Game Three!!

[Jonny]

I believe it is once again time to enact the 72 hour rule.

[Immortal Wombat]

Noooo, just about to post. Sorry guys
Hopefully this will be better than my usual shoddy posts though...

The reign of Wombat the Not-Quite-So-Immortal

• 1450 - The new consul of the Australian republic takes a half-decade to look around his country and explore the possibilities that the future may hold. Troops are arranged, and longboats are ordered home from the outskirts of the world.
  
• 1455 - The good ship Porpoise (or was it Starfish?) exploring the English coastline finds a city named Canterbury. Gossips on board tell a story about a bishop brutally murdered at Canterbury on the orders of the king. Sceptics point out that Cathedrals do not exist in this universe, as the demi-God Activision replaced them with basilicas since Universion1.
  
• 1460 - Wombat accepts a map exchange with Indonesia, and we can see all their territory. The good ship Starfish (or is it Porpoise?) is sent to investigate further. Annoyed at the inability to remember which longship is named what, Wombat seeks a solution to the problem...
  Loads of Public works are spend. Farms for Apolyton, mines for Jonnyopolis and Aargh! and Xpertland are made into trade and science centres with the completion of numerous trading posts around the cities.
  
• 1465 - We discover Theology! As the Zulus have completed the East India Company this year, Wombat pretends that he planned for this, intending to switch production to the Hagia Sofia when theology was discovered. His advisors draw straws over who will tell him that the Hagia Sofia was built in Greece before we even knew how to. Wombat decides it would be imprudent to execute the advisor who drew the short straw. Later in the year, his advisors draw straws over who will inform the Consul that the city Apolyton was taken by a group of barbarians archers on horseback. The same advisor draws the short straw. Wombat executes him. Then he dispatches a longboat with a pair of knights on board to recover the city and surrounding farmland.
  
• 1470 - Aargh! is now the greatest science city in Australia and the people are happy.
  During a quiet period of history, Wombat has time to think, and is rewarded by a flash of inspiration regarding the navy problem. He renames all longships in the Navy to the "Wombat". Then whatever ship does something, he can refer to it by name.
  
• 1475 - Jonnyopolis begins building a caravan. New South Jonnyopolis begins building an arena. Another quiet time, and Wombat spends his days reading up on military history and tactics, especially those of the greats - Sun Tzu, Eisenhower and Skeeve.
  
• 1480 - Young builds a new longship, and at the grand launching ceremony, Wombat smashes a bottle of pre-Prohibition champagne against the hull and names it the "Wombat". The ships maiden voyage is a trip to Xpertland to collect some knights due for transfer southwards.
  Castaway rush-buys an arena to appease the people's yearning for the capitol.
  
• 1485 - We discover concrete, but we are not the first to find this wonderous building material and do not acheive the feat of wonder. We aim for classical education in the hopes that universities will be able to teach our children a love of learning. Xpertland builds a longship, and again, it is named the "Wombat". The government has completely run out of pre-Prohibition champagne however, and so the ship is launched unceremoniously by a bunch of smelly fisherman.
  A knight and catapult division board the ship and head southwards.
  Meanwhile, in England, two knights land near Manchester as part of a sneaky diplomatic policy by Wombat. He meekly offers an exchange of cities - Aargh! for Manchester. Historians note the similarity between this and an ancient military tactic known as the Wombat manouver. The media brand Wombat a revisiting hero from the past. Scholars brand him a copy-cat.]
  The English reject his 'generous' proposal, perhaps noticing the stack of greek units outside Aargh!...
  Despite being plyed with gold, and threatened by the knights outside Manchester, desperatly waiting to "reduce the city to rubble", the English reject all attempts at an Australian wombat manouver, and Wombat is disheartened. Desperate to be a military hero, Wombat attempts the same trick with four other nations. None listen to his pleas and he is rejected in all talks.
  Wishing to make good his threat, Wombat orders New Zealand to produce Samurai "until they are coming out of your ears". Citizens there try hard, but reckon a maximum of one every five years is all they can manage. A longship is despatched to collect them.
  
• 1490 - Wombat is becoming senile, and forgets names easily, mystics blame it on shoddy note-taking, but no-one knows what they are talking about. Some city called Gaza something starts to build a settler to colonise the western end of the island.
  
• 1495 - In his final years as consul, Wombat disproves the 'Donut World' theory once and for all, as the good ship Wombat finds no N-S passage; only a new continent, named Antarctica, and already a popular tourist destination, what with Pilfur's tomb being found there and the incident with the pink penguins .
  

Wombat then retires from Consulship, leaving the senate looking for a new leader. He heads for his retirement home in the mountains, but only makes it to the foothills before suffering a heart attack. He recuperates in a nearby village, but cannot hope to reach his mountain retirement home. After more years of senility, he passes away, but is credited with the first diagrams of how to make working cable cars...

