Writing in Gunpowder

[Nighthawk419]

After much bloodshed, the city of the Hittites has fallen. I don't really feel like writing a big story around it, maybe another time.

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

You still could have posted a screenshot you know.

 

[Eclipse4449]

GPS to Nighthawk

 

[Nighthawk419]

You still could have posted a screenshot you know.

Meh, could have. Just imagine two defending and entranched archers being attacked by a swarm of drill 1 archers and a warrior with no seige support... it was a bloodbath, but eventually the numbers won out. It will be nice now that we finally have our metal attached!

Sent onwards without much fanfare. Of course some of the survivors/winners of the seige of the Hittite camp were Barcelonian militia! So they have begun marching south to scout the barrier islands which were said to have iron deposits on them hundreds of years ago.

btw - That was completely unplanned that the Barcelonians (my fighter city) managed to be the archers who ended up winning the day in the seige. Very awesome, good work RNG!

 

[Hawklord]

Hawklord has decreed that this silly idea of counting years backwards shall cease. From now on we will count them forwards.

Starting with 1.

gps

 

[Eclipse4449]

France agrees with Portugal, we too began at 1

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

Noooooo, don't do that just yet! I had prepared an ingame reason for why the calendar works how it does! Specifically BC means Before Calendar and AD means After Deutsch, Deutsch being the name of the king who decreed that this new invention should be spread far and wide to establish a unified time system among the world. I even timed it so that I discovered the tech this very turn!

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

After the turbulent times of the first two Fredericks, the six decades under the rule of King Deutsch saw not only the final end to the revolution and the complete unification of all German city states under one banner, but also an unprecedented rise in scientific achievement. Years of tedious record keeping and watching of the stars' movement led to the discovery that it takes exactly 365 days until constellations repeat themselves fully, or in other words until the entire universe has completely revolved around our world. Unfortunately it wasn't before the last year of the monarch's life until a comprehensive calendar down to every day of the week could be created and spread among the land. The last royal decree by the late ruler was to share this knowledge with all the world's peoples, but it took well into the reign of his successor Frederick III till this goal could be accomplished, and even then some nations needed to be introduced to basic concepts of mathematics itself before they could be taught this new system of time keeping.

The first act of King Frederick III was to decree that the first year of his rule should be known as 1 After Deutsch, or 1 AD, with every year before that point henceforth being referred to as Before Calendar, or BC. The new calendar quickly caught on and replaced the old local systems that have been in use within decades, as Deutsch was widely being recognized as the best ruler the German people has ever had. Indeed it wasn't long until the German people began referring to itself as Deutsch in its own language. Things are looking up with the only exception being the expansionist drive of our Russian neighbors.

 

[Eclipse4449]

'm not sure what happened but I just attempted to play a turn I've already placed in my "Played" folder.

Either I downloaded the same turn or the same turn has been resent

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

Never mind this post, I confused this game with another.

 

[Eclipse4449]

Where are we here? I need a resend, the one I have has been played already

 

[Eclipse4449]

GPS to Nighthawk

 

[Nighthawk419]

Queen Isabella is more than willing to pay the Germans for their knowledge of this calendar.

Also, the city of the Hittites has been renamed to "Casablanca"

Nothing else to note currently.

 

[Hawklord]

gps

not much happening

 

[Eclipse4449]

GPS to Nighthawk
I'm not dead last in score anymore Yay!

 

[Nighthawk419]

Also not much to report here... onwards

 

[Hawklord]

gps.....

 

[Eclipse4449]

GPS to Nighthawk

 

[Nighthawk419]

sent on, nothing to say this turn

 

[Hawklord]

gps.....