Part 19: Behold, the Renaissance!

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Hello, good citizens of the submarine, and welcome back to Part 19 of the Civ Battle Royale! I am /u/jlim201, tracker of cities, and well that’s it. My narration isn’t very colourful with great stories, but it gives you all the facts you need, with a few jokes tossed in here and there. Having said that, I’m a mediocre civ player, a geography nerd of post 15th century things, and a person who really likes the Civ Battle Royale. So, now, put away whatever you are doing, and watch as I present to you, Part 19 of the Civ Battle Royale!

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Here’s a map from u/SylonL, cities added by u/LacsiraxAriscal. Almost all pieces of land are claimed, the only likely changes from here on out will be city flips. Amazing gif version (by /u/kittke) avaliable here: http://i.imgur.com/ux5JfdM.gif Also remember that Power Rankings are always available roughly 8-10 Hours before the releasing of a Battle Royale part!

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Here we see a shot of Sri Lanka. Although their fleet looks impressive, it is made completely of triremes, which are very outdated, when there are caravels, and even frigates in the world, and some of their neighbours have galleasses. Not wanting to be left out, Parakramabahu joins in on the new popular thing, bullying Timur. Also, notice the lack of units from the Mughals in the top of the image.

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A look at Kamchatka. The Inuit, relative newcomers to Asia decide to insult the natives, the Yakuts. For most civs, this would be a grave insult, but, the Yakuts are so deep in their slumber, that this barely alarms them, as everyone is too drowsy to fully comprehend what this means. Also, Arabia joins the “Pick on Timur” club.

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America tries to repeat history by invading the Sioux, near Yankton, this time, they look to be rather unsuccessful. A small force attacking, with few reinforcements coming is doubtful to be effective, especially with America’s previous warring history. Texas, on the other hand, is doing a much better job at representing the colonizers, effectively taking cities (Sisseton) from the Sioux. Also note Mongolia joining the “Pick on Timur” club. Also, look at Canada’s territory, and look at everyone else’s. See the difference?

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With so many picking on poor Timur, he decides to send all the troops to Ghazni and Multan, while he plots in the capital. The only solution he can think of is a unit carpet, but he cannot fathom how to make one. Every time he tries, all that is created are flying carpets. All he can do, while he figures out how to create the proper type of carpet, is to send men to the front lines, leaving the core devoid of units.

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Southeast of the Baltic sea, or where the IRL fortress Lyakhavichy lies, the fortress mess, making Minsk nearly untouchable, well at least from the southwest. Unfortunately, the Russians threat is not Poland, and definitely NOT Byzantium. It’s Finland, otherwise known as where the fortress isn’t. Finland has a very large army on the Russian border, ready to strike at any time, while Russia, has a less significant army.

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Back to the Caspian sea, and the Timurid front. The Russians have declared war on Timur, and unlike most of their DOW’s, the Russians are actually a threat, as they have a direct border, as well as Open Borders from the Huns. The USSR isn’t the most prepared, with few units on the border, however, the Timurids are less prepared. All they have are galleasses, not as helpful for a land attack, with several knights, trebuchet and pikemen. Japan also pointlessly declares war on Timur

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The Northern Islands, as they are known locally, are full controlled by Kimberley and Australia. To the north, Manila is under attack by the Champan navy, who had several cities sniped from them by Australia. Kimberley has a very large navy between the islands, and although Australia has less units, they are frigates and privateers to Kimberley’s caravels and galleasses.

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The Impi’s attack up the western coast of Africa. The leaf warriors (Pombo), defend the city best they can, although the significantly stronger Impi are doing significant damage to the city. However, the Kongo has a huge army up, north of their capital, while the Zulu don’t have the luxury of reinforcements to the front line. The Zulus also have a warrior on their front line. Basically a waste of space, taking up valuable unit room. Note a very lacking army from the Boers, at least in the west, where their likely largest threat, Kongo.

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The boring south of South America. Chile has a rather large navy, that they can probably soon upgrade to their very powerful unique frigate. Argentina, on the other hand, has a very small navy, made mostly of triremes. Chile can surely beat Argentina, however, the two South American Sleepers seem to be on good terms, although I’m not sure either Bernardo or Eva are paying enough attention to see each other’s boats in their territory. Also, Portugal captured Rome. Not a big deal.

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And there goes Rome! Portugal’s constant stream of very small groups seems to be effective at taking Rome. Italy is a complete mess of empires, much like the real Roman Empire, who were split up into many small pieces after the fall. Sparta does not seem primed to retake the city, meaning that the city might stay in Portuguese hands for at least a few turns. Sparta has a thinning military, having to deal with the consequences of their conquests. You can also see the the France-Germany war to the north, nothing happening, other than thousands of military deaths I guess.

