SKILORD
Insurgent
You did...I think. But thanks to the miniscule size of the PM box I don't have them saved. You said something like expand in all directions and... army size upping?
SNES: Absolution III
- Thread starter SKILORD
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tossi
Der kleine Prinz
But not for this turn!
Commanche Orders
-grow economy
-expand in every direction
-make my people independent ^^
Commanche Orders
-grow economy
-expand in every direction
-make my people independent ^^
Specialist290
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From: China
To: Nippon
Certainly! We are always willing to meet other cultures.
(Of course, after reviewing some of the communiques between you and the Markadians, we have come to realize that maybe these people are not just another friendly Eastern culture. Rest assured that if worse comes to worse between you and the Markadians, you will have the full support of our nation.)
From: China
To: Markadia
I would advise you against initiating hostilities with our friends the Nipponese. We were eyewitnesses to their deeds in the war in Korea, and they fight like demons. Also, we have pledged that we will assist them in the event of any outbreak of warfare, and our own combat record is nothing to scoff at.
I hope both parties can work out this disagreement by peaceful means, and I strongly encourage you and Nippon to hold off your troops. We also hope that the both of you will forget this spat after everything is settled, as we wish for friendly relations with all. However, if war comes, we will assist our friends to the fullest of our abilities.
ORDERS
-Continue work on Wonder.
-Continue expansion. Expand inland predominantly, but also settle the land south to the Chang Jiang border.
-Increase Army training level.
To: Nippon
Certainly! We are always willing to meet other cultures.
(Of course, after reviewing some of the communiques between you and the Markadians, we have come to realize that maybe these people are not just another friendly Eastern culture. Rest assured that if worse comes to worse between you and the Markadians, you will have the full support of our nation.)
From: China
To: Markadia
I would advise you against initiating hostilities with our friends the Nipponese. We were eyewitnesses to their deeds in the war in Korea, and they fight like demons. Also, we have pledged that we will assist them in the event of any outbreak of warfare, and our own combat record is nothing to scoff at.
I hope both parties can work out this disagreement by peaceful means, and I strongly encourage you and Nippon to hold off your troops. We also hope that the both of you will forget this spat after everything is settled, as we wish for friendly relations with all. However, if war comes, we will assist our friends to the fullest of our abilities.
ORDERS
-Continue work on Wonder.
-Continue expansion. Expand inland predominantly, but also settle the land south to the Chang Jiang border.
-Increase Army training level.
WarlordMatt
Emperor
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OOC I know none of you will probably bother to read all this crap, but for the sake of storytelling here it goes.
Note: Ajajmuu Islam is a much more brutal religion than real Islam, just for future reference if you actually bother to read all this.
As Ajaj citizens intermingle with African tribespeople, many mixed children are born. They are called nuhuntar, or mixed in the Ajaj tongue. One of these such chilldren, the son of an Ajaj man and an African woman, is born in 2156 B.C. He is named Buntar.
From the beginning of his life Buntar was seen as different, in a good way. He was a natural leader, and often led his young friends on adventures into the African wilderness. As he grew up, he became very interested in philosophy. He was an ambitious young man, and at age 17 he left his parents and his village to travel 75 miles to the city of Arabaz to go to a university. There he studied philosophy and the arts. He also witnessed the strict lifestyles of the religious Ajaj people, and wondered why they dedicated their way of life to Allah, whom he considered to be fictional.
As he made friends, he began to see how they were subjected to rigorous worship and punished if they acted against the ways of Islam. Night after night, he started to develop his own philosophy on how people should live their lives. He believed that an individual should seek to better their way of life, as long as it does not disturb that of other citizens. He believed that the people should not be prisoners of a high deity for their whole of existance. He believed that something should be done to stop the brutal torture that occured if one so much as slightly violated a law of Islam. He believed that the nation of Ajaj could do better, muct better, if it were not the slave of some (he thought) nonexistant godly being. In short, he believed in revolution.
Buntar spread the word to his friends, who being the younger generation, were much more radical than their strictly religious parents. They were all fascinated, and agreed to support him with their life. They, in turn, spread the word to all their friends, and soon Buntar had arranged an army of nearly every young man and woman in Arabaz. They agreed to attack the small garrison of military troops in the city center on the night of June 2, 2135 B.C., a day that would go down in Ajaj history. The attack was highly successful, Buntar's army having the element of surprise and being armed with weapons of superior quality than those of the troops (little attention was given to the defense of Arabaz, as the Ajaj had never experienced any resistance in the Sinai Peninsula, where the city is located). Every soldier was either killed or captured.
