HERE IS 2 WAR STORIES. IF I'M ONLY ALLOWED ONE, READ THE SECOND ONE.
The spelling isn't perfect but you should be able to tell what I am saying.
Ra Zeus team vs Odin Poseidon team
Archaic age: Ra empowers TC, gets temple as soon as possible to get priests to empower more. Makes rings of obelisks with priests to make it hard to make a forward base.
Zeus gets a temple as soon as possible to get a pegasus to complement his katakaspos in scouting.
Both Ra and zeus gather as much wood/gold as they can while keeping steady flow of villies.
Odin gets a temple as soon as he can and uses ravens to scout like mad. His ulfsark builds and his villies gather.
Poseidon scouts also looking for a place where animal magnet will summon as many animals as possible.
Poseidon does animal magnet. As the animals gather, hunters pick off the predators and odin does great hunt once poseidon has a granary and odin has an oxcart nearby. They hunt to their hearts content.
As soon as Ra-zeus hears that the GPs have been used they build farms with as much wood as they have. Ra uses rain and the food comes flowing in, albeit not necesarilly as fast as the hunters. Poseidon and Odin weren't prepared and didn't have the wood to make large amounts of farms, but got a few.
Zeus starts to gather favor, enough to get a few minotaurs on classical. Ra builds the cheapest monument. Poseidon gathers favor as well with same # of villies as Zeus.
They hit classical:
Zeus chooses Athena
Ra chooses Ptah
Poseidon chooses hermes
Odin chooses Freyja
Zeus starts building minotaurs and hoplites.
Ra empwoers his barracks and temple starts building slingers, spearmen, and a few Wadjets to support Zeus's army. They mix so that they have some of each player defending each town.
Poseidon gets a stable and starts pumping hippikons, with a few centaurs mixed in. Poseidon makes a dock and starts exploring the seas.
Odin starts pumping TAs and Ulfsarks from longhouse, with valkryies.
They also mix so that there are an even amount of units guarding each town.
There are minor skirmishes but nothing major
Heroic age
Zeus chooses Dionysus
Ra chooses Sekhmet
Poseidon chooses Dionysus
Odin chooses Njord
Zeus continues making hoplites with a few hypasists and archers mixed in. He makes his heroes, Jason Odyseus and Heracles, and makes hydra with a few minotaurs. Makes a dock and uses scylla to defend his fishing boats.
Ra makes a midgol as fast as possible using empowering and starts making camels, chariots and elephants.
He makes a few scarabs so that Zeus doesn't need to make much in the way of siege weapons. makes a dock and fishes under protection of scylla
Poseidon keeps making Hippikons and adds some prodromos. He makes some archers along with his centaurs to protect his cavalry from spearmen and hoplites. He makes a few siege engines. He starts making hydras, but continues making centaurs. He makes a few scylla to defend his fish.
Odin gets a hillfort and starts making jarls, huskarls, and battering rams. He keeps making a few ulfsarks and TAs but not as much as before. He makes Mountain Giants, and krakens to defend fishing boats.
Mythic Age:
Zeus chooses Hera
Ra chooses Osiris
Poseidon chooses Artemis
Odin chooses Tyr
Zeus stops making archers, and starts making medusa. He makes more and more hoplites. He makes some more warships to keep his fishing safe.
Ra makes some mummies as well as more and more camels, chariot archers and elephants. He makes a few more Scarabs, to be ready. Finds an island in the sea and takes not of it.
Poseidon makes chimeras along with hippikons and siege engines.
Odin makes more Jarls, and gets a swarm of fenris wolves.
Time for bloodshed.
The armies march on each other at about the same time.
Ra's army clashes with Odins. Zeus's clashes with poseidons.
Ra shifting sands Odins army onto the island, and goes to aid Zeus in smashing poseidons army.
Poseidon uses the Bronze GP when he realizes what is happening. But his troops are still no match to the combined army
The spearmen and hoplites take out hippikons. Ra's pharaohs and priests use their attack bonus vs MUs to take out as many hydras and chimeras as possible as camels and chariot archers take out the centaurs. Minotaurs knock the infantry and foot archers around, medusas turn things to stone, and mummies convert units temporarily and the poseidon army falls.
Zeus uses restoration to heal the army as it attacks odins town.
Odin rushes transports to the island, but finds it guarded by warships and scyllas. Krakens, Scyllas, Warships, and the Argo rush to take the island. Eventually they get the troops off the island, and load troops onto transports as the transports are on the way, a zeus fishing boat manages to find them long enough to use bolt on one of the transports.
