Daftpanzer
canonically ambiguous
/edit Ive included a lot of pictures here, which might take a very long time to load 
This is my first full game on conquests, Ive decided not to play for an all-out victory. Instead i will try to be honourable, no breaking of treaties, and no razing of enemy cities.
Also, I will not strive to conquer enemy land completely. I will respect other cultures and their territory. So in war, i will take cities from the enemy only to achieve peace terms, and then i will hand back any gains to their rightful owners. However, I may keep some cities to act as military bases, or to limit the strength of an aggressive power.
Also I will try not to let any other civ go extinct. If possible, i will fight a war to reclaim the land of any civ that is being wiped out, and hand their cities back to them
The nature-worshiping celts will never cut down trees. I will even plant new forests in areas without very many of them (flat endless grassland just looks ugly to me). Any pollution will be kept to a minimum and must be dealt with fast so as not to offend the godess.
However, overiding all this will be the need to survive at all costs, by any means, if it comes to that.
Ive modded the game for extra ship movement and extra hit points on all experience levels, to counter act the extreemness of the random combat and make it more averaged out. Ill be playing with most of the new conquest civs. Also, a.i to a.i trading is reduced, to make world trade more intresting. Culture is kept on capture of a city. Otherwise the game is as normal.
So ill try to be a 'good guy' and help the weak nations survive, while trying to grow strong myself.....
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The start of the celtic story:
in 5000bc the high druids decided that the celts have to become more civilized, and expand and build a powerful nation to ensure that nature is respected and to ensure world peace.
Soon a settling expedition headed out into the unkown, accompanied by brave warriors, to share our peace and joy with the world. But disaster struck, as they ran into a barbarian horde. Their escorts were killed and our people were captured, or worse.
This is a major blow to our people. There were few families in Artefold that did not loose a loved one or a relative. It took years to recover. But the new generation shared one creed - All barbarian warriors must die! And so the celtic military tradition was founded - Warriors with selfless devotion to the people and the land, with no fear of pain or death. The barbarians were pushed back, and slowly, new cities are founded.
As the high druids had prophesised, our people soon made contact with another great ribe, the incas. Incan cities soon surround much of our land (Just our luck, that our only neighbours are the most powerful civ at this time as it later turned out).
Peace couldnt last. The inca did not share our love of nature. They did not respect the trees, and they hunted animals and enslaved them for pure greed. Nor did the incas respect our sacred territory, which nature and fate had granted to us.
War broke out with the inca. The Celts asserted their sacred right to all land near the great sacred river, that flowed across the known world. Spurred on by the growing hostilities, our metalworking techniques greatly improved, and Celtic warriors soon carried swords of the finest quality. The new celtic swordsmen organsied into small bands capable of moving very quickly, and proved very effective at covering long distances between our cities and stopping any inca attacks. The odds turned in our favourm as unkown to us the incas are also fighting others at this time.
This was the Celtic golden age. Our culture and our people flourished, many new towns were founded, and the incan enemy were held at bay (for now) loosing two of their cities to the brave celtic warriors. One fell into ruin, the other maintained an incan population, but we decided to keep it in our posession, as the incas were aggresive and dangerous. Many temples, marketplaces, libraries, granaries and harbours were built across the land.
We began expanding into the frozen northern lands, but we were to find many opponents - vast barbarian hordes, portuegese, vikings and incas all now tried to claim this land. First, we found a portuguese settlement being built there. This was seen as outrageous expansionism by them, with no respect to our sacred rights to this land. We attacked and conquered their city, unfortunately leaving it a smouldering ruin.
Later, we recieved the news that the portuguese homeland had been completely overrun by the incas and the portugeuse civilization had been utterly destroyed. We could have welcomed them to the north lands and helped them live in peace, but instead we helped exterminate them. This is a great loss to the world, and from now it was decided that we will have more respect for other nations (except the evil incas!).
Later, the strange vikings from some other continent settle in the very northern tip of the frozen north. We still considered these lands part of our nations sacred territory, but this time we let the foreginers settle in the harsh land. We respect the intrepid, adventurous nature of the vikings and they are welcome so long as they know we will tolerate no military aggression from them.
Meanwhile our own intrepid explorers are quietly circumnavigating our continent. We have established contact with many other great tribes. The Dutch, Mayan, Byzantine, and hittite nations share our continent with the incas and ourselves, and the new arrivals, the vikings. We established a colony on and unclaimed island off the hittite coast, to help our diplomats and traders reach these nations.
Our sailors suspected more land must lie over the seas, behind the 'big waters'. Indeed we knew the vikings came from somewhere out there, not on our continent. If they could make it across the vast oceans, so can we, and we looked for anything that might be a possible crossing point.
We found it off the coast of the byzantine province of smyrna, the westernmost tip of the known land. The "smyrna crossing" became the gateway for several celtic explorers to a whole new continent. There were many new tribes to be found there. The most powerful were the americans, the iroquai, and the french. We traded technology and ideas from our home continent for luxuries, or offered them as gifts to help these less advanced people improve their quality of life.
It was soon found that the world consisted of two main land masses, and three much smaller islands. The coastlines of the whole world were more or less explored, a great feat for the celtic adventurers.
Now this first age of the celts, the golden age, was about to end. The old enemy, the inca, was about to wage war upon us with renewed strength...
