I love your mod jdog5000... it is fantastic. I have been playing for a while, but last night i had a game that i thought i would share a little of, just for fun. (btw, it was a small map)
There was one large continent, and a smallish island... i started on the western part as louis XIV and founded paris on the coast, orleans inland more, but with lots of room for cottages and mines, and Lyons to the southeast more, where it was in some tundra, but i did this because the region had access to 2 silvers, a marble, an iron, and after cultural expansion, 2 sources of fur, all of which i needed to keep my cities happy. i founded confucianism in orleans and only got around to spreading it to paris. then taoism was founded in Lyons, by the luxuries. this cause major strife and several turns later i was facing a revolution! i decided to defect and lead the rebels because i knew i wouldnt be able to defend lyons. anyway, i thought the crisis was averted, but several turns later the barbs formed arabia just to the south of my borders and exploded! they had like 10 swordsman, and i didnt have iron or copper hooked up yet! i only had 2 archers and a few warriors in paris to defend! so i just sucked it up and hoped for the best... when Lyons revolted again! this time i rejected their claims and they attacked the city, which i VERY luckily defended,and just barely too. then the arabs marched and almost took paris, thought they devastated the area around it. they undoubtedly would have taken it, but they shared my religion and i was able to persuade them to make peace before they could! i spent the next MANY turns researching happiness things and building wonders in Orleans especially (high production) though i got one or two in Lyons to prevent revolts, which seems to have worked.
to my north, portugal had faced the emergence of the dutch in 2 cities and the germans in another, so i thought they were done for, but they put the rebellions down and became very strong! though i was the most advanced, they got feudalism before me and defended their cities too well for my greedy eyes. meanwhile, to the east of them, america was huge. im talking when i had 3 cities and most other civs had 2-3, they had 9! i was at first fearful, but after meeting lincoln, then washington, then FDR, then lincoln again, i realized everything wasnt perfect. then one turn america collapsed! this huge central swath of land in the one continent was suddenly filled with factions! first the aztecs formed and drove the americans to 2 cities in the north and one off my border, then the aztecs and the americans had to face the Indians revolt, which took some central cities, including washington, which had been a great city prior to this, then the english broke away in one coastal city in the south, then the russians spawned, but were unable to take any cities, and seemed like a roving band of mercenaries (cool!) cities changed hands every few turns, and the area was chaos. meanwhile i had built up a small military just in case the arabs stirred up again with a few cuirassers. then the indians asked to be my vassal! embroiling me in the conflict. i accepted and sent my army to washington. i took it and gave it to india, but the americans and aztecs took it back...
anyway, to make a long story short, i ended this war, asked the homeless russians to help me against portugal, and after another war forced the aztecs and americans to capitulate, earning myself a domination victory! with an augustus rating! this really reminded me of the holy roman empire and its fractured states, finally being united (sort of) under the french (napoleon) since thats what i did! anyway, great mod. its gonna be the only thing i play for a while!
