Geek Mode continued...

Shet, shouldn't have started playing that game...Now I'm hooked...Here's the continuation of what happen to me when playing Sid Meier's Civilization III game:

NOTE: There's heavy role-playing involved, so some stuff I talked about is not featured in the game...Just to spice things up...improve the story up a notch...that's all :) Enjoy~!

Nothing much was happening...except that the Japanese civilization was slowly declining...possible due to lack of resources...Their development were slow, almost stand still...stuck in the dark ages...Some Japanese cities even started to deposed their government and assimilated into the Persia...I didn't pity them...Quite the opposite,really...Planned for annexation of the entire Japanese nation into Persia actually...

Several wars sparked across the world, mostly involving the Greeks. The Greeks seems to want to pick a fight with everyone...America, India, Russia...But the wars themselves were short and only lasted about less than several years or so...

Persia reached the modern age...Oil was discovered and I immediately started constructing modern tanks & mechanized infantry units...Upgrading my previous rifleman units to mechanized infantry to further fortify my defenses.

Space race has begun! And I'm WAY ahead from the others...hehehe...

Factories were built, spewing out black smoke, pollution rises to critical levels, global warming began...green plains started turning into dry deserts. My advisors asked me to build more cities...current cities are being overpopulated and food is running scarce...Things are starting to get really bad, I need to expand my territory... so I formulated a plan.

I reduced my R&D(Research & Development) funds to further allow an increase to my military forces. That'll rouse enemy spies. They'll detect the military build up and notify their leaders, and their leader would contact me to form a military alliance...Hopefully the RIGHT one will contact me...

Got contacted by the Greeks (Yes! Got you!), they DEMANDED that I should helped them attack one of my allies...My spies told me that they're military forces greatly outnumber ours, and so that gives them the right to DEMAND? I refused to such an insult...They didn't take it lightly, their leader swore that I would pay for rejecting their demands...Hehehe...Just where I want them...

I contacted my neighbours; Leaders of China, Aztecs even the weak Japs for a secret meeting. I offer each of them what they want (technology, resources, gold, anything...) in order for them to sign the Mutual Protection Pact. They agreed to my terms and signed. Now to wait for Greece to come out and play...

Spies informed me that the Greeks proposed the Right Of Passage Pact with China, allowing Greek forces the right of passage through China towards Persia. Perfect! I secretly contacted China to accept the proposal. The pact was later publicly announced. Reports of a large Greek army mobilizing towards our Persian borders through China were reported everywhere. Let them come!

A LEGION of Greeks army amassed at the edge of my borders. Hoplites, Cavalries, Archers...Several companies at least...How outdated...Pathetic...

They marched forward into Persian lands...The phone rang, I picked it up. One of the governor of the nearest city at the edge of the border called me, telling me he himself spotted the oncoming army towards them...he sounded really nervous. I told him to relax and placed the receiver back in its place. I calmly went for the red phone, a direct line to the Greek nation's leader, waited patiently for the other end to pick it up.

"Yes?"

I smiled and calmly answered, " Your ground forces has just entered Persian territory, please remove your forces now".

"I told you what will happen when you defy Greece. This is what you get!" He laughed.

"You do realize that this is an act of war?", I asked.

"So be it..." and hung up.

You'll regret that decision for the rest of your life, you bloody bastard...

I put the phone down. Looked across the war room...Generals waited silently with trained discipline but were covertly fidgeting here & there...anxious to commence the war...I formed the words...savoring it..."Greece has declared war on Persia. Inform our allies that Greece is attacking Persia. Request for immediate military support." I watched as the war room exploded in activity. This is the beginning of the end, for Greeks reign of terror...

(Hahaha...I think my role-playing and imagination just went overboard back there...Sorry folks, must've gotten in the "mood"...heh)

In response, my Allies immediately declared war against Greece. The war was on.

The Greeks launched a siege against one of my city. The city held on, distracting the attackers as my army as well as China's army move into position to flank them. Without warning, they were surrounded...And without mercy, they were slaughtered...Mwahhahahahaha....

