BIRTH OF A CIVILIZATION PART FÜNF (that's 5 in Nazi)

>>185244
Expand in India, if successful maybe try to absorb our military focused Indian ally and give them a important role in our military.

>>185303
do you really think it's a smart idea to just never stop expanding?

>>185318
Smart? Maybe.

Fun. Definitely.

>>185244
Preform "house keeping" duties on the empire; modernise the outdated, replace the inefficient and build new where profitable.

In addition, work on adding all the knowledge of the western world we couldn't gather while stuck in India to our great library.

>>185355
Seconded. We need to update our library.

Also we should send our ships on the southern seas to find more new lands. It's only fitting that the world's greatest civilization has the world's largest maps. And if we're lucky, we'll find some more trade as well.

>>185355
This.
Focus on infrastructure like agriculture in the central flood plains of Mesopotamia and roads everywhere else to increase trade and production potential.

>>185355
>>185465
>>185512
this

>>185355
>knowledge of the western world
Barbarian tribes vanish too quickly, so we capture their culture and knowledge in our Library of Lost Lands.

>>185512
>infrastructure
Can we get sewers? Super luxury to differentiate us from everyone else a little bit more.

>>185355
Always good.

send an expedition across the himalayas to see what's there

The Sarsarrum tries to ease the tensions between the Empire and the Mycenaean League, by blessing them with his own divine presence.

The Empire is out-raged at such a bold move, barbarians do not deserve such an elegant man in their lands, but the Sarsarrum has made his decision.

The Sarsarrum and his personal guards make their way for Athens, sending a messenger ahead of them.

During his trip, the Chancellor is in charge of the Empire and was tasked with the renewal of several cities, who have fallen to neglect under persian occupation.

After a month, the Sarsarrum has arrived in Athens and makes his way for the Palace.
The Sarsarrum has a tall and imposing figure, his gold-plated armor shines in the glistering sunlight and the Mycenaean commoners feel humbled in his presence as he casually strolls through Athens on his way to meet their Politicians.

He finally reaches the Palace and begins his talks.
The Barbarians are baffled that our great Sarsarrum speaks their language, and fluently as well.

The talks last for months, and the Sarsarrum stays in a shabby location within Athens.
No one knows what went through his mind when he decided that, when there are plenty of better options.

After finally coming to a conclusion, the Sarsarrum and his guards leave Athens, as the borders between the Mycenaean world and ours are open again.

However the Sarsarrum decided to roam the country-side for a few months before returning home.

During his presence, the Sarsarrum has sparked plenty of interest in our Culture among the Mycenaeans.

After almost a year, our glorious Sarsarrum finally returns home and is informed about the progress of the projects he tasked his chancellor with.

Turns out he was doing better than expected and has actually managed to get something done.

The Sarsarrum himself could have probably done better, but this is as good as it gets from his subordinates, so he's fairly content with the situation.

Thanks to his effort in Mycene, Scholars from all over the Civilized and Barbarian world now swap back and forth between the Kianur and Mycene.

This new exchange of knowledge, greatly benefits the Empire and expands the great libraries greatly.

Things are going smoothly and while the Economy still has to recover from both the occupation and the Persian wars, the Sarsarrum is confident that he can fix the problem.

What are we going to do next?

>>185961
Set up trade ports along North Africa to minimize trade risk with Carthage. Put in the odd military port here and there to project power.

>>185961
What's our army like?

>>186019
supporting this

>>186027
same as before, minus the horse riders and better trained than before because warrior-nobility

>>186019
Sounds like a plan

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Hey OP, it should be paint bucketable now. Let me know if there is anything else I need to fix.

>>185961
>gold-plated armor
Love it!

He sure is charitable to gift the Barbarians with his presence. Good thing they opened their borders again before the Empire's armies began their march.

>>186019
Yes, we need to protect our trade routes. Those resupply posts can double as postal stations as well. Being able to message anyone within our borders is useful!

>>186019
this

>>186019
Supporting.

I'll post that update tomorrow, conclusion is already noted tho.
I'm tired and fitting the cities into the new map is a pain in my fucking ass.