From Arabaz, the Buntarists (as they were now being called) launched a campaign against the capital of Ajarbaz. As word spread of revolution, many other cities began revolting against their clerics. A 6 year long civil war followed, with Buntar finally laying seige to Ajarbaz and ousting the King and Queen. That day, victory was proclaimed for the new religion of Buntarism.
In the aftermath, Buntar and his several hundred thousand followers rebuilt the nation, providing food to the poor and hungry. He appointed local lords to oversee each city and declared Ajaj a Republic, where new rulers would be elected on their leadership skills rather than their family blood. He encouraged subsistance farming where possible, to decrease dependancy on government food.
The elders were still allowed to practice Ajajmuu Islam, but after they died out Islam went with them. For now on, Ajaj was a Buntarist state. But the question remained: would Buntar lead the Ajaj to a glorious new age, or go the way of Fidel Castro? Only time would tell.
Another note: No, I am not copying Amon Savag's recent action in RTOR, I have been cooking this up for the past several days.
Orders: Change religion to Buntarism, and government to Early Republic.
Begin training army, expand in all directions mainly into the Arabian Peninsula.
Note: Ajajmuu Islam is a much more brutal religion than real Islam, just for future reference if you actually bother to read all this.
As Ajaj citizens intermingle with African tribespeople, many mixed children are born. They are called nuhuntar, or mixed in the Ajaj tongue. One of these such chilldren, the son of an Ajaj man and an African woman, is born in 2156 B.C. He is named Buntar.
From the beginning of his life Buntar was seen as different, in a good way. He was a natural leader, and often led his young friends on adventures into the African wilderness. As he grew up, he became very interested in philosophy. He was an ambitious young man, and at age 17 he left his parents and his village to travel 75 miles to the city of Arabaz to go to a university. There he studied philosophy and the arts. He also witnessed the strict lifestyles of the religious Ajaj people, and wondered why they dedicated their way of life to Allah, whom he considered to be fictional.
As he made friends, he began to see how they were subjected to rigorous worship and punished if they acted against the ways of Islam. Night after night, he started to develop his own philosophy on how people should live their lives. He believed that an individual should seek to better their way of life, as long as it does not disturb that of other citizens. He believed that the people should not be prisoners of a high deity for their whole of existance. He believed that something should be done to stop the brutal torture that occured if one so much as slightly violated a law of Islam. He believed that the nation of Ajaj could do better, muct better, if it were not the slave of some (he thought) nonexistant godly being. In short, he believed in revolution.
Buntar spread the word to his friends, who being the younger generation, were much more radical than their strictly religious parents. They were all fascinated, and agreed to support him with their life. They, in turn, spread the word to all their friends, and soon Buntar had arranged an army of nearly every young man and woman in Arabaz. They agreed to attack the small garrison of military troops in the city center on the night of June 2, 2135 B.C., a day that would go down in Ajaj history. The attack was highly successful, Buntar's army having the element of surprise and being armed with weapons of superior quality than those of the troops (little attention was given to the defense of Arabaz, as the Ajaj had never experienced any resistance in the Sinai Peninsula, where the city is located). Every soldier was either killed or captured.
From Arabaz, the Buntarists (as they were now being called) launched a campaign against the capital of Ajarbaz. As word spread of revolution, many other cities began revolting against their clerics. A 6 year long civil war followed, with Buntar finally laying seige to Ajarbaz and ousting the King and Queen. That day, victory was proclaimed for the new religion of Buntarism.
In the aftermath, Buntar and his several hundred thousand followers rebuilt the nation, providing food to the poor and hungry. He appointed local lords to oversee each city and declared Ajaj a Republic, where new rulers would be elected on their leadership skills rather than their family blood. He encouraged subsistance farming where possible, to decrease dependancy on government food.
The elders were still allowed to practice Ajajmuu Islam, but after they died out Islam went with them. For now on, Ajaj was a Buntarist state. But the question remained: would Buntar lead the Ajaj to a glorious new age, or go the way of Fidel Castro? Only time would tell.
Another note: No, I am not copying Amon Savag's recent action in RTOR, I have been cooking this up for the past several days.
Orders: Change religion to Buntarism, and government to Early Republic.
