I was the French in Earth, 3 civs.I am not much for building huge militaries at first, so I concentrate as hard as I can on technology.My 
first city , Paris, sends out an explorer as my first settler builds my second city along the French coast.Soon, I meet two warring factions, 
the Germans and the Greeks (who I now notice seem to always be at war).Meeting the Greeks first, I ally with them.Little did I know the 
outraged, monstrous Grmans was bloodthirsty for both French and Greek blood.So, I launched catapults at Berlin, and that was 
destroyed.I soon began rapidly building cities in Spain, Rome, and scatterdly throughout Europe.And, the Germans had their full fighting 
force on the Greeks, and the Greeks had only time to give me my lifesaving gift before they fell to the Germans: Metallurgy.Now the 
Germans turned towards me.Having hardly any true, hard, complex defense in my cities, the Germans conquered and pillaged my cities 
with tons of Calvalry (ironic there's a story elsewhere in the Scribes about how Calvalry kicked everyone's butts).I soon rubbed my eyes 
and was shocked to find the Germans standing at the gates of Paris, waiting for the order to attack. Thankfully, the Germans found 
another civilization to bully on, the Persians, so they sent about half their Paris invasion force to Persia. The rest of the calvalry were 
killed by my supreme defense, which didn't look all too supreme afterwards.With only 3 musketeers left for Parisian defense, and a 
cannon in the works, I had but only one option: Buy the cannon and attack the nearby German capital.And so I did.My supreme military 
technology overwhelmed the Germans, and took their capital by storm with only *ONE* cannon.I was shocked.It's as if this cannon 
was blessed by some kind of bug in the game.And so the Germans were insane and was all but calm.They tried to build cannons 
seeing my success with only *ONE* cannon, but they were crushed by *MY* Calvalry!I reconquered my cities and the Germans' last 
punch of force came toward Persepolis, the Persian capital.The Persians were conquered.But the Germans had cannons now, and, in 
their usual tradition, built waves of them.However, in my usual tradition, I had now a HOWITZER, which completely obliterated the 
Germans and had me as the first President of the World.
-TCK
f-14@geocities.com "The Comeback Kid"(formerly known as The Chieftain, but some other guy had the name first)