Role Playing Challenge: Ghengis Kahn I

[TRJS]

I'd guess that he met a boat of Gigla's and came from up north. That's if the late Gigla had made boats.

 

[madscientist]

I'd guess that he met a boat of Gigla's and came from up north. That's if the late Gigla had made boats.

(Gilamesh had three landlocked cities. There was significant amount of fog the the west before I lost my 2 scouts. I prefer he came from the west, otherwise Joao has ALOT of land to settle and he's imperialistic/expansive meaning fast settlers/workers/graneries.)

 

[Killroyan]

Great Kahn, incredible work taking the infidel down but as our horse master we still await our big four legged friends. Find us some horses so we can build a massive army of Keshiks. Nobody will be able to withstand us.

 

[sirhanselot]

Victory!!!! Good job Great Kahn.

My advice would be to build a couple of cities while scouting the area. There are floodplains by the river to the west right? If you build a city there and cottage all the floodplanes, that would be a nice boost to your economie. I don't think we have the economie to take (and keep) Lisbon right now, and razing it would be a waste (we can only keep capitals, correct?).

Would you mind adding some 'state of the world' screens once in a while?

 

[slobberinbear]

Great Khan, these other nations cannot be trusted. They will fear your power and plot against you. The time to strike is now, while you are near and they cower!

 

[r_rolo1]

Keep pushing while you can.... João II normally ReX and keeps the military light, but does not make peace easily ( you should be prepared to finish him... may be the only way to finish war withour gifting back a city ). Just not cripple the eco (get libraries and hire scientists....)

 

[madscientist]

The Great sleeps after a night of taking in Stronge beverages in celebration as the head of the stuffed lion hangs from a spear. "Don't bother me now he tells his warriors, I shall decide in the morning."

(Gonna think about this for a bit, but here are some of my ideas

1) We are not going to neglect science, I am planning to build a library in the capital and run some science specialists.
2) Military production gets moved to City #2 for the moment. Good food, some yaks for production. Enough to keep up defenses.
3) Gonna build up Uruk ASAP, we may have to consider moving the capital here if we expand alot to the west. Undecided on this and we have time.
4) Teching I will finish alphabet and send some spies to check out Justinian when I find him. Next archery, followed by whatever I need to beeline COL.
5) Explore the northern continent to see if horses are there. If they are I'll drop a settler pronto. If there's only copper I will wait since I have Iron. If there are no horses, like I said before I would like to try and claim the stone fast and make a run at the Great Wall.
6) Our empire is just a tad stretched, a little early to expand much more beyond the capital. If claimed by another AI I'll just raze them until we are ready.
7) What to do about Joao??? By now I am sure he has copper hooked up (it wasn't far from Lisbon if I recall), plus there were at least 2 elephant resources which I sure he got. I am certain he needs to be taken down a bit, so once those that stack of Swords and Axes heal up it's on to Lisbon!!! And unless it's got horses or elephants in the BFC, it's going to ash, I'm not about to pay a high maintenance cost to clean up the Portugese mess. Joao is going to be annoyed soon anyway, no chance at any open border with him. The powergraph numbers before the Summerians war indicated Joao was not that much lower than myself, let's hope he spread it out a bit.

Clarification of this RPC rules: The Great Kahn makes all final decisions on whether a city is kept. Generally, capitals may always be kept but can be razed if desired. Holy cities may be kept. Other very good cities, that are already built up may be kept, meaning a city with low popuation and little builtup but with alot of potential probably gets razed.

I will see what I can do about state of the world. It is only arround 1400 BC)

 

[madscientist]

The Saga Of The Great Kahn Continues!!

AS The Great Kahn awakens from his drunken slumber he screams at his mongols, "What have you been doing, there is much more to be done!!!!"

The mighty Mongol Horde moves on the Portugese!

The first city is razed, elephants are pillaged, and we have seen an Portugese war Chariot!! Onto Lisbon and BEHOLD!!

At the same time Great Kahn's heroic, if somewhat small navy makes a discovery on the northern land mass! (I am an idiot!! I had a great screenshot showing horse just on that northern landmass. I sent the settler up there for a coastal city which also collects some fish. Nice, and low maintenance since it's close to the capital)

AS Mighty Kahn's army advances on Lisbon another foe appears! "What kind of barbarian is this?"

Mighty Kahn widely pillages arround Lisbon but leaves the capital, "We will waste too many proud mongol warriors here, move on and wait for reinforcements". (Lisbon had about 4 archers and 2 chariots. My core cities are building more axes/spear/swords while Uruk fights off a few weak Portugese stacks. LOT's of Xps in this war.)

