it, if you can call it that.
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Civ Babylonians
Difficulty Deity
Size Normal
Barbarians Raging Hordes
Rules Standard
4000 BC: A man named Hammurabi in a tribe called the Babylonians rallied his people to form a powerful civilization. He founded a city, Babylon, and it thrived on the wheat-covered plains and grasslands. He sent half of the tribe to form another city nearby.
3800 : Hammurabi recieved news that the city of Ur had been founded on a good location just east of Babylon.
3750 : Hammurabi sent out a warrior group from Babylon to explore and map the nearby mysterious countryside.
3650 : Scientists in Babylon discovered a mixture of metals called bronze that could be used in construction and new weapons.
3150 : Babylonian soldiers began riding horses and using them for transportation and combat.
2500 : Nineveh was founded just north of Babylon.
2250 : Southwest of Babylon, a phalanx group encountered a tribe that used a shooting weapon called the bow.
2000 : Ashur was founded to the northwest of Nineveh.
1950 : Native tribes southwest of Babylon show a visiting Phalanx group the ways of ceremonial burial. This is a major step in the Babylonian's quest to becoming more civilized.
1400 : The city of Ellipi was founded southwest of Babylon. By this time the Babylonians had concluded from their exploration and mapping that they were on an island that will be covered with the addition of one more city. The south and middle were grasslands and plains, while the north half of the island was covered in great pine forests.
850 : Emperor Hammurabi gave the people an alphabet and writing that would be the standard of all communication for thousands of years to come. The city of Akkad was founded on the northwest side of a lake near Babylon.
600 : A boat with distinctive markings (purple) attacked Ur, and killed a group of warriors guarding that city.
525 : Hammurabi began instituting a formal code of laws, governing the people further.
325 : Ellipi farmers started irrigating the lands efficiently, allowing the Babylonian civilization to begin rapidly growing.
175 : The citizens of Nineveh erected a giant statue called the Colossus in Hammurabi's likeness.
160 AD: Hammurabi realized that costs from city improvements such as temples, granaries, and libraries would eventually bankrupt the treasury. A revolution was called to find a more economically efficient government than the despotism that had ruled for the past 4000 years. Not only that, but corruption was taking half the further cities' production and commerce.
220 : After 60 years of anarchy, a new government was finally formulated and put into use. Hammurabi was proclaimed Consul of the new Babylonian Republic.
240 : Extreme problems arose as the newly 'independent' cities, no longer being suppressed by the military's martial law, expressed their unhapiness with their conditions. Hammurabi tried giving the people more luxuries until the citizens of Ashur completed the Hanging Gardens, which would please many citizens.
260 : Mass unrest continued so the government quickly built temples, hired entertainers and further increased luxuries.
280 : After 60 years of anarchy, after the new government was allegedly set in place, the Babylonian Republic gained control and won the hearts of its fickle citizens.
400 : Hundreds of years in the making, the Hanging Gardens were finally completed in Ashur. This allowed the Republic to focus more on economy and military and less on pleasing the people. Following this event, all of the cities of Babylonia began celebrating their great accomplishments. At about this time the decision was made to get boats as soon as possible and look for new lands, new economic opportunities, but most of all, new people to exploit.
460 : The first census was held and the population of Babylon was found to be approximately 600,000 citizens.
500 : A party of foreign phalanxes on a boat landed near Ellipi. Hammurabi hoped to contact them, make peace, and further better both of their civilizations. However, while looking through early hyroglyphs and writings, it is found that the markings these people bear are the same as an ancient boat that attacked Ur centuries before.
520 : The Golden Age of Philosophy began in Babylon. The unknown phalanxes headed north toward Babylon, assumingly to meet with the heads of the Republic.
540 : The strange phalanxes arrived in Babylon, and Consul Hammurabi himself meets with them. The foreigners did not speak Babylonian, but they both did their best to communicate. The phalanxes called themselves the Sioux, and their leader was Chief Sitting Bull. Seeing how their government was clearly very primitive and archaic (They're ruled by a Chief), Hammurabi decided to help them set up a Republic-type government. Afterwards, they smoked a pipe brought by the Sioux, and sign a peace treaty between the two nations. Something bad was probably in that pipe, as you will see later.
560 : Completely contradicting the individual Sioux's behavior twenty years later, Chief Sitting Bull demands that the Babylonians tribute him 50 gold. Having only 55 gold in the nation's coffers, Hammurabi decided to give it up in the name of peace.
