The armies of Greece under Zeus and Poseidon headed south and met the egyptian armies of Ra and Set.... Here is an account of the battles.
Archaic Age:
Zeus's villagers started gathering food from berries. The kataskapos ran around in circles discovering new resources. More villagers went to food, as well as some to wood. They created a temple which made a pegasus and a few villagers started to worship. The Pegasus scouted around the map.
Poseidon's villagers also gathered food from berries. His pegasus searched for animals that could be summoned with Animal Magnet. He used it and it summoned many animals. Zeus sent some villagers over as well and they both loaded up on food.
Ra empowered his TC with his pharaoh. His priest made circles of obelisks for LOS around his town. His villagers mostly went to food but put more on gold then the greeks put on wood. He started building farms.
Set also empowered his TC with his pharaoh. His priest made circles of obelisks as well and also converted animals to send home for food. He researched Feral and sent some animals as scouts. He started to make farms as he knew that Ra would use rain soon.
And he did. Ra used his GP and farming was prosperous. When the greeks felt the rain falling, they began to set up farms, but not nearly as many as the egyptians had.
The greeks had scouted much more efficiently with kataskaposes and pegasi then he egyptian priests and animals. They took note of where the settlements were.
The greeks build docks not too far apart, but so that they didn't have to share the same fishes. They started fishing before the egyptians did.
The egyptians each built a few monuments to allow a steady flow of favor when they needed it.
The greeks slowly put more and more villagers on their temples.
Poseidon's economy was in the lead with his faster fishing ships, hunting, and a bit of rained farms. Zeus was a bit behind with his fishing ships, hunting and rained farms.
Set was next with his rained farms and animals delivered to his TC. Ra was behind with rained farms and empowered gather sites.
Poseidon was first to Classical with a rush in mind.
Zeus intended to boom for just a little bit longer.
Set intended to be in Classical as soon as possible.
Ra wanted to boom so he could be through classical in as short a time as possible.
Poseidon's followers started to worship Hermes.
Poseidon built a stable, and researched Lord of the Horses and Spirited Charge, then began making hippikons. He made another temple to allow fast MU creation, researched Winged Messenger, made another pegasus and started making some centaurs.
His 2 pegasi flew over the map going over the egyptian towns repeatedly studying them. He made some warships to defend his boats as a hippocampus searched for enemy docks. He trained Theseus and Hippolyta to complement his attack force.
Set was next to Classical, but his economy was now the weakest.
His followers chose to worship Anubis.
Set started making slingers and spearmen, and started making anubites. He built another temple and researched necropolis to speed his favor gathering, and serpent spear to improve his spearmen. Once he had a group of anubites he researched Feet of the Jackal.
When Ra began to fear an impending rush, he researched Skin of the Rhino and started to advance to Classical.
Zeus was still in archaic, but had a hero, Jason, and had researched Olympic Parent.
Ra reached Classical at about the same time that Poseidon started to move his troops towards his town.
Ra's followers chose to worship Ptah.
Ra started making spearmen and axemen as fast as he could. He also researched Scalloped Axe, and Leather Framed Shield. Set sent some wild animals and anubites his way to help defend.
Zeus now started to head for Classical, with an immensely powerful economy. He knew he was in extreme danger to a rush, but hoped that Poseidon would keep the egyptians busy.
Poseidon's Hippikons and Centaurs ran into Ra's town. The centaurs filled the spearmen with arrows, and the hippikons hacked at axemen. Anubites leapt on the centaurs, killing some of them but still losing over all.
The centaurs took care of the predators quite easily. Poseidons archers and hoplites were on the way, if slowly.
A few of Ra's priests and the pharaoh circled around and jumped on the centaurs. The centaurs were killed off. The Hippikons attacked the priests, killing a few but retreated back home. The Hoplites and archers returned as well.
Zeus reached Classical, and chose to follow Athena. He researched Sarissa, Aegis shield and started making Hoplites.
He also did some Armory techs, and reminded Poseidon to do the same. He trained Odysseus and as many minotaurs as his favor allowed.
Ra made some Wadjets and made more spearmen, axemen and slingers. He found a few places that he could wall so that there was only 1 way into his town. He placed some towers near there.
Set made more anubites, slingers and spearmen.
Zeus's economy was very powerful and was able to get to the Heroic Age first. His followers decided to worship Apollo. He researched Labyrinth to improve his Minotaurs and Sun Ray to increase attack. He also researched some armory techs.
He made more hoplites with some hypasists mixed in now, and also some manticores as ranged support. He created a Heracles hero.
The next to Heroic was set who had managed to start fishing in a body of water unreachable by Poseidons hippocampuses.