At the beginning of the war, the British (I'll get you later) & Greece formed a trade embargo treaty on my nation...Rotten bastards...Probably jealous because of Persian technology prowess.

No matter...The main battlefield was in Africa, the Chinese Nation had to deal with most of the battles against Greece. The Aztecs and me needed some time to deploy our army into Chinese territory towards the Greeks. The Japs were way behind...They're still mobilizing somewhere within my borders...

During the early stages of the war, I ran out of oil...I mean, oil deposits...Oil deposits ran dry...So no more modern tanks or mechanized infantry for me...so I had to instead build more infantry forces...they were cheap & fast to produce...started to take real good care of my few remaining modern tanks though...

A chain reaction of military alliances occurred...Even from the other side of the world would come and join the fray...Everyone wanted to get back on the Greeks...serves them right.

Other military alliances were formed:

China formed a military alliance with the Russians against Greece

Russians formed a military alliance with India against Greece

Aztecs formed a military alliance with America against Greece

It was a show of excessive force...China alone could have settled the war by themselves...It was overkill. It was a joint attempt genocide on a global scale.

Most nations sends out knights, horseman, swordsman, archers, pikemans & spearmans...all those medieval units...although technologically inferior than the Persians, but they do have the numbers to overrun us! At sea, some still even had galleon ships ...those nations which are advanced a bit further had the Ironclads, steam-powered sea ships...

Most surprising of all during the war, was how China became as almost as advanced as the Persians in military technology...with bigger and badder military forces with battlecruisers, carriers, WWII tanks, infantry units, WWII bombers...with some horseman & medieval units mixed into them...unexpected but impressive, yet a bit troubling for the Persians...Damn, we need to know more....

China somehow managed to cover their entire nation with a blanket from anybody who tried to take peek...Nobody knows what went on within their borders...Not even my spies, none of my spies actually had ever reported back. This was our chance to see what they've been up to as our armies moved towards the battlezone through their lands.

Reports flooded in that the Chinese are rich with natural resources and technologically advance as almost as we are, only a few steps behind. They're catching up...will have to deal with China later...

As our armies approached closer to the frontlines, our generals reported that they could hear tanks firing their cannon rounds, explosion as well as the soul-shattering screams from even this far away...It was the Chinese armed forces making mince-meat out of the Greeks...Like I said, China was enough...WE'RE the overkill...A joint task force to eradicate Greece. Everyone wanted some piece of the action:

Zululanders, China, Aztecs and our Persians formed the ground forces, decimating any opposition along the way. China and Persia provides the heavy artillery (Tanks, I mean), while the rest provides a vast range of infantry units. China mostly razed the cities while the rest of us occupied them. We need them to expand our own territory, China has more than enough land to support themselves...

China, & India as the naval forces were tasked to destroy any Greek warships & transports that were trying to send reinforcements to South Africa from Madagascar. America(several Galleon Warships) & me (a single battleship, had to assign the rest to guard Persian waters in case of sudden surprise attack from Greek allies...) would commence naval bombardments on Greeks coastal cities with China's air bombing raids from WWII bombers on carriers as aerial support.

It was like seeing a pack of vultures fighting among themselves to get the meat. Towards the end of the war, there left only 3 remaining Greek cities in South Africa; Sparta, Thermopylae and their capital city, Athens. We attacked Sparta first.

Their defenses were VERY strong...so strong in fact that after waves and waves of ARMORED ground forces to assault the city, Sparta still STANDS! Using ONLY hoplites and 1 or 2 companies of horsemen! Even AFTER I send TWO armor battalions of the most advanced modern tanks ever created for mankind! (Basically the strongest tank unit in the game) Thankfully my 2 armor battalions managed to retreat before they could finish the job. Phew! Surprisingly, not a single Spartan warrior died during the entire assault...Heh, a bit of 300 the movie here...Coincidently, the Persian leader, the player...yours truly...is named Xerxes...haha...but any resemblance to the movie lasted only to that point because after the initial assault failed...we didn't use hundreds of arrows that could blot out the sun...We used artillery shells instead.

