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A Persian Leader Page 2 (1 vote) After what Qin had sad, I was quite confused. So I went to ask my foreign advisor, if Qin had gone mad recently, because what he has said simply couldn’t be true. But to my great surprise I had to find out, that we in fact had bribed Monty into attacking China. The order came directly from the Oldest One and was signed in my name. We even gave Monty all our new found technologies (library and economics)… When I went to the secret truthsayers headquarters (because of the many people going there day by day, they even named the street going there “secret truthsayers road”) I immediately asked an explanation from the Oldest One. Qin was among our oldest friends and we betrayed him. “Look emperor, Qin is closer to Kathy then to us. And with Kathy being a close friend to Elisabeth, I had to secure, that Kathy and Qin won’t join in the upcoming war against England on the wrong side.” “But, but… …had I known that Kathy and Qin would side with Elli, I would have never…” “Don’t worry dear emperor, this is just politics. I would advise you to simply ignore what’s going on right now, because politics is all about lying and cheating …” “You really do think so?” “Yes, believe me, I’m the one who should know best…” As a result of this, Qin made peace with Mansa. I decided to take the council from the Oldest One and signed him a full permission to do foreign politics as he pleases. Again he surprised me, because I wouldn’t have expected him to declare war on Mansa after Qin drew back his troops, since we were already busy shipping most of our troops to Great Britain. I even felt a little ill when I red in the news about this. My mood didn’t get much better, when I red the next day in the “New Persian Post”, that Japan closed all their embassies in Persia to show their protest against the invasion of England… In the year 1428 a.d. we finally shipped our troops over to England. The resistance they encountered when landing near London was quite impressive. Our original strike force of 12 battalions of cavalry and 4 battalions of catapults was quickly reduced to 6 battalions of cavalry. But after a brave fight, we finally were able to take London in 1436 a.d. There wasn’t happening much good these years in Persia, so I was quite proud, when in 1548 a.d. I was invited to the opening party of something called Kremlin which we build in St. Petersburg. I somehow had the feeling that it would fit better in Moscow, but St. Petersburg came quite close. And after actually seeing it behind the big orange yard in the middle of St. Petersburg I was quite proud. The same year we had to face another revolution and our civics changed to something called Universal Suffrage, because now we would be able to buy improvements in all our unproductive cities (and of those, we had quite a lot these days…) The war against Mansa also dragged along and we had to produce more cavalry in our main cities. The population was growing more and more unhappy and in the end, we were forced to make peace with Mansa by the Persian people. Still, we had managed to take 4 of his cities (all unproductive desert or jungle cities) by then, but the costs had been much too high. “Yes, dear emperor, you keep telling me this, since the first time I called you” “How is this called again… … technically, I mean?” “Phone” “Really? Didn’t you say last time something like “Teflon” or “Teleflon”? “Yes, ahem, no, I mean, I said TELEPHONE and that is absolutely the same, only longer than PHONE. But look, emperor, you start to confuse me again. Would you mind sticking to the subject?” “No, no, oldest one, it’s just that I really like this telephone or phone thingy…” “OK, so back to our subject: What I was trying to tell you, is that we have to declare war on Kathy, because she won’t allow our troops to pass through her territory. And since we want to take the last of Asoka’s cities we have to pass her territo…” “Did you hear that?” “Hear what?” “That small beeping noise in the background… … wait, now it’s gone…” “May I continue dear emperor, please?” “Yes, yes, go on…” “As I was about to say, we have to declare war on Kathy, to move our troops to Asoka’s cities. I don’t think that this will be a big problem, since Kathy lacks most technology to produce modern troops. If we are fast, we may even be able to avoid her Cossacks with our Caval…” “There it was again… … it goes beep … beep … beepbeep… umh, sorry, go on…” “Like I said before, we have to be quick in moving through Kathy’s territory with our Cavalry. Best would be, to use some riflemen for protection” “What is with China? Won’t they side with Kathy in case of a war?” “No, no, don’t worry dear emperor they are still busy with their own war against Monty.” “And what’s with the strange rumours about iron vehicles without horses that could be seen near our borders here and there?” “Don’t take that to serious… … believe only what you see yourself” “OK then, do what you think is best” “Thank you dear emperor” (and to himself after he had hung up the phone: if my mission wouldn’t be that important and my reward wouldn’t be that big, I would rather kill myself then to call him again…) So the brave Persian army marched into Russian territory in March 1532. The losses were even higher then expected… About 10 cavalry were slain by Russian Cossacks but thanks to our big production capacity they could be replaced quickly. Our science and economy was going down, but the oldest one kept reassuring me, that we are still doing great and are much more advanced then all the other nations (still the rumours about the Chinese having these iron vehicles without horses worried me somehow). As expected, Qin came again to visit me, but instead of our usual nice chat about this and that, he gave me an ultimatum and left immediately. In fact he even dared to threaten me: If we don’t cancel all our deals with Monty, he will declare war on Persia!!! I didn’t feel too good about this, but since the oldest one explaned me that China is no real thread, I decided to stick to our common course and deal a little more with Monty (what also felt wrong to me…). The oldest one was right, Qin didn’t declare war on us, but his mood went down to cautious and I felt very sad… Only highlight in these dark times was that we managed to build something called “Statue of Liberty” Still, we pushed hard on Russia, and after we had taken two of their cities, our way to Ashoka was clear and Russia finally agreed on a peace treaty for 200 gold (first time ever mighty Persia actually had do PAY for peace…). India wasn’t a big threat, and in 1586 a.d. finally, we managed to drive them out of central Asia. We used our huge fleet (three gallons and one frigate) to bring some troops to Madagascar and India’s last city was captured in 1600 a.d. Using the simple advantage of finally being there (in Madagascar), we also eliminated Rome by taking their last city and I was crowned “King of Madagascar” Later that day, when I had just unpacked my new red phone from the box the vendor had put it in and was looking at a lot of wires, the Persian defence minister showed up in my office. This was quite a lucky coincidence, because I would have never been able to plug in my new phone alone… He didn’t seem to happy with the task I had put upon him, but when he crawled out from under my desk about 2 hours later, the phone was finally working. When he resumed his report, he informed me that Persia was now down to the 5th place concerning army strength. With only three big nations remaining (China, Aztec, Japan) this was bad. Even one of the smaller nations now had a bigger army then Persia. Nevertheless, after our army had arrived from Madagascar, we had been at least able to drive Mansa out of Africa in 1634 a.d. Still it took us about 20 more years to finally get rid of Hatschi in South Africa (1652 a.d.): I couldn’t reach him. When I then called the truthsayers secret headquarter, I got also no response. So I decided to go there in person and to look what the hell they were all doing. It took quite a long time to find it again, since I hadn’t been there for about 80 years (I really liked using a phone). When I arrived there, first thing I noticed