Succession Game V: The Empire of Ra

[Hermann the Lombard]

Originally posted by Locutus

No, actually, that leaves me to clean up your mess

Well, you cleaned up Gaul quite nicely.

Not wanting to give the Celts any time to recover, Hammurabi immediately marches on Armargh [leaving] Cardiff and Carthamen wide open for attack Hammurabi immediately starts marching on the last Celtic outpost: the mighty city of Kells. . . . By now no one dares doubt Hammurabi's foolish decision to leave Armargh behind him without a garrison to prevent the Celtic there from revolting. . . . Finally the attack on Kells takes place. Hammurabi came very close to losing his life. . . . [H]is loyal staff officers continue the attack on Kells and at the cost of only 20,000 Egyptian lives it eventually falls: the Celtic empire is no more, Gaul is ours!

Boldly done, Sir! A mighty general is Hammurabi and a wise ruler is Locutus...and I note that the nephew continues to keep his uncle well away from the capital. Coincidence? I think not.

[Hermann the Lombard]

Originally posted by Martin Gühmann


That's the reason why we have the FAQ see question #15 . At least I see that this post definatly needs an edit.

-Martin

My post, or Q15? I got a little confused, but I "knew" I could place fortresses outside my borders. Then when I tried to do so I got nothing but red. My real question was whether the latter was because of "other people's borders." If so, Q15 does need an edit.

You know, I didn't even think to check the FAQ. Guess I started to think that I know (or rather, remember) everything in there. Maybe we need another thread for FFA: Frequently Forgotten Answers.

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Hermann the Lombard
My post, or Q15? I got a little confused, but I "knew" I could place fortresses outside my borders. Then when I tried to do so I got nothing but red. My real question was whether the latter was because of "other people's borders." If so, Q15 does need an edit.

With editing I meant here that the answer contained some grammer mistakes (missing words and so on). It is now fixed for your question, you can't place tile improvements in enemy territory. With enemy I mean here everyone who is not your ally. So get an alliance and you can place tile improvments in the whole territory of your ally.

-Martin

edit just added your question to the FAQ. It is now Q45.

[Locutus]

So, noone spotted the famous passage yet? I'm disappointed (of course, the names were altered to protect the privacy of those involved )

[Gazablanca]

Originally posted by Locutus
So, noone spotted the famous passage yet? I'm disappointed (of course, the names were altered to protect the privacy of those involved )

You have me stumped sir.......

[Locutus]

Bah! Culture barbarians

Hint: the original name was not Hammurabi but Alexander (I'm making this way too easy).

[Immortal Wombat]

In 1490?

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Sorry this is late, I couldn't get onto 'Poly earlier, it was down or something
I sent the file to Gaza though.

1450BC: The priest's plot to find a new Apolyton began in earnest, and they soon found one who they thought could be controlled easily. The nation was in anarchy, and they doubted whether this boy would emerge as a strong leader. He gained the nickname among the people "Wombat", after the man who had begun the triumphant war effort in Gaul. But this was not a term of love, but of mockery. Would that this boy live up to the acheivements of his ancestors.
And as such, he was placed in the seat of power in Memphis, with the high priests behind him, "advising" ever deed.

Thus for the next two decades little was achieved in the united lands of Egypt and Gaul, the Empire of Ra. Of note, Hathor's Arm smote a barbarian slaveraider who was making a stand on a mountain-top to the souh east. Other than this, there was little activity in the centre of the empire, and things progressed as they always did, despite the lawlessness.

In 1420BC however, the Apolyton decided his long years of pondering had produced a way in which he might take charge of the empire. He divided power up between the cities, each installing a governer (not mayors though, Ra forbid!), to enforce the rule of the Apolyton Wombat. Wombat himself takes place as chancellor of the Cities Council, and Governor of Memphis.

After his early years as puppet ruler, Wombat is fed up of oppression, and seeks to end suffering. As such, his reign shall be peaceful, and devoted to the furthering of mankind's understanding of the world.

To do this, he institutes larger food rations for everyone, puts a greater tax on them, to aid the science efforts, and increases emphasis on local voluntary work.

In Rome, Livius builds the Valley of the Kings. It appears the old Apolyton Locutus, and General Hammurabi will have to find another location to lay their bodies.
Wombat declares that the Temple of Solomon being built in Memphis shall be a shrine and mausoleum for the Apolyton's before and after himself - Locutus included; and that great generals of the Empire can be honoured by being laid to rest there also.

1410BC: Citizens of Kells lead a riot, involving six cities. Wombat readjusts his social engineering project to pre-1420 levels. However, in Memphis, the voluntary work payed off, with a new communal farm, and a mine shaft, providing 200 jobs, and more production and commerce.

1400BC: Wombat declares an end-of-century celebration, and everyone gets drunk off their heads.