700 : Census showed that the population of the Babylonian Republic was in excess of 800,000 citizens.
760 : A science convention of sorts was held in Babylon. Babylonian and Sioux scientists shared their secrets with each other. The Sioux had many things the Babylonians had never even considered, such as construction of durable ships like caravels. But to be fair, the same went for the Sioux, who were so primitive they still had not developed a system of writing!
840 : The Sioux had began landing rather large amounts of offensive military units right on the Babylonian mainland. This worried Hammurabi, so he gifted them 50 gold (with only 52 in treasury) to convince them to leave. After politely asking, the Sioux withdrew most of the units.
880 : A man named Jebus Crist, who performed many miracles and had great lessons for the people of Babylon to learn, was killed by Babylonian soldiers in Ashur. Afterward he was resurrected for a week, and performed many more miracles. It was then that Hammurabi decided to adopt Cristianity as the official, monotheistic religion of the Babylonian Republic. Plans for a chapel to be built in Babylon in his honor were made, and Michelangelo, an artist, was contracted for the job. Soon after the Babylonians taught the Sioux of it when the Sioux demanded the Babylonians teach them about the new religion.
900 : A few phalanxes on patrol discover that the Sioux had built a city in one of the bare spots of the Babylonian's land! After all the gifts and technology given to them, and they invaded Babylon so subversively. The people were angry that foreigners had built an enclave on their rightful continent. Consul Hammurabi asked the Senate for permission to begin a military buildup to remove the intruders. After days of debate, the Senate approved the plan.
920 : Babylon was hardly ready for a war at this time. None of the cities had barracks for proper troop care and training. Two wonders of the world were being constructed in the most productive cities. Also, their technology was dated. The BEST active unit was a bowman group, and that was only a single group. Beyond that, phalanxes were the best. The Sioux had war elephants and bowmen already in the city and patrolling the countryside. However, this intruding city was taking resources from the native cities, and this was not to be tolerated. It would be up to the four less productive cities, Ur, Ellipi, Akkad, and Ashur, to eliminate the threat. Hasty preparations were made for the conscription of men to form crusader units, and lead a crusade against the intruders.
960 : Census showed that the fertile Babylonian Republic's population now exceeded the 1,000,000 citizen mark!
1120 : The time to attack was decided. The Sioux had sent warriors and crusaders next to Babylon (in violation of the peace treaty), and this was a perfect opportunity for the Babylonians to strike. However the Senate would not allow an attack at this time! So Hammurabi cleverly decided to annoy the Sioux to the point where they would attack him.
1320 : After centuries of annoyance, and Senate interference, Hammurabi had enough. He had the military execute all of the Senate, and the nation soon after plunged into anarchy over the incident. However, Hammurabi had the military attack the city (called "Big Mound" by the Sioux), minutes after the Senate 'dissolved', and the Babylonians took the city without a single man lost.
1340 : Hammurabi got the entire civilization under his control using his now large military, and set up a new government where the Senate couldn't tell him what he could or could not do. The people no longer had a choice in matters of any kind. Hammurabi proclaimed himself king of the new Babylonian Monarchy.
1360 : The first Babylonian ship, a caravel called the Ellipian, was constructed and ready to set sail. Also this year, Michelangelo's Chapel was completed. The citizens of Babylon were proud that day.
1520 : The Ellipian returned from a long voyage to a nearby large island. Not enough crew was on hand to journey inland and explore. However, the crew had found signs of another civilization along the coast, namely, roads and irrigated land. They dubbed the land 'Pisentha'. Hammurabi made the decision to create a powerful navy/army to conquer whatever lay there. The Ellipian was then sent to explore the island's coastline further.
1560 : The Ellipian encounters a crusader on the southeast coast of Pisentha. They called themselves the Germans. Although Babylonians and Germans did meet, it would be a long time until their governments actually discussed anything.
1590 : The Ellipian finally returns to Babylon and tells Hammurabi of their tale. Hammurabi is fascinated by their tale of these strange, pale new people... but more excited, since they are the people he will most likely be attacking in his Pisentha offensive.
1610 : Another monolith to Jebus, JS Bach's Cathedral, was completed in Nineveh. After this project, the entire Babylonian civilization was dedicated to supplying the crusade.