was that the doors were standing wide open. No sound was coming out of the dark rooms. When I entered, I saw a horrible thing… Dead bodies were lying all over the place. Some terrible thing must have happened here. I almost fainted, but then I decided to move on to the quarters of the oldest one, but nobody was there. Only thing I found was a letter lying on his bed, with my name written on the envelope. When I opened it with trembling hands, I couldn’t believe what I had to read: “ I think that at that point even you must have noticed, that something is wrong. You are a stupid fool, but you almost managed to spoil all my plans because you pushed me close to insanity… Only reason I stayed near you all the time was because I wanted to serve my only true master, Montezuma the great. He will be the one who rules this planet, this I made sure. You will never be able to stop him, because your great empire will be shattered to dust by the hands of your own friends. I made sure, that Qin, Toku, Dschingis and Kathy will all come after you. I poisoned all the remaining truthsayers, so you will have to face your destiny alone (and without any advice). I would love to see you going down with my own eyes after all that I have been put through, but right now, I must head back to my master to tell him that our plans worked out. HA, HA, HA, I have been betrayed. And nobody was left to help me through. The age of truthsayers had ended forever with this slaughter. When I went back to my palace, I tried to clear my head and started to think again. Still I was the emperor of the great Persian Nation and I had a responsibility to my people. Shortly after I arrived in my palace, I had set my mind. When my foreign minister came to my office about half an hour later to inform me that China, Mongolia and Japan now officially closed all their embassies in Persia and already were preparing to shut their borders, I simply dismissed him without much talk. I picked up my red phone (oh how I love this phone, my only true friend in these hard times… … I will name it Bob…) and made some calls. Maybe the united world was going to attack Persia, but we will fight. And we won’t wait till they come for us. We will be the one who will make the opening move: So I used Bob to declared war to all our enemies (except of Hatschi, she didn’t pick up the phone… …and Mansa… …him I had forgotten, because I was so nervous…) They told me that our 6 borderland cities in middle Asia were only defended with 2 infantry and one longbow man (???) each. There were additional 4 cavalry stationed as backup nearby, but the defence minister was quite pessimistic about our chances to hold those cities. Only good thing was that all our important cities (St. Petersburg, Moscow and Persepolis) were quite far away from the actual frontier (in average, about 2 or 3 more or less unimportant cities in-between)… In fact, with our main army (which also wasn’t much of an army, because what was left of it were 5 cannon and 11 cavalry) still down in South Africa he seemed quite desperate about our situation, after the sighting of tanks (and something called artillery) within the Chinese army had been confirmed… The situation on the Indian Subcontinent was only slightly better; there we had 4 infantry, tow archers (???) and 2 cavalry stationed in the borderland city. And the only way to enter India was via this city. All efforts had to be concentrated on holding this city. If we should loose Delhi, the golden city (=Buddhist holy city), which was situated directly behind this borderland city we would very likely loose this war because we would simply run broke… Later, the head scientist informed me, that Persia wasn’t really backwards in technology, but that we were lacking the key technologies to wage a modern war. We had 2 turns left to research computers and we would need 6 turns more to research industrialisation IF we would be able to do research at 80 %. Then we would also be able to produce tanks. We could already upgrade our remaining 5 cannons to artillery, but in order to keep our research rate high enough, we were lacking the money to do so. The main things we were lacking right now were time and money... He will give up every city possible to hold his key cities. Therefore he will leave no defenders in these cities and move them all in the key cities, what means in the first stage of this war that he will give up middle Asia completely (about 10 cities) and try to hold western Asia, ancient Persia and India by all means. In parallel he will try to research industrialisation, but only after he revolted to universal sufferage to buyrush new units (what is kind of weird, because the revolution will slow production down by 2 or 3 turns in this critical stage of the war. Additionally, he has no money right now to buyrush units and also won’t have to soon because he will keep research as high as possible to get his tanks ASAP…). But the emperor even had a new great idea how to slow any invaders down some more: He will use collateral damage on any bigger stack (suicide some of his siege units… …main problem is that he hasn’t much of them and I personally would consider them to precious to be sacrificed…) to force them to stop and heal. When he finally has tanks, he will drop research to 0 and concentrate on building and buyrushing tanks (if he is still alive then…). With his tanks, his priority number one will be to recapture all cities lost and to defend them by all means (= not invading any enemy before we have all cities back and defended well). When this is accomplished, he will change civics from free speech and emancipation to nationhood and slavery to draft and whip more units to launch a counter-attack (nationhood and slavery would have come in quite handy ASAP, but well, he’s the boss). When I awoke the following day, I hadn’t slept well. I kept on dreaming of tanks and virtual borderlines and alike. I even dreamed of the long gone happy times, when we finished the Kremlin in St. Petersburg and beefed up our economy via buying city improvements and other stuff. During breakfast, I tried to clear my head, but these strange thoughts didn’t go away. I considered having some drinks to clear my head (what had worked quite well in the past) but it was only half past nine and I was supposed to present some strategy at an emergency meeting at ten, so this maybe wasn’t such a good idea after all. Since I hadn’t prepared any speech so far, I decided to simply write down what was in my head right now: “ 2. Persia needs more units. Best thing is to buy these as we have done before with our city infrastructure… …I wonder if a revolution will have any negative effects on our productivity… …cannons, how could we best use our damn cannons… 3. Perhaps we could give up some cities that drag our economy down and are difficult to defend… …Hey, this sounds pretty professional… …now I seem to be stuck… … When I handed my writings to the guy who should do the rework for my speech, it was already 8 minutes to ten. He seemed to be quite impressed with what I had produced, because he looked at it wide-eyed at first, and then ran away immediately with the paper in hand. We had to delay our meeting about 15 minutes, because he came back to late, but in the end, he did a quite good job: “ …In parallel we will try to research industrialisation, because this will enable us to build tanks of our own. We already have some quite clear and worked out concepts of building them, including lots of improvements… …We have also worked out a concept of slowing any approaching enemy stack down with our numerous cannons, so our cities can’t be threatened directly and all inhabitants will be save (have I really written this???)