Middle East PBEM

[Tigranes]

Nascent Kurdish state was experiencing extreme food shortages in newly acquired Erbil Pop 3 city became pop 1, despite 1000 (pre-placed at the beginning of the game). Culture works weird in BTS, all the old Iraqi tiles did not go to Kurdistan, but rather to Iran!

 

[Tigranes]

lolwat? Defensive pact between Arabs and Jews? The End of the World is near!

 

[Tigranes]

Peace came to Syria, thanks to UN. However half of the country was overrun by Iraqi troops.

 

[Tigranes]

@Michkov Persia switched to Emancipation. Just making sure that Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (GE) was promptly disbanded according to house rules.

 

[Michkov]

Yes I deleted the GE I got this turn

 

[Tigranes]

@all Guys in future lets report here in thread all the civic changes and who was the driving force behind that change. Civics play critical role in this game, and I would hate us to replay if we all forget...

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

Alrighty then. I for one am gonna stick with my civics for the entire game so this is a non-issue for me.

 

[Tigranes]

Just what we needed! It's bad enough Erbil shrunk to pop 1 because of Iranian culture, and it spent 3 turns in revolt because of, you've guessed it, Iranian culture, now unknown arsonists started a fire in our Forge! 50 gold were spent on reconstruction! We call upon a people of good will
to donate 10 gold each in order to help our persecuted nation in the times of misery!

 

[Tigranes]

I am sorry everybody, but Michkov would need to replay his turn and NOT to adopt Free Market, until some Great Merchant arise in Iranian Shahdom to show how to implement new economic policies.

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

FFS Michkov!

 

[Michkov]

Thats odd, I didn't change my civics last turn. Where did you get the idea from I did?

Anyway I replayed the last turn, uploaded it to the track and also attached it here should the tracker not send old saves on.

 

[Tigranes]

I offer to everyone, especially Michkov, my most sincere apologies. I have no idea how my brain was working when I read Mohammed Zahir Shah adopted Free Market, and I was adamant it was Shah of Iran, not Afghanistan. How about I offer you 50 gold as a compensation for time wasted replaying?

 

[Michkov]

Happens to all of us from time to time, dont worry too much Tigranes. Luckily it was a quick turn for me so not much time lost.

 

[Tigranes]

On 23 August 1962 4 February 1951, the Syrian government conducted a special population census only for the province of Jazira, which was predominantly Kurdish. As a result, around 120,000 Kurds in Jazira (20% of Syrian Kurds) were stripped of their Syrian citizenship. In fact, the inhabitants had Syrian identity cards and were told to hand them over to the administration for renewal. However, many of those Kurds who submitted their cards received nothing in return. Many were arbitrarily categorized as ajanib ('aliens'), while others who did not participate in the census were categorised as maktumin ('unregistered'), an even lower status than the ajanib; for all intents and purposes, these unregistered Kurds did not exist in the eyes of the state. They could not get jobs, become educated, own property, participate in politics, or even get married. In some cases, classifications varied even within Kurdish families: parents had citizenship but not their children, a child could be a citizen but nor his or her brothers and sisters. Those Kurds who lost their citizenship were often dispossessed of their lands, which were given by the state to Arab settlers. A media campaign was launched against the Kurds with slogans such as Save Arabism in Jazira! and Fight the Kurdish Menace!

Naturally Mustafa Barzani could not tolerate such an oppression. His brave lions dispatched the Syrian garrison in Jazira's administrative center Deir ez-Zor, finding 1000 Kurdish there!

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

Seriously Tigranes, you couldn't have waited a single turn for your warmongering? If it wasn't for your eagerness we could now vote about Single Currency or Open Markets instead of peacekeeping! This is why we can't have nice things.

Question: Does whoever builds Cristo Redentor get to ignore the great people house rule regarding civic changes? Otherwise that wonder isn't really good for anything.

Japanese immigrants have introduced a delicious new dish called sushi to Jerusalem.

If anyone would be willing to trade Mining or Sushi resources with Israel that would be great.

 

[Tigranes]

Seriously Tigranes, you couldn't have waited a single turn for your warmongering? If it wasn't for your eagerness we could now vote about Single Currency or Open Markets instead of peacekeeping! This is why we can't have nice things.

Question: Does whoever builds Cristo Redentor get to ignore the great people house rule regarding civic changes? Otherwise that wonder isn't really good for anything.

Japanese immigrants have introduced a delicious new dish called sushi to Jerusalem.

If anyone would be willing to trade Mining or Sushi resources with Israel that would be great.

RE CR -- unlike DominEarthion the answer is no in our game (which I mentioned there and did not mentioned here by design). In Domi Latino block had no historical wonders and I wanted to give them something to balance. In here CR is available to be built and would upset balance instead. It is still good in his regular capacity -- to avoid anarchy, if not for going changing civics every month. What country is changing civics every month, Knoedel?

Kurd have 1 pop city, which cannot even rush units because of the backward civics Kurdish people have to cope with. Tribal mentality and whatnot. Buuuuut, after getting my GG I discovered Kurds don't even know about how to change to Universal Suffrage, because we are the only civ in the region who knows nothing about Democracy!

So it is not warmongering. It is fighting for the cause that became within the reach only in 21 century, and only to be upset by the likes of ISIS. In addition to Kurdish civilization I should have designed Palestinian one as well. That would keep UN peacekeeping busy in view of the current unhistorical early peace between the Arabs and the Jews.

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

What country is changing civics every month, Knoedel?

Great Britain?

Kurd have 1 pop city, which cannot even rush units because of the backward civics Kurdish people have to cope with. Tribal mentality and whatnot. Buuuuut, after getting my GG I discovered Kurds don't even know about how to change to Universal Suffrage, because we are the only civ in the region who knows nothing about Democracy!

In addition to Kurdish civilization I should have designed Palestinian one as well.

But how then could I have become so ludicrously overpowered as I am now?

 

[Tigranes]

Sushi in Israel can very nicely represent Jewish emigration! Perhaps Israeli cities should be starting with Sushi, to simulate the incredible size vigor of Jewish aliyah.

 

[Tigranes]

Aaaand ... we have a new UN Secretary General!

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

I wish him good riddance, hopefully he knows what he got himself into there.