1640 : A German caravel attacks Big Mound and is fended off by a veteran pikeman. Even more reason for the Babylonians to attack! After attention is drawn to it, Hammurabi realizes what a stupid name the city has. He renames it Hammurabisburg.
1730 : Four caravels full of crusaders and two phalanxes set sail to conquer Pisentha.
1752 : The age of exploration truly begins for the Babylonians. The army sends one crusader to scout for a city on Pisentha's coast. They find a well developed city, but it is inhabited entirely by barbarians. The crusaders destroy the barbarians within and took one of their leaders ransom for 150 gold. The city was called 'Madrid', by it's former inhabitants, but to fit the occasion, Hammurabi had it renamed Pisentha.
1754 : After the capture of Pisentha, half of the ships go off to explore the nearby sea. The other half continues shuttling troops from Babylon to Pisentha. Crusaders in Pisentha send out scouts to find the next city to conquer.
1754 : The search did not take long. Directly east of Pisentha was a German city called Heidelburg. Hammurabi rejects their offers and pleas for a peace treaty, and orders his crusaders to attack.
1756 : Caravels find the German city of Munich on the coast northwest of Heidelburg. Germans sneak attack a crusade scout east of Heidelburg. The game is on. Continent discovered west of Babylon, and colonization plans are put into immediate effect.
1760 : Heidelburg is attacked and destroyed in the fighting. Next city on the conquest road map is Munich.
1762 : Munich is attacked and captured intact. Frankfurt is discovered northwest on the coast.
1764 : Babylonian war machine is stopped temporarily when the Germans offer 300 gold and Invention for cease fire and treaty.
1768 : "Continent" west of Babylon is found to be an island about half the size of Babylon. It is named Uruk by the locals, and a city by that name is established to colonize the rest of it.
1772 : The Germans dig their own grave. They steal Feudalism from the Babylonians, giving the Babylonians valid pretext for a war. The offensive is continued against Frankfurt, and it has been found that Berlin is just south of Frankfurt. How convenient. While exploring, a diplomat found the German city of Leipzig, undermines the local gov't, and the revolting citizens join the Babylonian Kingdom. Hammurabi concludes that the conquest of Germany will be swift and bloodless... for the Babylonians at least.
Random Game
Civ Babylonians
Difficulty Deity
Size Normal
Barbarians Raging Hordes
Rules Standard
4000 BC: A man named Hammurabi in a tribe called the Babylonians rallied his people to form a powerful civilization. He founded a city, Babylon, and it thrived on the wheat-covered plains and grasslands. He sent half of the tribe to form another city nearby.
3800 : Hammurabi recieved news that the city of Ur had been founded on a good location just east of Babylon.
3750 : Hammurabi sent out a warrior group from Babylon to explore and map the nearby mysterious countryside.
3650 : Scientists in Babylon discovered a mixture of metals called bronze that could be used in construction and new weapons.
3150 : Babylonian soldiers began riding horses and using them for transportation and combat.
2500 : Nineveh was founded just north of Babylon.
2250 : Southwest of Babylon, a phalanx group encountered a tribe that used a shooting weapon called the bow.
2000 : Ashur was founded to the northwest of Nineveh.
1950 : Native tribes southwest of Babylon show a visiting Phalanx group the ways of ceremonial burial. This is a major step in the Babylonian's quest to becoming more civilized.
1400 : The city of Ellipi was founded southwest of Babylon. By this time the Babylonians had concluded from their exploration and mapping that they were on an island that will be covered with the addition of one more city. The south and middle were grasslands and plains, while the north half of the island was covered in great pine forests.
850 : Emperor Hammurabi gave the people an alphabet and writing that would be the standard of all communication for thousands of years to come. The city of Akkad was founded on the northwest side of a lake near Babylon.
600 : A boat with distinctive markings (purple) attacked Ur, and killed a group of warriors guarding that city.
525 : Hammurabi began instituting a formal code of laws, governing the people further.
325 : Ellipi farmers started irrigating the lands efficiently, allowing the Babylonian civilization to begin rapidly growing.
175 : The citizens of Nineveh erected a giant statue called the Colossus in Hammurabi's likeness.
160 AD: Hammurabi realized that costs from city improvements such as temples, granaries, and libraries would eventually bankrupt the treasury. A revolution was called to find a more economically efficient government than the despotism that had ruled for the past 4000 years. Not only that, but corruption was taking half the further cities' production and commerce.