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Western Africa is a place of lowly populated cities and small, ancient armies, likely due to the horrible desert terrain. If any outsiders with any proximity were to invade, it’s very likely that the area would be quick to fall. Just look at the huge Portuguese navy to the north. Granted, they may not know how use it, they are an AI after all, but so is Morocco, Carthage and the Mali.

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East Asia, where the main power, Vietnam has a large army near the Chinese border. Everyone out here has an army (if you count mountains as units for Tibet), a large Turtle Ship navy from Korea, units carpeted across Mongolia, and an ample defensive force from China near Tabriz. Korea has both of its very powerful unique units right now, and if they were to strike at China, they could slaughter them. China is the obvious weakling here, but they are like a Mao (Mao is cat in Chinese) with nine lives, they should have been dead a long time ago, but they are still alive, even taking undefended cities from overconfident neighbours.

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Inuit are clearly winning up here. With Sendai taking damage, the Japanese navy pushed back, several of the Japanese cities are set to fall. The Inuit have a larger, more modernized navy than the Japanese, which means they should be able to crush Japan. It seems like the Inuit will continue to sail down the coast, unless the sleeping power awakes and punishes them for entering Asia.

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Afghanistan has a rather large military for the area, but so do the Mughals. Formerly a top pick, the Mughals have fallen to a small turtle, but they could send the Afghans to their own graveyard by stabbing them in the backside (the southern cities). The Afghan military is trying to attack the Timurids, but they seem to have forgotten that mountains are hard to climb. If they can get around them, the Timurids center is empty, and they can roll through.

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Sparta needs to defend, not attack. Especially not attack with an insufficient force. Armenia has a decent defensive force, obviously strong enough to hold back the weak Spartan offense. With how thin the Spartan forces are, even Byzantium could take a city, and we all know how weak they are, but their units are all together (as they have to be, in such a small empire), while Sparta’s are spread out, trying to defend several different fronts. To the side, Korea joins the “Pick on Timur” club, while Yakutia decides to leave them alone for the time being.

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Sibir, although they look impressive, and are doing an excellent job of destroying Timur, have a pretty much non-existent military north of their capital of Qashliq. However, the city defense up here is pretty high, especially compared to other undefended expansive empires (aka Sparta), with 30’s across the board. A huge worker army won’t help you fight though, but the cities will hold time for reinforcements, especially with somewhat weak neighbours. The Soviets have also built a pretty useless navy in the Kara Sea. There is also a Yakutian army within Sibir, it might have been for Timur, but it could be for anyone.

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Navy Lover’s paradise. Champa, Australia, Korea and Vietnam all have massive navies. Surrounded by these navies, is a city with no navy, Manila. It’s not like their northern neighbours are weak either, although the northern Japanese are currently distracted. As well, look at southern Vietnam. No units. Now look across the border, at Champa, where there are plenty of units. Champa is definitely a threat to all their neighbours, although they haven’t done anything yet, could strike anyone at any time. Granted, they shouldn‘t attack Australia, but they could probably hold their own there too.

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A look at Brazil, where nothing is happening. South America is filled with infrastructure builders, that could mean many things, maybe a huge strike at someone expanding, but not developing, or this could just a part of a game long turtle, which eventually gets killed by a more productive empire. The Inca have a large military, although outdated, and the Argentines have a more up to date military, but is much smaller. Brazil is up to date, and large, making it the obvious power here, but they aren’t unstoppable. Also Finland joins the club.

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We head south to Chile. To be honest, Chile looks stronger than Brazil. They have a larger navy, and pretty much a unit carpet, as well as an unbreakable barrier, mountains. They could wreck Argentina, although they seem to be on good terms. Chile is just boring!

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Well, looks like I was wrong! Sparta is on the verge of retaking Rome, giving them back the lead for capitals. Sparta has rushed units across the Adriatic to Rome, although adding units to one front often means losing units from another. Wonder where that front is. This is likely the best move though, Maria is the only one actually being threatening to a city. France seems to be losing to the Germans, although they do still seem pretty equal. France also has a sizable military on the Portuguese border, which is doing nothing. That war is definitely a stalemate, and it’s doubtful any cities will be gained. Portugal and Poland have to gain from these wars than either of the participants.