>>186623
Great! Thanks for your effort!
The steamrolling civ is very entertaining for me!

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The Sarsarrum wanting to expand the trade with Carthage, has ordered the creation of several new Harbors along the North-Egyptian coast (for us the entirety of Africa is "Egypt") however we ran into some unexpected trouble.
When our troops tried setting up the first coastal settlement outside of our Empire, they were attacked by Barbarians and wiped out.
We always assumed that there were no Barbarian tribes in North-Egypt, seeing as the Egyptians themselves brought Civilization to them.
This can only mean that our records of Pre-Sea Peoples Egypt is wrong, or that these people are in fact savage Egyptians.

Our Scholars try and find answers to this question by demand of the Sarsarrum.
We've searched through all the libraries in Egypt, and finally, we turned up something.

These Barbarians are called Libyans. Apparently they have been harassing Egypt for Millennia, unable to be taught the civilized way.

As things stand right now, we would have to conquer all of Libya to put these Barbarians at ease and introduce them to the light of civilization, before we can even think of creating trade-ports along their coast.

However, the Empire in it's current state cannot feasibly hold onto another territory without it severely damaging imperial Integrity, due to the massive costs related to such an operation.

We have to find some other way to meet the demands of the Sarsarrum.

What are we going to do?

(well lads, updating this map took for fucking ever, 2 goddamn hours. If you're wondering what's with the big empty space, that's Persia.)

oh yeah guys also, we need 1 more city name, because we have left this lovely city up at the black sea, unnamed for over 1200 years.

>>189107
If we can't take it by force we will just have to leave it, Instead focus on creating a new network of roads through our empire to facilitate trade.

Also try to unify our separate cultures by their united heritage, to promote greater unity of society.

>>189112
anonemas <- bastardisation of anonmous

>>189112
city name: Batumi
>unnamed for over 1200 years.
Well, blame the Persians?

>>189107
>>189147
Yeah, leave that are for now... how do we trade with Carthage though? Our ships have to get to land every day, right?

>What are we going to do?
Stabilise our Empire more. Maybe in a few hundred years we can conquer more of the world - or not, seeing as there's nothing but barbarians outside of our Holy Empire.

>>189191
our ships don't need to stop every day, they're pretty big, it's just safer in general to have multiple places for them to dock in between the Empire and Carthage.

>>189199
Well, we just have to find adventurous captains for those ships. Some will not come home again. Those ships can also transport some priests to maybe bring the Light to the barbarians...

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Rolled 4, 5 = 9 (2d6)

how

>>189200
nice ID m8

hey lads how bout getting that vote done so I can continue?

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>>189107
BUILD A WALL TO KEEP THE ILLEGALS OUT

>>189921
We could also convince Carthage to take control of Libya.

>>189933
>take control of Libya
They still quite small... and do we really want outsiders to consolidate their power? We still remember the Persians, right?

>>189732
Continue what we're doing?

>>189939
Even so, Carthage are a bunch of traders, not imperialists like the Persians or Romans.

Could I get uh...a slightly more conclusive decision folks?

>>190504
I would support the meme option to build a wall but it seems more realistic that we get Carthage to conquer the Libyans.

>>190518
>get Carthage to conquer the Libyans
Yes, ok, friendly neighbour is better than some wildlings. And they did kill some of our people.

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Unwilling to put the Empire at risk, the Sarsarrum hatches a brilliant idea.
He sends agents into Carthage to spread word of supposed riches in Libya and convince the Council to invade Libya and bring it under state control.

The plan succeeds, and Carthage does in fact invade Libya. It took our agents about 3 years to convince the council of this.
To our own surprise, the Carthaginians actually find Gold and Silver in Libya.
As nice as it would be to own these mines ourselves, we the expense to get it is just too great.

The Carthaginians have shed quite a lot of blood during this campaign however, and this has led them to take an interesting stance to military tactics.
They gave the Libyan barbarians near-independent autonomy, in exchange for some taxes and the right to control all trade in the country.

