Don't Tread on Us

[justjake73]

I'll have to wait and see if the Aztecs attack again. It's not really exciting enough to write about unless there's some combat, and I have completed my objectives for now.



A lull in the fighting allows French troops to resupply and pose for a photographer.

[justjake73]

Headline, Paris Times, August 19, 1870:


PEACE

(But For How Long?)

NEAR TOYAMA, JAPAN - For the first time in memory, the Aztecs have come to the peace table wanting nothing but peace. Officials were fully expecting, as one put it sarcastically, "for them to demand four worker battalions, two technologies, and a partridge in a pear tree."

According to strategy experts, the Aztecs saw our right of passage agreement with the Japanese as more of a threat than they could handle.

Pundits and skeptics give the peace treaty between ten and twenty years before Montezuma declares war again. "When they do, we'll be ready." a French Army spokesman said.


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French soldiers patrol near Chapultepec, on the lookout for any Aztec soldiers.

[ChrisiusMaximus]

This is great, Im really enjoying this with all the pictures to go with the story.

Your writing this as you play I think and it is going well, I usually write my stories based on my experience of the game as a whole and never really on one particular game Ive played.

This is obviouslly different from my style but you are doing a very good job, keep up the great work.

[unscratchedfoot]

Keep the goods coming jake dude. Pictures are always a bonus to have. Dude, if the game's too easy why not crank up the skill level a few notches? I don't know about PTW cause I'll never buy it, even at gunpoint, but do what you gotta do dude.
I don't wanna play civ anymore. Reading/writing stories is far more interesting.

[VladTepes]

Dude, if the game's too easy why not crank up the skill level a few notches?

Well not all of my games are like this. I quit the last one because the AI was getting too far ahead!! I lucked out this time and got a very good map and starting position. The AI in this game, for the most part, is only a few techs behind me, and I like it that way. I've had games where I'm neck and neck with the AI, and I like those too.

I had to slug it out with Montezuma for some of the cities I captured - he had a couple of infantry in one.

[bassman]

Peace with a subdued opponent means the Cold War spies get to work!

Who knows what sort of machinations go on while nations prepare for war (think of the time between the World Wars when Germany increased its quality and quantity of war materiel).

Great job, especially the apt quotes!

[justjake73]

I've had spies in his territory since before this war - that's how I knew he had hardly any navy.

I now have a MPP and RoP with Japan, and am building a few forts there and stocking them with troops.

[SKILORD]

I love it.

I'm serious.

This story kicks a--

[TheGuitarist]

This is beyond good. Write more ASAP.

[VladTepes]

Gee wow thanks everyone

[vovan]

A very good story, justjake73. I had been thinking for a while about writing a story in the form of assorted short notes, as if taken from different sources: excerpts of war documents, dialogue transcripts, and newspaper articles. I'd thought this would be a potentially engaging story. And your piece of writing just supports that. Very nice. One problem with such an approach would have been to keep everything flowing smoothly, as the difference of sources, and the brevity of paragraphs might bring in a certain feeling of rambling. But I see you have solved that problem well. And the pictures add extra flavour to the whole thing.

Overall, a nice refreshment from the long-paragraphed stories. Keep on writing, please