… …Our general strategy will be strengthened by hiring new troops all over Persia. To do so, we will revolt immediately to universal suffrage and everybody that feels like joining the Persian army will be rewarded with a quite high first payment… With my great speech broadcasted all over Persia, Persia seemed to be prepared quite well for the war, because most people were now quite optimistic concerning this war and felt that we were doing the right thing (I love the TV generation...). But in the end, reality proved our plans to be… …umh… …not so good, because Qin used a dirty trick and all our strategies crumbed to dust: Qin landed some outdated raiding troops with 2 transports (6 knights and 2 grenadiers) in Africa. In parallel and two chinese cruisers started to take our sea resources there. Because we were directing all our efforts towards India (like planned), we had only two battalions of infantry left in Africa, but due to extremely bad luck we lost them both to the grenadiers… Since we had moved all our troops towards India and were stuck in our revolution (still 4 turns to go) we were not able to fend of Qin’s outdated troops with our remaining three archers in Africa and most South African cities (5 so far) were lost and burned down within 4 turns… We sent 4 cavalry back from the front to stop Qin’s raids, but we were coming too late: Central Africa had to be also evacuated. Our only hope now was to minimize casualties and to take out Qin’s raiding parties as soon as possible, so I decided to send two more cavalry towards Africa. When I discussed with my defence minister the actual situation later that day, he presented the following plan concerning central Asia: The defence minister also described me the actual situation in India: We were concentrating our defence efforts in Bombay and would try to hold out there until reinforcements would arrive. So far we had: 1 infantry, About to arrive were additional 6 cavalry (our main army contained 12 of them, but 6 had to be sent back to Africa to stop the Chinese raids there) and 4 infantry… 1 tank so our chances of holding out were quite good… This proved to be right, since the Chinese stack could be taken out at the cost of one cannon and our only infantry stationed in Bombay in 1662 a.d. Good news was that the Chinese raids in Africa were stopped in 1664 a.d. and two cavalry were left there to form our defensive core army (a quite small one…). The defence minister presented me another defence line (red) in case that Monty (what was highly expected) landed somewhere in Africa… In the end, all 7 cities south of this line had fallen to them already in the first raid and were razed… More news was coming in from our Asian front: Russia had taken Krasnoyatsk 1662 a.d. and Jakutsk in 1664 a.d. and Mongolia would take Karachi next round. So that’s the Central Asian map in 1667 a.d.
Only two days later, news reached me in my palace that the first major Chinese stack had arrived near Bombay. It was that big, that the troops contained in this stack didn’t fit the page and I had to look the next page to finish the list and to see all 42 of them. To make things worse, this stack was backed up by a smaller one containing 4 artillery and some minor units. I immediately decided to get drunk. So far, my plans worked out (and I got drunk)…
So he gave me a quite detailed report of our troop situation: At the time, when the Chinese stack was scheduled to arrive in Bombay, we would have 4 infantry I just couldn’t help… …I had to ask… “So what exactly do you expect to do with the archers and the longbow men?” “Umh… …well… …sir, you gave order to move every unit to the front” “Yes, alright, but if I remember correctly, we quit fighting with archers some 3000 years ago, and longbows, well… …they are more modern than archers and were about 1500 years longer in use, but that makes still about 1500 years of time in-between, you know?” “Umh… …yes… …I know… …but you said EVERY unit…” “I know very well what I said, but where the hell did you find archers and longbow men? Did you plunder a museum?” “Umh… …noooo… …archers are still our main defensive force in most cities all over Persia, only some quite advanced cities upgraded to longbow men… …and some additional warriors are scheduled to arrive tomorrow to strengthen the defences in Bombay even more.” “Warriors???” “Yes, the first warrior battalion will arrive…” “WARRIORS?????????????” “Umh… …please…. ….emperor… …calm down…” The rest of the discussion I didn’t remember… What I heard was quite a shock. How were we supposed to stop tanks and infantry with some guys running around with clubs and bows? I always thought that our cavalry was outdated in this war, but compared to our defensive units, I started to see them now in a quite different light… I spontaneously decided to skipped breakfast and had some drinks. When I woke up about 9 hours later, dusk was already approaching. My head was aching… …what was I supposed to do now? How could we possibly stop the approaching Chinese army? So I mad a brave (at least in my opinion) decision: I would leave for India immediately. I would take care of the situation myself and I would install my headquarters in Delhi to do so. I only had to inform my ministers (they were supposed to join me to keep the government running) and we would leave already the next day. Most of them where quite unhappy (two even tried to run away) when I announced them this news, but in the end, I could convince ALL of them to join in (with a little help of some armed guards)… Same day we arrived in Delhi, bad news already started to pour in. China would start their final advance on Bombay any minute now. I decided to stick to my plans and ordered all our cannons to advance on the approaching troops. We were quite lucky, since 4 out of 6 managed to retreat to Bombay after they had finished their mission of doing some collateral damage. Only problem was, that the damage done was more or less minimal, since 6 cannons wont do much against a stack of 42 modern units. So our defenders were now down to: 4 infantry, Our defenders fought brave, but severely outteched and outnumbered, they were defeated in the end: Qin never bothered to take out city defences with his artillery. He attacked directly with them and all 4 artillery were lost to our infantry. Then he moved in 2 infantry, but both were also taken out via our infantry. When he moved in his SAM infantry, our 4 brave infantries were already heavily wounded. Still they managed to take out 7 of them before the last of them finally fell. At this point our cavaly took over. Since Qin never was involved in a war up to this point, his troops seemed to lack some experience. Our war proved-cavalry managed to take advantage of this and they were able to take out a total number of 9 SAM infantry before they finally were brought down. The rest of the defenders… …well… …let’s put it that way: They did not so good… So Bombay, the Indian blocking city was lost in 1676 a.d., but at least we were able to deal quite a lot of damage to the Chinese main army. The Chinese lost in the initial attack: 4 artilleries That made a total number of 22 units, about half of the Chinese main army… Still, our situation was not looking good. With Bombay lost, the Chinese army now had access to the Indian subcontinent. In a quick emergency meeting at Delhi (which was sort of funny, since for the first time ever in a meeting, the guards had to be stationed inside the room to prevent the minister from running away rather then outside to protect them from intruders…) we decided to give up the Indian subcontinent completely. In a desperate effort, we would move all remaining troops to Delhi to try and hold this city (and to protect our very lives). All other India cities would be used as bait for the Chinese (no defenders) to buy us some more time, to move in fresh defenders. This worked out quite well and within the next days, we managed to bring in 3 infantry (produced in ancient Persia) But the good thing was that China had taken the bait. They even had spilt their mayor offence stack in 2 groups. About half of them was advancing to the undefended cities, the rest was wounded and remained for 2 turns in Bombay, before advancing on Delhi. But still it seemed quite impossible to hold Delhi… But then, good news reached us: Our head scientist called and told us, that we only have to hold out one more turn, until we had researched industrialisation ourselves and would finally be also able build tanks. He used some lame excuse that it actually had taken longer then expected, and claimed that research had to be reduced to 50% due to money problems. But that didn’t matter much now, since finally we could build tanks (light blue ones with bigger windows) on our