The Legacy of the Babylonian Empire - A CivIII Succession Game

[quinalla]

Just downloaded it, I will play as soon as I can.

MacTBone, are you in CS or something? I just graduated from Purdue in May from ME.

-quinalla

[mactbone]

Cool, no, I'm not. I was in engineering last year, but I'm in Professional Writing with a CPT minor. (I have no idea how you got through engineering, you must be a maochist)

[quinalla]

I think all the ME's who were seniors my last year were all ready to quit, but we didn't because we had already spent 3 (or 4 in some cases) years doing the work, so we toughed it out for the last year. Real work is so much easier and they pay me!

Anyway, I got about half my turn done before work, I will try to finish tonight or tomorrow and get it posted ASAP.

[quinalla]

The rise of Empress Quinalla is shrouded in secrecy, but since no heir was named by the paranoid Emperor Vovanism, who knows what could have been involved.

975 Babylon finishes training a group of spearmen and they head off to explore south of the empire. Babylon then begins gathering a group of brave souls to form a new settlement. Ur's production is changed from a spearman to a temple to make our people happy. The illusive Zulus decide to contact us with a proposal to exchange territory maps. Empress Quinalla laughs at this idea, why would we give our map to an enemy, but manages to convince them to give us their map in a better deal.

950 Workers continue connecting our empire with roads. Our exploring archer finds that the Roman city Pinsae is connected to one other Roman city, but not to the main empire. The zulus new home is quite a distance from our empire now so Quinalla resigns herself to the fact that she will not be able to attack them during her reign. She sends a group of spearmen to invistigate the land between the zulus and her empire in hopes that a future leader might be able to reach them. Her advisors report that the Persians are building the pyrimids.

925 Quinalla is told that Zimbabwe is building a granary, but she knows that the people are beginning to feel crowded so she decides to allow they to form a band to settle in a new place. An exploring spearman discovers yet another source of iron.

900 The Golden Age of the Babylonians has ended. Workers finish a road to Ellius and begin on a road to a new settlement site that Quinalla has chosen for her people when they are brave enough to go there.

875 A spearman discovers a barbarian camp and Quinally is eager to attack. A group of people from Zimbabwe is ready to start on a journey to a new city site and another group inspired by this band of brave souls begins to form. Ellius citizens say goodbye to some of their former citizens as they head off to expand the empire. The citizens then start building barracks for their protectors. The people of Uri finish their glorious temple and are also inspired to form a group to settle new lands.

850 The spearman attacks the barbarians and is victorious.

825 Ninevah is founded. A strange barbarian is seen to the north west. Contact with him is initiated and he claims to be from the great Greek civilization. Quinalla contacts the leader and finds a very backward people in science, so a simple trade of their territory map, some gold and our knowledge of map making reveals their lands.
The greeks are between us and the new zulu cities and perhaps the greeks will be of some use when the Babylonians finish of the Zulu for good.

800 Babylon finishes training spearman and is instructed to build a barracks. The spearman joins the exploration. Quinalla notices that the whole continent is rich with iron desposits.

775 More exploration

750 Ashur is founded and is ordered to construct a temple since it is close to the Persian sphere of influence.

730 Quinalla begins consulting her advisors every 20 years instead of 25. Ulundi finishes training spearmen and is ordered to construct a temple to increase our sphere of influence. The spearman heads to Zimbabwe to be ready to escort the new settlers that will soon be leaving.

710 The exploring archer reaches the northern edge of the continent. The Zulus want to renegotiate the peace treaty and Quinalla decides that agreeing will lull them into thinking they are safe from the Babylonians.

690 Barbarian boats are spotted near Babylon. The road to Ur is completed. The Persians contact us and offer Philosphy for a mere 90 gold and we accept and they are now much more polite to us.

670 Ellipi is founded and two more supplies of silks are secured and kept out of greedy Roman hands. Perhaps we will trade some to them in the future if they are lucky. Ellipi begins constructing a temple.

650 Ninevah constructs a warrior and begins training workers to help complete roads.

630 The Romans are also expanding their empire rapidly. The Ur settlers set out for better lands and spearman begin their training.

610 Zimbabwe sends another group of settlers on its way and another group is ordered to be formed because of the incredibly high birth rate.

590 Babylon finishes its barracks and is instructed to train spearmen.

570 The exploring warrior finds a new town site with access to fish and cows and Quinalla takes this as an omen that the empire will continue to thrive under the next leader and decides it is her time to die.

Note: There are settlers moving towards new town sites with spearmen protecting them, you might want to see where they are headed.

[quinalla]

I have a few more pictures too for the webpage, should I post them here (they wouldn't fit in the zip file).

[Random Entity]

Yeah, go ahead and put them up; the more screenshots we actually have in the thread, the better. By the way, my update will be done by tomorrow (probably tonight).