His followers chose to worship Nepthys. He researched City of the Dead, Funeral rites and Spirit of Ma'at, improving his priests and pharaoh. He made a few Midgols, And started making chariot archers. He did some armory upgrades as well. He continued to train anubites, but added in some Scorpionmen.
Ra's army was large now, consisting of spearmen, axemen, slingers and Wadjets, but not as advanced as Zeus's. He decided to attack Poseidon. Set used some predators as a diversion, attacking outlying resource pits. Centaurs rushed to the rescue, but the Hippikons stayed put. Ra sent his spearmen up to face the Hippikons and let the slingers shower them with stones. The Axemen met some hoplites and both parties fell. The spearmen took out the Hippikons by the time the Centaurs returned, and they were attacked by spearmen and slingers. The Wadjets had stayed back, spewing venom at anything that came to close. Now they went in, taking out the stables and barracks followed by temples. Angry militia attacked whenever a building fell, but they weren't much of a threat. Poseidon managed to make a few more hippikons at the back of his town and rushed them at the slingers. Most of the slingers died before the spearmen fought the cavalry off. At around this point, Hippolyta and Theseus appeared and attacked the Wadjets. They were successful, using they're attack bonus vs MUs. They lured the remaining spearmen into a TC where the villagers were hiding and the arrows finished off the threat.
Zeus had sent some villagers towards a settlementand built a TC. Right next to it he built a fortress for defense.
Set was also looking for settlements, and claimed one.
Ra was the next to hit Heroic, choosing to worship Sekhmet. He researched Bone Bow and started making chariot archers from his newly created Midgol. He rebuilt his army, with chariot archers, camels, elephants, wadjets, and scarabs as siege weapons.
Ra sent some villagers to another settlement to build a TC but his villagers were killed by some centaurs protecting it until Poseidon reached Heroic. Set sent some camels to take them out, and Ra successfully built a TC.
Zeus's army was growing enormous. Hoplites, hypasists, minotaurs, and manticores all over the place. He build two more pegasi so he would know exactly what Ra + Set were doing. He made more manticores, and started making a few hippikons and prodromos.
He tributed some resources to Poseidon to give him a boost, getting him to Heroic.
Set started building a navy, and Ra as well, in the main body of water. The Greeks had a larger navy, but no naval MUs at the moment. A pegasi saw the docks building and the navy headed in that direction.
Chariot archers showered Warships with arrows and Catapults threw the occasional stone. The Ships were forced to retreat a bit.
Poseidon reached Heroic and chose Dionysus. He made some Scylla to help take over the Egyptian harbor. He went looking for settlements, and found one. He placed a TC there.
Poseidon made some Hydras, and researched Anastrophe, Thracian horses, and Bachanalia. He made more and more Hippikons adding some Prodromos now. He made a few centaurs and also some archers.
The greeks sent their navy at the enemy docks, and found enemy ships waiting. The Greeks suffered large losses but came out on top.
Set sent his anubites to attack Zeus from behind at about the same time Poseidon and Zeus started heading towards Ra. The Zeus pegasi spotted the anubites, and Poseidon sent his Hippikons back to Zeus's town. Zeus rushed Ra's gates, using catapults to take out the towers. They breached the wall and were in the town before the Midgol units could reach them. Ra was taken aback by the size of the army, and shiftingsands the whole thing onto an island. Zeus didn't hesitate to use the Underworld Tunnel GP. One entrance to the tunnel was on the island, the other in Ra's town. The whole army rushed back in. Poseidons hydras started knocking on buildings on the other side of the town. Chariot archers shot hoplites, as elephants and camels closed on them. Ra still had some axemen and spearmen and rushed them at Zeus as well. The minotaurs were slashing at everything in sight, and occasionally headbutted an axeman into the Underworld tunnel, and didn't come back until the Ra player noticed. Ra used Citadel to make his TC more powerful. Ra had called for reinforcements as soon as Zeus used Underworld Tunnel. Set's forces rushed in as well. Zeus's army was massive, larger then both the enemies together. Ra started pumping cav mercenaries to help, and Set tributed gold so he could make more. Manticores flung spikes at the mercs, and many died before they reached the battlefield. Occasionally some spikes would explode.
Back in Zeus's town, the Hippikons had been waiting for the anubites as the leaped over the wall. The hippikons ambushed them, practically wiping them out, until the last few leaped out over the wall and killed a lion on the other side. The Hippikons automatically ran for the gate to kill the anubites. The anubites leapt back in and started doing some more damage. The hippikons arrived at where the dead lion was then had to run back inside.
