Destruction of Foes (DoF) - Diplo Light [Story Thread 1]

[Bulgaria (DoF)]

"What are those Persians try to twist the history? And all this they do in a favor to another nation.

How could they call this war "Your conflict" as if they were not those who started it? How they forget who actually started the war? That it was the Turkish Sultan who crossed a whole empire to attack the Egyptians with the Persian encouragement and gifted Persian soldiers? How could they dare speaking about how unfair is to bring an ally along if they attacked Egypt 2 versus 1?

What they two wanted from Egypt? Did not they intended to seize and keep cities? Or did not they wanted to destroy Egypt? As they never actually put conditions to peace. They accuse us of of being bloodthirsty as an end in itself, despite we proposed fair and just peace, while forgetting what they intended to do to the Egyptians at first?

They accuse us in capturing further cities in Anatolia, but we was those who offered fair peace to spare the other Turkish cities. In this time the Turks and their masters the Persians never stopped gathering their huge army. When exactly they were ready or eager for peace? The usual horse$hit tactic to buy time to muster this enormous army. And sadly we fell for it.

The Persians cant hide behind a wall of words. Anyone can see trough their thin disguise. And any nation who had deal with them know how much they be trusted. Anyone can ask the Egyptians how the Persians took their goods and never payed for them, but attacked Egypt instead. I know too how while speaking of peace and how uninvolved they are, they supply our enemies with arms and soldiers. If it was to the Turks themselves, they hardly could gather 15, not to speak about 50 units.

Not like the Bulgars could not take Troy by themselves - it was all a gesture of good will to left it to the Greeks to take it - it was Bulgarian army who did the hardest work assaulting the city. The Turks were forewarned that we will not agree to such restricting to us settling towards Europe. It is not like they did not knew we will not accept this.

Actually it was me who threw the idea that both Persia and Turkey will be far better if they swallow down the idea they were defeated and they failed at the field of war and start building libraries instead of axes, but they are too proud and self-confident to see this, so they decided to drag us further in this war.

And retreating to organize a proper defense is absolutely fair tactic, so no disgrace in this I see. Right?"

This Khanas Uvigi Asparukh said to the army commander Dox, looking upset.

[Rome (DoF)]

The Senate of Rome received evidence that the Greek commercial and manager of the city of Lefkada in close cooperation with the pirates who ravaged the Roman coast. Rome sent a message to the Greek rulers to surrender the town of Lefkada you to Rome to investigate the case after the investigation over the city will be returned to Greece.

[Rome (DoF)]

At an extraordinary meeting of the Roman senate spoke Marcus Agrippa, who described the so-called "Greek affair."
Dear colleagues, Here are the facts Lefkada city manager was in close cooperation with the pirates and sold their booty. We asked the Greek rulers to convey that person, but they honored us with the answer, which is a big insult to Rome. Please Senate to issue an order to our legions conquered Lefkada and to punish false Greeks.
The Senate voted unanimously to declare war on Greece and calls on all nations who wish to join the war against the Greeks.Roman soldier ready for war

[Bulgaria (DoF)]

The Bulgarian Khan sends delegations to the Persians, the Turks and the Russians.



"The Turks want revenge and all their cities returned and Persia is determined in making this happen. No chance for soon peace there.
The filthy Russians want two of our cities bordering our capitol. Their army is at the border!"

"Let them come and claim them if they can. Withdraw army from the Turkish front and reinforce the North. Our capitol must not fall. Lets see what they can do"

[Egypt (DoF)]

The following message should be sent to all the nations involved in our conflict-(Even to Russia.. it's impossible that we still don't have contact with them..).

Greetings,

I'm Hor-Aha, Grand master of the Great Pharaoh, Alzheimoteph's armies.
Egypt has waited for peace long enough.. we hoped that our long cease-fire with the Persians will lead to a bright future, that the Turks would be reasonable, admiting that they had stolen land from the Bulgarians and find a fair agreement with them... but no.. Our patience is over.. if you think we would just watch as you try to destroy our ally by your suicidical efforts you are fool.
You can not win this war. The sooner you realize it the better will be for you., and if you won't: you will be destroyed.
From next turn our soldiers enter the battlefield again, they will engage every enemy they encounter and have orders to destroy everything and everyone in their path.
Our offer to you, to accept a reasonable peace still stands.. but for not too long.

[Inca (DoE)]

"Any word from the Sultan's retreat yet, sir?" the corporal asked.

"Well, nothing really decisive," the major responded, "we're still waiting on his terms. I guess he's enjoying his peace and doesn't want to be bothered with the rest of the world's." The major cracked a smile at his own wittiness.

"I have another question, sir," the corporal said.

"Shoot."

"So, there are about twice as many of us here as Bulgarians, right?"