1390BC: Kells riots again, Wombat orders a shrine be built to the Gods to spare the lawless citizens. A warrior on the Japanese border espies a large road network in Japan, and suggests that an army of chariots would make easy progress across the flat terrain. Wombat has his tongue cut out for speaking against peace. He then has him write out a detailed plan of how "in different circumstances", such an attack could take place.

1380BC: The wise men of Egypt discover a means of barter known as currency - it is designed to make trade more easy for the common man, and more productive to the whole of Egypt. If they'd have seen where it was heading, they'd have melted their groats.

The Apolyton then assigns them a task to devise a method of speeding ships across the sea without hard tiring rowing from teams of slaves. The concept of sails in presented, and Wombat agrees to further research.

Tanis builds a nomad, and a detatchment of troops from Sobeck (known as Sobeck's Spear) act as escort to the nomad, which is entrusted with the task of settling the chokepoint that separates the northern and southern seas.

In Oerdin's peninsula, Hammurabi has mapped from shore to shore, and boards a coracle for home.

1370BC: Byzantine offer to exchange maps. As a pair of peace-loving peoples, the Apolyton agreeably accepts the Byzantine offer, and pledges to sent a diplomat to establish closer relations with them. Kells, as the closest city is "persuaded" by Council vote to build the coracle and train the diplomat necessary for his cross-oceanic mission.
The Byzantines have deep water ships, and their maps included detailed charts of the sea floor, and the treasures it contains.

Later that year, Solomon's Temple is completed in Memphis. There is much rejoicing, and the former Apolyton's mummified bodies are removed to the pyramid at the heart of the temple.

1360BC: A further year of rejoicing.

1350BC: The wise men have perfected sailing. (30 years to figure out a piece of cloth and a couple of sticks ) A by-product is the discovery that there are a great many more fish in the sea than was originally thought, and nets are patented, that can catch many fish for he consumtion of Egyptian citizens. New boats, that use these "sails" are known as biremes, and promise to provide a valuable addition to the navy.

In what is to become his last act as Chancellor, Wombat declares the next project to be Cartography, to formalise the maps that we have been drawing up for the best part of five a half thousand years.

On cue, Tanis completes a coracle, and Wombat embarks on it, to seek the south pole, and plant the Egytian flag there, that all might know of the greatness of the Empire of Ra.
The people of memphis are left needing a governor, and a chancellor - and the bellicose Hammurabi is returning home...

[Immortal Wombat]

Not much to show, but here's the screenie.

[Hermann the Lombard]

O Mighty Marsupial! Three things I beg of you!

Tell us why you fled the Empire before the return of Hammurabi! No good can come of this! Generations of Apolytons (well, two) kept him safely abroad.

Tell us that the nomad is heading west, and not east!

Tell us how to display the Wonders on the map as you did! (I lost track of that thread over on the mods side of 'Poly.)

-- HtL

Correction (having ducked over to "Mods" and back): how do we display the Wonders in CRADLE?

[Immortal Wombat]

Oh great Lombardian one (I dunno, I just make this up as I go along...), these answers I speak unto you.

Hammurabi the great general grows weary of Gaul, and is eager to seek out new battles, or possibly a cosy assignment defending some petty chokepoint frontier city... If he dies, we get an unhappiness bump.

The nomad is heading east. The scribe was drunk, and summarally executed.

That wonder was edited on using the tools of the Gods themselves: PSP7.
To make wonders appear in Cradle, wait for Dave to make the neccessary file alterations. For now, visi-wonders are only available in vanilla CtP2. DOWNLOAD.

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Oh great Lombardian one (I dunno, I just make this up as I go along...)

You should check the definition of Lombard on dictionary.com - you can get plenty of inspiration - call him Masterful Banker, Stunningly Bearded One, or Great Germanic . Though I admit none of those sound particularly insightful.

[Hermann the Lombard]

Well, the meaning of Lombard that I had in mind was "Germanic tribe, one of the Suevi associated with the Marcomanni, invaded Italy 568AD, conquered most of it, defeated in turn by Charlemagne in the early 8th Century." It was King Alboin who led the invasion of Italy, Hermann was earlier, and may have been the Germanic name of Arminius who massacred three Roman legions in the Teutoburger Wald...but more specifically the first King I had in my first game of Lords of the Earth (Lords 27).

[Immortal Wombat]

I remembered yesterday what meaning for Lombard I had heard previously...

Loads
Of
Money
But
A
Real
D!ickhead

So I'll go along with your Germanic explaination

[Hermann the Lombard]

Can't be me; I don't have loads of money.

[Gazablanca]

Just a quick note to say I'll be submitting my transcript and save game on Saturday or Sunday,due to extra work and social commitments....only a day or two late,so I hope you lot don't beat me up for it.......