staznes- From the Dawn of Time

[Jonny]

Over the years, the city of Kiev grew and prospered. For the most part, the people were sufficently happy, and believed that Kishka's decision to settle down permanently had been a good one.

However, the Kievan leaders were not so content with what they had. They wanted more land and more power. Since Kiev's population was steadily growing, Kiev's leaders were able to organize colonization parties to settle the land to the south of Kiev. Accompanied by part of the army, their goal was to settle alongside a sea that Kievan scouts had discovered some time ago (OOC: Black Sea) and the lands between that sea and Kiev.

ORDERS:
Expand southwards in the direction of the Black Sea. Take part of the army along to protect the settlers.

[foolish_icarus]

The town of Shuqba, capital and only city of Caecinia, was a small and secluded, but fairly pleasant place, barring the occassional devastating plague, destructive monsoon, or enraged herd of wild elephants.

But now, a group of priests have taken control and installed a hierarchical system where station in life is assigned based upon the length of a person’s right index finger. It is now a bloody and turbulent time where mobs go forth in wild sprees of finger smashing and the priesthood spends enormous sums on protective gloves.

But all is not lost, for many now notable philosophers began their careers in debates about the the ideal knuckle and pontifications on the spiritual significance of hairy toes, and a whole new class of artisans has arisen who are skilled in making things with their feet.

[Micha]

Byzantium

The settlement of Constantinople has grown to 5000 inhabitants now. The wooden "boats", rather rafts than real ships, sailed along the coast of the Western Black Sea, up to the Scythian tribes who traded their food for the Byzantine products. These were stone figurines from the artists of Constantinople, furs and leather from the newly founded settlements in Greece and whool, which the Greek tribes used to make clothing from.

Especially Chalkis turned out to be a fast prospering trade center of Byzantium. The lokal tribes gave lots of whool and clothing for relatively small amounts of wheat from the north.

Thessaloniki was situated on a large bay with calm water, which made it best suited for a big harbour. Fishermen came to that new settlement because their hometown´s waters were much more dangerous to work on. Many brave men didn´t return from their tours in the Bosporus Straits...
Rich lumber resources in addition to the good harbour site lead to the developement of the art of shipcrafting.
More and more boats were needed, and since the coastal waters were soon overcrowded with fishing rafts, the fishermen started to harvest in the deeper sea. Therefor better boats were needed, to provide better protection against waves and storms.

The Spartan tribes formed to an united legue against Byzantine expansion. The Counsil was very upset at these news, while the warriors wanted to fight. Small groups of clubmen and spearmen left their towns in order to fight the Spartans. Noone returned.

The highpriest could form an alliance with several Greek tribes against the Spartans because of former tribal wars. Fo instance Athene and Delphi joined the Byzantines, while the town of Argos seeked its future with the Spartans.
The region approached a great war...

Orders

• Upgrade economy (prospering trade)
• Start upgrading navy (finish at the next update)
• Ally with Athene and Delphi against the Spartan League
• Colonize the area between Constantinople and Thessaloniki (settlements of Amphipolis and Maroneia)
• Please include some of the Greek islands in your map (they´re really important: Cyclades, Ionian Islands, Lemnos/Lesbos/Thasos ... you could merge them like you did with the Bahamas)

Map:

[Sheep]

Lustiran Orders

Upgrade ecnomy
Expand like crazy in every direction possible

[Methril]

micha, i can try


update tomorrow

[Metaliturtle]

The Wisconsinites enjoy this new "beer" which has been sent to them from the gods, but demand a better color!!!! "$hit Brown" is not to be tolerated for long, many a wisconsinite raises the flag of the Green and Gold Green Bay Packers, whose elite skills at athletics turn the enemies drawers the same color as Wisconsin's old flag!!!

The city of Green Bay has been founded! (The bay... umm northeast of where I am)

The city of Sun Prairie has been founded!! (South of where I am)

The warriors of Wisconsin have been breeding like crazy since there's nobody worth fighting!

[Methril]

hey you guys, dont forgot you can expand AND upgrade things. Expanding is free. Since some of you didnt upgrade anything, and i couldnt tell if it was on purpose or not, im gonna upgrade a stat for you.

[GeneralTacticus]

In that case, add this to my orders:

- Carry on expanding up the Tigris and Euphrates as far as possible without slowing down the building programs.

[Methril]

4500bc

Vinnish settlers are met with a big surprise when a group ofthem are found slaughtered and scalped. Large scale attacks soon follow from the barbarians called the Iroquios.

Population boom in Wisconsin! With so many people, expansion has increased aswell. But in the area around Lake Michigan, a tribe named the Bears has risen, challenging the regional dominance of the Packer worshippers of the North.

The Kingdom of Kiev benefits greatly from Black Sea trade, especially with one tribe, named the Byzantums (Byzantium).

Assyrian chariots rip through Badab, destroying irrigation ditches and greatly hurting the economy. They appear to be using advanced weaponry.

Byzantium allies with Athens and Delphi to eliminate the Spartan League. The Spartans are fighting ferociously, using superior tactics and a new type of weapon that is much better than primitive stone spears.

Zulu warriors attack South African settlers en route to Mozambique.

Women Amazon warriors attack Lustran villages on the border! Men run in fear.

Contacts:

Byzantium has contact with Kiev.

[GeneralTacticus]

Badabian Orders:

- Start work on a new road network to allow speedy miltiary movement, but not to the detriment of other projects.
- Establish and arm local militias in all populated areas to defend against Assyrian attacks, and increase the size of the army.
- Send spies into Assyria to observe what they do and help Badab match it.
- Also begin infiltrating groups of raiders into Assyria to attack their economic infrastructure (irrigation ditches, bridges, farms, trade routes [through banditry], etc).

[Sheep]

There was only one thing you can do with Amazons. Screw them. Lustria opens its doors to a Lustrian-Amazon Union

[Methril]

From: Amazons
To: Lustra

We *ahem* agree

[Micha]

Triple post! Yay!

[Micha]

Second one

[Micha]

Byzantium

Since Spartan troops manage to cross our frontline all over the Peloponnes, more and more of the Greek allies depart from Athene and Delphi to seek refuge at the better protected Byzantine settlements.
The tyrants of both cities already agreed to cede control over the defences to our warlords. That formally incorporated Hellas into our empire.

Athene has a big fleet, which will be merged with our own as soon as we find the admiral who is responsible (the bloody boozer has been seen last when he tried to convince a townguard that he was a flying horse...)

To Kiev
The Byzantine high priest has sent two emmisaries accompagnied by twenty of our most beautiful women to the Kievan ruler. The old habit is to exchange a number of beauties to "support" good relations with our neighbours.
We hope our present satisfies you
Our both people share many things in common. The trade between us let us both prosper in peace, and there´s much to learn from each other!
We would like to formally establish peaceful relations with you, including mutual defence maybe?
You have surely heard about our war against the Spartan League, and it is not going too well. Perhaps you could help us? We have great riches to offer (or more of these formidable women perhaps? ). What do you say?>

Orders

• Upgrade fleet
• send scouts and spies deep into Spartan territory to find out what makes them so strong
• Try to capture Spartan civilians; perhaps they know about their secrets
• Use fleet and parts of the "army" to establish bases on the Greek Islands. Rhodos is supposed to hold great riches; Get it!
• Expand to the north
• Expand trade with Kiev