Begin training army, expand in all directions mainly into the Arabian Peninsula.
From Nippon
To China
We thank you for your support, and we assure you that Nippon will always protect and support chinise territorial claims and may our ancient friendship continue for all time.
We have been friends for so long, would china be interested in a full Alliance?
To China
We thank you for your support, and we assure you that Nippon will always protect and support chinise territorial claims and may our ancient friendship continue for all time.
We have been friends for so long, would china be interested in a full Alliance?
Specialist290
Terracotta Statue Man
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From: China
To: Nippon
Alliance sounds good. We accept.
To: Nippon
Alliance sounds good. We accept.
erez87
Lord of Random
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to China:
The first to talk of hostilities were the Nippons claiming they will kill our people if we continue to settle our homelands in India... They are rude. If they will attack our settlers they will need to feel the wrath of Markadia.
The first to talk of hostilities were the Nippons claiming they will kill our people if we continue to settle our homelands in India... They are rude. If they will attack our settlers they will need to feel the wrath of Markadia.
WarlordMatt
Emperor
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Update?
By the way, happy birthday SKILORD!
By the way, happy birthday SKILORD!
Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
Happy Birthday Kiddo!
SKILORD
Insurgent
SKILORD said:
yeah, I'l update pretty soon.
Thanx guys.
foolish icarus
Shipwreck
The Medean king has, at the advice of his court, executed several programs and made some laws:
Seeing the growing influence of the local landowners of Mesopotamia, who are expanding their holdings and collecting large numbers of peasants, the king desires to bring the balance of power back in his favor. Thuslistically, a project of Wondrous proportions:
MASS IRRIGATION IN THE REGIONS KNOWN RATHER COLLOQIALLY AS THE LAND BETWEEN THE RIVERS, WHICH IS A LITTLE PRETENTIOUS, BECAUSE AFTER ALL THERE ARE LOTS OF RIVERS IN THE WORLD, AND PLENTY OF LANDS BETWEEN SAID RIVERS, BUT OH WELL THATS WHAT THEY CALL THEIR LAND, SO IN THE INTERESTS OF SENSITIVITY AND ACCEPTANCE, WE SHALL OBSERVE THEIR QUAINT RUSTIC CUSTOMS.
The MIITRKRCATLBTR project, henceforth referred to as Mitrakrocatlbetr, the Elamite word for many water ditches laid out in a rather elegant patter will entail royal revenues and slave labor constructing irrigation canals in the flood plains of the Tigris and Euphrates river valley settlements. A system of ditches, mounds, and incline screw water boxes will distribute water in a continuous flow, which will reduce salinization and soil erosion. The rate of water flow can be controlled somewhat to deposit or wash away alluvial silt as necessary.
This project will temporarily increase dependence on the state while it is being built, but in the long run will increase self sufficiency as peasants can more easily work their own land and greater crop yields allows for more specialization of labor and larger artisan classes. This is financially desirable for the state as all this of course will mean a larger and more taxable monetary base.
But how to pay for all this? Goats and bushels of wheat are not easy to distribute from the royal treasury to the hinterlands where the work needs to be done. The business classes of Mesopotamia have provided the solution, just as they did centuries ago with their writing and accounting systems. Tablets of debt have been superseded by specie as a commonly accepted currency, each amount of gold, silver, or copper having a relatively stable value among the marketplace money changers. A royal edict has added a new section to the Kings Code, describing a standardized set of weights and measures which the royal purchasers and tax collectors will be using for all transactions.
Orders:
Begin Mitrakrocatlbetr Project.
Standardize weights and measures in royal use.
Expand borders eastwards and westwards.
Seeing the growing influence of the local landowners of Mesopotamia, who are expanding their holdings and collecting large numbers of peasants, the king desires to bring the balance of power back in his favor. Thuslistically, a project of Wondrous proportions:
MASS IRRIGATION IN THE REGIONS KNOWN RATHER COLLOQIALLY AS THE LAND BETWEEN THE RIVERS, WHICH IS A LITTLE PRETENTIOUS, BECAUSE AFTER ALL THERE ARE LOTS OF RIVERS IN THE WORLD, AND PLENTY OF LANDS BETWEEN SAID RIVERS, BUT OH WELL THATS WHAT THEY CALL THEIR LAND, SO IN THE INTERESTS OF SENSITIVITY AND ACCEPTANCE, WE SHALL OBSERVE THEIR QUAINT RUSTIC CUSTOMS.