[MagicBacon]

Hi everybody, I'm joining this game. I should have my turn finished pretty quick, and I'll post my summary.

[quinalla]

MagicBacon, did you talk to Random Entity first?

[Random Entity]

Yeah, he e-mailed me first. He's going after me now, and Eli's after him. And please don't post your summary until after I do (as we'd be missing several hundred years)

[Random Entity]

The Akkad Dynasty - Emperor Random Entity the Second

550 BC - Nineveh's work force is assembled, and the city is told to assemble another. The Emperor's two primary goals for the "New Era" are expansion and connection.

530 BC - The Bowmen scouting the region north of Zimbabwe are reassigned to secure the northern grasslands; fertile areas that the Romans MUST NOT be allowed to take for themselves. Our warrior regiments northeast of Ur move to explore the isthmus connecting the Empire to Roman territory.

510 BC - The road connecting Babylon and Ulundi is completed. The workers are then commanded to build roads in the region north of the city.

490 BC - A regiment of spearmen, in the First Imperial Army, are completed in Babylon. The Emperor's expansion policies influence many citizens of Babylon to assemble so that they can one day settle a distant land. A barracks is completed in Elius, and the general there begins training bowmen to assist in the defense of the Northern Lands. Another addition to the First Imperial Army is completed in Ur: a new spearmen regiment to defend the city.
The town of Uruk is founded in the flood plains over the mountains and to the west of Babylon.

470 BC - The Emperor sends an emissary to the Persian fringelands, demanding the secrets of construction. Xerxes requests a trade - the Babylonian regional maps to exchange for the technology. Random Entity hesitantly accepts, reasoning that simple maps were worth the sacrifice for new advancements. A similar deal is struck with Emperor Caesar of Rome, this time
the Empire pays a mere 80 gold for the outline of a new system of laws.

450 BC - The Babylonian wise men begin contemplating the universe, and using the basic principles of Bantu Mysticism as a research source, start to envision the idea of many gods that control the world.

430 BC - Paranoia begins to set in among the Babylonian people concerning the Romans. They seem to be everywhere on the border of the Motherland. Many historians compare this to the same paranoia felt by Emperor Mike of the Admant Dynasty before his death.

410 BC - Most cities in the Empire begin to mass-produce settlers for the Emperor's "New Era" expansion plans.

390 BC - A temple is completed in Ashur. The Emperor, at the cost of scientific advancement, increases taxes to help the Imperial treasury. Protests ensue, but are quickly silenced by the military.

370 BC - A warrior regiment in the hills northeast of Ur fortifies to defend against relentless Roman expansion.

350 BC - The citizens of Babylon begin erecting walls to keep out vandals and thieves. Xenophobia is at an all time high when it is discovered that two new Roman settlements have appeared in the east: Byzantium and Lutetia.

330 BC - A temple is completed in Ulundi. Workers continue to build roads that will facilitate travel in the Northern Plains.

310 BC - The cities of Elius and Ashur experience a cultural expansion. The Emperor, in honor of the event (and to remove any traces of Zulu culture from the Empire), renames Zimbabwe "Habbus", and renames Ulundi "Quinallus", in memory of his predecessor Quinalla.

290 BC - A small band of Roman Guardsmen arrive at the palace of Admantus with an emissary. The small, sheepish Roman man asks in a tiny voice that the Babylonian Empire immediately give the Roman Empire the maps of its territory along with 11 coins of gold. Emperor Random Entity is hesitant, but the Council advises him to give in - the Romans will pay for this when the time is right. Later that same year, the city of Eridu was founded on the fringes of the Northern Plains. Word was also received from the borderlands that Persian and Greek warriors were discovered in our territory. Both nations were immediately asked to leave, and both agreed with little protest.

270 BC - The road to the Roman town of Byzantium is completed. In the far north, the city of Samarra is founded to counteract Roman expansion in the northern regions. The Emperor sent ambassadors to the Empire's two largest neighbors, Rome and Persia, and established embassies.

250 BC - Persian warriors are once again located in Babylonian territory, this time to the south of Elius. The Emperor is enraged, immediately demanding of Xerxes that they be removed. Xerxes
complies, but not before commenting on the Empire's rather poor border defense. The Emperor accepts this 'constructive criticism', and begins to train troops to protect the borderlands.

230 BC - The regiments of swordsmen south of Akkad begin exploring the vast jungles near the Euphretes River.

210 BC - Our scholars are distraught to hear that the Persians are building a 'great library' of some sort.

190 BC - A new group of settlers from Elius are sent by the Emperor to settle the southeast coast of the Northern Plains. The swordsmen units in the jungles discover dyes.