Ra-zeus army is already in Odin's town. The scarabs are shredding buildings all over, archers taking out villagers.
Odin's ravens manage to get LOS on Ra's town and Poseidon uses earthquake to weaken the buildings. As the earthquakes fade, Odin uses fimbulwinter and wolves begin to ravage the town. Ra uses Citadel and his TC becomes a citadel which manages to lessen the damage done by wolves.
Poseidon has no army, Odin has no town.
Ra-zeus moves towards poseidons town. Odin's army catches up to them. As Odin's army approaches, Zeus uses Lightning Storm to soften them up, and Ra uses Son of Osiris to make his pharaoh a son of osiris. A mummy converts a mountain giant and it kicks a huskarl away from the battlefield and smashes jarls with its clubs. etc etc etc, Odin's army is dead, and Poseidon can't resist much as the 2 armies crush its town.
And heres a second War story. Same thing with spelling, it should be readable. If I'm only allowed to submit 1 war story use the one just below.
Set-Thor vs Odin-Poseidon
Archaic Age:
Set empowers his TC and starts building villagers. His priest starts scouting, placing obelisks wherever it seems like a good idea, looking for a large fat animal to convert. The villagers start working on the closest food source. The next few villagers go on food, until a large elephant returns home. The villies slaughter it and start taking its food. A few villagers go on wood and gold to be able to build buildings. The priest sends as many animals as it can back to the TC for food. He builds 1 favor gathering monument
Thor puts his villagers on food and starts building villagers with an ulfsark after every 2-3 villagers. his ulfsark builds necesarry buildings and scouts around the immediate area. As another ulfsark comes out it takes over the nearby scouting and building and the other one starts travelling around the map.
When he finds a small herd of animals he researches pig sticker at his ox cart and sends it with a few vills towards the herd. HE uses dwarven mine early on right next to his TC and builds a dwarf to start mining. He makes a dwarven foundry and starts getting as many upgrades as resources allows, with a steady stream of villagers building.
Poseidon scouts out for animals as fast as he can and gets a dock as soon as possible. When he finds a large group of animals, he uses Animal MAgnet and builds a mill there. He kills off predators as they arrive. He puts a small # of villies on favor
Odin gets a temple as soon as possible for his ravens and starts scouting. when Poseidon does animal magnet, Odin uses Great Hunt. They hunt and get enormous amounts of food.
Poseidon and Odin are the first to Classical.
Poseidon chooses Hermes, Odin chooses Freyja.
Odin starts building raiding cav and TAs immediately and does some of the armoury upgrades.
Poseidon starts building hippikons centaurs and hoplites immediately.
Set and Thor get to classical shortly after.
Set chooses Anubis
Thor chooses Forseti.
Set starts collecting predators for an early assault. He also makes slingers, spearmen and anubites. His pharaoh empowering his monument so favor comes faster. He builds 1 of the next monuments.
Thor makes a longhouse and starts pumping raiding cav and ulfsarks. His army quickly passes Odin's due to his faster longhouse.
He does more dwarven foundry upgrades making his army more powerful as well.
Set sends a few predators out to an isolated resource camp of poseidons and starts attacking villagers. The army defends it wiping out the predators, but Thor's army slipped in unnoticed and began raiding the town. Thor used his favor to get some Trolls as ranged support.
Poseidon's economy is hurt, but not too badly. Odin comes to help him and they fight thor off. Thor loses most of his TAs but the raiding cav retreat.
Set and Thor both build 2 docks close to each other and start making warships. They're navy won't stand against odin-poseidons for too long, but it gives them some time to defend fishing ships.
Poseidon starts to wall in and Odin tries to rush Thor hoping he didnt have much of an army remaining. His longhouses and temple had been working hard the whole time. The forces clashed, but with a few trolls and better upgrades, Thor came out on top.
Set is still building up peacefully and he starts to wall in as well, as he masses a few more predators for diversions.
Set is the first to Heroic age.
He chooses Necthbys.
He makes a Midgol, empowering it and starts making chariot archers camels and elephants. He also makes a few scorpionmen with his favour from several monuments.
He continues making a navy, and makes some leviathans with it.
Odin is next to Heroic and chooses Njord. He suspects that the other team does not have a large navy so only makes a few kraken. He barely has any favour left to make mountain giants so he attacks Thor again. This time he had a few Jarls with him.