own. Just when I was about to get drunk to celebrate this happy news, next news (this time bad ones) reached me: Two Chinese transports were trying to round India, direction Africa, each carrying 3 infantry and 1 settler. More news were pouring in… …thanks god good ones this time… …tanks could finally be produce… … but the downside of it was that our economy lied in ruins and it would take about 8 turns before the fist of them could be sent to the front. More good news came in from central Asia later that day. Our defensive belt (the 10 cities we had evacuated and which we were giving up one by one) still was more or less intact (only 3 cities had been captured so far), because Russia and Mongolia proved once again great skill in military warfare and concentrated on pillaging every improved land-tile they came across, which slowed them down drastically… But that was already the end of good news… 1678 a.d. I was informed, that our navy in fact managed to sink both Chinese transportes... ... only to spot a huge Aztec invasion force... So the feared Aztec invasion force finally arrived in Africa and within 2 turns 4 cities in east Africa were razed. The Chinese we had been able to stop, but now we had to fight the Aztec in Africa… … Only some turns later, it became quite obvious, that we severely misjudged the situation in Africa: Meanwhile, Qin ordered his first major stack to advance on Delhi. An extremely luck draw was that the first Persian tank could get buyrushed in Delhi, the same turns Qin started his attack. He closed in with 1 tank This proved that he also was no military genius, since he had spilt up his stack and also lost quite some time pillaging his way up to Delhi, so we were (more or less) prepared with: 4 infantry (one longbow was finally upgraded) In the end, we managed to take out the first stack, but we had taken heavy losses. All 4 infantries were slain, but again our cavalry did a massive amount of damage. Two even survived the attack. And best for last: Our light blue tank (with bigger windows) prevailed and destroyed one of the Chinese standard models… More news were coming in from Central Asia. It seemed that the Russian/Mongolian advance had come to a halt, obviously because they seemed to be waiting for reinforcements (nobody knew why they would do that because there were no defenders but only empty cities, but well we won’t complain). So we used the time granted and immediately sent some back-up units to our Asian defence belt (6 infantry that had been built while we were researching industrialisation) China also had stopped their advance after the losses near Delhi and recalled their raiding parties from the Indian subcontinent back to China. Since they still had an incredible powergraph (said our spies) it seemed that they prepared a second major assault. Well, let it be so. This will buy us even more time and we decided to send some of our numerous units (=the next units we would produce) to Africa because we were deep in trouble there. We had a defensive belt in Africa, but no units in it. This made the word “defensive belt” quite meaningless so far… Perhaps Monty’s advance in Africa could be slowed, when we would be able to deal him some first losses and he could be forced to regroup (I decided to put quite a lot of hope in this tactics, since Russia/Mongolia even started to regroup without encountering Persian troops and therefore NOT even making losses…) So with our government now fully working again, we came up with a quite good strategy on how to defend Delhi: China was approaching with two stacks mainly containing SAM infantry, altogether about 15 units. They seemed very badly prepared for this assault, because they had neither tanks nor artillery within their troops. With our defenders still heavily decimated after the first struggle to hold Delhi, we decided to wait inside the city walls for their attack, because our troops were much better fit for this fight, but clearly outnumbered. So far we could only count on two tanks, two infantry and one extremely longlasting cavalry. One more infantry would arrive via train from Kalkutta any minute, but still we would be outnumbered 1:3 Since we had turned down research to 0 after we were able to build tanks, we were making now about 700 gold per turn. This allowed to buyrush 2 tanks every turn which I learned to consider as very helpful in this war. Since the mood all over Persia went constantly down with this long war, I decided to raise culture in parallel to 20%, and our population was happy again (more or less…) It also turned out, that the Chinese advance came to a halt after their second major stack failed to take Delhi. We even were able to destroy the surviving Chinese troops near Delhi within the next two turns with our buyrushed tanks (we changed our construction plans and left off the front windows). Things were looking much better now. After the initial advance from China, Mongolia and Russia was more or less stopped some turns after we had reached tanks, this war entered a new era: China seemed to have taken the lead and was about to form an anti Persia coalition and seemed to have installed themselves in the lead of this coalition. Although this seemed to have slowed down the attack speed of the coalition, they were doing now much more damage to our troops by coordinating their attacks better, but they didn’t advance too deep into our territory… Main problem left now was Monty. It turned out, that he had planned his African raids very carefully (thanks to the treacherous oldest one) and was advancing with an incredible speed. It seemed that every time when we managed to bring down 5 of his units, another 2 transports were debarking 8 fresh units. So far he had already taken and razed 7 cities and was now threatening our inner defence belt. Our troop stats in Africa 1692 a.d.: Tanks 1 This still wasn’t much opposed to maybe 25 enemy units approaching, but we still had 2 cities left we could use as bait and we planned to concentrate all our defenders in the strategically important hill city of Djenne… But then, the first REAL good news came in:
Another good thing was that the surveillance situation of the Persian government became easier. Most had stopped running away now, since they thought themselves safe again… Then, in 1697 a.d., when we just had managed to station 6 tanks and 2 infantry in Delhi, interesting news reached us. Scouts reported that Bombey only was defended with 5 SAM infantry. We reacted at once: Djenne had fallen to Monty already in the first attack! All our African troops were slain, the city was burned down and Monty`s troops were now inside our inner defensive belt and threatening our core cities. We also had lost all our diamond mines to Monty during this extremely well coordinated raid and there were riots feared now in most of our big cities (the Persian population seemed to like diamonds very much…) World war part IV: a big setback But some turns later, we had produced some more troops and finally we advanced on Kras…something. Without any losses, we managed to take the city back from the Russian army. But suddenly, Chinese reinforcements arrived to back up the Russian troops and the northern part of our main army was destroyed completely within hours. In the end, we also lost the city to the Chinese. There seemed to be a serious change in the Chinese strategy: Had they tried up to now to invade through India, they seemed now more interested in helping the Russian and the Mongolian advance in Central Asia. More troops would have to be sent now to this front, since China engaging there would cause serious problems… We desperately tried to take the remaining city back and raised everything we had, but the rest of our main army was destroyed completely in a heavy fight that lasted almost 6 years by the united Chinese and Russian troops: While our main army in Central Africa was taken out by the Chinese and Russian, Monty managed in a quick strick to overrun our defence line in Africa and we lost additional 2 cities to the advancing Aztec troops. As a result, Monty managed to spread fast inside our inner defensive belt… So I was just sitting in my office and getting slowly drunk, when I got a call from the Asian front (now quite