Role Play Challenge: The Crusades!

Also start spamming some missionaries. I don't think it is possible to get somebody to convert to your religion if not at least 1 ctiy shares your religion, right?

That's correct, but his rules annoyingly forbid open borders, so how do you propose using those missionaries :p? He'd have to declare, take a city, spread it, and gift it back.

I recommend razing everything instead honestly.
 
That's correct, but his rules annoyingly forbid open borders, so how do you propose using those missionaries :p? He'd have to declare, take a city, spread it, and gift it back.

I recommend razing everything instead honestly.

This is true. We are not trying to convert the unbelievers to the true faith like Charlemagne did. We are simply exterminating the unbelievers in a Holy Crusade!

While the Sury game's accidental domination win was funny and fitting, that is no way acceptible here. SO I see Perhaps keeping the former Aztec land mass, and Probably Joao's since his Vassal Washington is a heathen. This means Japa, Celtica, and France need to be burned to the ground.
 
Nukes. Use nukes. The holy hand grenades indeed. I didn't have the patience in my play through to just burn everything after a kind nuking, but maybe you do ;).

If you drop nukes on everything they won't even rebuild with settlers very well...or do anything very well for that matter. You'll have to deal with nuclear winter (wait...no...instead tiles magically changing to desert with pretend fairy magic spells with AL Gore riding on the backs of the fairies and weighing down their fairy magic wings), but so what? So will the AI :p.
 
The Crusades: Of how the Holy Confuscist People begin Purification of the Continent of Blasphemy!

Yes, our Holy Crusades have furthered in their goal of eliminating the unclean religions of the World.

We begin slowly, building our forces.

we find the AP to be of immense entertainment

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Of which Brennus refused causing the world to see his true Villianness! We got about 3 more of these redesignation of former French cities which were voted yes on. Apparently there was a limited amount of unhappiness the Celtics were willing to accept.

Our techpath went: Corporation/SM/Communism/Physics/Democracy/Steam Power/Assembly Line.

The world has greatly lagged behind, perhaps because we are NOT trading off techs to the unclean, or perhaps the true Confuscian gods have cursed them. Nevertheless we were first to

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We revolted to

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And enjoyed a very nice bump in the science slider.

We also got the free GSpy which we saved for a future GA as we teched off Physics next.

Techs are pretty laughable

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And by the save, Noone had rifling and only Toku even had replaceable Parts.

So where are these Crusades? Well here we are

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4 rather weakly defending cities on the former Aztec continent, easy enough to claim using the existing army. We also launched an armada from our east against Tokugawa's western shores of his main continent.

Now, for some reason Jaoa went after Brennus which was fine, but he never was willing to join our holy crusade, much to Justinian's dismay. He did make this trade

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Sure it outdates to UU, but cavalry is a much better unit!

Oh, our Holy Crusades!

We quickly overran Wang's cities

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we also invaded the japanese homelands from the very north

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The plan is a very slow and methodical attack from tha barron wastelands into the Japanese home base.

And we proceeded to brun every city on Toku's homeland

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Meanwhile we do keep those cities on what I shall call, the Aztecia Continent!

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Soon we had all of Aztecia,

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Leaving Tokugawa to his home continent and Wang Kong dead. Heathen #3 eliminated.

I should mention Louis declared war on us once we attacked Tokugawa (not sure if he had a DP) but we soon enough got peace.

Once we got democracy we changed civics

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US for the extra production. we want lots and lots of military for our most Holy war. Happiness was not an issue and we upped the culture slider to 20%, getting us an extra 7 happy faces for each city with a hippodrome and collesium. A very nice UB for a Crusading game.


We continued clobbering Tokugawa, sending one of the 2 armadas back to the homelands to pickup a fresh supply of enlisted Crusaders!.

After using 2 armies to destroy 2 important Japanese cities

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we decided to save here as it is late and I want some advice on how we proceed with the remaining crusades!.

The northern remaining Japanese lands

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With Kyoto, Tokyo etc remaining. Some very strong cities although easy to claim.

Techs

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And we are clearly well away from the Domination limits

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And finally

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The world!