Thor was just reaching Heroic age as Odin attacked. He chose Skadi. Thor had made mostly ulfsarks and raiding cav with a few trolls still. thor asked for help as they fought, using his favour to make frost giants. Set sent his chariots and camels to help, as they were fast. They got there just as the first frost giant came out. The frost giant froze a Jarl. The camels and chariots were able to take out the majority of the force, with some help from thor.
Set and Thor launched a naval assault on Poseidon's docks. They destroyed several fishing ships before Odin's navy came to help. Set sent his army in on leviathans and they destoryed the docks from land, but Set-thors navy was mostly dead. It patrolled looking for new docks, and Set's army returned home.
Poseidon finally got to Heroic age and chose dionysus. He would've made Scylla but his docks had been destroyed. He made Hydras and heroes instead preparing for a land assault.
Set had hardly suffered any economic setbacks at all from within his fortified city. He was most fo the way to Mythic by the time poseidon got to Heroic.
When he got there he chose Thoth. Immediately he researched valley of the kings. Thor tributed a bit of food and gold, and the elephants started popping out of his Midgols.
Odin now had several mountain giants and Jarls, with TA's for range, and valkryies for healing. Poseidon had been collecting hippikons since classical, and had created several hydras and centaurs to back them up. The 2 armies went to march on Set.
Odin had also created a hidden dock and made enough Kraken to retake the seas from Set-Thor, and allowed Poseidon to get some Scylla to hold the seas. But they hadn't killed 1 of Set's docks quite yet and it started making turtles to keep his fishing ships safe.
Set had a swarm of anubites now, and sent them running around the edge of the map where they wouldnt be seen. His elephants, CAs, spearmen, scorpionmen, and pheonixs should be able to defend his base relatively well.
Set saw the army coming as it passed an obelisk, and asked for reinforcements from thor. Thor sent his raiding cav, hersirs and frost giants towards sets base to help.
The anubites reached Poseidons base, targeted a house on the other side of the wall, and leapt over. They went straight for his villies, always keeping targets alive so that they could jump away from the TC if need be. The headed for his temples to try to cut off his favor, destroyed them, and went for the stables where they met some hippikon, but still had numbers. He found a forest with many choppers but no form of defence nearby and used PLague of serpents. The cobras killed off many of the villies.
Odin-Poseidons army had reached Set now, but so had Thors reinforcements. Poseidon used bronze to make his troops more effective, but it didn't turn the tide of the battle because Set used ancestors to help. The pheonix flew overhead attacking TAs, as they were all that could attack them. The Hersirs concentrated on Hydras and the rest just swarmed around killing everything in sight. The pheonix did massive amounts of damge once all ranged support was dead. thor used healing spring to heal the troops.
Odin had now reached Mythic age and chose Baldr. He started building firegiants back home.
Thor reached mythic age next and chose Tyr. He started making packs of fenris wolves. Meanwhile, the anubites in Poseidons towns were dying off, but they had done massive amounts of damage. Before the last one died, Set used Meteor shower reducing much of poseidons town to rubble.
Thor made some Jormund elvers to help keep the sea. The turtles and jormunds rampaged thru the sea destroying all enemy units in sight.
Set sent some elephants and phoenix to finish off poseidon and then turned towards Odin.thor sent out raiding parties of fenris wolves, taking out minor resource sites. Set also made small raids with predators.
When Odins ravens saw thor building tons of ballistae, he found Thors main woodcutting operation and used forest fire. Thor couldn't make nearly as many ballistae now.
Thor's rams breached a chunk of Odins wall, and Sets camels rushed in. They found the center of the town where Odins villagers were, and Thor used Fimbulwinter. The wolves started eating villies, but Odin used Ragnarok and his Hersirs fought off the wolves. The 2 armies brought down as many hersirs as was possible, but Thor decided to frost them to be safe. when they were frozen the army went about leveling the town, killing firegiants and bringing in mortal reinforcements to take out the hersirs. Before Poseidon resigned, he used ceasefire, to prevent Odins town from being entirely destroyed. The hersirs thawed before the rest of the town was destroyed and continued to fight, massacring all the MUs, but they were brought down by CAs and Huskarls in the end.
Set used vision on one of the main exits to the town and saw a few units escaping, and was able to hunt them down.
Set-Thor team was victorious if it isn't obvious enough by now.
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