Sparta had the worst brunt of bombardments in history (well, in this current game anyway) Air-strikes from Chinese WWII bombers from dozens of carriers offshore, with naval bombardments from at least 10 fleets of Americans Galleon warships cannons and from the Persians single modern battleship's artillery shells.

Imagine this, from the heavily fortified city of Sparta with a population of over 2 million, was reduced to rubble with less than 10,000 survivors from that ONE single concentrated joint attack. The combine might of nations was awesome to behold yet terrifying at the same time. China's ground forces went in, there were still some resistance, but were instantly put down, killed the remaining survivors and razed the city...Believing that Sparta would be too difficult for any nation to occupy and control. After witnessing Spartans incredible stubborn defiance, none argued.

The trade embargo between the British and the Greeks against the Persia ended. The Brits suddenly declared war against Greece. Cheeky backstabbing bastards...Other nations welcomed the Brits with open arms...We, the Persians, were not. The Brits and Persia had a long history of hatred for each other...ever since their deception several years ago...They'll get what they deserve soon enough...

Next target was their capital city, Athens. They fought back strong and hard, but it was soon clear that a prolonged siege against the city would eventually lead to their destruction. We took our time :) Eventually, Athens defenses faltered and was obliterated soon afterwards. Now for the final push...

Thermopylae - the last remaining Greek city in Africa...Their last stand to hold their grounds on African soil. The last city was heavily defended and reinforced further with constant supply of reinforcements from their nearby settlements in Madagascar. A naval fleet was present to protect the city as well as preventing any disruption on the reinforcement supply route.

Our Persian Battleship targeted their harbor and destroyed it in order to stop further reinforcements from coming while India, China & America naval fleets destroyed the Greeks warships & transports and formed a blockade around Thermopylae.

They were surrounded, outnumbered with no escape. Their last stand was admirable, we attacked the city on all sides and they did not falter. They kept on fighting back, valiantly and with no thought of surrender. They were overun after 2 years of constant siege assaults.

The Greeks were finally removed from Africa and reduced to Madagascar. Madagascar was constantly bombarded from joint navy fleets until the Greeks surrender.

Finally subdued, the Greeks surrendered and offered peace treaty to all the nations involved in the war. All the leaders gladly signed the peace treaty...The war is officially over. The once great menacing nation reduced into cinders...We will make sure that they will never be able revive back to their former glory self...ever again...

South Africa was in a state major restructuring. Each nation had staked some parts of South Africa.Each nation vying for more lands to claim control of South Africa, even the Japs. I won't be surprised if another war breaks out, but we need to be prepared. The Persians managed to occupy 3 Greek cities, any insurgents had been quelled. I even managed to set up a new settlement near an oil deposit, allowing further production of advanced military units.

Due to the worryingly increase of advanced military build up of China's military forces, I had funded a secret project, using slush funds during the war, that will make not only China, but also the ENTIRE world to acknowledge Persia as a powerful nation! How you ask?

InterContinental Ballistic Missiles...ICBMs...capable to be deployed to any parts of the world.

The Manhattan Project was completed several years ago by Persian scientists, but it was never utilized due to the catastrophic results it produced by a single atomic bomb detonation test. It was never utilized until now...the nuclear weapons program was reopened and refined with new ideas and technologies to enhance its nuclear destructive power. The ICBM was the final product.

The first ICBM nuclear silo is already underway, secretly built under my very own capital city, Hamadan. I'll use the space race event as a cover for the heavy activity of construction...nyhehehe! The Persian Nation WILL have nuclear missile capabilities. I will make Persia known to the world as a force to be reckoned with...The world will acknowledge Persia...Mark my words! Mwahahahaha!!!

Wokeh...time to go to sleep...the game will need be continued later...have to go to work tomorrow...zzZzZzz