"Yup, about right."

"And most of us are Persian, right?"

"Seems so, quite so, the good ones at least," a hearty laugh.

"And we're just sort of sitting in this forest, praying to the mountain gods, right?"

A sigh of exasperation, "still, yes, bloody Turks."

"And the Egyptians are going to invade our homeland, right?"

A cross face, "yes, seems so."

"And we're all 40-plus divisions of advanced troops just sitting here, praying to Turkish mountain gods, spending Persian money on supplies, right?"

A crosser face, "yeah..."

"And the macemen on the way, they're also going to come out here to sit and pray to Turkish gods, right?"

Crosser still, "yea..."

"And we could just, sort of, force the Turkish troops to follow us wherever, right?"

"Yes, we could do that. No one to stop us."

"And go get those horses finally, right?"

"Seems so, Turkey can't really lose much more anyway if we leave."

"So... why are we here again? I mean, if we're going to lose our homeland, what other option do we have?"

"Just wait a few more hours, I'm sure the Sultan's peace proposal will finally come through and we can avoid that nastiness. These Egyptians have chosen an odd time to get impatient, given that we've been, you know, sitting in the woods here waiting this diplomacy out ourselves at significant cost to our country when we could've been conquering and pillaging..."

"Well, the Turkish troops might not like the latter, sir..."

"Right, well, conquering and pillaging the Bulgarian army, I mean... of course."

"Of course."

[Inca (DoE)]

"Sir, where are we going?"

"We've finished praying to the mountain gods, they have answered us."

"What did they say?"

"You have an army equal to Bulgaria's, so you can't attack yet, just stay in perpetual stalemate, and you're spending 60 tons of gold each year to stick around this forest praying to us, so why don't you go pay nothing to pray to the plains' gods over to the east a bit and save yourselves the expense. You can come back any time quite quickly if you want to chat, and this way you can head south quicker if need be. We're not really special gods, you know, and the plains' gods are quite nice actually, and maybe they can help you better..."

"oh..."

"They also said something about no one else in the world seems to care that Bulgaria is bent on dominating the region, so let's just keep building more and more units, and someday it will get us somewhere really amazing, because I'm sure Bulgaria's just going to go take its army and parade around forever doing victory/defeat celebrations/memorials once it finishes this conflict with all its generals and promoted units..."

"But I think they were just getting sick of all the chanting."

"So, what are we going to do now?"

"Oh, wait for the Bulgs to bring up their elephants and more of those damnable konniks, and we're going to bring up our pikemen and macemen and trebuchets, and you know... well, everyone will have nice shiny metal armor now, that will change! And whenever we do fight, it will be even more epic!"

"I do like shiny metal armor..."

"Yes, chainmail is supposed to be really cool. I can't wait to get outfitted."

"Do you suppose anyone else is ever going to consider, I don't know, attacking Bulgaria when they have 40 some odd divisions held down in the south perpetually by us? I mean, seems like the perfect time to consider attacking them..."

"No, everyone else just wants to keep not building armies so they can keep watching the daisies grow."

"Oh, but daisies, they're so nice this time of year..."

"Yeah, they are I guess. I mean, I guess we're just watching them grow too, now that we're in the plains. Oh, look at those over there!"

"Yeah, I saw them, they're really colorful."

"Will Rome ever bother getting involved, other than to snatch away a couple opportunistic Greek holdings?"

"Maybe, or maybe they figure the Bulgarians are just going to forget about all that. I mean, if we ever make peace, I'm sure their army isn't going to turn around and head off through their friends the Hungarian's lands to take out their next rival. No, really silly for the Romans to do anything about anything."

"What about Russia, I heard they wanted to attack."

"Me too, oddly they haven't."

"What about, um, France?"

"Who?"

"The people that make that nice wine!"

"Oh, France, right, they make nice wine, so they've got that figured out."

"hmmm... Carthage?"

"They're too busy doing that whole 'development' thing. Really silly, if you ask me. Where's that going to lead them? Nowhere!"

"So, yeah, that leaves us. Yup, sitting out in the plains, watching the daisies grow, waiting for reinforcements, just like last century."

"You mean millennia?"

"How the time does fly..."

[Carthage (DoF)]

View of the Ancient Metropolis of Carthage

[Rome (DoF)]

Gney Domitius report to the Senate for the war against fraud Greeks.
"Dear senators, war is not going according to our expectations, the Greeks proved unexpectedly stiff resistance, our legionnaires have been able to slaughter many Greek soldiers without much loss of a Roman country, but the sacrifice of soldiers now allows them to protect the pirate base Lefkada. Our soldiers are angry the Greek resistance and our commanders report that they can't maintain the life of the civilian Greeks. I suggest transferring to another military front, which helps to finally defeat the Greeks. "
The Senate voted unanimously.
Gney Domitius

[Portugal (DoF)]

The carrack captain was confused. He expected to be shocked by the wealth and organisation of the Carthaginian ports, and he was.