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Timurids, where Sibir has just taken Multan. Those crescent knights are so devastating. Somewhere in Samarkand, Timur is still failing to make a carpet that suits his empire’s needs. He’s considering flying off in a flying carpet; however, Timur is definitely very timid of heights. This empire is definitely not a jewel, if you know what I mean, Tus seems to be next to fall, and with few units, and no defensive bonuses, the city will be quick to fall, if Sibir wants it, which they surely do. In other news, the Huns have rebuilt their military, and Tibet doesn’t seem like it would fall over anymore without their mountain walker. Also, big war in North America, we’ll see what the situation over that once my uncontrollable image sender gets me a picture of that.

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There’s that picture of the new North American war. Canada has a huge force on the Sioux doorstep; the cities between Lake Manitoba and Superior are in trouble. Also, to help Canada’s case, the Sioux are focused on fighting Texas in the south. The Americans, as usual have fumbled their doomed attack, which are now on a spread out retreat through Texas. The Quebec region in Canada seems pretty thin on units, although are there really any major threats up there? Maybe moose and slipping on frozen maple syrup. The Inuit also have a rather undefended force in the south, while the Blackfoot have the opposite.

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East Africa, where Ethiopia has capitalized on a distracted Saladin (Ayyubids), who inexplicably had the bulk of their forces in the west. Also, the Ayyubids are also at war with the Boers, where a few of their units are committed, and that is a pointless endeavor. Ethiopia seems to have modernized their military a bit, owning longswordsmen and composite bowmen, still behind, but not as far as they were. Once the bulk of the Ethiopian military hits the border, the Ayyubid border cities of Baalbek and Zabid are in trouble.

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Portugal, controller of Rome, Lisbon and the giver of cities. Sparta did a stupid, and peaced out when they were on the verge of taking Rome back from Portugal. Granted, it is a small 3 pop city, but there’s more than that. If a mud hut was something you needed to win, you would get it. Same with Rome. Portugal has a pikeman carpet on Iberia, as well as defensible lands, Portugal shouldn’t fall anytime soon, and they are one of the stronger powers in Europe. Maybe the capture of Rome should redeem them from the sale of Braga.

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The Maya are still alive due to one little thing, or very large thing. Hawaii is the only thing keeping the Mayans from falling, and this is probably a good thing. The Bucs could choose Hawaii as their next target after the Maya, alas, there can only be one island nation in the world. The Buccaneer navy is getting bombarded from the shore, and they can do nothing about it, unless they declare upon Hawaii, which they seem uninterested in doing. Texas also seems to be at war with the Bucs, but that is of little interest, as neither seems interesting in fighting in the Texan Gulf (Gulf of Mexico IRL)

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Focusing on Manila, a starving city. A decade or two ago, they had “8” people, now they are down to “6”. If they aren’t taken over, this city will become a ghost town sometime soon, and the attackers won’t know what to attack. With four massive navies, versus a single galleass, it seems like the Philippines death will be sooner rather than later, their fate is not in their hands, they are like one waiting for death, slowly starving, waiting for someone to decide to put them out of their misery.

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Israel, one of the more disappointing civilizations in the BR, decides to capitalize on a distracted Ayyubid. Dvin is rather undefended, a mostly dead scout won’t help. The main blockade for Israel here is the one tile gap to Dvin, and having no naval dominance. Israel can’t just brute force it like some civ’s can. They have a carpet of workers and religious peoples, which isn’t helpful, especially in war. Unless they plan to convert the city to them religiously, which is impossible, the religious people should get out of the war zone.

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Scandinavia, where both contenders have an equal army, almost carpeted on both sides. Finland, seems to be at war with someone, as well as having a much smaller military, in Scandinavia at least. Sweden has crammed in another city inside, Lund, which was used as a frontier for Christianity. It is possibly starving out a few other cities. That isn’t great either. Everyone up here is pretty equal, Sweden and Norway building carpets, Finland expanding and keeping up in military. No one up here is particularly behind or ahead.

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Kongo has also DOW’d Ayyubids. The Ayyubids are becoming the new Ashanti. Kongo is by far their strongest neighbour, and they have already gotten Gondar to a quarter health. With enemies on all sides, how long can the Ayyubids survive, will they go the way of the Ashanti? Carthage and Arabia both have units on the border as well, both capable of taking cities. My prediction? Dead Ayyubid.

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As I predicted, Carthage has indeed attacked the Ayyubids. Kongo Dia Nlaza and Kwilu are pretty much surrounded by Carthage, they should fall quickly. However, Ayyubids have most on their military in the west, or where Carthage is. This seems like a repeat of the Ashanti story, yet it could lead to a great comeback, unlike Mr. Tutu.

