As usual I started off with the two settlers. A single square away was a goody hut. One of my settlers moved into and I got a horseman. This was VERY important historically. Both my settlers moved out, one founded Babylon the second turn, the other moved down a river to Uruk. The horseman went out seeking goody huts all over. I soon found my self with an impressive army of four horseman and a chariot and only with cities. I quickly found more goody huts that gave me settlers gold and technology. Along with the occasional barbarian unit. Eventually I made contact with the English. I tried to bottle them up in a small peninsula but failed. They’d already established York outside that boundary. So with two horseman and a chariot I fought the earliest war I’ve ever won! My horseman and chariot captured first London, and then a few turns later York. York would go on to be the greatest city in the world with five wonders of the world.

After this war my civ remained peaceful and expanding across a huge portion of the world under a benign monarchy. I eventually made contact with the Egyptians to my north and the Greeks to my southeast. Both of whom were at war with one another, I don’t even know how they met, but the did! The Greeks kept shipping troops north to attack Giza, which was in a isthmus to my north. I quickly moved to establish a for just outside its city radius that was surrounding by hills and woods. No diplos would move through there with ease! This of course led to problems with the Greeks. So I bottled them up in their rather nice chunk of land with a city of mine at another isthmus. No more troops were able to slip through but the ones that already had were getting irritable. So I abandoned my fort temporarily to allow them to attack Giza. They failed miserably, what do you expect from a horse and an elephant? And I reoccupied my fort. Problem solved.

My empire steadily expanded and I grew more and more powerful. Around 1350 AD the Greeks broke my treaty and attacked me. So I sent in the dragoons. I sacked city after city, their musketeers just couldn’t stop my veterans dragoons. Midway through the very short war all those dragoons instantly turned into cavalry giving Alex a very nasty surprise. His empire became mine in 1510. I became a democracy shortly after this.

Shortly after this Persia declared war on me.. Persia was on a nice little island shaped basically like an H leaning to the right. After their declaration of war I sent in two galleons loaded down with dragoons who also turned into cavalry midway through their voyage. I took two of Persia cities, after the first I had to cause a short revolution to keep the senate under control, though I accepted a cease-fire after taking the second. The cities weren’t connecting being on the two left points of the H, but I quickly garrisoned forts next to Pasagarde which was right a the middle of the left H. I remained in Democracy and continued to improve my country. Whenever Persia sneak attacked me I took another city. It was a slow process but I eventually held all their island. They’d managed to transfer their gov to a MUCH smaller island to the north, that looked like an L lying on its side. They shared this island with a Mongol city, and had only two cities of their own on it. Both were nice, and each had a wonder in it. (UN and something unimportant) I left them to their island.

An interesting happenstance that occurred was that the Mongol city of karakourom was captured by barbarians. The city was an impressive size 8 and I must admit, I 'coveted’ it. So I slipped a frigate with a diplo north and bough it. This brought me into contact with the Mongols who (eventually, it took them a number of turns to clear out a barbarian infestation to Karakourom’s north) made contact with me. Naturally they were irritated with my taking "their" city. But they did little about it.

As the game progressed my contact with the Egyptians went downhill steadily. Eventually stopping at Uncooperative and Contact. We never went to war until some time around 1900. That was when I developed Mobile Warfare and let the bloodthirsty priests take over. :-)

Using my enemies own railroads against them I conquered the Egyptian continent in less than ten turns. Then I proceeded to obliterate the Celts and Mongols. Used two armor units to take over the small enclave of Persia that remained (I demanded tribute and they went to war with me, idiots!). My two armor units next assaulted the small Mongol city on that island. And proceeded to kill 5 engineer units in a single size 6 city! I’m not kidding, it was weird! They only had a single cavalry who actually defended it. He struck out at my amour unit and killed one of em!

Babylonian forces had conquered everything except the city of samarkand by 1927. Where upon democratic forces within Babylon took over the government. In 1928 Samarkand was sacked and the war to end all wars (really!) was over.

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