This has worked surprisingly well, and the Carthaginians are using this wealth to hire Libyans as Mercenaries to fight their wars for them.

Maybe, we have misjudged the Carthaginians.
While they don't appear to be the most honorable of people, they do seem fairly civilized.

The Sarsarrum, is showing some respect for Carthage and has acknowledged them as a civilized people.
Like Egypt before them, they are the only speck of civilization outside of the Empire, and almost equal to us in their elegance and superiority over the Barbarians.

It seems we're having fairly peaceful and prosperous times ahead of us, though the issue of our economy has still not been resolved, and the Sarsarrum is still unwilling to open up the Empire for large-scale trade again, out of fear of economic dependency on barbarians.

Simply constructing more roads and renewing out-dated infrastructure has barely brought us any profit, and Banks don't appear to be too popular among people either.

What are we going to do?

(map is just the 1-city name update)

Someone bring me up to speed on this. What year is it? Explain our civilization. Give me the gist of this quest's history.

>>190981
send missionaries to spread our faith to the uncultured barbarians, begin exporting finished products like furnitures, statues, clothes to Carthaginians for precious metals while imposing taxes on import trade to deter foreign traders from competing with our domestic industries.

>>191010
1. it's 460 BC as of the current update.

2. We are the Mesopotamian equivalent of China, which is to say unmatched in every aspect. We were originally just some shitty tribe in Kurdistan, until we met the Sumerians, we became like them, adopted their language and writing and built our culture around theirs.

Ever since we have dominated every conqueror (except Persia because of a script we voted on, to enable the rise of the west)

3. it's pretty much Civ + DnD and an attempt of me at maintaining realism in something as ridiculous as this.

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>>191010
if you're REALLY into it, here are all updates across all threads, condensed into a single file.

>>191037
So basically a Sumerian equivalent of the Achaemenid Empire? And Cyrus got rekt and Media got conquered?

>>191054
Nope, Cyrus rekt us, we waited until the Greco-Persian wars before we returned from the Indian exile and invaded Persia, with support of Crete, Sparta, the Hellenic League, the Ionian rebellion, a Median rebellion that we sparked and a rebellion of our own people.

The Result was us regaining our Empire + Persia and Egypt.
Media joined us because no eligible king.
All of that was like 30 years ago.

>>190981
Okay, so with an empire as big as this one, trade with foreigners isn't our main concern. What we need is economic stimulation within our own borders. We need goods made by our people that our people also want to buy, none of that cheap foreign garbage made by shit-flinging Greeks. We need to give incentive to our artisans and craftsmen to make quality goods and encourage non-craftsmen to become ones, while also improving technology for agriculture, seeing as the bulk of the population are farmers

uh.... is this thread ded now?

>>191199
no it's just extra slow today

>>190981
There's a vast expanse of untouched wilderness between Ardis and Daro. We should search the mountains of Afghanistan and Baluchistan for precious metals and stones like lapis lazuli.

We should specifically search northern Afghanistan, since that area has been famed for the quality and quantity of its lapis since the seventh millennium BC.

>>191130
>>191308
this

>>191308

> If you're wondering what's with the big empty space, that's Persia
>we holocausted Persia

>>191130
>>191308
These sound good

Median businessmen have had an Audience with the Sarsarrum a few days back, they told him about riches in what was once Persia.
The Sarsarrum was skeptical, but the Merchants have some solid evidence in the forms of tax documents from Persia prior to Cyrus, in which materials such as Gold, Iron, Silver and an unknown material called Lapis, are to be found en-mass.
Intrigued by such overwhelming evidence for the richness it contains , the Sarsarrum has ordered expeditions throughout the entirety of Persia to find them and set up settlements near potential mines and already existing ones.

Meanwhile back at home, something interesting has happened, a peasant who by accident has planted the wrong crops, had a bad harvest, but his animals had something to eat at least because of it, and he found the soil to be more fertile afterward.

Thus he decided to do it on purpose once, he split his huge 2x2 divided fields, into smaller 3x3 divided ones and began planting useless seed in 1/3 of it, another 1/3 of wheat, and he waited until summer to plant another 1/3 of the field with wheat.