[Gazablanca]

Some city called Gaza something starts to build a settler to colonise the western end of the island.

Gaza something?????BAH!!!!!!!!!!!

[OmniGod]

That's what happens Gaz when people throw your tomb into the ocean... you loose your city and people forget what it is called. I'm very sorry.

[Sean]

Wombat,

As you and Darkknight swapped turns, the game file is supposed to come to me now (from you, instead of DK)...yet I do not have it yet...

Sean.

[David Murray]

*gasps*

Thank God, thank God, thank God almighty!

I'm not banned any more!

Hehe...I've been so busy at work the last couple of months, I'd almost completely forgotten about CTP2...can anyone please give me a summary of what's been going on...and am I still in the game?

No hard feelings about mising my last turn and making you all wait....

[berXpert]

The reign of BerXpert II

• 1500 - Masive military unit movilization to the english lands. 8 longhsips set a military rute to Manchester
• 1505 - Apolyton city recaptured from the barbarians
• 1510 - Travelers said that Mexicans are near to complete the Gutenberg Bible
• 1515 - Glass trade rute changed from local to foreign for 260 gold. 1st block of troops arrive to Manchester, the stak is now formed of 9 units.
• 1520 - Australian wise men develop the classical education. Immediate buildings of universities ordered. 3 universities are rush bought.
• 1525 - Science rate increased, now the banking is in 6 turns not the 8 before the universities.
• 1530 - Aargh! university opened to the public.
• 1545 - Troops arrive to Manchester, maybe an attack is posible now, but general BerXpert resign to take the managment of the Xpertland University

[Jonny]

So David is back. As far as I know, you're still in the game. As far as the game goes, we have been able to leave our little lump of land and find other civs.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Sean
Wombat,

As you and Darkknight swapped turns, the game file is supposed to come to me now (from you, instead of DK)...yet I do not have it yet...
.

Sean, BerXpert and DK swapped turns, with me in the middle I think, or something, so BerXpert missed his turn earlier, and had to play after me to allow DK the chance to play before me, so now the file can go to you...

Sorry Gaza, I just completely forgot what your wonderful city was called, I had only noted it as Gaza, and I didn't want to get it wrong, so I went senile.

Welcome back David

Dare I ask why you were banned?

[Gazablanca]

That's OK Wombat.........some barb will probably trash it sometime soon anyway......

[David Murray]

Dare I ask why you were banned?

Well, I kinda got carried away in the OTT a few months ago. The ban was supposed to last three days and ended up lasting three months.

[Immortal Wombat]

I think pretty much everyone has had a major break from CTP2 recently. But they usually come back oddly enough (eventually)

[Sean]

Thanks for clearing that up Wombat. And David, the game file should be waiting for you

The Reign of Sean the vice-president....

Reign starts 1550 and ends 10 turns later in 1600.

1) Sean is forced to take executive powers when the president falls ill. Some call him unready for the role...
2) We discover Banking.
3) Stuff all.
4) Sinboy ransacked by barbarians.
5) England declares war on us.
6) Invasion of Manchester is a closely fought battle, but our superior numbers lose out to the Englishs tech superiority.
7) Mount Isa founded. Road built between NSJ and NZ.
8) NA
9) NA
10) Discover Gun-powder.

[Immortal Wombat]

6) Invasion of Manchester is a closely fought battle, but our superior numbers lose out to the Englishs tech superiority.

Oh crap

[David Murray]

The trials and tribulations of Consul Murray

1600: An ambitious young member of the Austrlian Consul, David Murray, is granted leadership of the Australians through the vote of the upper-class, male, non-slave population. (Ahh, the joys of early democracy.) Desperate to increase national productivity, he immediately raises the working day to 14 hours. (Owch!)

1605: There is exploration and troop movement.

1610: New infantrymen are commissioned in New Zealand. Infantrymen production is added as addendum to most of the cities' production queues, in place of the some of the worthless civic improvements that were there originally.

1615: Naval units retreat from the English coast, awaiting more infantrymen reinforcements. Rooville starts work on a fire trireme to protect the vulnerable longships.

1620: There is much troop movement this turn.

1625: Troops on English land are massacred by English cannons.

1630: Indonesia beings work on the emancipation act. "Lilly-livered liberals!" rants Consul Murray, an avowed Republican and compassionate conservative.

1635: Shaka Zulu constructs Gallileo's telescope.

1640: Printing press found. We start work on the agricultural revolution. The Consul passes away gently, to a huge sigh of relief from the now-outlawed opposition "Democratic Party".

So basically, all I have managed to do is start to kickstart our nation into war again. We have new units coming out and we will need then to beat the tough English.