Viking Scribes

[Christantine The Great]

Is the Viking Scribes section of the Civ II section taking new stories. I sent in one many months ago and it never showed up. I then sent a E-Mail to MarkG and got no response.

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"Freedom, Trade, Christantine!"

[MarkG]

*takes note*
need an auto-responder

[Father Beast]

I also sent one in a month or two ago. I've been meaning to ask about this myself!
so, what's the deal? are vikings no longer accepted?

while we're at it, how long ago was that last one added?

[Comrade Dan]

YEAH MARKOS!!!!!!!!

******ing about this because I asked him MONTHS ago*

I have a 5 part great story to put up...and maybe more to follow!

[Christantine The Great]

BUMP

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[Mao]

Are the Viking Scribes stille even working? I haven't visited in months. And also, do they accept stories from scenarios?

[Father Beast]

The viking scribes were still there when I visited a few weeks ago, and I believe a couple of them were from scenarios.
Anyone interested in how I got slammed in "My First Deity Game"? I guess I could post it here since submissions to vikings seems to go into a black hole.

[Christantine The Great]

Black Hole? No... probably the grimy bottom of a E-Mail account with "WE HAVE A DEAL FOR YOU" and "FREE XXX PICS RIGHT HERE!!"

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[Father Beast]

submissions to Vikings seem to fall into the depths of an unused email account, never to be seen again.
posting it here is like laying it on slowsand, but at least people will have the chance to read it.

So I'll do it!

[Father Beast]

MY FIRST DEITY GAME
I had been playing on chieftain and warlord for some time, So I decided to try a
game on deity, and see how bad it could be. This was my 4th time playing on this
particular map I think is great, all peninsulas and narrow sea lanes.
As Phaeton, leader of the Egyptians, we built our capital, Heliopolis, the City of
the Sun, by the sea and near a meandering river. We grew and dealt with initial unrest
problems. But time flew as we grew. Our first colony was established in 1500 BC, and
then Heliopolis set to building the Colossus. We heard about great wonders being built
across the world, but those seemed far away. After the Colossus, we built the Oracle, and
the unrest problems in our cities died down. We discovered the secret of trade and built
our first caravan, but too late to assist with building the Oracle.
We had 5 cities in 1 AD when we discovered seafaring and sent an explorer out.
He soon found an advanced tribe that joined our empire, and stayed with them until they
built their first phalanx, and were building city walls when he went on. Within a few
years, however the explorer was wiped out by a horde of barbarian crusaders, while the
city he found was beset and sacked by barbarian knights, city walls or no.
it was about then that Phaeton began to have doubts about the future. These
doubts grew worse when the English made contact, and without any threats or demands,
decide to rid the world of the Egyptians and declared war. However, 50 years passed
without any English actually appearing, and we went ahead with the founding of our 7th
city, Giza. Before Giza had much of a chance to grow, 2 English crusaders appeared and
destroyed the city. With some irritation, we rebuilt Giza and set city walls to protect it.
The Egyptian high council met in 1750, and I had the unique (until then)
experience of all my advisors being upset with me.
The Romans contacted us soon afterward, and were quite friendly, even
exchanging maps with us. Other nations contacted us also, with varying levels of
indifference. But the English were never less than enraged, and never spoke to us except
to say they were going to rid the world of our civilization.
Phaeton determined to do something about our cash flow problems, and Byblos
built a caravan destined for Rome. We discovered the secrets of navigation about 1800,
and built a caravel to transport the caravan. The caravan made landfall in 1810, and
within a couple of turns was in sight of the railroaded Roman interior, when it was
destroyed by a passing Babylonian unit. The Romans offered an alliance and declared
war on the Babylonians. Byblos built another caravan which was wiped out upon landing
by the French. The Romans cheerfully declared war on them, also.
The English came back about 1875 with a couple of alpine troops, and retook
Giza. This started a standoff which lasted almost 100 years. I stationed Phalanxes in
fortresses on the road to Giza, and set 2 of my cities training diplomats to send against
them. Giza lost its city walls and other improvements, and went into civil disorder fairly
often, but still we couldn’t retake it. Although Elizabeth used the statue to switch
between republic and fundamentalism every few years, she never lost her hatred of
Egyptians. If Giza hadn’t been so far from main English territory, we would never have
lasted so long.
When the tanks rolled out of Giza in 1970, Phaeton knew the end was near. Our
scientists were researching gunpowder, and we hoped to have some musketeers to put up
a good defense. We also appealed to our allies, the Romans, to declare war on the
English, hoping to take the pressure off us. They said they would be glad to go to war
with the English, for 6240 gold. We had nowhere near that sort of money, so we were
screwed.
After the outer cities fell, the tanks rolled into Heliopolis in 1998. Seeing it
coming, the palace was nearly rebuilt in Byblos, and finally was done by 2000.
In 2007, Byblos, our last city, fell to the English. “Centuries later” the ruins of our
way of life were discovered by archaeologists?!?