Now normally I would keep those core japanese cities and use them as a launching pad to invade France and Celtia.

HOWEVER, this is an RPC! We have our home continent, we control Aztecia, I say the Continent of misguided religions must be completely leveld! All cities burned on this land mass. Every improvement, town, farm, mine plundered into the ground. These Crusaders can never leave this land until all has been sterilized! There has been too much Blasphemy done here, 2 holy cities! Yes, Justinian has had a calling.

ALL MUST BE BURNED, the true way to Purification!

And techs? We are teching Assembly line, after which I say Artillery/Electricity/Fission/Rocketry. Justinian MUST have the Ultimate Holy Weapon of the Confuscian Gods!!!!!
 
Burn the Witch...Burn the Witch....errrr

I mean, burn the heathen cities....burn them all, only Brenus seems to have Grenadiers and would seem to be the only military threat...if any at all.

Keep on torching, run on a pillage economy, let the barbs take over the lands, let them purify the lands.
 
Well done so far.

Though I must say I find it humourous that in your RPC the first religion you snagged was Confucianism. No Gods to honor with them ehhh?

Just noting the irony.
 
Plus, had you captured the whole continent, you'd probably end with a domination victory (assuming you didn't disable it) before conquering all the heathens. No, this game calls for conquest victory (or perhaps a diplomatic victory with only members of the true faith electing you supreme leader would be fitting as well). Definite, disallow any other victories until the world is rid of those unclean heathens.
 
Burn burn burn hehehe, yeah fire fire FIRE!!! Cool down Beavis.

@ the missionary spread: My bad, forgot about the rules :(
 
HOWEVER, this is an RPC! We have our home continent, we control Aztecia, I say the Continent of misguided religions must be completely leveld! All cities burned on this land mass. Every improvement, town, farm, mine plundered into the ground. These Crusaders can never leave this land until all has been sterilized! There has been too much Blasphemy done here, 2 holy cities! Yes, Justinian has had a calling.

ALL MUST BE BURNED, the true way to Purification!

And techs? We are teching Assembly line, after which I say Artillery/Electricity/Fission/Rocketry. Justinian MUST have the Ultimate Holy Weapon of the Confuscian Gods!!!!!


Sounds like a perfect plan to me :D

Purify the world with the ultimate fire !
 
Would it violate the Rules to gift Portugal some missinaries and hope he converts Washington? Even if it doesnt work it would pad the Shrine Income so the hammers would not be wasted.
 
Would it violate the Rules to gift Portugal some missinaries and hope he converts Washington? Even if it doesnt work it would pad the Shrine Income so the hammers would not be wasted.


I think the AI isn't smart enough to send missionaries across the sea. He'll just fortify them and that's only hammer waste. Washington is the Taoist founder and is unlikely to convert anyway. BTW probably Joao is the founder, and he later liberated the city.
 
The Crusades: Of the Destruction of the Japanese Heathens and the razing of Celtic Holy Cities!

Let's get right to the game! we continued our Holy war against Tokugawa, not stopping until all were dead. we landed a few more Galleons full of reinforcements, then started rebuilding an new army. Those on the Heathen continent of Buddhism and Judaism shall be our Holy Crusaders, fighting until they are all dead or the Continent purified.

Techpath: Assembly Line/Fascism (we greatly needed Police State)/Artillery/Rocketry/ewlectricity/Fission/start Biology.

Yes, we went for the needed techs for the Holy Handgrenade!

Meanwhile back to the Byzantine-Japanese war

We really got into issues with massive numbers of muskets popping up from razed cities

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Considering Toku is both Protective and Aggressive, these are not trivial units!

We also send a slew of our cavalry and Cataphracts into formaer Japanese lands to raze all improvements before Joao can settle all of them.

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We capture the last Continental city of Tokugawa, buring it to the ground

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A final view of the once mighty and fertile Japanese empire, much of which is a smoking husk with a few insignificant stragglers moving in for the spoils.

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we readjusted civics

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And moved in for the Kill on Toku's last holdout city.

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Yet another Heathen buried! More to come, there is much to do in the Confuscian God's name!