deep in Persian territory): “Hello emperor, I think I have bad news…” “Who would have thought that...” “What, I don’t understand…” “Never mind, simply tell me what you have to tell.” “It’s about the Chinese. They seem to have invented a new kind of tank… …we don’t stand a chance against those with our tanks… …I don’t know why, but they keep advancing more and more… …we don’t even seem able to deal them any bigger losses.” “WHAT, WHAT ARE YOU TELLING ME???” “Umh, sorry emperor, but… …but it’s not my fault, the Chinese...” “Sorry, sorry, just go on.” “Our tanks, even the blue ones (without the big front window) don’t stand any chance against the new Chinese tanks… …they call them “mechanized infantry”…” At that point, I didn’t listen any more what he told me… …the last thoughts I had while getting completely drunk (at least as far as I could remember) was something like: “We need to change our symphony or we will lose this walk in the next fortune, again because we were outbleched by the Chinese…” No, wait; now that I wrote it down I remember it was more like: “We need to change our strategy or we will lose this war in the near future, again because we were outteched by the Chinese…” “Well, you know, I have an idea…” “Yea, dear emperor, what idea?” “I think we should turn back to the good old times where we could speed up works by using a whip” “A whip???... …You mean slavery… …You know that we are deep into the 18th century, don’t you?” “Umh, yes, I know, but WOULD it be possible? “Well, THEORETICAL, it should be possible…” “And do you have an idea how we could draft some citizen into our army?” “Hm, THAT would be a better plan, we could use nationalism for example and draft some citizen every year” “I have mad up my mid. Then I want slavery and nationalism incorporated into our governmental system ASAP (mental note: wow, that sounded great). Do you understand me?” “Yes… …umh… …well, but slavery…” “Do it, and do it NOW.” “You’re the boss (dear emperor)” Later that day, I also made an appointment with our head scientist. I felt that we would need some better troops to stand against the Chinese and therefore I needed his advice (but still I hated meeting him, because of my aversion against any scientists (and wise men)). He told me, that they actually worked on a program, to improve the overall usefulness of our tanks. It would involve something he called computer. This should be a sort of thinking device which should help a lot. In addition, they were experimenting with mixing some metals and other things to make their armor stronger. They called these materials composites. Well, to be honest, I didn’t understand half of what he said (maybe I even understood a little less then half of it), but it at least sounded like a plan to me. So I granted them every penny I could spare and ordered to speed up research. The bad news came last: They told me, that it would still be something like 40 to 50 years more (= 18 turns) until they expected any results I could use in the war. Next day, next meeting: I met the Persian defence minister to discuss what our spies had revealed, concerning the overall power of our enemies… …the news weren’t good: … So we fought on. … We held our ground (more or less, some more Central Asian and African cities were burned down) for almost 20 years. Our research meanwhile dropped down to 40%, because our people were growing more and more restless. The result was that we were running out of money, because we had to raise our culture efforts more and more, to keep our people at least pleased. But the nationalism/slavery combo proved quite useful in this respect… …it helped to keep the size of our big cities under control and therefore prevented riots and we were able to produce units much faster. So what we couldn’t win with technique, we fought with sheer numbers now and were able to take out 2 major Chinese stacks with 25 units altogether and one Russian with 12 units in Central Asia. In addition, Monty’s advance in Asia came also to a halt. 27 more years (=9 turns) and we would reach composites and finally would be able to upgrade our tanks modern armor. If nothing went wrong within the next years, this could be the time for us to finally strike back. Well, but it seemed that the coalition also knew this fact because they started to spread their attacks wider again: Island finally fell to Monty who seemed to have decided now to open a second front on us in Europe. So we had to send some units to Paris and London, to prevent Aztecs raids in our mainlands. Our troop situation was now better, but still we couldn’t afford a war on to many fronts with heavy fighting, so we had to try to keep Monty from getting a foothold in Europe by all means immediately. Where should we fight and were should we retreat and sacrifice land and cities??? In the end, I decided to hold India and to give up Africa completely. Only the Egypt mainland would be defended, the rest would have to be given up. All citizen there were advised to leave their cities, because the Japanese were known to burn everything down and to make no prisoners. In India on the other hand, we mustered a heavy defensive force. The bulk of our army was formed by 18 tanks. This proved to be very effective against the Japanese invading force, because they landed mainly with infantry (about 20 infantry and some artillery). With 3 artillery softening the enemy stack up a little, we lost only 2 tanks and managed to destroy this landing force completely in the first attack already. But the price for this was that we had to leave the choke point towards China, the city of Bombey very lightly defended, so we only could hope that China wouldn’t take this chance to launch a surprise attack using their mechanized infanry… Well, the Japanese raiding party in Africa was a little luckier. With no defences there, two cities were burned down very quick and they proceeded inland with impressive speed. There they met with Monty’s forces and regrouped. Again our secret service was right, because they warned us about Monty preparing to resettle Southern and Western Africa, covered by the Japanese forces. Still, we were unable to hinder him, but since our scientists would have finished our own upgraded tank (=modern armor) very soon (2 turns left) we saw hope again. But hope and fear seemed to be close friends these days… …China suddenly moved more troops in for India just when I started to feel save again, and they contained mainly of mechanized infantry and artillery. Monty seemed to have now tight control over the Atlantic and his influence was rapidly spreading towards Scandinavia and the Russian sea. His cruisers and battleships controlled every sea route to and from England, so we were soon cut of reinforcements there completely. Then, only several days after theses reports were in, we had to face the consequences of this development. Ireland had fallen to Monty in a quick raid. Since we were cut of completely from Ireland since days, we couldn’t even say how many troops he brought to take this island… So we had to think about a defensive strategy that would allow us to defend Middle and Southern Europe and England, without splitting our troops in two stacks. I initially planned to split our troops, but the defence minister warned that splitting our troops would result in complete destruction, because we simply hadn’t enough troops to form two stacks in Europe. But he came up with a genius plan: We would station two transports in Paris and board 2 infantry, 4 tanks (which we planned to upgrade as soon as the research would be finished) and 2 artilleries. So we would be able to move within one turn into the harbour of London, disembark and immediately attack any landing party in England. Or, if Monty would strike for Southern Europe, we would disembark directly in Paris and move the troops to any city needed. … In 1752 a.d. finally REAL good news came in: My head scientist finally came to me and presented the first new tank. He called it modern armor… …and it seemed that we managed to improve our tanks just in time… …Monty landed near Madrid with another impressive invasion army, which would give us much trouble, since our European army wasn’t finished jet. We had built the 2 infantry and