The result was surprisingly effective.
1/3 of the soil was always fresh and fertile and any given time of the year.
and the different seeding times between the others, has resulted in a more steady food supply over the year.

This is big news, he spreads the word in his town and word eventually reaches the Sarsarrum himself, thus he grants the peasant an audience with him.

Nervous as the man may have been, his information was valuable.
The Sarsarrum declares the man a Hero and by his right as Anshargal, he also recognizes him as blessed by Mesthur herself for this discovery.

As a result, the Sarsarrum decrees a new law, which forces all peasants in the Empire, to work their fields in this new fashion.

The long-term effects of it have yet to be seen though.
The Sarsarrum has also sanctioned any foreign imports, other than that of Carthage, with high taxes, to prevent the cheaper barbarian produce of goods such as Bronze, Papyrus, Marble and Wood, from threatening our domestic industries, that also produce them, but either at a higher price or in lower numbers, which is technically bad for us, but the Sarsarrum hopes that the heavy taxation on barbarian imports, will provide the Empire with enough money to subsidize our industries and subsequently making production and distribution cheaper and grander in scale.

Things are going pretty well for the Empire
And our economy will sooner or later be functioning again.

(map update has to wait, there's a lot of research I need to do first)

and no, there is no vote to be had yet , just in case you're wondering why there is no " what's going to happen " question at the end of this post.

It's going to be one of those multi-section posts again.

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The expeditions into Persia have returned and while they did not find any Silver, they sure came back with quite the news.

Northern Persia is a land of unfathomable riches, there also appears to be a people living there we haven't encountered yet, a people known as Afghanis.
Judging from that name they have to be a Hindustani people that was hiding in the mountains away from the Persians, as well as us.

The expedition leader was ahead of the Sarsarrum though and has convinced the Afghanis that what we did to the Persians was ONLY directed at them and nobody else, and as a sign of trust, we have created several new Fortress-cities, each of them lead by an Afghani .
The Sarsarrum isn't particularly happy about this outcome, especially considering it is his and only his right to grant lordships of cities, but he will overlook it for the sake of the Empire.

The expedition has documented almost a hundred viable mines around these new cities, they're filled to the brink of Copper, Gold, Iron and this Lapis material, which turns out to be a rare, precious stone, with a strong blue hue, much like Sapphire.

The Sarsarrum is overjoyed at all of these discoveries.

The Sarsarrum is taking the opportunity to quickly increase the population of these new cities and boost the work force there at the same time, by sending thousands of Unemployed workers, with their families, to these cities, which is only possible due to his Worker Program that he introduced early in his reign.

The Empire is on the verge of success!

What are our new cities called?

>>194000
throwing out names for fortress cities:
Mereni, Shalak, Velem, Mim, Ashuk, Pilu

>>194000
http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/name/#type=ancient_world;ancient_world=Sumerian%20Town
Check this shit out.

>>194098
You know, the reason I'm asking you guys to name them, is because it's supposed to be interactive, you're supposed to feel like you helped create this Empire, like this is really your people you're talking about.

>>194000
>What are our new cities called?
One should be called like that peasant hero.

Otherwise:
>>194068
>Mereni, Shalak, Velem, Mim, Ashuk, Pilu
sounds good or as an alternative just put
Gold Town, Silver Town, Copper Town, etc.
as their name.

Can we create Medals to award people? It's to honor accomplishments. People can wear them and show off that they did something for the Empire. And it doesn't cost much :).

>>194108
>interactive
Yes! I prefer the interactive approach!

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With these new mines under our control, the Empire manages to recover from it's economic problems and we enter a golden age of Peace and Prosperity.

Decades, even Centuries pass.

In that time, we have fought several times with the Mycenaeans, and stood victorious every time.
Though, things have changed drastically in past years.

Carthage has expanded quite a lot into North-Egypt and now reaches all the way from the west-coast, to our border.

The Fledgling Kingdom of Rome that we encountered in the Pre-Persian days, has also changed, it too became a Republic.
After it was overrun by a barbarian people known as the Celts, lead by their Chieftain Brennus, Rome has changed from a reclusive barbarian tribe, to a local power that managed to conquer all of it's neighbors.

