OOC: Xen, is it just me or are you beginning to consume your former allies? Some of them might fear Dacia's fate...
IC:
Story:
Tigur-Naplash II knew fear. Anyone else would have been ecstatic with triumph with the first news, and will be relieved at the second. For Tigur-Naplash, however, both these news had much good and bad, and for him personally, both news were bad.
The first? Sharkhon and his son Ekkran have defeated the Bactrians. What's good? Bactrians are no more a threat. What's bad? Sharkhon's popularity is now higher then the sky. And Tigur-Naplash II knew he cannot do anything about it. The second? Ottarkh has returned from India, he told that Aryans are fighting the locals - Dravidians - over the rich land of India, which can only be matched by Mesopatamia, and which was much bigger anyway. What's good? Aryans are tied up, and if they win, they will be content with their realm. What's bad? The nobles won't have any of letting Aryans overrun fellow civilized people. Oh yes, thought Tigur. Naradak forbid some brooding barbarians overrun civilized nations, that's our job. Okay, actually the nobles just wanted some more war. Well, decided Tigur, they won't have that. We won't attack the Aryans, we will rather wait and see what they do.
That was his last mistake.
Orders:
- Grow army.
- Have 100 men build a road between Ashur and Babylon (weren't we supposed to have built a road between Ashur and Nineveh two-three turns ago?).
- Have 400 men attack the Bedouins. Find out their tactics.
- Have 200 men expand northeast, and find out what people are there.
Diplo:
From: Assyria
To: Persia
Fear not. Our spy has come back, and said that India is indeed a much better land then the parts of ours that they know. It should be more then enough for the Aryans. Yes, maybe you can build a wall, but I think we should just wait out, and in the meantime grow army. I think that eventually, either the Indians beat the Aryans, and then they will not be that much of a threat, either Aryans will conquer the Indians and be content with it, either they will attack us after that, and by then we shall have a large enough an army. So fear not.