Paths of Civilization

Prince Kyros · Feb 17, 2018

Excellent! Not as good as it could've been (especially because of the cheaty sappers, I didn't know that we were even in that period yet) but a great opportunity awaits us!

[X] [Successor] Among the patoralists that filled emptied spaces, fascinated by the old culture

[X] [Revival] A territorial reunification

Lets witness the true Birth OF AN EMPIRE!!!

soulcake · Feb 17, 2018

Somebodynobody10 said:
Because the GM felt we were too powerful/"Every empire must die someday".

NO, cuz some warmongering woobs decided that it was more enjoyable to try and do what China, A FAR LARGER NATION, failed to do.

Survive Genghis Khan The Hun in any recognizable shape.

DkArthas said:
We need another Phygriff the Conqueror!

Crow no, Phygriff can stay where the hell he is, lost and forgotten to time as he deserves.

Somebodynobody10 · Feb 17, 2018

HanEmpire said:
It's the realistic outcome. This happened multiple times in Asia.

It doesn't change the fact he decided that these Lighting Rounds To Death was a way to go.

OliWhail · Feb 17, 2018

Shape_Shifter said:
All that work gone in an instant. I feel it might be better just to start with a new quest with the new mechanics. Why did this have to happen? A single crit fail/success is way to much for this to happen.

Somebodynobody10 said:
Because the GM felt we were too powerful/"Every empire must die someday".

No, it happened because a minority of voters thought 'hubris is a coward's word' was actual advice.

Hangwind · Feb 17, 2018

Academia Nut said:
Defensive works built up over centuries or even millennia were smashed, and the intricate irrigation systems were considered a part of that.

How? No, seriously, how? The one good thing about Horse Raider Civilizations is that they tend to not do all that much damage to infrastructure.

Legion0047 · Feb 17, 2018

Core and territorial will probably leave us with core, whatever we can salvage if the north and a good part of the lowland but Hammuri and our easters holding are gone, not to mention the west.

Miner238 · Feb 17, 2018

[X] [Successor] The ancient urban manufactories of the core
[X] [Revival] A territorial reunification

Fuck the nomads, I have been redeemed.

Yeangst · Feb 17, 2018

[X] [Successor] The ancient urban manufactories of the core
[X] [Revival] A cultural flourishing

DocMatoi · Feb 17, 2018

if we dont pick the temples, im pretty sure we lose sacred forest. It's maintained byt the religious knowledge, remember? thats something i want to preserve into the future

sidestory · Feb 17, 2018

@Academia Nut
Are there many more Rounds or Can I go to bed soon?

Academia Nut · Feb 17, 2018

OliWhail said:
Hey @Academia Nut, would things have gone quite so badly with a normal bribe?

A normal bribe might have pissed the Khan off, but it wouldn't have got his blood up nearly as bad, and he might have settled for just a light mauling and then asking again if you want to offer tribute, instead of deciding that he was going to carve his name into history by being the first motherfucker to take down the Ymaryn (in that he actually fulfilled his objective 100%, even if it ultimately cost him his empire).

LuciDreamer said:
Wait.

How big was the difference between the ignore vote and the bribe vote?

EDIT:
My vote:
[X] [Successor] The ancient urban manufactories of the core

[X] [Revival] A cultural flourishing

Basically the arrogant nobility overrode the people, who were generally for playing nice.

HanEmpire · Feb 17, 2018

Hangwind said:
How? No, seriously, how? The one good thing about Horse Raider Civilizations is that they tend to not do all that much damage to infrastructure.

Gunpowder. He brought Not!Chinese siege engineers over with gunpowder.

Broccoliccoli · Feb 17, 2018

[X] [Successor] The ancient urban manufactories of the core
[X] [Revival] Long neglected diplomacy

LuciDreamer · Feb 17, 2018

Shape_Shifter said:
All that work gone in an instant. I feel it might be better just to start with a new quest with the new mechanics. Why did this have to happen? A single crit fail/success is way to much for this to happen.

A crash was inevitable. No empires last indefinitely.

Critically, though, WE'RE STILL HERE. Ymaryn lives. We may not have our vast territories or the coveted straits and our border may have just exploded into ash, but our culture, our core, our HEART still exists somewhere. SOMEWHERE! And I honestly could care less that the Empire is gone; because now we have the chance to Begin Again. Maybe we can rise to even greater heights in this reincarnation. Maybe.

Have a little hope, dammit. *hugs*

VoidZero · Feb 17, 2018

Prince Sheo said:
Excellent! Not as good as it could've been (especially because of the cheaty sappers, I didn't know that we were even in that period yet) but a great opportunity awaits us!

Sappers are obvious tho? The Eastern Land made the black powder and we all know what happens when nomads learns of the stuff. Stuff blowing up par for the course.

Legion0047 · Feb 17, 2018

I really don't like how close we came to not fucking this up.

aledeth · Feb 17, 2018

[X] [Successor] The ancient urban manufactories of the core
[X] [Revival] Long neglected diplomacy

Academia Nut · Feb 17, 2018

Hangwind said:
How? No, seriously, how? The one good thing about Horse Raider Civilizations is that they tend to not do all that much damage to infrastructure.

Not!Chinese siege engineers armed with gunpowder.

sidestory said:
@Academia Nut
Are there many more Rounds or Can I go to bed soon?

There will be several more rounds, but you should probably go to bed since I am thinking that there will be at least eight more hours of lightning rounds.

Theunderbolt · Feb 17, 2018

Academia Nut said:
A normal bribe might have pissed the Khan off, but it wouldn't have got his blood up nearly as bad, and he might have settled for just a light mauling and then asking again if you want to offer tribute, instead of deciding that he was going to carve his name into history by being the first motherfucker to take down the Ymaryn (in that he actually fulfilled his objective 100%, even if it ultimately cost him his empire).

I find a mutual kill to be acceptable.

HanEmpire · Feb 17, 2018

@Academia Nut how much knowledge did we lose? Inoculation? Sacred Forest? Stepped Farming?

Legion0047 · Feb 17, 2018

I mean really?
It's genghis fucking khan.

Gr33n34r · Feb 17, 2018

[X] [Successor] The primordial temples
[X] [Revival] A territorial reunification

DocMatoi · Feb 17, 2018

ExNihilo said:
You know what's funny? The Extra History on The Khan just started.

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

McLuvin · Feb 17, 2018

Okay. What the fuck is up with diplomacy?

How will that even work? Instead of being able to ignore or beat back our enemies we have to beg for life? Screw That.

Give us our territories and we can stand stronger than them again.

We will not be a tiny fish in a big sea! Using diplomacy to save us!

OliWhail · Feb 17, 2018

drasteed said:
fuck this shit, AN if you wanted a crash just restart the quest.

Blame the meme voters, not AN.

Prince Sheo said:
I didn't know that we were even in that period yet

OH GOOD, the guy who loudly supported Ymar getting wrecked didn't even read the previous update in which we specifically learned about gunpowder.

Why am I not surprised.

Hangwind said:
How? No, seriously, how? The one good thing about Horse Raider Civilizations is that they tend to not do all that much damage to infrastructure.

Great Khan and gunpowder, my dude.

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