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Indonesia enters the Renaissance. They look rather outdated compared their neighbours, with mostly triremes, while galleasses and caravels are the world norm. If the any of their neighbours look at them, I wouldn’t ever bet on Indonesia, and when all your neighbours are stronger than yourself, you better strengthen yourself, or look forward to a sad ending and the hands of your enemies. Quite luckily for Indonesia, you can barely see any Australian frigates from their borders.

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And here’s Trireme Lanka. I mean Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has an outdated navy and army. However, due to weak neighbours (Mughals and Burma isn’t what you call strong, although Burma is technologically ahead, and could get an advantage against Sri Lanka), and excellent terrain, with only one land entrance, and even that is blocked by the weak Mughals. Until a strong nation kills the Mughals, Sri Lanka looks rather strong, but if they don’t strike at at someone (hint hint Mughals), they could be relagated to a future turtle. They have now also entered the Renaissance.

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Francis Drake, British Sea Captain has been sent to the Caribbean. Will he be a friend or foe to Britain? Or will he turn his back on his previous life, and destroy the British. Or has he forgotten about them, and not do anything to them. For the time being, his life will be devoted to raiding the Mayan cities. In other news, the Buccanneer capital is growing quite well, while many of their small island cities aren’t growing quite as well. Maybe living off the sea has its limits.

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The Inuit have made a friendship with Canada, which encases the Sioux and Blackfoot to the north. Also, Canada has struck at Itazipcho, which will fall quickly, but then again, it is a one pop city. The Canadian army contains the most advanced units, muskets, trebuchets and crossbows, while the Sioux are defending with a smaller, more outdted military, as well as fighting on multiple fronts. Not great news for the Sioux, but that isn’t new.

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The Ice Sheet Fleet has claimed its first new victim, Sendai. It isn’t the best city, although that fleet is pretty big, almost as large as an ice sheet. All of Japan is coastal, and it could all fall victim to the fleet, although peace would likely come before that. The Yakutians watch off to the side, still drowsy after all these centuries, When will things change, Tygyn Darkhan (leader of Yakutia), when? Speaking of things not changing, there are no new wars so far this year.

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The revolution has hit. No, not rebels or a war, our first entry to the Industrial Revolution has hit, and it is from Afghanistan. A time of coal and destruction of the atmosphere. It seems rather strange that Afghanistan got here first, granted their small population. Maybe Afghanistan is a place of great scientists, or maybe they just rushed something. Away from the side feed, we look at the map, and see Timur standing up for himself. The attackers have not advanced passed Tus and Ghazni, although there is still mass fighting in those regions. Afghanistan’s help is needed for Sibir, except Timur has allied the greatest power of them all, the mountains.

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Multan has been recaptured in the current turn. This does not seem like a long term thing, Sibir has a pretty large military to the north of the captured city. The unmoving force near the capital has not moved however, maybe it’s the personal guards of Timur? The Sibir military also has thinned, it might be time to start discussing peace, but not before grayscaling that Multan city that has bust been recoloured. Armenia has decided to be nice, and leave the war, as the were just being a pest, and not really putting together an effective attack across the Caspian.

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I may not have noticed earlier, but Arabia is indeed at war with the Ayyubids. The are attacking the hometown of Israel’s ruler, David, who was born in Bethelem before it was founded. When he grew older, and watched the city fall to his foes, he decided to not allow anyone to know that he was from there, change was needed, so he rewrote everything to make him from Jerusalem. The main focus of the screenshot is everyone but Ethiopia is actually fighting the war, and Ethiopia seems to be who started this. Maybe there’s some greater meaning to that. Anyways, Gondar is taking damage, the Carthaginian region is filled with bloodshed, and Israel is out of sight. Also, the Boers pointlessly take shots at Sparta, knowing full well that they can’t do anything about it.

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I find it rather funny that the Kongo is not defending their south, and attacking someone up north. Settled cities are significantly more productive than captured cities. Kongo most definitely has a unit carpet, one of the few in the world, however reinforcing through a thin strip, while the attacker has multiple tiles will never be good for the defender, making the defensive advantage much smaller. Where Saint Helena should be, there instead is a trapped Boer trireme and swordsman, trapped behind a scout. For no apparent reason, this is incredibly funny to myself. Its not like killing the scout will alert the Zulu, they are just a militaristic tribe with no oceanwide services.