A quick look at techs suggests who our next foe is

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Here you can see the number of cities Brennus has

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We then bring our Holy Crusading army to the Celtic border

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Of course Brennus puts up a fight which is very inefficient

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His power numbers dropped real fast just from suiciding a large number of unit to attack us accross a river while we were hiding in a jungle!

After destroying a few new cities trying to settle Japanese lands and one major Celtic city we marched down the western coast

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At this point Jaoa joins the dogpile

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We also leveled the Christian Holy city

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And the Buddhist Holy city

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Many world wonders were destroyed, but worth it for the glory of Confusious.

WE came across the last southern Celtic city and destroyed it.

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As you see the French Heathen has our noble Crusaders surrounded!

We decided to save here. The plan is to hit Louis very strongely with our remaining Crusaders once they heal and begin our new armada against Some French island cities. I see no benefit to take peace with brennus who will die later anyway.

Techs

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Unfortunately Joao will be the toughest because of old GW! The plan is when we get to tanks to line them up on the Portugaese border and flatten him real fast!

But for now, let's look at the victory conditions

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Well below the Domination limit. Perhaps we shall keep some of those Portugese lands once Washington is destroyed!

But first things first. Louis and Brennus MUST die! Time for a holy Jihad against Louis.
 
It'll be hilarious if those squatters on the recently razed continent become spawned off as new heathen colonies and you have to fight all over again. Maggoty heathens indeed.
 
Great job Mad! Way to show them heathens the true god. When you go with your HUGE SoD to take a city, do you send units one at a time or just rush the stack attack? I'm trying to better my city attacks, I know cannons to decrease culture bombard and your horse units help ALOT!

Our Crusaders are armed with 4 cannons which we used exclusively here to reduce the cultural defenses of each city. Our Holy warriors either stayed across a river or on a hill if possible to leep the heathen hordes off our blessed troops. At this point the divinely trained cavalry, all promoted woth Flanking II minimally, attack either slaying the vile defenders or if worthy of teh God's blessings allowed to retreat to kill heathens another day. Once the unclean city defenders are weakened, the Confuscian footsoldiers move in killing all in their path. Finally our grand cleric, a medic III cavalry with attached Great General which miraculously healed all within three turns. Of the holy Crusaders, there was one highly promoted maceman that slew many foes until the God's brought him up to heaven, while we still have 4 Cataphracts that are purging the surrounding country side of the evil towns/farms/mines/workshops/plantations.

We are currently assembling a new Crusading force on the Confuscian homelands of infantry/Artillery/SAMs with their own holy Cleric. I fear the enlightened Portugese will eventually be punished for their friendship with teh American Taoist herectics, but that needs to be seen.

And our course, we are awaiting construction of the Magical Manhatten Project to gain the Holy Handgrenades!
 
Burn more cities, the Stupid AI just spends all its hammers on settlers, so it can rush out and take the land.

As well, they dilute their own strength, Just making it easier for you to destroy them.

You should hold off, just burning new cities till tanks come online, then RUN RAMPANT
 
I fear the enlightened Portugese will eventually be punished for their friendship with teh American Taoist herectics, but that needs to be seen.

That's what I'd recommend, Mad. You will need some more cities, methinks. Not for the Domination limit, just to show the heathens that Justinian doesn't tolerate any heresy. And to grab some more good land of course :D

And our course, we are awaiting construction of the Magical Manhatten Project to gain the Holy Handgrenades!

When using the Holy Handgrenade, you'll have to count until the holy number 'three', which is the number between 2 and 4.
Don't forget about that, Mad ;)
 
That's what I'd recommend, Mad. You will need some more cities, methinks. Not for the Domination limit, just to show the heathens that Justinian doesn't tolerate any heresy. And to grab some more good land of course :D



When using the Holy Handgrenade, you'll have to count until the holy number 'three', which is the number between 2 and 4.
Don't forget about that, Mad ;)

Thre, yes. Launch each attack in threes, not duos and not a quartet, three. The number is three and three shalt be thyne number!

Makes sense to me, I launch Nukes three per turn, no more and no less.
 
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