upgraded 4 tanks to modern armor, but no artillery had been produced there so far… But thanks to a strategic mistake made by Monty (he landed on a hill, but had to attack Madrid over a river), we survived this attack. Our European army was taken out completely, only one infantry and one modern armor survived the Aztec attack, but any Aztec survivors were taken out soon after their attack and the danger caused by Monty lingering there was reduced greatly with this battle. In parallel, the year we finished our modern armors, was also the year the Asian and Indian land war changed. When China spotted our first modern armor, they retreated all their troops from India back to the Chinese mainland. Since we had reduced our research to 0 and started to upgrade our tanks, we were raising a modern armor based army quite fast. With about 50 battalions of tanks, and the money to upgrade 5 of them to modern armors every year, our military power increased greatly. I felt that NOW was a good time to strike back… … But when we advanced with our army into Central Asia, we have to face a terrible fact: Central Asia was dead. The once rich and happy cities all lied in ruins after they have been captured and recaptured numerous times by the Persians and the coalition (only to be finally lost for Persia in the end due to Qin having mechanized infantry). A good thing on the Central Asian front was that only Qin has mechanized infantry. Russia and Mongolia were still fighting with tanks. So we only had to fight mainly the Chinese on this front. But since we were able to out produce them, and they seemed to focus their defences mainly towards India, we managed to break their defences with our modern armors within 4 years more or less completely in Central Asia. After that, we were advancing towards the Russian territory quite fast, since the Chinese now were only able to sent a mechanized infantry here and there to help the Russian defences. And the Russian weren’t able to do much damage to our modern armors with their tanks… In fact, without the Chinese protection, Russia was an easy prey. Within 6 more years, we managed to capture most of the Russian cities and planned to continue this war directly in Chinese territory. We were building only one battalion of modern armors every year, but with the tanks we were upgrading, we managed to crank out 6 battalions altogether, which was quite impressive. With this impressive victory in my back, I ordered the main army to advance directly towards China. The shortest way in doing so, was through India and we arrived only some days later near the Chinese borderland city of Xian with 14 modern armors and 4 artilleries. Well, this plan proved to be not so good… In the end, 11 modern armors and all artillery were lost and we only managed to retreat with 3 damaged (one was almost destroyed) modern armors into our own territory… So I changed plans (again) and would now try to take out Mongolia first to completely isolate China in Asia. When Russia and Mongolia would be brought down, I simply would try to out produce china and to overrun them with numbers (what proved to be quite successful in the past, when we were holding our ground by sheer numbers). And we had to be fast now, because China was pushing now for the space-ship, since they seemed to have given up the plan of taking us down with the coalition by use of arms… So what was left of the Mongolian empire contained only of 5 cities, with their strongest city encircled via Chinese territory (seemed they also got beaten long before Christ by the Chinese in the settling race… …and here I want to pronounce: I’m NOT guilty for this development, no one ever dare blame me, you understand!?!). But back to my genious plan: My basic plan was that by taking the remaining Mongolian cities, I would be able to split the Chinese lands into two isolated areas: - Ancient China, which covered South Asia from India up to Eastern Russia To do so, we had to take all Mongolian cities within direct reach and then advance through New China towards the remaining Mongolian city encircled by China. Furthermore, we had to take 2 Chinese cities, one Northwest and one Northeast of the encircled Mongolian city to disconnect New China from Ancient China. Then we would move in for New China and try to wrestle them down city by city. Cut off from their main territory, we should be able to do so, because the overall productivity in New China was quite low due to the rough landscape (mainly tundra) in this area of the world. After the loss of New China, we should finally be able to strike for Ancient China without to much risk…. Seemed like a good plan to me (and I even managed to convince most of my ministers to support me)… But again, we weren’t able to push our advance deep enough into Chinese territory… … After we had taken the Chinese city northwest of the Mongolian enclave (with extremely heavy losses: all artillery and 6 modern armors went down), we prepared to advance into the remaining Mongolian enclave… …we never reached it… …what remained of our army was slain by Chinese reinforcements, before we even could reach the outskirts of the last Mongolian city. The Chinese city captured was also lost soon after… …we should have razed it… …well, now I now better. It seemed like China brought every unit they could spare to this front, so we had to face the facts: We would never be able to reach the last Mongolian city. The hills and the rough landscape in this part of the world favoured the Chinese defenders too much… …and modern armors simply weren’t strong enough to take out a moderate defending force of mechanized infantry when fortified on a hill or in a city, even when we were advancing with superior numbers… … But one thing, I really was strong in, was my flexibility in changing plans (wow, this really sounds much better then “I made tons of mistakes I had to correct later”…) ... So I changed my plans (again) after China had moved that much troops towards New China and Mongolia (ONE city Mongolia…)… …and ordered a new assault on Xian, the borderland city of Ancient China towards India (remember, this was exactly the place, were our main army was massacred in the last attemt to invade Ancient China... ...part of my plan was that the Chinese would never expect me to be stupid enough to try this suicide ride again). So I mustered every unit I could and in the end, I was able to send 9 battalions of modern armors, 6 battalions of infantry and 7 battalions of artillery within the next 2 years towards Xian… …this may seem like a quite small army, compared to the losses we had in the previous attemt to take this city (11 battalions of modern armors and 4 battalions of artillery) but I thought that time was more essential then numbers this time: I speculated highly on the surprising aspect of this attack. Therefore I wanted to strike out quick, while the bulk of the Chinese army was still far away, securing New China (= killing our army there and never expecting me to order another attack on Xian again, after they killed our roops there already in the past...). And Xian was also the Chinese city the farthest away from New China. So the basic plan was, to take the city in a quick raid with the artilleries and modern armors and to secure it with the infantries contained in this army. We couldn’t beat the Chinese army on the open field (umh, for this fact, we had now several proves…), but maybe we would be able to do some serious damage to them in another way, while they would try to retake one of their cities. This time, WE would try to use the territory and the city to OUR advantage. If they would recapture the city in the end, it would at least slow down their space ship production and reduce their overall production capacity (…IF we would be able to take the city at all…). World war part VI: the final battle – 3 Since we had to face only 4 battalions of mechanized infantry and 2 battalions of SAM infantry, we finally managed to take the city, after sacrificing another 5 battalions of moden armors. Our army was moved into Xian and all units were fortified immediately. Our garrison forces in the hill city of Xian were (= what was left after the heavy battle for this city): - 6 battalions of infantry (one with