In Mycene the Kingdom of Macedon has had a change of leadership.
We killed the previous King Philip II in battle, and now his son Alexander III is out to conquer our Empire.

This laughable effort became more realistic though, when he conquered all of Mycene, including our allies in Sparta.

When he conquered Lydia , that is when we went to war against him.
This young man, or rather boy, is cutting through our ranks with ease.
His military skills are nothing like we've ever seen.
Even though his troops are inferior to ours in every way, he has not lost a single battle.
Our Sarerimhas are despairing at the mere thought of him.
Alexander managed what no Barbarian has before.
He conquered our glorious Empire, as a whole.
The Crown Prince has fled into Exile in Carthage, there was nowhere else he could go.

Our Empire is no more.
And with the death of Alexander III, whom his people call "The Great" , he is succeeded by his son Alexander IV.

The boy was assassinated however by his father's Generals.

The "Hellenistic Kingdoms" that arose from our lands, are Ptolemaic Egypt and Seleucid Annunakiminem.

The Seleucids conquer Media and get a hold of what was once Persia.

Meanwhile in Hindustan, our former ally Magadha has fallen into the hands of a usurper King called Changdragupta Maurya.

Changdragupta conquers nearly all of Hindustan and even expands his reach into Persia, after inflicting a crushing defeat on the Seleucids.

Meanwhile the Seleucid expansion into the west has been put to a halt, by the Mycenaean League and Rome.

The Seleucids are incapable rulers, they cannot feasibly hold onto such a vast Empire without the necessary means of administration.

People all over the Empire are in uproar, and in Carthage the grand-son of the exiled Crown Prince has gathered an army of mercenaries.

He is ready to return and take back from the Mycenaeans what is his.

It is the year 301 BC

How and where will this exiled Prince strike?

>>194351
>How and where will this exiled Prince strike?
We have to get our capital Thumim back. The memory of the Great Empire should still be alive there. Can we get the support of noble houses, the people and India? Send messenger everywhere to make the people rise up and support our claim to the throne

>>194444
nice quads.

Well no we can't get reliable help from India, since Changdragupta is not bound to the dynastic alliance we had with previous kings of Magadha

>>194444

Using the quads for something possible, we dress like a Greek citizen, and approach our capital on a hippo. We'll then proclaim a speech about our return that will sound like nonsense hobo preaching to the guards, but be understood as a battle speech to our people. Then we riot.

>>194748

THAT, or we crash the Olympics, and demand in their stadium that we and the King of Greece fight to the death as nothing more than just another sporting event.

Winner inherits the land.

come on goys
finish dat vote

>>194748
Well, the prince does probably resemble the kings of old - the statues standing around everywhere.
>approach our capital on a hippo
Changing to this. Our prince is a rabble rouser!

>>194759
No?

>>194748
This plan is crazy!


I like it.

>>194748
>>194759
this is stupid

>>194444
this

>>194759
>THAT, or we crash the Olympics, and demand in their stadium that we and the King of Greece fight to the death as nothing more than just another sporting event.
>Winner inherits the land.

we cant take greece

>>194748

This seems to have won.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoLywiaM6PA

>>194832
>This seems to have won.
and to be vevoted by op

why?

because we cant take greece until the romans take it first.

>>194841
and why that is?

because pro-west and we voted on it three threads ago

>>194841

I think you're accidentally talking about my Olympics idea instead. the one everyone is voting for is actually possible, which is the riot one.

>>194868
>riot
Yes, voted for inciting riot in capital.
We can have our mercenaries for initial support too.

>>194864
Still valid. We want Europe to actually be recognizable.

>>194875
>>194868
oops

well that was a heated vote
here goes.

The Prince sets sail for Annunakiminem, and his mercenaries set sail about a week later.
Both are headed for Tutankaia.

The Prince arrives in tutankaia as just another Carthaginian merchant and is quick to get himself a better disguise in the city.

he steals a horse outside the city and rides it toward thumim.

