Tales from the Diplomatic Front VI

[Matthew]

Normally barbs attack your first 2 cities at a disadvantage, and yes, often they do seem weak on defense. That's why I attacked the archer with a warrior in Veii. My reasoning was simple. weaken the archer, and the early city defense bonus would certainlty be enough to help the remaining warrior defend the city. The first warrior left the archer virtually unscathed, and the second fell easy pray. Bye bye Veii. Earlier I had another archer kill a warrior in my capital, and another warrior in Veii. Usually your first 2 cities geta big defensive bonus against barbs earlyon, but not this game.

[KhanMan]

Mat-I feel for you: in my duel with War, I lost my second city (triple special on a river, pop 3, no less) to a pair of barb archers. The city was defended by three vet fortified phalanxs...

That's why I always build on hills and mountains on raging now...

-KhanMan

[Smash]

white also has no response time against barbs in MP.Later this not a huge prob but early it is.Especially if you are near a "hot" spot.Matt knows this.I'm sure he'll come back.

I think this was 1x and building your first 2 or3 cities on a hill or forest might not be a good plan

[hydey]

looking forward to our continuing struggle against the barbarian hordes. playing in such a friendly enviroment is such a joy to be a part off see you all sunday morning or saturday night for the yanks

[Rasputin00]

Well after many bad connections we eventually switched hosts and apart from one dropout which didnt affect too much we are on our way again
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[Rasputin00]

As our settlers founded more citys our people begun researching many wonderous technologies. These new advancements were used to keep our people happy and as most of our poeple were religous, temples were first thing on the agenda.

As our nation grew the raging barbarians of the world heard of our great citys and landed and unfortunalty the Great city of West Raz was burnt to the ground in one evil raid. Fortunalty to our south we met with a tribe of civilised folk not more barbarians and soon we had agreed borders, and so the borders of our nation to the south was on the "River Babylon", for there we sat down and there we wept, as we remembered West Raz.

And so with our southern border fixed we headed north again and discovered more barbarians and so for the next few centuries an evil war raged as we tried to expand in that direction.

The Great Mad Monk scientists made an awesome discovery of map making and so set upon forming the Royal Raz Navy. The new navy was put under the control of Robus Aulus, a very charming young man with many abilitys.

Soon we also met a Sioux archer who wished peace and after smoking traditional peace pipe, ( i wonder what was in it, we both felt really good afterwards) we also agreed to sharing of our learninigs with each other.

And so with the Royal Navy out exploring the grand frontiers and our home citys developing more scientists and growing wiser every day, another era passed.
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[hydey]

as the sun god shone down pleasently so too did the mighty sioux empire grow soon we met mighty horseman of another tribe they were rightfully afraid and begged our mercy. After much thought our mighty leader HYDEY HO (the living god) chose the path of peace and thus a mighty treaty was signed and borders agreed upon. While this friendship aided our respective empires it was the meeting and friendship of the religious ones far to the north that started us all on the journey to the futore. Long may the Gods favour the all powerful sioux


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hooray hooray its a Hydey Hydey day

[Empress]

The past thousand or so years have brought much prosperity to my land. Four more cities have been built and the Fountainian dream of manifestdestiny was realized when the exploration team revealed we were on a small island. However, with the discovery of mapmaking, ships are now under construction and the list of those wishing to colonize distant lands grows with each passing day. All has not been blissful. For several hundres of years the people were restless and disorderly, refusing to work. However, upon the construction of temples in which to worship their goddess empress, order was returned and productivity increased. In fact, the people became so productive that they errected the Hanging Gardens of Fountain's View in my honor. I am looking forward to further expansion and city growth, as fleets of ships and throngs of settlers will soon be building irrigation systems and roaming the seas.
Wishing to form an eternal alliance with another empire...

Goddess Empress

[Empress]

The Hanging Gardens of Fountainia and the top 5 cities of the world.

[Frank Johnson]

Texan explorers finally explored the extent of our continent. Its constistance of long penisulas make expansion difficult, however no less than 5 new cities were constructed. One however was destroyed by barbarians. After finding no others on my rather small and akward contient I have claimed it solely for my use. Those landing on my continent with the idea to stay permanently will be interperted as an agressive action. Respecting my territorial claim, which is fair and reasonable, is a requirement for a peace treaty. Obviously anyone whom respects my territory shall obtain a favorable view from the Texans on their territorial claims, and future cooperation. Keep in mind the structure of my contient, it is full on penisulas and very strange. Alot of the area I am listing is near useless interitor oceans.

A western boarder
(45,13)
(52,26)
(63,43)

South-East
(70,46)
(78,40)
(81,29)
(73,11)

North
(62,4)
(50,6)
(45,13)


Thus, while you are loading up your ships, send embassies and maybe caravans this way, but if you want cooperation with the Texan Empire leave your settlers at home. It is my home that by doing this we can avoid any conflicts at a later date.

