Mongols? What Mongols?

Deity level, huge random map, my two small bands of settlers found themselves looking across a broad but beautiful lake emptying into the ocean. The foresightful city planners choose sites for the capital and 2nd city of the Mongol Empire near to hills yet still on the rivers. The Mongol people were happy and prosperous for many years.

Ah but the rigors of growing poplulation! More mongol babies to be fed more young hot bloods for my army of two phalanx to control^Åwe must expand so more settlers sent out to found more cities that was to be the way of my people for the next thousand years or so no city ever reaching above 2 population units^Å.population caused my people unhappiness and most of all I wanted my people to be happy. Many many settlers forming the land that was to be the great empire of the mongols more cities and more settlers connecting the cities with roads. We met no-one for so long the mongols alone with no enemy to conquer, ahh then the blessed english now we had a purpose in life the death of the english unfortunantly this proved rather more difficult than the high council first thought...

The treacherous english were concentrated and ready when our brave horsemen made the initial raid into their territory. Our horsemen charged the packed ranks of enemy archers only to be cut down by arrows, as the blood from the cream of mongol youth stained the dark soil around newcastle we pledged our lives to their total and utter destruction^Å^Åand we knew revenge was best tasted cold.

The fight could not be continued the english archers were too strong so fortifying a section of hills with phalanxes the english counter attack was foiled, over the next thousand years the lines of our defenses were strengthened, roads connecting the forts filled with troops, the english spent themselves on our walls with abandon seemingly endless in their suicide. But we mongols had a plan we had vision one particular vision to be precise consisting of chrome steel barrels pointing skywards delivering justice to the english^Å.the vision of the howitzer!!!

Years of research followed in democratic government, thanks to the fortress borders of our nation we were protected from our enemies, the zulus made a landing to the south around 1500AD and upon space flight we were astonished to see the size of their island empire, truly you can never keep a good civ down. The same tenacity that gave the zulus the strength to cross wide oceans in triemes also gave them the gall to demand tribute however and soon a fleet of ironclads and eventually cruisers and destroyers was needed to keep their hordes at bay. For we had not forgotten our age old hate of the english, the zulus must wait, for the ancient humiliation the english must die!

They had forgotten us by the time our research had advanced to fufil the vision, we had been at peace for many years and they were contemptous of us, they had forgotten newcastle^Å.but we had not. The cities began building howitzers^Å.tens of them^Åwith tanks to clear the pesky bites of their resistance. Our settler armies changed into engineers thanks to leonardos brilliance were poised and the connection was made from our rail network to theirs in 1980AD, now the howitzers rolled over the border crushing the pitiful english under the wieght of fire, their walls useless against our art of war they begged for peace time and time again but it was not to be. Death in 3 years was the english punishment and my people rejoiced as we turned our eyes to the zulus.

The zulus died to cruise missiles fired from submarines, destroyers scouting their navy their ships dying under the barrage launched from the subs. Battleships teamed with aegis cruisers crushing resistance for the mech inf to walk into their undefended coastal cities.

All who would oppose the mongol armies must die!

By anonymous