The MIITRKRCATLBTR project, henceforth referred to as Mitrakrocatlbetr, the Elamite word for many water ditches laid out in a rather elegant patter will entail royal revenues and slave labor constructing irrigation canals in the flood plains of the Tigris and Euphrates river valley settlements. A system of ditches, mounds, and incline screw water boxes will distribute water in a continuous flow, which will reduce salinization and soil erosion. The rate of water flow can be controlled somewhat to deposit or wash away alluvial silt as necessary.
This project will temporarily increase dependence on the state while it is being built, but in the long run will increase self sufficiency as peasants can more easily work their own land and greater crop yields allows for more specialization of labor and larger artisan classes. This is financially desirable for the state as all this of course will mean a larger and more taxable monetary base.
But how to pay for all this? Goats and bushels of wheat are not easy to distribute from the royal treasury to the hinterlands where the work needs to be done. The business classes of Mesopotamia have provided the solution, just as they did centuries ago with their writing and accounting systems. Tablets of debt have been superseded by specie as a commonly accepted currency, each amount of gold, silver, or copper having a relatively stable value among the marketplace money changers. A royal edict has added a new section to the Kings Code, describing a standardized set of weights and measures which the royal purchasers and tax collectors will be using for all transactions.
Orders:
Begin Mitrakrocatlbetr Project.
Standardize weights and measures in royal use.
Expand borders eastwards and westwards.
Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
Druid Orders
Continue expansion along the coastlines of Greenland and also open up new colonies in Greenland to have more ports there.
Continue expansion along the coastlines of Greenland and also open up new colonies in Greenland to have more ports there.
SKILORD
Insurgent
Updating even as we speak.
SKILORD
Insurgent
Attempts to promote colonization of Greenland through tax exemption generally failed, but did end up producing the small colony of Tipporia on the Southern part of the island.
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Germany continues to expand so far south as the Mycenaean border sending even more refugees into Mycenaea, however the new refugees are not of the peaceful variety and one in particular, Aleksandre of the Balkas, seems determined to begin a personal empire in the new land. The past immigrants were generally conscripted into the army and sent to help Mycenaean expansion, more on that later.
German nationals have been reported as scattered throughout Mycenaean lands, famed Mycenaean sculptor Alchibathus, claimed to have been stalked by several for months. Several philosophers and artists complain likewise.
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Ethiopian army falls into civil war over whether or not to attack Markadian colony.
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Scandinavia grabs a pivotal island which they call Fallka. They hope to use this island to spread their nation westward to Greenland.
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Markadians continue aggressively colonizing.
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Religions spread a lot. Buntarism in particular begins to spread from the Ghand to the Mycenaeans.
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Mycenaean attempts to conquer Roma fail as have all such attempts. Rome declares itself independent.
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Lyons seizes Sardinia.
WAR
The Third turn of hostilities.
The beginning of the turn showed good Semerian planning and luck when they successfully landed a massive army in Morocco to begin its trek to Carthage, almost as soon as the last troops were over the Mycenaean navy would crush their brave Semerian counterparts in one final battle at Gibraltar, where the aged Admiral refused to surrender and sank with his ship.
The Mycenaean navy then began to use the Balearics as bases to raid and absolutely devastate the Semerian Mediterranean coast. It is absolutely horrendous there and people are dead by the hundreds. All naval capacity of Semeria is absolutely devastated.
The Mycenaeans then landed an army on the route to Carthage from Morocco, hoping to block supplies. They were simply not prepared for the army that arrived on its way to reinforce the troops at the Carthegian front and were forced to retreat to the Balearics temporarily before resiezing the lands.
The massive Semerian army moved on, but its surprise was lost, they still attempted their outflanking maneuver though and the Semerian army that they were reinforcing moved to make that advance only to find a conscript Balkan army that it crushed in battle.
The flanking advance then had limited success but new Carthegian defenses helped to blunt it. A joke among the Mycenaeans in Carthage has become that they build more than they fight.
The Mycenaeans then brought slave revolts to Semeria, and in Semer itself the battle cost many lives when the slave market exploded into violence. Many slaves are dead and the people grow less and less content with the war every day.
Science
Everyone else enters Antiquity!