The mighty Mongols raze another city, pillage everything, and retrun to Lisbon, with a population of 1 and 2 archer defenders. What does the Great Kahn do with this capital???

"BURN it to the ground, screams Kahn. We shall return at a later date!" (We settled closer to horses by the capital, and I'll settle the elephants at a later date)

The Great Kahn send a warrior scout to search the northen land mass and behold, another Rival. "This one looks stronge too, but he shall fall to our mongols, WHERE ARE THOSE HORSES!!!"

Finally, the Great Kahn surround's the last Portugese city which is on a hill.

We lost several brave Mongol units here. The pathetic portugese leader screamed like a woman as the Great Kahn unleashed the last deathblow himself. "THe Portugese are dead."

Mighty Kahn looks across the world.

The redhaired Brute lies to the north of our magnificent horses. "SCIENCE MASTER, what is the status of our research?

Kahn grunts. "We made one trade with the pale one, writing for thier polytheism religion. Now we demand Medititaion, we need a Code of Laws soon!!! But the pale one refused, we must find him soon. We must also find the Barbarian, he may pose the most risk.

Kahn sits on a stump and ponders the future, "WHERE IS MY HORSE, and we need GERS!

(Well, antoher spectacular battle. Lot's of well promoted units now, We got two great generals, one of which is attached to a Swordman with leadership promotion, the other waits for the returning horde. Thanks to those who encouraged me to attack, a great victory for all!!!

So onto new business

1) WE have killed 2 AIs, and found 3 more. I think there are 7 total on a standard map. 2 more to go.

2) Horses are on the way.

3) Techwise: We teched archery and alphabet and have about half of HB. Gers and Keshiks soon enough.

4) Noone is teching real fast, we are going for the Great Wall. Settler prepping, alreayd have a goldmine and wheat ready. That's 5 cities, enough for now until we get COL and/or Currency.

5) The horde is heading home. Where to??? I have not located Shaka or Justinian yet, but Brennus is on the same continant as the Horse city. Not a threat YET.

All three are dangerous in there own right, Shaka is the major concern. Brennus need to be hit fast if we go that way to minimize those fast promotions.

None of the three AIs appear to have met each other yet, so no open borders which is good since this group is unlikely to give us any tribute which is required to unlock open borders.

Looking to build up some tech for a while, and although sending the horde across the water to take out Brennus, that will take time by Galley. I'll send some horse scouts out when they are built.



OK, suggestions for the Mighty Kahn, what do the generals say???)

 

[TRJS]

Horse!!! We shall dine well tonight.

I agree great Khan that both SHaka and Ragnar can be worthy opponents.

At this stage I would suggest Ragnar makes a good target as our horse city shares his continent. Would not surprise me to see some new cities of his appearing north of us. Juicy targets for the might Keshiks.

 

[madscientist]

Horse!!! We shall dine well tonight.

I agree great Khan that both SHaka and Ragnar can be worthy opponents.

At this stage I would suggest Ragnar makes a good target as our horse city shares his continent. Would not surprise me to see some new cities of his appearing north of us. Juicy targets for the might Keshiks.

(It's Brennus, not Ragnar. But then again Vikings or Celts, our Keshiks could care less.)

 

[TRJS]

I shall flail myself silly for the mistake oh great Khan.

(And slap my forehead for real)

 

[Diamondeye]

Chapter III: The Horde strikes

Spoiler :

Temüdjin and his brother, Kachiun, was leading the warriors against Uruk, the capitol of the Sumerians. The small city of Eridu had fallen quickly due to the numbers and quality of the Mongol soldiers. This city was going to be a much harder challenge. Temüdjin saw a swarm of arrows appearing as some sort of cloud above them, and raised his shield. He felt the thump as an arrow struck the shield, but it did not shatter. He charged on. They were near the city now. A last volley killed many of the Mongol warriors, but then the distance between the two armies disappeared and the raging Mongol swordsmen threw themselves into a furious battle. The archers, only wearing clothes and wielding tiny hunting knives, fell easily to the Mongol horde. Uruk was theirs.
Temüdjin walked into the city square, with Kachiun right behind him.
He had decided to keep the city and annex it into his mighty empire.
A couple of villagers eager to prove their loyalty to the new king revealed to him that their former leader, Gilgamesh, had fled to the southwest. Temüdjin noted this, asked the villagers to construct a monument to honor him and prove their loyalty, and then marched back to his army out in the fields around the city. Many of the soldiers were wounded, and it would take some time before they were healthy enough to fight again. The Khan would not wait that long. He asked the villagers of Uruk to help the wounded and gathered most of them around him, leaving only the very weak.
"Now it is time to prove who rules the plains. The Sumerian lion has run away like a whipped dog. Now, my wolves, show them no mercy!"