After about 2 days he arrives and re-saddles for a Hippo instead, riding into the city, looking like just another greek beggar.

he slowly rides to Tutankai Plaza, the largest market place in the urban center of Thumim.

He bumps into a soldier as he rides.
The Mycenaean soldier becomes aggressive, he pushes the man off the Hippo and holds a spear to his throat.
He says "You who protects the citizens, dare lay a hand against one?"

a small crowd begins to form around them.

"Listen here friend, back in my day, we rode Hippos across the Sea. And when the likes of you got in their way, we simply gave them bees. It's not like you would know about bees in the dark, but Kings of 50 sure know a lot about it. It happened once that the Jews wanted our bees, and our answer was White.
White friend, white, do you even have white?
Your kind looks like they only have bees!"

The Soldier didn't understand a word of the rambling old man and just left the market place.

The "Old man" then gets on top of his Hippo and takes off his hood , revealing his identity right in front of a statue of Gilgaram the Ceaseless.
The boy bore striking resemblance to his ancestor, and people recognized him.

Beggars, Guards and Robbers, they all joined him, and soon, the rest of Thumim.

Near 200 thousand people are rebelling against the Seleucids.
The Prince and his rebel army make their way back for Tutankaia, where his agents have already taken over the city in the name of the rebellion.

Together with the Mercenaries that just arrived, the Prince marches back into the heart-land of Annunakiminem, inciting rebellions in every town he passes by.

Soon our entire people are revolting.

The Prince lays siege to Seleucea - the Capital of the Seleucid Empire.

Their Basileus commits suicide in his palace.

The resistance of the Empire was short-lived against a rebellion of such scale.
After only 2 months, the Prince has regained control of the Empire and was formally crowned Sarsarrum in Thumim.

The Mycenaeans have been driven out of the Empire, but not everything these barbarians have brought was bad.

Despite their ironfisted and despotic rule, they did bring some interesting new cultural aspects with them, especially in the form of Art and Science.

This is only the beginning in our reconquest.

What is our next move?

(I tried really hard to make it sound retarded and cryptic at the same time, while having ACTUAL meaning)

>>195053
Well, I suppose we should modernise our armed forces and re-establish anything that was destroyed by the Mycenaean's in their conquest.

Also make sure our great library isn't burned down or anything, that seems like it would be annoying.

>>195053
>After only 2 months
Godlike!
>interesting new cultural aspects
Integrate them into our culture. They're ours now and always were.
>re-establish anything that was destroyed
It's been generations though... good thing they didn't destroy our statues.

>What is our next move?
We don't control India? We at least want to integrate our rulers' families. Political marriages now, they're our Sister Empire!

>>195053
Build giant statues around the Empire proclaiming that the Holy Empire of Man is eternal. We may fall for a time, but we will always rise again, always!

>>195099
>Political marriages now, they're our Sister Empire!

Meanwhile in Hindustan, our former ally Magadha has fallen into the hands of a usurper King called Changdragupta Maurya.

Changdragupta conquers nearly all of Hindustan and even expands his reach into Persia, after inflicting a crushing defeat on the Seleucids.

>>195099
actually it hasn't been "generations" only 30 years, it seems like more because the Crown prince and his son didn't live very long in Carthage, because they don't have the same standards we do.

That is some background knowledge I can't expect you guys to have, I mean I never told you about it.

>>195110
Damn. Can we channel our people's rage and sense for revenge against Changdragupta too? He sits on our lands, Persia and Hindustan are ours by Eternal Right!
>>195129
>only 30 years
Good thing - everyone (nearly) still remembers our royal families absolute right to rule.

>>195143
sure you can, nothing's stopping you.

We are probably the most revanchist pre-nationalism Empire to ever exist.

>>195312
>most revanchist
>Persian genocide
Really? :)
The diceless gameplay sure does lead to some revenge-filled decisions.

come on guys, we're close to an agreement here.

>>195106

This and HEAVY funding into infrastructure.

We can't collapse into anarchy every IRL and in-game Saturday.