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France and Ireland have declared war on England. One of the largest developments since the Ayyubid coalition, this is a major event. The development of longbowmen since the last Irish war is by no means insignificant, but horsemen versus pikemen is not good. On the other hand, France is now fighting a two front war between England and Germany. On the isles, the war is pretty even. England has the tech advantage on the seas, not by much, but Ireland has a much larger navy. On land, I have to give the Irish the advantage, because of the citadels, causing damage every decade to every units around. England has longbowmen, but they don’t have many of them near Canterbury and London. I think this will be a pretty even war in the end.

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A focus on Ethiopia, the newest enterer into a time of culture, beautiful things, war, and not pollution. Ethiopia is behind, the leaders are an entire era ahead, although not the worst. They are also bungling their attack on the Ayyubids. Gondar is also taking massive damage from the Kongolese army, and if I were in Gondar right now, I would move to Baalbek, the farthest from any adept enemy. Unless they suddenly became adept anytime soon, I would feel pretty safe there. In other news, Sparta declares war on Morocco. Not necessary Leonidas.

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The Arabs enter the Renaissance. They are attacking Bethelem. They have a large army, as well as a decent navy. Camel Archers are owned now, and they are overpowered. There are more Sibir scouts in this shot than Israeli scouts. Ethiopia is still bungling their attack of the Ayyubids, and Israel’s attack is more effective. You know you are bad when Israel is attacking better than you. Persia’s capital is at EIGHT population. That is the same size as Austin, and they started restarting a few parts ago. Persepolis started the game, and hasn’t passed 8 pop ever.

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Portugal enters the Renaissance, an age of colonizing and exploration. Except, they aren’t the ones exploring, they are being explored by Buccaneer caravels. Is this a foreshadowing for unruly attacks across the Atlantic from the Americas to Europe? In the north, you can see the bloody war that could last 100 years. All participants are getting increased death counts, and I’m sure all of you would rather watch that than a boring Portugal technological advance. War>Technology, that’s only true if you live in a world observed by obsessed Babylonians, who commentate on your daily work.

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Anawrahta enters the Renaissance. It would have been an achievement say, 400 years ago, But now, we are at the point where almost everyone is already there, and you are just an average-behind guy. Vietnam is trying to attack China, its not particularly effective, and its also thinning their land force, much like Sparta vs. Armenia. The Mughals also have a rather large, up to date military for their reputation, as shown in the bottom left corner. Maybe its just because they haven’t done anything yet.

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Mongolian Keshik carpet. Korean musket and rocket trebuchet (H’wacha) carpet. Yakutia unknown carpet. Vietnam and China at war, uncarpeted. Both Mongolia and Korea can roll through China rather easily, except they seem to like them terrified, but not on the verge of death. Not the kind of people that win killing matches. With their turtle navy, and superior land force, Korea could also attack Vietnam successfully. Not sure what Vietnam is thinking not going to peace and constructing huge forces, which they no doubt could have if they want. For the time being, they are vulnerable.

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Boers and Mali have peaced with the Ayyubids, doesn’t matter, those didn’t contribute to the war effort. Kongo Dia Nlaza and Gondar are in the yellow, Bethelem is in the red, and Carthage has started to siege Bilbais. Seems like the start of a long, long, long fall into the Home of the Fallen. The inhabitants of the Nile seem to be rather dead, maybe they will start a new Valley of the Kings, as the former owners of this land once did, before Babylon did something so catastrophic, it removed everything but 61 small tribal villages, and one uber-modern submarine.

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Well, that’s surprising. Sparta just entered the Renaissance, despite being one of the most successful civs in the game, as well as being where the Renaissance was, at least before the Babylon issue. Sparta also contains two Ayyubid prophets, who have abandoned their religious duties to convert, to wander the great war-torn landscapes throughout Europe. Also, Poland has a freaking SPEARMAN, just north of Adrianople. A spearman. People have muskets, and you have a stupid spearman, who would die before it even started trying to attack.

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And Washington joins in the Renaissance Party. America is playing a typical tall game, and I’m rather surprised how far behind the leaders are, given the high population. Ottawa also has 31 population the most in the world. Dallas and Washington aren’t far behind with 26 apiece. With the peace in the east coast of America, this is expected. But, for the sake of entertainment, this is one of the more boring areas, so I say declare war, who cares about lives. Horrible, I know. But we are blood-thirsty Babylonians, who have no sense of morals for things outside the submarine. People are just entertainment pieces, right?

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We return to central North America. The Third “Indian” War brews on, with the “Indians” obviously on the backfoot (not the Blackfoot, although they are behind the Sioux), against Texas and Canada, both with armies in Sioux territory. Yankton, the Sioux’s largest city and their smallest city, Itazipcho are both are under threats, Itazipcho already sieged out. The Inuit still have army as strong as thin ice protecting their borders, if someone would have gone for it, well, in the last century, they could have had several strong, well populated cities. However, they have left the Inuit alone here, and no one seems to mind, definitely not the Inuit.