medic one) Another 3 battalions of modern armors were on their way from India towards Xian, but since the Chinese cultural territory remained unchanged, it would take them 3 turns, until they would finally arrive in Xian… We were running broke! Our meanwhile quite large army was costing lots of upkeep. To make things worse, we would have to raise our culture up to 50 % soon to keep at least some of our citizen productive… So our domestic advisor brought up the idea of changing our government to police state and state property. He said that this would make our citizen much happier and also would reduce our upkeep greatly. That state property would reduce our upkeep I understood, but that police state would make our people happier (maybe he meant happy prison live… …or some sort of nationwide happy big brother events) …but well, he’s the domestic advisor and should now best. I commanded to revolt towards police state and state property immediately the same day. … Just when the revolution had started I had to find out, that it would take 4 years (argh, should have checked on this BEFORE ordering to revolt…) until our government would be able to work again. And this meant no troops produced, buyrushed or drafted for the next 4 years… … When the defence minister came to me shortly after the revolution had started (in fact, he was quite furious… …perhaps I should have asked him before starting this revolution…) he informed me (=shouted at me), that the Chinese resistance was still not broken 8 long and hard years after capturing Xian. Obviously they were still coming quite regularly with moderate sized troops and were constantly trying to recapture the city. I felt frustrated. It seemed that the only thing we managed to do within this 8 years, was taking the two Chinese cities (both quite unimportant) south of Xian. And this even didn’t remove the Chinese territory blocking our access to Xian… …and we had huge losses btw…
“Well, dear emperor, since all our troops are engaged now in the heavy fighting with the Chinese, we had to evacuate Africa completely, except of the former Egyptian territory. If our intelligence reports are right, Monty indeed managed to get a solid foothold there, backed up with Japanese troops, and is continuing his settling policy. So far, 3 of his newly found colonies have been spotted by our spies, but we suspect to find more of his colonies soon. And, dear emperor, I have some more bad news concerning Monty… ...Since Monty has captured Island and recently Ireland, more and more of his ships have been spotted in the sea-regions near England. And it seems that he has disembarked this morning 4 fully loaded transports in Scotland, directly near York. And, to make things even worse, our spies have spotted mechanized infantries now also among his troops” “But we have our European defence force ready in Paris, haven’t we?” “Umh, yes, we have 4 modern armors, 2 artillery and 2 infantry loaded in two transports, but there is another problem…” “Common man, what is it” “A quite big problem… …it seems like Japanese and Aztec are cooperating again and are timing there attacks. One of our cruisers has spotted a Japanese fleet on their way towards India… …we fear they are heading directly for Bombay” “BOMBAY… …but… …but when they capture Bombay, our troops in Xian are cut of completely from all reinforcements…” “Yes, dear emperor, this is exactly the problem we are facing NOW THAT YOU ORDERED THAT REVOLUTION WITHOUT ASKING ME AND WE CANNOT PRODUCE ANY NEW TROOPS IN TIME TO DEFEND BOMBAY… …But at least we are a little lucky here, since we managed to spot the Japanese fleet relatively early.” “So we can sink them?” “No sir, they are advancing with 3 transports and 2 cruisers, and we have only one cruiser in reach… …but they will need about three days (= three turns: one for sea-travelling, one for disembarking and one for launching the attack on Bombay) until they can finally lay siege to Bombay. So if we would immediately disembark all our troops from the 2 transport ships in Paris, we would be able to reach Bombay at least with the 4 modern armors within 3 days (=three turns, thanks to railroads), the infantry and artillery would need one day more. Since the Japanese haven’t managed to produce mechanized infantry on their own up to now, this should be enough to fend off the troops contained in the 3 Japanese transports without weakening our defences in Xian to much…” “But this would mean that we must give up Scotland and England completely.” “Yes, dear emperor. Now YOU have to make a decision on this matter AFTER YOU ORDERED THAT DAMN REVOLUTION WITHOUT ASKING ME! Either we send our European troops to defend Great Britain (what was initially planned), or we use them as reinforcements against the Japanese. But you have to make your decision NOW, or we will be too late on BOTH fronts…” When I dismissed my defence minister I felt desperate again (but not guilty of doing anything wrong btw). My thinking was more like this was again perfect timing and extremely good planning demonstrated by the coalition. They always seemed to be one step ahead of me… … But I had no other choice, the defence minister was quite clear about that: So I immediately called the commander in charge of the European reinforcements and ordered him to leave immediately for Bombay, with all his troops. The modern armors would race ahead, the rest would follow as fast as possible. Then I made another call… …a sad one… …and informed the governor of York that the city had to be given up and all our troops (one lonely infantry) were to be evacuated towards London… Only 4 hours later I was informed, that the city of York was captured by the Aztec and that Scotland was lost. It seemed that Monty didn’t loose any time and was advancing immediately towards London. If he would continue at that pace, he would reach London within the next 4-5 days, so it was only a matter of days, until Great Britain would be lost completely. But in fact, Monty didn’t reach London, before our revolution was through for 2 years (he got lost in the fog near London with all his troops for altogether 5 years, 364 days and 17 hours), so we took the chance to draft and buyrush some more troops… …but when he was finally closing in we only had managed to draft 2 more infantry and buyrush 1 modern armor... So another decision had to be made: Should we try to defend London with 4 infantry and 1 modern armor or should we also give up London without fighting? After consulting my secret service, I new immediately what was to do… …Monty was advancing with 7 artillery, 4 mechanized infantry, 3 tanks and 2 SAM infantry… we would never be able to stop him… As a result, London was also evacuated and all troops were sent via transports towards Paris, before Monty could block the harbour completely. My plan now was, to draft as many infantry as possible in Europe and to muster a defensive force containing mainly of drafted infantry there. With about 20 of them, Monty would have to face extremely heavy resistance if he would try to capture now a city on mainland Europe next... All modern armors and artillery built in Europe I would continue to send towards China, because I felt that I would need every single one of them there in the battles to come… … Well, in the end London was lost completely only 2 hours after our second transport left the harbour of London. Great Britain now was completely under Aztec control. Only good news was that by giving up Great Britain, we were able to fend of the Japanese invaders near Bombay without too many losses. Our reinforcement lines towards China were open again just in time, as soon as the revolution had ended. With that many new Persian units pouring into China, the Chinese counterattacks on Xian were getting weaker every day. So we sent out a scouting party of 5 modern armors in July 1781 to check on the defences in the Chinese mainlands. Although they didn’t get attacked (what was a very good sign), the reports they brought back were sort of disappointing. All Chinese cities in Ancient China were extremely heavy fortified. Attacking them would require much more troops then we could muster in a reasonable timescale (without loosing too much ground in Africa and Europe). After a