[Christantine The Great]

My First Deity Game

I, Emperor Christantine the Great started out as the Chrisonians on the World map (Large). We were a peaceful people, founding the cities of Christantinople (Where Rome would be) and finding an advanced tribe we got Chris City (Near Paris). We found the Vikings at about 3000 BCE By that time we had the city of Christonia (Istanbul) and Christon (Alexandria). They were a foolhardy people and they instantly declared war. So what I thought, they attacked me with horsemen while I had Phalanxes in my cities. I continually called on their leader, Gunnhild, for a peace treaty but she didn't listen. Suddenly a catapult showed up right next to Christonia. It was with a horseman. I killed the horsemen by slip of the directional key and the catapult destroyed the single phalanx inside the city. I tried to take the defenses of Christantinople to the city before it fell but the distance was to great for the unit to get there in time. I lost the city but I quickly liberated it with a catapult that was in the works. I built my fourth city, Chris's Lake, right over the Black Sea, in the Crimea. That was a stupid mistake though because the Vikings instantly took it over. It took me a century to take it back. In that time I had sent a guy by the name of Marco Polo to find some of the world's inhabitants. I didn't randomize the starting locations and I found that the Sioux had become powerful in the Americas (on the fourth turn the Aztecs were killed off). The Egyptians were a bit more south than they should have been and I quickly made an alliance with them since Christon blocked all passage out of Africa. The Chinese were surprisingly pigheaded (No offense to people of Chinese decent) and declared war on me without ever knowing where I was. The English were a bit hermit-like for a while until they found out that they liked bullying the poor Egyptians. The English and the Vikings were at war constantly. The Japanese didn't want anything to do with anybody. I think that they were whipped good by the Chinese and ran away to a distant colony of theirs. I found a small Chinese city near the middle east with a diplomat and bribed it. I renamed it Chris Eastern. I sent a settler on the great task of joining Chris Eastern with Christonia.
When I finally got back Chris's Lake I wanted blood. I marched a catapult right up to Jarrow (Viking because of one of their wars with the English) and destroyed the phalanx inside it. A horsemen then killed the catapult. That was when I decided to ignore the Vikings.
The Egyptians were in trouble when the English first landed on their shores. Their first intentions were to colonize because two cities on the West African coast are Hastings and Canterbury. Then they met the inferior Egyptian Empire and decided to follow their normal pattern of grabbing anything in its path. They got Pi-Ramesses which was where Carthage would have been and continued attacks against the big cities like Alexandria, Thebes and Memphis. The Egyptians asked for help but I was suspicious that there was an English city that I didn't know about that was right inside my territory so I declined. They broke the alliance. I didn't care because I never involve myself in the world politics. The Egyptians apparently didn't need my help because they conquered two English colonies on the Nile and recovered Pi-Ramesses. They signed a treaty and the English went back to Europe to bang some Viking heads.
Meanwhile I continued to research techs and longed for the day when the Vikings would let me alone. They made no real progress because when ever they walked up to one of my cities I would shoot them full of arrows.
Then around 0 CE the Sioux arrived on Africa clearly to bonk heads. The Egyptians lost Pi-Ramesses to the Sioux and they also harassed the English colonies. I wanted to encompas the entire Mediterranean Sea so I sent an old catapult to get Pi-Ramesses. I let an Egyptian Crusader take out the lone Musketeer an I moved the catapult in. I renamed the city Chris-Egypt in tribute to the high respect I held for them. They always gave me a tech when I wanted one and they quelled their want for the beautiful and prosperous city of Christon. Many times they moved catapults up to the city and then they suddenly moved away.
The Vikings were getting restless and I devised a plan. I made war with the English just so they would land a number of troops near my city that was at the greatest risk, Chris City. I let them kill their units on my great defenses. The Vikings who were heading for the same city found the English licking their chops. Well, I think you know what happened next. A Viking horsemen didn't want to wait in line so he attacked the elephant infront of him. Instant and free city defenses! I then made peace with the English so they would hang around and also get rid of the Vikings. This solved my problems for centuries! The Chinese keep attacking Chris Eastern hoping to get their lost city back but I don't think they will. The Sioux have started to hang around my little lake (Mediterranean Sea) and the Vikings are a big problem. So long for now!!!!!!

E-Mail me at Choco61017@aol.com

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[MarkG]

you can post your stories on the civ2-general forum

[Christantine The Great]

Does this mean that the Viking Scribes are truly defunct?

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[MarkG]

now, it just means that the scribes are in a low priority and that if you really want to have you story shown to the people you can post it on the civ2-general forum. meanwhile, every scribe mailed to me will be posted(eventually)...