Dangime
Leader of the Texans

[Sparrowhawk]

Unable to attend to his Empire for a period Matt looking among the waiting peasants/would be leaders and asked "who among you is fit to rule?"
When it was apparent that no answer would be forthcoming, he ordered that one known as "Sparrowhawk" be ceized to act as leader in his absence.

Upon surveying the empire, Sparrowhawk's first order of business was to deal with the barbarians. Unfortunately for the absent Matt, the best solution Sparrowhawk came up with was to ingore the Barb's believing that in time they would go away, and the matter would deal with itself. Much to his surprize then when the barbarian archers arrived at Rome and quickly killed the defenders and torched the city. Among the few survivors were Sparrowhawk and his ministers. An angry Sparrowhawk confronted his Defense Minister on the way to the site he selected for his new palace, asking him "why wern't we better prepared for the barbarian menace?" to which his Defense Minister, who was still annoyed that he was not the one selected to lead in Matt's absence, retorted, "I told you not to come to me when they put your palace to the torch, now be off before I select us a new leader". Seeing no support forthcoming from the rest of council, Sparrowhawk wisely held his tongue.

Not satisfied with a simple palace, Sparrowhawk arranged for architechs, artisans, and labourers to spend 500 years in the construction of a new palace. By the time the palace was complete the growth of the empire had been greatly stunted by corruption and waste as the people were clearly dissatisfied with this "man who would be king". The final straw for the people came when he did finally reform the government into this "Monarchy" that he had heard whispers of from the leaders of other lands. As a further sign of impudence he named himself "King" and was arranging for the scribes to remove all mention of the name "Matt" from the history books when the aforementioned Matt returned to assess his Kingdom. Travelling first to the Ruins of Rome he was not pleased with the state of affairs in the new capital. He ordered Sparrowhawk to attack the barbarians, alone. Seeing the futility of this, Sparrowhawk choose rather to offer his services to the barbarians as leader, and they accepted. Rumours have been heard that he leads them into every battle, his head mounted on the pike of the bannerman.

[Rasputin00]

The Mad Monks, followers of the Great Raz , have made peace with all they meet. They met the not so friendly Texans, but then due to a quirk of the space time continuum (or maybe the contents of those peace pipes) the world reversed in time and suddenly we have now not met the Americans

It was with great interest that we read of the Texas peoples claims to all the land on "their " continent, in such a smallworld as this (Frank made it this size) all land is there to be settled, if one civ has been lucky to be alone on a continet of large size it is not fair to expect the other civs to accept that they remain isolated on small islands whilst one nation enjoys the excesses.

To our nation it appears this may become a major bone of contention over the years.

Our Naval Attache Robus Aulus, has set out messages in bottles, hoping they find the shores of distant lands, the messages clearly state the Mad monk peoples objectiv ein life is to form peace throughout world, detsroy all barbarians and make love whenever they can .

Stay tuned for more


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[Rasputin00]

As can be seen fvrom powergraph below, The Texans (Americans - Light blue) are well ahead, followed by Deitians, the Mad Monks, Empress's lovely Green people, a fast accelarating Sioux tribe, and then well behind but close together is Spanish and Romans

[Frank Johnson]

Well my main concern is securing primelands which I had settled, but were destroyed by barbarians as I had mentioned before. It would be unfortuent if my neighbors were to plop a city near the location of the former Brownsville, which could lead to very bad relations in the future, even to the point of having to drive those out of the location. Once Texaan arimes go out on a mission, there is little I can do to stop them from completling it. The location was painstakenly cleared, and I was trying to avoid this situation from happening. As I type a garrison from Galveston is proceeding to that area to rout the barbarians and reclaim the area.

As for my claims on the continent, as I said before most of what I have claimed is useless inland sea. The rest is made of narrow penisulas which I an struggling to navigate with my settlers which are constantly infested by barbarians, none the less it is my only remaining frontier and I intend to settle it. Advances in sea technology will certainly speed up the process. Hopefully I will not have to start looking overseas for new territories if others don't feel it nessesary to clutter my homeland.

That's my statement. Texas prefers to keep things simple, and the situation is potientally dangerous. Texas will look favorably on those who respect my homeland, and laugh at those who try to settle my territories and the barbarians, ment for me, come to rout your cities. The eastern coast of my continent is where my espically tense efforts have been located and where the mad monks navy has been located, and I felt it would be better to inform you now of the history of the region and mention it would be better for everyone if you sought colonization elsewhere.

[Matthew]

Great Caesar is mightily saddened by the continuing misfortunes that have befallen Rome in his absence. He requests understanding and consideration from other nations who would settle lands that rightfully belong to Rome, but as of yet, due to the afore mentioned misfortunes, have not yet been settled.

Those of you who would count Rome as being out of the game, understand:


I, Matthew, PHYSICS Dude of the HOUSE of BUBBA, have a plan.