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Stede Bonnet, captain of the pirate ship, Revenge. Today, he is leading a rather ineffective attack with galleasses on the Mayan city of Uxmal. The only reason the attack is unsuccessful, is due to The Hawaiian Wall. Most of the wall was constructed in the nearby city of Waipahu, which is a very successful city at the bottom of the Baha peninsula. The Mayan military is also ridiculously small and outdated, and they are being extremely smart by keeping a neutral wall, that the Buccaneers don’t seem to dare attack. Also, we can see Austin has recovered to 8 population.

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Nkuna is on the verge of falling to the Zulu. This is quite a major blow to the Kongo, the Zulu now have a direct path to their capital. If the Kongo want to , I’m absolutely sure they could retake the city, except based on their timidness to defend the city in the first place, I’m not sure how much they really want the city anyways. Impi’s are clearly better than the Kongo leaf warrior’s, clearly demonstrated by the Battle of Nzinga, War of the African Coast.

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The Maori navy is filled with Caravels. Much better than the old triremes, but still clearly worse than the Aussie Privateers. Their cities are massive, as shown with their strong InfoAddict population scores. They have just denounced the Inuit, they are no threat to each other, the distance is much too far, this denouncement, as many of them have been, is useless. Luckily for the Maori, they have one neighbour, who has decided to ignore them, which means the Maori have just been building up, for something. Who knows what?

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I’m sure these will become great beach resorts one day. But, before that happens, they will toil as useless island cities for centuries to come. Hervey Bay is the newest one of these, shown by the small borders. Thanks for the easy writeup uncontrollable image taker.

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Back to Chile, where the new image is slightly north of where the last one was. Not much here has changed since we last saw it, all you Babylonians who want more South America, why do you want more boring screenshots. There are a few Incan triremes, as well as Brazilian ones. Nope. Not even going to try commentating the same screenshot 3 times, all unique.

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The Machu-Fortaleza stalemate continues, both sides forced to sacrifice human lives to keep their own territory, but aren’t effective enough to take each others territory. Brazil just needs to send more of their plentiful supply of units to the border to take Machu, but they seem to not want to. Look at all the units beside Salvador! This war has gone on forever, and gone no where. The leaders have probably begun to grow tired of this war, and have returned home, and allowed the soldiers to do what they please.

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Sibir, the main bully of the Timurids decides to leave them alone for a little while, not without Multan. They can’t leave Timur with that gem of a city. Maybe they are afraid of the heat? It is rather cold up in the Sibir core. Tibet seems to have put together an attack at Urgench (eastern Timurid city). I’m not sure how effective this attack will be, with how small and outdated that attack force is. Sweden is also rather friendly, making friends with both Japan and Portugal. Now lets guess where the crescent cavalry go next.

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Japan declares on Vietnam. Vietnam has been horribly inept at taking Vigan before, and it stands to be tested that it would be the same this time. Vietnamese cities are also critically underdefended. Both civs seem quite unprepared for the war, looks to be a long term stalemate, unless either side commits a defensive ineptness, quite common among the civilizations in this world. Vietnam has plenty of knights in the area, though and those are excellent defensive units. And those Sibir scouts again. Israel is NOT someone you want to be, which means impersonating them is bad.

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Unfortunately for Japan, they are now at war with the Inuit, Vietnam and Australia now. All Japan needs is Yakutia and Korea DOW. Now that’ll be fun, at least for submarine watchers. Not much has happened on the map since the last time we were here. Inuit navies have moved up, the Inuit have a great Prophet near the front lines (You do not have a religion Ekheunick). Also, there is a Korean settler near the battleground, possibly hoping for a razed city so they can claim the vacant land.

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Yeah, Australia has already begun their attack on Japanese boats. Caloocan, seems like the first target, and pretty easy to take. All Australia needs to do is to move their boats farther north, and destroy Japan. This is a pretty easy war to win, and Australia seems to be an effective warrer. In other news, Jandamarra has declared war on Hitler. The greatest development in all of history, atheist Kimberley versus Jewish Germany. Will be a magnificent war to watch.