Chapter IV: The fall of the lion
Gilgamesh sat in the small village. His hasty escape had saved his life, atleast for now, but he could hear the savage hordes voices already. He looked down from the hastily built fortifications. The Mongols were many. Too many for the city to keep them out with the single archer battalion. But he had no where to run. He would fight them here. He took up a bow and climbed the tiny ladder leading up to the crude battlements.
He carefully stringed it and began to fire in a slow pace.

The arrows klenched Boke to the ground. He felt so weak, he was ashamed of himself. He tried to sit up, but his muscles would not obey him. His body was too heavy. He saw the shafts of atleast four arrows pointing out from his torso. He sighed as the sky darkened once more, and let out his last breath as the arrows hammered against his body.
Kachiun jumped over the dead body of Boke and continued towards the walls. As the only Mongol on the field, he had no sword. Only a bow and a shield, and of course his arrows. He let one of them fly towards the tall man on the wall. A loyal subject threw himself into the way of the arrow and fell off the wall, dead. Kachiun sent more arrows in a rapid pace against the king, but he had ducked beneath a shield, and the attack did not penetrate it. Meanwhile, Temüdjin was charging through the gates ahead of his horde. The last few defenders fell quickly, and he climbed the wall and faced the Lion, Gilgamesh.
"I am sure we can... come to some kind of agreement," Gilgamesh started. The Khan stepped foward and parted the kings head from the rest of his body with a mighty swing of his sword. "No mercy!" He yelled at the surviving mongols. They broke into a loud chorus.
The Khan smiled at his brother. The Sumerians were defeated.

 

[sirhanselot]

So, Portugal is no more. Great job, made me realise that my advice wasn't aggressive enough. Learned something today, "If you have got them by the throat, bite!"

What is your plan concerning the other landmass? If you settle more than one city there, you have to pay colony maintenance (right?). I believe that over 3 or 4 cities, the maintenance starts to go up really fast.

The problem is that you can't split of part of your cities on one landmass into a colony. It's all or nothing (you can settle cities after you have created a colony though). So it might be worth creating a plan on this pretty soon....

 

[madscientist]

Chapter III: The Horde strikes

Spoiler :

Temüdjin and his brother, Kachiun, was leading the warriors against Uruk, the capitol of the Sumerians. The small city of Eridu had fallen quickly due to the numbers and quality of the Mongol soldiers. This city was going to be a much harder challenge. Temüdjin saw a swarm of arrows appearing as some sort of cloud above them, and raised his shield. He felt the thump as an arrow struck the shield, but it did not shatter. He charged on. They were near the city now. A last volley killed many of the Mongol warriors, but then the distance between the two armies disappeared and the raging Mongol swordsmen threw themselves into a furious battle. The archers, only wearing clothes and wielding tiny hunting knives, fell easily to the Mongol horde. Uruk was theirs.
Temüdjin walked into the city square, with Kachiun right behind him.
He had decided to keep the city and annex it into his mighty empire.
A couple of villagers eager to prove their loyalty to the new king revealed to him that their former leader, Gilgamesh, had fled to the southwest. Temüdjin noted this, asked the villagers to construct a monument to honor him and prove their loyalty, and then marched back to his army out in the fields around the city. Many of the soldiers were wounded, and it would take some time before they were healthy enough to fight again. The Khan would not wait that long. He asked the villagers of Uruk to help the wounded and gathered most of them around him, leaving only the very weak.
"Now it is time to prove who rules the plains. The Sumerian lion has run away like a whipped dog. Now, my wolves, show them no mercy!"

Chapter IV: The fall of the lion
Gilgamesh sat in the small village. His hasty escape had saved his life, atleast for now, but he could hear the savage hordes voices already. He looked down from the hastily built fortifications. The Mongols were many. Too many for the city to keep them out with the single archer battalion. But he had no where to run. He would fight them here. He took up a bow and climbed the tiny ladder leading up to the crude battlements.
He carefully stringed it and began to fire in a slow pace.