220 : After 60 years of anarchy, a new government was finally formulated and put into use. Hammurabi was proclaimed Consul of the new Babylonian Republic.
240 : Extreme problems arose as the newly 'independent' cities, no longer being suppressed by the military's martial law, expressed their unhapiness with their conditions. Hammurabi tried giving the people more luxuries until the citizens of Ashur completed the Hanging Gardens, which would please many citizens.
260 : Mass unrest continued so the government quickly built temples, hired entertainers and further increased luxuries.
280 : After 60 years of anarchy, after the new government was allegedly set in place, the Babylonian Republic gained control and won the hearts of its fickle citizens.
400 : Hundreds of years in the making, the Hanging Gardens were finally completed in Ashur. This allowed the Republic to focus more on economy and military and less on pleasing the people. Following this event, all of the cities of Babylonia began celebrating their great accomplishments. At about this time the decision was made to get boats as soon as possible and look for new lands, new economic opportunities, but most of all, new people to exploit.
460 : The first census was held and the population of Babylon was found to be approximately 600,000 citizens.
500 : A party of foreign phalanxes on a boat landed near Ellipi. Hammurabi hoped to contact them, make peace, and further better both of their civilizations. However, while looking through early hyroglyphs and writings, it is found that the markings these people bear are the same as an ancient boat that attacked Ur centuries before.
520 : The Golden Age of Philosophy began in Babylon. The unknown phalanxes headed north toward Babylon, assumingly to meet with the heads of the Republic.
540 : The strange phalanxes arrived in Babylon, and Consul Hammurabi himself meets with them. The foreigners did not speak Babylonian, but they both did their best to communicate. The phalanxes called themselves the Sioux, and their leader was Chief Sitting Bull. Seeing how their government was clearly very primitive and archaic (They're ruled by a Chief), Hammurabi decided to help them set up a Republic-type government. Afterwards, they smoked a pipe brought by the Sioux, and sign a peace treaty between the two nations. Something bad was probably in that pipe, as you will see later.
560 : Completely contradicting the individual Sioux's behavior twenty years later, Chief Sitting Bull demands that the Babylonians tribute him 50 gold. Having only 55 gold in the nation's coffers, Hammurabi decided to give it up in the name of peace.
700 : Census showed that the population of the Babylonian Republic was in excess of 800,000 citizens.
760 : A science convention of sorts was held in Babylon. Babylonian and Sioux scientists shared their secrets with each other. The Sioux had many things the Babylonians had never even considered, such as construction of durable ships like caravels. But to be fair, the same went for the Sioux, who were so primitive they still had not developed a system of writing!
840 : The Sioux had began landing rather large amounts of offensive military units right on the Babylonian mainland. This worried Hammurabi, so he gifted them 50 gold (with only 52 in treasury) to convince them to leave. After politely asking, the Sioux withdrew most of the units.
880 : A man named Jebus Crist, who performed many miracles and had great lessons for the people of Babylon to learn, was killed by Babylonian soldiers in Ashur. Afterward he was resurrected for a week, and performed many more miracles. It was then that Hammurabi decided to adopt Cristianity as the official, monotheistic religion of the Babylonian Republic. Plans for a chapel to be built in Babylon in his honor were made, and Michelangelo, an artist, was contracted for the job. Soon after the Babylonians taught the Sioux of it when the Sioux demanded the Babylonians teach them about the new religion.
900 : A few phalanxes on patrol discover that the Sioux had built a city in one of the bare spots of the Babylonian's land! After all the gifts and technology given to them, and they invaded Babylon so subversively. The people were angry that foreigners had built an enclave on their rightful continent. Consul Hammurabi asked the Senate for permission to begin a military buildup to remove the intruders. After days of debate, the Senate approved the plan.
920 : Babylon was hardly ready for a war at this time. None of the cities had barracks for proper troop care and training. Two wonders of the world were being constructed in the most productive cities. Also, their technology was dated. The BEST active unit was a bowman group, and that was only a single group. Beyond that, phalanxes were the best. The Sioux had war elephants and bowmen already in the city and patrolling the countryside. However, this intruding city was taking resources from the native cities, and this was not to be tolerated. It would be up to the four less productive cities, Ur, Ellipi, Akkad, and Ashur, to eliminate the threat. Hasty preparations were made for the conscription of men to form crusader units, and lead a crusade against the intruders.
