It was the year 1720 AD (after destruction). Mayor Suleiman looked at the world that was in perile. What must he do to bring peace to this forgotten wasteland. Resources were hard to come by and technology was going slowly. All he could rely on was sheer power. It left him with no other choice then to conquer all other tribes to unite them under one leader and bring peace to them. And so it was done. And so it was written.
Chapter 11 by Killroy: The 30 year war
It was the coldest of nights. Suleiman had a meeting with his 4 generals Pholkhero, Creedakota, LKendter and Killroyan and he laid out his plan. The English were vanquished, the Dutch were broken, the Persians vasal to the Chinese.
"We need to increase our power base" said Suleiman
"But we just broke the Dutch" said Pholkhero and LKendter
"We decimated the English" said Creedakota
"It is not enough. We need more land, more allies and more mayors" said Suleiman.
Killroyan said "We could take the Dutch as a powerfull vasal but first we have to make peace with the Khmer. They are advanced and could prove to be too strong. If we do so then we can get our army in place to conquer the Persians and then over 50% of the map belongs to us."
Suleiman agreed and send Killroyan to negotiate. First with the Khmer. They were willing to give peace and 7 gpt and a world map on top of that. Thank you, kind sir. Do you want to trade the stone too? Yes, another 7 gpt. Things are shaping up.
Willem van Oranje was next. "Ok Willem, what do you want to do?" Willem looked at Killroyan and tried to find out how much he had to give to get peace. His land was shattered and broken. Killroyan was not impressed by his looks. "You can have peace if you are willing to become our vassal and give us astronomy". Willem blinked not once. "That is impossible, astronomy is just too much. But we just conquered a nice city of the persians. You can have it"
"Oh dang, no mayor present there. We know that since we spied on the Persian cities for a long time and there is no way to get there. Keep the darn city and just become our allie" Willem vassals to the Ottoman empire.
This was the base for the 30 year war. The troops were healed and moved towards the Persian border. "The persians have vassalled to the Chinese. They could be strong, remember that." said Suleiman. Always protect our mayors well. "About the mayors, we just got a GM who will lead a good city somewhere soon in the future. Also Scientific method is in and we should focus on communism. We will get another good mayor from that". All generals agreed that it was a good plan.
After 10 years of preparation the Ottoman empire was ready for attack and attack they did. The Persians didn't even understand what hit them. It resulted in the following.
Ergili was the first to fall:
Followed soon by JinJan (screenshot failed, so this one is from 18 years later):
And also Gordium (same problem):
In the meanwhile Mao of the Chinese was getting angry about this attack. He ordered his troops to the front line to teach the Ottoman empire a lesson. Too bad he did not have learned the way of the boomstick yet. His big stacks of knights/pikemen/trebs swooped in but were no match for the ancient technology of rifling. Fierce fights broke out and there was a lot of bloodshed. In the end the Chinese lost about 3-4 units to 1 unit of the Ottoman empire (40+ units lost for the Chinese, "THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK"). Another GG was born in that war.
The troops gathered at Ectabana and after two rounds of siege we were able to conquer the city:
Leaving only Sardis in Persian care. Some more Chinese forces were killed while our spy sneaked into Sardis to start a riot. The defenses fell and in 1750 the Persian empire was no more. "Remember we have to settle a GP in Sardis still as it has no MAYOR yet".
Communism was in and with it came an incredible smart spy. This great spy would be an incredible mayor. He is on his way to Persepolis to meet up with the great general from the war. If the GE is settled in Sardis then we still have 4 GP left for other cities.
Back to the game:
1) I inserted 1 turn in nationalism and traded chemistry with Willem for it (got an extra 330 gold and the WM with it). We need nationalism for fascism so I thought it was ok.
2) Since Willem is actually doing something in the war (he conquered a chinese city) we could trade rifling with him for astronomy, opening up the way to physics (if the GS is still available). This would give him a good military tech to help with the Chinese who could be a good target. Their power rating must have dropped incredibly.
3) I redirected all spy points to the Khmer and they are weak. We have double their strength but they are advanced. The Chinese are willing to make peace and give us 130 gold with it.
4) I ordered up universities, libraries, courthouses, jewish temples and intelligency agencies as we will need the spy points. We are up 150 beakers per turn and loosing 41 gpt at 40% science. I have 2 trades with the Khmer for a total of 15 gpt. Maybe we could negotiate it to 1 resource (stone) and deny him the silver.
5) Our capital is building Oxford University and then the Kremlin for the extra GP points.
6) We could use a civic switch soon. Pacifism is really necessary and maybe also free speech for the extra culture and coins. On the other hand bureau is still incredible powerfull for our capital
7) Last screen is from the victory screen. We now have over 40% land and 40% population. We are doing well if you ask me.
For the next turnset we have to decide who we are going to attack. Mao could be a good target. With our GP we can conquer some cities of him and vassal him, but then it might become hard to get enough GP's to get Salading and Sury. Sury is the techer right now and far ahead. We have 3 techs on him but he has at least 5 more on us since there is a demand for emancipation and thus he has to have democracy also. That is why I redirected the spy points to Sury. I do think he is the better target. Discussion time.
(4 Persian, 2 Dutch)