170 BC - Early in the last years of Emperor Random Entity's reign, a Zulu emissary arrived with a message from Shaka - he requests that our two nations trade territory maps. The Emperor can
only laugh at this. How could the pathetic Zulu nation possibly consider themselves to be our equals, after we drove them out of our land?! Random Entity sends an emissary back to Shaka,
but with a different request - that he pay tribute to the Empire with all the gold in their treasury (which amounted to a total of 6), and their exploration maps. The Zulus agreed, of course, wanting us to spare their pathetic nation for at least a few more years. The exchange of maps reveals that the Zulus do, in fact, have a third settlement in their new homeland, known as 'Isandhlwana'. The Emperor, growing old, decides to retire. Having named his successor, he lives out the rest of his life in his villa in the grasslands of Samarra.

[Random Entity]

And here's the zip file.

[MagicBacon]

Alright, here goes!

170 BC: The Great Reign of Dictator MagicBacon begins!
150 BC: Dictator MagicBacon, declaring that positive population growth is essential to the health of the state, announces construction of a great granary in Babylon.
130 BC: A group of colonists are founded in Ashur. They are sent north to colonize the... north. The arrogant Persians found a city near Elius and Uruk called Samaria. Dictator MagicBacon is confident that our superior Culture will defeat them.
90 BC: Settlers from Ur are sent south to claim Iron for Babylon. Emperor MagicBacon believes that it is of the utmost importance to secure many sources of Iron for our glorious empire. All seemed in order until an urgent missive arrived from the Iroquois capital, stating that the Iroquios had completed the Oracle, a project that had been nearly completed by the Babylonians! Distraught, the Babylonians changed production to a Great lighthouse, to aid in the navigation of treacherous waters.
70 BC: Exploration of the south contines with our swordsmen, until disaster strikes! A lone regiment, patrolling the mountains, was overrun by a horde of barbarian horsemen, but not before destroying 7 enemy regiments. Emperor MagicBacon was distressed at the news, but hoped that the barbarians would turn their attention against Persia.
50 BC: A temple is completed in Nineveh, and workers all over the empire have been building roads to link up the many cities of the Empire.
30 BC: The city of Legash was founded near Byzantium, to curb Roman expansion in that sector.
10 BC: News reached the Emperor's court that the Romans had completed the Pyramid. Magicbacon was distressed by this, as it would mean that the Romans would have a definite edge in population growth. On the plus side, the city of Kish was founded by a band of colonists.
10 AD: After some haggling, the Emperor bought literature from the Persians for 140,000 talents. This was done so that production could be changed to the Great Library, a place where scholars all the world over could come to enrich the science of Babylon. Thus, Adamantus changes its focus to the Great Library.
30 AD: Continuing a string of bad luck, Athens was reported to have constructed a great wall. The Emperor too solace in the fact, however, that he believed the greeks would gain little advantage from it.
50 AD: A road was completed to bring silks into Babylon, further enrichint Babylon's rich luxury trade.
70 AD: Little happened, but scouts reported alarming Roman expansion on Babylon's northern border.
90 AD: An errant warrior was found wandering in the lands of Babylon. Alexander was promptly contacted and he immediately agreed to remove the foriegn troops.
110 AD: A massive barbarian invasion was reported around Samarra! Fortunately, however, several roman units were to the north of Samarra, Magicbacon wisely concluded that they would bear the brunt of the assault.
130 AD: The Emperor's shrewd strategic mind was proved correct once again. The romans defeated the Barbarian invasion, suffering casualties to their expansionistic force as an added bonus. Hopefully, the Babylonians hoped this would buy them time to build cities in the north.
150 AD: Little occured in this year save for the founding of a new city in the north.
170 AD: Disaster! Beliveing the Barbarians to be sedated, the Emperor sent out a group of colonists without aid. Soon after founding the village, a group of horsemen descended and stole 27,000 talents from the local treasury!
190 AD: Babylon has completed its great granary. Production is then concentrated on Swordsmen, to show the enemies of Babylon that she retained the ability to lash out at her foes. Believing that culture was the key to holding off the Romans, Magicbacon ordered the city of Samara to spare nothing to complete its pyramid. Regrettably, many civillians perished the the feverish construction pace.
210 AD: Little of consequence, but the Romans continue to expand on the north. This will surely prove troublesome.
230 AD: The Empire is in tranquility as the Emperor dies ridiculously old age. The reigns of leadership are ready to be passed on.

Gosh, I hope none of you saw my earlier post. It was &(*^ ridicuous, was a big joke story. This one is much better. I hope that you will look upon my reign as a mixed bag, and not as a total failure



BTW, I don't know how to include pictures, and I unfortunately could only include 2 in the Zip. My final turn, and the Swordsman yelling MOMMY as he is ambused by 20 horsemen.

[MagicBacon]

Ok, for some reason I can't seem to send the file to Eil through Yahoo. I tried, but I don't think the file attached itself. Just download the file from my forum post

[Eli]

I got your email but with no attachments. I'll take the file from here.

[mactbone]

The site is updated.