stNNES7: Worlds and Empires
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conehead234
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Yay update
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Fixed, erez.
Oruc
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you should change macedons colour
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emu said:
I don't think it looks at all like black, if that's what you're thinking.
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Could you change the color of Armenia-Assyria to a color that more easily differentiates it from Dubai and the steppe nation north of it? (That's simpler than changing both of those nations, which will likely never be near one another.) Thank you in advance.
Oh, and I *think* Cyprus has no stats. I couldn't find them; maybe they're under a different name.
Oh, and I *think* Cyprus has no stats. I couldn't find them; maybe they're under a different name.
Oruc
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North King said:
thinking? i was seeing it mate, i have to go unhealthly close to the computer screen to be able to tell the difference
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OK, will change Macedon and Armenia soon.
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Perhaps. After, what use is trade as north China lays cracked open thanks to my efforts. A military allaince would better suit our needs. China's weatlh is ours for the taking, unless you are too weak to take it.
From Avars
Perhaps. After, what use is trade as north China lays cracked open thanks to my efforts. A military allaince would better suit our needs. China's weatlh is ours for the taking, unless you are too weak to take it.
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The King-Emperor, King of Kings and Conqueror of Babylon was not a man of luxury. The United Empire was a powerful realm, the most powerful in all of the Middle-East the defeat of Babylon had shown that. But the price of power was luxury, something the King-Emperors had been forced to abandon in the long struggle against their Babylonian and Syrian foes. Emperor Bedrosian was even harder than his predecessors, and even less prone to luxury. He was the first Emperor never to have lived in the palace at Ani, the Royal Capital that had been burned by the filthy Syrians, and, though the Imperial Capital at Ashur had historically been the more opulent, the sobriety of the court after the destruction of Ani had pressed out of the Imperial Palace the pomposity for which it was once famed.
However, the Emperor still took great pleasure in riches, if he had often chosen to do without, leading the final campaign against Babylon as prince. And, for this and many other reasons, this visit to Medea would be particularly pleasant. The King of Medea had promised to the Armenian Emperor a commodity so valuable that Armenia would never again want for funds; Bedrosian was dubious of King Artaxess claims, but could not afford to pass up the opportunity to make the Medean king feel important. Armenia still needed Medeas full cooperation against Syria, after all.
The Emperor arrived in Ecbatana to minimal fanfare. The immense city, larger than all Armenian cities save Ashur and Babylon, would be difficult enough to navigate without scores of Medean admirers following the Imperial train all the way to the Golden Palace atop the highest hill in the city. Many of the peasantry realized in any case the Emperor of the United Empire had come to Ecbatana despite the relatively demure caravan, but most too late for anything but rushing home to tell relatives that they had nearly seen the King-Emperor of Armenia and Assyria. Events after the arrival at the Golden Palace went smoothly but without revelation on the part of King Artaxes until, during the great banquet, the King announced to the Emperor just three words that would change the outlook of the Empire. I have silkworms.
However, the Emperor still took great pleasure in riches, if he had often chosen to do without, leading the final campaign against Babylon as prince. And, for this and many other reasons, this visit to Medea would be particularly pleasant. The King of Medea had promised to the Armenian Emperor a commodity so valuable that Armenia would never again want for funds; Bedrosian was dubious of King Artaxess claims, but could not afford to pass up the opportunity to make the Medean king feel important. Armenia still needed Medeas full cooperation against Syria, after all.
The Emperor arrived in Ecbatana to minimal fanfare. The immense city, larger than all Armenian cities save Ashur and Babylon, would be difficult enough to navigate without scores of Medean admirers following the Imperial train all the way to the Golden Palace atop the highest hill in the city. Many of the peasantry realized in any case the Emperor of the United Empire had come to Ecbatana despite the relatively demure caravan, but most too late for anything but rushing home to tell relatives that they had nearly seen the King-Emperor of Armenia and Assyria. Events after the arrival at the Golden Palace went smoothly but without revelation on the part of King Artaxes until, during the great banquet, the King announced to the Emperor just three words that would change the outlook of the Empire. I have silkworms.
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In the Xiong Nu ''capitol'' camp, the tribal council was heating in debate...
BE SEATED! the palace guards shouted....
Chief Tajeng II: My father signed the peace treaty with the Chinese states because we must understand that the Great attack failed. The centuries of rivalty between the Chinese and us has cost us, and to them, dearly, I have lost my family as the camps in south were sacked by Sillanese crossbow-scum. The Avars, as they call them selfs, began an expansion to the Chinese states, it has so far being very successful.
Council Baras: I suggest that we begin a trade realtions with these ''Avars'', they do, after all, control important trade links...
Chief: Isn't it our corrupted little Baras, what would you do with the money?
Baras: No, I, or we, the council have a suggestion...
Chief: Yes?...
Baras: A new tactic, that we have tested in small scale against the bandits and rebels north of here. Since, hopefully, we will gain some wealth by trading with these ''Avars'', we might be capable of founding an new cavalry force; The palatine Heavy Cavalry troops, these steel cavalry men, covered with armour equipted with two handed lances have found to be effective in our testing battles against the bandits. They are costly, but we don't expect them to be numerous. The tactic would go like this: the light archer cavalry would first weaken the enemy with typical horse archery skirmish, then when the enemy is weakened enough the super heavy cavalry can do the mighty charge, after that the horse archers can follow with spears...
Chief: hey, I like this...