>>195143
Supporting going full nationalism and claiming muh rightful clay by raping Changdragupta

>>195704
>>195726
Yes! We are the bulwark against the darkness of barbarism.
Punish the pretender Changdragupta and build up our lands so that all see our glory!

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The Sarsarrum and his mighty peasant Army continue their relentless reconquest of the Empire.

several new statues are erected around the Empire, using funds of the personal coffers of the Sarsarrum. These statues have all kinds of shapes, but all have one thing in common : a message engraved at the bottom, proclaiming the Empire to be eternal.

In these proclamations, the term "Tarulitum" (literally: Returning Victory) was first coined and describes the rampant desire of our people to be independent and also dominate our neighbors. The Idea that even in the face of Barbarism, and amidst an age of Darkness, Civilization will always shine through and prevail.

With this idea of Tarulitum present among the peasant army, the Sarsarrum uses it to his advantage and expand the Empire like no one before him.

He invades the Ptolemaians to reclaim Egypt for the Empire, followed by an invasion of Antigon, Bythinia, Paphlagonia, a small Bedouin Kingdom called Nabatea, Armenia, Sarmatia and Crete, all of this to reclaim the Empire.

We loot countless greek cities and claim their riches, to fund building projects in the Empire for a better infrastructure.

However despite all of our conquests, there is one enemy left.

Changdragupta - Maharaja of Maurya

Not only does he occupy Persia, but Hinnunaki as well.
To completely remove this threat from the borders of the Empire, we only have 1 choice.
We have to conquer all of Hindustan.
Leave him no place to run.

Our peasant Army is the largest the world has ever known, nothing can stop it, not even the Hindustani War Elephants.

It took us a few years, but we managed to conquer all of Maurya and effectively all of Hindustan, with the small exception of some barbarians to the South, who are not particularly fond of Changdragupta.

He may have fled, but wherever he went, he won't be welcome there.

Our Glorious Empire is restored with more land and riches than ever before!

What is this glorious Sarsarrum's name?

>>199122
>What is this glorious Sarsarrum's name?
Karna (name of a Hindu hero warrior)

The Empire of Man: Build more cities. India seems to be quite empty. Integrate those war elephant into our armies. Name the new cities for war heroes - and for our Sarsarrum: #name, Nava (sanskrit for new) #name, etc.

>>199122
>Our peasant Army is the largest the world has ever known
Promote soldiers based on merit, not heritage - and in one fell swoop we cut the power of former nobles and gain more for the royal family.

>>199136
And vassalize the tribes in southern Hindustan. People can be with us or against us - but not neutral.

>>199314
it's not actually that empty, I just didn't take the time yet to enter all the new cities.
They will come together with new colonies.

>>199317
We're doing both tho, we've had a conscript army until Gilgaram , who then changed it to a nobility based army.
His son then changed it back to conscripts, but kept the Knight-class intact to always have Elite soldiers available.

>>199357
Great!
>>199362
Nice! Knights on hippos and elephants?

>>199427
Hippos and Camels
We haven't had Elephants long and consistent enough to use them.
Though in due time we will be able to ride Horses, since all of our enemies are doing it.

We now rule just under 7% of the world. 10 Million Kilometers, or just about.

>>199599
No, wait, that should be 13.5 Million Kilometers, around 9% of the planet's landmass. More than Qing China, but not more than Yuan China. That would put us at 7th largest empire to have ever existed.

>>199604
Oh nice. thanks for the stats m8.
though I did the math and we are SLIGHTLY below 13.5
you have to consider that we don't own thrace.

we should be around 13.1 - 13.3
so still 7th largest.

Also here's the kicker, according to the % of world population in Persia and Maurya at their height, we are now , for real , the Empire of Mankind , with over 78% of the world population being under imperial control.

Additionally, with the conquest of Alexander over, we no longer have to be conquered by anyone.
We will still lose land here and there, primarily because of Rome and the Arabs, but the Empire will never be wiped out again at this point , at least no mandatory wipes.

any case lads, the thread saged so I'll start a new one with the next update.

Now we just have to go an be enlightened.

new thread is up
>>199755