Empire: Total War Heaven

Chapter 5: Crossing the Line

So, as I begin this chapter, I try to make a couple allies to aid me in my war against Russia. I pretty much befriend all the "indifferent" nations, except the Indians, they can't help me much all the way over in the Americas without boats.




Then the Ottomans try to come in and chase them ravaging buggas.



I agree to a trade connection with Britain. They pay me for it, but I would've done it without money. It helps my economy.



I spy on the metropolis of Moscow.







I recruit more cossack infantry. Nice hats.



I refesh my army, then gather most of the soldiers up and post them east of the city.



I recruit a new general to hold down the fort while the old guy goes and takes Moscow.



I move the army closer to Moscow, and prepare to fight the Russians outside the city.



A great battle is imminent. His force is a little smaller, but is split up good so if he surrounds me and his whole army pounces, he might have a chance. But remember, it's AI. So you're hoping for a lot for that.



So, in the beginning, there's a small cavalry skirmish to get this fight rumbling.



The two lines approach eachother, but his is staggered from having to move around the terrain.





His main army is shattered by the constant gunfire. When he approaches like that, staggered, all my gunfire is trained on the units they can reach. If there's only one unit at a time in that zone, all fire is put on them, but my troops still have a chance to reload. Therefore, I'm routing his men one by one.



More foot troops approach from the front, but a threatening cavalry force looms in the back.



I have to split my army in half, one chasing the few infantry left in the front, and one half going to fight the force that turned out to be more than just meager cavalry.







I chase the routing Russians, and then win the battle. I forgot to take a picture of the results.



After that, there's only weak defences surrounding Moscow.



I send the remainder of my army (which is about 90% of it) to take Moscow.



In the midst of all this war, a new town is born. It's poor, but I get a school out of it for researching.





Then, the remainder of the Russian army is gathered into a main force, and attacks. Just to torture you guys, that's where I'll stop.

[This message has been edited by blader1176 (edited 01-29-2010 @ 06:02 PM).]

Very good, but i dident like the ending, not fun to torture readers.

not fun to torture readers

And yet it works, look at Twilight. *vomit*

Cool AAR, looking forward to next installment.

look at Twilight. *vomit*

*pats Brutian on head*

Good boy

Ah, but this is where you shall lose, no one has beaten the Russian winter! (except for the Mongols, who pwned the predecessor of the Russian state whose name I can't be bothered to remember at this time, and the Finn's, who used the winter against the Russians.)

OOC: Only a quick update, here.

Chatper 6: No Russian

Alright, as I ended the chapter teasing you guys, here's the battle for Moscovy.

The first thing I do is build threnches, but I don't think It'll do much since half of Russia's force is attacking from the front and the other half from the back. I could've just made a circle of trenches, now that I think of it, but that would be really cheap to the easy AI.



I try to rout his calvalry to the south early on, but his infantry comes in faster than I expected, so I shift my cavalry to the other side, and move my infantry on the far right, so that my main line doesn't get flanked.





Russia's line infantry charges in from the front, and gets into a melee with my cossack infantry over the sandbags. Since I know Russia's good in melee, I need to be carefull here.






Then I bring the rest of my line over to support the fight south of the line.



I rout the entire Russian force, and end up being victorious 705 to 213 kills. Hooray.





I'm gonna have a lot of improving to do later.

[This message has been edited by blader1176 (edited 01-31-2010 @ 05:29 PM).]

When is the next part coming out? I cant wait, but I would maybe suggrest making the chapters a bit longer.

I was away for a week, but now I'm back. I'll post another chapter, around thursday I think.

Edit: Ugh, I just got spore at Walmart. Give me a couple more days. :P

[This message has been edited by blader1176 (edited 02-15-2010 @ 05:52 PM).]