The arrows klenched Boke to the ground. He felt so weak, he was ashamed of himself. He tried to sit up, but his muscles would not obey him. His body was too heavy. He saw the shafts of atleast four arrows pointing out from his torso. He sighed as the sky darkened once more, and let out his last breath as the arrows hammered against his body.
Kachiun jumped over the dead body of Boke and continued towards the walls. As the only Mongol on the field, he had no sword. Only a bow and a shield, and of course his arrows. He let one of them fly towards the tall man on the wall. A loyal subject threw himself into the way of the arrow and fell off the wall, dead. Kachiun sent more arrows in a rapid pace against the king, but he had ducked beneath a shield, and the attack did not penetrate it. Meanwhile, Temüdjin was charging through the gates ahead of his horde. The last few defenders fell quickly, and he climbed the wall and faced the Lion, Gilgamesh.
"I am sure we can... come to some kind of agreement," Gilgamesh started. The Khan stepped foward and parted the kings head from the rest of his body with a mighty swing of his sword. "No mercy!" He yelled at the surviving mongols. They broke into a loud chorus.
The Khan smiled at his brother. The Sumerians were defeated.

The Great Kahn is pleased with his scribe's excellent retelling of our great conquest of the Summerian dogs. Please continue the good work.

 

[madscientist]

So, Portugal is no more. Great job, made me realise that my advice wasn't aggressive enough. Learned something today, "If you have got them by the throat, bite!"

What is your plan concerning the other landmass? If you settle more than one city there, you have to pay colony maintenance (right?). I believe that over 3 or 4 cities, the maintenance starts to go up really fast.

The problem is that you can't split of part of your cities on one landmass into a colony. It's all or nothing (you can settle cities after you have created a colony though). So it might be worth creating a plan on this pretty soon....

Two things about the northern land mass.

1) It snakes arround to the left, then abruptly blocked off by 2 impassable mountains. It is possible the northern land mass actually connects to our current one. I need to get some Keshiks build and explore further on our own continent.
2) The northern continent is not all that impressive past the close horses, desert and jungle with not that many resources. My preference is to build arround the capital (at least 2 cities) then expand into whre the elephants are. Even if Justinian is in that direction I am guessing even he cannot expand that fast and if he does he'll be easy picking just like the fool Jaoa.

So the immediate plan is to finish HB (18 turns), which means the borders of the horse city should have popped and the pasteur just built. Ferry most of the Horde over there. Make a run at the great Wall, while producing enough troops to protect the mainland from Barbs.

Now the second great general has to be attached to a unit, I already have a medic i axeman so I think he'll be going to medic III.

About Brennus: (Editted for a little more discussion)

A) The Great Kahn needs some tribute before he trades, a little tough with this crowd. However, Brennus founded Buddhism so if I wait for it to spread to me, convert and then ask for tribute I may be able to get open borders. Also Shaka is Buddhist and that could become interesting as he's likel on the other side of Brennus. My northern border would be secure as I trust Brennus once he's friendly (and I get OR) and will just backstab him at the end of the game.

B) We could just keep practicing Mongolian diplomacy and overrun him with the horde. The Great Kahn is a reaslistic man, he's not going to be able to just overrun the entire world with swords and Keshiks. Maybe just half!)

 

[sirhanselot]

Now the second great general has to be attached to a unit, I already have a medic i axeman so I think he'll be going to medic III.

If you attach it to a war chariot it will have 2 movement points in stead of one and the risk of being picked as stack defender (after other units have been damaged) will be a lot smaller.

A war chariot + barracks + ger + Great General is enough for a medic III unit right?

Please tell me if I have overlooked something...

 

[madscientist]

If you attach it to a war chariot it will have 2 movement points in stead of one and the risk of being picked as stack defender (after other units have been damaged) will be a lot smaller.

A war chariot + barracks + ger + Great General is enough for a medic III unit right?

Please tell me if I have overlooked something...

YEs it is enough and I considered it for the reason you mentioned. The benefit of the axeman is that he's already aprtly promoted there, and perhaps I can get him up to woodsman III which allows even more healing. Alternatively I could use the Moral promotion (I think that's what it's called) which adds I movement essentially getting it to chariot speed. Remember I have one highly promoted GG unit already so the AI probably targets him since he is a Swordsman. I also can stop promoting the medic III axeman but that is real difficult to do. Good point, I have not decided yet.

Also, they are chariots. War Chariots are the Egyptian UU. Just to avoid confusion.

 

[Diamondeye]

I'll cover the fall of Portugal sometime tomorrow. Yawn.

 

[madscientist]

The Great Kahn orders buildings and military in his cities. "We must consider expanding now!" Great Kahn also orders his brave horde onto the northern lands, which is inded separated from his continent. Also Mighty Kahn has found that all three of his enemies are on that northern landmass, the southern is all Mongolians, and may the gods help anyone who settles his land!

(SO I am going to go through this next section through my point of view as it is a Friday night and I tired. I used the GG on the medic I axeman who is now a medic III axeman. I teched HB/COL/Math/Construction/Currency plus a few token cheap religious techs. I moved most of the Horde to the northen mass, figuring that was the next battle front.