This is my first full game on conquests, Ive decided not to play for an all-out victory. Instead i will try to be honourable, no breaking of treaties, and no razing of enemy cities.
Also, I will not strive to conquer enemy land completely. I will respect other cultures and their territory. So in war, i will take cities from the enemy only to achieve peace terms, and then i will hand back any gains to their rightful owners. However, I may keep some cities to act as military bases, or to limit the strength of an aggressive power.
Also I will try not to let any other civ go extinct. If possible, i will fight a war to reclaim the land of any civ that is being wiped out, and hand their cities back to them
The nature-worshiping celts will never cut down trees. I will even plant new forests in areas without very many of them (flat endless grassland just looks ugly to me). Any pollution will be kept to a minimum and must be dealt with fast so as not to offend the godess.
However, overiding all this will be the need to survive at all costs, by any means, if it comes to that.
Ive modded the game for extra ship movement and extra hit points on all experience levels, to counter act the extreemness of the random combat and make it more averaged out. Ill be playing with most of the new conquest civs. Also, a.i to a.i trading is reduced, to make world trade more intresting. Culture is kept on capture of a city. Otherwise the game is as normal.
So ill try to be a 'good guy' and help the weak nations survive, while trying to grow strong myself.....
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The start of the celtic story:
in 5000bc the high druids decided that the celts have to become more civilized, and expand and build a powerful nation to ensure that nature is respected and to ensure world peace.
Soon a settling expedition headed out into the unkown, accompanied by brave warriors, to share our peace and joy with the world. But disaster struck, as they ran into a barbarian horde. Their escorts were killed and our people were captured, or worse.
This is a major blow to our people. There were few families in Artefold that did not loose a loved one or a relative. It took years to recover. But the new generation shared one creed - All barbarian warriors must die! And so the celtic military tradition was founded - Warriors with selfless devotion to the people and the land, with no fear of pain or death. The barbarians were pushed back, and slowly, new cities are founded.
As the high druids had prophesised, our people soon made contact with another great ribe, the incas. Incan cities soon surround much of our land (Just our luck, that our only neighbours are the most powerful civ at this time as it later turned out).
Peace couldnt last. The inca did not share our love of nature. They did not respect the trees, and they hunted animals and enslaved them for pure greed. Nor did the incas respect our sacred territory, which nature and fate had granted to us.
War broke out with the inca. The Celts asserted their sacred right to all land near the great sacred river, that flowed across the known world. Spurred on by the growing hostilities, our metalworking techniques greatly improved, and Celtic warriors soon carried swords of the finest quality. The new celtic swordsmen organsied into small bands capable of moving very quickly, and proved very effective at covering long distances between our cities and stopping any inca attacks. The odds turned in our favourm as unkown to us the incas are also fighting others at this time.
This was the Celtic golden age. Our culture and our people flourished, many new towns were founded, and the incan enemy were held at bay (for now) loosing two of their cities to the brave celtic warriors. One fell into ruin, the other maintained an incan population, but we decided to keep it in our posession, as the incas were aggresive and dangerous. Many temples, marketplaces, libraries, granaries and harbours were built across the land.
We began expanding into the frozen northern lands, but we were to find many opponents - vast barbarian hordes, portuegese, vikings and incas all now tried to claim this land. First, we found a portuguese settlement being built there. This was seen as outrageous expansionism by them, with no respect to our sacred rights to this land. We attacked and conquered their city, unfortunately leaving it a smouldering ruin.
Later, we recieved the news that the portuguese homeland had been completely overrun by the incas and the portugeuse civilization had been utterly destroyed. We could have welcomed them to the north lands and helped them live in peace, but instead we helped exterminate them. This is a great loss to the world, and from now it was decided that we will have more respect for other nations (except the evil incas!).
Later, the strange vikings from some other continent settle in the very northern tip of the frozen north. We still considered these lands part of our nations sacred territory, but this time we let the foreginers settle in the harsh land. We respect the intrepid, adventurous nature of the vikings and they are welcome so long as they know we will tolerate no military aggression from them.
Meanwhile our own intrepid explorers are quietly circumnavigating our continent. We have established contact with many other great tribes. The Dutch, Mayan, Byzantine, and hittite nations share our continent with the incas and ourselves, and the new arrivals, the vikings. We established a colony on and unclaimed island off the hittite coast, to help our diplomats and traders reach these nations.
Our sailors suspected more land must lie over the seas, behind the 'big waters'. Indeed we knew the vikings came from somewhere out there, not on our continent. If they could make it across the vast oceans, so can we, and we looked for anything that might be a possible crossing point.
We found it off the coast of the byzantine province of smyrna, the westernmost tip of the known land. The "smyrna crossing" became the gateway for several celtic explorers to a whole new continent. There were many new tribes to be found there. The most powerful were the americans, the iroquai, and the french. We traded technology and ideas from our home continent for luxuries, or offered them as gifts to help these less advanced people improve their quality of life.
It was soon found that the world consisted of two main land masses, and three much smaller islands. The coastlines of the whole world were more or less explored, a great feat for the celtic adventurers.
Now this first age of the celts, the golden age, was about to end. The old enemy, the inca, was about to wage war upon us with renewed strength...