Wonders
Wonders in Progress
Confucian Academy: China (1 Turns)
Mausoleum of Semer: Semeria (1 Turns)
Loyalty Academy: Madg (2 Turns)
Germanic Breweries: Teutonic Germania (2 Turns)
Grand Imperialization: Nippon (2 Turns | 1 Patent Turn)
Mitrakrocatlbetr Project: Media (4 Turns | 2 Patent Turn)
New Open Wonders
The Colossus: Two Upgrades per turn for the rest of Antiquity. 6 Turns.
The Olympics: People far happier, army 1 better trained 4 Turns.
Great Lighthouse: +2 Fleet Training, Navy Upgrades Free to Imperial. 6 Turns (5 for Swift Nations)
Pyramids: Significantly lowers chances of coup.
The Odyssey: Increases education and happiness.
Contacts
The Ajaj have contact with the Madg!
The Ghand and the Markadians have contact with the Chinese!
Velikoslavia has contact with the Ghand!
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Germany continues to expand so far south as the Mycenaean border sending even more refugees into Mycenaea, however the new refugees are not of the peaceful variety and one in particular, Aleksandre of the Balkas, seems determined to begin a personal empire in the new land. The past immigrants were generally conscripted into the army and sent to help Mycenaean expansion, more on that later.
German nationals have been reported as scattered throughout Mycenaean lands, famed Mycenaean sculptor Alchibathus, claimed to have been stalked by several for months. Several philosophers and artists complain likewise.
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Ethiopian army falls into civil war over whether or not to attack Markadian colony.
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Scandinavia grabs a pivotal island which they call Fallka. They hope to use this island to spread their nation westward to Greenland.
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Markadians continue aggressively colonizing.
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Religions spread a lot. Buntarism in particular begins to spread from the Ghand to the Mycenaeans.
-
Mycenaean attempts to conquer Roma fail as have all such attempts. Rome declares itself independent.
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Lyons seizes Sardinia.
WAR
The Third turn of hostilities.
The beginning of the turn showed good Semerian planning and luck when they successfully landed a massive army in Morocco to begin its trek to Carthage, almost as soon as the last troops were over the Mycenaean navy would crush their brave Semerian counterparts in one final battle at Gibraltar, where the aged Admiral refused to surrender and sank with his ship.
The Mycenaean navy then began to use the Balearics as bases to raid and absolutely devastate the Semerian Mediterranean coast. It is absolutely horrendous there and people are dead by the hundreds. All naval capacity of Semeria is absolutely devastated.
The Mycenaeans then landed an army on the route to Carthage from Morocco, hoping to block supplies. They were simply not prepared for the army that arrived on its way to reinforce the troops at the Carthegian front and were forced to retreat to the Balearics temporarily before resiezing the lands.
The massive Semerian army moved on, but its surprise was lost, they still attempted their outflanking maneuver though and the Semerian army that they were reinforcing moved to make that advance only to find a conscript Balkan army that it crushed in battle.
The flanking advance then had limited success but new Carthegian defenses helped to blunt it. A joke among the Mycenaeans in Carthage has become that they build more than they fight.
The Mycenaeans then brought slave revolts to Semeria, and in Semer itself the battle cost many lives when the slave market exploded into violence. Many slaves are dead and the people grow less and less content with the war every day.
Science
Everyone else enters Antiquity!
Wonders
Wonders in Progress
Confucian Academy: China (1 Turns)
Mausoleum of Semer: Semeria (1 Turns)
Loyalty Academy: Madg (2 Turns)
Germanic Breweries: Teutonic Germania (2 Turns)
Grand Imperialization: Nippon (2 Turns | 1 Patent Turn)
Mitrakrocatlbetr Project: Media (4 Turns | 2 Patent Turn)
New Open Wonders
The Colossus: Two Upgrades per turn for the rest of Antiquity. 6 Turns.
The Olympics: People far happier, army 1 better trained 4 Turns.
Great Lighthouse: +2 Fleet Training, Navy Upgrades Free to Imperial. 6 Turns (5 for Swift Nations)
Pyramids: Significantly lowers chances of coup.
The Odyssey: Increases education and happiness.
Contacts
The Ajaj have contact with the Madg!
The Ghand and the Markadians have contact with the Chinese!
Velikoslavia has contact with the Ghand!
SKILORD
Insurgent
SKILORD
Insurgent
erez87 said:
As soon as I update post 1 you'll see Odolism expanding a lot too, especially into the far east.