We find Justinian, he is Northwest of our horse city. I initiate a valuable trade with Brennus (this is not forbidden in the rules without tribute, only open borders require tribute)

Not concerned with giving Brennus HB since he has no horses.

The eve of the attack on Justinian:

The mongols did ALOT of pillaging and minor city razing. Constantinople

Is on a hill and tough to take out, defeinitely not enough troops. I pillaged everything, Justinian is in the stoneage! I sued for peace getting monotheism.

My troops ended up on the other side of Justinian, I declared again in 10 turns, razed 2 more cities and went back towards my horse city, getting Justinian to switch to paganism as tribute.

Those Keshiks played a big part, weak UU, bah. I kept making new ones and they got to the front REAL fast. Razed 2 mior cities themselfs, took Justinians iron out fast (lost 1 Keshik to a spear) and there was nothing he could do but hole up.

Currently we are producing as many catapults as I can get out, anticipating taking out Justinian once and for all. Brennus is a non-issue but Shaka is a concern, getting equal in power numbers. After Justinian it's gonna be time to go after Shaka, hopefully with the help of Brennus. I got 1 GS which I settled in the capital. I think next I go for an academy unless PHIL/Toaism is an option. We will decide at the time whether to keep Constantinople which is the Hindu Holy city.

So some picture on out status

Western Mongolia, I am definitely sending a settler out to claim those extra horses and elephants.

Eastern Mongolia

Northern lands.

Civics

Diplomatic status ( I did get Shaka to give me some gold in tribute and open borders before he switched to Judaism and became cautious)

Techs (doing pretty good here)

So there we have the status of of beloved Mighty Kahn. Justinian is toast as soon as I get catapults built. Some more Kesiks, some swords and we are set, with our nobel horde on THEIR continent while we sit and expand at our leasure. Barbarians are keeping Uruk busy which explains the slower expansion once I got Currency and COL. All cities have at least 1 cottage maturing most have several, I'll post some city shots next update. I plan on updating in a day or so.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. )

 

[madscientist]

The Quest of The Mighty Kahn Continued

The Great Kahn has little time for talk. AS the art of the mighty city killer catapults is learned, he moves onto the pale vampire's landds, the final death blow. He find the barbarian Shaka at war with him. "Head not the barbarian, we shall take what is ours!"

(OK, we have catapults and a well promoted army, time to finish the Byzantines.)

Constantinople falls, The Great Kahn decided to keep the holy city "The gold from the Hindu Shrine will help or mongol"

The final cities are demolished and Mighty Kahn looks at his rivals.

The Great Kahn roars, "I know there is someone else out there, where are they?" (AS I understand there is one missing AI still)

Mighty Kahn observes that his nobel redhaired friend Brennus (well, friend for teh moment) is at war with the Barbarian. The Great Kahn takes advantage of this and sends the horde against the one called SHaka.
(Shaka is our biggest military threat, but he has no horses. Rather than wait for him to find them, I think it's time to take him on. One barbarian city Shaka captured was near Constantinople, so I razed it. Anotehr was a captured barbarian city in the middle of Brennus lands, I razed that. Then we approached the Zulu homeland).

( I razed one Zulu city before this shot. I lost one swordsman/great general due to a counter attack, sloppy. I did not assault any of these cities as Shaka spammed too many troops in them. I was running low on cats, I razed one northern city, then left. )

The Great and merciful Kahn accepts a peace offering from the Barbarian Shaka.

The Great Kahn has also met another rival, "He is but a child, what sort of leader is this??"

(So we have met the last AI, Pacal who appears to be on his own continent. I got tribute right away and was able to make a trade and then open borders. My last screenshot is Brennus' land right above the horse city. Brennus is doing better than us in tech but has no elephants/horse or iron. With Shaka recouping, the time is right to strike the celts and cripple them. We have machinery and crossbows so the gallic warriors are no problem. He has longbow, but we are close to civil service and those maces. Got another GG which went onto a jumbo. Economy is decent, enough to proceed and tech through at least engineering without much effort. We are trying to build up our cottages and trying to build a few markets to help out. But our main concern is Domination, and the faster we take out Brennus, who is teching philosophy at this point, the closer we will get. I have expanded a bit more into the west, claiming the horse/elephants from the former portugese lands, barbarian raids are controlled with Keshiks, we see no reson to expand further. Perhaps he can be forced to capitulate. SO the final Screenshot..)

The Great Kahn awaits the return of his prize mongol warriors, eyeing the Redheaded brute, "Let us begin, he laughs in a menancing way.

(PS: I hope this RPC is not getting too boring for all. I admit I am not the greatest on posting screenshots, and the constant is rather tedious.)