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Yes, uncontrollable image taker, I don’t need a screenshot for this war. Guess it’s a good time to look at Kimberley. The cities have been growing decently, they have an adequate navy and army. Pretty much the normal build for a medium power in the world. Australia is the biggest power in the world, possibly, and the Kimberley are the only power nearby big enough to contend. Indonesia also has an impressive navy, but those are triremes. TPang‘s note: I took the picture to look at the Kimberley :(

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The “English” Channel, which really isn’t all that English here. There are pretty dead boats off the coast of York, German ships attacking their old port of Cologne, and longbowmen shooting across the channel at Nottingham, which is proving effective at damaging, but arrows can’t take a city. They are also doing the same to Orleans, same effect. This is turning into another stalemate, as both sides have a issue, water, as well as all of them having pretty equal armies and navies. The “War of the Channel” seems to be going nowhere fast, unless Ireland decides Canterbury is worth attacking.

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Stalin declares war on Hitler. Two “evil” powers of the 20th century going after each other, with an older power between them. Casimir, isn’t even that old, but he isn’t a evil modern leader that likes killing people. Also, I can’t even see a single Soviet military unit. I mean, there are tons of military units near Minsk, but they are all Finnish Keks. I also don’t believe Poland gives either of them open borders, or even likes either of them. Sparta also looks very very thin on units, like 3 pikemen and one comp bow. Not like it could defend a decently sized army from Germany or Poland. We all knew that, didn’t we?

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Itazipcho has fallen, and so have a lot of Sioux and Texan troops, looking at all them red numbers. Canada is clearly moving south, towards more significant cities, while Texas is moving north, not dealing with cities, but units which are probably the greater threat. Sihasapa and Oyuhpe are the next cities for Canada, and Nebby knows where Texas is going, as they are just attacking units. Both attackers have significant technological advantages over the Sioux (as would be expected, the Sioux being a native tribe, at this point of time (where the European’s have basic guns, and the Sioux don’t).

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The Blackfoot and Texas are both surrounding Hunkpapa, the Sioux capital. This isn’t good for the Sioux, Texas has a large technological and numerical advantage, while the Blackfoot are seeming to be on a even field, but with their target having multiple fronts, they have an advantage as well. Also, see that settler in Lake Manitoba? Sioux trying to escape? To move on to other news, across the pond, Poland and Portugal dislike Sparta, as does everyone else. Old news, eh?

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Carthage has taken the first Ayyubid city, Kongo dia Nlaza, Arabia to follow with Bethelem. Most of the Ayyubid forces have gone down to Gondar, to deal with the Kongolese threat. Carthage has begun to attack Bilbais, while Ethiopia slowly meanders towards Baalbek. To the side, Yakutia has woken up. No, they actually haven’t, that’s just the Germans. Pointless war! Fun Fact: Baalbek was once known as Heliopolis, and is where some of the best Roman ruins (they are already in ruins here, and never got as far as Baalbek) are today. Bilbais, is the base for the Egyptian Air Force.

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Carthage has a ton of elephants, and although their city names tell me they prefer hippos, there is way more evidence they like elephants. These elephants seem to be wielding spikes and hammers, although we can’t be sure, but if they are repeating history, they should be. The Ayyubids aren’t mounted, and they have swords and pikes, which can’t be much better. Kwilu and Bilbais seem to be Carthage’s targets, they both have units around them, or are taking damage.

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The Zulu STILL haven’t taken Nzinga. If they attack the city with a single melee unit, they could take it, although the Kongo would likely flip it a few times, seeing their large military. The city does make a nice port, although it probably won’t grow quickly, granted the desert everywhere in the Namib desert, as well as lacking naval resources. I don’t think anyone would want to live here, even without war.

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Arabia captured Bethelem, a small Jewish town, founded by the founders of Judaism, Israel. That isn’t particularly interesting, outside of the Ayyubids losing yet another city. What is interesting, is Arabia and England declaring war on Hitler, at least the England part is. England is already at war with Ireland and France, their main neighbours, now they join in on another nation with direct access to them, and also owns a navy. Hitler could probably contribute to the Irish efforts on the isles, but not the French, mostly due to them being at war with each other.

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It looks like England is winning the war, yet they aren’t. Nottingham is not falling, its just longbowmen shooting at it, and Orleans is unlikely to stay English, with major French advantage on land, especially outside of York. With the Germans now in the war, England is now even more distracted, having to fight more fronts, making this war much harder for them. England has removed the non-threat of Iceland from the war, that won’t help much, but any peace makes another war easier.

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Finland declares war on Germany. Why don’t you idiots declare on POLAND? They are attackable, unlike Germany, who Poland is like a massive shield for. There are a lot of little skirmishes in the Baltic, none of any value. Just Swedes and Nords attacking Poles and Germans. I seriously can’t tell whose at war with who here, as all the damage blends itself in, and with so many boats I can’t tell where the attack came from, and I don’t think even the ship captains know, how would anyone here know if the boat to the port side is a friend or foe?