960 : Census showed that the fertile Babylonian Republic's population now exceeded the 1,000,000 citizen mark!
1120 : The time to attack was decided. The Sioux had sent warriors and crusaders next to Babylon (in violation of the peace treaty), and this was a perfect opportunity for the Babylonians to strike. However the Senate would not allow an attack at this time! So Hammurabi cleverly decided to annoy the Sioux to the point where they would attack him.
1320 : After centuries of annoyance, and Senate interference, Hammurabi had enough. He had the military execute all of the Senate, and the nation soon after plunged into anarchy over the incident. However, Hammurabi had the military attack the city (called "Big Mound" by the Sioux), minutes after the Senate 'dissolved', and the Babylonians took the city without a single man lost.
1340 : Hammurabi got the entire civilization under his control using his now large military, and set up a new government where the Senate couldn't tell him what he could or could not do. The people no longer had a choice in matters of any kind. Hammurabi proclaimed himself king of the new Babylonian Monarchy.
1360 : The first Babylonian ship, a caravel called the Ellipian, was constructed and ready to set sail. Also this year, Michelangelo's Chapel was completed. The citizens of Babylon were proud that day.
1520 : The Ellipian returned from a long voyage to a nearby large island. Not enough crew was on hand to journey inland and explore. However, the crew had found signs of another civilization along the coast, namely, roads and irrigated land. They dubbed the land 'Pisentha'. Hammurabi made the decision to create a powerful navy/army to conquer whatever lay there. The Ellipian was then sent to explore the island's coastline further.
1560 : The Ellipian encounters a crusader on the southeast coast of Pisentha. They called themselves the Germans. Although Babylonians and Germans did meet, it would be a long time until their governments actually discussed anything.
1590 : The Ellipian finally returns to Babylon and tells Hammurabi of their tale. Hammurabi is fascinated by their tale of these strange, pale new people... but more excited, since they are the people he will most likely be attacking in his Pisentha offensive.
1610 : Another monolith to Jebus, JS Bach's Cathedral, was completed in Nineveh. After this project, the entire Babylonian civilization was dedicated to supplying the crusade.
1640 : A German caravel attacks Big Mound and is fended off by a veteran pikeman. Even more reason for the Babylonians to attack! After attention is drawn to it, Hammurabi realizes what a stupid name the city has. He renames it Hammurabisburg.
1730 : Four caravels full of crusaders and two phalanxes set sail to conquer Pisentha.
1752 : The age of exploration truly begins for the Babylonians. The army sends one crusader to scout for a city on Pisentha's coast. They find a well developed city, but it is inhabited entirely by barbarians. The crusaders destroy the barbarians within and took one of their leaders ransom for 150 gold. The city was called 'Madrid', by it's former inhabitants, but to fit the occasion, Hammurabi had it renamed Pisentha.
1754 : After the capture of Pisentha, half of the ships go off to explore the nearby sea. The other half continues shuttling troops from Babylon to Pisentha. Crusaders in Pisentha send out scouts to find the next city to conquer.
1754 : The search did not take long. Directly east of Pisentha was a German city called Heidelburg. Hammurabi rejects their offers and pleas for a peace treaty, and orders his crusaders to attack.
1756 : Caravels find the German city of Munich on the coast northwest of Heidelburg. Germans sneak attack a crusade scout east of Heidelburg. The game is on. Continent discovered west of Babylon, and colonization plans are put into immediate effect.
1760 : Heidelburg is attacked and destroyed in the fighting. Next city on the conquest road map is Munich.
1762 : Munich is attacked and captured intact. Frankfurt is discovered northwest on the coast.
1764 : Babylonian war machine is stopped temporarily when the Germans offer 300 gold and Invention for cease fire and treaty.
1768 : "Continent" west of Babylon is found to be an island about half the size of Babylon. It is named Uruk by the locals, and a city by that name is established to colonize the rest of it.
1772 : The Germans dig their own grave. They steal Feudalism from the Babylonians, giving the Babylonians valid pretext for a war. The offensive is continued against Frankfurt, and it has been found that Berlin is just south of Frankfurt. How convenient. While exploring, a diplomat found the German city of Leipzig, undermines the local gov't, and the revolting citizens join the Babylonian Kingdom. Hammurabi concludes that the conquest of Germany will be swift and bloodless... for the Babylonians at least.