Set used both his plague of serpents and ancestors in Ra's town to help kill off Zeus's army. It worked. Zeus's army fell, but Ra and Set had had massive losses. Ra's scarabs had avoided the battle and now ran, almost undefended, to one of Zeus's settlements. They tore down the fortress and the TC before help could arrive.
Poseidons Hydras had also died off with Zeus's army. Hippikons chased the anubites around, and the anubites kept jumping away, occassionally, all of them would land on a villager and kill it. Everyone was rebuilding like mad. The only remaining military units were the Hippikons, chasing the anubites, the anubites, being chased, A few skeletons from ancestors, Ra's scarabs, 2 pharaohs, a few priests and a few of Sets scorpionmen.
Set was the first to mythic age and chose Thoth. He researched valley of the kings and Apedemaks Tusks. He made some giant turtles to keep Zeus and Poseidon making more ships, and lots of phoenixes. Zeus was building hoplites and hypasists, and manticores and finally managed to kill of the anubites. Poseidon was making more hippikons and hydras.
Zeus was next to mythic age, and chose Hera. He made some Medusae, but mostly more upgraded hoplites. He researched Face of a Gorgon to improve his medusae.
It didn't occur to Ra to destroy the Underworld Tunnel until Poseidon transported some Hippikons, Hydras, and catapults onto the island and they appeared in the center of Ra's town. Ra had already rebuilt some, and should've been able to take out the force, but he was busy using scarabs to destroy Greek settlements. The cobras and skeletons held the Hippikons and hydras back until Ra noticed it and killed them off with elephants and chariot archers. The Hydras had leveled several houses, a temple and a barracks. Ra then destroyed the underworld tunnel.
Set's phoenix flew over to Poseidons town where there were few ranged units. They attacked the remaining centaurs, and got attacked by Hippolyta. A few of them died, but they were respawned and manage to take out the amazon with an attack bonus vs MUs. They flew over the town and destroyed the archery ranges first, as they produced ranged units. They easily finished the militia that popped out of the rubble. A few more centaurs attacked and the Phoenixes chased them down. A couple strayed into TC range and were shot out of the sky. Set respawned them but they were killed almost immediately. He made more phoenixes at home and used them to destroy the temples to prevent more centaurs from appearing. Ra now reached Mythic age and chose Horus. He researched Vengeance and Spears on the Horizon as he trained avengers, and upgraded Axemen. Set used vision over Zeus's town, and it revealed where the majority of his army was clustered. Ra quickly used Tornado on that spot. It sucked in many units, and razed some buildings, but some got away.
Zeus used restoration to heal up what had survived.
Ra then attacked the weakened Zeus. His avengers attacked some of the more powerful MUs and the axemen and scarabs started crushing buildings. chariot archers, camels and elephants were wreaking havoc on the greek army. Some Greek hoplites took out a scarab and the acidic explosion practically killed them all. A Phoenix flew overhead to help take out the manticores, who's splash attacks were pretty devastating. The manticores were killed off, and the phoenix survived. His medusae were busy turning things to stone and managed to get the phoenix. The boulder fell from the sky. Another phoenix arrived as the first died. Poseidon rushed his army in to help. He used bronze as they entered the fray to make them more effective. Zeus used bolt on the Phoenix as it just wouldn't die otherwise. Zeus's army had been practically destroyed, but the hydras and hippikons finished off the rest of Ra's army with the help of bronze armor. Many Poseidon soldiers died as well. Set's army was already on the way to Poseidons town. As soon as Poseidon was aware of the fact, he used Ceasefire, and rushed his army back. He started advancing to Mythic age. His troops barely got back in time, and bronze had already faded. Set's army was more powerful, and Poseidon was veyr busy cranking out more hippikons to help defend. As ceasefire timed out, Set attacked. Poseidon attempted to defend, but it was to no avail, and Set broke through. As Set was destroying the city, Poseidon reached mythic age and chose Artemis. He started making chimeras which killed many enemy soldiers, but not enough. He used Earthquake on Sets town as soon as he could. It destroyed many buildings, but it didn't slow Set down. Set confidently destroyed the rest of Poseidons town as Ra was rebuilding to destroy Zeus's. Sets turtles and warships sailed straight into the Greek navy and began a large battle. The Egyptians had more resources for reinforcements and were thus able to wipe it out.
Set used Meteor Showers on Zeus's town as Ra started to send an army of avengers, scarabs, camels, and elephants in that direction. The meteors wiped out all weak buildings and many villagers, and Ra's army easily finished the job. Ra then went to help Set finish off Poseidon, which there wasn't much left to do.
That was how the Egyptians fought the greeks off.
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