consultation with my defence minister (I agreed to contact him on a regularly basis after the incident with the last revolution… …mainly to keep him happy and to spare me from shouting) we agreed to change our tactics (again): We would use all battalions of our modern armors available right now (8 altogether) and form some highly mobile raiding parties containing each of two battalions of modern armors. They would be able to defend themselves to a certain amount, but much more important, they would be able to deal a heavy blow to the Chinese infrastructure in a very short time. So 4 raiding parties were sent out and set to pillage through the Chinese infrastructure. Since we never faced a Chinese counterattack, even within direct reach of their capital, our raiding parties grew more and more confident and in the end, they even started to take out most strategic resources in Ancient China (except those in hills, guarded by mechanized infantries) ... When this job was done, we went back to the original plan of cutting New China from Ancient China. Immediately when our raiding parties announced, that the very last railroad and road was cut in-between New and Ancient China we regrouped and struck for the connecting 2 Chinese and the remaining Mongolian city. Since we brought 8 battalions of artillery and an additional 5 battalions of modern armor (so we had 13 battalions of modern armor altogether) everything went quite smooth now. We captured the connecting cities between Ancient and New China within only a few days (including the remaining Mongolian enclave in this region) and China was finally split in two parts. Without the help and the troops from Ancient China, we managed to push the Chinese in New China back city by city. After the innitial Chinese resistance was broken in New China, we even left behind the artillery and raced ahead with two groups of modern armors, taking most cities in quick raids. So within only 4 years, New China was finally ours. It was in mid February of the year 1784, shortly after the loss of New China, with most of their mayor cities blocked and most of their strategic resources razed, when the Chinese resistance was broken once and for all. It was a strange feeling when all of a sudden, no Chinese troops were sent out to meet ours… Since our economy was booming again (seemed like the revolution to slavery and police state that our domestic advisor proposed some while ago had finally some positive impact… …after all the trouble it caused) we were strengthening our army day by day. We also had lots of cash, because the days of buyrushing troops were over. So within only 4 years, we managed to drive back the Chinese into the territory surrounding their capital. There, they tried to make a final stand, but against 23 battalions of modern armors and 8 battalions of artillery, they didn’t stand the slightest chance. After only 4 days of fighting, our troops marched the streets of the Chinese capital and the last Chinese troops in Ancient China surrendered to our forces. The Chinese capital finally falls: With the fall of mighty China in Asia, most of the world was ours now. China still had some minor colonies in Australia, but after the loss of Ancient and New China, they weren’t a threat anymore. And only a few days after the fall of the Chinese capital the coalition also seemed to crumble, because Japan, who had taken the lead in the coalition according to our secret service after China was more or less destroyed, asked for an audience with me: A Japan ambassador came to my palace only 2 days after the Chinese capital had fallen and mighty China was no more: “Oh mighty leader of the Persian people, our president (president Tokugawa) wants to talk to you.” “Very well then, connect him through via phone (this seemed to be a good chance to reactivate good old Bob).” “Hello, president Tokugawa speaking… …umh… …who is calling?” “It’s me, the emperor of mighty Persia.” “Well, hello emperor, what can I do for you?” “Your ambassador said you want to talk to me…” “Yes, umh… …after the fall of China, we could agree to leave the coalition and to negotiate a peace treaty with Persia…” “Oh, that’s a nice proposal, but… …after carefully considering it (for about 2 seconds)… …I have to say… …No, either you surrender without any condition or we will crush you next.” “You mind seems already quite fixed on that matter… …so the only thing left for me to say is that… …since Japan wants to stop this bloodbath on behalf of the Japanese people… …umh… …we surrender…” “You are a fool. You could have stopped this now once and forever and could have protected many Japanese lives. Now mighty Persia will come for you next and take you city by cit… …umh… …sorry… …could you repeat again the last part of what you just said?” “WE JUST SURRENDERED (you deaf and dumb fool)” “Oh, funny, seems I have misunderstood you… …nice… …so Persia welcomes Japan as a new province of Persia” … With this huge diplomatic success in my bag, I decided to use Bob again (I haven’t forgotten him) and to call Monty immediately… …well, what can I say… …he mainly used the opportunity to get some shouting and insulting done, and, sad but true, I couldn’t convince him to surrender, even after I told him, that the coalition is broken and Japan had just surrendered (who would have thought that…) So I threatened him via e-Mail (I wanted to spare myself some shouting) that I would send all available troops (we had now quite a lot of troops to spare, after Asia was ours completely) towards Africa and would raze all his newly built African cities… …since he never even bothered answering my e-Mail (maybe it ended up in his spam filter… …would it now be unfair to blame spam filters in general to be guilty of destroying half of Africa?) I moved my troops towards Africa. Several days had passed since my e-Mail and still no answer from Monty. So I finally ordered my troops to advance and to raze all Aztec settlements in Africa they would come across. ... They came across 5 Aztec settlements, and within 2 years, all of them were razed. Then we resettled some of the lost lands in Africa (mainly the shorelines, to secure them from more Aztec invaders and settlers) and after that, most of our troops were moved towards Europe, where the bulk of Monty’s invasion army was still occupying Great Britain. Just when we were about to muster more troops and a fleet to launch a counter attack on Great Britain, starting with London, Monty finally answered my e-Mail: “After carefully considering the overall situation, mighty Aztec could also agree to become a Persian protectorate…” He wrote some lines more, where he listed some Aztec terms, but I didn’t read them and therefore accepted his capitulation without thinking too much about them (what could have been a mistake in the long run, because, from now on for example, every week a Persian virgin had to be sacrificed to some strange goods…) … I just was about to grant some reporters an audience where I planned to announce the Persian victory, when my defence minister showed up again, bringing some reports in, concerning warfare statistics (mainly civilian losses): 17 million civilians dead in Africa ... Well, I was a little depressed when I finally had to face this numbers (including the overall military losses, about 65 million people had died in this war), but when I announced our great victory only several minutes later, I already had forgotten about it. So in the end, I was very pleased with what I had done and achieved and decided to take the rest of the week off to do some gardening… THE END
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Brilliant would be an
Brilliant would be an understatement :)!
Excellent story, real fun to
Excellent story, real fun to read!
thanks, good that you both
thanks, good that you both enjoyed the story
I agree Red. I love the
I agree Red. I love the Civilization writers, everything seems so epic. If you’ve never played the game, I highly recommend it.
Hey Snatty, I just read it
Hey Snatty, I just read it and I must say it was very enjoyable. You definitly have a way with writing. I'm very glad that I'm submitting stories on a forum with such excellent writers.
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