Baras: the Palatine heavy cavalry would, of course, be under the direct control of the Chief.
(well this was my phathtically (sp?) short story, I hope you liked it
)
North king!
My UU: Xiong Nu cataphract. The xiong nu cataphracts are armoured in a scale mail and with some bronze plates and leather armouring. They are armed with two handed lance. They are expensive, though, but they give a powerful charge.
To avars
From Xiong Nu.
Agreed!
BE SEATED! the palace guards shouted....
Chief Tajeng II: My father signed the peace treaty with the Chinese states because we must understand that the Great attack failed. The centuries of rivalty between the Chinese and us has cost us, and to them, dearly, I have lost my family as the camps in south were sacked by Sillanese crossbow-scum. The Avars, as they call them selfs, began an expansion to the Chinese states, it has so far being very successful.
Council Baras: I suggest that we begin a trade realtions with these ''Avars'', they do, after all, control important trade links...
Chief: Isn't it our corrupted little Baras, what would you do with the money?
Baras: No, I, or we, the council have a suggestion...
Chief: Yes?...
Baras: A new tactic, that we have tested in small scale against the bandits and rebels north of here. Since, hopefully, we will gain some wealth by trading with these ''Avars'', we might be capable of founding an new cavalry force; The palatine Heavy Cavalry troops, these steel cavalry men, covered with armour equipted with two handed lances have found to be effective in our testing battles against the bandits. They are costly, but we don't expect them to be numerous. The tactic would go like this: the light archer cavalry would first weaken the enemy with typical horse archery skirmish, then when the enemy is weakened enough the super heavy cavalry can do the mighty charge, after that the horse archers can follow with spears...
Chief: hey, I like this...
Baras: the Palatine heavy cavalry would, of course, be under the direct control of the Chief.
(well this was my phathtically (sp?) short story, I hope you liked it
)North king!
My UU: Xiong Nu cataphract. The xiong nu cataphracts are armoured in a scale mail and with some bronze plates and leather armouring. They are armed with two handed lance. They are expensive, though, but they give a powerful charge.
To avars
From Xiong Nu.
Agreed!
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erez87 said:
Added.
Folks, please send orders via PM, or I might miss them in the twenty plus pages of spam generated every update.
Jason The King
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Hmm hmm, great update north king!
EDIT: just wondering, where does it say how many turns my wonder will take?
EDIT: just wondering, where does it say how many turns my wonder will take?
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Fixed. 1/8
The Pirates of Cape Verde
An Address to the High Admiralty of Ravenna, from Officer Titus Pullo, Captain of the RSS Intrepid
An Address to the High Admiralty of Ravenna, from Officer Titus Pullo, Captain of the RSS Intrepid
The port cities on the Atlantic, now having been established, are under a short, and slowly growing menace as Ravennic merchant ships carouse the coast line of Africa to voyage to lands unknown to retrieve exotic goods for sale inside our nation, and well beyond our borders; this trade while not wholly lucrative as of yet, has still attracted interest from raiders; vagabonds, neer do wells and thieves, in other words sir, I speak of Pirates, a plague that has not afflicted Ravennic trade routes in nigh 2 centuries of trade and patrol over those routes that pass through our waters.
The source of this Piratical activity, after staunch... convincing of several captured sailors and their captain, it has been learned that a series of islands, off the coast of Africa, first found by Portugese explorers but has, in recent days, become populated by many an exile from Iberia, France, and even some Merchants originating from Ravenna have joined in their despicable acts of dishonor, including the illegal crime of human exchange; yes, I do by this mean the slave trade, and how it has begun to flourish in west Africa, a by product of the many and endemic wars in the region (something that was spared in Europe, thank the gods, by the firm laws of the republic that outlaw such outlandish, decadent, and dishonorable exchange of the human lives, and as is well known the trade laws of Ravenna are nearly the trade laws of all Europa)
Under normal circumstances, the answer to this question would be a simple one; dispatch ships, and marines to the area to either crush piratical activity, or, if needed, claim the lands (as was done in north Africa when piratical activity had escalated in that region) And while the Pirates offer no significant military, or economic threat to Ravenna (as of yet) it is my observation that after hearing the new exchange in Tingis that similar to the situation on the Atlantic coast, Malta has now degenerated as well into a den of Piratical activity. While these are mere pirates, and likewise, are of no true threat to Ravenna in a military sense, it is our proud tradition to be prepared for the turn of time, and to change as is needed to suit the situation the republic finds itself in. I believe these pirates are the beginning symptoms of an over-stressed system of naval control, and that, like the ground forces of the army, we must separate naval administration into two separate and distinct spheres of sub-control, monitored, and controlled by the high admiralty in Ravenna, a so called Atlantic Admiralty, and a Mediterranean Admiralty equal in office and prestige sirs, but allowing for more flexible control of our forces in the Atlantic and Mediterranean to deal with problems such as pirates, trade delays, major storms and what not- more independently, more immediately- and as such, more effectively then the home admiralty could react to these situations under current circumstances.
Regardless of the course of action in the case of this proposal of creating a new, more effective system of naval administration, based on the same administration that has lead our land forces to victory over so many eras, I, speaking for the collective captains fo the Atlantic patrols, do request for reinforcements to either route out the Pirates of Cape Verde, or, if the senate should wish it, capture these islands in the name of Ravenna, and our allies.
Sincerlly, Titus Pullo, Captain of the RSS Intrepid
Insane_Panda
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DEATH TO THE BASTARDS!!!
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