But he couldn't understand the way the carthaginian traders talked about trade and money. They used terms he had never heard of before. No longer were people just buying and selling things, they were developing whole systems of understanding the flow of money and trade. This was not even just the famous carthaginian Banking, now a whole new philosophy called Economics was coming together.

The captain knew that across the whole world people spoke of how advanced the Carthaginians were, but only now he grasped the gap between the carthagians and the rest of the world. Truly the rest of the world were but waring children compared to them.

[Carthage (DoF)]

Knight Merchant Bank open for business

The development of trade meant the appearance of new commercial and financial centers.
Wealthiest of all were the Portuguese bureaucrats, the Egyptian scientists and the Carthaginian merchants, operating from the great trading cities of the Mediterranean, such as Carthage, Lisboa and Thebes.

Banking in the 5th century was a simple operation, and written instructions to a banker developed slowly. This was not the case in Carthage, where many commercial activities were made through written contracts with no use of cash money. This was the origin of bills of exchange.





The most common type of bill of exchange is the cheque, which is defined as a bill of exchange drawn on a banker and payable on demand. Bills of exchange are used primarily in international trade, and are written orders by one person to his bank to pay the bearer a specific sum on a specific date sometime in the future. Prior to the advent of paper currency, which is a very current phenomenon, bills of exchange were a more significant part of trade.





As the use of currency increased, the great number of coins in circulation and their different values led to a person specialized in the valuation and exchange of currency: the moneychanger. Soon, they were accepting deposits from their clients.

It was also the use of book-keeping which made Carthaginian bankers rise above the rest. By the 5th century, they had learned to keep double-entry book-keeping. It was used throughout Carthage and Carthaginian banking houses of western Europe but apart from this it was not widespread.

As a culmination of these money lending and money changing activities the Knight Merchant Bank was opened in 445 AD.

[Inca (DoE)]

The Turko-Persian army filtered out through the trees of the Great Forest of Avranos onto the Plains of Polybotos. An unthinkable number of men filled the valley and began their march towards the battered and ravaged city of antiquity. The best sources from the event say a full seventy divisions, some 300,000 men total, pressed forward. In range now of their catapults and siege weaponry, the city shook with fearful anticipation. Here was the day, finally, that had been expected and longed for. Here was the hour of fate.

The Persian crossbows took up a defensive perimeter around the massive army, the spearmen assembling behind them into a thick row of wood and bronze. This great line of iron, bronze, wood, muscle, and bone surrounded the inner army, tens of thousands of axemen and archers, themselves surrounding the deep core of siege equipment, catapults and ballistas. And in the center of this fearful mass was the general's cavalry unit, standing atop chariots of silver.

The army dug in for the night, knowing that tomorrow they would likely see the destiny of their poeple's made. Now was the hour to fight, now the final battle arrived.

Across the empty plains, atop a large hill, nestled between mountains, the city itself; behind it the Pass of Ramazan leading to the western coasts. Inside the city awaited the Bulgarian army. Much smaller in number, yet no less severe than the Persian and Turkish army. Somewhere in the distant hills rode their supporting cavalry, some still fat from the spoils of the raided and lost city of Persepolis, the small frontier town in the southern coast of Anatolia on the Persian Sea. Perhaps some longed for their lost comrades, the men so slow and lazy from their pillaging that they were caught off guard and slaughtered by Persian spearmen in ambush.

Much hatred, uncountable weaponry, now filled the center of the continent. Soon, the greatest conflict of history would be resolved.

[Inca (DoE)]

And Polybotos returned to Turkish control.

[Carthage (DoF)]

Great Person looking for a house swap

The Great Merchant Giovanni de Medici is looking for an opportunity to study abroad.
During his absence his house in Carthage city will be free for another great person.

Contact us via a private message..

[Rome (DoF)]

Front of the Senate cohort after cohort deploy the entire 10th Legion. Before the soldiers stood their general Gaius Julius Caesar.
"Soldiers," he said "my Comrades, we came here to show fat senators do not agree that we should die for them, and they gain profit from the war with the Greeks." The soldiers cried out "dictator Caesar, Caesar dictator"
Julius Caesar said in response: "God is my witness, I did not want that honor, but once you give it to me I can not quit you."
Caesar entered the Senate building where it expected frightened senators.
"Dear Senators, you have failed, many of you sold faulty goods and wealth of the army, they will be judged."
"Appoint me a dictator and I'll fix the mess that you stir, or the soldiers enter and they will deal with you."
Seantat unanimously Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome for people without a fixed term.