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Australia goes after Yokohama. In no way is this the best city to grab, its out of the way, not useful, and not strategical. Just a one tile island in the middle of nowhere except the Pacific Ocean. The Australians are also battling it out, and winning with the Japanese navy. The Trung Sister in charge of the sea is winning this time around, while her sister is floundering the attack on China. Vigan looks sure to fall, although it looked the same way last time, but this time, she’s brought plenty of melee units to the Japanese landing in mainland Vietnam. Not a good sign to hold the city, Mr. Meiji.

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Religious pressure on Australia, that’s a first, but once religion gets somewhere, it spreads, like Outback wildfire out of control. With no firemen, err, I mean inquisitors to stop it, I doubt that Buddhism is going anywhere soon. I believe that religion is on all 6 continents now, Antarctica does not count. I doubt this is good for Darwinism, or Rubibism, or any other type of ism theory, but religion is what it is. In other news, Hitler hits the Renaissance, well behind the pack. This news isn’t good for someone in the European cluster, where wars are plentiful, and only one can emerge out of there to take on the world.

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Sibir is the second nation to enter a time of coal. Seems like central Asia is the heart of the Industrial Revolution. The units they have don’t seem to be particularly advanced however, the don’t have muskets, a major unit in the mid game for the civs. The units for Sibir have thinned, since their long, drawn out war with Timur, and they are now beginning to rebuild, seeing the units clustered near the cities. To the west, Attila has built up a carpet, although many of his units are long outdated horse archers and composite bowmen.

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The North. We can see Yakutia, having a very large military, that is stationary. Stationary army=useless army. They have also built a galleass navy in a ice trapped sea. Great move Mr. Darkhan. Sibir isn’t much smarter with those 3 ice cities, the newest being Beryozovo, which will likely never be effective, although the AI doesn’t care. On the side feed, we can see more AI’s sending each other offensive messages, usually known as denouncements.

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To finish off the part, we see Shaka taking Nkuna from Kongo, there’s nothing interesting about that city. Kongo’s navy looks positioned to take it back, but then again, Impi’s will just flip it. Looking at the two armies, Nkuna looks like its gonna flip a couple times. The Zulu’s need some upgrades. Chariots and warriors are ineffective in renaissance combat, so ignore those units. It also looks like the Boer units are still trapped out by the Zulu scout. And with that piece of useful information, lets see some more, with the stats!

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Population, looks like the Maori have almost caught up to their neighbours, the Aussies, which is definitely surprising. Hawaii jumps up to 4th, another island nation. Seems like the sea is good eatings. None of the other candidates are surprising at all.

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The bottom of the pool, contains cellar dwellers, Philippines, Byzantium and the Maya. I’m surprised Poland is down here, granted their size and lack of combat in recent years.

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Land Area. Your top candidates for victory are here, I’d say the weakest ones here are the Maori, however they do have a really high population

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The expected people down here, and again, I must have overestimated Poland’s strength, they are much smaller than I thought. Philippines, Byzantium, etc. all expected.

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Happiness is not the most useful stat, in one of these games, shown by Burma, a rather weak nation being on top. Boers, Canada, Yakutia and Afghanistan are strong, but then we get back in to weaker civ’s, with Carthage, Mexico and Armenia.

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Tech lead by Korea, Australia and Yakutia, as they have been all game. The Maori are peeking their head in, they look to climb with all their population.

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Of the alive civs, Byzantium is tied with a dead civ. That’s never good. Again, many of the bottom-dwellers are shown here, possible exceptions being the Inca and Arabia, two somewhat capable turtles.

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Inuit have the lead for cities, with Australia close behind. However, they are mostly useless snow/tundra/one tile island cities, and is a case of diminishing returns. The Boers have mostly decent cities, and I think they would lead in most actually effective cities. Sibir, Yakutia and Canada all have plenty of ice/tundra cities as well.

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Again, more of the same candidates, the only new one here being Mughals, and they have higher population.

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A look at religion. There seems to be 4 tiers, Judaism and Catholiscism, in Europe/North Africa/Middle East, and the Americas respectively. The mid-tier religion of Oriental Orthodoxy has to fight Judaism, causing smaller size, while Akatt-U has to fight two smaller religions of the far east. Islam is all but gone, trapped between two religions.

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Here is a city religion map, and that’s it for this part. Thanks for reading Part 19 of the Civ Battle Royale, written by /u/jlim201. Thanks for letting me narrate TPang!

Part 19: Behold, the Renaissance! – mk2

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